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
Trades unions are particularly conservative. Much of our manufacturing industry that's left these days are in the military industry complex (or extractive industries) and they pay about 3 times as much as any other place in town (depending where they are you may not even need a college degree). In a lot of small towns it seems like people are faced with this dilemma to either ignore/be uncritical of US foreign policy or recuse themselves of a middle class job, and people tend toward their material benefit. It's a real problem for organizing towards international solidarity. That's why it's so important that a just transition is really producing commiserate jobs. You're not going to get a 53 year old chemical operator making 75-80k per year to climb up roofs installing solar panels for 15 an hour. If our shitty foreign policy is decoupled from people's livelihoods I think a portion of people in these jobs would be much more radical about it.
Love those proud union home signs up on the lawns of certain neighborhoods in my city, yet the precinct is 70-30 for Trump