Hey y'all, if you're here to shit on unions, you can fuck right off. I've been a union man since I was a union boy, and I will be a union man until the day I die. If you're here to shit on the workers of the world, or to make excuses for someone who is currently doing that, go fuck yourself and don't come back.
I remember some people on Reddit were claiming once that Wil Wheaton is an asshole, and when I looked into they were just mad because sometimes when he's randomly approached in public he doesn't always stop to make time for his
harassersfans.I saw Wil Wheaton at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The cashier was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
He has the right to his personal space, but his FB was a mess of :vote: posts in 2020, and I recall he said he supported Liz Warren over Bernie for reasons of "tone."
I'm sure he's a decent guy, and I admire that he was up front about having ongoing depression back when most people wouldn't even bring up the subject, But his public persona has always come off to me as another smug liberal.
I think it had more to do with him blocking a lot of trans people on twitter because he used a block list from a terf. I don't think he is a terf, he just trusted the wrong person one time. Rage spreads fast, retractions do not.
i dont envy fame, the idea that you have to constantly be ready to suck a random dude's dick because he likes you is wild
Different people handle it in different ways. Some folks absolutely take to it and soak it all up. Others find it an obnoxious hassle.
But you've got a society that's inundated with mass media as proxy for socializing. That's going to create a lot of anonymous superfans following around their parasocials.
There's this fucked up side effect of late stage capitalism's intersectional relationship with celebrity culture where many people feel like a famous person's life can, should, and must be subject to nonstop scrutiny by anyone buying into the attention economy around them.
Didn't Star Trek writers famously unionise during TNG? That would explain how he was a Union boy and now a Union man.
It's nice to see a good Boomer legacy for once.
I remember in a reddit ama Ken Jennings said he was a Trotskyist. Didn't expect him to cross the picket line tbh
From https://amatranscripts.com/ama/ken_jennings_2018-06-19.html
As probably the most prominent centerist-to-liberal Mormon in the world, what should the Mormon church's response to the Trump administration be?
The same as everyone else's: help register millions of people to vote for someone else.
I'm not particularly centrist, but I am probably the world's most prominent Trotskyite Mormon. All wealth should be stripped from the hands of the capital class--except game show winners, who got theirs fair and square.
I remember in a reddit ama Ken Jennings said he was a Trotskyist. Didn’t expect him to cross the picket line tbh
That’s actually the biggest tell for potential scabs
There's a Trotskyist to Neocon pipeline for some reason. If a Neocon tells you he used to be a socialist then 90% of the time he used to be a Trot. I never managed to understand how it works.
My hypothesis is that a lot of trots are so virulently anti-soviet that they wind up becoming pro-US and US systems. This would start in international things, but expand to domestic policy.
My pet theory is that it revolves around democracy and plurality in the party. Which means that while Trotskists don't cast you out in the west, they will just not let you become a cadre if you don't repeat Trot wisdom. This means that self labeled socialists which often don't get into cadres can feel as if they are socialist, even though they have large gaps even with Trots.
Plenty ML that I know are much clearer in what can be said and what has to be understood to be part of the party (but you can always not be a member of the party but support campaigns).
So Trots will bond with you over anti Bureaucratic stuff, will say how important pluralist democracy is, that they were silence, that Stalin and the Soviet Union were bad as socialism has to mean freedom and the to be Neocons take out: Bad socialists repress people, socialism was bad and about control, but I like control and I like to not have my personal opinion repressed.
So why do anarchist groups not produce neocons? When (in the rare cases) people stop being anarchists, they usually go socdem (or very occasionally ecofash). It seems like the same pluralism is there
I'd take that with a grain of salt.
:my-hero: claimed to be a "socialist" and even called Marx a "capitalist, he even wrote a book about capitalism." :marx-joker:
I don't really follow your argument, Jennings hadn't shown any indication that he was as dumb as Musk
Ever zone out for a couple decades and then realize that there's a Wil Wheaton and a Joss Whedon and now you have to sort out who did what?
Literally me rn, seeing a post above about how he isn't really an asshole when I'm like "I thought this guy did some shit."
Am I wrong, or is the opinion on this strike better than the previous writers strike? Because this is pretty cool
It might be because 2008 caught people by surprise? Like, we were supposed to be at the end of history, it was supposed to be all smooth sailing. But then the crash happened and people never recovered. The Obama neolibs bailed the banks, then Trump made it worse, then Covid hit without people even getting back to pre-2008 levels of safety and Biden has done jack shit.
People today, especially the younguns are far more pessimistic about capitalism than they were in the 2000s or even 2010s.
There's toxic positivity holdouts, the kind that :bootlicker: for :my-hero: and enthusiastically boost themselves on LinkedIn.
Before he crossed the picket line he was one of the largest Jeopardy winners ever, so became a minor celebrity.
He did it so the non-striking workers would get paid and famously did the whole show without the help of scabs leading to several weeks of wacky content such as "let's see how long Conan's wedding ring can spin on the desk"
https://youtu.be/9fpYpmksscA
Making your comedy show bad (although it was kinda "so bad it's good" tbf) to demonstrate the importance of your striking writers, while also vocally supporting them checks out to me.
Didn't he get cancelled some time back for jumping to the defense of a rapist, in direct contradiction of the values he professed to hold?
