☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[johnny two cool]

this guy rocks

[Mr. Dingle Foot]

Oct 2, 2024 11:29:23 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

They are working for a ceasefire. They just wont do what has to be done because the US and Israel have a "special relationship." Just about every congressmember has an AIPAC person on speed dial. A Republican is going to have one hell of time getting elected if they don't have the support of the NRA, and anyone's going to have a hard time if they piss off AIPAC. To her credit, AIPAC didn't even really bother targeting AOC (or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or Andre Carson, etc., etc.). Israel is losing the long game wrt public relations, but that doesn't really mean much for Palestinians today. 

[throwdemgunz]

Oct 2, 2024 11:29:23 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

They are working for a ceasefire. They just wont do what has to be done because the US and Israel have a "special relationship." Just about every congressmember has an AIPAC person on speed dial. A Republican is going to have one hell of time getting elected if they don't have the support of the NRA, and anyone's going to have a hard time if they piss off AIPAC. To her credit, AIPAC didn't even really bother targeting AOC (or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or Andre Carson, etc., etc.). Israel is losing the long game wrt public relations, but that doesn't really mean much for Palestinians today. 

Sadly AIPAC doesn’t need to go after Tlaib when CNN (specifically Jake Tapper and Dana Bash who everyone was creaming their jeans over a page ago) will do it for them.

newrepublic.com/post/186322/cnn-jake-tapper-dana-bash-rashida-tlaib

[johnny two cool]

I dunno, I think if AIPAC felt they could unseat her they would try

[johnny two cool]

Oct 2, 2024 14:26:33 GMT -5 Mr. Dingle Foot said:

Oct 2, 2024 11:29:23 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

They are working for a ceasefire. They just wont do what has to be done because the US and Israel have a "special relationship." Just about every congressmember has an AIPAC person on speed dial. A Republican is going to have one hell of time getting elected if they don't have the support of the NRA, and anyone's going to have a hard time if they piss off AIPAC. To her credit, AIPAC didn't even really bother targeting AOC (or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or Andre Carson, etc., etc.). Israel is losing the long game wrt public relations, but that doesn't really mean much for Palestinians today. 

Wild, the U.S. wants to see a different authority

while Israel doesn't

[jimmyspudboy]

Tweets that got you fucked up/politics thread crossover

[beldar]

This loser probably has double my income and can’t hire somebody to make his head hair the same color as his beard hair

[Aaron]

Oct 2, 2024 14:17:39 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

this guy rocks

RT 👍

[BIL Security Team Alpha]

Oct 1, 2024 20:20:40 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

Oct 1, 2024 20:07:09 GMT -5 The Last Online Marxist said:

can I ride it now

dot.ca.gov/news-releases/news-release-2024-007

Some are in testing. SunLine Transit is gonna have hydrogen busses.

Opening this link to find out that this wasn’t actually underwater trains has ruined my day narc.

[johnny two cool]

Oct 2, 2024 15:37:09 GMT -5 BIL Security Team Alpha said:

Oct 1, 2024 20:20:40 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

dot.ca.gov/news-releases/news-release-2024-007

Some are in testing. SunLine Transit is gonna have hydrogen busses.

Opening this link to find out that this wasn’t actually underwater trains has ruined my day narc.

I'm sorry

[Aaron]

New evidence unsealed in the Jan 6 case against Trump

A little early for a surprise but whatever

[AL]

GAIPAC

[meatballmaniac]

Has anyone already said that Jack Smith looks like Adam 22?

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Oct 2, 2024 16:10:19 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Has anyone already said that Jack Smith looks like Adam 22?

It's all I think about when I see Jack Smith.

[BIL Security Team Alpha]

Oct 2, 2024 16:11:37 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Oct 2, 2024 16:10:19 GMT -5 meatballmaniac said:

Has anyone already said that Jack Smith looks like Adam 22?

It's all I think about when I see Jack Smith.

Funny thing is he looks a lot like my brother in law and now I will always think of a22 when I’m around him.

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Trumps own wife thinks he and his party’s stance on abortion is dog shit.

[krujones]

Its a trap

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

www.cnn.com/2024/10/03/politics/video/melania-trump-abortion-video-van-jones-digvid

It's like she showed up to film for a perfume commercial or something.

[johnny two cool]

www.ttnews.com/articles/biden-taft-hartley-avoidance

WASHINGTON — Some manufacturers and retailers are urging President Joe Biden to invoke a 1947 law as a way to suspend a strike by 45,000 dockworkers that has shut down 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas.



