I mean what did anyone expect? Dude is an upper middle class guy who has almost certainly been living off of the wealth and privilege of his parents and thought it was fun to play radical until it actually might have impacted him personally. Maybe the left should stop getting duped by these people.
With few exceptions you don’t even really get to choose who you affiliate with though. You either end up with the Teamsters or an AFL-CIO affiliate that was granted your employer as “turf” twenty plus years ago. If neither of them consider you a worthwhile investment then good fucking luck getting any help.
And then if you do affiliate they’ll tell you first contracts are always shitty and ram one through so they can get a security agreement in and start collecting dues.
Oh yeah same. We got ghosted twice by the UFCW local we worked with before we gave up on them where I work. It took quite a while for me to work through that emotionally and made me realize a lot of the union orthodoxy is bullshit and so are those that preach it.
Reposting my comment from another thread
I don’t mean to minimize this because it’s obviously not good but its impact on the labor movement or existing practices in labor law is pretty insignificant and very much in line with the historical trajectory we’ve been on since Taft-Hartley. Trump already demonstrated he could remove board members and the GC with impunity and ALJs play a relatively minor role in the whole process.
The bigger issue is that the unions have let this shit slide for he last seventy years without offering even the most meager resistance to it. It’s almost as if they want to be stamped out of existence.
I don’t mean to minimize this because it’s obviously not good but its impact on the labor movement or existing practices in labor law is pretty insignificant and very much in line with the historical trajectory we’ve been on since Taft-Hartley. Trump already demonstrated he could remove board members and the GC with impunity and ALJs play a relatively minor role in the whole process.
The bigger issue is that the unions have let this shit slide for he last seventy years without offering even the most meager resistance to it. It’s almost as if they want to be stamped out of existence.
The Chicago working class’s long history of struggle, fight and solidarity was highlighted by Chicago Federation of Labor Secretary Treasurer Don Villar. He recalled the heroic battles of workers in the Rail Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 saying, “we need to engage in that kind of fight again now.” Villar gave a fiery speech defending federal workers.
If only there was some sort of institution that could help workers who have been wronged organize and fight back like they did in the the late 19th century. Alas the secret of how to do that has been lost to history.
Lassalle was probably to the left of most of the DSA tbh
I’m sorry but anyone falling for these people’s faux radicalism again is a rube. If SMC is endorsing someone the rest of the left would do well to steer clear.
I’ve been extremely lonely at points in my life. I can’t say it didn’t drive me to do weird shit. It never made me fall in love with a chatbot though.
As Vladimir Lemon once said “socialism is when you get rid of markets and the fewer markets there are, the more socialism there is”
Revisionists in shambles rn
Buy a portable one
I don’t mean to imply this isn’t bad, but hasn’t the legal precedent for over a decade been that the president can order anyone killed in the interest of national security without any sort of judicial review? If they can just kill citizens with drone strikes then “citizenship” doesn’t really mean that much.
If the DSA was actually like this I might rejoin
His municipal grocery stores should actually be armories for the revolutionary guard
This is a threat to Iran but more importantly it’s a threat to the US. Israel cannot sustain a prolonged conventional war with Iran. I’m not sure they could even win it if it went nuclear but I don’t know enough about their arsenal or what the political reaction would be to say that. Only with direct US intervention could they win. The US doesn’t want to get involved though because the US military is also not really capable of winning without sustaining casualties it doesn’t want to.
In the long term, Israel nuking Iran would likely be much worse for the US than direct US intervention though. Firstly Iran would respond by destroying all of the oil infrastructure in West-aligned countries, significantly harming the global economy. Secondly the US Dollar would totally lose its supremacy in international politics to the nuclear umbrella. Thirdly Pakistan might start flinging nukes too and who knows how India, China, and Russia will respond to that.
Right now the US isn’t figuring out how to attack Iran. They’ve been doing that for decades. They’re trying to guess whether they should cave to Israel’s threat or not.
It’s their only play. Without US intervention, in a matter of weeks Tel Aviv would look like Gaza. They either nuke Iran to save themselves, destroying the international US led status quo since 1945 or the US keeps it conventional by bearing as much of the war as Israel wants it to.
Edit: and if Israel drops nukes I think the chances of Pakistan getting involved and possibly responding in kind skyrockets.
Maybe a little more intense than simple sabotage but: TM 31-210-Improvised Munitions and Ecodefense, a Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. FM 19-15-Civil Disturbances might be useful too.
I do think most of the US needs to be better organized before we can actually do a general strike but this stuff is what made me decide to start organizing my job again because that’s the only real weapon we have short of actual weapons. I think it’s imperative that anyone that cares about any of this start organizing their worksite/industry/union yesterday so that as soon as possible we can shut things down.