ARCADE GOON

4y

Except when choosing hideouts for their leadership

krishna bound

4y

the debate over if or if not the canadian truck strike/protests constitutes a worker solidarity or union movement has completely plagued virtually any remotely non-moderate political place of discussion and ive yet to see a good take on it in spite of that

krishna bound

4y

I think it's more interesting if you detach the situation from the situational morality of it. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think while it's beyond stupid, it's a clear display of not only power, but of that the workers actually recognize how much power they have. That's why I find it very funny. It's not a situation like in, i dunno, an amazon factory, where it's a constant back and forth of workers who need to be convinced they have the smallest bit of power to demand something. In this scenario, The truckers actually fully understand realize as a precursor how much power they have over the country and relative authority. In spite of that, they decide to use that said combined quasi-unionized power to...protest one of the least impactful culture war issues of the century?
Like assuming these guys are mostly say, the equivalent of the working to lower middle class Trump Voter here in the US, it's likely these guys have been complaining about things for several years - basically the loss of culture war issue one after another, or just general disdain for modern post-NAFTA (which Canada was in too obviously) political figures. So in spite of that, and the fact they collectively realize they have said power, this is what they think is worth protesting over? I think it's one of the actual funniest things in western history. It's almost parody level, it'd be like making a joke about conservative waging a people's war just against gay marriage rather than any actual underlying reform.
I think it's almost undoubtedly a form of worker collectivism, it's just simultaneously a show that morality or action doesn't inherently align alongside wider economic ethics of organization, so it's simultaneously both a display of power from workers while also essentially something pointless and meandering if not debatable morally unethical. Still, its qualification as unethical or reactionary doesn't really undermine it to be understood as a worker's movement nonetheless - it's just a critically stupid one.

fun guy

4y

the lib outrage on twitter over defacing statues and flags is hilarious

"Nooooo! You can't disrespect our troops! Show some respect to our great settler colonial Imperialist country!"

why tf is this trending too

fun guy

4y

the lib outrage on twitter over defacing statues and flags is hilarious

"Nooooo! You can't disrespect our troops! Show some respect to our great settler colonial Imperialist country!"

why tf is this trending too

fun guy

4y

protesting the exploitative capitalist system that robs workers of their wages

protesting a shoddy vaccine mandate

krishna bound

4y

No, we’ll rise up and reclaim what has been stolen from us.

you f***ers are protesting a VACCINE where was this for LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE
even by the literal OWN LOGIC OF RIGHT WINGERS this doesn't make sense if you believe in culture war stuff where has this been for FOUR DECADES

americana

4y

Reagan fr won

Scratchin Mamba

4y

This clip of Vijay Prashad rly been going viral even my mom showed it to me

americana

4y

This pancakes dude is killing me

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Hot pancakes? Where

americana

4y

Life sxn

Scratchin Mamba

4y

This clip of Vijay Prashad rly been going viral even my mom showed it to me

Scratchin Mamba

4y

Vaush is so stoopid

Womanpuncher69

4y

Vijay such a mixed figure for me he’s great for learning about indian communism but his hatred of Maoist always rub me the wrong way especially since he’s part of Communist Party of India (Marxist) who has a prominent member join the Congress party so they can push it leftwards lol

americana

4y

And my prof is an anarchist

americana

4y

I’m in this political theory class and we’re taking political compasses