tarsn

joined 1 year ago
[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 months ago

Hey kids, wanna get cancer?

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Just gotta eat seaweed like those cows

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago

Both are busy, the logic checks out

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How is shipping cars over on giant container ships that are some of the worst sources of pollution on the planet while building them in places with worse environmental standards good for the environment?

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Eh there's still plenty of people doing work in factories. The downside is rotating shifts and such but the pay and benefits are comparatively decent

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

They're also investing heavily in domestic battery plants and retooling auto plants for EV production. There are a lot of jobs in Canada that are well paid and unionized in the industry. Of course they wouldn't be able to compete with China on cost

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

It looks exactly like the type of cat that would get mailed across the country

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Trades guys are your standard peaked in high school jock types for the most part. They get very angry when they can't call people fags or have to acknowledge transgender folks etc. At least that's been my experience. This is changing and the new guys coming up have a different mentality but the old school ways are alive and well on the jobsite for anyone Gen x or older. The younger guys get radicalized by toxic manosphere types cause they struggle to get laid and shit like Rogan podcasts.

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it's important to make a distinction between union members and blue collar union members. I'm sure teachers and public servants are more likely to lean further left but all the rhetoric I've heard on construction sites since I got into a trade has been super conservative.

The union even endorsed Doug Ford in the latest provincial election.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/first-time-in-ontario-history-ontario-pc-party-adds-labour-union-to-list-of-endorsements

For the record I have polar opposite political views to the other workers and it's a very lonely world

[–] tarsn@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Meanwhile the membership especially in construction will continue to vote blue

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