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This Pete Buttigieg in a nut shell. Let's hope people like AOC are the future instead of him.
AOC was never anything but a “progressive” liberal, and she completely sold out not long after getting into office. Have we already forgotten that she voted to crush a worker strike and voted against raising minimum wage? She’s a scab and a career politician working for the wealthy donor class.
- Kshama Sawant, Dec. 2022: Rail Workers Betrayed By Biden & The “Squad”
- Freddie deBoer, Jul. 2023: AOC Is Just a Regular Old Democrat Now
Until such a time as a socialist revolution seems plausible, I still prefer to see progressive liberals in power over conservatives.
plausible?
u.s. is in near-freefall.
Every day we are settung precident for what we will and will not tolerate. Not pulling the lever on socialist revolution keeps us on track for tyranical feudalism.
We can make it plausible or sleep in the graves corprate is ordering us to dig for ourselves.
Pardon the passions, folks who have already worked out their character sheet and place in the effort.
I am always trying to shift people left. But there just aren't enough of us yet.
thanks for your efforts!
more of us than one might think. and we don't always need all diehard lefties to fight for Wages Hours and Conditions.
It's good to turn up the signal as more people of all stripes become Unsure as instability and chaos build in our systems.
Anyway -- something important to keep in mind is that a hard left turns are fought with gardens and tools and 'barn'(etc) raisings even more than demonstrations or violence.
Labor movement, black panthers, and zapatistas are worth a quick study for grassroots practices.
admittedly, what the oligarchy and police state don't want folks to learn about is Direct Action.
Sure, but we must also remember not to pretend progressive liberals are enough, and make sure to engage in politics beyond the election cycle if we want any real power.
This so much. I'll take anyone over a con
Dude, the rail worker strike would have been devastating. Inflation was already rough, supply chains were still fucked post COVID, railways shutting down for days would have fucked businesses, especially small and mom and pops, and restaurants, that were all struggling because of lockdowns.
And they still negotiated with the union and got them most of what the wanted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_railroad_labor_dispute
How to say you’re a scab without saying you’re a scab: Won’t somebody please think of the economy?! And what happened soon after Congress defanged workers’ safety concerns? The East Palestine derailment catastrophe.
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My restaurant never would have survived it. I went into debt to keep my workers paid during this time. I was in a group for small business owners in my city who were in the same boat as me. The economy would have been hurt, sure, but it wouldn’t screw over Walmart and Amazon. It would have screwed over us little guys just trying to get buy.
You can claim to be anti-oligarchy, but big business would have been fine. And a McDonald’s probably would have taken my spot and replaced my jobs with minimum wage drones.
I don’t claim to be merely anti-oligarchy; I’m socialist. And I don’t mean progressive liberal like AOC was or Sanders is, I mean actually socialist.
Anyway, maybe the strike really would have forced you to shutter, or maybe you could have gotten the PPP loans to limp through it. Or maybe in response to the strike, Congress could or would have increased the PPP loans to employers and/or COVID relief funds to families. We’ll never really know.
What are you on about? Buttigieg is one of the most educated, and courageous individuals pushing back against the trump agenda. Along with AOC, Al, and Bernie.
Okay maybe. He's standing up to Trump. It just appeared to me he was like that meme during the 2020 primary.
Yeah, I suggest you take another look at Pete. I think he has a lot of potential.
I will take a look at him, I just got a bad impression from him going to Stop Bernie meetings during the 2020 primary.
That said he's well spoken and a good ally to have during these trying times.