ProdigalFrog

The Japanese stock market crash of 1987 only recovered in 2020. That's over 30 years.

If that happened in the US, the average american who invested in the stock market and is relying on a 401k to retire would be screwed.

Hm, your posts seem to show up fine from Lemmy.world itself, at least from the desktop browser.

@obinice@lemmy.world, can you see Track_Shovel's posts from the link above?

Be sure to also test if you can see Track_Shovel's posts both logged out and logged in from that link. If it turns out you can see the images not logged in, but they become unviewable when logged in, an accidental block of Slrpnk.net in your settings page would be my best guess.

If they are viewable from the desktop site logged in, and the issue only occurs with Boost, then I would assume it may be an accidental site block within the Boost app itself, if that's possible (I don't use Boost).

As I said in my previous response, I'm not fan of the Kamala, nor the democratic party for the very reasons you mention. But to frame it as the Teamsters withholding their endorsement for the same reasons that leftists refused to vote for Kamala is disingenuous.

If the Democrats wanted to get the teamsters endorsement, why didn’t they do more to show that they would be a pro-labor, anti-capitol party

Democrats are neoliberals, they'll never be anti-capital (hence their failure), but they certainly weren't as anti-labor as the Republican party.

You keep trying to paint my views as a simplistic sports team analog, but it doesn't hold up. I'm pointing out real gripes with Teamster leadership and the depressing state of the membership, which I wish weren't the case. I am not randomly smack talking them because I'm on some other team (do you think I'm in the UAW? I'm not).

you want to blame “someone else”

I'm not blaming anyone. I doubt an official Teamster endorsement would've made a difference in the election. I'm pointing to it as a prime example that the base of the Teamsters is conservative enough that taking an overt leftist stance is likely political suicide for Teamster leadership.

You didn't address any of my other points.

I'm basing my opinions on repeated examples of Teamster leadership failing to fight back against the establishment, not 'sports-team' reactions.

When asked about Chavez-DeRemer’s stance on the right-to-work section of the PRO Act, O’Brien said that he is working with senators such as Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to come up with a version of the PRO Act that “may not include that.”

“That’s the beauty of having conversations with people from the other side, where you can collaborate and actually find out what works for that state, what doesn’t work for it—but more importantly, what’s going to work for the American worker,” O’Brien said.

In the same Fox News interview, O’Brien also said the Teamsters do not want to see anyone losing their job, but that “[Trump] thinks he’s within his right,” when asked about the personnel-slashing Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration’s widely decried deferred resignation program for nearly all federal employees. Multiple federal employees unions are currently battling the Trump administration in court over its actions targeting federal workers and federal agencies.

With those statements, O'Brian is publicly stating that he still thinks he can reason and plead with an out-and-out proven anti-labor party that just destroyed federal unions. That makes him either naive or an idiot, and for his sake I hope it's the former.

We need all unions to come together as one movement to effectively fight this dictatorship from taking power, but based on previous evidence, a significant portion of the Teamster membership are unlikely to want to join that fight (obviously, some will, but they will be in the minority).

You're ignoring that a majority (60%) of its membership are conservative, and not endorsing Trump doesn't make it much better, since that lack of endorsement of Kamala (whom I don't even like, but clearly was the harm reduction option) only speaks to the fact that they have so many right-wing members, the leadership had to fence-sit in fear of not getting elected again by their pro-Trump members.

If you're a left-wing Teamster trying to steer your brothers and sisters away from MAGA, then more power to you. But don't delude yourself that the Teamster leadership or right-wing members are going to be the ones leading the charge against this regime.

I would love to be proven wrong, but at best I could see them hopping on the bandwagon if the winds change and the regime begins to implode on itself.

I have this perception from:

1. Sean O'Brian trying to cozy up to the republican party by speaking at the RNC
2. The leadership choosing not to endorse Kamala during the election (since it would piss off their conservative members)
3. the locals repeatedly endorsing local republican politicians this year, despite seeing the destruction of federal unions and anti-worker rhetoric from the republican party
4. First hand account from many left-leaning teamsters that so many of their fellow members are self-procliamed MAGA or right wing Trump voters (according to a source from wikipedia, 60% of the membership voted for Trump) who are only in the union because it directly benefits them financially.

I'd love to see those right-wing members come to their senses and vote to join a general strike, but I just don't see it happening. They even voted not to strike while negotiating their UPS contract, which resulted in (IMO) only modest improvements, and couldn't even secure AC units to be retrofitted to their trucks to prevent people dying of heatstroke.

It was planned before the election, and they likely didn't anticipate Trump would win again.

From what I've seen the UAW leader is fairly left leaning.

The UAW I could see getting onboard, but the Teamsters are so full of MAGA members and Trump loving leadership, I'd be astonished if they did.

It's preferable to break that anti-labour red scare law if it means avoiding the country getting to the point where civil war happens instead.

The UAW was planning a general strike for May 1st 2028. I don't know how willing they'd be to start a wildcat general strike, but they may join one.

https://may1.uaw.org/

No, that's the Teamsters you're thinking of, more specifically, Sean O'Brian, who did attempt to cozy up to Trump and the republican party. The membership of the Teamsters itself has a significant amount of MAGA members as well, and they often endorse republican politicians.

the UAW's leadership is far more class conscious in comparison, and endorsed Kamala in the election (the Teamsters chose not to endorse anyone to not piss off their MAGA members).

Saying that, virtually all US Unions are pretty wimpy, and seem to loathe the idea of actually striking or making big moves to save themselves compared to European unions. The IWW is the sole exception, but unfortunately they don't have the numbers compared to the big unions.

The most serious proposal for a general strike date is backed by the UAW for May 1st 2028, but that was planned before Trump won the election.

https://may1.uaw.org/

I think that sounds like a damn solid plan, personally. Not sure if the GrapheneOS devs would go for it. The lead dev (who I think stepped down, so may not be a factor now) had some strongly negative opinions towards a Linux phone due to all of its security holes compared to Android, but like... It's not as if those things couldn't be addressed like you describe. It would just take time.