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Being Mean to Scabs Is Working (www.motherjones.com)

Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

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[-] 13esq@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

There are people in Scotland that crossed the coal miner's picket lines in the 80's who are pariahs to the day.

It's not a nice situation for anyone but they damn well knew that they were selling their souls. Fuck them.

[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

Not just them, their whole family. There are people in Wales and Scotland that were bullied at school because their dad's crossed a picket line. It's something that'll almost literally define their lives in that area or country.

[-] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

holy shit thats based

(not the bullying, just the anti-scab mentality)

[-] m7cky@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Same here in Yorkshire.

[-] Xariphon@kbin.social 74 points 1 year ago

It took me far too many braincells to realize that this headline means "being mean to scabs is effective" and not "being mean to scabs is, itself, doing work."

Maybe I need to use the sleep.

[-] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

"being mean to scabs is, itself, doing work."

Volunteer work is also work, and I'll gladly do this for free.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Although if I could be paid to be on strike I think that would be best.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 year ago

Hey, if it paid a living wage I would be mean to scabs professionally, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.

[-] bert@lemmy.monster 2 points 1 year ago

I'd do the same 8 hours a day, but I'm taking Fridays off as well, tyvm.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

This is literally the job of labor union leaders. Go be one! We need more.

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the being mean to scabs union goes on strike, what happens if a member of the union scabs?

[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago

ANOTHER reason to hate Bill Maher? You spoil me for choice, sir!

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago

Maher doesn't even need to open his mouth for you to know what a smug bitch he is. But for the life of me I can't figure out what he is feeling smug about.

[-] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago

I thought his smugness worked... for a while. He's been right on a great many things across his career, and was able to frame his scathing critiques in fairly unique, clever ways. (and/or his writers were) Indeed, at one time I admired his ability to look at things from pretty daring angles, even if he was sometimes way off.

Problem is, he's not the same anymore. Sort of like Joe Rogan, who at least started out with honest, interesting, amusing takes in a sort of 'college student+' kind of way. But something seems to have happened to these guys across the years. Not just the wealth, but the growing insulation from reality and.. the normalisation of right-wing extremism. Something like that, anyway.

Still, I can't just forget that Maher was killing it for plenty of years, there, even if he did rub people the wrong way.

[-] RadicalCandour@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

You hit it on the nose. He had, and to some extent still has, a whiplash in his dialogue but man has he really gone off the deep end in the last couple of years. When he started sounding like some soap box winey resident from the villages blaming millennials for random shit that’s when I started to tune him out. His interview with Musk was boarder line creepy. Kind of like the age of the women he dates.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

He is an angry man who knows it all and everyone else is just tok stupid to see what he sees.

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

In the remedy video linked in the article, she said that she only wanted to keep the show going. I can feel that she indeed values the show and the connection it made between people. However, it's also sad to see how this kind of blissful ignorance turns the creative drive into something that perpetuates inequality and harms the people connected by the show. She hurts people in a way she doesn't understand. Maybe she'll learn something this time.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Some of the replies to this tweet are fucking yikes:

[-] GopherOwl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I feel she tried to do the right thing but didn't. I hope she learns and I don't really have animosity towards her. People make mistakes. And admitting you're wrong is a huge thing our society doesn't value like it should.

Meanwhile Bill Maher tried to do the wrong thing and managed to successfully do the wrong thing, but for the wrong reasons. So... task failed successfully? I have zero expectations for him and yet he always manages to be a disappointment.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

Drew Barrymore has a show?

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

The only time I've ever seen it was mid-day at a dentists office.

[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Apparently, about how to put makeup on a pie plate and slam it on your face,

[-] CeruleanRuin 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it actually budging the studio exec billionaires though? Or is it just prolonging infighting among the little folk, which distracts from the actual villains causing this situation in the first place?

Because if the first thing isn't true, it doesn't matter at all.

[-] reflex@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They are both horrible.

this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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