I did an entire college paper about how Terminator 2 is a deeply feminist movie about a woman fighting the system for custody of her son, and BOY FUCKING HOWDY you know there was an entire section on the T-1000 being a cop. It’s not even subtle people holy shit.
On 13 June 1973, 1500 strikers at the Ford factory in Broadmeadows, Melbourne, fought a six-hour battle with the police to close the plant. The police tried to disperse their picket line by riding horses into them.
The strikers said they would not go back to work or leave the area until the rest of the workers inside joined them outside, on strike. Their sheer militancy turned the tide. Throughout the day, the workers still inside walked out. The company was forced to close the gates and the four-week-old strike gained new strength, and the police did not arrest a single striker that day.
The Ford Broadmeadows strike was one of the most explosive and militant disputes in the history of the Australian union movement. And at its heart were migrant workers. Around 75 per cent of the 6000 workers at Ford were migrants, most of them on the assembly line. Like generations of migrant workers since, they faced increased exploitation compared to the majority of Australian-born workers. [video]
And a not insignificant number of millenials are unsure if having children is even ethical, given the climate change situation. We’re afraid enough for our own futures, there’s an attitude among many of us that it would be unfair to bring a child into this situation.
And unlike previous generations, a lot of us have been able to realise that having children should be an opt-in process, not an inevitability that we’re all stuck with, and unsurprisingly a lot more people are realising that they are not invested enough in the idea of having kids to make such a huge irreversible commitment. Which is a good thing. Myths like ‘it’s different when it’s your own’ and ‘nobody regrets having children’ are responsible for a lot of misery and deserve to die.
Childcare costs as much as college. How the fuck can anyone afford to have a baby now and still work?
Ever notice how the “have more babies, we need to maintain the population!” people and “don’t let in immigrants, we don’t want a higher population!” people are the same people? Most immigrants are young, or tagging along with young families. This is an easily solvable problem.
Well, that happened in Germany when immigrants entered the country, and ever since, the far-right have been crying, “our culture is being exchanged for them D:”. They advertised with slogans that pretty much suggested, “Germans, go fuck now!”, sounding even more like cave-men than in this translation (I also forgot the exact phrasing, fortunately)
Also, ‘nobody regrets having children’, hell, I do regret that my parents decided to have children, so…
Tangent for the German stuff: The right wing AfD actually has paragraphs in their programm that their goal is both a smaller population in Germany and a higher birth rate.
Forgot to post this, here’s my follow-up to my last article criticizing the Disney monopoly:
I recently argued that “[w]hen theaters rely on a handful of films from the same companies to stay afloat, it gives those companies enormous leverage.” Just one month later, we now know that Disney has already begun taking advantage of this in a new way, by denying repertory theaters access to what one film programmer called “‘steady earners’… You show them, and people turn up.”
The effects of consolidation are especially profound in industries like film, which rely heavily on intellectual-property rights. Giving a film a copyright is essentially giving them monopoly rights over use of the copyright in question. But unlike for many everyday products, competitors can’t simply produce a near-identical alternative to creative works like films for consumers to choose between, because every film is unique by nature. A cheap re-creation of The Sound of Music simply won’t draw in consumers the same way that, say, a generic competitor to headache medicine will. In this way, media giants like Disney function as a monopoly on monopolies—a uniquely powerful arrangement.
In what is itself a sign of the company’s outsized power, the film programmer quoted above “asked not to be named … for fear of angering Disney.” Others working in the struggling independent-theater industry are less shy: The owner of Atlanta’s historic Plaza Theatre estimates Disney’s move may cost the institution 10 to 12 percent of its yearly income. It’s hard to come up with a more salient example of “restraint of trade”: curbing the flow of commerce to control a market. Even in our hands-off antitrust environment, this is supposed to be illegal.
The row over classic Fox films is a recent example of how concentrated market power can distort the economy and our culture, but it isn’t the only one, even for Disney specifically. Disney’s recent calculated moves regarding China’s cultural censorship serve to illustrate how monopolies compound one another’s issues globally…
…As Reuters noted, the [Disney-owned ESPN] network has previously used standard maps of China. But at some point during the Chinese censorship controversy, ESPN started to make clear attempts to minimize open discussion about the topic while also recognizing illegal Chinese territorial claims on American television, all while they and their parent company reassure the public that they seek to be neutral on the issue.
…While Disney increasingly strengthens its grip on U.S. media, the Chinese government maintains a state monopoly on cultural imports. In 2012, Vice President Joe Biden made a deal with the Chinese government raising the quota of foreign films that are allowed to be shown in China at any given time, telling attendees at a conference sponsored by the movie industry association that “your share of box office revenues doubled” shortly after. Deepening the connections between China’s film import monopoly and the media giants controlling the American film industry had the unintended effect of leaving the latter even more reliant on Chinese markets. Selling their films to Chinese markets gave them the motive to begin following cultural instructions from Beijing; their status as the only players with the ability to produce large movies at scale gave them the ability to.
