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[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 73 points 2 months ago

Republicans - MUH FREEDUMS

Also Republicans - You can't do that! Using the principals of capitalism to better yourself and not a corporation? Your labor is not yours, it belongs to the company, how dare you negotiate the price of your product! Your choice to unionize must be prohibited!

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They are the party of taking things away. It's literally the core of any legislation or policy positions which come from their party. The fact that they claim to be against government interference in the lives of citizens or fiscal responsibility are laughable details at this point. Even states' rights are something they believe in only when it suits them.

They are the party of hypocrisy and regression, and all their most visible leaders are a laughingstock to the world.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

they claim to be against government interference in the lives of citizens or fiscal responsibility

You haven't caught any hypocrisy here. They dropped that talk long, long ago. Constituents still have the idea in their heads, but the GOP doesn't so much as pay lip service to fiscal responsibility, small government or state's rights.

Can't remember when I noticed, but it was pre-Trump. Guess it's too easy to burn 'em in election ad sound bites.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I do feel like states rights gets trotted out as needed, if not as often as in the past. Isn't it their primary non-religious defense for overturning Roe?. Otherwise, I think you have a point. I suppose I don't hear those sorts of claims often like I used to.

[-] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

Add it to the pile of reasons I won’t be going to Alabama anytime soon.

[-] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

It's a big pile too.

At this point, I actively avoid buying things if they ship from certain states, if I can help it

[-] BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The only reason it's not the worst state is because Mississippi exists

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 2 months ago

Don't forget Louisiana and South Carolina.

[-] applepie@kbin.social 29 points 2 months ago

State taking action against peoples right to organize... You would think federal government would enforce its own laws lol

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 8 points 2 months ago

Why would they? They're in club billionaire and we're not. All they need nowadays is "not the other candidate."

[-] applepie@kbin.social 3 points 2 months ago

Well we all take it like good little bitches... Can't even ask people to adjust their consumption patterns to fight back corpo daddies becuase

u taking muhh freedom rheeee, I consoonme exactly as I am told by dadddy, who is u to question that?!

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

People shouldn't have to adjust their consumption patterns to fight against corporations. Corporations should have to adjust themselves to prevent their offices from being burned down.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 2 months ago

True, but I do have expensive cheap habits, like food, shelter, etc

[-] applepie@kbin.social 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Another naive take lol

Y'all's parents let this shit get this far by being obidient cattle. Sold their own kids for 401k and mcmansion. So at this point you either take the fight to the corps or keep being treated like that too. There is no other choice.

Ain't no nobody gonna save z peasants unless each one helps him or her self first.

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 1 points 2 months ago

I literally laughed. In a nutshell, yes.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

What the fuck.

[-] 108@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They started getting jealous of all that freedom in Florida and have to catch up.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly does there exist a company that would acknowledge a union without a vote? I've seen instructions in emergency handbooks for someone presenting union cards that say do not acknowledge them. This law has no impact because for profit companies have no conscious.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, of course there do.

Some smaller companies are run by people still in touch with humanity.

Some bigger companies might see the writing on the wall and pre-empt the vote as a tactic to gain public goodwill.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yes, anywhere other than the US. The whole union voting thing is insane.

[-] aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If similar legislation were passed in my state I would engage in covert extremely lawful peaceful protest

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago

Sounds like it's high time for the citizens of Alabama to go on a tax strike.

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