Surely it can’t only be butthurt 4th generation descendants of sugar plantation owners in Miami and techbros in Sam Fran that caused this phenomenon, right?
How does anyone in 2020 hear/see an ad and not imediately discount it 110%, knowing that there's an agenda behind it? Do people think these agendas serve them as individuals somehow?
EDIT: But hey, I've been screaming 'ILLEGAL TAXI BUSINESS' since I first heard the term 'ride share'.
Maybe I'm younger and dumber than you, but I can easily answer this question because I have relatively recently had this mindset. I think a lot of it is blind corporate faith, propaganda, and acceptance of the neoliberal status quo that corporations are job creators.
People tried but wtf can you do when you’re against something like that?
It's bleak. The only answer is the old cliche of some form of mass workers party/org. These are the kinds of local issues that DSA seems to specialize in, and I do agree that they would have been further encouraged and energized to do so under a Bernie candidacy, very possibly to the point of changing the outcome. The optimist in me thinks that the left is just not there yet, but that despite our small size, America does have a growing potential for some form of empowered left organization to aggressively and openly tackle this type of bullshit.
Florida has a substantial conservative population, as I’ve heard “the more north you go (in florida) the more Southern it gets” i.e. the south of florida is blue but the northern part is very red.
That's true. Outside of major cities, the "rural" population in Florida is very conservative/red. You can check the historical county maps over the past like 40-50 years and see it. Sometimes there is shocking changes (like Duval going "blue" this election) but generally Florida hasn't super-changed in demographics/voting blocks over the years.
I think the reason the $15 minimum wage passed for Florida is (from what I've heard) that it goes $15 gradually and then stops to where it's like $.05 increase per year based on cost of living, to where the conservatives would be like "ok, fine. You can have your $15 over the years but you can't get a 'living' wage out of it" and voted for it because it was "palatable" for them.
Posted Richard Wolfs take some time ago: https://hexbear.net/post/52385
TLDW: Capital brought a lot of money (outspent labor 10:1) and the same old marketing tricks they've always used, and people fell for it.
This model will be used in other states to reclassify millions of workers in America as gig contractors, and its clear that the gig economy now looks poised to become the new US model for neo-feudalism over the next 4 years.
Not mentioned in this video, but covered by jimmy dore (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXYORncY2N8) is that Biden is filling his cabinet with these silicon valley gig company freaks (Are any other YouTuber / left media using their platform to cover the Biden's cabinet? or are they all out to brunch?) , and Kamala Harris has family that works for Uber on this campaign.
15$ an hour might become the minimum wage in the US eventually, but it doesn't mean anything if everyone can be designated as an independent contractor. Anyway strap in the next 4 years are going to be wild.
I'd say Majority Reports covers Biden, Trump, and Covid pretty frequently. Everyday in fact, along with interviewing some guest and talking about q-anon, bolivia etc whichever is in the news
They have brought up Jimmy Dore plenty of times too, that's where I know him from. And boy let me tell you, they do not like him over there. This is a debate Seder and Dore had before the 2016 Elections, before the two had their falling out.
These are some pretty fun videos MR has made about Dore since then-
Jimmy Dore's Very, Very Silly Appearance On Tucker Carlson
Jimmy Dore CENSORS Guest Mentioning Sam Seder
Jimmy Dore Illogically Transforms Into Costco Kevin
What Jimmy Dore Gets Wrong About Tulsi Gabbard
Jimmy Dore Explains His Very Bizarre Foreign Policy Ideas
I’d say Majority Reports covers Biden, Trump, and Covid pretty frequently.
Yeah I don't give YouTubers points for covering Trump, every fucking MSM news outlet already screams "Orange Man Bad" for ages, we have enough of those, its just lazy reporting at this point. Covid is also covered by everyone.
Looking at the first video page of majority report i can find 3 videos covering Biden over the last week, and none of them in a critical light:
Biden Getting Ready To Elbow Drop Student Loans?
Let's Hope Biden Doesn't Flub His First Big Choice
Did Joe Biden Pick the PERFECT Chief of Staff to Deal With Covid?
This is dog shit reporting considering Biden's cabinet picks, his "perfect chief of staff" is an industry lobbyist and sam seder decides to run interference and tell his viewers that this guy is amazing and perfect.
