Premium 104: Wu Tang World Systems Theory (w/ special guest Brandon Sutton)

GW yes I agree I don't like the police either and especially so now. I'm listening to the June 14, podcast conversation. What I can't get my head around in this conversation is the thought of decertifying unions of any kind. I've seen it happen and I'm telling you by first hand that nothing good comes from it. The NLRA has been little more than a joke for decades. Once any union is decerted it makes it easier to decerttify every other union. Yes take their tanks, guns, cars, make it so that if they kill or hurt someone they are subject to the same laws as everyone. I also strongly disagree that the police unions should be ejected from the AFL-CIO as if the AFL-CIO were relevant anyway. If you push them out of the organization then you can't engage with them anymore. They, like any group are not a monolith they don't all have the same feelings. Go to San Francisco's Castro and you will meet gay cops go a few miles east of the Castro and you run into Asian cops. Cross the Bay to Oakland a historically bad police force changed over the years to be a far more diverse bunch. They are more than the clothes.

This one should be put up for free.

Marya Hart

Who will I call for what?

G W

This is a tough one for me since I have never cared for the police but I have to point out a few holes in your logic. If you take away police unions and lower police wages, in the end you wind up with poor, unqualified, workers. We don't need worse police they're already bad enough we need better police if you have better police you need fewer of them. I was a street organizer for a small union (not police) for many years and whenever I set up a picket or a street action I was much better off dealing with a unionized big town police force than a small town group that weren't aware of union rules and 1st amendment rights to assembly. Most of the issues I'm seeing are now are because our current political climate has encouraged a violent mostly militarized police force. A bad dog is fed by a bad owner. Get rid of the police and the uber rich will still have cops that will be happy to beat, kill, etc. with impunity. The who will you call?

(boys and Tanya)

We have been on quite the roll lately, boys. Back to back all timers <3

Just a reminder that while these criticisms of liberals/centrists are valid, conservatives are actively and deliberately worse. They are the Blue Lives Matter cheerleaders, they defend any military atrocity, they deny climate change, and they buy into the NRA/racist propaganda about Antifa, the Black Bloc, BLM and gun confiscation. Unlike liberals, they don't even bother with a pretense of good intentions.

Simia Canis

Tanya is always talking about the water wars/climate crisis, I think they are both absolutely right

Neil Marino

One of the best guests in the TB canon

Jonathan Howard