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CONTINUED LOCKDOWN STRIKE?

So the country’s idiot leaders, death cultists that they are, are pushing for reopening, even as the death tolls are spiking. Small (and not so small) business owners tired of not siphoning off consumer money are falling in line, expressing their irritation with the stay at home orders and too selfish and ignorant to take fault- if any- with the government that has refused to actually give money to the people in any decent way, instead throwing it all at bailing out airlines and shit.

A vast majority of people want to continue staying at home, because the Coronavirus is nowhere near restrained and circulating will increase the risk of contagion for all of us, and put further strain on our healthcare workers.

So here’s the thing: Capitalists want us back in the shops. They want people to die for money. They are blinded by greed, and we don’t want to catch or spread Covid19. 

So can we all make a point to spread the word and encourage people to refrain from ending any stay-at-home orders-

-Do not go to restaurants or non-essential businesses

-Do not return to work (if possible)

-Do not ease up on physical distancing measures

-Do EXACTLY as you have been doing for the past month or so because Covid19 is *just now* peaking and is nowhere near over

-RESOLVE NOT TO DIE FOR A DOLLAR

Putting pressure on the country to return to work just because people who want your money are tired of not getting it is ridiculous, and THEY are lacking serious empathy. This has been stressful and dangerous for all of us, it is unconscionable that a bunch of non-essential business owners and even more just plain entitled privileged people are literally throwing a tantrum like selfish children because they’re ~tired of having to care about other people~ more than their bottom line and their personal convenience.

Any thoughts, ideas, additions? I know a lot of people feel this in their hearts but in a situation where the Entitled Minority is willing to organize and shout it out I think people  who want to stay-at-home should have some sort of interior movement as well, to bolster people’s fortitude, encourage them to stick it out, and show solidarity with all manner of workers who would unfairly be put on the front lines at the highest risk just because capitalists have no empathy.

 Reopening the country would also put other business owners at steeper risk, as once businesses are considered ‘reopened’ they will be expected to pay rent again, despite the crisis and whether or not they reopen. Furthermore healthcare and food service workers are dying at a ridiculous rate due to exposure– we should absolutely NOT ‘open up the country’ no matter what no matter what no matter what.

Don’t Die For A Dollar.

Hey everyone what’s up, here’s this post again but this time with https://www.genstrike.org/ let’s rb and act in solidarity. Rich ppl are off the shits and capitalism must be buried.

There’s an update 😊

For the “essential” service workers

Not everyone gets to quarantine. Not everyone has a WFH job.

Some people are running the “essential” stores that people come to every day to browse idly because “everywhere else is closed!” Some people are throwing up stock of bleach and TP and canned food only to turn around and see the stock has vanished behind them.

Some people are stuck working for companies with no paid sick leave, or they are offered paid sick leave… if you get diagnosed with covid-19. And none of us can even get tested in most states even if we show symptoms due to the draconian guidelines on who gets a test.

Some of us are immunocompromised or live with elderly family and are fucking terrified of carrying covid home with us.

Some of us are “lucky” and are getting increased wages during this period. But it’s up in the air if that makes this shit worth it, and most of us don’t get that.

Regardless, I want to establish one thing: No one who works retail asked to be “essential” services. And none of us were trained for this and none of us are being paid enough for this.

Personally, I have enjoyed my job up until covid happened because I’m an incredibly anxious person, and my store was a quiet one, and I was good at my job. It was a calm environment to work in, and I was happy to find it.

Now, I’m having repeated crying jags in the stock room and looking up how to qualify for unemployment and not seeing a way out. I handle the money for the store deposit almost every night, and I intimately know my store is making at minimum 4x usual profit and some days 6x or 7x more.

My point in this post is that I know I’m not alone. I have two friends in similar straits who are also on the verge of breaking down. We can’t sustain this.

The rallying cry of “paid sick leave” doesn’t mean shit if it comes with the caveat that you have to test positive for a virus you can’t get tested for. And while I am trying very hard to be sympathetic to the people who are isolating, who are lonely, who are struggling, I feel like “essential” workers are being thrown in the woodchipper.

And it becomes very hard to hold onto that sympathy when people just! come into our stores! to walk around! Maybe if fewer people did that, maybe if my store stopped making astronomical amounts of money, we’d close for a few days. But nope.

Please start yelling loudly for hazard pay for essential workers. Please start yelling for testing for everyone so we can fucking go home. Please stop talking about how “brave” we are and help us.

That’s all. This is a post for my fellow low wage workers who woke up one day and found out they’re essential staff, retail or EMTs or gas station workers or whoever you are. This is bullshit and we’re tired and we need help. Before we all burn out.

Yes! Hazard pay for everyone stuck working during a goddamn epidemic!

This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.

If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive

If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities

If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one

No platforms for fascists.

~ Max

…and right here is why you see me starting to wear non-viking garb in the SCA. Because I’m really REALLY white and really REALLY not a racist, and I hate that these people have found their way into my weekend nerdery.

I would posit that if you feel comfortable doing it, and if you feel supported, you should definitely still wear viking garb and not let fascist nazi bastards appropriate it for their own purpose without opposition. 🖤

the whole thread is way longer than this but these portions summarize exactly my thoughts on bernie sanders.

please don’t make fun of me for doing Electoralism anymore,

Yes but when these radical movements happen can we not make it uncomfortable for the regular consumer who relies on these. I’m just thinking how strikers in Japan still drove the buses but wouldn’t take payment, therefore forcing the burden on the actual entity responsible for their poor working conditions.