At issue is Section 206 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act. The law authorizes a president to seek a court order for an 80-day cooling-off period for companies and unions to try to resolve their differences.



Biden has said, however, that he won’t intervene in the strike.

...

According to the Congressional Research Service, about half the time that presidents have invoked Section 206 of Taft-Hartley, the parties worked out their differences. But nine times, according to the research service, the workers wen't ahead with a strike.

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Despite lobbying by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Retail Federation, the president has maintained that he has no plans to try to suspend the dockworkers’ strike against ports on the East and Gulf coasts.

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f the longshoremen’s strike drags on long enough and causes shortages that antagonize American consumers, pressure could grow on Biden to change course and intervene. But experts like Brucher suggest that most voters have already made up their minds and that the election outcome is “really more about turnout” now.



Which means, Brucher said, that “Democrats really can’t afford to alienate organized labor.”

[meatballmaniac]

I can fix her

[tomservo]

lmao

[johnny two cool]

You should see the USMX executive board members' yachts. 

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

THESE AIR CONDITIONING UNITS AND HOUSE FANS, FOR EXAMPLE

HOW MANY HARDWORKING ROYAL SERVANTS HAD THEIR JOBS STOLEN BY HOUSE FANS

[johnny two cool]

 

[Sorley Boy]

My granddad was a union toll collector after he retired from glazing and he 100% would have called Harold Daggett Harold F-ggot.

[johnny two cool]

www.marclevinson.net/?p=2301

SPOILER: Click to show

From time to time, I’m lucky enough to be able to visit container terminals: some of the people who run them are familiar with my books, and they are kind enough to give me a peek inside the gate. Each terminal, of course, is unique; the old saw “if you’ve seen one port, you’ve seen one port” is absolutely true. But there’s one lesson that’s pretty consistent among the terminals I’ve visited in various countries over the past few years: automation doesn’t always pay off.

On October 1, the International Longshoremen’s Association, which represents dock workers on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, launched a strike that is at least nominally intended to block automation that could eliminate its members’ jobs. (I say “nominally” because whatever labor negotiators say about a pending dispute should be taken with a grain of salt.) This has become a hot-button topic. U.S. container ports are woefully inefficient compared to their counterparts around the world, as measured in a variety of ways. Automation is often proposed as the fix. And now that everyone seems concerned about supply-chain risk, we hear automation being touted as a way to make supply chains more resilient.

These are talking points. In reality, “automation” does not have a specific meaning when it comes to container terminals. Technology can replace humans in many different tasks, from allowing trucks through the entry gate to operating the vehicles that move containers between storage locations and piers. Almost every terminal I’ve visited has some automated functions. There’s none at which management can simply lock the gate and let computer-guided equipment run things. As Elon Musk admitted in 2018, after acknowledging that Tesla had installed too much automation in its California factory, “Humans are underrated.”

In most terminals, automation seems to have led to more efficiency, if efficiency is defined as container moves per worker hour. But in many cases, automation has not cut the time required to discharge and reload a vessel–the sort of efficiency ship lines care most about. More problematic, terminal operators have learned that automation isn’t always a wise investment. New hardware and customized software have to be paid for, as does the army of technology professionals needed to install and maintain them. These are fixed costs, and if the volume of containers is less than anticipated, the return on investment may be negative.

Introducing automation, in general, is a good idea; I don’t favor preserving jobs that computers can do better than people. But it is legitimate for the ILA to be concerned about protecting its bargaining power and about compensating or retraining workers whose jobs may disappear. If union resistance leads terminal operators to think more carefully about what technology to bring to the waterfront and how workers might benefit from it, that may not be such a bad thing.

[tandoori jones]

Oct 3, 2024 15:22:02 GMT -5 Sorley Boy said:

My granddad was a union toll collector after he retired from glazing and he 100% would have called Harold Daggett Harold F-ggot.

tolls is a good comparison. used to be all well paid union workers now fully automated and yet the price of tolls has skyrocketed tremendously even though they eliminated all those wages and benefits

[meatballmaniac]

Oct 3, 2024 17:08:44 GMT -5 tandoori jones said:

Oct 3, 2024 15:22:02 GMT -5 Sorley Boy said:

My granddad was a union toll collector after he retired from glazing and he 100% would have called Harold Daggett Harold F-ggot.

tolls is a good comparison. used to be all well paid union workers now fully automated and yet the price of tolls has skyrocketed tremendously even though they eliminated all those wages and benefits

And I’m still waiting for my automated toll booth dividend check.

[johnny two cool]

hell yeah Biden did it again

[The Last Online Marxist]

what did he do this time