Centrist brainrot, asking for help, while admitting the interest will disappear the moment their own life is back in order.
They can’t even be honest about it and have to pepper in a bunch of gibberish. Oh and of course they had to somehow sneak in racism.
Bro is scabbing the moment he gets the opportunity
And what happens when the temporary unionization ends? Why wouldn’t the corpos go straight back to mass layoffs?
:codec-snake:
:codec-otacon: Sadly yes. Corporations under the Patriots have spent the last 50 years dismantling unions across the country through outsourcing. By the early 21st century they have consolidated their holdings through M&A under private equity.
:codec-snake: M&A? You mean Mergers and Acquisitions?
:codec-otacon: Yes, and not just at the grocery store. A handful of companies control over 90% of all media and growing, allowing them to slowly convince Americans to accept the Patriot’s changes over time. Arsenal Gear was an early attempt to control narrative by controlling memes. After it’s destruction the Patriots changed tactics to memetic cultivation through Parasocial Relationships. Today with the Internet Surveillance they have a far more granular control to manipulate individuals with Algorithms.
What would it even mean to have a ”temporary union”?
“I got mine!”
The West/Americans can’t conceive of actually sticking to an agreement.
”temporary union”
That sounds like some horror created by a neoliberal think tank and heartily endorsed by Pete Buttigieg.
You ever see that really stupid Baki scene where Baki is surrounded by like five guards pointing guns at him but he’s supposed to be the one in charge and actually has them (the people pointing guns at him at point blank range) hostage?
This is that but real; convincing workers to have a temporary union and pretending they’re having their arms twisted to make small, meaningless concessions so the workers don’t unionize for real and force major concessions; and this as a temporary measure to give them breathing room to figure out how to replace or downsize them.
It’s not gonna make sense because this person doesn’t actually know what unions are.
They have a surface understanding of the protections that unions offer to its members, but don’t actually know how or why.
Makes me wonder how they think we got here to begin with
Given where it was posted, this is probably one of those tech bros that grew up thinking that having some comp sci skills means immunity from labor market pressures.
My favourite part about this is that IT is quite literally the worst market when it comes to unionisation in America since corpos will move the operation overseas within a week with zero pushback. IT employees let this happen without any sort of opposition because they were paid high for a decade or so.
They did everything right!
I’ve seen a lot of capitalism loving neolibs suddenly embracing the idea what we’re currently under isn’t REAL capitalism because wealth has gotten too accumulated and as created an anti-competition oligarchy.
Which like, yeah, but yah know someone predicted this would happen.
It’s especially funny when those same neoliberals have been basking in glory since 1990 when their system “won” and they thought all they had to do was tinker around the edges. One Washington Consensus president after another, and within a generation, we’ve entered The Gilded Age 2. You can’t claim “Not Real Capitalism,” my brother in Christ, this is the globalized hegemony you wanted! Obama’s legacy is Trump, you really think we can just turn back the dial on this shit?
No outsourcing or bringing new people in on visa
USians can’t see non-USians as fully human.
It’s partly that sure, but it is also an example of the way capitalism successfully divides the working class against itself due to the competitive environment it creates.
H1B literally exists to get obedient slaves in the country and instead of blaming the government and oligarchs for this infinite slavery exploit, they’re busy spreading racism against the victims.
Yup
So it’s still racism
Yes but I’m acknowledging the structure that cultivates the racism.
real chinese exclusion act hours
16·4 days agoReal Workingmen’s Party of California hours
Edit: I didn’t even include their slogan: “The Chinese must go!”
part of the high pay in tech is hazard pay from having to be around people like this
Corporations can have an occasional layoff, as a treat.
This person is probably reachable for organizing irl. They have quite a few fantasies and chauvinism but this is basically what half of “radicalizable” libs look like at first. But they’d need to have discipline basically beaten into them. And they probably wouldn’t really recognize some basic truths and empathy until they got fired for talking about unionizing.
Yeah this sort of thing is frustrating to read, but this is what it means for liberals to see a change in their material conditions. This conscious cognitive dissonance “I’m pro-union but anti-union” basically means they’re at a tipping pont.
Whomst among us hasn’t started out with some shitty lib or chud beliefs we held on to for too long even after we radicalized? I went through a Bernie Babe phase, maybe someone else had to shake off some anti-china brainworms. That’s the sausage being made, and imo if you see it happening to someone you can rach, better to nudge them along than alienate them
This is very true. I commented already to shit on this guy and voice my frustration, but seeing stuff like this is potentially a good sign. When people’s material conditions are threatened, heightening the contradictions of capitalism becomes easier for you from a propaganda perspective. They’re in the right spot to learn.
I know and heard of so many more people in tech casually talking about unions and organization. Love to see it, eventhough they’re still weirdos
In terms of theoretical power they’d be a good group to be unionized. Inevitable imperialist brainworms and all you can at least get unions to do things sometimes.
The No Azure for Apartheid group is also doing good work re: Zionism, or at least better work than I would’ve expected from tech workers. They’re at least forcing PR moves from Microsoft.
“When the people who clean shitters and side walks go on strike I seethe, but now this affects ME, a white collar software professional earning well above six figures to maintain a legacy Java applet for a widget on a payment processor that you’ve never heard of and is no way a scam. I’m ACTUALLY important!”
“I won’t care about any of this once it stops affecting me!!”
Fire this man
Into the sun
How very Median Voter of them
fuck collective bargaining unless im collective
“What?!? The leopards ate MY face! Hey! I thought I was a leopard too! Someone should tell the leopards I’m one of them! I’m sure they’ll understand!”
Rabid individualism strikes again
Blind is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. But its funny that even those backwards people can come to the realization that workers need to unionize.
More like a group that helps the dude find a job which he’ll leave immediately when he gets a job.
