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  Or, you know, we could have all stood with them in a form of working class solidarity. But that would require class consciousness from within the working class in the U.S. so of course that is not going to happen.
  Better to just demand a "better time and/or place" for fellow workers who have no paid sick days because I need to consume, consume, consume at all costs.
context: Biden didnt say he'd be a pro-Union president. He said hed be the MOST pro-union president. The bar is so low, he can crush a strike and still be one of the most pro-Union presidents because, well, they rarely are in the last 80 years. >
  
  Not sure arguing for a technicality is a great move here. If labor doesn’t trust Biden anymore, I doubt you’ll win them back via technicality >
  
  Democrats have lost a lot of labor's support since the 70s, particularly in manufacturing and trade unions, and it's fucking infuriating they don't do more to address this. >
  
  They know who lines their pockets and who does not. And it's not manufacturing and trade unions. >
  
  Yea it's wild to me the amount of republicans that are in unions but hate them for some reason? Something like it makes the products more expensive. >
  
  Labor unions have long ago stopped functioning in the ways that made a real threat to the capitalist world order. This has come to fruition, in part, through a complete breakdown of what little class consciousness the working class in the U.S. has ever had. And you see that with conservative union members of all stripes. >
  
  The handling of the rail strike issue, to put it lightly, greatly irritated many on the left, and will likely remain in the thoughts of many for quite a while.
  Furthermore, and this is just from what I've observed as a member of the Seattle DSA, it reignited debate over whether the DSA should continue to operate within the Democratic Party or break away entirely.
  I've taken the position of believing that a breakaway would just cause us to be spoilers and play into the hands of the GOP, but the anger is, from my perspective, understandable. >
  
  I'm glad you are of the correct view that fracturing the Democratic party would play into the hands of the GOP >
  
  That assumes that DSA and/or the Left = the Democratic party. Cant fracture something that's not already together. >
  
  Yeah truth. The US Democratic Party is actually right of center in a historical and global perspective >
  
  That and if the Democratic Party were actually concerned about "playing into the hands of the GOP" through a split with anyone to their Left, they would function very differently. >
  
  Amen 🙏 >
  
  The workers can still try to strike if they want to. The fact is there's no way Biden could've allowed rails to stop before the holidays. That would've been catastrophic for not just the economy but labor, too. Most likely it would've seriously hurt the union movement by turning a lot of sympathy against it. In the long term, avoiding that crisis was a better decision. >
  
  Strikes are supposed to be disruptive, scab >
  
  Yes, but that doesn't mean they're automatically a good idea. The disruption in this case would not have been productive or helpful to the movement. You have to choose when to use disruption wisely, and this was not the right moment. >
  
  It was for the rail workers. There will never be movement if we wait until it’s convenient for Christmas 😂 >
  
  There won't be a movement if you cancel Christmas for everyone that's for sure.