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Warpy

(111,270 posts)
Sun May 1, 2022, 01:33 PM May 2022

Happy May Day!

Builly Bragg updated the words to the Internationale and I can't find much to disagree with in 'em. So here goes:



It should be noted that Communist countries fell far short of the ideal, installing strongmen who enriched their cronies at the expense of everyone else. Communism as it was practiced is not what this song is about.
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Happy May Day! (Original Post) Warpy May 2022 OP
May Day? What the hell is that? Initech May 2022 #1
This may be just a folk etymology, soldierant May 2022 #2

soldierant

(6,880 posts)
2. This may be just a folk etymology,
Sun May 1, 2022, 03:56 PM
May 2022

buy I believe yhe distress signal comes from the French "m'aidez".

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