Nobody answer, this guy might be a fed

I'd just like to step in here and remind the people at home that appeals to hypocrisy are a logical fallacy. Just because someone isn't doing what they say should be done doesn't mean they're wrong.

Thanks, I'll hang up and listen.

Edit: Forgot to add one thing. This conversation is about collective action, a particularly silly place to judge the actions of a single individual

Not a lawyer but I wonder how much teeth that law has. The GOP/Trump has put on a clinic on how to legally gum up the wheels of justice, it seems like unions could try the same. Delay, argue technicalities, appeal, rise, repeat...

For example: if you spend 2 months in court arguing about who organized what and what they're technically striking for, damage could still be done even with the strike broken up. Multiply that by a few major unions and it adds up.

You can already see a similar plan coming together with UAWs 2028 contact expiration plan. Its not a general strike, there's just coincidentally a lot of strikes at once.

Of course there's a stricter set of laws and leeway when you're not a corrupt oligarch so it wouldn't work. But it's fun to think about...

Oh huh, interesting... 📃✍️

Wouldn't composting just release more greenhouse gasses? We need a more effective means of carbon capture, or maybe directly repurpose them as some sort of nutritional paste

THIS 🚨 IS 🚨 HAPPENING 🚨 TO 🚨 YOU 🚨

One of the biggest superpowers in the world wasn't captured by accident or from some grassroots stupidity. The same exact playbook is being run in nearly every developed country by the same people. You need to learn from where we failed and stem the tide.

If you don't understand why that "position on global affairs" is important coming from the people actively being crushed by the domino, I don't know what to say. I guess we'll just mutually pity each other's tyrannical governments...

I don't think that's usually the message we're trying to get across. It's very easy to say "well they elected him, just fix it, its your own fault" because most don't grasp the reality of the situation from the outside. A large majority of our population does not want this, even those who bought the lies before the election.

It's not just America's house it's a global problem. Saying "Hello, just a reminder that We Don't Fucking Want This" and "As bad as it looks internationally its much worse domestically" is an alarm bell, not brownie points.

The same guys fucking our country are meddling internationally with yours, but now with official government resources. If you don't want the same thing to happen, take drastic measures. Ban AfD, cut off fascist media platforms, seize assets, whatever you have to do. As problematic as any of that sounds, risking the alternative is not worth it.

Why not go out doing something exciting at least?

It's easy to make statements like that before desperation sets in. Starving is an awful way to die, death after nuclear fallout is excruciating and slow, you won't enjoy any sunsets when the smoke from burning cities fills up the sky.

50 years from now when you're freezing in a cold muddy ditch, you'll be wishing you died a martyr taking the 1/1e10000 chance to fix it.

Edit: I'm legally required to clarify that martyrdom can result from non-violent acts 🙂

It's politics because it's blatant racism from a public figure but all political events are not created equal. Engaging with toxic (but ultimately shallow) headlines like this is amplifying the Flood of Shit.

Your outrage is a smoke screen keeping the actual dismantling of democracy out of the public eye.

I'd even go so far as to say too much political gravity is conceded to tariffs and other international Trump panic. America loses credibility but tariffs can be rescinded and alliances slowly rebuilt. It's not so easy to regain control of a government with no opposition after a political purge.

Trump's last term quietly expanded ICE resources in one forgettable 24 hour news cycle. Now we're seeing how they use the GOP Gestapo as a federal police force against undesirables. People need to see that, but it won't get through their (sometimes literal) Trump content filter.