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Rabid individualism strikes again
No outsourcing or bringing new people in on visa
USians can't see non-USians as fully human.
It's partly that sure, but it is also an example of the way capitalism successfully divides the working class against itself due to the competitive environment it creates.
H1B literally exists to get obedient slaves in the country and instead of blaming the government and oligarchs for this infinite slavery exploit, they're busy spreading racism against the victims.
Yup
So it’s still racism
Yes but I'm acknowledging the structure that cultivates the racism.
real chinese exclusion act hours
Real Workingmen's Party of California hours
Edit: I didn't even include their slogan: "The Chinese must go!"
part of the high pay in tech is hazard pay from having to be around people like this
Centrist brainrot, asking for help, while admitting the interest will disappear the moment their own life is back in order.
They can't even be honest about it and have to pepper in a bunch of gibberish. Oh and of course they had to somehow sneak in racism.
And what happens when the temporary unionization ends? Why wouldn’t the corpos go straight back to mass layoffs?
:codec-snake:
:codec-otacon: Sadly yes. Corporations under the Patriots have spent the last 50 years dismantling unions across the country through outsourcing. By the early 21st century they have consolidated their holdings through M&A under private equity.
:codec-snake: M&A? You mean Mergers and Acquisitions?
:codec-otacon: Yes, and not just at the grocery store. A handful of companies control over 90% of all media and growing, allowing them to slowly convince Americans to accept the Patriot's changes over time. Arsenal Gear was an early attempt to control narrative by controlling memes. After it's destruction the Patriots changed tactics to memetic cultivation through Parasocial Relationships. Today with the Internet Surveillance they have a far more granular control to manipulate individuals with Algorithms.
Makes me wonder how they think we got here to begin with
I've seen a lot of capitalism loving neolibs suddenly embracing the idea what we're currently under isn't REAL capitalism because wealth has gotten too accumulated and as created an anti-competition oligarchy.
Which like, yeah, but yah know someone predicted this would happen.
guys, just unionize real quick to save me, then we can get rid of the union again
"When the people who clean shitters and side walks go on strike I seethe, but now this affects ME, a white collar software professional earning well above six figures to maintain a legacy Java applet for a widget on a payment processor that you've never heard of and is no way a scam. I'm ACTUALLY important!"
"I won't care about any of this once it stops affecting me!!"
what 0 solidarity and 0 theory does to a MF
Real easy to tell poor people “Start your OWN business, sweaty!” when you’re not the one getting burned by porky.
This person is probably reachable for organizing irl. They have quite a few fantasies and chauvinism but this is basically what half of "radicalizable" libs look like at first. But they'd need to have discipline basically beaten into them. And they probably wouldn't really recognize some basic truths and empathy until they got fired for talking about unionizing.
This is very true. I commented already to shit on this guy and voice my frustration, but seeing stuff like this is potentially a good sign. When people's material conditions are threatened, heightening the contradictions of capitalism becomes easier for you from a propaganda perspective. They're in the right spot to learn.
Yeah this sort of thing is frustrating to read, but this is what it means for liberals to see a change in their material conditions. This conscious cognitive dissonance "I'm pro-union but anti-union" basically means they're at a tipping pont.
Whomst among us hasn't started out with some shitty lib or chud beliefs we held on to for too long even after we radicalized? I went through a Bernie Babe phase, maybe someone else had to shake off some anti-china brainworms. That's the sausage being made, and imo if you see it happening to someone you can rach, better to nudge them along than alienate them
I know and heard of so many more people in tech casually talking about unions and organization. Love to see it, eventhough they're still weirdos
In terms of theoretical power they'd be a good group to be unionized. Inevitable imperialist brainworms and all you can at least get unions to do things sometimes.
The No Azure for Apartheid group is also doing good work re: Zionism, or at least better work than I would've expected from tech workers. They're at least forcing PR moves from Microsoft.
I mean yeah, I want healthcare, and rights, secure work, a safe and happy life, I want to have the power to prevent corporations abusing their power, and fair pay, and local jobs for local workers, but I don't want SOCIALISM.
Other people have said it better than I can in this post, but fuck me the "okay now things are serious because I'M being affected now, not just the poors who deserve it" thing infuriates me. "Temporary" unions to make sure he can achieve the life he wants and the moment its okay again for him, everyone else can get fucked.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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