I agree. This is why I don’t think white men should run this country so I won’t be voting for one.

That debate upset libs more than tens of thousands of dead Palestinians in Gaza

Everyone seems to forget that the largest mobilization of the US masses ever happened that year and at least some of it (if not most) was co-opted by the Democrats. Literally millions of people in the streets being told they needed to vote for Joe or they supported police brutality and he only won by a small albeit comfortable margin.

I have no idea what they think is gonna happen this year when the only people that are in the streets are fervently opposed to the current administration.

A few months ago my employer put a cap on how much PTO any employee could have at three times what they could earn in a year. Tons of people got the difference paid out in cash and were pissed about it.

RCV/instant runoff doesn’t actually create opportunities for third parties either. Plenty of places use it and still have duopolies or single party rule. There’s also fptp systems that have multiple parties engaged in government.

It’s almost like political power doesn’t flow from votes.

Proof that any self styled “progressive” has nothing to lose by completely opposing Zionist fascism. The Zionists will stab you in the back even if you support them. We can advance confidently knowing anyone that tries to tow a middle position on the issue is an opportunist.

This is exactly what management does when they think you’re a pushover. The job is probably awful but they figure you’ll take it and roll over for them and then they’ll abuse you.

That is if they even give you the job in the first place. Sometimes they’ll dangle management roles in front of employees too if they think it’ll motivate you.

The mistake is operating within the nlrb framework. The UAW didn’t win in the 30s by asking the government to recognize them and if the 2000 or so people that voted for a union in that plant acted like they were a union rather than waiting for the bourgeoisie to pat them on the head and give their approval Mercedes would be at the bargaining table with them right now.

Maybe it’s more vulnerable but by the time that’s a problem the profit will already be somewhere else and then whoever gets the short end of the stick will get a taxpayer bailout as a consolation prize. They’re not doing economics, they’re gambling with other people’s money.

The US is ruled by the logic of finance capital because it is ruled by finance capitalists. Buy low, sell high, and let someone else get stuck holding the bag. The actual concerns of production or running a society are irrelevant because long before production breaks down the current owners have dumped their stake for a comfy profit and bought some other industry.

@Frank@hexbear.net in regards to the flight attendants striking Ianal but usually rank and file strikers only get fired which they’d otherwise be protected from in a “legal” strike though they maybe could face other punishment. Union leadership would be much more likely to face fines or imprisonment and the union as an organization would also likely be fined and could be held liable for the company’s lost revenue. It all kinda depends on the court that declares the strike illegal though

The translators of the English version of the text had approached Verso asking to publish it with them since Verso has published other works by Losurdo. The translators were rudely rebuked by Verso and I think this “joke” was a petty continuation of that.

Doesn’t the average US citizen not vote or vote for a minor party candidate in most presidential elections?

Tbh, even if someone didn’t hate cops this goes to show how bad at their job they are.

Whether or not you work with the IWW or any other organization you’re going to be following a similar path of mapping, identifying leaders, and building an organizing committee. Don’t wait for an organizer to do it for you because they won’t.

You can find info about this stuff online but if there’s anything I can do to help feel free to ask. I was ghosted by a large union and it sucks but it doesn’t mean we stop.

This is a fight going all the way back to 1848. The famous Marx quote about the proletariat being armed is so that they could fight the petite bourgeoisie reformists who would inevitably betray/fail the revolution when they turn on the workers. How supposed “revolutionaries” fail to grasp that the petty bourgeoisie are not their friends to this day is beyond me.

They already spent the last decade supporting the Saudi effort to bomb and starve Ansar Allah into submission and it didn’t work. Can’t imagine that would change now.

Grocery stores usually do an insane volume of sales compared to most retail. I’m not sure how big these things were but even if they’re tiny they’re probably selling thousands of units a day. The number of chips they would need and the labor to apply them would almost certainly be unsustainable.

Good. The major unions have become parasitic tools of the state and finance capital due to the NLRA model. A new regime of labor law would undoubtedly be a sharp blow against American workers, but would also force them to actually exercise their power in ways they haven’t in years.

It was always absurd to think NATO weaponry and strategy was so far ahead of Russia that it could push a significantly larger military back. That’s not to say the Russians are going to have an easy time holding on to any ground long term if (when) they face an insurgency, but the belief that the Russians would be unable to lop off a significant chunk of Ukraine was sillly. Your average American has no idea what a real war between modern armies looks like though so I guess it makes sense that they bought the narrative.