Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
For those who don’t know:
Jack London, Ode to the Scab. 1916.
After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab."
“A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.”
“When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.”
“No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself.” A scab has not.
“Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army.” The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.
Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."
That is fantastic.
What did a toad ever do to anybody? And rattlesnakes are just being rattlesnakes. They’re polite enough to generally warn you to go away before they bite you.
Well, I think rattlesnakes used to be a lot more common. Like maybe you never got bit, but you definitely knew someone, or someone’s kid, that did, and they likely died in utter agony. Pretty much hunted them to near extinction, along with wolves. We go hard on earth.
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He’s one of the GOATs, how could they possibly hate him?
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Benedict, tbh, not the worst guy
Plus it was at the time of his betrayal the revolution looked like it was gonna fail. And he wouldve been right if the United States wasnt born of the same crack addled main protagonist syndrome Rome was born with.
Seriously the US and Rome are both the empire equivalent of a crack addled lunatic who has fought trains and won.
If these scabs really need something to do to kill time during the strike, might I suggest moderating an online forum?
It’s fun.
thanks margot!
i really appreciate you taking the time out of your normally-busy schedule to just be in the river of shit with the rest of us. really makes us feel like our trudge work is worth some respect.
loved you in barbie, btw.
Hey, gotta try new things when you have time right?
Kinda owe it to you guys for me doing the movie promo here.
You did a Barbie promo on Lemmy?
I mean, have you ever wondered why [email protected] has that banner?
Check my older comments too.
I’m still not convinced you’re not someone roleplaying as Margot Robbie.
Does it matter? No one knows if you’re a dog on the internet.
No, I guess not. Woof!
Exactly. Can’t get canceled for saying dumb things on the Internet if I’m not verified.
Margot Robbie is far too hot to hang around us goofballs.
saying dumb things on the Internet
You’ll fit right in, even if you are just somebody roleplaying as Margot Robbie
Just grow weed and sell them.
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Ask our admins. I can handle the android comm OK, but just need energy to do some writing.
If you like, please help out Gabe at literature.cafe, he’s nice, and I do want to see more creative writing stuff here.
just need energy to do some writing.
Watch it! You’re on strike, remember?
The WGA rules only prohibits writing for struck companies.
Also, you do realize WGA and SAG-AFTRA are two different unions, right?
Also, you do realize WGA and SAG-AFTRA are two different unions, right?
I didn’t actually, but it would still look bad if someone from SAG started writing their own scripts, right? Wouldn’t that still be scabbing(is that the word?)?
Double fuck you to the crew on top of the scabbiness.
“Y’all been out of work for months, have a gig that doesn’t cross a line. JUST KIDDING”
IATSE isn’t part of the strike. Most likely because AMPTP would find a way to make American Gladiators with non-union labor, which would be a body blow to the union.
If you’re IATSE, you’re working right now, because the union isn’t on strike.
Edit: upon re-re-re-reading your comment, I now think you’re saying that the crew got fucked over, which I wholeheartedly agree with.
Why are you under the impression IATSE is working right now?
But yes, main point was: crew got fucked over.
Always be mean to scabs.
this is why it kinda annoys me when people are like ‘posting doesn’t actually do anything’ – true, sure, but sometimes it kinda can, sometimes, and making your voice and argument heard is better than being silent
Posting definitely does things. It just needs to reach a lot of people and the right people.
They’re still scabs for even thinking about a return. Fuck those pieces of garbage.
Pregress over perfection. Be glad they listened to the response and adjusted, otherwise they may as well have not bothered and gone ahead anyway.
Pick a scab and they fall off.
Good.
The protest is meaningless. AI will eliminate most of these jobs and there’s nothing that can be done about it.
It can at least be delayed while everyone figures out wtf they’re going to do.
Line up for unemployment?
Multimillionaires fighting with other multimillionaires isn’t exactly what I think of when I think of scab vs union.
Some quick math to put things into perspective:
- 25,000 seconds = ~7 hours
- 40,000 seconds = 11 hours
- 75,000 seconds = ~21 hours
- 100,000 seconds = ~1.2 days
- 250,000 seconds = ~2.9 days
- 500,000 seconds = ~5.8 days
- 1,000,000 seconds = ~11.6 days
- 5,000,000 seconds = 57.9 days
- 10,000,000 seconds = 115.7 days
- 100,000,000 seconds = 3.2 years
- 1,000,000,000 seconds = 31.7 YEARS
Like it or not, the multimillionaires are far closer to us than they are to billionaires. It’s not even close. Even at 100,000,000 you’re far closer to the everyday person.
So yes, I consider a union of actors to be a union, even if the actors are making millions. Our common enemy is still the billionaires and corporations, who are wealthy beyond imagination.
Besides, actors tend to be liberal and do a lot of philanthropy. It’s probably because with all their wealth, they still feel closer to the common person and remember their upbringing.
Solidarity means all workers, even the ones who get paid too much. Don’t fall for the divisions that billionaires want to create.
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If anything, their wealth makes them incredibly powerful allies. They have influence and they’ve been able to take a closer look at the process. The actors striking gave the writers a much needed boost. It’s corny, but I saw a meme for Avengers Infinity War which portrayed the writers and the heroes struggling against the invasion in Wakanda, and then SAG leadership was Thor coming in and turning the tides. It’s obviously a joke, but I think it fits fairly well as an analogy. The Screen Actors Guild is a massive asset.
The investment accounts are an interesting point though. With how it works, a lot of Americans technically own little bits and pieces of the means of production, but not enough to influence things. I’d argue the famous actors probably don’t have much influence either as investors, despite having a lot more invested.
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Ah no worries.
And for sure, you can never be too careful.
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Woo!
The multimillionaires that are supporting the union don’t are doing so because either A) it’s the right thing to do, or B) because the studios may inadvertently trigger the destruction of Hollywood because of greed. Whether because of altruism or mutual self-interest, it’s the right thing to do.
Sure fine whatever but it is stretching the bloody terms. There is a world of differenxe between a near minimum wage sheet metal worker whose family is on food stamps and someone who makes more in a year than most Americans earn in a lifetime.
That assumes that all actors and screenwriters make more in a year than most in a lifetime. In reality they work from job to job, paycheck to paycheck. I know a few people who work in production in Hollywood. They tell me that working on a tv show used to mean steady employment, but now can mean just 4 weeks of work for writers and creative types.
Calling people who are just trying to work and make a living “scabs” is dehumanizing language. Not surprising from the so-called tolerant left.
Go lick some boots
I’m hereby announcing that people who the left vilifies and dehumanizes with hurtful words like “scab” are always welcome to work at any of my businesses.
Your business is licking shit off boots
But it pays min wage so we should support this shitlicker.
None of my businesses are about boot cleaning, but even if they were, it wouldn’t be me doing it, it would be my employees.
Just so you know, the people you cruelly slander with such gross language as “scab” are actually some of the hardest workers. They don’t make absurd demands for more pay and luxurious pampered conditions, they just show up and do the work and take whatever they are given. The way it should be.
All I hear is the shit in your mouth from all the boots you’ve licked
You’re getting the boots trolled off you bro. Satire account.
You sound like you live in your mom’s basement
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Congrats, your business is now patronized by everyone the left hates. Enjoy all the Nazis
The real Nazis are the people calling me mean names and being rude to me on the internet just for having a different opinion.
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I’m not tolerant. Strike Breakers are (generally) awful. We can come up with specific and contrived exceptions (“A poor single disabled ill mother of 9”) but that’s kind of irrelevant.
It’s a troll account. They’re intentionally making bootlicking comments everywhere to get a rise from people.
