Posted on 05/01/2025 6:41:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
HAPPY MAY DAY!...................
Happy May Day, RB!
How in heck did ‘May Day’ become a call sign for EMERGENCY SITUATION on the radio?............
From BRAVE AI:
Mayday Radio Call Origin
The term “mayday” was conceived as a distress call in the early 1920s by Frederick Stanley Mockford, an officer-in-charge of radio at Croydon Airport in England. He proposed the term “mayday,” which is the phonetic equivalent of the French “m’aider” (a short form of “venez m’aider,” meaning “come [and] help me”) because much of the air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris.
The term was introduced for cross-Channel flights in February 1923 and was officially adopted by the International Radiotelegraph Convention of Washington, D.C., in 1927, replacing the Morse code signal SOS, which was not suitable for voice communication.
Today, “mayday” is used internationally as a distress signal in voice-procedure radio communications, primarily by aviators and mariners, and it is required to be repeated three times in a row during the initial emergency declaration to ensure it is not mistaken for other similar-sounding words or phrases.
Paris is beautiful.
AVIATION HISTORY PING TO POST #5....................
Cool info, thanks for looking that up. It makes perfect sense.
Why did Communists co-opt May Day as their annual tribute to mass murder?
Why did Communists co-opt May Day as their annual tribute to mass murder?
ChatGPT said:
May Day, or International Workers’ Day (May 1st), was not originally a communist holiday nor was it founded as a tribute to mass murder. Its roots are actually in the labor movement, particularly the struggle for an eight-hour workday. The date was chosen to commemorate the Haymarket affair of 1886 in Chicago, where a peaceful rally in support of striking workers turned violent after a bomb was thrown, leading to deaths and a controversial trial.
Communist and socialist movements around the world later adopted May Day as a symbolic day of solidarity with workers and labor rights. The Soviet Union and other communist states used it to promote their ideological narratives and showcase their power with large military parades, which is why it became strongly associated with communism during the 20th century.
So, to answer your question: May Day was co-opted by communist regimes not as a celebration of mass murder, but as a symbol of worker solidarity and state power. However, over time, particularly during the Cold War, critics viewed the pageantry and propaganda of May Day in the Soviet bloc as emblematic of the repression and violence of those regimes.
Many countries in Europe already celebrated May Day as a Spring Festival with parties, dancing singalongs and outdoor games, thus the Communists exchanged the celebration from one of innocuous frolicking to a serious political movement celebration.
It’s what communists do. They ruin everything they touch!..............
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BRAVE AI:
Communists and May Day
Communists co-opted May Day to celebrate the accomplishments of workers and to promote international solidarity among the working class. The International Socialist Conference in 1889 designated May 1 as a labor holiday to honor the Chicago workers who had fought for an eight-hour workday, thus birthing what many nations now call International Workers’ Day.
This day was intended to commemorate the struggles and gains made by workers and the labor movement.
By celebrating May Day, Communist parties aimed to strengthen the global labor movement and challenge capitalist systems.
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Evil needs something to hide behind. A cause to corrupt. In this case, the plight of the worker.
Screw the Flyers for removing her statue.
In Southern California - the First of May can be rainy, cool, heavy cloud cover, drizzly, blazing hot - or all three in the same day. Looks like a day with dark, heavy cloud cover, there’s a reason we call it “May Gray.”
Oui !
That was interesting — thanks!
Yes, Paris is beautiful, but don’t visit Europe around May Day. It’s their equivalent of our Labor Day and the hotels are all booked up.
The is the Mayday that I always think of, I was having quite an adventure.
rom Wikipedia:
“At one point, so many soldiers and Marines were being moved into the area from bases along the East Coast that troop transports were landing at the rate of one every three minutes at Andrews Air Force Base in suburban Maryland, about 15 miles east of the White House.
Among these troops were 4,000 paratroopers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division.
Troops from the Marine Barracks lined both sides of the 14th St bridge. These troops were to back up the 5,100 officers of the D.C. Metropolitan Police, 2,000 members of the D.C. National Guard and federal agents that were already in place.
Every monument, park and traffic circle in the nation’s capital had troops protecting its perimeters. Paratroopers and Marines deployed via helicopter to the grounds of the Washington Monument.”
(snip)
“”While the troops secured the major intersections and bridges, the police roamed through the city making massive arrest sweeps and used tear gas. They arrested anyone who looked like a demonstrator, including construction workers who had come out to support the government. By 8 am 7,000 protesters had been arrested.
The city’s prisons did not have the capacity to handle that many people thus several emergency detention centers were setup including the Washington Coliseum and another one surrounded by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) fence was set up next to RFK Stadium.
No food, water, or sanitary facilities were made available by authorities but sympathetic local residents brought supplies.
Skirmishes between protesters and police
occurred up until about mid-day. In Georgetown, the police herded the protesters and onlookers through the streets to the Georgetown University campus. The police then engaged in a back and forth with the protesters outside the university’s main gate on O Street, lobbing
tear gas over the gate each time they pushed the crowd back. Other forms of gas were used including pepper based and one that induced vomiting. Police helicopters also dropped tear gas on the university’s lower athletic field where protesters had camped the night before.
Numerous people were severely injured and treated by volunteers on campus. By afternoon the police had suppressed the disruption efforts and the protesters had mainly dispersed””
Next several days:
“”Smaller protests continued resulting in the arrests of several thousand more, bringing the total to 12,614 people, making this the largest mass arrest in U.S. history.””
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