Summary
Nationwide protests erupted as postal workers opposed plans to privatize the USPS and cut 10,000 jobs.
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) organized rallies in over 200 cities, condemning the proposed merger with the Commerce Department and collaboration with Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Lawmakers like Senators Dick Durbin and Tina Smith joined demonstrations, calling the changes unconstitutional.
USPS employees fear losing jobs and essential public services, especially in rural areas. Trump and Musk defend privatization as efficient, but critics argue it endangers vital community functions.
Oh my, the systematic deportation and detainment of immigrants legally in this country and everyone turns a blind eye, but fuck with my junk mail delivery service and I’m gonna cut a bitch.
USPS is required to deliver to every address in the country. If this goes through, it will be like the ISPs, and people in areas where mail delivery doesn’t turn a profit will get screwed. There are people out there using USPS for critical things like delivery of medical equipment or supplies.
Welp. I gave my last fuck I had to give in 2024. Too bad so sad that all those fucking hicks will have to pull up their bootstraps and get to work.
They vote red in the aggregate, they get what they deserve.
Hard lessons are only learned in blood, this one needs to be remembered for a long time.
The postal union endorsed Harris. Your rhetoric is gross and vindictive about something you’re clearly uninformed about. Much like the other commenter, your cynicism only benefits the fascists.
Solidarity is our only way out of this mess. That means building connections between groups standing against this regime, and aligning efforts on multiple issues. Don’t fall for the trap they want us stuck in.
He’s not wrong for being pissed at rural red voters. They voted for this more than any other group and they’re going to be negatively impacted by this more than any other group. Causing pain to others is a primary motivation for many of them. Knowing that, it’s only natural to hope they feel that pain acutely.
The fascists have been here all along, they fly their same racist fascist flag proudly.
We never properly dealt with them after the civil war, and Hitler even wrote in mein kampf how the south was the model for Germany to follow wrt racial purity, the Nuremberg Laws are copied almost verbatim except without the 1 drop rule.
The south needs to be taught the same lesson yet again.
The south rose again and we lost, if you haven’t noticed. We’re not in any situation to be having trials. Sadly they are, and they’re carrying out their own tribunals right now.
If we want to regain any control of this system, we won’t do it without a better propaganda game. Telling people we’re going to come take out vengeance as soon as we can works completely against that sort of effort.
Be pissed. Use the anger. But maybe think of long-term tactics with a clear vision of what’s real, and what’s effective. Or don’t, and enjoy a fantasy of power you don’t have. Maybe it’s comforting. I just think too many people aren’t thinking strategically about what’s actually needed to change things, even if some of those things seem repugnant.
And I in no way mean to suggest trying to talk hardcore maga into anything. It’s the apathetic, uninformed, etc, that are the ones that can be moved.
I have had a long-term vision for decades, it basically involves waiting till the south goes too far (which they can’t help, their narcissistic evil has no concept of self-restraint), and rallying the decent parts of America (ie the rest) to stand against them.
But we can’t stand unless we admit the South is the unending fount of evil that it is.
100 years after the civil war they kept all the same features under Jim Crow, not because of economic reasons, but because they need to feel power from domination and cruelty.
I grew up in the midwest, they don’t have that naturally, they’re human, if a bit backwards, they mean well.
The south isn’t that, they are the enemy of the world, and the only way they win is when we pretend they are normal.
they also got thier segregation methods from the south too.
the president of the union is a trumper though, which is promblematic, plus you still have dejoy and newly appointed BOG trumpers.
Sorry, but I disagree. Trump Voters need to be taught a lesson if we’re ever going to move forward. They’re not allowed to feel regret, remorse, shame, or embarrassment for the next four years. They made their bed, they must lie in it, even if it kills them.
Now if you voted for anyone else (yes, even 3rd party), you should absolutely continue to fight like hell.
You missed my point.
What “point” do you think you made?
Every shitty thing this administration does is a shitty thing, they all deserve to be called out and protested against, and neither awareness, anger, or protesting are mutually exclusive to one issue.
You’re just pissing into the wind.
They are saying that
There have been protests for those too. Media coverage of protests has been severely limited making you think fewer people have been fighting back than they have. Here’s one in Dallas
Here’s another in St. Louis
There have even been people protesting ICE during their raids and doing things like loudly telling people around ICE is there and about their constitutional rights. It’s been effective enough that ICE has been complaining about how they are below targets
The USPS unions organized these protests against the entire USPS being dismantled. Sounds kind of like a thing unions should do. Privitizing it is way worse than just affecting “junk mail”
In various parts of the country USPS is the only place that will deliver mail to people because it’s unprofitable to do so. Zero mail service nearby affects a lot. For instance, need medications delivered, you may lose that option
Super majority of those people voted for it. Oh well.
Harris had the majority in both of the cities I listed. 59% of Dallas county (which includes much more than the city of Dallas) voted for Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas
80% of St Louis city voted for Harris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Missouri
Nor is it a super majority either state overall. 56% of Texas went for Trump, and 58% of Missouri
There are millions who voted against this. Don’t condemn them all
Lmao I’m not condemning anyone. Trump is. Ol Sirus on Lemmy had nothing to do w it. I’m just stating as far as these rural people go, really not that concerned.
On the one hand, no one here is downplaying this administration’s illegal treatment of immigrants.
On the other, anything that helps my neighbors realize they are not fucking safe either from this administration’s dumpsterfire is a small win.
There are protests going on about that stuff too. We can be upset about more than one thing at a time…