TheSanSabaSongbird @ TheSanSabaSongbird @lemdro.id Posts 0Comments 960Joined 1 yr. ago
It's a good thing that Biden's NLRB is the most pro-union in living memory then, isn't it?
Edit; also, contracts are binding. If and when we enter a world in which union contracts are tossed out by authoritarian fiat, we're in much bigger trouble than simple anti-uion policies.
A lot of people are confused about this kind of thing and appear to imagine that winning an election means that you get to do everything you want. It doesn't. All it means is that you can try and get some of the things you want done, and you better choose them wisely because you have limited political capital and a set window of time. That's just the way it is, especially in such a polarized country. A better way to view political accomplishments is through the lens of what's actually possible as opposed to what you really want. It's childish to think otherwise.
Our country is basically in a low-level mostly non-violent state of civil war and people are crying because Biden can't or won't give them everything they want? Really? WTF is wrong with you? The plane is about to crash into the fucking mountain! All the lights are flashing bright red! We either come together and stop this thing or we're all going to be in for a very bad time.
This is how democracies die. We either unite and stand together, or we'll all "hang" separately.
It's going to be an issue anywhere rural.
I'd rather be in some dark holler...
While you are correct in one sense, you've also managed to completely miss the point in a way that to me seems deeply stupid, small-minded and idiotic.
I would ask you what part about my comment you didn't understand, but I can tell that the answer is "nothing," that you understood nothing, that you are utterly incapable of accurately rephrasing my argument, and that as such, you are a disappointing example of your sorry generation.
Here's the thing; we are trying to treat a figurative heart attack while you are bitching about a figurative cancer.
In medicine we have the concept of triage, wherein we treat the most immediately life-threatening issue first, and then, once the patient is stabilized, we move on to the next treatment.
What you are arguing in favor of is basically treating the cancer while ignoring the full pulmonary arrest that is happening right before your eyes.
What part about this do you not understand?
I don't get it. I truly don't.
Nothing about what you ultimately want will happen if you and I do not stand up together right fucking now.
The plane is about to crash into the fucking mountain and you want to bitch about your little fucking objections?
Really? That's who you are?
It's an interesting and terrifying thought experiment. Hopefully we're not actually going to run it IRL.
For whatever it's worth, I don't think it would fly in a country as massive and habitually fractious as the US, but I've been wrong about a lot of things in the past --never imagined that an unlettered buffoonish corndog conman like Trump could even come within sniffing distance of the presidency for example-- so who the fuck knows?
I don't have a lot of faith in my fellow Americans. I probably never should have, but hindsight is always 20-20 or whatever.
Yeah, sigh, you're right. On the plus side, I'm in my 50s and already feel old, so no worries about that.
Nothing really.
He hasn't. With a handful of obvious exceptions, the entire Republican leadership has spent the last four years running a clinic in cowardice, pathetic boot-licking and groveling.
Bullshit. They're simply saying that now probably isn't the best time for infighting. As Levitsky and Ziblatt show in their book, "How Democracies Die," a disunited and squabbling opposition is how authoritarian dictatorships come to power.
You can agree or not, but don't misrepresent the argument.
This is correct. The left is utterly incapable of unity on anything for the very good reason that unlike the right, it's a very loosely bound coalition in which each constituent interest group feels very little loyalty to the others. The result is that when we should be coming together to stop the fucking plane from crashing into the fucking mountain, we instead feel it necessary to trot out old internal grievances, back-stab, and in general form a circular firing-squad.
It's why the conservative minority in this country is about to turn us into a right-wing extremist autocratic shit hole even though we vastly outnumber them.
Democracies die when opposition fails to unite in the face of populist autocratic movements.
Well it's not like Vietnam was a walk in the park either. It sure as fuck didn't do my old man any good. I blame the war for his early death due to complications from chronic alcoholism. He came home from the war, but the war never really left him. There are hundreds of thousands of others like him.
I guess you can be an honorary Xer, but I was 14 when you were born, so it's just a fact that a lot of what I and my fellow Xers have in common time-wise is going to be significantly different. Consider; you were 7-years-old when I was 21.
But we're also demographically a lot smaller than boomers, millennials or zoomers, so we kind of flew under the radar.
That's one of the risks of not being unionized. My employer can't touch my pension (not that they would want to since they all came up from the union rank and file too) because it's all managed through our union contract and there's no chance in hell that we ever approve a contract that gives them that kind of control.
It's based on a misreading of the 2nd amendment on the one hand, and on cornball cos-play fantasy on the other. The 2nd was intended so that state government could muster militias to put down insurrections such as Shay's Rebellion, which it was written in specific reaction to.
As for the cos-play bit, there is no universe in which a private militia, no matter how well-armed, is going to have any chance at all of resisting the military power of contemporary US law enforcement. It's a fucking joke.