I was when I found out too

Fun fact, actually the drummer of SOAD is a Trump supporter. Serj has said he’s mystified about it. You’re right about the other three members though.

“Far left” here, we generally understand the need to vote blue no matter who in this election. It’s pretty obvious.

Sure, if you want to phrase it that way. Just slightly different motivation.

The point is to get us talking about it. I’d say they succeeded.

Even if this were true (which it isn’t), the penalty for bigotry isn’t indiscriminately killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians.

It must be something more substantial in this case, tearing the windshield wiper off wouldn’t brick the truck

Not defending Tesla, but that wasn’t a cybertruck

Because the short notice sick days weren’t in the agreement that some of the unions ratified. That was on top of the agreement that he imposed on them, which some of them had already ratified as written. I’m not happy that he did that, I think they should’ve been allowed to go on strike anyways and get all that they could from management, but at least he didn’t just force it on them and then leave it at that.

Oh stop it

You’re right, “On deadline day, the parties reached an agreement on an updated contract that included the biggest wage increases in 47 years. Over the next several weeks, while acknowledging that the agreement was less than perfect, the IBEW and several of its fellow coalition unions voted to ratify the agreement. A handful of others, however, did not, instead threatening a December freight rail strike.”

Biden enforced this agreement despite only some of the 12 unions voting to ratify it, and then worked behind the scenes to get them the extra short notice sick days too. Nobody ever gets everything, but this certainly sounds like getting something that about half of the unions ratified anyways, plus more sick days. How can you discount getting them a better contract just because it wasn’t absolutely everything they asked for? It’s still a vast improvement.

There were 11 other unions involved. Their members (the site said they combine for over 100k workers) got these benefits too, they negotiated together for a deal that would affect all of them.

I get hating Biden, I really do. He’s not nearly far enough left for me either. But do you have anything to back that claim up besides your word?

He got the contract that the unions were about to strike for agreed to. I agree that it’s shitty as hell to force them not to strike and I was furious with Biden too, but it seems like the Unions are happy with the results of his actions now so I see no reason I should continue to actively hold that against him.

Second paragraph: “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement”

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

The problem is that according to due process, you need to prove somebody is guilty of something before they are jailed. These people weren’t jailed, they were basically executed from a distance. The burden of proof is on the Israeli military to prove that they WERE Hamas, not on people horrified by the footage to prove the negative. And so far (and historically) the IDF seems to not care to do so, and in lots of cases have given “proof” as justification for one action or another that later turned out to be bullshit.

Not to mention the numerous cases of the IDF killing people in “Press” vests and helmets, or people literally actively waving a white flag. In my opinion, they don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt given their record.

He later got them everything they wanted, and they have since endorsed him.

Edit: he later got them the sick days they wanted, on top of pushing through the contract that only a handful of the 12 unions hadn’t ratified. I guess it’s not technically “everything they wanted” but it’s certainly more than the unions that ratified the agreement were expecting.

Always love to see Beau’s content linked in the wild. Good stuff.