Wreck the economy because it only works for the billionaire class.

Billionaires the original welfare queens.

What the UAW is doing here is fighting for all workers. This sets precedents that ripple across all industries. What formed the UAW back in 1937 took some balls, and so does this.

It's not communism to fight for dignity and a living wage. We're practically fighting for some more table scraps, but the rich are acting like we're threatening social fabric.

Go and get it Shawn, this is exactly what we all need right now. Support the UAW.

Fuck yea, love to see militant labor fighting for what they need

Even China knows this. Give the hard working people a better job than mom and dad had and they won't rebel.

The people who are rolling in their next billion have forgotten what happens when you take that away.

Holy based, I didn't know there were any unions with a backbone left in America

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I vote for wrecking the rich's yachts. There's even a great capitalist reason to do it: the companies that build them might make new sales! Win-win!

That's red hot commie stuff right there. I like it :)

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I like this Shawn. I really do. He's saying the words and doing the actions. Go Shawn! Go!

The more I hear about this guy, the more I like him.

Why not? Megacorps and billionaires wreck the economy all the time, and exploit it for their favor.

Why not let the poor and worker class wreck it for once.

Set the whole goddamn thing on fire, and throw the rich into it.

Workers of the world, unite!

Fucking legend. Hats off to him and the UAW

That is something I wonder about. Inflation makes the poor poorer but when asked, economists are like "trust us, inflation is good".

hell yeah fuck the oligarchy

Hell yeah

At this point I am all for a plan that will fuck me over but takes them down with me. Let's do this shit.

Let's goooooo 🔨

Only problem with this is that this doesn’t even hurt the ultra rich - every catastrophe is just a new investment opportunity for them. E.g. after Brexit they just moved their money and businesses out of the UK, leaving the poor schlebs who live there to deal with it.

What are the odds this fella doesn't get CIA'd soon?

If conditions are unlivable for too many people, that's bad and it calls for a re-negotiation of everything. It also bears reminding today's leisure class/ultra-wealthy that part of the basis for their existence as such was always a trade-off between them paying their workers enough to live with dignity and the metaphorical torches and pitchforks and guillotines staying in mothballs

"For the fired auto workers Who were twisted, tricked and robbed To the peasant in Guatemala In a sweatshop got your job And she can't feed her family On the pennies that she makes Meanwhile the crime rate's rising Up and down the Great Lake states

Like vegetables left in the field The signatures smell rotten On the contracts and the deeds That push the race down to the bottom As they load the rubber bullets As they fire another round I'm heading into the tear gas Dig in man, hold your ground

For Joe Hill and Cesar Chavez Who fought in their own time For our brothers and our sisters Up and down that picket line For the unnamed and unnumbered Who struggle brave and long For the union men and women Standing up and standing strong"

Tom Morello/The Nightwatchman - Union Song

On my commute home yesterday I encountered a "wide load" convoy that was hauling a millionaire's yacht down the highway. Not a mega-yacht, just a yacht. I don't care that it was just a millionaire's yacht, I felt compelled to roll down the window and give it the bird.

Based

Hell yeah brother

I think a perspective shift is necessary.

"Destroy the economy" is about sabotage.

"Work for each other and against wealthy investors" would result in a smaller economy, but the focus is on the positive thing built, instead of just sabotage.

Is it a smart move? No. But it's the only one that could work

Where do I sign up

The Federal Reserve is a scam

Based

Way to go. Bring them down on their knees. Force them to share. They've proven they will never share the wealth with the workers unless forced to.

That... is a very...VERY BAD IDEA.

Billionaires have enough money to survive an economic crash without batting an eyelid. Do you?

Don't be shocked when the billionaires get bailouts to the tune of 10X what they lost and we get fucked whenever you decide to do that.

Controversial: how can illegal immigrants send money home but regular workers live paycheck to paycheck?

Rent would be cheaper if renters would unionize and wouldn't spend above an agreed on limit.

It's so hard to coordinate that only some workers can ask billionaires for better deals. Why? Why is not everybody ashamed that they cannot coordinate with their neighbors?

Roman's walked out of town once a year to remind the elite of their value. The west models itself after the Roman Republic but tries to skip on the hard parts.

MOD NOTE: BE NICE.

It's ok to disagree, it's not ok to insult or threaten other posters with violence.

How does the working class not realise that the wealthy are the sodden bitch in a bog handing out the sword? Jeeebus

How?

Okay but how? What’s the plan? Otherwise it’s just empty words.

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The amount of well meaning idiots upvoting this who dont seem to grasp who actually suffers when this happens is depressing.

I'd rather not be sent into poverty like in 1930s Germany tyvm. The "winner takes all" mentality though needs to go. The US especially has a lottery winning mentality.

Right, the economy isn't something that supports the life of all humans. Billionaires have yachts so it must only be working for them. And since only billionaires benefit from the economy, we can wreck it no problem. There won't be deaths from starvation and exposure, because food and housing aren't part of the economy we're going to wreck.

The "economy" will exist whether it's a capitalist system or something else. Blaming the system is a stupid take when it's the actors within it causing the issues you complain about.

It's like blaming gravity.

The economy isn't perfect, but it pays my bills.

It's a contest between two communists...they're battle will bring a fair "sound money" commodity based monetary system...or a Lincoln Greenback (why he was assassinated.)

youtube Are ALL Wars...Banker's Wars? Say it Isn't So!

I don't get it, do they think that wrecking the economy will not wreck them as well? The rock bottom is still pretty far.

Seems very ungrateful to the job creators and innovators that just because the economy doesnt work for you, you want to wreck it for us too. Why not try starting up your own car company instead of cutting into the profits of the hard working Ford and GM families.

Billionaires aren't the ones that starve when the economy implodes.

This kind of rhetoric is what makes moderates ambivalent about unions. Sure we support your goals but the side-effects of that cure are ten times worse than the disease itself.