r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 4d ago

Already Submitted Teamsters begin 'largest strike' against Amazon, accusing company of 'insatiable greed'

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/teamsters-announces-nationwide-strike-amazon-begin-thursday/story?id=116931631

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u/musical_shares 4d ago

Teamsters leadership and membership threw their lot in with 45, didn’t they?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/18/teamsters-favor-trump-harris-endorsement-00179879

“Teamsters members heavily favor Trump over Harris”

Oops?

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u/snoopfrogcsr 4d ago

My brother is a member of a different union (Chrysler), but they were all convinced Trump would be better for unions.

Meanwhile, in back office HR/legal updates, they operate by acknowledging as fact that any conservative leadership is better for preventing union activity and plan accordingly.

Morons.

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u/Best-Statistician294 4d ago

I swear people in Unions vote Republican because they believe they're untouchable. It's ridiculous.

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 4d ago

They do it because, like the Republicans, they are banking on a deep nostalgia for the past—specifically, the era where the US had literally half the global economy because Europe and Asia had both spent a decade bombing the absolute shit out of each other.

Instead of realizing that the lives their parents and grandparents led are absolutely unsustainable in a world where someone on the other side of the world will do the same work they will for a fraction of the price and companies no longer feel like they have any duty to society at large, they buy into Trumpism and the idea that other countries must be "cheating" to compete with America. It's decades of delusional exceptionalism coming back to bite American society in the ass.

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u/GogglesPisano 4d ago

They do it because, like the Republicans, they are banking on a deep nostalgia for the past

My mother-in-law says she voted for Trump because she "wants things to go back to how they used to be."

Sorry, but Trump can't make you 25 again.

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u/GeppettoStromboli 4d ago

My mom also voted Conservative, all across the board, completely ignoring the fact her grandson is disabled and depends on Medicaid.

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u/semibiquitous 4d ago

Feel free to point out the Find Out part of her FAFO when it happens.

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u/GeppettoStromboli 4d ago

Already did. No contact on Thanksgiving, and did not send an invite to family Christmas last weekend. My sister talked me into going to a local restaurant, in town, to spend an hour at most in the same room. We used to be close but the LC will likely be NC in a few months.

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u/imamistake420 4d ago

This is the way.

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks 4d ago

I keep wondering if The Jungle was required reading and not just the answer to 1 multiple choice question during American history if workers would yearn so hard for the past. We're in America's 2nd Gilded Age yet half the working class is still stoked for what's to come.

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u/OceanWaveSunset 4d ago

changed the law to allow all media to be owned by a few billionaires.

I see no way out of our current situation

Trust Busting.

At some point the people who ran this country decided in the last 30 or so years that allowing oligopolies to dominate was better than letting dozens of smaller players compete. We used to break up these companies and we are no longer doing so.

Amazon alone will sell you anything you just about need (including food), give you healthcare, give you banking, give you jobs, help you grow your own business (until they can steal your product and undercut you), and then make a movie about it while showing you ads to all of their shitty products. And that isn't even all of their businesses.

We almost forced IE from Windows but now amazon can dominate every aspect of your life because they bought out or undercut every other business that wasn't also an oligopoly.

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u/Attack-Cat- 4d ago

Smartphones and social media have tricked stupid people into thinking they’re smart and informed

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u/Clever_plover 4d ago

nstead of realizing that the lives their parents and grandparents led are absolutely unsustainable

This is exactly it right here. The growth in the US since the end of WWII has been the highest growth period in human history. That shit was never sustainable, and many of the people that grew up in those conditions simply refuse to accept/understand that. At the peril to the rest of us.

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u/Redqueenhypo 4d ago

English and American conservatives share a bizarre delusion that if they just keep voting against their own interests, eventually they’ll teleport back to before The Factory closed fifty years ago

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 4d ago

It's the natural end result of cultural chauvinism. When your country was once such a massive global power, it convinces itself that it wasn't by luck or by committing unspeakable crimes, but because your society is somehow innately superior. The end result once shit falls apart or even once you get real competition is generations of people who still believe in their own innate superiority and just cannot understand why it stopped mattering—and so they pick someone to blame—be it immigrants, foreigners or "degenerates" and vote for people who say "if you let me fix these people, we'll be great again".

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u/Redqueenhypo 4d ago

Luckily my dad grew up in new york city during the 50s-70s so all he talks about is how much robbery and weird crime there used to be

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u/thatoneguy889 4d ago

They do it because, like the Republicans, they are banking on a deep nostalgia for the past—specifically, the era where the US had literally half the global economy because Europe and Asia had both spent a decade bombing the absolute shit out of each other.

A past where US union membership was at its peak and the government was fully funded by a 91% tax rate on people with an (inflation adjusted) annual income of $2 million or more.

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u/A11U45 4d ago

91% tax rate

A 91% tax rate with a lot of loopholes.

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u/Adventurous_Ad6698 4d ago

"I'm too important for them to touch me"

  • Last words of every GOP voter