Describing it as “one of the darkest days in American history,” President-elect Joe Biden denounced Wednesday’s spectacular assault on the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. as a coup attempt fomented by Donald Trump.
Yet, almost at the same time as the future president was denouncing Trump’s coup attempt, he was appointing Victoria Nuland — the driving force behind the 2014 insurrection that overthrew the Ukrainian government of Viktor Yanukovych — as his new Under Secretary for Political Affairs.
Part of my roadtrip tool me to Atlanta. And, the Civil Rights Center was amazing. Very powerful. They have this one exhibit where you sit at a lunch counter and close your eyes and put on headphones. And It plays sounds like you are at a sit in and people are yelling. And it times how long you can sit there for. I think i lasted almost a minute before i was almost crying.
It…made its point.
And most of those people were being physically assaulted too
That’s a brilliant exhibit
If you make it long enough, the chair actually shakes a little, along with the sound of someone hitting the chair with a bat. It was super intense. (It included a trigger warning for obvious reasons.)
What’s the address of this place? It’s now on my bucket list
100 IVAN ALLEN JR. BLVD Its right next to the aquarium and world of coca cola.
What’s also really great is there’s an attendant too. If a person gets overwhelmed or has a panic attack the attendant will sit with them, console them, and give them tissues. AKA guess what happened to me when I used the headphones
This is one of my favorite museums of all time. Last time I went there was an older couple (white girl and black guy) who I watched sit through it, and at the end they were crying and she hugged him, saying “I’m so sorry I wasn’t there with you”
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
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Hannah Arendt, “Thinking and Moral Considerations”, Social Research, vol 38 (via philosophybits)
It’s McDonald’s, it’s not supposed to be a high paying job
People deserve to make enough to live on. That’s not up for debate. This idea that some jobs aren’t “supposed to” pay enough for people to get their needs met is bullshit. Nobody should be living in poverty.
Yes, but it’s McDonald’s. It’s not meant to be a job to support a family, it’s mainly for support for teens or side jobs.
No, it’s not.
There is no such thing as a job “for teens” (and even if there was, they deserve a fair wage for their labor, too.) Nobody should get paid so little that they need “side jobs.”
Funny story- I am a manager at a Mc Donald’s. Do you know? We have a set limit of minors- teenagers- we can employ. It’s barely over a dozen. Most locations open at 6am… guess what, on week days minors cannot work before they are out of school, or before 730am if they are out of school (GED and the like) also 730am on weekends. Minors cannot work after 10pm on weekdays, and after Midnight on weekends. My location closes at 11pm Sunday to Thursday, and 1am on Friday and Saturday. Because of labor laws here, they may not have more than 20 hours a week, and cannot work more than 5 hours in a single day.
So no. This is absolutely not a job just for teens. We have a giant compactor that crushes and crushes our trash. If you’re not 18 you’re not allowed to operate it. Anything sharp? Are you 18? Can’t touch it. Being a manger? Are you out of high school and at least 18? Forget it.
And honestly, I wouldn’t make any of the kids at my job deal with our customers when they’re going feral. Do you know how bat shit y’all are?? I had a woman start crying because we ran out of the Mc Rib and caused a scene in my drive-thru for 10 minutes. I’ve had old men cussing me out because Corp decided to bump a senior coffee from .99 to 1.09. Though if you sit inside, which they all do for well over two hours every morning… refills are free.
We have a lady here who we call “Princess Diamond” because she’s so fucking entitled she gave us a bad review on the McVoice because we served a homeless man and he sat to close to her… which was across the entire goddamn lobby. Would you really want a teen trying to deal with this woman??
I sure as shit don’t. I don’t allow her to deal with most of my Crew, actually. I’m as nice as freaking sugar in your tea to her face but if she gets rude I start slamming her order down on the tray. And as my Crew knows, the sweeter my voice gets the more trouble your in. She doesn’t stay long on days were I start getting aggressive with her food.
Side tracked- but no. We have so many things that need to be done all day long that we can’t legally let a minor do. A sister location was just fined over $5,000.00 because of labor violations pertaining to minors.
Just pay us so we can live. Please. A lot of these teens are trying to move out and get into apartments. But if an apartment costs 800.00 in rent and that’s usually one of the two checks a month an adult gets. Maybe. That’s a struggle even for myself, and it’s just my roommate, our dumb cat, and me. No children. He has a worse paying job.
We just want to be able to live.
This goes for any minimum wage job.
The minimum wage, when it was set in 1938 as the United States was coming out of the Depression, was intended to be the minimum you needed to be able to pay your bills and raise a family on a single income. Not this bullshit we have today. It’s as low as it is because it hasn’t kept up with inflation.
