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.
Hey, gotta try new things when you have time right?
Kinda owe it to you guys for me doing the movie promo here.
Just grow weed and sell them.
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Ask our admins. I can handle the android comm OK, but just need energy to do some writing.
If you like, please help out Gabe at literature.cafe, he's nice, and I do want to see more creative writing stuff here.
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.
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.
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.
I'm so tired of PR filled apologies by celebrities. Eat shit.
Sorry for not wearing pants. :(
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.
And The View. i I unplugged and it’s amazing what I haven’t been missing.
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.
They're still scabs for even thinking about a return. Fuck those pieces of garbage.
Bill Maher wasn't complaining about the "crystal generation" not long ago? He folded?
Pick a scab and they fall off.
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