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Carney Wants the Power to Break Strikes. Unions Vow to Defy Him (thewalrus.ca)
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[–] 17 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Workers: "We're striking!"

Govt: "Nope, back to work."

Workers: *burns down govt buildings."

We didn't gain striking rights through peaceful means. And we're not going to keep them by just accepting they no longer exist. You keep them through the exact same means we gained them with.

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    My union gave up the right to strike, long ago

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  • [–] 8 points 22 hours ago* (2 children)

    Then you don't have a union. It's incredibly obvious that the Epstein class has captured the vast majority of Union leaders.

    They should receive the same treatment traitors to the unions used to receive. Sick of pretending that violence isn't the answer when it obviously is. All these fucks have lost the fear of being dragged out of their homes and beaten to death in front of their families.

    Polite discussion isn't going to make them remember. Luigi sure did though, even if it was short lived.

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  • [–] 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 child)

    With you on everything here, but responding to ask you, please don't use the term "Epstein Class".

    Reason: good people like you and me read it as "Scumbag Billionaires," but nazis and nazi-friendly people read it as "Jews". I have a lot of Jewish friends, I'm talking about people not afraid to call a genocide a genocide here, who do not need any more grief right now.

    edit: turns out I was addressing a (now blocked) actual nazi.

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  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago

    If Jewish people take offense to the Epstein class, then they might want to do some introspection.

    Religious Jewish people are not the Epstein class, Israel on the other hand absolutely include themselves in that term since they are 100% involved in the collective violent rape of children.

    If a Jewish person can't separate those two, that's shitty for them and they should figure out why.

    The current Nazi's will be just as happy to slaughter your friends as they were back in WW2. Nazis are always going to actively redefine everything in their favour, catering to them is a fools errand.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 child)

    You keep them through the exact same means we gained them with.

    Said everyone, not knowing how. What I mean is my own and surrounding generations have no experience with anything but peace time and privilege. Have zero cultural framework in organizing like that. I've only really experienced slow decline, rarely things getting better.

    I think it's the same in USA when it comes to opposing Trump.

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  • [–] 3 points 15 hours ago

    I know how they were gained. It was through violence. And through violence is how you retain them.

    Until the Unions do what they used to do, which was literally dragging bosses out of their homes and beating them to death, nothing will change for the better.

    People erroneously believe that talking to CEOs and the Ultra Wealthy will get them what they want. But those people operate near solely on violence. They do no give a single solitary fuck about our words. They do care about their own safety.

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