#working immigrants

[saywhat-politics]

Conservative Spanish-language media personalities are claiming that Trump will not deport working immigrants or those without a criminal background. In truth, Trump has vowed to stage the “largest deportation operation in American History,” and “no one is off the table.”

[transmasculinizing]

are we feeling the schadenfreude today?

[sarcastic-clapping]

sorry but it’s very funny to see maga idiots splitting with trump and feeling betrayed because he ran on such a huge anti-immigration platform, but now some of his closest high-profile business allies like elon musk are singing the praises of the H-1B skilled worker visa program and talking about how they should remove the cap on certain non-immigrant visa types that they depend on to run their businesses.

like. who’s going to tell them that trump is widely known to staff all his resorts and properties with foreign workers that are here on H-2B seasonal work visas? and that the justification he’s given is that they’re seasonal low wage jobs that don’t appeal to american workers? you know, because he’s not willing to pay a living wage or offer any benefits to make those jobs more appealing and would rather exploit cheap foreign labor for maximum profits.

it’s almost like….the issue isn’t immigration or immigrants “stealing” american jobs, it’s the wealthy owning class being unwilling to sacrifice even a minuscule little sliver of profit to offer fair wages and decent benefits for the work required to keep their businesses operational. but idk. just a thought.

[bixels]

The idea that uni protesters are "elitist ivy-league rich kids larping as revolutionaries" on Twitter and Reddit and even here is so fucking funny to me if you actually know anything about the student bodies at these unis. Take it from someone who's going to one of the biggest private unis in the US, 80% of the peers I know are either from the suburbs or an apartment somewhere in America, children of immigrants, or here on a student visa. I've heard about one-percenter students, but I've never met one in person. Like, don't get me wrong, the institution as a whole is still very privileged and white. I've talked with friends and classmates about feeling weird or dissonant being here and coming from such a different background. But in my art program, I see BIPOC, disabled, queer, lower-income students and faculty trying to deconstruct and tear that down and make space every day. So to take a cursory glance at a crowd of student protesters in coalitions that are led by BIPOC & 1st/2nd-gen immigrant students and HQ'd in ethnic housings and student organizations and say, "ah. children of the elite." Get real.

[reineydraws]

so there's this post that talks about how people call jason's curved knife a kris but it's not a kris 'cuz why would he have a southeast asian knife? and op's tags say if you're gonna give him an 'exotic' weapon at least make him malay or something. a later reblog adds a filipino kris as an example, and then i was like, 'omg, jason in a barong tho.' SO i tried designing a bat-barong inspired by his hood logo, for a filipino jason haha. and now here we are! 😊✨️🇵🇭

[annabelle--cane]

next up: sam and celia get married for immigration purposes

[barrel-crow-n]

Having my headcanon that Kaz actually speaks lots of languages (because of his great memory and love of spying and eavesdropping) and that he makes Nina translate for no reason because he finds it funny be supported by @19burstraat is so validating

[cloudabserk]

i hate my boss i hate my boss i hate my boss

[hacash]

I really wish more schools would teach that elections are, fundamentally, a mathematics problem. and I understand why we don't like to look at it like that because that's a horrible, horrible way to look at the world - far easier to look at voting as a hero's journey, grabbing your sword and standing up against the system, than doing an equation with peoples' lives - but unfortunately that's what democracy is. picking the least shit option not for your own edification, but because if you don’t the more shit option will get in.

like, I can't blame anyone for being mad at a particular party for treating a certain group of people awfully, that just means you have moral standards, but it's a basic fact that before every election you have to do a little maths problem in your head. and for this election cycle that problem looks a little like 'X party causes 100 units worth of harm vs Y party causes 5000 units amount of harm; oh, and either X or Y will win the election regardless of my abstention; sacrificing my vote with abstention or a third party is, sadly, a fantasy for kids; so what am I prepared to do that will result in the least harm done.’

like. that's how it works. it sucks. I get it. I don't know a single country with a voting system that works perfectly. I don’t know of a single example in human history where they got a perfect voting system. there's a reason why democracy is known as being the least bad option out there. it's still the option you need to preserve and engage in.

[lifeisstrange-incorrectquotes]

PLEASE STOP HARASSING DECK NINE DEVS AND LIS PLAYERS WHO DON'T AGREE WITH YOU.

Death threats are not okay.

Telling people to kill themselves is not okay.

Harassing people over fictional ships is not okay.

Harassing people over their opinion of a game is not okay.

Harassing already overstressed, overworked employees is not okay. ESPECIALLY since it's been documented they've been working under discriminatory and predatory management, been through multiple crunches, and have an unidentified neo-Nazi on their team who management did not properly address and fire.

You can still be critical of a game and not harass the people who made it. Hell, you can absolutely hate a game and still be respectful to the people who made it. I'm sure the creators are far more likely to listen to the fans if we give constructive criticism than if we irresponsibly and cruelly send threats.

I know most people who see this haven't sent hate, and to those people: this post isn't about you. I massively respect you for maintaining your rationality and empathy. But for those who have sent hate or are thinking of doing so, please reconsider. Sending hate isn't going to change anything; it'll only break the fandom even further apart and stress out overworked employees. If you're going to be mad, be mad at the higher-ups at Square Enix for turning the franchise into a cash cow and at the upper management at Deck Nine for overworking and alienating their employees. (Also be mad at that 1 neo-Nazi because seriously, WTF!?)

