{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I hate how people are acting like the police union came from space and they cannot comprehend why you would ever talk about not...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/620330536648491008/", "html": "

invertedporcupine:

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eightyonekilograms:

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brazenautomaton:

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I hate how people are acting like the police union came from space and they cannot comprehend why you would ever talk about not liking other unions, all unions are good, except for the police union which is from space

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like\u00a0\u201cthe traits that police unions have that make them very bad are traits many other unions have, they just don\u2019t have the same opportunity to cause damage on as wide of a scale, but it\u2019s still negative to deal with and people don\u2019t like that, maybe remember this idea when people talk about not being 100 pro-union\u201c shouldn\u2019t be difficult to parse

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but we just get \u201cwhy would you ever not like everything about unions you are a bootlicker\u201d in response

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Taboo the word \u201cunion\u201d and just look at the net effects. Increasing the bargaining power of labor relative to capital is good. Shielding murderers from accountability and subverting elected authority is bad. No contradiction or hypocrisy there.

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This is correct.\u00a0 Many other unions attempt to protect their members from being fired, but literally none of them except the police attempt to defend their members for committing violent felonies on the job.

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Teachers unions? Historically, longshoremen? Mafia-controlled unions?

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