I have tons of problems with worship music (and contemporary Christian music in general), but being “feminized”/“too feminine” isn’t the problem I have with it. Clearly conservatives are making shit up to be angry at again.

Good.

Reminder that if someone who wants to bootlick for a corporation while bringing up to workers salaries/political views to justify why the unions should be busted and the first thing they say is, "I support unions, but...", everything they say before the "but" is basically bullshit.

Every time I come across a video get recommended to me from YouTube channel on YouTube I've never heard to, I always check who they're following to verify political views. It helps out the assholes every time.

"the R slur is coming back" not within slapping distance of me it's not

Am I allowed to include prequels as well? Because if so, I'd pick Gods and Generals, the prequel to Gettysburg from 1993 and what I'd like to refer to it as "Lost Cause Revisionism the Movie".

Mortal Kombat Annihilation. The original MK from 1995 had it's problems and it hasn't aged well, but as it is, it was one of the better video game adaptations and, depending on who you ask, subverted the "video game movies suck" reaction. The sequel, MK Annihilation from 1997? Not so much.

If his *only* transgression was some shitty Reddit posts, I could accept that's just someone saying something stupid before they wised up. It happens, and many of us do it (I sure as shit know *I* did), but Platner continues to make one excuse after another that contradicts *another* excuse.

Look, can we *just* admit that Graham Platner is just another John Fetterman in waiting? Along with Hasan Piker, I'm getting annoyed at how much he's being glazed instead of, y'know, being treated like any other flawed human being who *should* take responsibility for their statements and actions...

What is it the billionaires say “ a rising tide lifts all ships”. Labour costs more than employers pay. Across the board. Just admit you don’t think workers deserve good wages.

Your problem with this agreement is that other underpaid workers might not be able to afford transit? Or disabled people might not be able to afford transit? Everyone needs better wages.

And? I just heard that politicians can’t afford to live on $187000 (with benefits) so they should have the right to do insider trading. Why shouldn’t workers have high wages?

"I am usually pro-labor but-" then proceeds to make an argument that supports union busting. This is one of those instances where everything you say prior to the "but" means nothing.

"I am usually pro-labor but-" Let me stop you right there. You're not actually pro-labor.

You are right. Everyone who writes articles about one sector of the labor movement is obligated to write articles about all sectors of the labor movement, or the workers don't deserve their raises or something. Listen to yourselves.

"This one user on Twitter who happened to support the LIRR strike is antisemitic, therefore this strike and unionizing are bad things and the unions should be busted." I agree that this comment is gross, but cherry picking one example to justify your bootlicking is not the win you think it is, Sam.

Ronald Reagan is one of the most evil presidents the US has ever had.

Fuck Reagan forever.

Not because the wealthiest of NYC say things like "asking to tax me is like saying a slur"

Honestly I shouldn't even have to put this down, but before assuming the LIRR unions' politics, actually know who the unions are and who they actually endorsed: IAM / TCU endorsed Harris IBEW endorsed Harris Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen endorsed Harris BLET/Teamsters *didn't endorse anybody*

Anyone complaining about LIRR Salaries should explain why they should make less than NCPD/NYPD leadership when their services are just as important and require competence.

Without opining on the LIRR strike, which I haven't read anything about beyond a few posts: The exception of "police unions aren't real unions" is not because cops are bad - they are, ofc - but because they are a "union" without labor solidarity, to the extent of having strikebreaking duties.

Translation from this bootlicker: The strikes are inconveniencing me personally. Therefore, they should end.

Factoring in the costs of their benefits as something they can spend or use is some bootlicking bullshit. So is arguing that they make too much money. Also, they're fighting to oppose a pay cut -- yes, it's a pay cut to be asked to pay more for health care -- for new workers. As well they should.

Good for them. They live in one of the most expensive cities in the nation.

LIRR workers make $136k a year!! Why that's... the median income for Long Island households. Can't they just be indentured servants who sleep in coal chutes instead? www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary...

People pretending their pro labor while in same breath saying a union is overpaid should be mocked and ridiculed out of any kind of public life. Fuck this guy. bsky.app/profile/samd...

Imagine being both so confident and so wrong at the same time!

i'm just so fucking sick of YIMBYs, the baby brayned libertarian ones, who act *entitled* to being considered part of The Left. your theories of change make no sense! your housing policy understandings are simplistic! u want urbanism just for other upper middle class white people!! fuck off!!!!

3) it's a Good Thing to have people in essential, public positions get paid *above the median for the area where they live and serve*. these freaks are just assuming it's bad bc number big. you're entrenching a public good where workers can largely determine their own conditions! hell yah!!

1) LIRR workers are probably pretty right wing! but their positioning in the economy as essential, public workers matters much more, in this situation 2) if the state doesn't like how much power these workers have, build some competing modes of mass transit!! you'd likely have the trades on board

Translation: these railway workers for the LIRR make a lot of money, therefore they shouldn't use their power to secure the best deal possible and someone should should bust the union. Just ignore the millions, if not billions, of dollars that the CEOs we bootlick for make in their sleep.

Oh. Okay, then. That means workers shouldn't get raises or something. Come on. Listen to yourself.

The only good outcome from this is that Elon Musk lost. Unfortunately, Sam Altman won.

The good news is Elon Musk lost. The bad news is Sam Altman won.

Sure. But equating cops to the workers on the LIRR line is ridiculous. One job gets to commit state-sponsored murder, the other...doesn't. To quote Sam Jackson, it "ain't the same fuckin' ballpark, it ain't the same league, it ain't even the same fuckin' sport."

So because they are public sector employees, they aren't entitled to collectively bargain for better wages and benefits? That's your argument? Because frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable with my tax dollars going toward *that* than, well, *gestures at everything.*

Yeah I hear that argument a lot. But usually it's coming from CEOs or their PR firms.

Yes? Because that's how solidarity *works.*

And you are smart enough to know that averages are bullshit. But do go on with your "People I dislike because of their politics don't deserve a living wage" philosophy. I'm sure that'll go over swimmingly with the national public.

Yes, how dare we assume that the position of *checks notes* paying people a living wage is the correct moral position.

Hi Sam! Were you always a union-busting prick or is this a new development?

I don't care how much money members of the LIRR union are making (from what I heard, despite the lies from the NY Post, their also comes from overtime). If you bring up their salaries to justify union busting, you're a bootlicking asshole.

And yes, #LIRRworkers deserve six figures salaries. #NewYork is #EXPENSIVE. And they work hard to keep us #safe. I am being inconvenienced by this, but completely support them. #Union

When in doubt, cherry pick the amount of money they union members are making to justify strike busting.

it’s too hot for bullshit so if you reply or QT with something annoying I’m just gonna block you tbh this isn’t a debate

this stuff pisses me off so much. right now I’m worrying about my partner having to go to work during this brutal heat wave and do eight hours of heavy farm labor outside for $144 before tax. knowing that some wimp out there would argue that he’s paid too much makes me want to explode

this all reminds me of some of the rhetoric we saw around the Philly trash strike last summer. “they just pick up trash” okay no actually and our world falls apart without that labor. sanitation workers should make at least $500K a year

if you have a nice office job and are mad about the LIRR strike, just nut up and say “this worker does a job I feel is beneath me personally yet makes more money than I do, and I find this infuriating”

what if I said every worker—even the ones that the soft-handed chattering class deem to be undeserving—should use their collective power to secure the best deal possible? what then