☭POLITICS☭: Election Season Hell

[Cholo Molester]

I prefer the high top Servis sneakers worn by the Taliban lol

taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-cheetah-sneakers-afghanistan/?amp

[gaygay]

Mar 1, 2023 15:00:43 GMT -5 Cholo Molester said:

I prefer the high top Servis sneakers worn by the Taliban lol

taskandpurpose.com/news/taliban-cheetah-sneakers-afghanistan/?amp

[Ted Mujint]

the absolute drip of the t*l*b*n, rockin these Servis joints with Casio F91Ws.....

[johnny two cool]

Hope you are all contacting the relevant parties to make sure your community gets some BIL cash!!!

[jefe]

donconnelly.com/how-to-get-your-point-across-in-fewer-words/

[lil stormy]

Mar 1, 2023 14:46:09 GMT -5 Cholo Molester said:

Trump vs DeSantis is gunna be so lit. 🔥

It's gonna be funny as hell. Trump calling Desantis Meatball and Ron The Wop or whatever, and Desantis like a deer in the headlights. Trump obviously crushes everyone and becomes the nominee then gets annihilated again in 2024 but ten times worse than before, and then come the fraud claims and violence... This blob of Adderall and cheeseburgers will single handily burn the republican party to the ground out of spite and a fragile ego and i'm psyched to be alive to see it.

[Deleted]

Myself and a few others have been doing some workplace agitation, making the push toward unionization. There is a solid group of us who are 100% on board, so we're trying to take the temperature of our co-workers. Basically, all of us in production would be on board, it's just a matter of talking to people still and of course getting signatures when it comes down to it. Workers in the office are more difficult to get a handle on -- though many have their grievances. So we feel like there is some real potential.

Anyway, one of my coworkers was talking to another who was very down with the idea of unionizing. In fact, he's had plenty to say against the company for quite some time now. What had changed this time was the word "union" was mentioned to him.

This afternoon we had a meeting about our PTO policy in our new handbook. And this coworker that I'm talking about took it upon himself to say to our MANAGER, totally out of the blue, "Oh and by the way, there's something about being a union-free workplace in there. So Ryan and them are going to have a hard time with that."

Manager goes, "Oh really? Was that before the company moved or in this building?"

"Here."

"Oh really?"

It's difficult to gauge this manager on this. He's a pretty cool dude, but when it comes to unionization, there's obviously a bottom line and I hope my one coworker does not get sacked over this very, very silly blunder.

This just goes to show you, BABY STEPS with people. Baby steps.

what the fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[johnny two cool]

If you need any help, I have a few friends who have successfully unionized a workplace I can try n put you in contact with!!

[Deleted]

I talked to our coworker with the loudmouth in question shortly after and he quickly understood to keep his fucking mouth shut, that's how people lose their jobs. Okay, no problem he gets it now. The reason he mentioned it in the first place is that he likes our manager, and with good reason. Decent dude. But holy shit, dude. Talk about naive.

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Mar 1, 2023 22:12:13 GMT -5 johnny two cool said:

If you need any help, I have a few friends who have successfully unionized a workplace I can try n put you in contact with!!

Thank you I'm talking with IWW a few other local comrades. I know the process well enough at this point, it's just a matter of doing it. Preferably without too many hiccups like today's. 

[Cholo Molester]

lol I was basically the only union rep at this nursing home I worked at and I ended up getting fired for it. I was a part of SEIU and our four union reps got fired for bs so I decided to step up and educate my co-workers on some violations pertaining to the amount of residents assighned to CNAs. I was passing out pamphlets and recruiting new hires but I didn’t even make it to month 2 of union organizing before my co-workers told our managers about it and they found a reason to fire me.

Fuck Prestige Care for life.

[Cholo Molester]

Sean, print out a bunch of pamphlets and leave them throughout the break room. I used to also print flyers and put them on the bulletin boards around the facility but the charge nurses would walk around and rip those up lol

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The break room is so hot it's unbelievable. We have one room in the center of the building and all sorts of bad actors spend time in there. It would be easy to hand out materials in the parking lot. For now, I'm getting together with a group of my Dearest Comrades, we're going to make a list of everyone, gauge whether they might be a yes, maybe, or no, and decide on some sort of goal like, gather 10 signatures by the end of the month.

I'm of the apinion that going around and agitating too much among coworkers without doing this other stuff first is too risky. Leads to shit like today.

My department is like a 90% "yes" vote, for sure. It's just the rest of the company that worries me. It's a factory/office building and we don't have too many chances to interact with the other side of the building. Though many of them do have their grievances. 

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Mar 1, 2023 14:16:39 GMT -5 Ted Mujint said:

Mar 1, 2023 13:42:47 GMT -5 @heckboy said:

"Add a Taiwan front to the mix - it begs the question: is the US military industrial complex nimble enough to still mobilize against a mass uprising movement the scale of 2020's post-George Floyd murder protests? Maybe. But each time it comes back around, we're a little better at it, and our broad coalition of organizations knows a little more. "

The answer is yes and to think otherwise - that in fact each protest has the chance to do something more is simply delusions of grandeur.

Okay, so what historical precedent is there to that claim?

USSR was born in part due to Imperial Russia's ambitions in WWI, after losing the Russo-Japanese War, and after the first attempted revolution in 1905. There is a direct line of causation between tying the French bourgeois revolution, and then the Paris Commune and this point in history.

Proletarian revolution in China happened because because of complications from WWII's complicated network of alliances. The US was busy trying to reproduce the colonial power structures that that had taken from the Japanese, and put all their eggs in Chiang Kai-shek's loser basket. You could also say that this was inspired by the wave of revolutions that 1917 started all over the world.

