rockSlayer
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- Comment on What your coffee preparation method says about you 2 days ago:
But also it burns the coffee
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 days ago:
Nationalizing energy infrastructure
- Comment on I am your king! 1 week ago:
That just means the groundwork of building a general strike will require building class consciousness, as well as building a support network for vulnerable people.
- Comment on “Now I can see it’s the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen…” 1 week ago:
No, they definitely thought about this one
- Comment on 10 Ways to Destroy the World 1 week ago:
2% sounds easy until you think about how much fucking energy that is. If we back it off to like 1% we can catapult ourselves onto the kardashev scale. #10 would still be at play, and it would be even more disastrous than before!
- Comment on Responsible Adults 1 week ago:
But infinite recursion hurts my tummy
- Comment on For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough? 1 week ago:
Are you expecting someone to provide you with all the answers?
Organize literally anything; a labor union, tenant union, alternatives to capital, a community garden, etc. Getting involved means doing whatever you have the capacity to do. Sometimes organizing is long and challenging, sometimes it’s short and sweet. The thing is, there’s different recommendations for different types of organizing. A post like this really can’t get any more specific, because organizing is actually that broad of a topic.
Arm yourself to defend yourself and others from random acts of political violence. Use the arms to defend drag time story hour. Use the arms to protect the people you care about. Use the arms to watch cops. Get a gun, learn how to use it, and then only use it in emergency self defense. Having a substantial presence of guns at a protest against capital is already self defense, because cops know they can’t push the crowd too much. That’s why you shouldn’t wait for tanks to be rolling through before you arm yourself.
Mutual aid is part of organizing, and will become incredibly important over the next few years. If you want more insight then I recommend reading Kropotkin’s book on the matter.
If you’re looking for someone to follow, I recommend following yourself and your ideals. It’s very obvious that the point of the post is to take action, not to follow OP.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
You missed my point. I own guns, know how to operate them, and know the names of the parts. I use magazine and clip interchangeably, because pointless pedantry doesn’t contribute anything to the conversation.
- Comment on American house 2 weeks ago:
So then all magazines are clips, but not all clips are magazines.
- Comment on Called out 3 weeks ago:
It’s Pacha’s wife Chicha from the Emperor’s New Groove
- Comment on Ouch my texicles 3 weeks ago:
The best part is the juice, I always suck on the texickles so I get every drop
- Comment on Citation Ascension 1 month ago:
Real question, are there any instances of someone’s research being so niche that the only option is to cite themselves?
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
It’s part of the flaw in polling. AWU is a pretty substantial minority union (they don’t have bargaining rights) and they have unionized retail stores. However, Google is also a massive company
- Comment on Jazz hands 1 month ago:
To be fair, the factory management knew that it was dangerous but didn’t tell the workers and encouraged them to lick the brush.
- Comment on Home Depot 1 month ago:
The guy with a truck had a concept of a plan
- Comment on In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck. 1 month ago:
Whatever it is, it isn’t worth it
- Comment on Be more specific 1 month ago:
I thought the new big thing in astronomy is watching the anniversary of a black hole eat a star 3 billion years ago
- Comment on can you ELI5 the physics of bleeding radiators on an apartment building? 1 month ago:
Having lived in a house with radiators, bleeding registers is like a once a every 5 years type of task. There’s a much larger leak in the system, you should talk to your apartment manager.
- Comment on Bread 2 months ago:
Cut the top off of a 2 liter bottle and put the bread bag through the neck, spread it around the neck, then put on the bottle cap.
- Comment on Candy Darter 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this was true when they posted it, but conservation efforts are working! They’re considered near threatened for their small habitat and endangered to give it protected status
- Comment on Anon plays elden ring 2 months ago:
I’d prefer to let the nonbinary and gender non-conforming folks speak for themselves, and a majority of them do not consider themselves trans. I understand your concerns about potential transmed arguments that could be derived from this, but it’s a part of nb erasure that must be combated
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 2 months ago:
Yes. American work culture is bonkers. Most places have a limited number of sick days, if they have health PTO at all. In my experience, if they offer it it’s 2 weeks, as if people are capable of controlling how often and how long they’re sick for.
