I don't know what you think you have to apologize for. Everything about this is amazing.

Orthogonal usually means, unrelated, irrelevant. Sorry if I misunderstood.

I don't need the links.

Teamsters are still more AFL than CIO that's for sure.

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."

Not believing in worker Solidarity is a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. You have to build it. You have to work. I believe that people are good. That people can be better. I believe that long term unionization is our only hope against corporate dominance.

Have hope. Get out and work for change.

Actually it is completely relevant. Where there are people there is power. Solidarity is the currency of unionionism and the unity Solidarity provides is the only true source of any Union's strength.

Former Teamster, 19 year UPS service provider (package car driver), currently studying Social Welfare with an emphasis on community organizing in hopes of working as a labor organizer. I don't dabble, I think about this shit all day

Respectfully, this is bullshit.

O'Brien growing a spine would have involved calling out Republicans and their policies at the RNC.

The Republican Party, as it exists under the leadership of Donald J. Trump, is a party of and based around an ideology of bigotry, marginalization, oppression, and hatred.

O'Brien's speech and this announcement serve as a tacit endorsement of that ideology. The leadership or the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is telling the world and the rank-and-file that the repressive, Neo-fascist ideology of Trumpism is at the very least acceptable to them.

There is zero chance that the right to organize survives a second Trump administration.

All O'Brien did here was throwing out female, PoC, immigrant, refugee, migrant, and LGBTQ+ brothers, sisters, and family under the bus.

It was the opposite of Solidarity.

I'm this way with all 7 seasons of New Girl.

In the eastern Kansas city that I live in, a living wage for a single person with no kids is almost $20/hr. There is no way $18 is nearly enough in California.

He started smoking again after 911 iir.

I am a diversity, equity and inclusion expert is essentially an academic way of saying some of my best friends are black.

In case you ever need led hardproof that America is not a Christian Nation.

And has an "In this house we..." sign in the front yard.

My grandmother started smoking after her doctor suggested that she take it up in order to help her lose weight after pregnancy. She smoked the rest of her life.

Let me tell you a little story about brassicas... broccoli, cabbage, bok choi, cauliflower, kohlrabi, canola oil. They're all this little guy. Edit: Shit! I missed the exploding part.