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Oh good, a pompous, nonsensical, deeply condescending, deliberately inflammatory, provincial and unhelpful comment! That's just what we need, said no one, ever.

But that's a Federal violation, so not the same thing at all.

Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?

This is what I've been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it's never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.

As for Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoiadendron giganteum being forms of broccoli, I do in fact know enough dendrology to know that it's bullshyte.

I've worked for a lot of super rich people over the years in high-end construction. Most (not all) of them are deeply un-self-aware and have no idea how they are seen by regular people because it would never occur to them to ever think about it. The lives of most people are like some strange and exotic foreign country that they're vaguely aware of but that they have no real interest in. They're aware of poverty as a concept, but that's as far as it goes; it's not something they actually understand or have any desire to understand or even think about.

A lot of this, I think, is somewhat deliberate in that it allows them to ignore how unjust their hoarding of wealth and resources is.

Cool. Everything you say is true, but I'm just telling you that you're wrong if you think that organized labor is or should be somehow against the Biden Administration.

The reality is that he has appointed the most pro-union and labor-friendly NLRB in modern history.

I'm actually a bit disgusted with people like you who think you know how it is down at our local union halls.

You are the elitist motherfuckers who tell us what we should and shouldn't do or believe in.

Here's a cordial fuck you!

Local 10 till I die!

You are overplaying it though. I am active in my union and in the organized labor movement more broadly here in the PNW. The railway strike left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, but there's also a recognition among leadership that the administration didn't have any great options if they didn't want to further tank the economy and cause even more inflation with potentially worse long-term results for everyone.

On the flipside he has appointed by far the most pro union NLRB in history, so this is kind of a case of letting the good be the enemy of the perfect.

This is actually a win for UAW. They want to unionize Tesla's workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon's part just gives them more ammunition with the NLRB, which has strict rules regarding what ownership is allowed to say publicly. It plays directly into their hands.

Also worth saying that the Biden NLRB is the most pro-union and labor-friendly in history.

No, this is a straight up win for UAW. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon's part only plays into their hands at the NLRB level.

This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla's workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don't actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It's part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

I personally know two former board members at Nike --because my company did a few million dollars worth of work on their mansion, not because I'm anyone important-- and from what I can tell, their jobs and lives were/are pretty fucking awesome. Just imagine the most glamorous and luxurious lifestyle you can think of, but without the drawback of being publicly recognizable, and that's pretty much it.

It's not meant to be taken literally, it's meant to show how ridiculously inverted the current distribution of wealth and resources is in virtually all major US industries. The point is that the money is there. It's just getting sucked up to the top.

Do you know who Robert Reich is? I don't know where he got these numbers either, but there's pretty much zero chance that a former US secretary of labor and current Berkeley professor just pulled them out of his ass. Like his politics or not, the guy does know what he's talking about.