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Unions have a long and violent history of not wanting to be fucked with, we'll see how well this plays out for the orange Cunt
For those that would like to read up on the subject
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_violence_in_the_United_States
These are a bunch of civil servants, not tradespeople. Trade unions are the ones you don't fuck with.
Piss enough people off and it don't matter the flavor of union
I suspect trades unions might join with them in solidarity. The civil servants would have to put themselves on the line, but I think they would have support.
The fuck? Shawn Fain supports tariffs?!?
Dude what the fuck is happening?
Well the context is, he supports tariffs that protect American factory jobs. He supports investing in worker protections and domestic factories. He’s basically saying that when American factories exist for a product, products made elsewhere with cheaper foreign labor should have tariffs on them to raise the price of those foreign goods to protect domestic workers. That is actually a reasonable position.
What is not a reasonable position is imposing tariffs when we have no domestic production while simultaneously destroying American worker protections to ensure that we continue to have no domestic production and that workers have even less than they did before.
I know why people support (or claim to support) tariffs. I just thought Shawn Fain was smarter than that.
Yeah. That first bit is competition law essentially, the guy seems to get a bit confused though. Trump might speak to the little guy, but he’s not speaking to defend them.
Nothing. The way you stop outsourcing labor to cheaper locations is by taxing the product on import to neutralize the difference. If the US did that since the beginning of the global trade, the US would still be manufacturing everything that was outsourced to China. The issue with Trump's tariffs is that they're not targeted to just things the US manufactures or things that can reasonably restart manufacturing. These tariffs for example are helping auto manufacturing but make aluminum and parts needed for that manufacturing more expensive. So they're nonsensical and could actually cost jobs.
Entirely separately, merely protecting jobs from outsourcing isn't enough because, if labor unions are busted and domestic wages are stagnant.
Welp....
Just a friendly reminder that multiple Roman emperors were killed by bureaucrats.
Not at all, unless you consider the Praetorian Guard "bureaucrats", which would be a hell of a stretch.
Aurelian and several Eastern Roman emperors beg to differ.
I'll grant you Aurelian, but equating the Byzantine court to HR department staff is... something. I think the analogue there would be if congress or the Chiefs of Staff were to depose the President.
There were a couple Eastern Roman emperors who got shanked by bureaucrats. Mind uou they didnt reign for long and barely made it into the history books.
Don't rule out civil servants. One thing that's great about civil service is plenty of PTO available to hit the range.
I've been out shooting, and working on my shooting drills a lot over the past month. Also been introducing more people to firearms, and hosting some first aid classes (Stop the Bleed and CPR). What have you been doing over the past month?
Yeah, that's my concern I've worked with the civil servants. They're angry all the time but never do anything.
Surely there must be a few of them that arenot "angry and lazy"?
There must be at least a few that make the Government actually function?
I'm not saying they're lazy I'm just saying they are not going to do anything about being angry.
Ah I get it. I misinterpreted your meaning.
To be fair, I wasn't quite clear :)
Have you seen any backlash to date other than hand-wringing online?
To be honest, we're JUST starting to see proper levels on social media now. It gives me hope that we'll move, even it it's at a glacial pace. Maybe we'll protest once it gets warmer out...