https://twitter.com/KwasiKwarteng/status/1550081224890351617
Culture wars as distractions ✅
Make strikes harder and less effective ✅
What's next?
Brits seemed to shrug off concerns about NHS privatization back when Corbyn was running. I got annoyed by that because it was almost as if Brits just had no concept of what an absolute horror show private, American-style "healthcare" really is. They're like sweet summer children who think the shit we put up with here in the US is just some Grimm's fairy tales, like it's not real. Like American parents just tell their kids "Sally was naughty and stole candy from the store, the candy made her sick so she went to the ICU for 5 days and had a bill for $150,000".
(I use that example because my friend's dad spent 5 days in the ICU and got a bill for $150,000).
Even a lot of Americans probably feel like its overblown...because it just seems like it can't actually be real until you actually have to finally engage with it. Until you experience it yourself or know someone who has it almost feels like no society could possibly tolerate such a thing.
I was finally able to afford decent insurance after a decade of no insurance or barebones insurance. Suddenly a $400/month prescription was $20/month. It’s not like they put the insurance bill on your receipt. Anyone with good enough insurance who doesn’t read through their itemized insurance statements has no clue.
it doesn't help that the government been intentionally underfunding the NHS for years, so that privatisation can be sold as "fixing the NHS"
:100-com: it’s a brutally effective strategy.
And although nowhere in the same league, it’s remarkable how the Tories have united the nation in calling for the destruction of the BBC due to the manipulation of editorial policy and governance. I won’t argue against their news always being imperialist, bourgeois garbage, but I will feel sadness when it’s privatised and the UK’s largest employer of musicians is thrown to the dogs. I can’t see Rupert Murdoch wanting to keep five symphony orchestras on the books…
Starve the beast. They learned from the best...
I remember all the on-the-street interviews that came out a few years ago of Brits trying to guess how expensive US healthcare stuff was. The general public has no clue
Further NHS privatisation. They've been steadily hollowing it out for more than a decade.
the idea that the law can reliably prevent trade unions operating effectively is somewhat underestimating their creativity.
when the pentonville 5 were imprisoned for being trade unionists the unions got together, organised and got them free. There is power in a union and power speaks for itself
From people? Stop being actually racist to any one group of people please, it's not funny.
Well yeah America didn't get those tendencies from the drinking water in Saxony, Southern Denmark and Normandy- they got them from what was at the time the world's most powerful empire that needed to shed its craziest and most humorless self-flagellators.
Stop being actually racist
You cannot be racist against Anglos. You absolutely cannot be racist against Anglos from fucking Eton.
Fair. What do you call it if you are an asshole to a whole bunch of people then, most of who aren't responsible for this and probably don't like it?
Once liberals start to remember that you need to kill scabs at least. Hope it's before the heat death of the universe
On a long enough timeline, scabs kill themselves. Too bad they’re even inefficient at that
Yup. And the media will gnash their teeth and wail "how could this happen!?" while covering the train derailment / plane crash / airport shooting / medical deaths etc, conveniently ignoring that they were the cheerleaders and catalyst for this.
Coal wars 2.0 let's fucking go. (Just kidding we don't have nearly enough sufficiently militant unions for that to happen :deeper-sadness: )
Today we changed the law to allow businesses to shoot employees found attempting to discuss unionization on sight
This was a criminal offense, now it’s an option
Ok, so then unions are free to be violent again, right? Because that's the fucking compromise we worked out. We don't throw you into the sea, you don't break strikes.
Given the success corporate had in breaking the Caterpillar strike by sending in back office white collars?
I think the unions are just going to :sit-back-and-enjoy:
The UK
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Hates Immigrants
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Ran out of young people to exploit
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Can't pay anyone cost-of-living anymore
Who is going to fill these jobs?
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Being a scab is definitely morally repugnant, but even like just on a pure base instinct of "I'd like to avoid having my ass kicked every single day for the rest of my life" it seems like a poor plan
Y’all ever rammed into metal shelving with a forklift? I hear it’s fun
wasnt this a tactic that the IWW did? i would never suggest anything, but work sabotage is cool and good :wink:
yeah, that part was actually pretty good. the John Deere strike was awesome.
Don’t forget the Alec Baldwin fiasco. He killed a woman because the qualified union workers demanded safer work environments and better pay, and they brought some random guys within a couple of hours to be temps who knew nothing about guns.
He just poses as other superheroes and breaks shit because he doesn’t know what he’s doing
Like a reverse vampire. He can only enter if he’s not invited
Red Son Superman would definitely beat The Scab into a fine jelly
allow businesses impacted by strike action to hire skilled, temporary workers to mitigate disruption
what, after you've flown them back form Rwanda?
Ah, now workers are free to be blackleg scum, the lowest form of life.
we need more people who read a wiki how article to operate heavy machinery
