He’s a neonazi christian fundamentalist, you really think he read One Thousand and One Nights?

Three meters high? Everything really is bigger in the states.

The agents could potentially help in more limited roles — like managing lines, directing passengers or helping move people through the checkpoint process — to free up trained TSA officers for critical security functions.

Ah yes, ICE who is famously known for helping people, de-escalating situations and assisting other authorities in performing the job those are trained for.

Some people clarifies their original post with new information by editing it but appending the additional text at the bottom, without changing the original text.

Prefixing the new information with “EDIT:” or similar is usually nice so as to separate the old from the new info.

I prefer this method as it saves people some time by not having to check the entire thread to see if someone else has pointed out an error they identified.

My only points are the following:

• The fact that one country has better working conditions compared to others doesn’t mean its legal system successfully prevents companies from exploiting their workers and thwarting attempts of unionizing and executing strikes.
• Arguing that things are worse in other countries is pure whataboutism, as your original comment claimed that Scandinavia had reached some utopian idea of “ethical capitalism” by legislation - which I have tried to show is false (by providing credible sources with examples), as companies are fully able to be unethical to their workers within the legal system
• While it may be illegal to fire people for unionizing, it still happens because companies can make up a lot of plausible reasons instead of the actual one, requiring you to have forethought and record every single conversation with managers covertly (which was done in one of the examples I gave you). Some are even willing to pay the fines for breaking this law from time to time in order to scare workers with precarious/temporary employment that don’t want to risk their job. It’s a calculated risk and cost for some businesses that don’t care an inch for their workers.
• “Just get another job” as an argument is not the silver bullet you think it is. This requires a lot of privileges; including economy, mobility, possibly having to move (including uprooting your family), maybe having to study or gain new skills by other means to even find a job in your area. Thinking this is an easy task tells me something about your own privileges in life.

The fact that you won’t even consider to verify the sources of my claims proves me one thing - you’re the delusional one in this conversation, and you seem to be willing to stray from the discussion by also attacking me personally instead.

What do you have to gain by denying this is happening? You may have had luck in your life and never had to experience these things yourself, but I have and many others with me have as well. Society can be pretty messed up when you actually take a look at how things work in practice, not stopping at how it should work.

People are being threatened and/or fired for organizing workers at their workplace. I don’t know what your definition of union busting is, but it happens over and over in Sweden.

Example:

https://www.arbetaren.se/2024/10/14/varslades-fran-zalandoshylager-nar-arbetsshykoparen-fick-veta-hans-roll-i-facket/

Another example, from Finland:

https://yle.fi/a/7-10077702

Strikebreaking is still a thing, and while very much illegal in its traditional form employers have figured out new ways to legally do it by importing labour from other countries:

https://www.transportarbetaren.se/strejkbryteriet-ar-tillbaka/

And regarding the general exploitation of workers, especially low-paying precarious jobs that require hard labour:

https://www.dagensmedicin.se/arbetsliv/arbetsmiljo/fack-stammer-apotea-for-manga-overtidstimmar/

I don’t know which country you are from, but it doesn’t really matter is I am quite sure these things happen there as well.

Capitalism is an antithesis to ethics; you can’t have a capitalist economy without exploiting your workers, and while you can have more or less “nice” employers the absolute majority of them will find ways to fuck you over when push comes to shove.

Companies exist to make as much profit as possible, and they lose their power if their workers start organizing. That’s why they will find every way to (legally or not) stop that from happening (as seen in the examples I have linked to above).

You make it sound like creative tax planning, union busting, gig economy and other forms of exploitation of workers don’t exist in Scandinavia… And I’m just naming a few of the many problems with “ethical capitalism”, as you call it.

which is why I don’t have any.

Come on, don’t leave us hanging like that. Any… Humans? Unicycles? Regrets?

I would give you an infinite amount of upvotes if technically possible. This is the answer.

This.

Join or form mutual aid networks in your local community, share what resources are required to keep on sustainable living while striking, be it food, transport, medicine, housing. Start with your neighbours, or if not viable (due to different opinions on direct action etc.) seek up groups of your peers.

Grind the country to a halt. To you who claim there are no options available: this is an action most people can take if you are willing to give up on luxuries for an uknown period of time - and share what resources you have to help those that are unable to otherwise.

The alternative? An increasing fascist dictatorship state that your kids will have to grow up in, not “the land of the free” you so proudly keep on repeating.

Stay free.

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