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steal-this-idea · 2 months ago

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Found a paper I wasn't supposed to see while cleaning and it shows that an employee who has been working for my store for 50 years (fifty!) only makes $23.11/hr. when a living wage (at full time (which is practically impossible to find anywhere)) in my area is something like $36/hr.

Like, my company has become such a hateable place to work ever since the original owner died but holy fuck how do you treat someone who has literally given her life in service to you with two-thirds of a living wage?!

As for why I don't leave, it might be the same reason she hasn't: I'm paid too little to live on but too much to simply walk away

#this is my union fighting for us #we've lost half our staff to self-checkouts but have received no raises from the payroll savings #I make just under $20/hr. and I only survive because I don't drive and haven't moved #rents are insane #the cost of driving is insane #I'm trapped in my job and trapped in my apartment #my store grosses over a million dollars per week and yet there's never any money for pay raises #the only good things remaining are having seniority and we can only be let go 'for cause'#I yearn for a day when I can buy things that aren't on sale or clearance #I yearn for a day when I can eat out if I don't feel like cooking #Hell I yearn for the day when Chinese food - pizza - or McDonald's isn't just a quarterly treat

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storytellering · 22 days ago

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Hope you're watching, boy.

#rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #red dead redemption #rdr #vandermorston #vandermorgan #vandermarston #morston #HOW DO I EVEN TAG THIS #dutch/arthur/john #i just hope the people who'd enjoy this find it KHGFHKD #i like my ot3s fucked up and problematic why do you ask #hello red dead fandom...#anyway this was brought by: The™ one gif from wilde and people posting about it and how #people usually use it as a ship pose ref when its supposed to be at least an ot3 thing #like there's a third guy watching out of frame #and I just. i dunno this happened #is arthur jealous of dutch or john?#yes #and dutch is very aware and thats exactly why hes doing it :)#i like to think he likes to keep his boys fighting over him makes him feel important #also if theyre too busy fighting over whos the favorite they cannot unionize against him #foolproof plan #my art

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blue-eli · 2 months ago

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Ink October day 3: Sophistry

An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

#khux #khux player #kh player #kingdom hearts #kh #kingdom hearts union x #kingdom hearts player #player my beloved #blue boi draws #ink october #ink October 2024 #ink October 2024 day 3 #watched a bunch of Player cutscenes for this one and Aug AUHG I love them. I always forget how much of a character Player is #but they are truly their own guy. more then even some non-renameable/customisable game protagonists #the utter guts on this kid to challenge multiple foretellers multiple times，fight both Ephemer and Skuld at the same time-#(both very powerful in their own right)，AND attempt and succeeded in tricking four of the personifications of darkness themselves is… wow #they’re such a powerful fighter too. like they kick both Skuld and Ephemer’s asses，and sure they were both not aiming to kill and exhausted #from fighting Ven’s darkness BUT SO WAS PLAYER (as well as having just come from the arcade and those fights)#them fooling the darknesses too… along side their two closest friends… I wonder if there was any noticeable change between their normal #fighting style and the one they used there. Skuld and Ephemer didn’t necessarily see them fighting during the war #(only heartless or against one appoint) so I wonder if they fought like that.#the ‘argument that is plausible but misleading’ here is Player being possessed. with all the information available to them it is plausible #but we know for a fact that player is just straight up lying. making shit up. mimicking how darkness spoke before to pretend. which is ki #kinda hilarious to me like you go girl gaslight gatekeep girlboss. gaslight them into believing you’re possessed gatekeep them from dying to #trap darkness and girlboss by winning. amazing beautiful 10/10 #I like to think Ephemer never realised、at least while he was alive. something in the tragedy of him never knowing.#of not recogising his dear friend through their deception. of dying thinking he failed them. that it wasn’t their choice.#and he did fail them in a way. there’s this recurring theme in Kingdom Hearts where the hurt lingers despite the memories being gone.#Player is very much effected by this with their memories of the war being gone but still suffering. Ephemer stands by the decision to hide #it thinking it spares them from the burden but it doesn’t it just takes away the context and they deserve to know what happened to them

