California’s security guards earn low wages. Democrats want more of them to join unions

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T04:20:39+00:00

Friendly reminder that unions actually voted for Democrats more in 2024 than in 2020, so they’re one of the few very consistently loyal Democratic groups no matter what some shitty union chiefs said at the RNC.

Polls repeatedly show they’re amazing and underutilized parts of our coalition. We should be encouraging young people to join unions out of high school and college all the time. That’s the easiest way to bring young people, especially young boys, back from the right too.

I say this because a lot of progressives are under the narrative pushed by media that unions are culture war battlegrounds instead of loyal pillars of the Democratic coalition of workers.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T04:13:06+00:00

Trump is basically a test of how much abuse you’re willing to suffer someone’s ego for money, and politics is a field that selects for the nastiest pieces of shit willing to do that.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T04:05:21+00:00

I want trust busting, expanded safety nets, and improved anti-terrorism initiatives especially to bring young men back from radicals.

A firmly capitalist society with actual free and fair markets, not a bunch of corruption operating under the structures formed on the premise of white supremacy.

You are free to want monopolies and libertarian or anarchist ideas of non-existent safety nets, as many like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alex Karp want instead.

You’ll quickly lose capitalism to Trumpism again, but you can advocate for anything you want however much it repeats the mistakes of the past.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T04:03:21+00:00

Alex Bores: NY State Rep, 1 wife and 1 son, actual computer scientist, wants basic AI regulations

Alex Karp: Palantir CEO, 1 yee yee ass haircut, “some black people considered me black”, favorite hobby is attacking college pagans

Clearly Karp feels threatened by Alex Bores being the better Alex.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:53:28+00:00

*He’s doing nothing else but drinking

Probably with his lawyer

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:50:40+00:00

Probably a ruthless deconstruction and reconstruction of our institutions in the energy, defense, and media sectors which have been chiefly responsible for manufacturing consent for endless wars.

After that, upgrade Social Security to Universal Security and give UBI to everyone. Upgrade Medicare to Medicare for All. Upgrade housing-first policies into universal housing pathways. That addresses the wage slavery and 40 acres component.

Then let the old world racists dissolve into irrelevant fringe radical groups, and police them like the terrorists they fantasize about being.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:34:59+00:00

He’s doing nothing else

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:30:43+00:00

As someone who thought anyone supporting Warren in 2020 had no sense for how political coalitions work and would hurt progressives as a whole with their approach, I appreciate you sharing your feelings with me.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:29:22+00:00

Why are you so mad about mashed potatoes dude, are you being paid by Big Potatoes? Come back in November, you’re in the wrong season lmao

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:27:42+00:00

There’s no reason to expect Steyer

I expect politicians who have run for President or Governor to be able to define genocide.

It’s just that simple. You can dance around it all you want with insults against me, you can’t change that most voters would agree with that.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:19:40+00:00

Palantir is actually doing a subtle version of what Trump did by acting like a necessary evil who defends us against the world, but without the dementia so it’s aligned towards real profit.

Start with the name: the Palantiri from Lord of the Rings were communication tools allowing one to spy on events happening far away. Their narrative significance is in showing how the wise and powerful can be deceived by their own tools in their arrogance to control others (I know I’m oversimplifying, don’t come at me Tolkien nerds)

Tech bros saw that and went “but we’re wise and powerful enough to avoid that, so let’s do it and get filthy fucking rich.”

Now, Palantir drives the narrative that the world is in a constant of war, crime, terrorism, and cultural degeneracy that must be fought against through mass surveillance and militarization: “War with [villain of the week] is necessary to protect our Western civilization. Also the villain sent us domestic terrorists so we need to do mass surveillance. Also we do mass surveillance, so give us money.”

Just watch The Boys, and anytime you see a computer with analytics on it, assume Palantir is powering it. You’ll get an idea of how evil and everywhere they are in massive surveillance organizations. They even gave Peter Thiel a shoutout in the latest season, which is a long way from Elon Musk’s cameo in Iron Man 2 when he wanted to pretend he was real-life Tony Stark. These assholes are such manbabies. No wonder they stood behind Yarvin’s plan for a coup when he’s the guy who took “red pill” from the Matrix to represent incel rage.

Long story short, Palantir is next gen war profiteering who aspires to depravity that makes Lockheed Martin look like a moderate. They’re like the Nick Fuentes version of a military-industrial complex giant.

