listen to Historicly podcast, the original thread that triggered this dude is very interesting as usual: https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1348365515799093250
The AFL-CIO's collaboration with the CIA and regime change operations abroad undermines unions; pointing it out does not.
Unionism is apparently idealist and utopian social democracy (fascism). This loser crying about fake news is as woke as a Hillary Clinton stan and also as weirdly angry (must reduce cognitive dissonance)
https://twitter.com/WildBillWellman/status/1386031239363129344
Tankies are pretty much anti-labor unions, dedicated to undermining & destroying them.
very weird that he would want to protect social democracy from being "undermined" and "delegitimized" (isn't that a Zionist word?) by actual working class comrades who point out American complicity with nazism and neocolonialism.
Normally I’d never use the c-word but when someone says I’m pro-Pinochet & hurling people from helicopters while also undermining unions, fuck them.
nooo, you can't point out kayfabe! My entire personality is unionism and you need to respect that
I'm arriving at the conclusion that there really is no choice but to make a third party. If we are at all going to be serious about this it has to be pointed out that doing your labor work within the dems just brings labor closer to dems, it at best recreates the conditions the democratic party had with Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton where that beefed up union power just kept the workers pacified as everything got yeeted off a cliff with leadership's approval.
I have a lot of trouble believing the blind spot is actually that large among left leaders so all the energy being spent to set up those dominoes to fall again is terrifying. It implies Clinton V2 is how they intend to navigate automation or some other impending labor crisis.
That third party used to be the Communist Party, before the Red Scare purged anything to the left of Reagan out of the American culture.
Yep yep yep