But please, even to the worst of the worst, do not send death threats or harass people.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

writing an anne of the island book review that's actually about my grandmother who immigrated to canada after nazi occupation during the war and first learned to read as a maid because the man she worked for wasn't used to having staff and so was ok with her reading through the library and the first book she picked up was anne and she loved that series all her life and it's about how things are lost and you can never go back but you have a duty to keep finding joy in things and how everything can change for the better as well as for the worse I think it's gonna slay so hard I have absolutely no idea if my uni's literary journal will accept it

[dykedvonte]

Do you have anything you've been thinking on but just haven't made a post about it yet? Also I'm really enjoying your fic!

I have a few things but it's likely mostly headcanons that I consider somewhat disconnected from my analysis.

Curly's parents had him old, only child, died shortly after he graduated and got the pony express position. It was the last big thing they saw him do which is a reason he stayed for so long.

Doesn't admit how much their death affected him

Jimmy has a largish family. One of the cases of too many kids to keep tract of, parent never really noticed any of them nor their behaviors

Anya lived in a lot of houses growing up, regular supportive family that just struggled to support themselves.

Became a nurse largely to avoid their financial struggles but mostly because she felt too many people weren't being cared for and advocated for in the world properly

Swansea likes high top sneakers most. Likes how snug they fit and how they shield his ankles at work

Curly has a bit of a caffeine problem since he can’t sleep. Can occasionally be found wandering the ship at “night” when he had some too late or just couldn’t sleep.

Daisuke knows a little about a lot of things. Starts conversations with “did you know” a lot but please don’t ask him deeper questions

Curly has known Jimmy longer but has worked with Anya and Swansea longer, met them during his middle years, met Jimmy shortly before college.

Swansea rents a house, Daisuke’s family lives in a big nice apartment, Curly has a condo, Anya live in a small one bedroom apartment and Jimmy has a studio.

Curly's home is very disconcerting. It's too normal to a like uncanny degree.

Anya is ambidextrous but prefers her left.

Anya and Curly are both not native English speakers so occasionally they forget words and bond over the mutual mocking they get from the rest of the crew. Daisuke knows some Japanese but is still learning, never picked it up as a kid

Only Swansea and Daisuke know how to drive, Earth in my mind is very post capitalist so only older people and like the extremely wealthy can afford cars.

It's also like walkable just due to how many businesses are in your face. Probably strict living vs shopping districts

I have more but the way that I headcanon about them is like too long.

[joanofarcisdead]

re: that last post i miss when artists could be a little bit mean to their fans who were getting a little too chummy. shattering the soap bubble illusion of the parasocial relationship and revealing it for what it is: an illusion, a fiction, or, at the very least, an intimacy of distance (that is mostly one-sided!!). you don't know me and i don't know you. i'm not one of your little friends so don't start talking to me like i am. frank and gerard were so good at this before they were run off twitter and now without a little bit of that meanness, fans are out here proselytizing about how they know the ontological truth of these dudes' innermost experiences of identity based on a series of performances (as if anyone can know anyone's innermost truths, nonetheless knowing the innermost truths of far-distant strangers). we have GOT to let band dudes break their fans' hearts more the scene DEPENDS on it

[maria-ruta]

I'm having a bad mood today

Would you draw my blorbo for me please?

[godl3ssingodscountry444]

I remember the first time I ever listened to Ethel Cain a couple years ago I was stunned by her music. I was genuinely in awe of the narrative and aesthetic she had crafted. This photo was the first one I had seen aside from her album cover and I remember thinking that she had so much mystique around her. She had an allure to her persona and her music that I found enchanting and a sound that I couldn't find anywhere else. The first song I ever heard was Ptolemaea and I was terrified by the haunting screams, the voice of death, and the image she created; I loved it. I listed to the entire album that night and all I wanted was to know everything about this mysterious artist. I listened to her discography over the course of a couple months and the picture she painted of america felt both so far and so close to the life I lived. I think part of it is that I don't feel american because although I live here, this is not where me or my family are from and she helped me to understand what life is like for a "normal american". She made the ordinary life feel cinematic. The picture of an americana summer, hot, sweaty, lustful, violent captured my attention and made me understand and engage with this country in a way that I hadn't before. Just something on my mind, I wrote an essay about Preacher's Daughter, maybe if people see this I might post it, I think it's pretty good. Xxx

[rotzaprachim]

honestly I think anti-intellectualism is a huge red flag and line in the sand but also a practical policy issue like. Nurses, teachers, engineers, technicians, electricians, social workers, family business owners, agronomists, and auto mechanics are all people that very frequently require college degrees that can then be very difficult to pay off, and abandoning debt forgiveness as “not a working class issue” is an abandonment of the modern working class and it’s problems. People are disinsentivised to take up the blue collar positions as they exist in the increasingly mechanized, technical workplace if they won’t have their debts forgiven, and a lot of the “greener” versions of jobs, particularly as related to greener and decolonizing food systems jobs and clean energy, require additional education. For some of the blue dog democrats I think this drawing a thoooose educated rich out of touch folk versus us true working class folk is a kind of pandering to the base but for others I think it’s that they literally don’t know what the sign up requirements to be a smaller scale farmer or electrician in the modern U.S. (and many other places!!!!) is