When you write the rules in violence, don’t be surprised when the gentle respond in kind.
What the fuck is this even supposed to mean
thank you for asking. it is a direct response to the right-wing movement’s “keep the peace” rhetoric that suffices every page of “minion memes are funny” facebook. it is a direct response to the incredibly, incredibly ignorant demand that those who are being oppressed simply deal with it.
black people are being shot for being black by a militant police. millions of dollars pour into arming individuals who report domestic violence rates of two to four times larger than the general population. when black children are arrested for attending pool parties, the police officers are given the benefit of the doubt because “blue lives matter.” black children are not given any benefit. they are told to sit down and shut up and be un-violent, with the promise that if they are a peaceful people, they’ll be slaughtered someplace less public. when a man kneels, this is seen as offensive and degenerate. but police officers committing felonies is “just how it is.”
school children are being killed because individuals love a tool more than they love the incoming generation. despite the fact we know, as an open fact, that the NRA buys politicians, we are told to sit on our hands and just buy a gun if we don’t feel safe around them. the american schooling system is entirely built to be classist and currently forces college grads who didn’t die into a system of debt that ensures little to no upwards mobility for many students, ensuring the creation of a lower class that is indebted to the higher class. students are assured that Miss betsy deVil has their best interests at heart while she absolutely annihilates every chance they’ve got.
women speaking out about sexual assault get silenced so much that it takes forty women saying “yes, he does this, it happened to me” before someone is actually charged with assault. we literally live in a world where “incel” is a real thing women have to watch out for; a community set around the idea that men are owed a woman as a reward. these men and other men kill women for rejecting them. women are assured if they stop dressing like sluts and started giving these good honest men a chance, we would be hurt so much more delicately, without the man feeling nearly so close to guilty.
two years ago was the pulse shooting, where a latinx gay community was targeted, yet nobody talked about it on tv. instead every news caster pretended to be reeling: “what could he have wanted possibly.” this world, this america, this land-of-the-free, has gay/trans “panic defense” as a legal precedent in which i can be murdered if a straight person perceives an “unwanted homosexual advance”. i will not be around to defend myself, because i will be dead. i am assured that if i want to be upset about these things, i can just take my cake to another bakery. that it’s someone’s right to discriminate against me, because apparently freedom of speech covers bigotry.
we have been told backwards and forwards and upside down that everything we do is violent. that our peaceful protests are riots. that our legal demands are taking away from real problems. that we are not being good, that the violence enacted upon us isn’t really violence, it’s just The Way It Is. They quote MLK to us while they step on our necks. the anger we have is always too much, too loud, too valid. it Upsets The Peace.
i’m saying: you made the game. you set it up and played. you made sure we were always, always, always losing.
you don’t get to be surprised when we return what you gave us. you don’t get to cry “hate begets hate” instead of stopping the original bigotry in the first place. you don’t get to say it’s not fair! when you’re the ones who made it unfair to begin with. you don’t get to turn the other cheek to nazis but call anti-nazis a disgrace while whining and keening you’re not actually a racist. you don’t get to ban abortion for the “sake of the children” and then turn your nose because people are protesting children in cages. you don’t get to wring your hands now that people are punching nazis rather than sitting them down and letting them have a say. i’m saying you made the fucking rules!!
we just figured out how to play.
THIS!!! As an European I never understood the “be kind to them” rhetoric. Got in a heated argument with someone who I quite like, about “they should forgive this old Nazi who actively participated in murder of 3,000 people in Ukraine, and not put him through the trial, because he’s old”. Well, the murdered people did not get a chance to be old.
Be kind to someone who thinks he has RIGHT to rape you and/or kill you? I don’t think so. Where’s the famed American right to self-defence? Looks like it only applies to white dudes with guns, “scared” of homosexuals and black people.
See, what the race-to-the-bottom people forget is one simple fact:
The average cost to replace a minimum-wage retail employee, according to a study by the Center for American Progress, is $3,328. And that’s a lowball. Basically, any time somebody quits or is fired, it costs the company money. A lot of money. New employees are also less productive (because it takes people longer to do things they are less familiar with). Employee churn is very expensive.
