Honest in branding
Posted Dec 1, 2022, 11:45 PM UTC
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Your typos are blinding
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Isn't the whole reason that the sick days, what the workers ultimately wanted in the first place, weren't included in the deal is because of opposition from the GOP?
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and remember, the GOP has spent the last 60 years breaking up unions. What fun!
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It started around Nixon when China started to open up and outsourcing labor that started the bleeding out of the middle class.
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Republicans: literal Nazis
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The four (of twelve) unions that rejected the original deal objected to the lack of paid sick leave.
Exactly one Democrat voted against the Senate bill that would have forced corporate management to give them paid sick leave; unfortunately, that's all it takes with nearly-complete GOP obstructionism.
If you don't see that blaming the Democrats for this is both factually incorrect and only serves to help the GOP, there's really nothing I can do for you.
Cool. How many democrats voted to make the strike illegal?
Look, I completely understand the frustration—and I think it was a stupid, unforced error to not include the sick leave the initial bill—but there is no scenario in which any major political party in a capitalist system allows a $2Billion-per-day transportation infrastructure strike to occur three weeks before Christmas when inflation is at a half-century high.
I'm not saying it's good; I'm just saying that expecting anything else from our political system is fantasy-land stuff: You might as well ask for a pony, or a blowy, or a blowy from a pony.
Biden can but has not yet issued an executive order that companies doing business with the government must provide workers with 7 sick days. Obama, the great progressive*, signed a similar order in 2015 but exempted the Railway workers. I wonder why?
The strike has to be stopped but putting a government foot on the neck of unions rather than the neck of Rail tycoons exposes the false narrative of democrats and Joe Biden's support for labor.
Biden needs to be pressured to do the right thing. This shit undermines everything Democrats do to again become the party of working people.
*sarcasm alert
I'm just looking for a good justification from the "blue no matter who" crowd. Who does a rail worker vote for after this? Could any amount of voting harder prevented this? Why did we work so hard in the midterms if this is the result?
The only answer I've gotten is to suck it up; trust a man who just betrayed our trust before our very eyes. If we can't push Biden left enough to suport on of the Democrat's core voter bases, why should we continue to vote Democrat? The Democrats refused to play hard ball on such an easy layup for labor. How can we expect them to support any other sort of organized labor movement? For Christ's sake, they're doing Regan!
They've slid so far right that they've become the Republicans of yesteryear, and it doesn't seem like they're willing to swing left when it matters. They've told everyone that when push comes to shove, they will side with capital. I can't support a party that will do that and pretend to be pro union at the same time.
Edit: You also just contradicted your previous comment. The Dems are factually at fault for this. You even admitted this was an unforced error.
Whoops your mask slipped 😂😂
Not the GQP who voted unanimously against sick leave?
Amazing
Edit: lmao the larper got exposed and blocked me
Then I'm the wrong person to ask.
In the primaries, yes.
"Vote harder" is a callous and embarrassingly-stupid bit of cynical word-farts that counterproductively dismisses exactly the way to get what you want: You work like fucking crazy in the primaries to challenge incumbents who don't vote the way you want. AOC's 2018 victory over Pelosi's heir-apparent was basically a goddamned blueprint for how to defeat entrenched centrists, but the Terminally Online Leftists would apparently prefer to not go door-to-door all day every day and instead just complain about what other people are serving them.
Then change the party.
Because—like it or not (and I sure as hell don't)—US politics at a federal level is a zero-sum game with exactly two options right now.
So you're saying that once again, Democrats had the seats and found the no votes.
You can lie and say it's "factually incorrect," but if a Democrat had voted with workers instead of with billionaires, rail workers would have their sick leave.
When Democrats cease the behavior I've described, I'll stop pointing it out.
One Democrat voted against it; forty-two Republicans did.
Pretending that it's somehow the Democrats' fault basically requires one of the following:
A complete and total inability to count.
A complete and total failure to understand the political process.
An adolescent tantrum so overwhelming that it smothers one's ability to count and/or understanding of the political process.
Cynical defeatism masquerading as "edgy" insight. (NB: This is just a more-politely-described version of the scenario presented in Option 3.)
Conspiracy-theorist nonsense that would be more at home on InfoWars.
Risible dishonesty.
The Dems unanimously voted for paid sick leave
Come back to reality