135.9 Million Reasons Why the Working Class Is So Angry | Common Dreams
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Workers know that when a private equity firm buys up the company at which they work or a stock buyback is announced, they are likely about to get kicked in the face.
  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    1 month ago

    **A stock buyback, which was essentially illegal until 1982, is a form of stock manipulation

    Reaganomics in action again, folks. Gotta love the old cowboy politics of the trickle down

  • FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
    7·
    1 month ago

    Shit like this is what’s going to help Trump get elected.

    It doesn’t matter how much you repeat the meme of ‘joy’ that the Harris campaign has fully embraced as their brand. Workers know full well how empty their dinner tables are and they live the extent to which the Democrats have failed them every single day.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      It’s true, the Democratic Party’s messages tend to resonate with well-off middle class liberals, who seem to be their usual target audience. It’s so frustratingly out of touch, though they don’t even seem to see this as a problem because they’re primarily serving wealthy interests, with a side helping of social justice rhetoric. Typical liberal stuff really. The USA could really use a proper left-wing workers’ party.