I do remember the time of 'look for the union label' when the USA had a lot more active unions. Having everyone join a union when things are drifting more and more towards a gig economy and keeping a lot of workers part-time to save money, well that just looks to me like we're becoming another feudal society, complete with guilds for every artisan or group, It's a band-aid solution at best because it doesn't affect the real reason workers even need to join unions en masse.
Since Elon's petty beef with Substack back in April, you can no longer embed tweets on Substack. So that signifies a tweet, but you can't see it. The only way to see it is if it is linked somewhere in the text.
Maybe Wonkette can start adding the link to the nearby text as a workaround? It's annoying you can't embed and have to open twitter to see it, but I can't think of another way to do it.
Did not know Ronnie's history as a union leader before, but it is not the least bit surprising that he did for the union he supposedly led just we he did for this country; betrayed their foolish trust and delivered them disarmed and hogtied to the oligarchs to consume at their leisure.
I read an article a long time ago (which, of course, I can't find) that claimed that Reagan was helped in becoming SAG president by the studio executives because they wanted the exact contract that he "negotiated".
That sort of dovetails with this podcast I just listened to that touches on his previous union ties, but also how he received the notoriety he did because he was host of the General Electric Theatre on TV and how GE's politics became Reagan's politics: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qrTGDh6miqIlyb2vnG4wD?si=R95FDacZSm-FUGtG8jjegQ.
We desperately need confiscatory taxes on the very wealthy, just to disincentivize them from hoarding wealth. In order to avoid constitutional challenge, one way would be to tax income at 90 or 100% for those who already have $100m or $500m or $1b. Make it a number high enough that the vast majority of people would view it as enough.
We might be able to have more nice things if the ultra powerful were cut down to size.
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The digitizing of extras is very much like a movie called The Congress from 2013. In it Robin Wright accepts a one time pay out in exchange for her likeness and voice being digitized.
As to actors and writers striking and it pertaining to all workers, well how did Me Too work out for all the waitresses in jobs where being groped and otherwise sexually abused is required for a paycheck that is largely about the tips?
I support their strike, as I do handsome UPS driver with his. At the same time, there are so many people who depend upon and live paycheck to paycheck in jobs that don't even have the agency of a union.
So I really hope those people get their due also, the true essential workers who got us through the worst of the pandemic have yet to be duly compensated, is just one example. Pretty much all workers in the country are due compensation for the hard work they do making shareholders richer.
The plot of "Looker", from 1981, involved actresses who were all paid to have minor but very specific cosmetic alterations, then scanned to create virtual versions that could be made to play any role. They were then killed, apparently so the company wouldn't have to pay them the yearly fee they'd been promised for undergoing the procedure. It starred Albert Finney and Susan Dey, and was written & directed by Michael Crichton. It wasn't bad, for the 80s.
The actors' strike is also messing with mediacons. All those actors appearing at Comic Con weren't there because they were fans. They were working. Now, they're on strike.
I do remember the time of 'look for the union label' when the USA had a lot more active unions. Having everyone join a union when things are drifting more and more towards a gig economy and keeping a lot of workers part-time to save money, well that just looks to me like we're becoming another feudal society, complete with guilds for every artisan or group, It's a band-aid solution at best because it doesn't affect the real reason workers even need to join unions en masse.
Reagan was a bad actor in every sense of the phrase.
I've seen "— (@)" on Wonkette s few times today.
What does that mean?
Since Elon's petty beef with Substack back in April, you can no longer embed tweets on Substack. So that signifies a tweet, but you can't see it. The only way to see it is if it is linked somewhere in the text.
Maybe Wonkette can start adding the link to the nearby text as a workaround? It's annoying you can't embed and have to open twitter to see it, but I can't think of another way to do it.
I think those are references to some Twitter contributors, they have their name appended with something?
Did not know Ronnie's history as a union leader before, but it is not the least bit surprising that he did for the union he supposedly led just we he did for this country; betrayed their foolish trust and delivered them disarmed and hogtied to the oligarchs to consume at their leisure.
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I read an article a long time ago (which, of course, I can't find) that claimed that Reagan was helped in becoming SAG president by the studio executives because they wanted the exact contract that he "negotiated".
That sort of dovetails with this podcast I just listened to that touches on his previous union ties, but also how he received the notoriety he did because he was host of the General Electric Theatre on TV and how GE's politics became Reagan's politics: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3qrTGDh6miqIlyb2vnG4wD?si=R95FDacZSm-FUGtG8jjegQ.
We desperately need confiscatory taxes on the very wealthy, just to disincentivize them from hoarding wealth. In order to avoid constitutional challenge, one way would be to tax income at 90 or 100% for those who already have $100m or $500m or $1b. Make it a number high enough that the vast majority of people would view it as enough.
We might be able to have more nice things if the ultra powerful were cut down to size.
I was impressed by Fran Drescher's eloquence and of her mastery of explaining what is at stake.
Iger, though smart within his field, doesn't quite seem to realize that if he wins this one, thugs like DeSantis will own him forever.
Is this what he wants?
I'm used to these threads having 2000 comments by the time I get to them.
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The digitizing of extras is very much like a movie called The Congress from 2013. In it Robin Wright accepts a one time pay out in exchange for her likeness and voice being digitized.
As to actors and writers striking and it pertaining to all workers, well how did Me Too work out for all the waitresses in jobs where being groped and otherwise sexually abused is required for a paycheck that is largely about the tips?
I support their strike, as I do handsome UPS driver with his. At the same time, there are so many people who depend upon and live paycheck to paycheck in jobs that don't even have the agency of a union.
So I really hope those people get their due also, the true essential workers who got us through the worst of the pandemic have yet to be duly compensated, is just one example. Pretty much all workers in the country are due compensation for the hard work they do making shareholders richer.
We need more unions and more union membership. That's it, that's the tweet.
The plot of "Looker", from 1981, involved actresses who were all paid to have minor but very specific cosmetic alterations, then scanned to create virtual versions that could be made to play any role. They were then killed, apparently so the company wouldn't have to pay them the yearly fee they'd been promised for undergoing the procedure. It starred Albert Finney and Susan Dey, and was written & directed by Michael Crichton. It wasn't bad, for the 80s.
The actors' strike is also messing with mediacons. All those actors appearing at Comic Con weren't there because they were fans. They were working. Now, they're on strike.