In pulling the rule, the Biden administration acknowledged what most businesses expected: the plan to make companies mandate vaccines-or-tests is over.
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The president of the united states is a corpse flopping around on the table of Capital.
Covid walked into the capital and stole a podium, the world will never be the same
It's fine, the US is only at... more daily deaths than the peak of the first wave :agony-4horsemen:
No. We are going to live. We are going to organize in our communities and build.
And we are going to make sure that every last porky dies for doing this to all of us.
... As part of an organized and revolutionary movement, etc etc.
:porky-scared-flipped: :frog-no-pretext: :inshallah:
Fuck it, here's a call to action: https://pslweb.org/join
To be clear, PSL is nonviolent.
Any anarchist comrades, please reply with an equivalent since PSL is ML.
Look up local mutual aid organizations. Anarchists tend to be a bit easier to find in the US.
Local art scenes, food banks, night markets, etc.
i hate being american so much it's unreal :yikes-1: :yikes-2: :yikes-3:
“OSHA continues to strongly encourage the vaccination of workers against the continuing dangers posed by Covid-19 in the workplace,” the Labor Department wrote in the notice of its withdrawal.
Liberals are pathetic.
Imagine surrendering after that genocidal Supreme Court ruling instead of using it as political leverage to pack the courts and
drone strikebully any senators who got in your way.Everyone who argued this should be reminded of what they supported so they don't fall back into liberalism in 2024. We need them on our side.
don't understand this comment. you can easily argue that even though the mandate was struck down, it still resulted in harm reduction because it was in place for a bit, resulting in probably a decent amount of people getting vaccinated. where if it were trump this wouldn't have happened in the first place. again i know that being better than trump is not exactly a good goal but it is technically still harm reduction.
it's not about giving him points. it's about achieving the least bad outcome when given the choice between biden and trump. even being just 5% less bad is still less bad.
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When you think in terms longer than the next election, the difference disappears because Bidens ensure ever-worsening fascists as their successors. This applies particularly under deteriorating conditions - conditions that deteriorate heavily under libs.
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I'm not sure how you compare the shittiness in outcomes between the two numerically, but it seems about the same to me. Biden has continued most of Trump's policies, made several worse, and abandoned many that were helpful to the poor and precarious. He ended the official war in Afghanistan (good) but replaced it with a starvation sanctions regime (Jesus Christ). Libs have committed to Blue MAGA. Inflation is going up while wages stagnate. Pressure to form unions is rising but filings are dropping. Every policy that was keeping the working class afloat during the pandemic under Trump is slowly fading away without any national fight. New Cold War policies are continuing and the decreased soft power was accelerated by Trump, not Biden - Biden is trying to pull the same sociopathic levers as in the pre-Trump era, to varying success.
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When the status quo is so horrendous I can't help but say that 5% is incredibly generous. Let's say 1% tops if we're being myopic.
I think the point is that while you're actually right, the smug liberals in this case are technically right, which means you will never convince them
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Its not shocking that he's doing this after the Supreme Court ruling. Its not like most, if not all, of the administration's moves have been to keep the death drive going.
This is “the marketplace of ideas”
The Biden admin put forth an idea—tying employability to individual covid-prevention statuses. The state is really quite sclerotic in this regard, and does not natively support the capabilities to do the testing etc its vision requires. To build them would require Congress, they say, so we will just get the businesses to enforce; to implement.
That’s the idea that businesses heard, and they didn’t really like it, as pretty much anyone could have predicted. There was, as far as I can tell, no realistic threat of consequence for not playing long with Biden admin’s idea.
So businesses receive this idea, but based on their own sensory and processing apparatuses (HR statistics, profit statements, baseless belief/sheer willpower, etc), didn’t see this as a particularly compelling vision of the future.
So it vetoed. A simple exchange of ideas, that’s all. Biden admin thought about trying a (really quite silly) thing, and another party v said they’d prefer not to.
Everyone knows, more or less, where each of the parties stand on the issues to be dealt with (or not). The market continues on, ready to solve (or not) the problems of tomorrow
:maybe-later-kiddo: we need a president who believes the scientists
No. We are going to live. We are going to organize in our communities and build.
And we are going to make sure that every last porky dies for doing this to all of us.
... As part of an organized and revolutionary movement, etc etc.
:porky-scared-flipped: :frog-no-pretext: :inshallah:
Fuck it, here's a call to action: https://pslweb.org/join
To be clear, PSL is nonviolent.
Any anarchist comrades, please reply with an equivalent since PSL is ML.
Praise be the aggressive anti-doomerism. That no matter how fucked we are we fight for whatever small chance we have. The only hope for leftism on this Earth is to fight even when there is no chance to succeed.
