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The powerful United Auto Workers (UAW) formally endorsed Joe Biden’s re-election campaign on Wednesday at the union’s national community action program conference in Washington DC.

Both the US president and rival Donald Trump have courted the union and supported its successful strike action against the US’s big three automakers last year. Biden became the first president to walk a picket line in support of the union.

“Joe Biden bet on the American worker while Donald Trump blamed the American worker,” UAW president, Shawn Fain told the conference. “If our endorsement must be earned, Joe Biden has earned it.

“Donald Trump is a scab. Donald Trump is a billionaire and that’s who he represents,” Fain said. “This election is about who will stand up with us and who will stand in our way.”

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 73 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

I don’t get how this thing is even contested. Yeah okay, Brandon’s 165 years old, genocide this and bullshit that, but trump is worse in every conceivable way, save for what - 4(?) years of age, for which Biden has worn a lot less than Trump? What in the ever-loving-fuck is going on? Trump is the most damaging traitor in US history, ffs. He is a committed fascist - again, I ask: wtf??? “But he won’t get us into any wars!” - yeah, because he cannot even understand our strategic interests and the imperative need to maintain the Western order that has allowed us and our allies to flourish. “GeNoCiDe!!!”. Okay, numbnuts, what in the goddamn fuck do you expect a fucking REPUBLICAN to do? Other than sell us out to russia, that is.

Fuck!

[–] extant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Some people base their decisions on analytical thoughts and others based on emotion. Trump is fantastic at making speeches that make people feel good and scratch some need they're desperate for even if it makes no sense when you read it back.

[–] Custoslibera@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I don’t know the specifics of the UAW but it is possible that a large amount of their member base are actually Trump supporters.

It seems weird but there are conservative union members.

So the UAW is in an awkward position of having to go through the motions of a considered deliberation for who to endorse so as to not get those members offside.

At the end of the day a union represents its members interests, even if those interests are self sabotaging, just like a democracy.

[–] jak@sopuli.xyz -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

our strategic interests and the imperative need to maintain the Western order that has allowed us and our allies to flourish

That’s where you lost me. A lot of awful things have allowed us to flourish, but the ends don’t justify the means.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Getting older after a lifetime of aggressive left activism. I'm starting to accept we're falling into the end game for this epoch and I like the American (EU/NATO/West backed) iron fist best.

I prefer our imperialist iron fist over Putin or Xi's. Fuck it, I said it. I say it IRL to all my 30 to 50 yr old lifetime blue bubble living lefty friends from both coasts and damn near anywhere in this country, all the time, and we all agree at this point. I'd rather our shitty capitalist colonial defense contract oil pipeline bullshit than the organ harvesting of Muslims (while purporting to be an ally to MENA). Better than that Nazi Russian genocidal fuck's world order. Don't forget all the other psychopaths across Eurasia with nukes.

The world is hard and scary and shitty. We just had a peaceful unprecedented bubble for a few decades. And now we're about to run out of natural resources. People need to grow the fuck up or they're in denial.

Fuck it. USA USA USA

[–] PRUSSIA_x86@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Honestly this has become my attitude as well. I hate it, but it seems like everyone else is even worse.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Seriously. Have to talk to adults like my first grader.. "I understand you don't like it. I know what that feels like. I don't like it either. But that's the world little one"