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[–] Jhex 9 points 3 days ago

You are discovering what rel Freeze Peach was and how you don't have it anymore

[–] [email protected] 198 points 4 days ago (3 children)

At least name the rep. There’s plenty of us here who would gladly call them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Or the employer.

[–] Bojack411 59 points 4 days ago

It really does seem like they are just trying to click bait when they pretend to not want to name the Employer

[–] rational_lib 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I looked up the original thread and given that OP posts in r/Omaha, it's likely Don Bacon but since that's a small district it could also be one of the surrounding districts (possibly even in Iowa)

[–] Jumpingspiderman 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Iowa has GOPer reps. And they are all fascists.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine 4 points 3 days ago

Of course they are; they're GOP

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb 248 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The definition of fascism is the marriage of corporation and state

  • Benito Mussolini

This is part of what true fascism looks like

[–] Zachariah 59 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, well, what does that guy know about fascism?

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[–] roguetrick 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Corporation in the sense he's using it is muddled, but what this is describing is accurate to what he meant. He meant that industry should be run by cooperative alliances that are under the fascist state. Like most fascists, he was always shifting what he meant by corporatism based on whatever rhetorical expediant that was most useful at the time. Corporatism sounds good but in principle it doesn't describe how exactly you form the corporations and how they govern themselves. It's accurate in the sense that this is an example of what he desired in using state power to always be a boot over any cooperative.

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism to understand it's essentially a theory to contrast itself with Marxisim without actually describing specifics so it has wildly different interpretations that basically boil down to "let's get together and do what's best for everybody." Who knows how to draw the rest of the owl though.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think the quick recourse is to find a new job and quit with no notice and no orderly handover once secured.

The longer term recourse involves lawyers but might end up with the OOP owning the company or at least getting a huge settlement.

[–] Nalivai 5 points 3 days ago

And that's exactly, precisely what they want. Their goal is to destroy the government, that's the whole reason for all of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

More likely lawyer path is a lot of debt

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 days ago
[–] pjwestin 38 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Did a little bit of Reddit sleuthing, and it appears that the user lives in Nebraska, most likely in the Omaha area. That would mean that their representative is most likely Don Bacon, though if they live a little south of the city, it's not impossible that the representative is Mike Flood. Still, based on the users activity and the district maps, my money is on Don Bacon.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don Bacon sounds like a corny name for a pig mob boss in a satirical Animal Farmesque story.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You come into my barn, on the day of my piglet's wedding, and ask me to do murder, for swill...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

so.... what im hearing is that we should doxx don bacon?

[–] pjwestin 2 points 2 days ago

Well, if you wanted to call him, his Washington office's number is (202) 225-4155 and his Omaha office is (402) 938-0300. Sometimes, representatives home addresses are just public information. In my state, Congressmen and Senators residences' are published on the ballot. That doesn't seem to be the case in Nebraska, but it appears he lives in Papillion, and at least one source claims that this is his house. No address, but I'm sure a dedicated sleuth could figure out the exact address and organize a safe, legal protest at his house.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 4 days ago

we have a government agency to help with that sort of thing.

oh. right. had.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 4 days ago (12 children)

We warned the people who sat home on election day about project 2025 and yet they covered their ears and enabled all of this.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I was told by a coworker, just after election day, that Project 2025 was just propaganda, and that "Democrats have their own propaganda too you know..."

Shit left me speechless. I was just like, let's revisit this conversation in three months.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

mine were like yea but the price of eggs

I assure you we now talk about the price of eggs, inflation, and job security daily

and by that I mean I talk at them while they pretend it is all fine

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So did you revisit that conversation?

Because I've heard that exact sentence from my buddy, who is from Eastern Europe - still talking about the US. Where did they get that info, I will never know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've tried... They do not seem interested.

To be fair, we have a hybrid WFH system, I haven't seen the guy in a few weeks, and I only mentioned it to him once via text. I think I will be spending some time with him next week, so I'll probably bring it up then.

[–] Allonzee 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I voted for Harris out of harm reduction with a funeral dirge in my heart yet again voting for neoliberal scum that sold out the country to the corpo Fascists lock step with Republicans for decades, but is this the resistance from now on, or will we eventually stop scolding what is now the past hoping it will change the present or future?

Because it won't. You can't shame his voters, Republicans have been immune to shame since Reagan, and scolding the low information "I'm not political, teehee when's football/Reality Show crap on" people who haven't had anything at all to vote FOR, only against the greater evil for the last 50 years will only make them roll their eyes and remain disengaged.

Either foment hot revolution starting with destroying the capital markets, steal the DNC with a socialist populist as trump did as a fascist populist to the RNC, or back a socialist Party. Everything else is masturbation on a sinking ship with the capitalists tearing new holes every day.

Because either under neoliberals or Fascists, the capitalists are unrestrained. And if the capitalists remain unrestrained, the planet WILL burn in our lifetimes for all of humanity effectively forever, as millions of years is forever to our little monkey brains.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There are microplastics in my kids' brains, but by God let's not slow down fracking in Pennsylvania.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 4 days ago (37 children)

And Democrats were warned that they need to stop putting their thumbs on the scale to push the most dog shit candidates that don't promise anything that will help the working class. Fascism happens when democracy is unresponsive to the needs of the working class, and for the last 50 years Democrats have just been great at finding excuses for why they can't do something. Do you think Trump will listen to the parliamentarian if they disagree with something?

Fuck, Democrats have even been voting for his cabinet picks, despite claiming Trump is a fascist. They all voted to confirm Marco Rubio.

[–] Zorque 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And voters were warned with years of inaction that they needed to start being more engaged.

The reason we have so many shit candidates is because people don't show up for the real ones.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (15 children)

"The purpose of a system is what it does". If our system consistently produces shit candidates, shit policies, shit results and demoralizes voters... Then we have a shit system and nothing will ever improve until we demand a modern multiparty democracy with proportional representation and safe guards against fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And Democrats were warned that they need to stop putting their thumbs on the scale to push the most dog shit candidates that don’t promise anything that will help the working class.

what about biden? Dude was pretty popular with blue collar workers, and pushed a lot of good relevant legislation.

Fascism happens when democracy is unresponsive to the needs of the working class

this is factually, not fascism, i feel like im speaking with nazis trying to "subvert" the normie population and "enlighten" them or whatever the fuck groypers do.

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[–] notsoshaihulud 10 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Democrats were warned

So, the litmus test of this logic is this: Do we blame the opposition for the Nazi party? Should we start doing that too after 80 years?

[–] captainlezbian 13 points 4 days ago (5 children)

It's a concurrence. Who do you blame for the rise of the nazi party: the nazis who kept rigging the deck in their favor and sowing discord, the conservatives who enabled them, the ineffective social democrats whom people were disillusioned with, the people who held out against voting for them, or the people who basically were screaming at the latter three to do fucking something.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I know some illegal recourses, and if they try to illegally destroy American lives then turnabout is fair play.

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