Regarding Sam's coverage of Jimmy this is well documented, he always pull clips out of context and mis construes what jimmy is saying. It's frankly pathetic that he feels he needs to punch left constantly. But then again Sam is angling for an MSNBC position so he can Russia gate 24/7.
So just a couple things -
Firstly, on Klain:
In summary, Klain led the effort against Ebola under Obama and criticized the federal response to Covid-19 back in February. This is what Seder liked about Klain and probably why he was picked as the Chief of Staff for Covid. No mention of his lobbying past/present or connection with private corporations. But given that he's been in politics for decades, he's probably as bad as any other corporate lobbyist/politician. So, as far as Covid is concerned, he seems like a fair choice. For everything else, he's gonna be a corporate shill.
Now on to the MSNBC stuff:
As for the MSNBC stuff, Seder goes on the channel even now and has for quite some time as an occasional guest. I don't know if you know, he used to be on actual mainstream radio. I mean, he's no outsider to the political commentary gig. That clip, specifically, was because he was subbing for Chris Hayes that day. I remember watching it live at the time. The allegation that he wants to cover Russiagate is pretty baseless. From then, to this day, he criticizes the #Resistance crowd, the impeachment, Nancy Pelosi and everyone else. He is definitely a "Lesser Evil" guy, but the only democrats he ever talks positively about are the Squad.
I mean, the reason he got basically booted from the corporate establishment was because of his fervent anti-Iraq war stance. So you really can't say he's batting for the establishment. I'm not saying he's a revolutionary, but he's not a grifter. Some of his Iraq coverage over the years -
The Insane Media Landscape Leading Up to the Iraq War
Pelosi Admits She KNEW Bush Was Lying About Iraq
Iraq: All We Did & Still Can Get Wrong (w/ Matt Duss)
The Hacks and Frauds Who Led Us Into The Iraq Invasion
Reporter Who Lied About WMDs Now Calls For Media Accountability on Iraq
Oprah Helped Sell The Iraq War. Like, A Lot.
And back during the primaries, he was dunking on Biden every week, criticizing him for everything he'd ever did. He was pretty heavily invested in Bernie.
Shocking Video Of Biden DEFENDING Iraq War Emerges
Biden Lies To Lawrence O'Donnell's Face on Iraq
Joe Biden Makes An Ass Of Himself AGAIN!
Joe Biden FORGETS Declaration of Independence During Embarrassing Speech
Biden With Maybe Worst Reparations Answer Possible
Visibly Confused Joe Biden Forgets What Office He's Running For
So I don't know why you have such a hate-boner for Seder. He's like, the one good Gen-Xer. Hasan calls him his favorite uncle. In jest, obviously. But plenty of people in the left media sphere from TYT to David Pakman are friends with Seder. And literally all his employees are far lefter than him. Jamie Peck is a pretty open communist, Michael Brooks was great on foreign policy.
And you really, really gotta watch the Jimmy Dore clips I linked earlier. They're hilarious. I can assure you, the debate between the two is so hilarious, especially in hindsight.
In only one state in america is firing you for no reason not legal. Why do people think "deep blue" means anything at all??
The difference between red and blue is a slight difference in degree of exploitation and optics, nothing more. All of the good democratic politicians are only loosely affiliated because blue = least shit in the 2 party hellscape that is american politics.
California is probably the most corporate worshipy state in America, and an absolute hellhole.
The $15 minimum wage passed because it is incredibly popular. If stupid fucking democratic morons would realize that maybe they would have won by running on actual popular policies. Stupid fucks let some cringe ass gusanos dictate their entire policy in Florida because democrats are absolutely obsessed with doing the stupidest shit possible.
Americans don't make sense politically, also hundreds of millions were invested for prop 22 in CA
I wonder why how much of that was because of intentional obfuscation of what the vote meant. The wording made it sound like you would support the workers not the corporation...
Raising the minimum wage is standard liberal policy and the norm for capitalist, developed societies. It’s not threatening in the least, and is actually long overdue.
Not allowing corporate domination? In America? That’s a spanking
Literally everyone who used Uber, Doordash, Postmates, etc, saw "Yes on 22" messages. These companies spent $200 million on advertising.
