Jessica @ SayJess @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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We agree on many things.

The saddest thing I saw was young people refusing to sign the union card. We are a Right to Work state, so they don’t have to pay the dues to receive union benefits. This starves unions, which contributes to the toothless-ness.

Like I said, it was so sad to see. I tried talking to them, but they wouldn’t do it. They need every penny. I can’t fault them for that. Regardless of anything else, that’s how we see it in a plant. Maximizing your checks because the pay isn’t enough.

I’m sure that I am preaching to the choir here. But I want this up for people who’ve never known the life, to see how it is.

Come work for a week in a plant. We make shit wages, work way too hard for it, and see the economy as grocery bills being double what they were a few years ago. Most of us struggle to make ends meet. I can’t blame those that would cross a picket line to make $2 more per hour for less work.

The unemployment rate is a terrible way to gauge how the job market is.

That’s good to hear. I have first hand experience with manufacturing being part of a regional union. Unfortunately, we were UAW in name only. We were lucky during the strike, the plant we supplied did not strike. The other GM plant in my area went on strike. Anyone that supplied them laid off all of the workers. Where I live, that is $362 per week (you have to file for unemployment). That barely covered rent. Forget about gas, food, the light bill, and medicine.

Without us, GM would have no engines to put in their cars. But the UAW doesn’t look out for the “little guy”.

Sorry, I’ve got skin in the game, and it frustrates me to know end that we didn’t receive ANY of the protections that the GM workers did.

Yeah, I’m jaded. But I still know that strong unions are necessary for the workers to force management to listen.

I’ve looked at 3 separate polls, none of which listed the number of respondents, which calls every bit of it into question. In my opinion of course.

Via Pew Research

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 39% of Israelis say Israel’s military response against Hamas in Gaza has been about right, while 34% say it has not gone far enough and 19% think it has gone too far.

I did find a <5% figure, on the same page

Israeli Arabs are much more likely than Jews to say the country’s military response has gone too far (74% vs. 4%).

Just a bit of context

What sucks is that in this economy, employers know that they can get scabs to come in at like a dollar more an hour—union be damned.

We need to get back to where employers feared, or at least listened to, unions and their power of collective bargaining. They’ve done an amazing job of gutting unions, and will not stop until they are made illegal.

MAH GAWD THAT MAN HAS A FAMILY…WHO LIKELY HATES HIM!

Sure thing 🫡

Gotta be honest, I’ve had a few shots and didn’t read whatever the fuck it was you wrote. Sorry. But yup I’m wrong to not want Donald Trump in the Oval Office. You can reply, but not going to read it. I’m over it. Have a great day, sir/ma’am

Ok then buddy. You know nothing of my politics, which is expected as we don’t know each other.

This is all unprecedented, no? The incumbent was always the presumptive nominee. This incumbent is about as healthy as a mallard with a cold. That instills confidence (/s). I really don’t like Joe Biden. If I’m being honest, I don’t care for any of them. But we work with what we got. And until there’s is a viable alternative, this is who we got. I don’t like it. I don’t support it. But I have to tolerate it, if it means keeping that traitorous piece of shit away from Capitol Hill.

Of everyone, I’d like to AOC give it a go. But she would lose, because we can’t have nice things.

She’s cool enough to have a song made for her. I don’t know what that means, but…I’m not sure where I’m going with this lol

If you think this is even apples to oranges, you are part of the “left’s” problem. I don’t see much point in interacting with someone who essentially just tried to both-sides this.

I feel you. I don’t want him, but the alternative doesn’t even begin to compare. It’s a middle finger to the American people to field such candidates.

Whoooooooosh

To be transparent, Biden is not who I’d like to see in the White House either. Call it sunk cost or whatever, but there aren’t any actual candidates that have thrown their hat in the ring. So what do we do? Write in Whitmer? I think she’d make a great president, but I just don’t see it happening. After all, that would be a positive outcome.

Just keep in mind that your protest vote effectively gives Trump a vote. His base might be stupid, but they do vote.

I hope so. It works both ways, but totally different. Nice.

Sorry rest of the country, but we’d like to keep Big Gretch to ourselves. K Thx

According to this article via the same source as OP, Japan grants just 0.5% of asylum requests.

From the article

Ministry of Justice statistics show that between 2016 and 2019, more than 10,000 people applied for asylum in Japan every year, but only 20 to 44 individuals were granted refugee status. The recognition rate falls below 0.5%, and it is difficult to acquire refugee status in Japan.

For any country, that is shameful. For a country with an aging population, it is just plain stupid.

I have Xubuntu on a Lenovo Yoga 11e Chromebook, and it runs like buttah