Maoo

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Liberals have been indoctrinated out of object permanence. This is why they cannot fathom a political project beyond the next election cycle and why they are easily led around by these scare tactics.

Kill the liberal inside of you!

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah they do.

And they do great things.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

If y'all aren't ready to organize and walk out for each other you're going to lose any half-assed decertification campaign anyways. Might as well not have a union.

Someone else should've already been doing this on your behalf. How is your union organized? Do you have a shop steward or similar person that would be the natural "go-to"? Or other workers that are active?

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I will find it acceptable to get my eventual Chinese EV from the Haiphong-Shenzhen industrial complex.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your union should have a rep in the room for every discussion with management and should be telling management that they're violating your contract by expecting work outside of designated shifts. If that's not an obvious contract violation then they should be talking to a lawyer to find the legal basis of what is reasonable and how labor law applies.

They should also be taking action to demand that you be reinstated. Not just making the demand but actually disrupting work until management relents.

This is a very obvious attack on the union itself, you're just the proxy. At minimum, everyone that was pro-union needs to be in a meeting where they are given the background of this and how it is bullshit that will hurt them as well. They need innoculation and then there needs to be an action planned to make the demand.

Common actions that get the goods:

  • A walkout

  • A slowdown

  • A recorded confrontation with managers (have a community member do the recording)

  • A sickout

I am focusing on actions because legal avenues are usually very slow. Companies bank on you trying to follow "the process" and eventually giving up due to the time cost and having to get another job. The only way to have a strong union is to fight immediately.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagining someone trying to jump in through the window (like Tha Dukes) and the car deciding to start closing the window automatically, catching them and failing to stop when it meets resistance.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

YouTube maintains it's monopoly through network effects. The alternatives need a userbase more than us not having YouTube links.

Perhaps we could promote cross-uploading of videos to federated platforms.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

Ahem ze death drive eez stronk mit deez ones

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

There is never a counterargument and you were no exception.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Japanese carmakers were trying to go with hydrogen fuel and did a big grift on their government to get it subsidized. I think the idea was that Japan would have a national disadvantage with EV production as they don't have the material base for batteries but they could have an advantage with hydrogen.

Those failed, or course. Now they're a decade behind - there were only two Japanese EVs sold internationally just a few years ago.

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