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No.

Sounds like Canada didn’t get it right this time either.

You should also have 18 months’ leave.

The Catholic Church was also friendly with Franco’s fascist Spain.

So, the Church was actually surrounded by friends.

I suggest you guys read the article before commenting or voting based on the title.

No, I will upvote you for sharing this article and content regardless.

To say “breaking the strike led to train disasters” is so far beyond gross oversimplification it boggles the mind.

I’m willing to admit the causality is overstated, but he still should not have broken that strike. And, yes, I read the article and it is commendable that they continued to pressure the companies for sick days which they eventually approved. But an important question is: When did they grant it?

From what I can see, they granted workers paid time in May/June 2023. Better late than never.

But the Palestine railroad disaster happened in Februrary 2023. I’m willing to say that this event, in light of the lack of the strike, was what allowed for there to be enough pressure to make the train companies grant the sick days concession. I bet if it didn’t happen, there wouldn’t be sick days now. It would have just been better if the strike happened which could have led to sick days potentially without the Palestine incident (especially if they were on strike).

I’m no Biden fan but the real problem is that many liberals especially younger ones read nothing besides sensational headlines and live on social media rage bait.

Really? That’s the real problem, huh? Interesting analysis.

Well, despite the fact that I hate Trump, I think the Democrats are fucked by picking Joe Biden as the candidate for 2024.

Biden is terrible for the working class. He started his Presidency by going back on the campaign promise of $2k stimulus checks, couldn’t forgive student loans as promised, broke a strike which then led to multiple train disasters, billions in aid to Ukraine but lets the US crumble under cost-of-living crises, and generally ignoring the fact that he should be retired at his age instead of running this country is not helping anyone except the Right.

Biden will be the last Democrat President the way this is going. Pathetic way to go out.

We are dealing with the current world that capitalism has given us, a capitalism that only a billionaire would cry over.

That’s where you’re wrong! Billionaires still have loyal friends unlike you!

US will start focusing on reigniting America’s Backyard policy.

If it wasn’t for 9/11 and the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the US would have probably invaded Venezuela to remove Chavez and destroy the revolution to get their oil. They’ve already started drumming up Latin America as the next warzone again. We’ll be seeing the entire region further destabilized more than it already is.

Well, I’m not African but from what I’ve heard there are some military coups going on.

How would you compare the moon landings with Pearl Harbor?

What nationalism does to someone.

One is a global, milestone event in the history of humanity. The other was one battle during a World War which had already seen many battles before the US got involved and would see much worse. I don’t know if anyone outside of the US gives a shit about Pearl Harbor. Haha

The moon landing is definitely more important.

They elected a fascist.

If those Right-wingers could read, they’d be very upset.

This is the important question.

I just block anyone who says anything remotely Right-wing.

No time for racists, capitalists, and fascists.

Just say you don’t give a shit about their lives and be fucking done with it.

Well, yes, I think it can be said of any tourist attraction if the attraction is something as dangerous as this to the locals. But, luckily, most tourist attractions are not as dangerous so it’s unnecessary to draw a picture of a slippery slope based off it.

But I don’t think it’s unfair to paint them as going on an “unnecessary journey”, especially if they’re dragging along local people who are too poor to have other options for work and may die on said journey. There are plenty of hikes and other things throughout the world that will not involve other people dying for them. Again, if they want to hike Everest because they are tired of their neighborhood trails, then I am all for them going on their life adventure alone or with their friends and family. I couldn’t care less. And these are not scientific or exploratory expeditions. Nothing is gained by society nor even by the individual by completing this—other than their own personal ambition or potential increase of wealth related to some althetic records or whatever, which is not worth other people potentially dying over. They may not be rich snobs to us, but relatively speaking they are rich snobs to those locals. This is exactly rich snob behavior at its purest.

Honestly, I wouldn’t care if these hikers themselves died en masse trying to go up Everest or whichever mountain alone. Let them keep doing it. It’s like those people who jump or fall into the Grand Canyon—I don’t think there should be barriers, if they are dumb enough to get too close and fall in then, in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, that’s a shame. My concern is their exploiting people who are far poorer than them to accompany them on this unnecessary journey, which they may not even want to do, only to sometimes perish.

If fishermen die while doing a hobby, that’s a tragedy but they chose to participate in it. But if they had paid some poor individual to help them in a dangerous fishing situation, at a lake or something, and this was a common practice because people with more resources wouldn’t take such an unnecessarily risky job, then I would also say fishing at that location should just be banned. Not because of the fishermen who do it willingly, but because of the poor they exploit in the process and who die for their enjoyment or enrichment. And even if the fishermen were doing it for their own job, that would also be tragic and maybe people shouldn’t fish in such a location if it were dangerous, but at least they didn’t die for an entirely and totally pointless job.

Getting fish for others to eat is a valuable and meaningful job, shepherding vainglorious Europeans and Americans with a deathwish for no real reason is not a job worth dying for, in my opinion. But it just shows how these expeditions exploit the global poor to death for just the simple pleasures of the relatively wealthy.

I agree, all of these ‘hikes’ should be banned. It’s absurd.

Of course, people will claim that these hikes provide jobs and a healthy economy for people who would otherwise not have work but it just once again shows how these hikers are exploiting desperate people who are literally willing to die for a job.

Cool! Thanks so much!

Ah, okay. I think I understand now. So, I would have to host a server to do that then I assume?

Thank you!