• Sunforged@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Biden only picked up that ball after the East Palestine disaster vindicated all the reasons the union wanted to strike in the first place. It was a PR move because he had blood on his hands.

    For comparison a single socialist city council member in Seattle pushed and won the for 12 days of sick leave for the entire city back in 2012. 4 days is bread crumbs. They would have gotten a much better deal had they just been left alone to strike and negotiate.

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      2 months ago

      And does any of that impact the ability to tell the whole truth, rather than partial?

      When you exclude important details, you’re doing your argument a disservice through misinformation. This has nothing to do with my opinion on Biden, which is not a positive one, but my opinion on intentionally leaving out important details. Which, to me, is no better than just flat out lying.

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        2 months ago

        to clarify yes did cherry pick paragraphs

        my goal was to not have a screen’s worth of text unless people desired it hence the links

        did not personally feel it interfered with the facts as of today’s date since Biden’s career has on the whole been center right in his politics especially with worker’s rights

        but will in the future take more heed of the dates involved

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          2 months ago

          IMO, at best its misleading. LOTS of straight up copied text from Wikipedia (just link to the section), making it appear as if there wasn’t anything else after that.

          Just because he followed up on his promise doesn’t make him progressive, but ignoring it entirely is just playing games to play pretend that he did nothing but force an outcome.

          To me, that’s just as bad as saying Trump is pro-labor because he said so one time, and ignoring all the other crap he did. Such as restricting the ability for union reps to advocate (federal workers), revoking a DOE contract (and their rights and protections stripped), putting union busting lawyers on the NLRB, opposing federal minimum wage increase, and I’m going to stop because he’s so damn depressing.