Sign the petition on change.org for a guillotine emoji.
petitioning for a fucking emoji epitomizes the criticism that social media is a vehicle for diverting action into impotent dialogue.
retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems, and should not eclipse the important work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.
You mean like when the emoji for gun went from something realistic to a squirt gun?
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Itβs funny how reverting to pictograms is being construed as βnewβ.
retributive violence against individual actors is not the same as dismantling oppressive systems
My problem is that I only understand one of those things. The other is meaningless hot air, spewed exclusively by intellectual elites who may or may not have any idea of what that is even supposed to mean.
work of creating resilient communities and networks of mutual aid to replace those heirarchies.
And that explanation doesnβt tell me anything either. Put up a guillotine. Put the man in. Let the blade fall. I understand that. Create a network of mutual aid to replace hierarchies? Never saw that happen. Never learned about that, or how that is supposed to work. Donβt know what that is supposed to mean, or how that is supposed to play out.
If you assume anyone knows about any of that, and if you assume that anyone can imagine anything concrete about that, you are out of touch. You are communicating ineffectively. At least to me. And probably to most other people as well.
The effect of examples is not to underestimate. Thatβs how they keep workers in check, and thatβs how guillotining a king got 2 centuries of democracy.
incredibly simplistic perspective, and intellectually dishonest; we traded monarchy for a dictatorship of the capital owning class.
Bitching about someone elseβs efforts is just bitching.
You offer to no alternative effort.
If this wasnβt social media, youβd not be saying this for fear of a swift ass whooping.
thank goodness internet tough guys exist to defend limp-dick slacktivism.
hashtag resist
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Didβ¦did he just invent the vacation?
Next up βIβm a CEO who gets hungry in the middle of the day, so I had a sandwich and some chips and found my creative spark.β
more like I had some avocado toast in a nice cafe with my latte. Ah yes, the creative spark.
These are CEOs, itβs more like, βhad my personal chef whip me up an avocado toast reduction over toast made from avocado while flying to the coast for the third time this week and found my creative spark.β
A continuous 30 day vacation is only 20 working days or so. In my country thatβs the government mandated minimum.
I think 25 or 30 workday paid vacation mandate is better for your mental health and productivity.
I actually get βunlimitedβ paid vacation days, which sounds like a bit of a shady practice. But Iβve already taken 30 days this year and I get absolutely no complaints. Iβm planning on taking at least one more week this year.
I canβt imagine not having any vacation days. America sounds nice and all if youβre making 150k+ but Iβd hate to work there at median income.
America is a big place with lots of different employers so your statement really isnβt valid. Plenty of people get a decent amount of vacation even at lower wages. Certainly not enough which is why we need to keep fighting for worker rights. Sorry but statements like yours really make my ass itch because youβre using our suffering to prop yourself up when Iβm sure youβve got plenty of problems in your own country that you remain apathetic and inactive about every day. Youβll probably want to reply that youβre just trying to show some kind of sympathy but thatβs not ever what it comes across as when anyone tries to speak about the lives of people living in a different country.
Things will never improve if we donβt point to something better and aspire to it.
Itβs why Canada sucks so much. Every time one of our problems is being talked about, everyone compares ourselves to the US and shrugs. When you point to something better itβs unattainable, but at least weβre not as bad as america!! Weβre a country of apathy.
Whatβs the point of this whole platform if weβre not exchanging experiences?
I know there there was a feeling by some back on Reddit that Europeans like pissing on the US without self-reflection. Maybe that is partly true, but you also donβt read any of the self-reflections because chances they are in our native languages.
But for me personally I have considered moving to the US as a skilled worker, which if possible is a privileged position to begin with. Iβm in a field that pays much better in the US so I am still envious of colleagues in the US making 1.5 to 2 times what I do. But I just donβt love my job. Iβm pretty good at parts of it, but I hate (read: am bad at) some other necessary parts of my job. So in the end my career options are somewhat limited. So yeah, there is probably a degree of cognitive dissonance involved.
Here is a list of things wrong with the Netherlands, just to balance shit
- Dutch childcare benefits scandal: Government falsely accused vulnerable citizens of fraud, leading to children being placed out of the house, bankruptcies, and even suicides
- Youth minimum wage (though being phased out)
- Labour exploitation through flexible contracts
- Terrible working and housing conditions for foreign slaughterhouse workers
- Nitrogen crisis
- Housing crisis, partly because of demographic developments (fewer people per house, slight growth through immigration) but now also because of the nitrogen crisis
- The government basically forced hundreds of asylum seekers to sleep outside last summer because of budget cuts which are probably popular with a certain constituency
- Earthquakes crisis in Groningen because of natural gas extraction, with a government turning a blind eye to people who saw the value of their houses tank because of structural damage
And thatβs before you get to all the things you could say for any developed western capitalist nation.
30 day vacations for all.
Should be 4 day work week and 6 weeks vacation. There is absolutely no need to work this much. So many bullshit jobs, just to keep people employed and busy all their lives.
Sure, that gets you the time off, but this guy flew to Paris and hung out for that entire time and found his βcreative sparkβ. We also need like 50% higher wages so weβre not sitting in a Parisian cafe thinking βoh fuck this vacation is going to bankrupt meβ or stuck at home unable to afford the flight to begin with.
With 20 workdays off you can go in vacation for a month. At most companies you have more than 20 days even.
Seriouslyβ¦ I literally just opened up lemmy after checking my vacation balance to see this lol Took 5 years to get 10 days vacation at my current job and Iβve used them all alreadyβ¦ boooo
I will never understand how American culture has considered that acceptable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country
Mostly because American culture is βI got mine, fuck you.β
A culture brainwashed to glorify βrugged individualismβ is a culture of self centered inconsiderate assholes.
My work you get one week the first year. Two weeks for each of the following 6 years, three weeks the 7 years after that, then finally 4 weeks once you have been with the company for 15 years.
If you donβt work for any 30 day period, you are let go and if you work for the company again Iβm the future, you restart the benefits back at 1 week vacation.
Itβs actually one of the best around. I just hit 15 years and get 4 weeks now. Yay America.
Oh I should mention they now βexpect moreβ out of a 15 year employee so now my evaluations are almost always βbarely acceptableβ, despite going above and beyond always. They want us to feel like we are lucky to have the job and they could fire us at any time. It gets worse the more benefits they are paying.
I get a week or I can take the check and keep working.
Guess what I end up doing?
I delay the end of year misery for an extra week. Thatβs what I do.
Lmao not even close. Canada is just 10 days. Afaik USA it can be litterally 0
βWhat if I pay my workers even lessβ¦β π€
