Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
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.
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?
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."
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.
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.
It’s why the right wing invented ‘cancel culture’, to try to demonize people banding together to change things. This kind of public pressure is a form of people-power. There’s a nasty side to it all, but this is an existential battle for the writers and a mild inconvenience to Drew and Bill. I know what side I’m on.
It’s only ok to ‘cancel’ if a trans woman promotes a shitty beer. Otherwise it’s a problem.
Cancel culture is fucking terrible in most cases. Let’s not excuse it because of some rare cases where it achieved something good.
Do you have any specific examples? I assume you must, since according to you, most of the cases are fucking terrible.
Well there were the Dixie Chicks getting canceled by conservatives for opposing the war. Probably not an example the fella you’re replying to wants to admit to, tho.
Jenna Marbles? Kentaro Kobayashi? Pretty much anyone who got “cancelled” for stuff they said or did 10 years before?
People should be held accountable for what they’re currently doing, ruining a career for something that happened ages ago which no one at the time found wrong is just stupid.
EDIT: Meanwhile, can you tell me some other examples of cancel culture actually doing something good? Because looking at common examples it seems pretty much every time it targeted someone who actually deserved it nothing came out of that (JK Rowling, Chris Brown… even people like Hulk Hogan or Kanye West are still around and doing sold-outs)
I never understood this view. What’s so terrible about not supporting people or things you don’t agree with? That’s what people should be doing.
It’s not about not supporting, it’s generating outrage online about stuff nobody cared about until the day before.
I’m all for not supporting people who don’t deserve it, I regularly do it too. But one thing is ignoring and another is actively harassing people for stuff they probably already forgot about.
Again, as I said in other comments, I’m not talking about boycotting. You obviously shouldn’t support people you don’t like. But you also shouldn’t create online campaigns against them, unless they’re currently doing something bad and you want it to stop, which is not the case most of the time.
“Cancel culture” is a catch-all slur. You can tell it’s effective because of how you phrased your post instead of considering who is being “canceled” and the reason for it. Bad guys are trying to catch a free pass by highlighting less serious offenses and calling it the same thing.
I don’t really see it like that, unless it’s something mainly done on right-wing circles.
If people don’t want to stay on Twitter or Facebook because of all the stuff their owners are doing, that’s not Cancel Culture, that’s just having a brain. To me, a response to serious offenses is definitely not cancel culture, you can’t “cancel” billionaires.
If not “cancel culture” though, what would you call what happens to those “less serious” offenders? Just “large-scale harassment”?
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”
If they’re not already IATSE (which I’d assume they are), how would that help here? IATSE members all over the continent are out of work right now, being represented doesn’t change that. Nor does it change how much it sucks to get jerked around by twits like this.
Your comment makes no sense.
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.
I’m so tired of PR filled apologies by celebrities. Eat shit.
