When public services are affordable and convenient, people will always choose those resources. They are not supposed to be a capitalistic profit-seeking initiative, they are developed for the benefit of the people, for a better life, just as government resources should be used. (tweet)
It really is. Here’s Jon Stewart talking about how it somehow gets a free pass.
it’s so fucked up. i remember reading the books expecting there to be a turn in the story, that house elves and goblins would be freed from wizard tyranny, i expected the story to culminate in some sort of a cultural revolution. we got to the part where harry buried dobby, and griphook felt touched that harry showed such respect to a creature that most wizards looked down on so he helped them in turn - and then betrayed them at his earliest convenience and it was all done out of greed. well fuck that shit. literally nothing changed. they killed voldemort and for what? they didn’t put a stop to the ideals that sustained his influence! everyone stayed just as racist and classist as they were before and i read 7 books about the necessity of changing the status quo only for the protagonists to become the status quo in the end with a myriad of social issues never addressed.
it had a really good opportunity for a nice story but it remained unaware of its own themes (unless it was purposefully racist which i wouldn’t presume) and for that it fell flat and we’re left with a story that could have been about racism/classism from the nonracist/nonclassist perspective of the yet uncorrupted youth but what we got was plain old racism and classism with the not-as-subtle-as-we-thought hint of homophobia and transphobia.
Despite coming from one of the worst places on the internet, I always thought this was pretty good analysis of how nothing really changes in the wizarding world because Harry is born from an author who rigidly clings to the status quo rather than the betterment of society.
iron man! transformers! king kong, star trek, the silence of the lambs! dozens of shameless war propaganda films barely disguising themselves as sci-fi or horror that were obvious enough even without this list! there aren’t any real surprises here but its worth a read
David L. Robb wrote a book called Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors Movies. This Film is Not Yet Rated featured a little bit of an interview with him:
“The military and the film studios have colluded for more than 50 years. Anytime filmmakers want military assets - ships or tanks or planes - they have to give the Pentagon five copies of their script. And, if there’s anything in the script that’s negative, the Pentagon wants them to take it out. And so they negotiate, and take out any war crimes or foul language, or drinking. Anything that would make the military look bad. And than, after the agreement is made, the military sends a minder onto the set, when the film is being shot, to make sure it’s shot just the way they agreed. And then, once the film is completed, it has to be shown to the Pentagon, admirals and generals, before it’s shown to the public. Dozens of films have not been made because they couldn’t get military assistance. So, people have no idea what they’re not seeing.”
under captialsim, all work is exploited. we stand together or we dont stand at all.
All service workers deserve unions actually! All workers deserve unions! However, as a starbucks worker who tried and nearly succeeded to unionize my store, let me tell you why many of my coworkers felt that we needed our union:
- starbucks advertises access to benefits at 20 hours a week (great!) and then will do anything in its power to schedule us at 18 or 19 hours a week so that they get our labor without giving us access to Healthcare, education, or any of that shit they advertise. They drop our hours constantly without warning, so people with starbucks health insurance constantly lose it on a dime because the corporation doesn’t feel like helping them get cancer treatment anymore (not an exaggeration, that happened to my coworker)
- we are constantly under staffed and under supported, I do the job of three people every day during my starbucks shifts
- the work is HARD. at least four of my coworkers, myself included, have had to seek medical treatment for workplace injuries in the past year, and starbucks is consistently difficult about getting us compensation for those injuries. When I say medical treatment, I mean weeks of physical therapy that neither workman’s comp or out shitty insurance will foot the bill for.
- I don’t know who told you that food service employees are respected, but I’ve been yelled at, called slurs, threatened with physical force, had things thrown at me, had angry customers dragged out by security guards– we are treated like absolute dog shit.
And finally, one thing my coworkers and I all agreed on was that starbucks is honestly a better company to work for than a lot of other fast food places, but all of that is entirely based on the good will of a corporation. Which you should never fucking trust. Especially in virginia, where I live, many of the things people think of as their rights as workers are not legally protected, which is why it’s important to unionize so you can get a fucking lawyer in the room to hold rich people accountable for the way workers are treated
Imagine being the op and using that much “leftist language and analysis” to pitch working ⚒ class against working class.
The people making your food and café absolutely deserve a union. The workers offering a service absolutely deserve a union.
An injury to one is an injury to all, we need the one big union, to stop idiots like him pitching one set of workers against the other.
“Society actually does need amazon workers.” Um. No. Society does not need the corporate entity Amazon. It does not need the consumerist high paced package purchasing and delivery that Amazon offers. The other functions Amazon performs can be (and used to be (and sometimes still are)) performed by other companies.
Both Amazon and Starbucks offer luxury products at unethically discounted rates. Part of that unethical behavior, that discounting, comes from the violent exploitation of the warehouse and storefront workers respectively. The best thing for society would be the dissolution of both Amazon’s model of consumerism and the entire coffee industry, with the workers employed elsewhere. The second best thing, and the best thing we can hope for and strive for under Capitalism, is the unionization of the workers of both corporations (and of all workers).
This jabroni seriously tried to pit workers against workers over some nonsense, arbitrary definition of necessary lmfao. Get fucked.