Making it uncomfortable for people is the whole point of strikes.

IF THE STRIKE DOES NOT MAKE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE, YOU WILL LOSE THE STRIKE

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

Brilliant

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

If it helps it helps

http://econweb.umd.edu/~tuttle/files/tuttle_mandatory_minimums.pdf

HMMMMMMMMMM

in case you don’t understand what this post is suggesting, the issue lies in the wild amount of drug seizures involving specifically 280g of crack cocaine, which completely breaks the natural pattern of bigger quantities being rarer

therefore- very good chance this increase in arrests is tied to police forces planting crack cocaine on unsuspecting civillians and arresting them for it

Oh gotcha. Thanks for clarifying how fucked up this is

Lmao all of the moods

why is this so fucking funny

They can flip off this country all they want considering the fact it was theirs first.

Isn’t Mt. Rushmore sacred to native peoples? Kinda fucked up we put their killers faces on it

Yes. Before the sculptures were built, the land was sacredly owned by indigenous tribes. In 1980, the land was illegally taken away from them by the supreme court. Not to mention, one of the main people who manufactured the sculptures was literally apart of the KKK… So yeah.. they are more than welcome to flip off these so called “masterpieces” 

Anyone know if this is true of false?

I literally…….provided sources…………..

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

VIDEO

Finally. People need to realize aliens aren’t the answer for everything (when they use it to erase poc civilizations and how smart they were)

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What’s really wild is that the native people literally told the Europeans “they walked” when asked how the statues were moved. The Europeans were like “lol these backwards heathens and their fairy tales guess it’s gonna always be a mystery!”

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

And the Iroquois told Europeans that squirels showed them how to tap maple syrup and no one believed them until they caught it on video

Oral history from various First Nations tribes in the Pacific Northwest contained stories about a massive earthquake/tsunami hitting the coast, but no one listened to them until scientists discovered physical evidence of quakes from the Cascadia fault line.

Roopkund Lake AKA “Skeleton Lake” in the Himalayas in India is eerie because it was discovered with hundreds of skeletal remains and for the life of them researchers couldn’t figure out what it was that killed them. For decades the “mystery” went unsolved.

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

Literally these legends were past down for over a thousand years and it still took researched 50 to “figure out” the “mystery”. 🙄

Adding to this, the Inuit communities in Nunavut KNEW where both the wrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were literally the entire time but Europeans/white people didn’t even bother consulting them about either ship until like…last year. 

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sammy-kogvik-hms-terror-franklin-1.3763653

Indigenous Australians have had stories about giant kangaroos and wombats for thousands of years, and European settlers just kinda assumed they were myths. Cut to more recently when evidence of megafauna was discovered, giant versions of Australian animals that died out 41 000 years ago.

Similarly, scientists have been stumped about how native Palm trees got to a valley in the middle of Australia, and it wasn’t until a few years ago that someone did DNA testing and concluded that seeds had been carried there from the north around 30 000 years ago… aaand someone pointed out that Indigenous people have had stories about gods from the north carrying the seeds to a valley in the central desert.

oh man let me tell you about Indigenous Australian myths - the framework they use (with multi-generational checking that’s unique on the planet, meaning there’s no drifting or mutation of the story, seriously they are hardcore about maintaining integrity) means that we literally have multiple first-hand accounts of life and the ecosystem before the end of the last ice age

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.  

Now consider this: most people consider the start of recorded history to be with  the Sumerians and the Early Dynastic period of the Egyptians.  So around 3500 BCE, or five and a half thousand years ago These highly accurate Aboriginal oral histories originate from twenty thousand years ago at least

Ain’t it amazing what white people consider history and what they don’t?

I always said disservice is done to oral traditions and myth when you take them literally. Ancient people were not stupid.

Man I love vine and I’m gonna miss it! I’m totally jumping on the bandwagon but hey why not? Here is some of my favs!

Bless these human beings for simply being alive and living life. 

Treasure trove

hey, I used to work with that giant animatronic T Rex! his name is Bruce :)

Could you imagine if there was a video game where you can create your character and the default character was female?

Like imagine if in, say, Skyrim

They’re like “Who are you?” and it turns the camera around and loads up character creation and it’s defaulted, from the get-go, to female Nord instead of male Nord

Could you fucking imagine the outrage that would cause?

Could you imagine how many people would get irrationally pissed off and write angry articles on Kotaku n shit about how the game “forces feminist agendas on its players” if for once, just once, the default was female instead of male

And no, random doesn’t count. If it’s a game where the character creation screen defaults to a randomly generated character every time, or one of multiple presets, that doesn’t count

And neither does any game where there’s multiple races and one of the races is primarily or only female

I mean:

>Start the game >Create character >A female character shows up >In order to be male, you have to click the Male checkbox >Female’s pre-selected >Every time

Every game I have literally ever played that has a female option always has male selected by default, literally every time

Even Pokemon! “Are you a boy or a girl?” has the cursor on Boy by default

I have never, literally ever, played a game where it’s defaulted to female, and I guarantee if it ever happens, there will be an obnoxious amount of delicious, delicious outrage from people who don’t want to admit they hate women