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Mia Wong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
6381 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

like immigration politics in the last few years than a lot of these other sort of mainstream unions but it's also been sort of going to bat for trump's tariff like i've been calling the turf tariffs tariffs because of the wages of transphobia but you know they've been going to bat for like the turf tariffs right and that i think is like part of why they've been sort of unable to like respond to this moment and why they've been unable to respond to the past fucking 50 years of moments

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

like immigration politics in the last few years than a lot of these other sort of mainstream unions but it's also been sort of going to bat for trump's tariff like i've been calling the turf tariffs tariffs because of the wages of transphobia but you know they've been going to bat for like the turf tariffs right and that i think is like part of why they've been sort of unable to like respond to this moment and why they've been unable to respond to the past fucking 50 years of moments

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

like immigration politics in the last few years than a lot of these other sort of mainstream unions but it's also been sort of going to bat for trump's tariff like i've been calling the turf tariffs tariffs because of the wages of transphobia but you know they've been going to bat for like the turf tariffs right and that i think is like part of why they've been sort of unable to like respond to this moment and why they've been unable to respond to the past fucking 50 years of moments

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Which is that if your labor politics is rooted in this American nationalist, American jobs for American workers stuff, and it's not actually based in the power of workers and the power of workers everywhere, then you're going to lose. It's not just reactionary politics, although it is. It's also bad politics, and we're seeing it right now.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Which is that if your labor politics is rooted in this American nationalist, American jobs for American workers stuff, and it's not actually based in the power of workers and the power of workers everywhere, then you're going to lose. It's not just reactionary politics, although it is. It's also bad politics, and we're seeing it right now.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Which is that if your labor politics is rooted in this American nationalist, American jobs for American workers stuff, and it's not actually based in the power of workers and the power of workers everywhere, then you're going to lose. It's not just reactionary politics, although it is. It's also bad politics, and we're seeing it right now.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. And I mean, before we go to ads, I think the last thing I want to say there is like, you know, the other option they have is to do the option of what the unions didn't during the rise of the Nazis, which is like during the rise of the Nazis, the unions fell in line, right? They fell in line because they were scared and they thought that they could fucking win benefits from it.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. And I mean, before we go to ads, I think the last thing I want to say there is like, you know, the other option they have is to do the option of what the unions didn't during the rise of the Nazis, which is like during the rise of the Nazis, the unions fell in line, right? They fell in line because they were scared and they thought that they could fucking win benefits from it.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. And I mean, before we go to ads, I think the last thing I want to say there is like, you know, the other option they have is to do the option of what the unions didn't during the rise of the Nazis, which is like during the rise of the Nazis, the unions fell in line, right? They fell in line because they were scared and they thought that they could fucking win benefits from it.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And, you know, it saved some of them. Like there were a few of those people like just became Nazis, but the rest of them got fucking liquidated anyways. So those those are your options, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And, you know, it saved some of them. Like there were a few of those people like just became Nazis, but the rest of them got fucking liquidated anyways. So those those are your options, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

And, you know, it saved some of them. Like there were a few of those people like just became Nazis, but the rest of them got fucking liquidated anyways. So those those are your options, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You either stand and fight now with the independent unions or you become part of the regime and eventually get liquidated when, you know, Trump and like fucking two and a half years signs executive order that says unions are illegal or whatever.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You either stand and fight now with the independent unions or you become part of the regime and eventually get liquidated when, you know, Trump and like fucking two and a half years signs executive order that says unions are illegal or whatever.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

You either stand and fight now with the independent unions or you become part of the regime and eventually get liquidated when, you know, Trump and like fucking two and a half years signs executive order that says unions are illegal or whatever.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah, and what you become instead is just another extension of the state. You become one of the national syndicates in Francoist Spain. And what that does to you is people don't look at you in a generation as a labor movement. They look at you as just another arm of a fascist regime. And it doesn't have to be like that. It really doesn't. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah, and what you become instead is just another extension of the state. You become one of the national syndicates in Francoist Spain. And what that does to you is people don't look at you in a generation as a labor movement. They look at you as just another arm of a fascist regime. And it doesn't have to be like that. It really doesn't. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah, and what you become instead is just another extension of the state. You become one of the national syndicates in Francoist Spain. And what that does to you is people don't look at you in a generation as a labor movement. They look at you as just another arm of a fascist regime. And it doesn't have to be like that. It really doesn't. Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. We're going to take an ad break. And when we come back, we're going to talk about what we can do for Lilo right now as you're listening to this. We are back.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 177

Yeah. We're going to take an ad break. And when we come back, we're going to talk about what we can do for Lilo right now as you're listening to this. We are back.