Memes help share ideas and they reflect the zeitgeist. You can see the pattern if you're older and experienced the birth of internet memes and over time they became more depressing, surreal, and self deprecating, reflecting the current socio-economic situation of many. During 2020 - 2023, the memes were quite surreal and making commentary about one in a life time events happening many times, shits on fire, economic inequity and more. Millenials and zoomers are depressed they can't afford a house.
Now imagine you are someone who has a masters degree and can't find a decent paying job because the marking is fucked. You want to purchase a house and you just can't. You now see a meme reflecting those ideas and you feel a form of solidarity. You get emboldened by those ideas.
I think, the current wave of unionization and striking partly contributed by these memes. They shared a spotlight on the inequities of the world and got people worked up. You can also see the "power" of the Dark Brandon memes, oh, and Donald fucking Trump became a serious candidate and elected because of memes.
Every single time a gripe about privacy is brought up on Lemmy or some issue with iOS or Windows, Linux users come out of the woodwork. It is 100% political as privacy becomes more and more of a concern.
Everything is political. My poli sci teacher said it best: when you boil it down, politics in the most simplest terms is just getting things done.
I told those Nazis that they don't need to change their thinking or behavior against Jews. They just need to give equal rights to Jews.
You are so smart. Amazing take. It isn't like taking those old guard gayz didn't want people to change their thinking (i.e. thinking gay people are normal, socially acceptable, gay rights) or their behavior (lynching, killing, draconic laws, etc.). Totally right. The alphabet mafia nowadays are infringing on OUR RIGHT to think what we want and do what we want.
Maybe the confederacy had a point. Maybe the north was just so bad trying to force the south to change their thinking and their behavior. Your take is not reactionary at all.
Is it perfect? No. He shouldn't have blocked it. But I will say we live in a very tricky political time. What we need is to make sure the Republicans and their fascism doesn't make it to the President's office again. I do believe Biden blocked it as a political move, because if the supply lines stopped EVERYONE would have hated him. I will grant him that understanding.
But through action he has shown he is willing to work with unions and actually be seen with them. This is huge for a president during these times of political unrest and where people are feeling emboldened to strike and unionize.
Is Biden a leftist? No. He is a Neolib. But i will take this as a victory. Even a small one.
He worked with the railworkers after Congress broke the strike. He got them what they wanted and they even credit Biden for putting the political pressure to have this happen. They railroad workers are okay with him
I am surmising that he put pressure on the companies by constantly talking to them and being a type of mediator. I wish the article gave details, but it is so hard to find anything on this. Everything that is Googled is just about congress stopping the strike and not this.
I wish I knew more as well, but I am satisfied that the railworkers are sated and are talking well about Biden and his admin.
I ain't a Joe Biden fanboy, but I would like to say if Bernie got elected president and he did this then the streets would go wild. This is insanely (good) that a president is showing so much solidarity and support to striking workers. This gets eyes and ears about the UAW strike, people see this support, they become emboldened, and now start thinking, "Hey, maybe we should strike or unionize..."
This is such a huge win for America and leftism in general. Let's Go Dark Brandon
Memes help share ideas and they reflect the zeitgeist. You can see the pattern if you're older and experienced the birth of internet memes and over time they became more depressing, surreal, and self deprecating, reflecting the current socio-economic situation of many. During 2020 - 2023, the memes were quite surreal and making commentary about one in a life time events happening many times, shits on fire, economic inequity and more. Millenials and zoomers are depressed they can't afford a house.
Now imagine you are someone who has a masters degree and can't find a decent paying job because the marking is fucked. You want to purchase a house and you just can't. You now see a meme reflecting those ideas and you feel a form of solidarity. You get emboldened by those ideas.
I think, the current wave of unionization and striking partly contributed by these memes. They shared a spotlight on the inequities of the world and got people worked up. You can also see the "power" of the Dark Brandon memes, oh, and Donald fucking Trump became a serious candidate and elected because of memes.