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Apparently /r/democrats on Reddit is deleting any posts about Mamdani, and people are mad and unsubscribing because of it (quokk.au)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/politics@piefed.social

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It's so fucking weird. I'm accustomed enough to people on Lemmy SWEARING that they aren't allowed to talk about [thing which is only controversial to Fox News boomers] and "they" will delete it if you even try, that I assumed this was crap too, but it seems like it's true.

From the community rules:

R5: No posts about Democratic Socialists or Third Parties

No posts about Democratic socialists

Apparently these use this to delete Bernie stuff.

WTF, why would people subject themselves to this

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[-] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago

Just want everyone to know that in fact there’s a lot of variety in how unions are run everywhere, including the USA, and an anecdote shouldn’t be universalized.

Big industrial unions seem to be the worst.

I was running a series of interviews with early auto worker union organizers from USA and Canada (they were united at first), and the particular form of corruption that infected the UAW was a kind of takeover by industry management in the late ‘50s, and the old timers I talked to maintained the UAW hadn’t recovered. The CAW, on the other hand, was criticized by members as lacking solidarity with other industries and being too mainstream, though I heard few accusations of corruption.

Divide and conquer has been a long running capitalist strategy.

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