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fu-venus-rs:

i am in the strangest mood and have no desire to be known

what do you do when eat the rich is thrown around at anyone perceived to be even moderately above the poverty line? i don’t mean wealthy, i mean simply have been able to dig themselves out of debt and have some little savings so they don’t live paycheck-to-paycheck? what do you do when the comments are gleeful and ghoulish about wishing for someone to have horrifically suffered and died? of course i agree that capitalism is a hellscape, but what do you do when you grew up in a diaspora still reeling with inherited trauma from the brutal enforcement of communism by the soviet union? how do you cope when eat the rich sounds all too similar at times to the purges you hear stories of, the dekulakization that made some of your own great-great-grand aunts and grand uncles disappear into thin air, or were shot point blank in the head, their blood left to be cleaned up by a wife, a neighbor, a child. how do you process the western fetishization of communism when your own family still bears scars from it? when the people who call for it, idolize it, froth for it have never once lived beneath it? when you are leftist and do want change but know that this isn’t it, it isn’t, it has never been?

i don’t know how to speak. i don’t know how to talk about it. i see people i call friends bang these drums and if i say a word about bullet holes in concrete walls and smashed teacups and waking up in the middle of the night to soldiers in your room your house your kitchen your bed then i am called out as a shitty moderate liberal. a centrist. an apologist for the capitalist nightmare.

one nightmare does not unmake another. there are enough of us among you who can tell you this, but you don’t want to listen. why do you claim you want those with experience to speak, why do you pretend to promote own voices, when you don’t listen to the ones that you don’t like

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oooh shit another one of my favorite posts recently i found one that explains this issue and lack of western empathy towards it but this one it speaks emotion of it holy shit thank you for this communism komunizm

Jun 25, 2023

stele3:

zombieella:

sci-fantasy:

dduane:

allronix:

anagramofbrat:

voidbat:

jeshala:

grantcary:

Blazing Saddles [1974]

Goddddddddddddd Cleavon Little was cute. Fuckin’ hell look at him. 

i love watching wilder’s eyes in this scene - he’s watching every fucking muscle twitch, every micro-expression. he isn’t gonna drop that “morons” until he KNOWS he’s got him.

my god, they were both so good.

“you know… morons” was not in the script. All the points to Gene Wilder for getting Cleavon Little to corpse that hard on camera. Also props to Mel Brooks for leaving that take in the movie.

Blazing Saddles is what happened when Mel Brooks (Jewish WW2 vet) and Richard Pryor (Black man who grew up in shittiest conditions possible) got in a room, decided to throw their collective fucks out a window and see how many groups they could piss off in two hours.

This.

All true, but there’s something else worth talking about:

Brooks and Pryor knew EXACTLY how far to go, and where to stop. Brooks has talked about this–he would happily show a Black man escaping the noose, but not one being lynched.

There are important limits to this sort of comedy, a delicate balancing act of how to strike for maximum effect but not to punch down. And a lot of people who are saying “you couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” don’t get that.

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(Richard Pryor was also bisexual as fuck.)

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Jul 02, 2023

antique-scarecrow:

trekwiz:

trekwiz:

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

  • Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten
  • Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten
  • Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered
  • Get the company to pay back taxes to the government
  • Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines
  • A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

Misclassification of Employees as Independent Contractors | U.S. Department of Labor
dol.gov

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Independent Contractor (Self-Employed) or Employee? | Internal Revenue Service
Learn how to determine whether a person providing a service to you is an employee or an independent contractor.
irs.gov

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.

Fantastic addition

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Jul 02, 2023

thesecretlifeofknees:

silverfox66:

Yeeah, Elon lost it. Pay to read….

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The interesting thing is that this is likely a lie he made up to cover up a massive glitch that started today because Twitter didn’t pay to renew its contract with Google’s cloud server on June 30. It wasn’t able to move everything off Google in time, and hasn’t been updating its code, so now the site is essentially doing a self-DDOS


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Jul 02, 2023

knitmeapony:

eda0bdedb8ba:

pseudomantis:

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Pizza VS Flower with bee on it VS Bisexuality VS Wind turbine

For anyone who doesn’t want to watch the video, he used a list of things from Wikidata, pared it down to about 8000 things that most people would have heard of, and made a website where people voted for the best option in randomly selected pairs of things.

Pizza was voted the 9th best thing, making it the best food. Bees weren’t in the top 10 best things, but they won 77% of matchups to be selected as the best creature, followed by emperor penguins and hedgehogs. Bisexuality didn’t place in the top 10 either, but it won 73% of matchups compared to heterosexuality winning only 45%. (Orgasms were the highest ranked sexual thing, and were miraculously ranked at number 69.) I think the windmill is supposed to stand for electricity, which was the second place winner. And the winner of “best thing” was sleep.

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… honestly, I would agree with that list more or less.

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Jul 02, 2023

honeyymistt:

i’ve heard a lot of people say “don’t reach out to your friends first and see how many people will remain in your life. those are your true friends” and i get it. it sucks and it’s tiring constantly being the one to message first, to initiate hang outs but don’t take this so literally. some friendships require initiation. i have lost touch with so many people who genuinely cared about me and wanted me in their life because i stopped reaching out. it’s a hard pill to swallow but honestly some people just suck at it and it doesn’t mean they don’t love and value you. i’ve reconnected with some people over the past few months and it’s crazy how genuinely happy they are to see me and how engaged they are in the conversation. i just think sometimes we’re too harsh on each other & too quick to emphasize other peoples flaws and remove them from our lives but then we’ll all be alone and what’s the point of life then!!!!

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Jul 01, 2023

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