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gswilliams's avatar

I am always surprised how even friends and people who I think of as progressives and liberals completely buy into the idea that unions have outlived their usefulness, are presently corrupt and self-serving, and their shrinking influence is just fine. Forget about the blue collar workers I know, who have been MAGA before MAGA existed. How did progressives lose them? I suspect it has been that the Democrats elected to the presidency since Reagan’s open union busting have been relatively conservative and haven’t given a crap about labor.

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I never heard the term PTO till I started my new job. It was always vacation time. Making it PTO instead feels like someone wants you to feel like you aren't actually on vacation.

I seem to be the only here today to talk about baseball. (Very pro-union, mind you, but not really in a political mood.) The Mets really seem to be playing decently again. Hard not to think that they are just another mediocre team in a mediocre division, and had their schedule not foisted two weeks of the two best teams on them, maybe they would be a couple of games closer to the top. Though I really think the difference is simply no deGrom. Our favorite fireballer had a WAR of 5.0 Which suggests to me that had he stayed healthy, the Mets might have won five more games. Which would put them in first. The difference between having an ace and not having an ace is just that important sometimes. Which is why the Dodgers traded for Scherzer.

A happy new year to all of them's who observe Rosh Hashanah in any fashion. Here is hoping against much hope that the new Jewish year manages to be better than the last one. Or the one before that. (I doubt I will be the only people in the synagogue who wonders if God is even listening.)

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