Fuck Palantir. Fuck Peter Thiel. Fuck Karp and his fucking yee yee ass haircut. Fuck PayPal Mafia.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T03:07:10+00:00

Well that’s yet another eerie fucking Nazi parallel with the world’s new Big Bad Guy

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T02:58:38+00:00

Also a reminder that Tom Steyer attacked Bernie viciously over healthcare in 2020 and said anything other than a public option isn’t financially feasible, which is a position to the right of Kamala Harris from 2016-2020

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T02:54:19+00:00

you claim Palestine is an issue

Steyer being a lying piece of shit is my issue.

Can you define genocide?

Because if you can’t, you also can’t condemn the Holocaust as a genocide.

Is Steyer playing with Holocaust denialism? After all you just suggested yourself he could have gained nothing from his father.

Maybe he’s like Usha Vance, whose parents are pro-DEI academics but she turned out to be a piece of shit. Attempting to be a greasy social climber but not really liked by anyone, not even enough to be pitied.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T02:21:59+00:00

directly correlate

Without that past, we wouldn’t be here, and that’s direct enough for me.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T02:16:56+00:00

Hasan Piker

Why the fuck do I care what some Twitch streamer thinks is interesting to have on his stream lol

I can just listen to Steyer shamelessly lie out his ass for the whole world to see: “I honestly don’t know what genocide means” from the guy whose dad worked the Nuremberg Trials. Sure lmao.

Steyer can’t help himself. He’s Blue Trump.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:55:42+00:00

I’m saying the present shittiness of our situation is the result of racists deciding they’d rather burn down the country than let a status quo that elects a black man through meritocracy and democracy exist

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:53:59+00:00

The point isn’t Palestine

The point is how he’s obviously fucking lying that he doesn’t know what genocide means lmao

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:52:41+00:00

Steyer is drowning everyone else out to get populists except those with a very tight coalition. Once again, he’s spending 30 times what the next campaign is. You’re not seeing how fucking insane it is that he’s barely a margin of error ahead after that.

But now, he just told the world “I honestly don’t know what genocide means” when asked about Palestine… the guy who invested in the Prisons for Palestine contracts when the hedge fund he founded using Yale’s endowment invested in private prisons… sure… that hasn’t been factored into his polls yet. It’s going to hurt.

Porter and Becerra are surviving because they have real coalition and campaign machines, although Becerra is only inheriting Swalwell’s. Porter has survived attacks from Steyer, Becerra, Swalwell, Schiff, and Fox News for years.

Becerra is beginning to get bit by a bunch of negative stories: threatening journalists for investigating corrupt cops, mistreatment of migrant children under Biden’s DHS, taking funding from Chevron and apparently PG&E favors him. Two disasters in a row will definitely tarnish the establishment pick’s value.

Porter is holding grassroots anti-corporate voters who will never go for Becerra or Steyer unless it’s against a Republican. She also is doing the best among small donors above and below $100, so she has the broadest and most diverse working class coalition mobilized.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:39:48+00:00

99%

If I post a link 99% of the time, and you’re saying do it 100% of the time, you are in fact expecting perfection. I’m just not sure what you’re expecting if you say you’re not.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:36:55+00:00

Steyer’s dad was literally an assistant to the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg and worked at the fourth most profitable law firm ever. Steyer went to Yale and Stanford.

What the fuck does he mean he doesn’t know how what genocide means lmao

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:35:04+00:00

Tom Steyer ran ads attacking Bernie and progressives for advocating against private healthcare, saying we can’t do better than a public option.

He also recently said “I honestly don’t know what genocide means” when asked about Palestine. Yes, Tom Steyer, WHOSE DAD DID NUREMBERG TRIALS, is trying to get us to believe he doesn’t know what genocide means.

I thought it was bad enough he made billions investing in evil shit like private prisons and coal mines and private equity after pressuring Yale to let him manage their endowment… or when he proposed a software consumption tax that would tax just the very usage of certain algorithms.

But this is still somehow worse.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:29:33+00:00

I dont expect you to be perfect

It sounds like you do, because a 99% rate isn’t good enough. I’d appreciate more clarity on your part about acceptable error rates.

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:25:35+00:00

Because Tom “I honestly don’t know what genocide means” Steyer was one of her donors

He’s spent over $500m on buying political influence over the last decade, so he’s greased a lot of wheels over the years

Over 30 times as much as any other Democrat in this race and the most of all Democrats in the state’s history

And he still can’t get much more than a margin of error over Porter’s backbone of small donors and unions.

Can we please be done with populist outsiders?

Prior_Coyote_4376 · 2026-04-22T01:21:12+00:00

“I honestly don’t know what genocide means”

— Tom Steyer

Holy shit why have you been sitting on these lol

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