We have spent the last 12 years getting our asses handed to us by the Russians in Syria, so you just *have a feeling* that things are going to be different when it's not a proxy war? We also lost a horribly embarrassing defeat in Afghanistan and are steadily losing the war on drugs. We had the Iraq War era anti-war movement, which held the largest anti-war demonstrations in human history. This was the organizing foundation for the current gen of left orgs in the United States, and was the catalyst behind Occupy 10 years after that, and that evolved into BLM after Ferguson.

Before Sanders in '16, it was outside of cultural norms to even talk about socialism. Reactionaries would tell you that the hammer and sickle were the equivalent to the swastika. There are more Americans reading Karl Marx, Lenin, Amilcar Cabral, Franz Fanon, Eric Hobsbawm, etc. than ever before. So what do you think this loose network is going to be called and look like when it bounces back in another 10 years?

It gonna be called 'updog'

[Sorley Boy]

Mar 1, 2023 22:26:34 GMT -5 @whatifseanwasoneofus said:

The break room is so hot it's unbelievable. We have one room in the center of the building and all sorts of bad actors spend time in there. It would be easy to hand out materials in the parking lot. For now, I'm getting together with a group of my Dearest Comrades, we're going to make a list of everyone, gauge whether they might be a yes, maybe, or no, and decide on some sort of goal like, gather 10 signatures by the end of the month.

I'm of the apinion that going around and agitating too much among coworkers without doing this other stuff first is too risky. Leads to shit like today.

My department is like a 90% "yes" vote, for sure. It's just the rest of the company that worries me. It's a factory/office building and we don't have too many chances to interact with the other side of the building. Though many of them do have their grievances. 

What's the stance of long-haired Han Chinese coworker?

[Bussy Drippens]

I always find it amusing when people talk about a US "failure" in Afghanistan. The defense contractors and their investors succeeded wildly in turning millions of pints of human blood into dollar bills. This was always the goal and it was accomplished.

[Porch Honky]

Big pharma made out like bandits with those poppy fields.

[Sorley Boy]

Afghanistan wasn't a military failure anyway. We failed at changing the country into a liberal democracy in the same way we failed in Vietnam, Iraq, etc. because that's not possible. Militarily the coalition wiped the floor with the Taliban.

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Mar 2, 2023 0:47:02 GMT -5 Sorley Boy said:

Mar 1, 2023 22:26:34 GMT -5 @whatifseanwasoneofus said:

The break room is so hot it's unbelievable. We have one room in the center of the building and all sorts of bad actors spend time in there. It would be easy to hand out materials in the parking lot. For now, I'm getting together with a group of my Dearest Comrades, we're going to make a list of everyone, gauge whether they might be a yes, maybe, or no, and decide on some sort of goal like, gather 10 signatures by the end of the month.

I'm of the apinion that going around and agitating too much among coworkers without doing this other stuff first is too risky. Leads to shit like today.

My department is like a 90% "yes" vote, for sure. It's just the rest of the company that worries me. It's a factory/office building and we don't have too many chances to interact with the other side of the building. Though many of them do have their grievances. 

What's the stance of long-haired Han Chinese coworker?

he is so down. However once I am in that union committee I’ll be fighting for a hand washing clause in our contract

[Deleted]

Guerilla Warfare makes the US military industrial complex a paper tiger

[Ted Mujint]

sean you ought to get in touch with workers' center type organizations. IWW has a wonderful history, but I find some of their organizers to be a little out of touch. Workers' centers are usually organized by leftists, but their body of membership is usually more all-encompassing. Many of the workers they try to help are newly arrived immigrants and younger/older folks who may not be aware of all of their rights.

I don't know how far you are from the city, but there are two really great organizations called NMAS(National Mobilization Against Sweatshops) and the Lower East Side Workers Center, whose buildings are right next to each other. An organizer named Tosh gave a talk to my organization a little while back and it was really, really good. They offer trainings and other support as well.

My now-defunct organization had to call in some big guns because we were working with Amazonians United(one of the organizations that eventually built up the coalition that formed ALU) to salt and agitate at the local Amazon facility, LGA9. We were put in touch with them by my friend and comrade RJ, who was one of the organizers who unionized one of the Buffalo Starbucks stores.

lowereastside.com/?place=lower-east-side-workers-center

[theywalkedinline]

Video appears to show Texas drag bill author dressed in drag
A social media user shared a video that appears to show Texas state Rep. Nate Schatzline wearing a black sequined dress while skipping through a park.

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna72950


It’s all projection.

[j (in a good way)]

The posters of the board should form a union and show the mods that we will not take thread deleting lightly

[meatballmaniac]

Mar 2, 2023 10:26:51 GMT -5 j (in a good way) said:

The posters of the board should form a union and show the mods that we will not take thread deleting lightly

We tried this, but assdan voted “no”, citing something about “the elegance of the Invisible Hand” and “market efficiency” or some shit.

[immortalrites]

Lol

[theywalkedinline]

Assdan, company man till the day he dies.

[Mr. Dingle Foot]

That crash reminds me of playing pioltwings on snes.

[leftbeef]

Mar 2, 2023 11:03:54 GMT -5 immortalrites said:

Lol

reminded me of

[tomservo]

must cop

[Pat]

Mar 2, 2023 10:26:51 GMT -5 j (in a good way) said:

The posters of the board should form a union and show the mods that we will not take thread deleting lightly

ew.