Like, not only is working in fast food one of the hardest fucking jobs because it’s hot, it’s dangerous, and it’s full of the worst customers, but it’s also disrespected constantly, and people don’t think you deserve to be able to pay your bills.
If you don’t support raising minimum wage to a living wage, MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING MCMUFFIN AT 6AM YOU CANCEROUS CHUDLUMP
I’ve worked in fast food for over a year and there is essentially no pros. Many of my coworkers are 30+; many have college educations. Some of them are family to me. These aren’t bad people or stupid people or people who for whatever reason don’t deserve to afford to live after spending all day serving your lazy ass.
Like five years ago I saw a post on this website that was like “unfollow me if you support Trump or if you are Trump” and I’ve been on-again off-again remembering that post ever since for just the confident, unironic, completely serious implication from OP that Donald Trump himself may not only be on tumblr, but that he might very well be following your pastel Undertale RP blog burdening you with the responsibility of informing him he’s not welcome there.
All that to say that post has now skyrocketed to the forefront of my mind as tumblr fast approaches becoming the last social media platform to ban him. I’m gonna check my follower list and find tumblr user notrealdonaldtrump rooting through my garbage because he liked my hot anime takes and gravity falls gifs and im gonna have to chase him out with a broom
I really hope that you’ll give this a listen. I’ve considered myself an antifaschist for awhile now, but I’m starting to think that our approach is off. I was never able to put it into words until now. https://youtu.be/LCiAfD2EDvY
The interviewer is longtime leftist, organizer, and folk singer David Rovics. He can absolutely be trusted.
The tldr is that physically fighting fash, while useful in the short term to protect our communities, leads to escalation and further radicalization over the long term and makes things more dangerous for everyone involved. We need to be primarily focused on community outreach (largely done), building dual power, and deradicalizing the far right. In the end they are pissed off at the system for many of the same reasons that we are; they’re being misled and focusing on the wrong enemy. It’s a result of the divide and conquer tactic that the ruling class seems all too happy to employ.
It is entirely possible that one day there will be no more fash, no more proud boys or white nationalists- but it won’t be because they were beaten into submission. That’s never worked. It will be because enough people gave a thought about and then did something about the material and ideological circumstances that created them. Problems must be solved at the source.
Heimbach has done anything to make anyone believe he’s reformed besides a pretending to be in order to make some fast $$$ and dupe people like you into taking his advice about what antifa should be doing?
But OK, aside from that, here are some other things you seem to be wrong about:
1) Antifa = Violence, violence, violence. The reality, Anon, is that 99% of antifascist work is non-violent. You don’t get to see that because the media & youtubers are incentivized to focus only on the violence. Anyone with even a cursory involvement in the antifascist movement would know this.
2) Physical community self-defence, de-radicalization, community outreach, and “dual power,” are mutually exclusive. Again, Anon, 99% of our work focuses on the middle two. Physical community self-defence (or “violence” as you might describe it) doesn’t actually come up that often, tbh. The Leninist/Maoist concept of “dual power” is not one accepted by all or even a majority of antifascists, because anti-fascism is a broad-based movement of people with all sorts of political ideologies, who tend to set their ideological differences aside while we try to stop fascists from murdering people.
3) Fighting fascists doesn’t help long-term and only radicalizes them further. The truth of the matter is that physically opposing fascists (which is self-defence by definition), raises the membership stakes of fascism and is as likely to force fascists to reconsider their choices as it is to further radicalize them. The 100-year history of anti-fascism bears this out. The experience of every credible anti-fascist crew we know bears this out. The personal experiences of members of our own anti-fascist collective - some of whom have been doing this work for over three decades now - bears this out.
Also: how can you make this claim while simultaneously supporting the idea that Matt Heimbach - who we fought many times in many locations - is now a “reformed” white supremacist? Your example contradicts your point.
Also: can we talk about how privileged your position is? Last year, we documented 372 people being murdered by fascists. Only a person that doesn’t face an existential threat from fascism would make the argument that standing up to fascist aggression is counter-productive.
4) Fighting fascists has never worked. Dude, have you read 20th century history? Come on now.
5) We must prioritize dealing with the source of all society’s ills instead of defending our communities against physical attack by fascists. There is no consensus in the anti-fascist movmenet about “the source” of all problems. Anti-fascism is a non-sectarian, broad-based movement of people, many of whom will disagree with you about your perceived source of societal ills. We put those differences aside because fighting back against fascism is a priority than political debate right now. Because people are being murdered.
And now you want to claim that we shouldn’t oppose these fascists in the streets? That they should just be left unopposed out there or that the cops can deal with them while anti-fascists focus on “the material and ideological circumstances that created them?”
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