US Politics April 2019 Thread: 'I find that pretty hard to believe'

that is...wow

hahaha oh man.

there are pictures of the coach grimacing at the fast food too

that's an amazing photograph

says everything

I'm the lady in the pink.

I’m fucking incredulous that anyone is taking this “kids starve if teachers strike” bourgeois concern trolling bullshit seriously. How many levels of false consciousness are you dorks on

and the teachers in w va who packed bag lunches for their title I kids? how many levels of false consciousness are they on?

Teachers need to organize to survive, and organization involves potentially striking. This is obvious to teachers who rely on their jobs for their survival.

go fuck yourself

signed

union teacher who relies on two jobs to survive

concern trolling?

this is my day to day, you fucking gnat

xp don't think there is a single person who isn't sending a message in that picture

If you belong to a union then support union action dickhead!

Honestly they should kick you out you scab loving cretin

ok dan internationale, when I see u at the barricades ur gonna catch one to the jaw

also I’m a founding member of our schools union but sure I’ll talk to the rep abt getting myself kicked out

not sure why you guys are even arguing, you're for the most part on the same side

Kim Mulkey's grimace at the sight of a fast food spread for the Baylor Women's Basketball team's visit to the White House is worth a thousand words. pic.twitter.com/rXZ78UJ7ft

— Jay Sarkar (@ByJaySarkar) April 29, 2019

haha!

mainly i'm mad because dan is personally attacking me and mischaracterizing me.

but also we differ on our understanding of what it is to meaningfully support union action

mine has to do w. practical concerns as i am actively involved in teacher union organization

his has to do w/ unrestricted dunking rights on james comey on twitter

sheesh is that really what started this. I think i tuned in to the conversation halfway.

don't give a shit about comey

yeah. Dan I earned some FPs in the past 24 hours for sure.

dude, ILX no longer has 51 users

l;ucky for you

i’m fucking incredulous that you don’t even know why you’re giving me a hard time

i’m arguing in favor of one’s right to be a scab and for the necessity of scabs

ilx still has mods and they still have discretionary powers. you may not be able to rely on the difficulty of getting 51'ed when you shit on other ilxors' heads. just sayin'.

do mods love scabs too?

oh did that trigger you? what union are you in?

arguments like this are really disturbing

scabs are not necessary in every field, of course. i was speaking only about substitutes crossing picket lines.

It did kinda trigger me! It's a shocking thing to say!

if you’re a low skilled worker, like a fast food worker or a food processor, then yes i don’t think ppl should cross yr picket line.

teachers rely on relationships built over time, so our union is somewhat insulated against the effect of substitutes. as i said, they’re not really effective replacements.

I'm trying to understand your perspective. Do other members of your union think that scabbing is good? Would you say the things you've said in this thread out loud at a union meeting?

dan i, please shut the fuck up you sanctimonious butthole

suck my dick you cretin

(i really am trying to understand it, because it seems nonsensical to me)

xpost oh ok

i am a teacher in a union, too!!! BTWWWWWWWWW

i live in a state where i can be fired and lose my teaching certificate if i try to strike tho so maybe im not really in a union!!!!!

i said a lot more union skeptical things than that at our initial meetings like “do we even need a union right now” and you know what? in the end i still voted for the union

and when we discuss labor actions i speak for moderation and responsible use of power. and sometimes the vote doesn’t go my way! and when that happens i do what the union says. because i’m a union member: that’s my perspective

jesus, thank you for a straight answer.

suck my dick asshole

!?!?

you guys are both awful

Who needs Morbs

yikes y’all

The fuck happened itt today, and without me around to shit it up even

sorry guys maybe this is my fault for posting Comey’s dumbass tweet. but whatever you think about “strike replacement teachers” I believe it’s important to remember: James Comey is a pompous self regarding fuckwit who might be as much to blame for the current situation as any one single person.

as much to blame/ as

more to blame/ than

teachers rely on relationships built over time, so our union is somewhat insulated against the effect of substitutes. as i said, they’re not really effective replacements.

You keep coming back to this - if a district is so hostile to teachers (and... students) that strike action becomes necessary, why do you think the "effectiveness" of the subs matters to them?
If a district can get away with staffing with poorly-trained (or untrained) scabs, they will.

zoning out

i used to post on the internet for a living and i can tell you from my first-hand experience that some of you are doing it real wrong here fyi