#the labour movement

[devsgames]

Me: "hey game developers, especially AAA ones, are getting laid off en-mass and it's awful for our industry" Gamer: "well I only play INDIE games and the problem with AAA games is they are creatively bankrupt"

Me, slamming my fists on the table like a baby: "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS IS ABOUT A BUSINESS PROBLEM PERPETUATED BY CAPITALISM NOT A STATEMENT ON CREATIVE DECISION MAKING"

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

[mutalieju]

TBH in the original Hellblazer it's not that all of John's friends died, lot of them did, for various reasons, (plus there's the Newcastle incident and all that personal trauma), but lot of the time the old friends John reconnects with have either abandoned their anarchist/leftist principles or revealed they never had any particularly solid politics and John is like 'wow this sucks we're all going to die' and then wanders around for a bit depressed until satan tries to kill him again

Most of new 52/DC stuff with John just refuses to interact with the political elements this way. so it is what it is and can't even really answer the question why john is depressed

[hussyknee]

History isn't a disparate collection of stories from long ago. It's the necessary context for the present moment and the forecast for the future. All histories are intertwined, and the narratives of power and privilege, oppression and resistance, adversity and triumph are as constant in their patterns as the laws of physics.

[handweavers]

i'm very interested in reading more explicitly marxist analysis on the exploitation of black and brown workers in the imperial core (like the prev post) but updated to consider the economic changes that have happened since de-industrialization to the present, because while a lot of what winston discusses is still very relevant i do struggle a bit to connect the present economic realities in canada/usa with an understanding of our working class as being an industrialized mass production labour force. so if anyone has any recommendations on readings up this alley please let me know 🙏🏼

[bookshelfdreams]

WAAACHT AAAUUUF VERDAMMTE DIESER EEEERD-E!!!!!!

[miaandgary]

The timeline has split, im so heartbroken for my little sister who has to grow up in a post roe world, Sick that so many people didn't show up to vote. despite the years of horrific headlines, anti lgbtq policies, reproductive Healthcare gutted, they don't care.

Because they don't want a woman in charge.

So we elected a rapist, felon, p3do, who shat on his own followers and spewed racism about poc people. Now, we have a full republican senate, house, and congress.

they don't want another election, that's why this one was so important. we're in a dictatorship now. He told his voters, that they needed to vote one more time, and incited violence against his political opponents.

This will be a police state, contraception, ivf, and the education system dismantled.

I grew up in a baptist household, hearing Christian nationalism rhetoric, that no fault divorce and marital rape aren't legitimate, that women shouldn't vote, that the "liberal war" on the church made us, an all white congregation, the most oppressed group in America.

Cognitive Dissonance is REAL, and it's deep in all the little red counties that decided the swing states. People aren't effected by these policies, therefore they don't matter. It doesn't matter until it's

their daughter being sexually assaulted

their wife miscarrying and having to flee the state to receive Healthcare

their gas prices and grocery costs.

we couldve done it. I hate it here

get an IUD, it'll last the whole presidency.

[rotzaprachim]

ok out Britain and Spain being habitable-ish political zones while Germany France and the U.S. descend into the flames of hell as not being on my 2024 bingo card

[overactiveprefrontalcortex]

the part of labour - paris paloma that i rarely see talked about

apologies from my tongue, and never yours

busy lapping from your flowing cup and stabbing with your fork

i know you're a smart man, and weaponize

the false incompetence, its dominance under a disguise

if we had a daughter, i'd watch and could not save her

the emotional torture, from the head of your high table

she'd do what you taught her, she'd meet the same cruel fate

so now i've gotta run, so i can undo this mistake

at least i've gotta try

[siniov]

i hate the labour party more than the tory party because the tory party don't even try to pretend to speak on my behalf. the labour party on the other hand will enact the most hitlerian policy while claiming they are acting in the interests of the working class and under the banner of socialism. i don't see how people don't more immediately draw the paralels between this and the rise of fascism in the early-mid 20th century. there are still people to this day who will call fascism socialism because of this misdirection.

if you're going to do liberal flavoured white nativist bullshit, please do it under your own banner since the last 40 years of governance have already primed people to accept it anyway. keep socialism out of your mouth when you're starving children at home and slaugtering them abroad, when you're denying whole groups of people healthcare and condemning others to pharmaceutical experimentation. when you're deporting those who flee from the countries you pillaged and ruined, keep socialism out of your mouth and at least have the courage to call what you're doing by its actual name.

[squirmbelliesrp]

The oc muses I have on here are finally drawn~ Mirai, serush with unbirth, serush with regular mpreg (his average brood size) and Wry

[lilydotparis]

Part one on my video essay series on the Fleischer Studios strike of 1937: the very first animation strike in history !

[magnetothemagnificent]

This is why we need organizations like JQY, Keshet, Eshel, and SMQN..... because queer gentiles are so fucking hostile to queer Jews we need to make our own spaces to ensure we don't face antisemitism from people who *should* be our allies......

[sandinmybed]

i generally keep my mouth shut on the Israel Palestine conflict because there is nothing I can say that is of any value, but saying that all striking actors deserve to be replaced by AI and don't deserve fair pay just because you don't agree with the SAG president's statement on the conflict? it just proves that you never cared about the strike in the first place and only supported it for clout.

[handweavers]

no matter how many educationals i attend on the subject of marxist political economy i still can't discern whether i'm lumpenprole or a petit bourgeois artisan because i'm both and sometimes flip flop between the two. trying to proletarianize myself but can't because i'm in the reserve army of labour and the only way i can figure out how to make any income outside of disability support is to do the petit bourgeois artisan thing really badly because the market refuses to allow me to join the proletariat. economics is fascinating

[sciderman]

I’m sorry.I’ll do better.I just didn’t know what exactly to say because I’ve never felt with it before.That and it auto corrected me- But I am deeply sorry.

bless your heart anon – it's okay, i hope that you do take the time to do a little read into the region - it's actually really interesting!

and you know, here's a fun fact i've noticed a lot about people from iran and iraq specifically - the majority of my iranian friends prefer to introduce themselves as "persian" before they say "iranian" - it's kind of funny - and my dad, who's iraqi, much prefers to introduce himself as "babylonian" rather than iraqi - i think it's so interesting to see - that they're not eager to claim the nationality that has been carved out for them by the modern day division of the middle east (as per the sykes–picot partition imposed by the british), but are so proud to proclaim their heritage based on the greater history of their regions and their people. i think it's interesting, i think it's interesting. maybe i should start introducing myself as babylonian, like my dad. sumerian, actually, i think. i've always been so interested in sumerian culture specifically,, (it was one of my special interests, at a time!) and i've done so many research and art projects based in that history... ough. i should get back into it, maybe.