• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m a union worker and I’m dismayed at the amount of my union brothers who vote for pieces of shit like this. Who buy into their bullshit and actually think that conservatives will help them. Talk about voting against your own interests. If you’re in a union, voting for conservatives is just stupid

    • iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Union worker myself. I am also baffled by the strong conservative undercurrent in my fellows’ views. Don’t know how they sustain it.

      • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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        3 months ago

        Bigotry, selfishness, severe lack of intelligence and or basic reasoning skills. I can keep going.

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          A big part of it is the view that the left “gives money away”. Union jobs are typically labor with long hous and their view is that “I work hard for the money I eared and my taxes go to the lazy”.

          I think that’s bullshit obviously, but that is a pretty common sentiment from my experience.

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            3 months ago

            Now that you say that, yeah, I do hear that kinda shit from my older and, ironically, youngest coworkers. I’ve given up arguing with them.

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              3 months ago

              Please keep arguing with them

              If Trump wins i will need to flee the country for my family’s safety. And i would rather not.

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            3 months ago

            They work long hours but also live in a society. So do they not like roads to drive on? Or having a military? Or public schools? Or libraries? You know. Stuff that benefits them?

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              3 months ago

              You give them way too much credit. They look for negativity and outrage and persecution in everything, not reason and investment and public benefit. To them the biggest danger to the American economy is liberals taking the money from the working folk and giving it to the welfare queens to cover their Lexus leases or whatever.

              What’s that you say? The government is taking the middle class’s money to subsidize wealthy people not paying taxes? Why are you so JeaLoUS? Why do you want to PuNiSh SuCcEsS rather than rewarding it, comrade? Now stop trying to give free food to growing children who didn’t earn it you monster!