• @Ensign_Crab
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    43 hours ago

    Pray tell, how is strengthening unions & workers rights

    Strikebreaking and photo ops didn’t strengthen shit.

    forgiving student loans

    Was the only bright spot in his presidency.

    Now how was supporting a genocide “left?” I mean, it may be to your left. Maybe you want active participation?

    • @Uruanna
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      1 hour ago

      Strikebreaking and photo ops didn’t strengthen shit.

      Yeah, this one was wild. There was a massive strike, people thought the rail workers were finally gonna get good things, but Biden told everyone to fuck off back to work, and it turned out he negotiated some benefits in private, and everybody is praising him for this gift to workers. Completely ignoring how he pulverized the bargaining power of unions. The country must keep going, you can’t freeze everything, don’t you know!

      Unions are strong when they can impose themselves in the negotiations. Biden going over their head only conveys the message that the president is the dad and nothing is done if he doesn’t give his blessings. He showed that unions aren’t allowed to speak for themselves, and then he gave them some crumbs to make them shut the fuck up. But hey, things are better than they ever were! Most pro-union president ever.