☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[Percussionist Foster Grant]

Not enough a Dracula vs werewolf discussion in here... the real meat and potatoes of political discourse.

[johnny two cool]

i dunno if I’d call it “economic convenience” when it’s the transportation of the stuff that allows a massive number of people to do their jobs

www.freightwaves.com/news/biden-forces-labor-agreement-on-rail-workers-averting-a-legal-rail-strike

[DrewBlood]

Dec 2, 2022 12:02:43 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Not enough a Dracula vs werewolf discussion in here... the real meat and potatoes of political discourse.

BIL Werewolf Crew

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Dec 1, 2022 23:07:59 GMT -5 stephanie said:

i pick sean

i choo-choo choose u

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Dec 1, 2022 21:47:46 GMT -5 Tstigz said:

If you could pump your way down a rail road with any poster who would you choose? I’d love to travel along a scenic stretch in a hand car with meatballmaniac

I would pump all the way to LA and pick up Jower and we can pump back together

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Dec 2, 2022 12:02:43 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Not enough a Dracula vs werewolf discussion in here... the real meat and potatoes of political discourse.

I may be the most vamp'd out poster here

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fourth post new page

[MMST3K]

Dec 2, 2022 13:03:07 GMT -5 @whatifseanwasoneofus said:

Dec 2, 2022 12:02:43 GMT -5 Percussionist Foster Grant said:

Not enough a Dracula vs werewolf discussion in here... the real meat and potatoes of political discourse.

I may be the most vamp'd out poster here

gonna have to agree with Sherilyn Fenn on this one boy's...

[Ass Dan]

Dec 2, 2022 11:10:53 GMT -5 @jamesk said:

HMM what do you call it when you hurt workers to provide economic convenience for others? Exploitation. Strike anyway.

I bet that will not go well for the rail workers. It sucks but most Americans will have zero sympathy for rail workers once the shelves start to become empty.

[Ass Dan]

Biden did say he wants to return to the topic of sick pay, an executive order should happen at minimum.

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thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/11/27/saito-the-metabolic-rift-and-de-growth-communism/

do it. do it now. do it AOC!

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Dec 2, 2022 14:56:28 GMT -5 Ass Dan said:

Biden did say he wants to return to the topic of sick pay, an executive order should happen at minimum.

Thank goodness

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A RETURN TO THE TOPIC

[Ass Dan]

It will probably end in disappointment but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’ll give it the old college try.

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While Railroad Workers United (RWU) finds it despicable – but not surprising – that both political parties opted to side with Big Business over working people yesterday and vote against the interests of railroad workers - not once, but twice, within hours. We suffered a one-two punch at the hands of, first the Democratic Party; the second served up by the Republicans.

 

First, responding to the wishes of President Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House voted to legislate a contract that the majority of U.S. freight rail workers had previously voted to reject. The Senate would quickly follow suit. In effect, their actions simply overrode our voices and desires. Rail workers – like all workers – should have the right to bargain collectively and to freely engage in strike activity if and when the members see fit and when they democratically elect to do so.

 

Within hours of the Senate vote sealing our fate on Thursday afternoon, we would suffer a second defeat, this time at the hands of the other party of Big Business, the Republican Party. That bill - which would have mandated that all railroad workers receive seven days of paid sick leave – would receive just a handful of votes from Republicans in the House and, crucially, in the Senate, where it wen't down to defeat.

 

“This one-two punch from the two political parties is despicable,” according to RWU General Secretary Jason Doering. “Politicians are happy to voice platitudes and heap praise upon us for our heroism throughout the pandemic, the essential nature of our work, the difficult and dangerous and demanding conditions of our jobs. Yet when the steel hits the rail, they back the powerful and wealthy Class One rail carriers every time.”

 

Railroad Workers United understands that this fight for justice will continue in the coming months and years. “The rail carriers are too powerful and are a scourge to the national economy,” according to RWU Steering Committee Member Paul Lindsey, “They need to be taken into public ownership and run in the interest of workers, shippers, passengers, and the nation, not a handful of wealthy stockholders.”

 

RWU believes that railroad workers need to explore options other than the existing two political parties since neither appears to have our backs. RWU also believes that railroad workers need to consider doing away with the archaic and divided craft union system that hampers our unity and solidarity, and initiate the process of building a single and powerful railroad workers union that can win in future rounds of contract bargaining. According to RWU Organizer Ron Kaminkow, “We have been played for well over a century by politicians and union officials alike. The fiasco of recent months will show that perhaps the time has come for railroad workers to push for a unified and powerful labor organization of all crafts, together with a political party that will better serve the interest of not just railroad workers but all working-class people.”

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The RWU is being so unfair. Brandon promised he would return to the topic and that should be enough. There is no pleasing them.

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huh!

[boundforgloryhole]

[DrewBlood]

remember when Matt Taibbi was supposed to be Gen-X Hunter S Thompson? and now he's pushing out forwards from grandma.

[johnny two cool]

Taibbi was rude to me online one time so I have decided he should die.

[tandoori jones]

Dec 2, 2022 21:02:53 GMT -5 boundforgloryhole said:

[MMST3K]

Elon been payin them lake dues.

[refill]

The Twitter Files were extremely boring, but the online right really wanting to make it a thing.

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The right’s obsession with Hunter Biden is straight bizarre. Like who cares? He’s a fail son and he’s clearly a fucked up soul and if he was a little poorer he certainly would have gotten hit with a hot dose of fentanyl by now.

[theonefreeman]

Motherfuckers are still talking about Hillary's emails. I was talking to some right-wing guy at work yesterday about the absurdity of leading the country while using Twitter as your main mouth piece and he said, "What about Obama and his text messages?" I asked for clarification on that and he said that Obama brought texting to the White House. YES, MUCH LIKE AL GORE INVENTED THE INTERNET, BARACK OBAMA INVENTED THE TEXT MESSAGE AND INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT TO EVERYONE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. IT WASN'T JUST A NATURAL EXTENSION OF HOW CELL PHONES WERE EVOLVING AND IT CERTAINLY WASN'T COMMONPLACE TO TEXT ALL OVER THE WORLD AT THAT POINT. These people have worms in their brains.

[smashedbox]

the right are mad cause hunter gets so much poonani

[djilo91]

It seems like a big nothing burger that they are trying to use to make the Dems look bad while simultaneously admitting that the republicans were doing the exact same thing.

[pbcookies]

Elon's face looks like an omelette

[johnny two cool]

www.freightwaves.com/news/unions-shippers-railroads-express-mixed-reactions-to-averted-strike

[pbcookies]

I honestly think this may be the first thing Brandon has done as President that I really disapprove of

edit: proactively done, of course