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Though you do get into this weird territory where the side that hates unions also loves police unions and coal mining unions. I've seen people have a full-blown
by sam0x17 5y ago
Though you do get into this weird territory where the side that hates unions also loves police unions and coal mining unions. I've seen people have a full-blown existential meltdown when you point out that their favorite police union is in fact a union in the yay socialism sense. "No that can't be, that's different...." etc.
- derefr 5y agoI don’t think it’s so strange: these people (the temporarily-embarrassed capital class, one could call them) are against unions they could see themselves managing. Not one of them wants to run a coal mine; that’s something that moustache-twirling aristocrats do, not decent bourgeoisie like themselves. And government unions aren’t a concern to them either, because this type of person also could never imagine themselves working for the government. (Few seem to have the inferential capacity to realize that they are nevertheless a shareholder of their government, and a marginal dollar saved in taxes is the same as a marginal dollar gained in dividends. One might in fact call taxes a dividend that’s usually net-negative.)
- fundad 5y agoThe temporarily-embarrassed capital class can rest assured their negative dividend will reliably go toward state violence. The police unions hold a special place because of what is known as Police Nationalism. For those people police determine that others need policing can can't imagine being on the receiving end of it. Would people object to prosecuting the Jan 6 perpetrators unless they feel police shouldn't be interfering in right wing attacks?