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captainjonnitkessler · 1 year ago

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I think labor is one area (of many) where if you're involved in the politics, the "there's no difference between the political parties so don't bother voting!" line just absolutely falls apart. Like . . . Democrats aren't super invested in labor, but Republicans are actively trying to dismantle unions at a federal level. Most of the mechanics I know lean heavily conservative, but almost every single labor leader I've met has been staunchly, if reluctantly, Democrat. My local trades newsletter is constantly begging people to vote Democrat. My local union is constantly telling its members that it's not that the union is partisan in who it supports; we just keep happening to support Democrats because they at least nominally support labor whereas Republicans are openly trying to fuck us over on every conceivable level.

I went to a tradewomen convention the other day and like half the speaking time was devoted to reiterating the importance of voting. Every speaker was like "please, it has been SO MUCH fucking easier and we have made SO MANY strides since 2020 and it is almost entirely thanks to the Biden administration. Please, please, please do not fuck this up for labor and organizing in 2024."

And it's not because they're neoliberal shills who don't want progress - it's because they've BEEN out there doing the work and they know first-hand what the difference is between a Republican and a Democratic administration. So if you claim to support unions - well, this is what union leaders are asking you to do.

#it is simply very frustrating to see people who are super pro-union and pro-organizing #turn around and say not to vote bc it's useless or bc voting makes you complicit in bad government actions #bestie. please. if you are going to be pro-union you need to *listen to the union leaders*#and they want you to fucking vote #and not for nothing but my union didn't fight for my paid sick days. the democrats in new york state did. still a little pissed about that!#labor rights #us politics

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baura-bear · 23 days ago

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what's pissing me off most about the election is how many people who have similar opinions are absolutely tearing into each other in search of someone to "blame" for the trump win. It doesn't matter what we could've done differently because at the end of the day it's done. blaming each other and turning on each other is only gonna help the white supremacists who want to run this country. so instead we need to focus on creating community so that we have a network of resistance and care built into our lives. tear into trump supporters all you want but if you are anti trump, if you were discontent with both options, if you were/are whatever, focus on people who share the same ideas as you and how you can build each other up and make your community stronger. that is where revolution begins. not yelling about ballots that have already been cast.

#yes youre allowed to be angry but after this week channel that anger into making change #get off the phone get off the computer #talk to people. organize. make connections. find a community that will support you.#you're preaching to the choir i promise.#im saying this as a union organizer YOU MUST FOCUS ON SIMILARITIES focus on what you want to achieve TOGETHER. my union is in danger as the #-NLRB is handed over to the trump administration. I see people talking about how 'we need to start organizing' then all they do is sit and-#-yell at a screen. if you want to organize then get started.#im tired of people fear mongering and saying we're doomed. we're doomed if you keep up what youre doing. get up. talk to a neighbor. find-#-a friend to lean on. i KNOW you feel helpless. we all do. but for the love of god get up and start putting the work in. we must fight-#-against the system in order to dismantle it.#us politics

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iamtheaudacity · 11 days ago

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I’m going to scream. The grass is still green, I’m still seeing birds and the temperature is bearable. In the middle of November. In fucking Minnesota.

yet they still try to claim that climate change is a hoax and that everything’s fine, yeah “our best interest” my ass they fight for themselves not their people. I’m just a teenager but I can’t even try to worry about drama and celebrity shit because the adults in control of my country, my home are going to kill the world before I have a chance to grow up in it. How am I supposed to care about anything that doesn’t directly affect me when I’m wondering if I should by all of the classic books before the end up getting banned andd if the ones I’m going to write will fall to the same fate, because I’m not letting so many voices, MY VOICE go forgotten even if I have burn in place of the very words I and so many others write. so many people tell teenagers to just focus on grades which is practically impossible when I have to think about whether or not I’ll have to use the fact that three women in my mother’s family have had breast cancer including my mother herself to convince the doctors and government to let me have top surgery. How am I supposed to care about grades when I might not be able to get into college because it would be made harder or less acceptable for me to go just because I had the misfortune of being born female and that means I have something these men want. That is if I make it through high school without being shot of course. the politicians say they’re doing all of this for the children (obviously that’s why they want to ban drag you know/sar) but won’t listen to us when we cry for change as they instead walk in the other direction, they say this is for us but then they make a world where green grass and birds make me want to scream

they won’t listen to our screams now it’s about time to start biting and scratching

