hey. the stigma and hatred surrounding addicts is an extension of the demonization of the mentally ill. it’s not based in anything but stereotypes and misinformation.
ive seen people be like “treat the mentally ill with respect!” and then turn around and go “but not those dirty, dirty addicts.“ “Theyre using for fun!” “they’re taking meds from mentally ill ppl that need them and are Actually Ableist” obviously this is an exaggeration lol but the hypocrisy. my goddd
The majority of addicts are mentally ill! The two groups are intertwined! If you think you care about the mentally ill but shame and hate addicts, you need to think again!
I have so much respect for Marisha and Taliesin for making canonically queer player characters for campaign 2.
Marisha especially I have to give her so much respect. She just came right in, playing this aggressive lesbian disaster and making such bold character choices and really doing something amazing with Beauregard and building cohesive arcs for her character’s development. And I adore Matthew Mercer for consistently giving us queer NPCs. Matt & Marisha are the allies we deserve. These are people who play D&D for fun and they owe us nothing.
It’s such a small thing, to include an NPC who is explicitly gay, or explicitly genderfluid, but it means the world to so many of us.
being part of the d&d fandom is wild because the vast majority of folks are just here to be gay and do crimes but then there’s that little corner that consists of greasy-fingered Mountain Dew guzzlers whose sole purpose in life is to tell you that you’re wrong
A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a
picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs
explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of
people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public
interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from
entering the business they were striking against.
When
workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to
step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A
picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement
of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the
strike.
“Never cross a picket line” is something union and
other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both
“never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”
Amazon will likely
hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the
slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block
access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important
to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during
the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.
Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.
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