- Comment on Anon plays elden ring 2 months ago:
I literally said the term. They are gender non-conforming. Don’t impose your beliefs on people that don’t want to be identified the way you think they should.
- Comment on Anon plays elden ring 2 months ago:
What the fuck kind of logic is that? Do you think that people are only capable of being cis or trans? There are several gender non-conforming identities, that does not make them trans.
- Comment on Anon plays elden ring 2 months ago:
No it’s not. Transgender and genderfluid identities are different.
- Comment on gottem 2 months ago:
During the occupation, Kiara told dad jokes as a survival mechanism
- Comment on My job offers "free" online consultations for mental health reasons. Every single "available" slot is during working hours. 2 months ago:
My workplace offers a mental health benefit similar to this, we inform HR that we’ve scheduled a mental health appointment during work, tell our manager that we’re stepping away for an hour, and then return to work after the appointment. It would be a good idea to ask someone in your company how to use your benefit.
I’ll be the first person to remind you that HR is not your friend, but this is exactly what they exist for
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
Yes, sharing wages is always a good thing at work! My company has a tradition of an anonymous salary survey, so folks can properly grasp that it’s the company’s fault you aren’t getting enough.
Your work sounds very unique, but thankfully I’ve been there a few times trying to figure out an appropriate bargaining unit. There aren’t any hard and fast rules or laws on this topic, but it gives us flexibility to decide how big we go. Traveling and working at a national company has some good precedence with the Teamsters and NALC, as long as you have a “home” office that you work at when you aren’t traveling, that should be enough to claim an appropriate unit.
It’s ok to be first, someone has to be! What you’re referring to, where unions bargain for an industry minimum for all the workers in a particular industry, is known as sectoral bargaining. It exists, but it will take time. You’re taking the first step towards that point, but start just with your workplace. I also understand your concerns about the work being unique and small. Protected concerted activity only takes 2, so there’s always enough people! When it comes to bargaining, you and your coworkers know the work best, which is why you elect a bargaining committee from your coworkers. For the time being before you get too concerned about how bargaining will go, you must win your union first. Even industries with sectoral bargaining still need to organize workplaces to bargain the stuff that isn’t covered by the standardized working conditions.
I’m open for DMs to continue this if I didn’t cover everything
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
It’s understandable that people are afraid of union busting. Having been there myself, it feels like you’re David going up against Goliath when you start out, and that’s ok! You have to remember that they want you afraid, because if you’re afraid then you can be manipulated by the company. The type of union busting people are most afraid of: namely workplace closure and firing organizers, is rare and illegal. Illegal union busting is also not very successful once challenged with the NLRB, they see through most of the lies.
Companies are good at union busting because every single thing the company will do in opposing your union is going to be framed as being “neutral” while every single sentence is going to be about why unions are “scary”. You have to prepare yourself and your coworkers for the boss’ campaign with inoculation, and that’s where CWA’s union busting playbook will be helpful.
I live in Minnesota so I never had the chance to shut down a captive audience meeting (they’re illegal here), but the best way to shut it down is to get confrontational. Here’s some of my favorite questions for union busters
- Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr once said that union organizers are doing the Lord’s work. Are you saying that he’s wrong?
- So what you’re saying is that you, a contracted management consultant, were hired as an outsider to tell us that unions are a 3rd party?
- How much is the company paying you for reading this script to us?
- Wouldn’t the company be better served raising our wages and benefits rather than wasting money to tell us their opinions?
- Comment on More than 28% of Americans are now searching for a new job — the highest rate in a decade 2 months ago:
Sure thing! The NLRB is a fantastic source, but only covers national labor rights. You’ll want to look up your state’s department of labor for local labor laws. CODE-CWA is the group I organized with, they specialize in the tech industry and offer free training each weekend; I know several of the top organizers in CODE, you’ll be in good hands. Dr Richard Wolff’s program Democracy@Work is a great general news source with a heavy emphasis on worker power and the broader economy. If there’s anything more specific you’d like, I can definitely provide those too!