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   Matthew Merkovich :clippy: (mattmerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 01:50:32 JST Matthew Merkovich :clippy:

   • Cory Doctorow

   TIL in the @pluralistic newsletter:

   "[T]he Dems are not faithful friends to unions. Harris campaign advisor - her brother-in-law Tony West - is Uber's chief legal officer and the architect of Prop 22, California's scab law that formalized "gig work" labor violations."

   Yikes! This issue is a good one.

   https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/11/rip-jane-mcalevey/

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 01:53:51 JST Robert Link

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @MattMerk @pluralistic I guess that's a good reason to have abandoned Harris. Sure it is. Because the GOP is a faithful enemy.

     We really love to fucking shoot our own, don't we.

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     Matthew Merkovich :clippy: (mattmerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:11:23 JST Matthew Merkovich :clippy:

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • Robert Link

     @phaedral Enemy or woefully worse enemy. Your choice. This is what we all get when the people are wholesale abandoned, Robert.
     @pluralistic

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:15:03 JST Robert Link

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @MattMerk @pluralistic The people haven't been abandoned. They've been bought and sold as market share. Shitting on Harris because of her b-i-l Uber job is like shitting on her over #Gaza. Who really thinks the Trump regime will be better for workers, or gaza, or anyone other than a handful of billionaires?

     "My friend can't always stand with me, so I'll just run to my avowed enemy." Nonsense.

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     Matthew Merkovich :clippy: (mattmerk@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:21:19 JST Matthew Merkovich :clippy:

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     • Cory Doctorow

     And hey #VFX workers, check out this part:

     "You're a worker, even if you're well-paid. Tech workers are just figuring this out, after a generation-long con in which bosses convinced techies that they were temporarily embarrassed entrepreneurs who definitely didn't need a union."

     Sound familiar?

     "But they'll just send all our jobs to India! 😭"

     Which is exactly what they did anyway.

     A Sincere thank you for this one, Cory, @pluralistic

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     Cory Doctorow (pluralistic@mamot.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 02:21:48 JST Cory Doctorow

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     @MattMerk Let's radicalize IATSE together (I'm IATSE 839(

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     eswillwalker (els@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 03:52:45 JST eswillwalker

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     • Cory Doctorow

     @MattMerk @pluralistic
     This!!: “ By tricking you into thinking of yourself as a "consumer" who benefits from low prices, they get you to stop thinking of yourself as a worker who suffers from low wages.”