Still Singing Those Downtown Blues ..

Going Around, A Little Driving on a Saturday Night !

[squidwurd]

i accidentally messed up my life how do i start a new account

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

[dreamer-of-centipedes]

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

[aztechnology]

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

[aggrokawaii]

It ceases to be about production and more about subjugation.

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

DING DING DING

WE HAVE OURSELVES A WINNER!

[unearthedviews]

TUNISIA. The jewish community in Djerba. May 2008.Al Ghriba, one of the oldest synagogue in the world is located in Hara Sghira village. The annual festival which carries its name, takes place after Lag Baomer. © Patrick Zachmann/Magnum Photos

[thedulhandiaries]

[neoliberalismkills]

how many times of voting for “the lesser of two evils” will you go thru before realizing that a system that literally only offers you two evils every single time is a system that needs to be ripped out down to the roots and burned

[princekarkat]

art takes hours to produce and seconds to consume so dont act suprised when artists get upset when their posts only get likes and no reblogs

similarly a piece of writing that takes a few minutes to read could have weeks of work behind it… dont take creativity for granted when ur getting it for free

[vfpalestine]

[stratisxx]

Palestinians are also semetic, so this whole anti semetic thing is a moot point… In fact I would argue that Palestinians have more semetic blood in them than the jews coming over from Brooklyn NYC and Poland, and settling on Palestinian land.

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

i’m not sure why economic sanctions are considered the peaceful alternative to war they literally make poverty and daily life in countries they’re implemented against worse which…leads to conflict and suffering

[notallmensheviks]

the rise in iraqi infant mortality after the initial implementation of sanctions has been estimated to result in the deaths of over five hundred thousand children

[butchflirt]

Sanctions almost never have any impact on the ruling elite of countries on which they’re imposed - the impact is almost universally on the citizenry.

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

Reminder that 720,000 people were forcibly displaced from their homes for the 1988 winter Olympics in Seoul and there’s no telling how many will be displaced in Pyeongchang this year. 30,000 were displaced in Atlanta in 1996. Estimates of those displaced during the Rio games range from 70,000-90,000 and Beijing forced 1.5 to 2 million people from their homes in 2008. The 2004 Athens Olympics ended up costing Greece the equivalent of 5% of its GDP and probably caused the debt crisis they’re suffering from. All of this to be left with empty stadiums where public housing once stood, a massive tax burden that will destroy social programs for decades to come, and a brutally repressive police state in the host city for the duration of the games and their preparation.

[decadent-trans-girl]

Abolish the Olympics

[slightlyfrumiousbandersnatch-de]

Don’t even abolish them, just stick them in one place and LEAVE THEM THERE. Send them back to Athens and make all the nations who participate contribute towards the ongoing costs, which won’t be as bad because you won’t be rebuilding everything from the ground up every four years. The Olympics bring joy to lots of folks, it’s just this stupid one-upping each other and making things needlessly expensive and tearing up perfectly good cities to build stadia that we then abandon that is ridiculous.

[endangered-justice-seeker]

louder than million words

[00jinx]

what the fu…????

[yemme]

No matter what the story is prior to this approach, a gun drawn and hidden is unwarranted.  If you are this dumb and scared hand in your badge and gun.

[nabyss]

ugh

[greenatlas]

[joeknowzit]

Damn

[unluckydecisions-deactivated201]

WATCH AND REBLOG THIS VIDEO. PLEASE

[mulanv-deactivated20191110]

Yaaaaaassssssss my fucking lorddddd they switched the audio and image!!

[kingrudegyalchina]

#realitycheckkkkj

[joshua10nbed]

Oh my GOD PLEASE EVERYONE SHARE THIS ON ON PAGE! Watch HOW WHEN THEY SWITCH THE AUDIO AND TELL ME IF THE WHITES DONT LOOK THE SAME AS THE BLACKS (RIGHT IS RIGHT) AND WRONG IS WRONG

[keepitfierce78]

Word ✊🏾

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

how do you feel about the talks and prospects of korean unification? is it a good thing or a bad thing overall for the left?

no one on the left is going to have the same feelings towards this, I personally am interested to see how it turns out, unification is a lot better than war

[sinyasiki]

[66553216655321]

punks not dead

[djfdhajekhfkhefkjheriuhg-deacti]

Heosemys spinosa is an endangered species.

[rpgmaker-deactivated20130730]

punks almost dead

[yellowbloods-deactivated2021051]

you can help save punk here

[trashythingsgohere]

Trashy but also positive

[big-ass-magnet]

Chaotic good white trash

[ithelpstodream]

[queerfeministagenda]

🇦🇺Happy Australia Day 🇦🇺 

[zvaigzdelasas]

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

61 cents an hour was too much.