lennybird Now • 50%
Supporting the exercising of worker's rights != exercising them effectively.
Again, they were short-sighted.
lennybird Now • 50%
You said it hits them "hardest," but how do you know it doesn't hit the poor and middle class down the pipeline harder, comparatively? What you're talking about is profits; what I'm talking about is clothing and food for actual people and a raising of bottom-line prices. Make no mistake — the consequence of such a strike comes at the cost of holding those down the line hostage. Naturally the shareholders tend to have a rainy-day fund in order to ride out the storm. Naturally the wealthy can weather such storms easier than the poor and middle class, yes?
In fact this goes back to this very strike covered in this submission, in which Biden pointed out to the nnion that their strike would effect... Who? Those impacted by Hurricane Helene.
Hardest is therefore relative.
lennybird Now • 83%
Biden said he is not giving up on paid sick leave for rail workers and other Americans who don't receive such benefits. But he made it clear that he was not prepared to see freight trains stopped and food, water, clothing, and holiday gifts stranged in empty depots.
This mind you as we were just getting past the worst of the covid pandemic. Do you have any source to suggest this would impact the shareholders "the hardest"?
Reminder that yet again — this per Bernie Sanders — the expanded sick leave for all rail workers was obstructed by Republicans. Screwing over Democrats during election season is, again, short-sighted. Perhaps those unions from the Teamsters to the longshoremen should rally to get Republicans out of the way?
lennybird Now • 23%
Yeah I'm sure the maga union boss was totally acting in good faith on behalf of his workers here...
Again, short-sighted. The damage may very well be done and this could jeopardize 4 years of someone who definitely will do jack shit for unions.
I know the tankies are upset, here, but here's a dose of reality:
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Union leader asking members to "pray" for Trump and his wonderful meeting with him.
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Worth noting to the inevitable raising of the Rail Strike break-up that he intervened to keep supplies coming for December of that year would ultimately have hit the poor and middle class the hardest... .All the while he still managed to include half of their demands by way of a pay raise.
lennybird Now • 14%
Not that I oppose union strikes but it's kind of dirty to do that to Democrats in the 11th hour. Not like their conditions would improve under Trump...
So associating bad publicity of obstructing hurricane aid is genius.
lennybird Now • 100%
It's more, "they know not what they do."
Many are too shortsighted to grasp that their own beliefs fuel their own pain.
Still, I don't blame the grifted as much as I do the grifters.
lennybird Now • 100%
Uh oh me thinks Trump is jealous of Carter's media attention. Mortality is also likely weighing heavily on the rotten orange, too.
lennybird Now • 100%
This is how democracy dies in darkness... Behind paywalls.
lennybird Now • 100%
Wasn't that really the days of Digg? I can't even remember such eons ago...
I sadly was one of those duped, hot off of reading Atlas Shrugged no less at a more impressionable time in my life. Thank fuck I crawled my way out.
lennybird Now • 100%
Isn't it kind of funny the party who routinely espouses individual freedumb is like, "let's let states decide!" without recognizing the irony that it's just one more granular step to saying, "let's let each individual woman decide!"
lennybird Now • 100%
Best way to get the young male vote to be honest. Isn't this part of what made Ron Paul popular?
lennybird Now • 100%
"from AOC to Dick Cheney to Taylor Swift."
Taylor Swift confirmed more right-wing than Cheney!1!
lennybird Now • 100%
Vance is just as morally corrupt and full of lies but has a better facade.
lennybird Now • 100%
Oh for sure. No doubt does Lead exposure (firing ammunition elevates levels), boomer-era leaded gasoline (and modern aircraft), paint, etc. + Traumatic Brain Injuries (CTE) from football + Substance abuse —namely alcohol play a part. Microplastics may very well be the next thing...
lennybird Now • 100%
It clearly indicates that something is wrong with many Americans.
Sadly I think it indicates systemic failures and Americans are the effect and much less the cause.
What I mean is that a combination of:
- Electoral college & Money in Politics
- Diminishing education standards (e.g., critical-thinking skills, civics, US History)
- "News" media-entertainment that legally spreads disinformation (combined with foreign operatives).
... All culminates in a society that is very easily duped. I talk to Trump supporters all the time and while sure many are simply greedy psychopaths... Many are also just "nice, but kinda dumb" in that they have no capacity to parse fact from fiction and so are easily-grifted targets for lies and choir-preaching (sometimes quite literally from Sunday church).
lennybird Now • 92%
Yep. Never once has Trump exceeded >=50% of votes or even approval rating.
Don't you just love our slave era Electoral College...?
lennybird Now • 100%
For sure, though I could use 14 States as examples that are larger. Not even counting all the foreign aid we give to Israel in the first place — it's just absurd we have to kiss their ass so much partly because of AIPAC.
lennybird Now • 97%
It's insane that a country whose economy is 1/8th that of California alone and whose population is 35x smaller has the US by the balls in this way.
lennybird Now • 100%
Can you link to that conversation? I'm not seeing in your history or on their mod log.
lennybird Now • 100%
You've identified the problem many see, but what is the solution?
This demographic is notoriously hard to reach and the nature of its age and inexperience leads to having their priorities woefully out of whack and susceptible to shit like Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate to Jordan Peterson. Asking or forcing them to watch Mr. Rogers isn't going to cut it, if you know what I mean.
I guess I'm curious about generations (namely GenZ and Alpha) who didn't live in a pre-Internet time. Like, - How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click? - Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it's absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant? - Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?
>June 28 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. voters who were unable to choose between Joe Biden and Donald Trump before Thursday's presidential debate delivered their verdicts after the contest and it was almost universally bad news for Biden. >Of the 13 "undecideds" who spoke to Reuters, 10 described the 81-year-old Democratic president's performance against Republican candidate Trump collectively as feeble, befuddled, embarrassing and difficult to watch.
>All undecided voters in a U.S. swing states focus group hosted by pollster Frank Luntz said President Biden should be replaced as the Democratic nominee after watching his first presidential debate against former President Trump.
>Lord Cameron said while he would not support a major ground offensive in the Gazan city of Rafah, the UK would not copy US plans to stop some arms sales. >He said the UK supplies just 1% of Israel's weapons and warned Israel must do more to protect civilians and allow humanitarian aid through.
https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request They must oblige within a certain time frame — even if your account has been suspended and I believe even if you've deleted your account. Curiously, this might be one effective way to protest. Golly I wonder what would happen if many people requested such reports simultaneously. It seems these must be processed manually by admins. As a bonus, it's nice because all your comments and messages are searchable.