Being Mean to Scabs Is Working
Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
If these scabs really need something to do to kill time during the strike, might I suggest moderating an online forum?
It's fun.
thanks margot!
i really appreciate you taking the time out of your normally-busy schedule to just be in the river of shit with the rest of us. really makes us feel like our trudge work is worth some respect.
loved you in barbie, btw.
Just grow weed and sell them.
For those who don't know:
Jack London, Ode to the Scab. 1916.
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab."
"A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles."
"When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out."
"No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself." A scab has not.
"Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army." The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."
That is fantastic.
What did a toad ever do to anybody? And rattlesnakes are just being rattlesnakes. They're polite enough to generally warn you to go away before they bite you.
Well, I think rattlesnakes used to be a lot more common. Like maybe you never got bit, but you definitely knew someone, or someone's kid, that did, and they likely died in utter agony. Pretty much hunted them to near extinction, along with wolves. We go hard on earth.
Benedict, tbh, not the worst guy
Plus it was at the time of his betrayal the revolution looked like it was gonna fail. And he wouldve been right if the United States wasnt born of the same crack addled main protagonist syndrome Rome was born with.
Seriously the US and Rome are both the empire equivalent of a crack addled lunatic who has fought trains and won.
It's why the right wing invented 'cancel culture', to try to demonize people banding together to change things. This kind of public pressure is a form of people-power. There's a nasty side to it all, but this is an existential battle for the writers and a mild inconvenience to Drew and Bill. I know what side I'm on.
It’s only ok to ‘cancel’ if a trans woman promotes a shitty beer. Otherwise it’s a problem.
Cancel culture is fucking terrible in most cases. Let’s not excuse it because of some rare cases where it achieved something good.
CANCELLED!
Double fuck you to the crew on top of the scabbiness.
"Y'all been out of work for months, have a gig that doesn't cross a line. JUST KIDDING"
They should join a union.
If they're not already IATSE (which I'd assume they are), how would that help here? IATSE members all over the continent are out of work right now, being represented doesn't change that. Nor does it change how much it sucks to get jerked around by twits like this.
Your comment makes no sense.
IATSE isn't part of the strike. Most likely because AMPTP would find a way to make American Gladiators with non-union labor, which would be a body blow to the union.
If you're IATSE, you're working right now, because the union isn't on strike.
Edit: upon re-re-re-reading your comment, I now think you're saying that the crew got fucked over, which I wholeheartedly agree with.
Why are you under the impression IATSE is working right now?
But yes, main point was: crew got fucked over.
Sometimes it is unavoidable unfortunately. Had to cross the picket line at the hospital where my grandma was dying.
TIL that Dancing with the Stars still exists.
Exists to reinvigorate the "careers" of terrible right wing chuds like tucker carlson and sean spicer. Garbage.
Clearly garbage, but gif of either of those guys dancing could be awesome.
And The View. i I unplugged and it’s amazing what I haven’t been missing.
Dude, survivor is still around. Reality shows don't end, ever.
Well American Idol did end for a little bit.
Always be mean to scabs.
this is why it kinda annoys me when people are like 'posting doesn't actually do anything' -- true, sure, but sometimes it kinda can, sometimes, and making your voice and argument heard is better than being silent
That's like saying 'communicating doesn't do anything.'
It's just a tactic from bad actors to convince people they shouldn't be fighting back.
Posting definitely does things. It just needs to reach a lot of people and the right people.
Bill Maher wasn't complaining about the "crystal generation" not long ago? He folded?
Crystal Generation?
Pick a scab and they fall off.
Good.
I dunno, seems like all the shitty actors and writers are striking.
Good thing, imo. The faster we can replace them with AI, the better.
Multimillionaires fighting with other multimillionaires isn't exactly what I think of when I think of scab vs union.
Some quick math to put things into perspective:
Like it or not, the multimillionaires are far closer to us than they are to billionaires. It's not even close. Even at 100,000,000 you're far closer to the everyday person.
So yes, I consider a union of actors to be a union, even if the actors are making millions. Our common enemy is still the billionaires and corporations, who are wealthy beyond imagination.
Besides, actors tend to be liberal and do a lot of philanthropy. It's probably because with all their wealth, they still feel closer to the common person and remember their upbringing.
Solidarity means all workers, even the ones who get paid too much. Don't fall for the divisions that billionaires want to create.
The multimillionaires that are supporting the union don’t are doing so because either A) it’s the right thing to do, or B) because the studios may inadvertently trigger the destruction of Hollywood because of greed. Whether because of altruism or mutual self-interest, it’s the right thing to do.
The protest is meaningless. AI will eliminate most of these jobs and there's nothing that can be done about it.
It can at least be delayed while everyone figures out wtf they’re going to do.
Line up for unemployment?
Calling people who are just trying to work and make a living “scabs” is dehumanizing language. Not surprising from the so-called tolerant left.
Guys, look at the username. I'm pretty sure this is a "character" account.
Yep, I recognize their username. I can't tell if it's trolling or satire.
I'm not tolerant. Strike Breakers are (generally) awful. We can come up with specific and contrived exceptions ("A poor single disabled ill mother of 9") but that's kind of irrelevant.
It's a troll account. They're intentionally making bootlicking comments everywhere to get a rise from people.