#us politics #transgender #nonbinary #Fuck this government #i hate this #but no matter what #im not leaving it’s just as much my home as there’s maybe even more because Im live with the people not money #This country’s my home this states my home and I’ll keep fighting for it to to be what it could be until I can’t #Wether that’s just by writing books and being true to myself #Or by fighting by screaming until my voice leaves me and and burning on a stake for that #So be it #I was raised in a country that was built on breaking rules and by a state that was one of the first Union legions to join the civil war #I grew up learning about the 1st Minnesota and how we still haven’t given Virginia its flag back #They want us to act like Americans right? Then let’s fight back #they want true American spirit then let’s give them revolution let’s revolt #Also if they must deport someone deport Elon Musk

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sepdet · 4 months ago

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uploading this Kamala Harris clip again because it makes me happy

"Do not be overwhelmed. Do not throw up your hands, but roll up our sleeves & FIGHT!"

Recorded by me on Jan 15, 2017, at union rally in front of UCLA Medical Center, standing up for the ACA which the GOP who had just taken the House, Senate and WH vowed to repeal.

...they chickened out due to mass protests. 💙

(Note "When we fight we WIN" sign)

#resist #the resistance #when we fight we win #kamala harris #aca #affordable care act #obamacare #2017 #my photos #us politics #unions #protests

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johntorrington · 1 year ago

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tyler durden canonically IATSE member

#the book only says projectionist union but those are all part of iatse now #source: my iatse local used to be a projectionist union #(circus music starts)#fight club

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 7 months ago

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#still not over the insane george orwell post that got reblogged onto my dash yesterday #i unfollowed the person who reblogged it #because either A) theyre a tankie or B) their criticial thinking skills are sub-fucking-zero #like 1) the OP of that post was just copying Hakims awful video on Orwell #2) to read animal farm and come out of it with the interpretation that Orwell was saying that the animals and hence the proletariat in the #USSR were just innately unintelligent shows a reading comprehension so bad its not even like piss poor. its piss impoverished #3) if a post is like ''also look X said Y Bad Thing'' without providing any of the context as to where that quote comes from theyre likely #being deliberately mishonest. it is easy to take someone out if context to make it look like they were saying something they werent which is #exactly what the OP of that post was doing. they took one sentence of Orwells writing on the nazis and Hitler to make it look like Orwell #thought Hitler was a swell guy when actually Orwells writing was about the dangers of charismatic tyrants like Hitler and their rhetoric #the entire thing was about how Hitler was able to amass such power and popularity and use that to his advantage #not every despot is so easy to pick out as dangerous or so easy to detest. hitler was hardly the first charismatic tyrant in history #OP also conveniently left out the fact that like the next sentence is orwell being like yeah no i would fucking kill this man which wow #thats a glaring omission. imagine if people decided to look up what OP was refetencing to verify irs veracity #4) OP does not mention that Orwell fought in La Guerra Civil alongside communists and socialists and anarchists etc.#he fought against the nationalists. he took a bullet to the neck during the fight. he was very much against francisco franco and his fascist #regime who were allied with Hitler and the Nazis #mentioning orwells participation in the spanish civil war really undercuts any of those arguments #5) you know who was actually allied with Hitler and Nazi Germany? STALIN #at the beginning of WWII the soviet union and nazi germany were in alliance. stalin and hitler did not have fundamental ideological #differences. if hitler had not betrayed stalin the soviet union would not have joined the allied powers #your uwu anti-fascist communist idol joseph fucking stalin was joseph fucking stalin. he was a fascist dictator whose actions deliberately #caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. he like vladimir lenin before him did not care for the ideals of marx #marxism leninism is a meaningless political ideology #the soviet union was not a communist paradise. neither stalin not lenin cared about the proletariat #i said this in my tag ramble yesterday but if you want to see a leader who actually followed marxist ideals go look up thomas sankara #im just rambling in the tags today to get out the lingering frustration i have

