You’re itching for a fight, when nobody started a fight with you. I am not saying whether this is good or bad advice. I am saying that the fact that this looks like bad advice is because we are losing the class war. I am saying that I remember a time when the balance of power was different, when we temporarily had the upper hand in the class struggle due to the COVID weirdness. During that time, people were actually doing things like quiet quitting, and strong-arming employers, and that in that environment advice like the one in the meme did not come off as bad advice.
I’m describing a dynamic, not blaming workers. If I had anything to say to the «single moms wokring at McDonalds» (you did an instrumentalization there, like the «kids in Africa») that would be «hey, how can I help you folks unionize?».
If you wanted them to explain their point more, why was the only thing in that comment a aggressively rhetorical appeal to no one based on your presumptions? Instead of articulating yourself that their point was unclear, you launched directly into an attack. Does the dissonance of that not…register with you?
You didn’t even apologize for the unwarranted and unflattering mischaracterization of their message. You just acted like they were the one holding out from a civil conversation: “That’s all I needed to hear.”
Did you deliver a similarly sanctimonious lecture to the people who told me to shut the fuck up and called me names? No? Then you can fuck all the way off.
Feel free to copy my response in a reply to them. And that doesn’t change the contents of your own response, isolated in the exchange between you and the thread OP.
However, I’m not reading every comment, so I’ll take my own advice and apologize if I caught you in your least charitable moment.
You’re itching for a fight, when nobody started a fight with you. I am not saying whether this is good or bad advice. I am saying that the fact that this looks like bad advice is because we are losing the class war. I am saying that I remember a time when the balance of power was different, when we temporarily had the upper hand in the class struggle due to the COVID weirdness. During that time, people were actually doing things like quiet quitting, and strong-arming employers, and that in that environment advice like the one in the meme did not come off as bad advice.
I’m describing a dynamic, not blaming workers. If I had anything to say to the «single moms wokring at McDonalds» (you did an instrumentalization there, like the «kids in Africa») that would be «hey, how can I help you folks unionize?».
Thank you for articulating your point. That’s all I needed to hear.
If you wanted them to explain their point more, why was the only thing in that comment a aggressively rhetorical appeal to no one based on your presumptions? Instead of articulating yourself that their point was unclear, you launched directly into an attack. Does the dissonance of that not…register with you?
You didn’t even apologize for the unwarranted and unflattering mischaracterization of their message. You just acted like they were the one holding out from a civil conversation: “That’s all I needed to hear.”
Did you deliver a similarly sanctimonious lecture to the people who told me to shut the fuck up and called me names? No? Then you can fuck all the way off.
Feel free to copy my response in a reply to them. And that doesn’t change the contents of your own response, isolated in the exchange between you and the thread OP.
However, I’m not reading every comment, so I’ll take my own advice and apologize if I caught you in your least charitable moment.