The core problem isn’t that Disney and other media giants are loyal to the Chinese government as opposed to the American one—it’s that they aren’t loyal to anything at all. It’s worth remembering how the Disney CEO phrased his decision to stay “neutral” on the issue: Taking a position wouldn’t be a mistake, taking “a position that could harm our company” would be. By design, market players are solely concerned with their bottom lines, regardless of any greater ethical or economic concerns. But our present system of monopoly capitalism means that those same players are held accountable by neither government regulation nor significant market competition. If crushing independent movie theaters and taking positions on global territorial disputes are profitable activities, we can only expect to see more of it.
As news outlets were shutting down for Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina quietly gave white nationalists $2.5m to settle a lawsuit that hadn’t even been filed
On November 27, just as the courthouses were closing and newsrooms were
going to a skeleton crew, the Board of Governors of the University of
North Carolina – lately stuffed with GOP operatives and seemingly bent
on destroying the university – announced that it would settle a lawsuit
with the Sons of Confederate Veterans – a white nationalist organization
devoted to installing the “traitors’ flag” of the Confederacy across
the south – for $2.5m, diverting millions from educational purposes to
building a Klan museum.
But the story is much weirder than that. The lawsuit that the Board of Governors settled just before the lawsuit was actually filed.
The Board met via closed teleconference, having scheduled the meeting
days in advance, and approved the settlement an hour before they were
served with notice of the filing of the suit.
It gets worse. The issue over the lawsuit was that demonstrators had
toppled a Confederate monument, “Silent Sam,” in August 2018. But the
Sons of Confederate Veterans don’t own the Silent Sam statue, so it’s
difficult to understand how they’d even have standing to sue the
university.
The university agreed to to give the white nationalists custody of the
statue – a participation medal for the traitors who lost the battle to
own their neighbors – and to pay them $2.5m of “non-state funds” (donor
money, royalty money from university patents, etc) to use to build and
maintain a permanent home for the statue, on the condition that it not
be located near campus.
The Board of Governors was appointed by the state General Assembly,
whose GOP majority have received $21,500 from NC Heritage, a PAC
representing the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
On this day, 29 November 1864, the Sand Creek massacre took place, when US troops attacked a peaceful gathering of Cheyenne and Arapaho people, camped under a US flag (content note, this post contains graphic descriptions of violence). The United States had recognised that the Cheyenne and Arapaho possessed large swathes of land covering parts of present-day Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas. But after the discovery of gold in the area, settlers invaded the land to mine it, and eventually the government forced the Indigenous people to sign a new treaty and give up over 90% of their land. Some chiefs believed the new treaty to be a betrayal, and ignored it, but Black Kettle and his band of Cheyenne and Arapaho wanted peace above all and so signed up to. They first moved to Fort Lyon when directed by the US, then relocated to Big Sandy Creek again at the direction of government. Despite doing everything they were told, even flying an American flag and a white surrender flag above their designated US camp, up to 900 troops attacked them while the warriors were out hunting. The soldiers butchered up to 170 unarmed people, mostly women and children, torturing them then scalping and mutilating the victims and cutting out womens’ genitals and attaching them to their hats. Only between 9 and 24 of the attackers were killed. Robert Bent reported in the New York Tribune that he “saw one squaw lying on the bank, whose leg had been broken. A soldier came up to her with a drawn sabre. She raised her arm to protect herself; he struck, breaking her arm. She rolled over, and raised her other arm; he struck, breaking that, and then left her with out killing her. I saw one squaw cut open, with an unborn child lying by her side.” Meanwhile a local newspaper praised the “brilliant feat of arms” and stated the soldiers had “covered themselves with glory”. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1278377659014048/?type=3
People fucking change y’all, looks like she grew as a person. Some of y’all could stand to do the same.
Did some research and bamskies:
Some of yall just wanna make people mad for no fuckin reason lmao. Deadass just caricatures of what everybody thinks a tumblr sjw is. Imagine the kinda clownery that had to go down to stalk this persons profile for a problematic post they made as a kid 5 years ago???? Yall childish.
This is how yall look:
If social justice doesn’t allow for people to change and grow and be forgiven; all you’re doing is demonizing people for the clout of appearing like you’re woke
Rape culture is a world that treats rape victims like suspects and rape suspects like victims.
It’s worth noting that when a robbery occurs no one asks “how did you provoke the burglar? Are you sure you didn’t indicate that you wanted this?” No one says “you should’ve had a better security system to avoid this.”
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