me: *opens up instagram explore and sees somebody with 146k followers doing some weird yoga pose on top of a mountain with a caption like āi love wednesdays ššÆā before i get ready for my 12 hour work day so i can buy the sale hot dogs at the grocery store*
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this was removed from tumbrl due to āviolating one or more of Tumblrās Community Guidelinesā, but since my wish came true the first time, Iām putting it back. :)
been seeing a lot of variations on this take recently - itās one of the most common pro-immigrant sentiments and also one of the worst - the line that says we should welcome migrant workers because working class Australian/British/US etc citizens are too spoilt or lazy or consider themselves too good to do those jobs.
Like it comes from a (sort of) well meaning place, theyāre often trying to say that migrants arenāt criminals or lazy or whateverā¦ but aside from valuing people according to their productive āworthā, valourising menial, difficult work as some kind of moral virtue and attacking working class people for not being exploited enough, the most important thing missing from that take is the reasons why working class citizens donāt do these jobs.Ā
Itās not because working class Australians/Americans/Brits etc are too good for it - itās that employers deliberately donāt employ people that they might actually have to pay properly - wage theft is fundamental to the business model
But somehow it always gets framed in terms of working class peopleās choices - what the migrant isĀ āwilling to doā and what the American wonāt. Poor migrants canāt choose more attractive work, and the working class citizens canātĀ āchooseā to work for less than minimum wage. Itās the bosses who make the choice, itās about what they areĀ āwilling to doā. This is how they want it.Ā
Police in North Carolina arrested at least five suspects after store managers asked cops to āstand downā when people affected by Hurricane Florence broke in and took items from a local Family Dollar outlet.
On Saturday, after the Category 1 hurricane had devastated the city, local television stations began receiving reports of looting at a Family Dollar that sits directly across from Houston Moore Terrace, one of the largest of Wilmingtonās 8 public housing complexes, but the news outlets noticed that there were no law enforcement officers around.
That was because, when cops initially arrived on the scene, the businessā owners told cops that he or she didnāt want to press charges against the people who were taking items from the store. WECT reports that officers āwere told by management of the Family Dollar to stand down after receiving reports of looting at the store,ā so they did not arrest anyone.
The police department tweeted: āWe are aware of the looting occurring at the Family Dollar Store at 13th & Greenfield Sts, unfortunately management has asked not to intervene at this time.ā
But instead of clearing roadways or providing assistance to people affected by the hurricane, flooding or power outages, the cops managed to convince the discount storeās owners to press charges after officers āconsulted with the district attorney.ā When the proprietor relented, the law enforcement officers immediately began the hard work of tracking down the brazen criminal masterminds who made off with the storeās valuable stash of one-ply toilet tissue and off-brand pine-scented cleanser.
First, the brave heroes leaped into action by placing a curfew on the area around the Family Dollar store. Then they began reviewing news footage of the looting, asking the public for help. As the entire city waited with bated breath, wondering how they could sleep knowing that there were people roaming the streets with cases of free, barely-carbonated cases of cheap cookout soda, the valiant first responders finally apprehended the culprits, promising to punish them to the fullest extent of the law.
Absolutely every item in that store is going to have to be tossed from inventory after this storm subsides. The police would have these items go in the garbage rather than have them help the people within the community being devastated by a hurricane. Fucking ridiculous
enjoy the short term!!! sometimes ur not gonna be friends for 46 years and thatās ok, just enjoy the drive!!! some people arenāt gonna have a significant impact in ur life but not every show is a TedTalk, sometimes u needs some Real Housewives!!ā loosen up, the universe is rearing to explode and if that bix isnāt permanent herself, youāve got nothing to lose! forever is an illusion
ābecause iām literally a communist.ā āa mood for literally everyday, but especially this morning after ash sarkar roasted piers morgan alive on national television
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