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Why we're all forced to have this conversation (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The rail union contract expires at the end of this year meaning the rail union workers can strike again sometime in 2025. Whoever wins the 2024 general election and becomes president will immediately have to deal with that possibility. If Biden is serious about how Trump is the biggest threat we face then promising to veto any attempts to force another contract onto the rail unions is a bargain.

Your move Joe. Are you willing to compromise with leftists or do you want to go down in history as the second establishment Democrat who lost to Donald Trump?

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Easy peazy.

Support unions and rally labor for a win. Its so fucking laid up for him its ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Pistcow's comment illustrates the holes in that strategy.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (22 children)

It's comical how many union workers I see with Teamster and MAGA bumper stickers on their shitty trucks.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it a big-tent party of unity, or not?
Does my voice matter, or not?
Do you care about my voice, or not?
If progressive/left wing voters are such a minority as to not be worth considering, then why get so twisted if they vote third party or sit it out?

If the DNC wanted left coalitions or big-tent unity, they’d end FPTP elections and kill superdelegates. They can do both, but won't try either. Bully coalition wings into unity every two years, then back to business as usual 😎

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (16 children)

Is it a big-tent party of unity, or not?

Depends, are you going to take one of the more progressive administrations this country has had and throw a hissy fit because it's far from perfect, and hand victory over to a literal fascist who has promised to be a dictator on day one of his term?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Aaaand there’s the bullying & strawman. Still going to vote for Biden despite FPTP

Somehow European countries manage to have center-left or left-left coalitions and maintain a stable government. It’s almost like they ✨got rid of shitty voting systems ✨that force parties to the right of the spectrum

…or is that perpetual looming threat a feature for the DNC, and not a bug? 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Biden went back to get rail workers sick days and the news barely covered it. He's really working to get things done.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Backing unions is an easy win!" said no one who has been paying attention to US politics since the fucking 80s.

If Biden is serious about how Trump is the biggest threat we face then promising to veto any attempts to force another contract onto the rail unions is a bargain.

The entire reason why the government can force both the companies and the unions to an agreement, under a law that has been extant for almost a century, is because the rail system is vital to every part of the US's continued functioning.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Which is the bigger threat to US's continued functioning? Donald Trump or a rail worker strike?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (54 children)

Best president in over forty years and you’re not happy.

Maybe you’ll just never be happy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean the bar was set pretty low. But, really, his presidency has been boring and well maintained, which has been huge relief in comparison to the last president. Trump is determined to break the American steeled engine.

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