Being Mean to Scabs Is Working
Being Mean to Scabs Is Working
Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.
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.
85Not 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.
56holy shit thats based
(not the bullying, just the anti-scab mentality)
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Same here in Yorkshire.
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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.
74"being mean to scabs is, itself, doing work."
Volunteer work is also work, and I'll gladly do this for free.
34Although if I could be paid to be on strike I think that would be best.
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Hey, if it paid a living wage I would be mean to scabs professionally, 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
15I'd do the same 8 hours a day, but I'm taking Fridays off as well, tyvm.
2This is literally the job of labor union leaders. Go be one! We need more.
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If the being mean to scabs union goes on strike, what happens if a member of the union scabs?
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ANOTHER reason to hate Bill Maher? You spoil me for choice, sir!
56Maher 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.
26I 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.
21He is an angry man who knows it all and everyone else is just tok stupid to see what he sees.
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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.
27Some of the replies to this tweet are fucking yikes:
4Agreed. 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.
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Drew Barrymore has a show?
22Permanently Deleted
9The only time I've ever seen it was mid-day at a dentists office.
8Apparently, about how to put makeup on a pie plate and slam it on your face,
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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.
10They are both horrible.
6That’s not really scabbing?
Is Ryan Reynolds a scab because he’s still filming Deadpool 3?
-21Except they're not? Filming was shut down as soon as the SAG-AFTRA strike started.
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/deadpool-3-stops-production-sag-strike-1235668880/
As for during the writer's strike, I believe they could still film what was written. They just couldn't write more or change the script. So I;d guess the idea might have been to film as much as they could, then do rewrites and reshoots after the strikes end.
46Talk shows are scripted. Scripts are written by writers. If non-union writers wrote the scripts while union writers were on strike, that's scabbing by definition.
19Deadpool 3 is filming using a shooting script written by WGA members. Barrymore and Maher would have started filming with themselves replacing the work their writers would've done.
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