Imo many Americans enjoy the trappings or imagery of our history while stripping it of any meaning. The OG Johnbrownstan said some shit like “I love John browns message but not his methods” and that explained it to me. Very little daylight between John brown in pfp and “mlk wouldn’t support this…”
It’s important to remember that these people, though dangerous, are also stupider than dirt
My hottest, most scorching airport take is:
arrive as early as you want, no one can task you when you’re there. Responsibility doesn’t exist.
Oh, there’s an ask from work? WiFi is down. You’re boarding. You’re disembarking.
Airport is suspended animation. There are no rules, you survive / enjoy.
a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words
Another lovely Howe Sound evening walk
A credit card with free lounge access is a game changer tbh
When I was a union rep we got record turnout on a contract vote. Myself and half a dozen stewards spent a week calling and texting members. We tracked down retirees nobody had heard from in a decade.
If you give a shit about democracy you encourage people to get involved who otherwise wouldn't be.
I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public
They are every single negative caricature ever envisioned of a real union all rolled into one big ball of corrupt community destroying shit
Kinda seems like all you really have to do is actually try
Feels kinda silly to say that rich people from the center to left of things politically can’t build a successful media environment when the onion is doing it basically using donations from semi-employed forum goblins
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ngl they kinda cooked us with this one
Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.
And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.
As a diehard trade unionist fuck police unions straight to hell
The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
People mention front facing Simpsons being horrifying but Smooth Homer haunts me
It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”
We need to stop them immediately
From my experience in the building trades the rank-and-file are solid as fuck, ready for militancy, and just need a bit of guidance.
Leadership are 50/50 diehard trade unionists/right wing nutjobs
An International Vice-President from the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers told me last April that the US federal workforce having their collective bargaining rights illegally stripped away was a good thing because government workers shouldn't be allowed to unionize.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
this gives me a good idea: i'll try to keep a running thread of things that are union-busting that you might not know are union-busting.
ERGs are one to start.
another one: employee satisfaction surveys! corporations use them to see where agitation is that could potentially lead to a union
1000% not true
Nathan Fielder at a Mets game looking unhappy
Some men experience the riches of the earth only to be blind to their own wealth
DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!
I think about this all the time
What you have to understand is that the United States started a war, almost immediately lost it, then began the laborious process of negotiating against itself, and is now settling into the secondary denial phase …
i’ve played enough jrpgs to know how this goes. a village boy, his hometown love, a mysterious wizard, and a talking animal are going to band together and battle the ceo of palantir at the end of the world
