Your counterfactual doesn’t work because you can’t threaten people with a good time.
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Call me when there’s a threat from an employer who supports Biden and I’ll look into it.
Pro tip: Don’t wait five years to comment next- the next election is in four years.
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Yes, yes, cause veiled threats don’t exist… /s
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They sure do. Does anything of the form:
business owner declares that jobs will be lost if election goes against their desires
constitute a threat?
Yeah I get it you think that the note implies some sort of threat, but the hypothetical quote you give is the implication not the text. The businessman despite being a horrible person managed to use a few paragraphs to say if the election result goes a certain way there may be layoffs.
The writer specficially mentions the secret ballot and does not specifically mention any connection between the votes of the employees and their jobs.
It’s actually a bog standard communication of the person’s political preference.
I’m sure it’s totally a coincidence that the boss fired the person who sent the letter to the news and is refusing to talk to the press about it, then.
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Very related: TRAILER PARK TENANTS SAY LANDLORD SENDS NOTE IMPLYING A VOTE FOR BIDEN IS A VOTE FOR INCREASED RENT
Almost looks like they were written by the same person
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I know you just came out of isolation in a biosphere or something after 5 years, but you should take some time to familiarize yourself with a phenomenon called “movie streaming.” Then you can watch a few mafia movies to get a feel for the phrasing they use to intimidate people.
This note is “that’s a nice job you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”
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I disagree that coincidence is the correct description of the relationship between these two statements:
- If the result of the election goes against Trump, there will be layoffs.
- If you talk to the press about me being an asshole, you will be fired.
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It does when the jobs that might be lost are specifically at the company where the business owner and author of the message has the power to fire and lay off employees, and when the message in question is literally delivered in the employees’ pay envelopes.
Or does that context not matter to you?
This sort of voter intimidation would be unacceptable to most of us whatever candidate or party the employer supported. That thuggish behaviour like this that exploits power imbalances is more typical of the GOP these days is another issue.
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If the letter was as on the up-and-up as you seem to be implying, why would telling the press about it be considered exposing the boss as an asshole? And why would the employee be fired for it?
Further, business owners Republican presidential donors make these kinds of bleak doom-and-gloom predictions about being forced to downsize their companies if the Democratic candidate wins in every election, and they’re all hot air and bullshit based on nothing that resembles actual economic analysis. The economy does better under Democratic presidents, and it has for at least 50 years.
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Sick backpedal
Ok, so I came out swinging, let the GIFs fly, but that’s just not fair.
A “bog standard” political communication from a Trump supporter is more or less enough to qualify them as an asshole for many many reasons.
A kind sentiment if ever there was one!
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“Thats a nice profit margin you have there. It would be a shame if some tax happened to it.”
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It’s all a lie anyways. The guy has donated almost a years worth of his entire staff’s salaries to Trump, but it’s the Democrats that threaten his business.
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The bit about layoffs occurring in late 2020 and into early 2021 make this into more of a threat.
The boss didn’t lay out an economic case for Trump and invite his own workewrs to form their own judgement, No, he said-- “I’;m going to pack up my toys, and go home,”
What exacctly is he afraid of? Are his fears real or imaginary?
This brings to mind a slightly trollish video from Sabine Hossenfelder.
Science does not say, “You shouldn’t pee on high-voltage lines”, it says, “Urine is an excellent conductor”.
Now, of course, the reality is that Daniels has outsize economic leverage over the fate of the company. He can admit to his workers that he lacks thhe competence to manage the plant in Biden Harris administration, precisely because he has no fear of losing his own job. It doesn’t matter if his economic judgement is flawed, because he won’t pertsonally suffer the threatened consequiences.
It’s an abuse of power.
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