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thedanceronthestreets · 8 months ago

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The fact that eddie and buck talk about this concept of "us" so often . makes my head spin (in a good way)

#like they will literally have fights or deep convos talking about “us” as if they've been in a civil union for 7 years with a kid #which like they are just without the actual piece of paper #“us” shaking my head laughing incredulously lady with the glasses gif #911

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zeb-z · 2 years ago

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Echo following change if it means he can make more of a difference, help more people. A reflection of Fives, who had no question about challenging authority, of Rex who will do what needs to be done to get the job done, of Cody who thinks before he leaps, of Ahsoka who puts kindness and mercy above all else, of Hevy who didn’t fear sacrifice for the greater good, of Anakin who can’t just sit still when he can actively do something about it. His decision to leave is not a choice he makes lightly, it’s something he has been stressing over since season one, weighing keeping Omega safe, running from the Empire, and the knowledge that with Rex they could be doing so much more against the rising injustice. But ultimately it was still his choice.

His place isn’t running bounties and avoiding the Empire. Echo, like Rex, like Fives, will be on the front lines so long as he’s needed there, because that’s where he can make the most difference. It’s like Rex told him - “if that’s where you feel your place is, then that’s where you belong.” He belongs to direct action and making a difference just as much as he belongs with his brothers and sister.

The fact that he has a family, a future beyond fighting, is very important. He’ll always be part of the Bad Batch, and he’ll return to them again (I have to believe that), but it’s not his place anymore, not right now. And the fact that it’s his choice, one he did not make without consideration, is important as well.

(and maybe there’s something to be said for Cody’s speech about the choices you make and living with them, because even the right one for you isn’t the right one for someone else. fighting has a cost, a fractured group and a lonely kid - but it’s still his choice, and that’s important. here’s to hoping it’s not a permanent consequence)

#i feel like I’m making two points here and smushing them together messily but hear me out okay #still kicking us with the themes about choices what that means for clones what choices they have what choices they don’t #how so very little of them have any idea of what to fight for now. how they never expected to live through the war. how some choices led to #the downfall of most of the fights for clone rights. it’s fucked up it is but it happens #and echo man. echo who has had less choices under the techno union. who has always wanted to make a difference beyond what clones have been #programmed to want and fight for #the way he and fives fight. for their home for eachother for the 501st. I’m losing my plot here #anyways something about him belonging with his family as much as he belongs to duty but he’s not going to step down when he can do something #tbb #the bad batch #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #clone trooper echo #z speaks

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raine-but-irl · 1 year ago

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you ever see SUCH a display of "how the fuck can u even do such a senseless thing" it makes you lose your fucking mind??

#this is ab my city's teachers union deciding to blame our principal for issues THEY caused #ALSO ab how apparently the teachers have been VERY unprofessional #im talking 'hour-long session to say things they hate about this guy' unproffessional #AND most of it is behind his back #hes literally SUCH a great person he doesnt deserve this!! the lack of communication is not solely HIS fault!!#hes not the only one at fault for every issue this damn school has !!!#'im so pissed #bc WHYYY bring up these concerns only at the end of the year ???? like #AND almost no one outside of the student council even KNOWS ab this whole issue #like theres chalk and papers set up on the outside of my swchools enterance to educate students #I bet these fuckers are gonna use the several fights that've happened as 'a display of incompetence' on the principals part #like miss me with that shit tbh

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void-kissed · 2 years ago

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don't mind me sifting through both the Sapphire server and the KHUX Wiki purely for the sake of making one or two throwaway lines in this writing more game-accurate

