Kinda scary most trade union members are already pretty reactionary.
i've heard that when the right starts using left rhetoric, we're all in deep shit. absolutely incredible how it seems like the dems eager to hand over all political power to far right fascists. real weimar hours.
we should come up with hand signals for finding each other on the trains to the camps. like 🤙 or 👉👌
close your hands to fists. extend out your thumbs and pinks in a y-shape from each hand. hold your hands up with the tips of your pinkys and thumbs touching to create a hexagon.
Aww we finally have our own gang sign. Proud to be here for this moment.
Hell yeah I wanna do gang shit. I would say I'm absolutely stoked to be here for this gang forming moment but I don't think you're allowed to be in a gang and use the phrase absolutely stoked unless you're on peaky blinders (I assume that's what that show is about).
In this evil country the only way to change anything is by being a gang or a cult
True facts. Anyone who disagrees hasn't analyzed whether they think our "special interest groups", political orgs, police, legal system etc each fit the definition of cult or gang.
On top of the more obvious examples of cults and gangs like the southern baptists, HOAs, PTAs, which are all largely various religious or racially motivated ideological special interest groups as well as being motivated by an even bigger cult of "line go up more gooder" and organized crime of various kinds like fraud, insider trading, tax evasion, racial/ethnic segregation, etc etc with various degrees of "falling back on violence" (even if it's the violence of the state) to enforce their gang activity.
Yelling some shit like "The hexbear corncobs at midnight!" and IMMEDIATELY getting shot 10,952 times by a single guard while everyone stands up and claps
The scary part is that at their absolutely most blatantly transparent and useless they're still fumbling their way into a better position than Dems. We're getting really eerily close to this new wave of fash having their "Take over the labor movement/patriotism/nationalism and then kill all the commies NSDAP playbook" moment. They don't have to believe a word they say, and they obviously don't, they just need enough of the public, and this is the terrifying part, the AMERICAN public, to go along.
We've got some real fucked material conditions brewing.
r/politics has been extraordinarily positive towards the rail workers. In my opinion - shockingly so. I almost said unions instead of workers but these are libs were are talking about. I've seen comments like "What the hell can't they have sick days?" But Team Democrat supporters are fickle with stuff like worker's rights.
The redditors in that sub just assume that the workers are liberals too. If there's a strike - I support in that sub will quickly tank and be replaced by anger. Team Democrat is the most important thing and must be worshiped.
They can't because of the material basis of their donor base - the exact same reason the dems cannot, but dems have some vestiges of having a partial worker wing of their base.
Yes, they will have to back down if an actual meaningful vote takes place.
Lol, they say this every time and then never actually do it. No electoralism means no electoralism.
Was so obvious that Donnie saw in Bernie’s populism a constituency ready to burst. And promptly stole lots of his rhetoric.
It worked because $hillary was incredibly less believable than the corrupt game show host.
It never would have worked had he had to face off with Bernie.
Perhaps.
But any properly discerning worker will be able to see right through this pathetic political ruse. The Republican stance has always been hostilely anti-union, through decades of awful RW propaganda machine media. And the Dems have joined them in having lost all credibility with workers, after repeatedly mouthing the same tired platitudes but doing exactly next to nothing.
What it could result in is a faster burning cynicism about the entire political apparatus. Thus increasing the possibility of strikes, solidarity and the 99% coalescing around shared concerns and grievances.
If the ReThugs and Cruz choose to try to maneuver this to their own benefit it’ll soon enough play out to be the fraud that it will be. With the next effect being a strengthening of the People vs the Wealthy and their puppet protector politicians.
Of course we all know that the Republicans are using this as a cynical ploy aiming at 2024 and don't actually care about labor unions.
If it was anyone other than Cruz saying it, maybe. Nobody within the party actually listens to Cruz.
They would have voted unanimously if they weren't in opposition. I really wish socialists would stop falling for this.
Kinda scary most trade union members are already pretty reactionary.
The trade unions were a liberal response to wildcat strikes, the IWW and the CIO. They've always been reactionary.
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