Ben Kenjes

I like Lego, Beer, Frisbees, and the ~outdoors~

[dancingtyrus-blog]

i can’t believe i’m saying this but i miss the ultimate frisbee practice

[tombones]

[bestrunescapememesbruh]

[charleslollar]

19: ugh family, whatever 29: why is this cookie making me fucking cry

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venn diagram

[charleslollar]

We are apt to look at the school from an individualistic standpoint, as something between teacher and pupil, or between teacher and parent. That which interests us most is naturally the progress made by the individual child of our acquaintance, his normal physical development, his advance in ability to read, write, and figure…Yet the range of outlook needs to be enlarged. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children. Any other ideal for our schools is narrow and unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy.[1]

[1] John Dewey, The School and Society (Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1899) 3.

[hustleinatrap]

shoutout to all these amazing and beautiful people of color who refused to break down ✊🏾

[useless-sloveniafacts]

I present to you — PIKA-ČUJ

[useless-sloveniafacts]

after comments that white wine (and “špricer”) is more popular in Maribor (thank you for the notes) and my own realisation that that’s not nearly enough wine, I decided to slightly modify the image:

[charleslollar]

Pikachu would drink Union

[get-off-your-arse-its-begun]

Y'all really think the emo movement is dead? I got GODDAMN 14-YEAR-OLDS in my English class with Invader Zim buttons on their backpacks. I’ve got a girl who said “yay, death!” when she was asked to describe things she liked. I’ve got kids who make barnyard noises at each other during class and when I tell them to knock it off they tell me I don’t understand how RaNdOm they are. I have seen the same “Rawr XD” nightmares in my classroom as I participated in when I was in middle school. I’m talking the works. Fuckin’ studded belts, rainbow beads, bright pink-ass hair bows over a shaggy black fringe of bangs. Colorful skinny jeans with a black-and-white striped hoodie that’s just a bit too small with black converse sneakers and fingerless gloves. I stare into the abyss daily in the faces of these kids and all I see some days is 2007. The only difference is that they’ve worked Undertale characters and Deadpool into the rotation of characters they think its okay to draw smut of in class. I have confiscated a full watercolored Sans with a boner and that’s not something I ever wanna think about but these goddamn emo kids WONT STOP. TEACH YOUR KIDS TO STAY AWAY FROM 2007. TELL YOUR LITTLE SISTER THAT HER 700 HAIR BOWS MIGHT BE A BIT OVERBOARD.

RANDOM DOES NOT EQUAL FUNNY.

GOD SAVE ME

[charleslollar]

[lucerei]

As a Slovene, every time someone mentions Melania, I just kinda

[capturing-kawaii]

[dagwolf]

Fiction: The Modern Worker Doesn’t Understand Much Because Society Is Too Complex and People Just Want to Get By.

What is it with this push against the picket line? Let’s examine a reality of strikes and lockouts. Scabs are conscious of what they are doing because the strike presents a spectacle prior to entering work sites. The picket line is a public presence at the work site that reminds every fucking last one of us these are employees engaged in a dispute with their employer who has no real interest in cooperating for reasons tied to profit and cost. If we cross this picket line, we are endangering the permanent employee’s bargaining process. To claim that “modern workers” don’t get scabbing is bullshit. 

[usfspecialcollections-deactivat]

When the women of a dress factory went on strike in Memphis in 1937, they vowed to humiliate anyone foolish enough to break the strike by tearing their clothes off in public. This “scab” lost part of her outfit after emerging from a day’s work in the factory.  The policeman on the left seems impressed as he stares at the shred of fabric he’s recovered. 

From the Bud Gardner Photograph Collection, University of South Florida.

[akumeoy]

anyone who supports or sympathizes with scabs can go ahead and smash that fuckin unfollow. having to explain this sentiment strikes me as an absurd thing to have to do, so i’m not gonna do it. just fuck off if your politics make it okay to cross a picket line.

[charleslollar]

workers on strike: Solidarity forever! Scabs are selfish and they betray the working class!

scab: But we have families to feed and rent to pay!

workers on strike: And we don't? What do you think we're striking for? We're demanding better conditions and more pay!

scab: Yeah, well... *not wanting to admit they actually only care about themselves* well, you're just privileged and want to be ideologically pure! *runs across the picket line to hide behind the protection of the boss and police, then goes on their phone and furiously starts typing something on it*

some tumblr "leftist": Alas, I understand the suffering and torment of the poor unfortunate scabs, those gallant souls that march through those rabid mobs of delusional heretics! O how I'd proudly be a scab before being privileged — the greatest sin of all *and the only insult I can think of* — like those ideologically pure strikers and their supporters! Vive la briseurs de grève! And long live the hand that feeds!

[dagwolf]

Strikes are not employment opportunities.

Picketing and picket lines are not constructing a demand that the hungry and homeless do without work. The unemployed aren’t waiting around for strikes to find work. We should examine the source of poverty and not be looking for an excuse to attack organized workers.

Poverty in capitalism is reproduced by design; poor people and the working class are claimed to be responsible for poverty. For many economic reasons, capitalism creates value out of poverty. We shouldn’t permit ideological suppositions regarding workers’ responsibility for each others’ poverty.

When we say don’t cross a picket line, we are publicly taking a stand as a working class. Employers make all sorts of demands for unity within the workplace that we cooperate with more or less. We are taught that such cooperation is natural and beneficial. That’s ideological. A direct action composed of employees walking away from work attempting to stop or slow production for a short time is not ideological. It is very purposeful and often well-planned organization.

The empty stations, desks, classrooms, vehicles, and so on, don’t represent employment opportunities. Such representation would be ideological.

Striking doesn’t represent a privilege to work that strikers flaunt in front of the unemployed.