this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
84 points (100.0% liked)

politics

22195 readers
365 users here now

Protests, dual power, and even electoralism.

Labour and union posts go to !labour@www.hexbear.net.

Take the dunks to /c/strugglesession or !the_dunk_tank@www.hexbear.net.

!chapotraphouse@www.hexbear.net is good for shitposting.

Do not post direct links to reactionary sites.

Off topic posts will be removed.

Follow the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember we're all comrades here.

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
all 34 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 58 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The law of the jungle works both ways though. Maybe we'll go back to Teamsters removing kneecaps from bosses too.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah the NLRB was in part a way to defang the militant labor movement. Taking it away is not exactly a big brain move.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Benjamin Sachs, a labor law professor at Harvard, said it’s troubling that Trader Joe’s and Starbucks, which hold themselves out as progressive, “are willing to sign on to legal theories that threaten not only labor rights, but our ability to have clean air, regulate food safety and assure safe and healthy workplaces”.

capitalist-woke

[–] huf@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

capitalists doing exactly what capitalists always do, and a harvard professor is shocked at it. these are supposed to be our smart people?

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They aren’t our smart people, they’re our rich, powerful, or their kids. Mostly private school isolated twats who think they know more than everyone else.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Crazy right?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

rat-salute-2

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

post your lil' hog or GTFO @Empricorn@feddit.nl anya-heh

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

Me and the crew rolling up to the last Amazon Warehouse in the American Wasteland

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

119th anniversary of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

[–] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

we have learned nothing

[–] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

I'd prefer not to play nice with the bosses too actually. Bring it on porkie.

[–] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bring it on porkie sabo

[–] anonochronomus@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's called we do a little PROPAGANDA OF THE DEED sicko-laser

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago
[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

This is a good reason to get involved with radical labor organizing right now! We will need all the tools and experience we can get for the increased destruction of union legalism.

Please keep in mind that historical naive class consciousness developed in the US into radical organizing via a decades-long process with a far less developed propaganda machine. It's not inevitable that proletarianization leads directly to this class consciousness again, as our own ability to organize may be effectively hampered by the state and whatever the new Pinkertons are (maybe it'll just be Pinkertons again lol). To avoid a period in which we fuck around and get crushed, we need to get ahead of this as much as possible by being aware of what's coming, how to organize, why we organize, and how we educate.

[–] nightshade@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

SpaceX quoted James Madison in The Federalist Papers: “The accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands” is “the very definition of tyranny”

Somehow I don't think we should be accepting commentary on what constitutes tyranny from someone who owned slaves

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also the whole "being dead for 200 years" part. I'm not listening to some dead nerd.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Listening to dead people is fine, treating their word as gospel is not.

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Good. The major unions have become parasitic tools of the state and finance capital due to the NLRA model. A new regime of labor law would undoubtedly be a sharp blow against American workers, but would also force them to actually exercise their power in ways they haven't in years.

[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago
[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Oh look, there goes one of the only real differences between Trump and Biden

[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The NLRB is kinda trash for us anyway.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Guns n Rose's etc

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Don't threaten me with a good time!

[–] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

A really good time to see where the security cameras are in your parking lot at work for unspecified reasons

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

You mean we're not there already?

And anyone who speaks positively of "muh law of the jungle" should just go and unironically return to monke monke-return

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago
[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

how far off are we, anyway?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

edgeworth-shrug if that's what you really, really want.

spoilermatt-guerrillathe-doohickey