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

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

frozen-let-it-go.gif

jfc

plz May plz

Personal attacks and ad hominems are not cool.

Disagree with people’s ideas and arguments. This is the agora.

childish gambino's long-awaited followup

Can we talk about how Jacob Wohl isn't already in prison yet pls?

M4A’s first committee hearing underway

good morning!

mungry4ass

The Dues Sucking firefighters leadership will always support Democrats, even though the membership wants me. Some things never change!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2019

'Dues Sucking'?!?

Dues he suck? Or, boy, dues he!

Dues he ever!

dues ex suckina

Historically speaking, I can think of at least one other time in history where imo striking union teachers were in the wrong and those who crossed the picket line to teach students in shut-down schools were in the moral right. But I'll admit it takes an unusual set of circumstances.

The Dues Sucking Firefighters Leadership is a god lost Kinks lyric

Yikes, Trump's Federal Reserve pick Stephen Moore enthusiastically supports child labor & having 11- and 12-year-olds work.

“I’m a radical on this,” Moore said. “I’d get rid of a lot of these child labor laws. I want people starting to work at 11, 12.”https://t.co/IS0V8w8HPx

— Steven Greenhouse (@greenhousenyt) April 30, 2019

go mine some of that clean coal, barron