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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Rachel Leah Siegel

      1. Beneath all the talk of national unity, the pandemic has unleashed a ferocious class war. The latest example is Trump deploying the Defense Protection Act to bolster meat packing plants, a major vector of the disease.https://twitter.com/rachsieg/status/1255217845346148358 …

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      Rachel Leah SiegelVerified account @rachsieg
      At least 20 meatpacking plants have closed due to covid outbreaks. At least 17 workers have died & at least 5,000 directly impacted. Today Trump is expected to sign an executive order mandating that the plants stay open to head off a food supply shortage. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/28/trump-meat-plants-dpa/ …
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2020

      2. The meat packing plant is facing a crisis in part because workers (quite rightly) are refusing to go into plants where they could catch the disease. Trump's deployment of DPA is largely for show but he's signalling solidarity with employers against employees.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2020

      3. Iowa governor Kim Reynolds is also sending a signal: that employees who don't return to dangerous workplaces will be seen as quitting and thus not eligible for unemployment. The message: work (at the risk of death) or starve.

      17 replies 182 retweets 449 likes
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 29 Apr 2020

      4. All the current chatter about “disincentives to work" (heard in Canada as well) is part of the class war. The idea is to keep people working at life-threatening jobs for as little money as possible. More thoughts here:https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/meatpacking-coronavirus-class-war/ …

      8:09 AM - 29 Apr 2020
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        1. Lorne Hanks‏ @lornehanks 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          On the plus side, now that I've seen this picture I never want to eat again so that's safer.

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        2. Anthony Kreider‏ @anthonyjkreider 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          All of this can be true, and there can still be dis-incentives to work. In a month, will people still be saying auto workers and hairdressers are "life-threatening jobs"? - because in a month, they'll still have two months worth of UI payments coming.

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        3.  🇨🇦Jacques Leger 🇺🇸‏ @jacquesleger17 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @anthonyjkreider @HeerJeet

          That tells you more about wages than incentives. $2000 a month is barely subsistence in Canada. We should start thinking of that as a floor for wages not an improvement on a person’s lot in life.

          1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
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        2. BDK aka K4‏ @BDKakaK4 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          It’s almost as if the @GOP is deploying #DeathPanels that determine who lives and who dies.

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        3. liri‏ @liri57954853 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @BDKakaK4 @HeerJeet @GOP

          It’s all about money and I guess we’re going to learn just what a life cost in ‘real life’.

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        1. Piglet ✌ 😎 💭‏ @Roba_Ranch 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @_dralaterdzo

          ✌😎pic.twitter.com/QBfBRqPpur

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        2. Dr. Nick‏ @NotthatkindofDr 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Jesus, are people THAT scared of eating vegetarian for a few months!?

          3 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. Ashlynn (she/her)‏ @ironyandash 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @NotthatkindofDr @HeerJeet

          Carnists can't live without reminding people how much they love bacon and cheese while taking a bite out of a live cow

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        1. liri‏ @liri57954853 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          All those a Smithfield Farms operations are wholly owned by the Chinese Government. Trump gave XI a big favor in deregulating them, letting the company be its own inspector. Didn’t this virus start in a Chinese meat market?

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        1. liri‏ @liri57954853 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          These corporations need to make all the money they can do they can invest in Robotics and have no sick leave, unemployment, health insurance,ect... It’s grab all you can now for the Corporations, and at all costs.

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