The Wal-Mart (and Amazon) model is to consider employees as expendable robots. They completely dismiss the costs of hiring, onboarding, training, reduced productivity during the training period, etc, because “these people are cheap.”
Costco treats employees as “appreciating assets” – that is to say, employees become more valuable over time. Therefore, it is better and more productive to only replace employees who aren’t doing their jobs.
Let’s take a warehouse worker in a large facility. A new worker will waste time remembering which aisle it is, may take a longer route there, etc. Somebody who has been there a year has it down cold. They’ll pick the item far quicker than the new person. This improves productivity, which improves profits.
But for some reason a lot of companies don’t seem to grasp this.
All they see is the paycheck, when the actual figure they should be looking at is the profit a worker produces. That is to say, the difference between productivity and pay. Raising pay causes people to stick around and become more productive, which actually increases the profit in the long term.
We need to stop thinking so short term.
Oh my god. Costco employees get paid better than starting teachers in my school district.
(Which is not to say they should be paid less. We should be paid more.)
Good job Costco. I’ll definitely be taking my business there in the future.
True! I often (actually, almost always) shopped at Costco when I lived in Ottawa. The employees were significantly nicer, more helpful and efficient than in any other chain grocery store. They would smile and joke with each other and the clients. There were no what I call “retail robots” – stressed out, tired people with glazed eyes who just wanted to be left alone and go home. I once made a remark about it to the cashier. She said “we get a decent pay and we are treated well, best retail job I’ve ever had”. IT IS POSSIBLE.
Mark the electrician has been here for five minutes and he’s already said “well that’s…weird” twice from the other room and frankly I’m afraid to ask.
It’s not good when skilled tradesman are standing in the middle of your room pinching the bridge if their nose, is it?
Mark just referred to the wiring in our bedroom as “creative” and “interesting”.
This is fine.
And now he’s taking apart the ceiling. I’m not worried, are any of you worried? I’m not, haha, it’s not like this house was previously owned by someone who would do something stupid like try to wire their house themselves…or store tins of varnish under the furnace behind a secret alcove…
Ha ha…
Ha.
Hm.
Fuck.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO NEUTRAL WIRES??!?
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S GROUNDED INTO THE SCREWS HOLDING UP THE CEILING LIGHT???!?!!
I want to know more about this house
Ahh, it’s only money …
Seriously, having owned a few 60+ year old homes, it’s never simple to fix anything because even if what was done was ok under the building codes at the time it was installed … it’s probably not any longer. I once bought a house with a “computer bedroom” – I realized when it was inspected pre-purchase it was the only room besides the kitchen (ALL the major appliances in the house – stove, fridge, water heater, washer & drier – lived in the kitchen) where the sockets were properly grounded, so it was the only room the previous owner plugged in his electronics.
Look at it this way – your house hasn’t burned down yet. Now that you KNOW, of course, ya gotta make things safe®.
The Creative House Renovations! I bought a house in Toronto… it had a nicely drywalled basement. EVERY light socket, outlet, switch, EVERYTHING was dry walled in. The flushing mechanism in the toilet tank was held together with a string. The living room was freshly painted white, AROUND the furniture. Oh, the memories!
You may be bitter, but don’t call the England team or players colonisers thanks
Fam, the English football team literally had an ad for the World Cup saying “empires can be rebuilt”. If you glorify your racist, violent, exploitive history, you’re gonna be called out lmaoooo
Damn colonizers colonize and then cry when we call them out.
I’ve already said this, but the colonisation was ages[centuries] ago so you’re not really “calling us out” when we, the modern English, did not do it
……India gained its independence in the 1940s. The british empire only officially ended in 1997 when Hong Kong was transferred to China. Colonialism was less than a century ago, it’s not just the act of conquering colonies but also the act of owning and subjugating them while denying conquered peoples their independence
and like i saw english people reblogging a post comparing brazilians with drug dealers, like its something new. peoples been racist like that for a long time
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I love it when someone gets that thunderbolt “I wanna do this forever” moment. It’s amazing to see that change in them once they’ve got an actual concrete dream to work towards.
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