#it's set right after the keyblade war!! the keyblade war event was september 2019!! so i can't give clio medals that didn't exist yet!!#ahh this brings back memories.. of us trying to get the foretellers because they were the anniversary medals..#of trying for ava and ira and ending up with invi on the first pull after someone else helped me through that month's hades cup..#of my old best friend literally swapping unions for a day for the sake of avoiding fighting a foreteller they got stuck on #(considering ava reflected upright damage I feel like it might have been ava)#aaaaaaah i'm reminiscing about this game agaaaaaain #a call from the void #heart of the void #at least that was how this was supposed to have started. but it turned from a clio post to a general KHUX post #love: crown of clovers (clio)#sort of #thankfully we had KH3 xion by this point so that sorts out most utility stuff #and i'm giving her ultimate sora because she deserves to have had ultimate sora. he was a very good medal

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captainjonnitkessler · 9 months ago

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Texas Republicans banned local governments from mandating water breaks for workers, Florida Republicans are trying to ban local governments from mandating heat protection for workers, and Kentucky Republicans are trying to repeal the state's mandated lunch and rest breaks for workers, and somehow Republicans are still getting away with presenting themselves as "the party of the working class"

#this is of course on top of the general republican attempt to destroy union and labor protections across the board #working in construction and listening to my coworkers wax rhapsodic about the republican party #is like watching someone slam their face into a brick wall repeatedly and then tell you that the wall is protecting them #from government overreach #and not to sound like a broken record but while democrats don't care that much about labor they aren't trying to actively dismantle rights #and my state democrats got me mandated sick leave when my union wouldn't fight for it #labor rights #us politics

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daydreamerdrew · 2 years ago

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Iron Man (1968) #60

#normally when these comics get into politics it’s awkward and falls flat for me #I think partially because I’m not the expected target audience with regards to age #and partially because I’m not living and reading these comics in the era that they were created in #I didn’t have particularly high hopes for this storyline in that regard #considering how a few issues ago Tony was fighting against #how the Mandarin tricked a bunch of Tony’s employees into believing that he was a communist #and so protesting against him and going on strike and trying to join a union secretly run by the Mandarin #and Tony was talking about how he needed to stop the strike before it destroyed his company #and even the depiction of the pacifist versus violent radical conflict last issue was awkward #but I actually surprisingly really like this #obviously Tony’s reaction when he’s called out for creating weapons that killed a lot of people leaves a lot to be desired #but I actually like it #he’s being pressured on both his use of violence as Iron Man and the ramifications of his work at Stark Industries #which is more convincing than if they were just doing the Stark Industry stuff and not acknowledging Iron Man’s violence #and Tony not handling it perfectly isn’t story breaking for me because I don’t expect him to be a perfect person #and am just interested in him being an interesting character #marvel #tony stark #my posts #comic panels

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shannonsketches · 4 months ago

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My fandoms and my fandom neighbors!

TODAY, August 12, 2024, The Animation Guild begins negotiations with the AMPTP to win a new contract for animation. This is a huge fight with severe stakes for the future of the Animation Industry in the US, and the guild needs your support!

TAG is fighting, Right Now, to stop exploitative practices that are weaponized against animation professionals across the globe, and working hard to ensure this industry has a future here in the states.

If you are a fan of animation, whether it's major or independent studios, eastern or western, tv or movies, we need you to get LOUD in support of The Animation Guild. The crews who work so hard to bring these works to life are struggling to pay their bills, if they can find work at all, while studio CEOs are getting multi-million dollar raises to cancel projects and gut streaming libraries.

We can win this fight, but we need public outcry and support. If you work in animation, if you've ever dreamed of working in animation, or if you just love animation, please stand with TAG and support the union effort to keep animation a viable career and a valuable medium!

Check out the Website Here: #StandWithAnimation

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#StoryCraftUnite #Trollhunters #Gravity Falls #Angel Dust #Scooby Doo #Vegeta #StandWithAnimation #stand with animation

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