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[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You don't understand how the American political system works. Full stop.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't understand how we stop living under the whims of a broken system. By fixating these details completely divorced from the actual helping of others you are prepetuating that those details matter. You are lost and you have no idea what matters.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don’t understand how we stop living under the whims of a broken system.

Enlighten me.

You are lost and you have no idea what matters.

No really, educate me.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You have to choose to find the minutia of the system moot and engage in it's rejection by communicating that to others. By justifying actions that caused harm you give the system legitimacy. This really isn't that hard or weird.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

LOL

By justifying actions that caused harm you give the system legitimacy.

You are an active participant. Ruminate on that.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The poster above is telling you not try, but they are lying to you.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I understand people are suffering because there are always enough votes against workers.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I understand people are suffering because there are always enough votes against workers.

This is true. But is this where your understand of the American political system begins and ends?

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is true.

Glad to see someone admit that Republicans and Democrats work together to screw people who work for a living.

But is this where your understand of the American political system begins and ends?

No, just glad to see someone finally fucking admit that Democrats have no intention whatsoever of helping workers, regardless of the lies they tell to get elected.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

just glad to see someone finally fucking admit that Democrats have no intention whatsoever of helping workers

Your statement is patently and frankly egregiously false. I'm going to list a few things here, but I'm not going to engage with you further. You seem to want to just lazily stamp your feet and just be mad for reasons.

  1. Biden increased the minimum wage for federal workers to $15 / hr in part to lock it in while he could and to set the precedent. This affected 67,000 federal employees.
  2. American Rescue Plan Act: Estimated to have cut the poverty rate by 50%; increased SNAP benefits by 15%; increased unemployment insurance and earned income tax credit. Crucially, it also bailed out 185 underfunded pension plans with 1.5 million participants, something unions had been asking for for almost a decade.
  3. Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
  4. Biden is very pro-union. He has: personally visited a UAW picket line in support of striking workers. Invested in union jobs via the CHIPS and Science act; Increased enforcement of worker rights and unionizing via NLRB and DOL
  5. Biden issues an executive order on "worker organizing and empowerment" Tl;dr this set up a task force to promote unionization. Worth reading more here and here
  6. It's true the Protecting the Right to Organize Act didn't pass because we don't have enough votes to overcome the GOP filibuster. Imagine what we could do if more progressives actually bothered to vote?

I found an awful lot just googling "what have democrats done for workers?", including this expansive article from which some of the above points are cribbed