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I'm not even that into baseball, but I love reading about it... starting with Babe Ruth and an introduction of early 20th century racism is SO attention-grabbing.
This is already terrific.
Buuuuut, this fuckery with the Boston police union... I feel like I'm gonna have a bad time with this. Police unions have never stood with other unions; in fact, they'd busted up strikes repeatedly.
Hm. Ugh. Maybe a DNF soon.
— Oct 22, 2026 07:59PM
This is already terrific.
Buuuuut, this fuckery with the Boston police union... I feel like I'm gonna have a bad time with this. Police unions have never stood with other unions; in fact, they'd busted up strikes repeatedly.
Hm. Ugh. Maybe a DNF soon.
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Chris
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"Simply put, this country is sick of terror."
"But the explosion wasn't a terrorist act."
"The rage remains... People don't want truth, they want certainty. Or the illusion of it."
This book was published in 2008, and it chronicles events following World War I.
It reads like current events. It's uncanny.
We truly are doomed to repeat our own history in this country.
— 31 minutes ago
"But the explosion wasn't a terrorist act."
"The rage remains... People don't want truth, they want certainty. Or the illusion of it."
This book was published in 2008, and it chronicles events following World War I.
It reads like current events. It's uncanny.
We truly are doomed to repeat our own history in this country.
Chris
is on page 416 of 704
Perhaps I was wrong.
The juxtaposition of cops brutally crushing strikes, kicking laborers into unconsciousness... and then holding chummy union meetings over beers is just horrifying in its cognitive disconnectedness.
How can you fight for collective bargaining, when you're actively suppressing the rights of every other laborer and occupation?
Fuck. This is tough reading.
— 17 hours, 58 min ago
The juxtaposition of cops brutally crushing strikes, kicking laborers into unconsciousness... and then holding chummy union meetings over beers is just horrifying in its cognitive disconnectedness.
How can you fight for collective bargaining, when you're actively suppressing the rights of every other laborer and occupation?
Fuck. This is tough reading.
Chris
is on page 405 of 704
Welp, clearly I was wrong about this.
The cop-worship is still strong.
But the empathy regarding labor, unions, and the plight of the poor, specifically women and people of color, swells throughout the story.
It's high drama. But, it's also sharply political - and the conclusions it draws are perhaps even more leftist than intended.
I'm glad I gave this a chance - it's excellent.
— 21 hours, 44 min ago
The cop-worship is still strong.
But the empathy regarding labor, unions, and the plight of the poor, specifically women and people of color, swells throughout the story.
It's high drama. But, it's also sharply political - and the conclusions it draws are perhaps even more leftist than intended.
I'm glad I gave this a chance - it's excellent.
Chris
is on page 73 of 704
"Have you ever noticed that when they need us, they talk about duty, but when we need them, they talk about budgets?"
Applied generally, I love the pro-labor, pro-union sentiments.
Pity it's about the police.
— Oct 27, 2026 07:59PM
Applied generally, I love the pro-labor, pro-union sentiments.
Pity it's about the police.
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Berengaria: exactly. I don't have a lot of sympathy for organizations that are blatantly anti-labor, anti-poor, and racist in their ethos. And I don't like reading copaganda; it fetishizes brutality and reinforces racist biases. I'm hoping this doesn't fall into that trend, but I'm afraid that it will.
My nephew just retired as a police detective in a large chicago suburb. He's a MAGA kind of guy. I have no reason to believe that not one of the good guys, but I fail to understand that after the 2020 January 6 MAGA mob attacked the Capitol police and was responsible for more than one death among the cops and the serious injuries to many, many others in an attempt to overthrow the presidential election he could still support the right wingnuts, but he does.
Oof. Sorry to hear, Pseudo. It's really tough when "they" are the people you love; sure makes loving them challenging. I can't pretend to follow, either. I lost the plot when suddenly rednecks went thin blue line on us. Rednecks and cops was a classic rivalry, and similarly, it does not make a single bit of sense that the poor have aligned with the boot that is crushing them.
The police as an idea was created in the early modern era in the UK for one thing: keeping the status quo. That is, the rich at the top and the peasants on the bottom. The wealthy put the first police into place when they started making common land into their personal property and needed a guard system to keep the rabble from taking it back. This has always been the job of the police. Not stopping crime, not make the streets safer -- protect the property and assets of the wealthy and maintain the 1st and 2nd class citizen model. No wonder they seem like the long arm of technocrats, local dignitaries and millionaries. They ARE.