You… think I don’t recognize it? What? I’m a leftist queer woman living in a declining dystopia. I’m laughing at the fact that you think we can just say no to terms that every job has in many areas, especially hourly ones. They keep you working 39.5 hours a week and never let you go “full time” so they don’t have to give benefits, or classify you as a contractor, and your only option is paying a portion of your salary for the opportunity to have healthcare you could otherwise never afford. I was forced to stay in a hellhole job for years because I was broke, had nowhere else to go, no better opportunities, had every job application denied because they’re mostly fake postings to make the facade of growth hold in our failing economy, all because if I didn’t stay in my job I would no longer be able to afford health insurance for a life changing surgery I would otherwise never afford. I couldn’t just tell them “no, I won’t accept those unfair terms,” BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONLY OPTION. We don’t have comprehensive labor laws! Most of us live in wage slavery! Any talk of union or strike would mean the immediate loss of employment, and yet I still organized behind their backs.
I laugh because someone is looking at a victim of an oppressive regime and saying “not good enough.” I laugh because otherwise I’d cry. Recognize your fucking privilege and leave the cynicism at the door. I’m doing everything I can, just like most of us. Even the complacent ones are victims of oligarch controlled media brainwashing, and a culture of exceptionalism and nationalism that keeps us trapped in a bucket of boiling water and thanking the cook for the opportunity.
I’m scared, I’m angry, and I’m frustrated looking at a culture that thinks a “blue wave” in the midterms will change everything, when our system is irreparably broken. I want to see a general strike. Any attempts to organize one will fail and have failed, because people cannot afford unemployment. All I can do is organize and educate and hope we get some change around healthcare and labor laws before it gets too much for me and I leave.
I don’t know how you read that entire thing and decided I’m doing nothing. Leave me alone if all you have to offer is cynicism and critique. I am organizing with local leftists organizations. I am not walking out of my job and losing healthcare and employment in the current job market out of pure principle. If there was a nationwide movement that had real momentum I would join it. I am a part of organizations that are trying to organize such things.
Again, we are not doing nothing. I am doing more than most, but organizing with community, supporting each other, staying politically active, pushing for reform and change at the local, state, and national level, and protesting is not nothing. You cannot actively look at someone who is escaping a burning building with their family and say “well why aren’t you in there pulling more people out? You should do more.” Surviving and supporting each other is the most many people can do. Strike and active resistance would mean houselessness or lack of healthcare for most people. It simply isn’t bad enough to have the support of the general populace yet, they’re too brainwashed, and I am not going to throw my life away for an ideal.
I am doing all I can. Fuck anyone who sits in comfort while a system I was born into and actively detest destroys my life and the lives of people I love and says “not good enough.” Do you look at refugees from state violence and say “why didn’t you stay and resist? You should have fought back. There are more of you than there are of them.” We care for ourselves, our family, and our communities first. We work with the hand we were dealt.
Your idealism is callous and unrealistic. I do not believe that you would act any differently were you in my shoes. Can you honestly say that you would choose to forego health and/or home in a pointless gesture of resistance against a machine that will not notice or care for your “sacrifice?” Such an action would be selfish and self-serving. I will not deprive my family and loved ones for a meaningless gesture because some people on the Internet think that EVERYTHING listed above is “doing nothing.” I have tried to explain, but you clearly have a vested interest in victim blaming over listening.
Ah. You’re a troll. “Should not have accepted those terms,” lol, lmao even.
you are the one living in a hellhole and refusing to even recognize it… I wouldn’t laugh so much but I commend you for your humour
You… think I don’t recognize it? What? I’m a leftist queer woman living in a declining dystopia. I’m laughing at the fact that you think we can just say no to terms that every job has in many areas, especially hourly ones. They keep you working 39.5 hours a week and never let you go “full time” so they don’t have to give benefits, or classify you as a contractor, and your only option is paying a portion of your salary for the opportunity to have healthcare you could otherwise never afford. I was forced to stay in a hellhole job for years because I was broke, had nowhere else to go, no better opportunities, had every job application denied because they’re mostly fake postings to make the facade of growth hold in our failing economy, all because if I didn’t stay in my job I would no longer be able to afford health insurance for a life changing surgery I would otherwise never afford. I couldn’t just tell them “no, I won’t accept those unfair terms,” BECAUSE THEY’RE THE ONLY OPTION. We don’t have comprehensive labor laws! Most of us live in wage slavery! Any talk of union or strike would mean the immediate loss of employment, and yet I still organized behind their backs.
I laugh because someone is looking at a victim of an oppressive regime and saying “not good enough.” I laugh because otherwise I’d cry. Recognize your fucking privilege and leave the cynicism at the door. I’m doing everything I can, just like most of us. Even the complacent ones are victims of oligarch controlled media brainwashing, and a culture of exceptionalism and nationalism that keeps us trapped in a bucket of boiling water and thanking the cook for the opportunity.
I’m scared, I’m angry, and I’m frustrated looking at a culture that thinks a “blue wave” in the midterms will change everything, when our system is irreparably broken. I want to see a general strike. Any attempts to organize one will fail and have failed, because people cannot afford unemployment. All I can do is organize and educate and hope we get some change around healthcare and labor laws before it gets too much for me and I leave.
so your way out is doing nothing? waiting until they come for you?
I don’t know how you read that entire thing and decided I’m doing nothing. Leave me alone if all you have to offer is cynicism and critique. I am organizing with local leftists organizations. I am not walking out of my job and losing healthcare and employment in the current job market out of pure principle. If there was a nationwide movement that had real momentum I would join it. I am a part of organizations that are trying to organize such things.
Again, we are not doing nothing. I am doing more than most, but organizing with community, supporting each other, staying politically active, pushing for reform and change at the local, state, and national level, and protesting is not nothing. You cannot actively look at someone who is escaping a burning building with their family and say “well why aren’t you in there pulling more people out? You should do more.” Surviving and supporting each other is the most many people can do. Strike and active resistance would mean houselessness or lack of healthcare for most people. It simply isn’t bad enough to have the support of the general populace yet, they’re too brainwashed, and I am not going to throw my life away for an ideal.
I am doing all I can. Fuck anyone who sits in comfort while a system I was born into and actively detest destroys my life and the lives of people I love and says “not good enough.” Do you look at refugees from state violence and say “why didn’t you stay and resist? You should have fought back. There are more of you than there are of them.” We care for ourselves, our family, and our communities first. We work with the hand we were dealt.
Your idealism is callous and unrealistic. I do not believe that you would act any differently were you in my shoes. Can you honestly say that you would choose to forego health and/or home in a pointless gesture of resistance against a machine that will not notice or care for your “sacrifice?” Such an action would be selfish and self-serving. I will not deprive my family and loved ones for a meaningless gesture because some people on the Internet think that EVERYTHING listed above is “doing nothing.” I have tried to explain, but you clearly have a vested interest in victim blaming over listening.