• BullishUtensil@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    There are two schools of thought:

    Those who want as good life as possible, and Those who want to have a better life than everyone else, no matter what.

    • Someone64@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Well it doesn’t mean what it used to anymore. Now you just pay for a subscription and you get it. Hell, I don’t know why you ever thought the check mark pre-Musk ever meant anything other than somebody’s identity being verified as true judging by what you’re saying… Never meant that their opinions were Twitter approved or whatever.

  • auginator@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I got higher at position as senior. But It wasn’t until I was able to join the Union that my income doubled. Year before I joined like in 2007 manager gave me a .10 raise. This shit is real.

  • sfu@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Why does everything have to be sooo left or right?

    Some unions are good, some are bad.

    • Vreyan31@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 day ago

      “Why do Unions have to be considered Left?”

      Tell me you have no idea about the history of labor rights without telling me…

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Not left or right, it’s up and down. Only one union is getting murderers and rapists off the hook. The rest are objectively good.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 day ago

        I would argue that the problem with police unions is that they’re too good at what they do. They’ve managed to achieve a degree of militantism that rivals any black panther or international world worker.

        A single, heavily armed, deeply insular and dogmatic, horrifyingly MAGA-pilled community of workers would be bad in any sector. But to make matters worse, police have this natural affinity with media that makes them the recipient of tons of free positive publicity.

        Would that everyone could claim membership in a union this strong.

        • suicidaleggroll@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 day ago

          The issue is that the purpose of a union is to give power to the powerless, but police already have all the power. Their union makes them unstoppable.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 day ago

            police already have all the power

            That’s a superficial analysis. Police departments and other military and paramilitary organizations need to extract their revenues through the bureaucracy of the state. Your municipal PD officer isn’t showing up at your house, hat in hand, and taking collections to fund his beat. He needs the comptroller to impose taxes and the financial sector to move the money and the administration to divvy it out to employees based on rank and tenure.

            What’s more, the police require the consent of the public at large. Which means a friendly media and religious community, willing to legitimize their functions. The US occupation in Afghanistan failed, while the Taliban that replaced them consolidated control, because one set of police was seen as illegitimate and another seen as representative of the public will.

            Their union makes them unstoppable.

            Their union forms a foundation of mutual support and affords individual officers confidence in their security through collective action. But cops are notoriously lazy, stupid, and trigger-happy. When media turns on a police department and the administrative state peels away from them, these institutions disintegrate rapidly.

            The reason you don’t see police chiefs walking into the offices of some Fortune 500 companies and announcing “I’m the billionaire now” is rooted in their vulnerability on these fronts.

  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    When somebody insists, “X doesn’t matter because my salary depends on X,” it’s time to stop beating your head against a wall to teach them anything.

    • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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      9 hours ago

      Nah, nah, you see - I had an excellent breakfast today. Clearly that means world hunger doesn’t exist! Checkmate, leftist!

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      The BLS data has historically been a method by which capitalists measured and managed labor power as a fungible resource. It has historically been a tool of capital to evaluate the influence of policy on labor, not a tool of labor to pressure capital for concessions.

      Not to say the information isn’t valuable on its face. But it should be worth recognizing that we are looking at autocannibalization of capital. The people most injured by dismantling the BLS are the people who do the bulk of the hiring, not the people being hired.

  • Maeve@midwest.social
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    2 days ago

    We could’ve had Nina in DC if not for some corporate Dem’s wounded ego. It’s almost like we should work on healing egos instead of fracturing them with culture wars and id pol unless… That’s the point of culture wars and id pol. 🤷‍♀️ 💡

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      2 days ago

      It was AIPAC money as well. That’s also why Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman and Katie Porter aren’t in Congress any more.

      • Maeve@midwest.social
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        2 days ago

        Yes, the tail is wagging the dog. Removal of a gangrenous appendage is necessary to save the life.