Uncritical coverage of unions
Hello, K&S. One of my favorite things about Breaking Points is that you go after anyone whom you feel deserves criticism, while trying your best to give credit where credit is due. I'm also grateful for your coverage of unionization and the Great Resignation, which gets almost no coverage anywhere else. However, I haven't heard you say anything negative about unions. I think most people agree that higher wages, the 5 day work week, FMLA, etc. are vast improvements that can be credited to the labor movement. However, organized labor has had its dark side as well. At the height of union power, labor unions contributed greatly to political corruption. In some cases, unions even operated in concert with organized crime, or committed crimes themselves. Now, I'm not worried about Starbucks employees breaking anyone's kneecaps for voting against the union (like the Longshoremen's Union did back in the day). However, are you not concerned about trends such as Teachers' Unions keeping kids out of schools, or Police Unions preventing discipline for bad cops and defending practices like Qualified Immunity?
German nuclear power
I’ve heard Saagar mention a couple times how the Germans are dependent on the Nord Stream pipeline because they stopped nuclear power. Did the Germans use to be massively dependent on nuclear power and then decided to decommission a bunch of plants in their country or what’s the history behind that?
Unmasking kids
First - thank you both for your constant advocacy of the topic. Second - I am constantly reaching out to elected officials, our school board, teachers…these people already have their minds made up and are so far gone. My districts asst. superintendent told me that “my daughters mask is in no way impeding on my daughters speech therapy.” We can’t reason with people like this. They are too far gone. On NYS mask optional day- parents were emailing teachers to only have their masked kids sit with other masked kids. The insanity is beyond compare. How do we reach these people- I’ve tried facts and kindness- it’s not working and our kids are suffering.
Vaccine Safety
Hey you two, really enjoy your show. Don't always agree but it is incredibly refreshing to listen to a tell it like it is view. Krystal, on Thursday's show you mentioned a lot of garbage information out there. I agree and yet I am surprised at your overall opinion. There's more to this story, I fear. My question is what makes you so sure these vaccines in particular are so safe? I am not so sure. Here is a great summary of disparate information that seems to point to a different conclusion taken in totality. I am often reminded of the consensus Galileo had. https://joomi.substack.com/p/i-was-deceived-about-covid-vaccine?sort=new