• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m a union worker and I’m dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this. Who buy into their bullshit and actually think that conservatives will help them. Talk about voting against your own interests. If you’re in a union, voting for conservatives is just stupid

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      Union worker myself. I am also baffled by the strong conservative undercurrent in my fellows’ views. Don’t know how they sustain it.

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      8 months ago

      God, imagine if Biden had backed the railroad unions… Ahh, what might have been.

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        The stupidity of that decision still amazes me to this day. “Railroad safety and efficacy during the shipping crisis? No! Let the monopolistic railroads regulate themselves, fuck their workers!”

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      I’m dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this.

      There was a period in the 90s when Democrats took the DLC Neoliberal turn, basically abandoned the labor movement, and made it very easy for Republicans to run as White Nationalist labor-ish sounding candidates.

      But ten years ago, you’d get some Joe the Plumber asshole whining about how he can’t afford to drive to work because gasoline taxes are too expensive.

      Now you’ve got this Yaley prick telling Boston Firefighters they are the Sad Virgins rather than the Woke Chads, because they don’t hate migrants enough.

      Karl Rove is rolling in his pile of rent boys right now.