https://twitter.com/BrianMteleSUR/status/1618241634285785089
He wasn’t a socdem back then lol, he was the president of a steelworkers union who organized strikes against military rule. I guess those aren’t inherently contradictory, but his positions have softened over decades of doing politics
erm.. er erm... errreerrr applies hands to a cheese grater look I'm not a trot i swear
jokes on you, I work a desk job but have callouses from the gym 😎
Death to America
I lift the heavy things and my hands are still too smooth
in 1978 the shock of imagining a group of WFH fintech bouldering bros would kill a red-blooded communist
Trotsky jokes aside, I've heard that the phrase "show your mettle" originates with literally showing the metal embedded in your hands if you were a machinist - The small, extremely sharp metal flakes created by machining processes would inevitably enter your hand as small splinters, leaving telltale black dots.
Ok so i gotta pick up rock climbing so that the workers wont make fun of my soft womanly hands
No joke, my hands were way more calloused after taking up rock climbing than when I was employed as a machinist or welder (part time, but still).
this is brutal because you can't even deflect calling him a socdem because 78 he is at his peak labour organizing days
