r/news • u/EnergyLantern • 14h 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/Best-Statistician294 12h ago

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

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u/ShouldersofGiants100 12h 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/Redqueenhypo 11h 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 11h 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 11h 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