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Local Fed said:
Just rattling off some thoughts I've been having after seeing some news where Kamala's campaign and Pete Buttigieg are trying to do the whole "White Dudes for Harris" thing as part of their "[GROUP] for Harris" series of cringe.

On top of it being incredibly gay, I can't help but to be annoyed by the language. When they're courting white women, it's "White Women for Harris." When it's black men, it's "Black Men for Harris." When it's whatever group that they're doing the race + sex combo, it's "[RACE] Men/Women for Harris" except one.

They can't, or won't, even pretend to respect you, white men, enough to refer to you as white men. It's always an infantilizing term they use, always a mockery of you as a serious person and as a group: "dudes, bros, [white] boys and [white] guys, etc." Well, unless they're absolutely seething at you which is when they'll use the blanket of "Men" to recognize you, but only as a threat that's posed; they use it in the way an angry parent calls you by your full name.

I don't think that Trump particularly gives a shit about white men either outside of getting their votes, but at least he doesn't hold an obvious sort of contempt for you (I don't think he has any, but again, I just don't think he cares that much really despite the histrionic fears of many on the Left and the laments of some on the Right.)

It's not even that I'm all that surprised, especially considering this has long been a thing in American society, and in the Anglosphere at large, but it's still pretty amazing just how the language has cemented itself and most people don't even notice it and would read this post and think it's schizo to bring up the point. Every time you read a political headline talking about "White Bros" and "White Guys" and "White Dudes" you should know that the author of it thinks you should be and are some retarded meek servile cuck, undeserving of any authority or respect, who is so dumb that you'll buy into "inclusivity" while they shit down your throat by the second sentence of whatever slop they're publishing.

They usually can't even pretend not to see you as lesser, they don't even think you're worth putting in the effort to fool.
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It's just the latest development in the long history of the United States, which when you look at how voting rights have changed over the years and who could hold originally office when the country was formed, is a story of white men diluting their own collective political power more and more as time goes by.
 
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Local Fed said:
I don't think that Trump particularly gives a shit about white men either outside of getting their votes, but at least he doesn't hold an obvious sort of contempt for you (I don't think he has any, but again, I just don't think he cares that much really despite the histrionic fears of many on the Left and the laments of some on the Right.)
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pretty sure the Trump campaign just goes Americans for Trump, and doesn't really discriminate by race much.
 
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Brenda Holiday said:
Fellow f*moids, I'm feeling a bit doom and gloom over the fact that the women that represent us are either evil as fuck or grossly incompetent or both. Hillary is literally evil, Kamala is evil and incompetent, the USSS women are incompetent, and they are seen as the face of the female sex and their failures are somehow seen as my failures and the failures of all women. I probably just need to touch some grass and talk to non internet people.
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And all of that is totally in character for them as politicians, who are a breed increasingly dedicated to self-promotion above all. We all agree politicians are evil until the press decides that we have to celebrate having an evil woman politician now. They ought to be pushing for us to elect exclusively men so they can be hated as much as they deserve without giving them dissonance about having to hate a woman.

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>slammed down his muffin

sheesh if I had to write a fake story like this I wouldn't have wrote that he 'slammed down his muffin', i'd have written him as a younger seething chud sitting next to me who passive aggressively grumbles and makes me notice him looking at Nick Fuentes gay porn on his laptop
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John is a conservative, and his tweet was satire. Somehow this tweet has been tricking bigger accounts.

Local Fed said:
Every time you read a political headline talking about "White Bros" and "White Guys" and "White Dudes" you should know that the author of it thinks you should be and are some retarded meek servile cuck
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UwU Just Some Silly Little Guys for Harris
 
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RisingPhoenix said:
Any good sauces for this Labor busting? I'm not really pro union myself but I'ld like to be armed with something credible when Dems argue Dumpth will fuck over the workers

I know Trump is planning to add a bill for non-taxed tips. Which, while small, is at least something to help the average Joe.

Speaking of, was trying to get an Agenda 47 list but Trumps campaign site has them just in like a list of blog posts. Anyone got an overall list?
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Sure thing. I've spoken before about the dockworker situation last year. The gist was they put off renewing the dockworker contracts for over two years, putting out lots of bullshit "extensions"; it got to the point where workers at the Ports of Seattle, LA, Long Beach and Tacoma resorted to work stoppages and unions up in Western Canada promised to join them. Stuff was rotting in the port and the Japanese trade ambassador was real pissed and the Secretaries of Labor and Transportation finally had to do their jobs and they got their contracts. Last year, there were threats after the actions of union workers that "more port traffic would be redirected to the East Coast" as a form of punishment, and it did.

The Railworkers were not allowed to strike even though the conditions they were working under were pretty abysmal because Joe Biden signed a bipartisan bill that prevented them from striking. This broke Redditors brains, and no one really talked about it again. Knowing some people that work or have worked for the railroad, they call him "Traitor Joe" over it. The NLRB, or National Labor Relations Board, holds that any worker has the right to strike against unfair working conditions, whether they're union or not - but not rail workers, they're something else. Railroad workers are covered under the Railway Labor Act, and since they're designated as essential workers they don't get to strike unless a court says they can.

The shit that went on with the Railroad workers is particularly nasty and can't be overlooked. Crews are down to 2 crew per train, cargo trains are often raided in spectacular fashion with no way for workers to defend themselves, and then these industries are confused as to why no one wants to take that on as a career. Few people understand how essential rail is for this country, but the private companies managing it are running it into the ground. Massive amounts of consumer goods, building materials, frozen meat and important chemicals go through the rail system every day because it's way cheaper than freight/trucking. They could modernize, but they don't. They could automate, but they choose not to. Some of it is regulation, but a lot of it is sheer greed and incompetence.

The only thing the Biden administration did for worker rights was allow Federal workers to better unionize. He signed an executive order on his third day of office, which bore fruit last year. Isn't that nice? The bureaucrats are doing it for themselves yet again. He loves to defend his friends in Hollywood, so important that Hollywood gets to write their capeslop and get residuals, though.

I could go on about the issues that have occurred with Amazon, the workers at supermarkets trying to unionize, but I think this is a nice little bit for you to get started from. Look up what progressives say he's done for workers during his term, short of making it safer for fed employees to unionize, increasing funding for NLRB and paying lip service, this has not been an administration that has done anything for unions or for workers. It's amazing really, when you step back and look at the full picture.

Kamala was put in charge of his "Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment", btw, the initiative to make it safe for Federal wagies to unionize. According to the reporting I could find about it:

"The task force issued more than 70 recommendations, including reducing barriers to organizing, protecting organizing workers from illegal retaliation, and establishing more resources for workers on unions and collective bargaining. In addition, the task force ensures that agencies live up to these commitments by publicly tracking progress toward its recommendations." If you look through, it appears that activists were given jobs in the Travel and Tourism Bureau (how?), and money was put into people's pet projects. I really suggest you look at the PDFs linked to see where the money was spent and what suggestions are made. None of this seems to have actually gone anywhere outside the Federal government, especially now that the Broadband Subsidy program has ended.

It is such a wild ride to see how this all goes. I'll also include the PDFs here, just in case they're memoryholed in the future.
 

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