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Aviation employees faced their first empty paycheck earlier this week.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never trust anything that's being pushed by Ted Cruz. Best case scenario, you get fucked and he gets press.

[–] henfredemars 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

His constituents seem to like the way he fucks them over.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

His constituents love the way he fucks over minorities. They're happy to live neck deep in shit if it affords them the opportunity to hold someone else's head under it.

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Or, the republican majority party can actually be willing to come to the table and negotiate an end to the shutdown of their own creation instead of passing a temporary bandaid fix.

[–] henfredemars 9 points 1 day ago

This is a bad idea. It enables the shutdown to keep running.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is funny that the ruling class doesn't actually understand that they are the only ones that can afford to fly regularly in the US anymore and are having a moment of "this is terrible for everyone!" when the rest of the country is so badly off, to the average person who does real work it doesn't matter if the US airline system shuts down completely.

The news media will have to wildly distort the narrative because the biting class commentary is too destabilizing and obvious. People will begin to wonder what are the people who own our labor actually adding to the economy by flying around constantly? If the business trips are so essential how can the US airline system begin to utterly fall apart and those businesses continue to function?

Can the ruling class afford people beginning to ask those questions?