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He also recently released the video with the clickbait thumbnail "don't join a union"
While I can imagine he makes some good points about the shittiness of Western and especially American unions, you should still join a union even if it is shitty.
My union experience was shitty in many ways and my union fucking sucked. We won marginal gains in a 6 week strike, with union leadership lying (at best misleading) about the tentative agreement. Then those in leadership roles got to flex that they won such a successful huge strike.
But it was also a huge radicalizing experience and started me into a path of left wing politics. This was when i first learned about and felt class solidarity.
It also made me fucking hate Democrats, because at the same time as we were striking was when Biden ratfucked the railroad unions. And our shitty TA was mediated by the establishment Democrat mayor of San Diego.
I think BadEmpanada is very smart and right about most things. He has made some great video essays. I just don't think he has good tactics for growing a left wing movement, and is blinded by doing what gets the most views. Or, he legitimately holds these strange ultra left ideas and just wants us all to wait out the death of American empire.
He said don't join a union because that union will support imperialist policies abroad.
It's like he was just introduced to the concept of no ethical consumption under capitalism, but only for unions. Very strange crash out
Cast your eyes towards afl-cia, uaw, aim or ila tho.
Big american unions from the birth are infiltrated by military as the only unionized industry. And I have my suspicions about teacher unions investment preferences (although only relevant to america, other countries unions are not as domesticated)
Yeah, it's clear he has no idea at all about what OCD entails. I have a friend with OCD and I've seen how it can turn the most random-ass things into paralyzing crises. It's not something I'd wish on anyone (except maybe those who claim it's not real).
spoilers: he is not
He legit just has terrible ultra left politics. I can't remember which video it was in, but I do remember him once saying something along the lines of there being no point in trying to organize at all in the imperial core countries and if you're a leftist there you should just like move to Palestine or Yemen and join Hamas or Ansar Allah.
Hamas and Ansarallah would just assume you're Mossad's worst spy on account of you being some pasty cracker who can't speak Arabic.