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gehayi: elfwreck: jabberwockypie: roach-works: exvind: linguisticparadox: beatrice-otter: whetstonefires: fantastic-nonsense: nunyabizni: the-davest-of-uncles: haribalzac: vicroc4: whiskey-gunpowder: unbelievable  jesus h christ THANK YOU for actually putting the specifics in our view. Democrats hate the poor and the working class. People need help and she pulls out a laundry list of unrelated bullshit.What the actual hell is her problem? None of this is unrelated, which y’all would know if any of you understood what the bill is actually aiming to do: provide relief for the current situation and prevent this from being needed in the future. So let’s go through this a bit: The elections-related stuff is aimed at reducing the risk of transmitting diseases and viruses by enacting a federal mandate for states to expand voter access to safe and secure vote-by-mail, same-day voter registration, and early voting. Increased access to both vote-by-mail and early voting is a way of decreasing the amount of people showing up at one time to vote on Election Day (and therefore providing a hotbed for germs to spread). And one of the ways that safe and secure voting is assured? Conducting election audits. The “postal service bailout” is designed to keep our postal service working properly so people can stay home (and thus reduce community transmission of the coronavirus) while still having safe and prompt access to things they need. Having a prompt and functional postal service is ESPECIALLY important for those who have to completely quarantine and cannot leave their homes. The pay equity clause is designed to ensure that workers/employees that come from marginalized backgrounds will not be disproportionately affected, left out, or fired as a result of the relief bill. It’s placing a CONDITION on businesses and companies (which is a part of ANY loan, relief package, or grant) to say “if we’re going to give you this money that you want, you HAVE to treat your employees fairly and equitably.” Likewise, the corporate board demographics clause is designed to give employee and worker representation on corporate boards so that employees have a say in how the business operates (most importantly, in how they treat their workers). This is not a ridiculous condition considering that not listening to their workers when they want to be paid fairly and treated well is one of the reasons we’re in this mess in the first place. The collective bargaining IS, in fact, designed to help people during the COVID crisis. Some of the HUGE issues that keep getting brought up in this crisis is the lack of paid sick leave, the lack of paid family leave, the refusal of companies to adequately protect their employees from harm, and the chronic underpayment that low-wage workers face. Basically: companies screwing over their employees in both wages and benefits, which leads to a workforce that CANNOT AFFORD to take two weeks off from work to stop the spread of a fucking pandemic. Ensuring collective bargaining rights gives workers some power over this situation and can help prevent something like what is currently happening from happening again in the future. The emissions and climate-related issues are for the companies, not consumers. This is a bill that is casting a wide net and is dealing in relief for both companies AND consumers AND employees. The bill deals with families struggling to pay rent AND businesses that need to have more transparency in their business dealings. This isn’t an either-or bill. We can walk and talk and chew gum at the same time. Being more transparent about their business dealings, including how said dealings affect the climate, can help prevent solvency issues in the future. And once again, those bits are conditions for businesses receiving aid (which again, is part of any loan, grant, or relief package).  As staff of a community newspaper, I’m sorry but was Congress assuring that our potential retirement compensation is protected during a pandemic when newspapers are shutting down left and right and many of us are being indefinitely laid off because of rapidly decreasing ad revenue (due to the state lockdowns) somehow abhorrent to you? It’s amazing how much cherry-picking people like OP will do on a massive, comprehensive thousand-page bill and not actually take into consideration what the bill is actually designed to do and engage in some basic critical thinking and connect-the-dots on how those things help those currently affected and hopefully prevent such measures from being needed again in the future. thank you! i was so fucking confused by these complaints. the closest to bullshit-unrelated is definitely the airline emissions one, and even then putting conditions on how our good corporate citizens can use their free money rather than writing them a blank check is a more left-wing goal especially with the executive branch run by trump, it’s not Congress’ business to just…throw money in a general direction and hope for the best. the way legislation works is an absolute hot mess, but expecting pelosi to fix that in the middle of a crisis sounds like the real unreasonable distraction like, the original tweetthread sounds like a republican wrote it, but the tumblr complaints swung far left on the same note without a pause, and i was like O.o? All of this, but especially the collective bargaining bit.  Have you seen the thing about how Amazon warehouse workers won paid time off recently?  THAT IS THE POWER OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.  It’s huge. oh thank fucking god i thought i was gonna have a stroke from the sheer bullheadedness Yall remember the term “paperclipping” from social studies? democrats: *attempt to hold corporations accountable for destroying the planet, rigging elections, and leaving workers to die the moment it’s convenient* democracy: *takes time to pass laws, especially laws that actually help people* galaxy brain motherfuckers: wow democrats are hateful and useless Does OP understand the extent to which Republicans have worked to fuck over USPS so that it’ll be forced to close and then the private companies like UPS and FedEx can jack up their prices even more? Do you understand how dire that would be in the current crisis? Yes, for fuck’s sake, help the postal service. This is how legislation works. You have to detail all the stuff and say how it’s going to work. It doesn’t just magically poof into existence, because if corporations can skirt the letter of the law they absolutely will. You can’t just say “Okay, everyone gets X amount of money now, the end” and expect it to actually help. A stimulus package shouldn’t be, “these businesses are floundering - we need them functional - here have a ton of money.” It needs to say, “here have a ton of money SO YOU CAN KEEP OPERATING IN A WAY THAT WE NEED YOU TO FUNCTION.” No using a federal stimulus check to increase C-level executives’ wages by 5% and shut down a ton of stores or factories. Also, no using it to hire white dudes to replace all the people of color and women you just laid off. Money handed to individuals doesn’t need strings attached, because people are already operating in the way that the country needs: that is, they’re tending their families, shopping at stores, and otherwise going about their daily lives. (Well, most of them. There’s a solid argument that money doesn’t need to go to anyone over a certain income level, because “help-the-economy money” doesn’t work if it just gets shoved in a bank account or stocks investment to collect interest. It only helps the economy if it’s active.)  But the nice thing about “the 1% don’t need a bonus” is that they really only are 1%, and it’s less hassle to pay them for sitting on their hoards than to figure out exactly who they are and how to avoid paying them, and then dealing with their whining after. Another point about same-day voting: In case anyone forgot, we’re in the middle of election season; the Democratic primaries aren’t over. But people can’t go out and register right now–or at least, we really really don’t want them to. We absolutely want all civic functions to be as quick and simple as possible, and to involve the least amount of human contact.  You have to detail all the stuff and say how it’s going to work.  It doesn’t just magically poof into existence, because if corporations can skirt the letter of the law they absolutely will. -- source link

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