Comment on Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions — The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model

Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or just the Norse in general, reminder that it was Norsemen who guarded the Roman Emperor in Constantinople.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Viking was not a nationality, it was a job, so your point is in some ways more accurate.

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    • dellish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That and what we generally think of as “Vikings” were actually Danes, which is an insult to Swedes.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hence why I specified Norse, Vimings could just as easily be called pirates or reevers.

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• No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But then the She Vikings, ooofff

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