Roughly a zillion years ago, we asked listeners to send in your ideas for public service announcements–serious or satirical–starring the X-Men. At long last, we’ve sorted out our favorites and collected them here for your exclusive edutainment!
employee training video: at some point -god forbid- a union organizer may want to talk to you. beware, for that is none other than the devil himself
Then there is the the reverse:
Union mandated video at a right to work company: At some time a manager will want to talk to you and be careful for they want nothing more then to make you a unpaid slave.
I mean….. yeah? Wal-Mart and other big corps are pretty blatant about how little they value human, or worker’s, rights. They’d use slave labor if they could- and when they can, they do!
The boss absolutely wants nothing more than to make you an unpaid slave.
yeah this is one of those situations where both-sides-ism doesnt really work because one side is actually, wrong
idk how many jobs u worked in ur life and how many unions youve been a part of but as someone whos been a part of 4 unions in my past 4 workplaces I can say with absolute confidence that unions see u as moneycows just as much as potential bosses. not only do they forcibly join u into the union (sometimes with threatening coercion), they also take a monthly % of your salary that you have no way to say no to (nor do you gain anything of value from giving them money), nor negotiate the amount, and in some cases even after you quit your job they will keep taking payments from your bank acc until you go through bureaucratic purgatory to make them stop. When the union decides they want to strike, you have to strike with them, even if you disagree with them, because thats one of the criteria they make you sign for when joining. and if you DO go to work while theyre on strike theyll make it a divine goal to socially ostracize you.
Id rather deal with pushy bosses than with an organized group of people who made it their life mission to “protect me” by taking protection fees out of my pocket and restricting my working hours/routine, while creating a herd mentality of being magically obbressed by the MAN to protect their unneccesary existense.
Damn,,,,, capitalism really did that
this guy is too woke for labor union obbression
“Wah, I want to be a scab but the mean old union won’t let me”
Unions are the reason you didn’t start working in an unsafe factory at age ten for pennies a day lmao I swear these people want to live in the 19th century
I think it depends on country and union. The US needs every union it can get. Canada has some that are so bureaucratic that they feel very similar to the companies they’re up against.
Unions are vital. But it’s frustrating when your university’s student union increases their union dues so that they can fight to keep professors from getting pay raises. Especially in a country where university costs are pretty low and subsidized by the government, and staff pay has been frozen while inflation rises drastically.
So yeah, I know that unions are important. I know I should value them more. But big ones are so ANNOYING.
(The ones trying to protect nurses and other struggling fields are my heroes, though.)
BARBARA GORDON SHOULD BE ORACLE AGAIN THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK
Barbara Gordon should be Oracle again but only if the killing joke is updated to give barbara agency as a fully developed character that willingly throws herself into danger and not as a side effect of a fued between a mad man and man in a fursuit
^^^^^^ an important addition
I think it’s important for Barbara to be a side effect in a feud between men. Her treatment in The Killing Joke was appalling, but it’s exactly that treatment that led Kim Yale and John Ostrander to create Oracle.
I understand the negative feelings towards The Killing Joke, and they are totally founded, but the way I see it, it’s extremely important that Barbara was shot not because of herself, but because of her role in the lives of men.
Unfortunately, women are caught in the middle of male feuds all too much in real life, and having a female fictional character that is not seen as her full self while she actually is one is very important representation.
Barbara was a mere side effect in The Killing Joke, which was written and edited by men that only cared about the male characters, but her fullness as a character was established when her story as a casualty was transformed into the story of a protagonist that had always had agency, even when it wasn’t shown or acknowledged by others. And this is why Barbara willingly throws herself into danger once more when she becomes Oracle despite all the difficulties that come with her paralysis. When it seemed like she had no agency, she shows everyone she is even more powerful after she was treated as a supporting character in someone else’s life.
The Killing Joke shouldn’t be updated because it is the testimony of the carelessness with which so many female characters were treated in the stories of male protagonists. Because it is very much real to this day. However, women can take hold of their lives even after they are mistreated so. Barbara was put in control of her own life once more. By a woman (and her husband but, if I’m not mistaken, John Ostrander has acknowledged that Oracle was Kim Yale’s idea).
The Killing Joke’s problematic narrative shouldn’t be changed, but I believe it would be something very fruitful if it were now published with The Suicide Squad and TheBatman Chronicles’ issues that tell Barbara’s road of recovery and renewal that culminate in her creation of her new identity of Oracle.
The fact that Barbara wasn’t shot in the line of duty doesn’t diminishes her agency and willingness to put herself in danger for the sake of others when she becomes Oracle. It actually magnifies it. Despite being treated as a supporting character in someone else’s life and a casualty in someone else’s story, she acted out of her own will to show the world that she wouldn’t be just a supporting character and a casualty, but the protagonist of her own story.
^^^^^^ !!!!!I love all this fuckin discussion lads
This is only tangentially on topic, so feel free to reblog without my addition:
Another really important decision writers made with Babs was how Cass became Batgirl.
During No-Man’s-Land, we see Babs’ anger at someone taking her Batgirl identity. (The fact that Helena is clearly taking Bruce’s identity, not Babs’, is a discussion for another time.) We ALSO see her relationship with Cass grow. We see Cass save Babs’ dad, by deliberately throwing herself in the way of a bullet. Possibly as a thematic parallel to Babs losing the costume?
Finally, we see Babs decide to share her legacy HER way. She deliberately gives Cass a version of Helena’s costume. (Always remember that Babs is petty.) She names, trains, and guides Cass. She fights with Bruce to be Cass’s guiding force.
That’s one of the reason that I love the Batgirl legacy.
Dick: You
know almost as much as I do, Alfred. He found me at the Haly Circus and said
Bruce needed me here. I couldn’t let a twelve year old kid wander around alone,
so I brought him with me.
Tim: I’m not twelve–I’m
thirteen. And I don’t want to cause trouble. Dick, please–I promise, once you
help Batman, I’m out of here.
Alfred: I
don’t know what game you’re playing, but we’re not enjoying it. If you
are here for a purpose, state your case. If not, give me your phone
number and I shall call your parents. You do have parents, don’t
you?
Tim: I do,
but they’re off visiting someplace or another on business. Dad’s always
traveling, and Mom goes with him.
Dick: And
you?
Tim: They
put me in a boarding school outside Gotham City, but this is a vacation
week.
–Tim Drake
with Dick Grayson and Alfred Pennyworth (Batman #441 – A Lonely Place of Dying
Part Three: Parallel Lines)
“I’m not 12 I’m 13” oh ok that makes a difference
Yep, this is word for word how Tim met Alfred. I love it so much.
The Department of Impossible Cuteness is considering taking early retirement because they aren’t sure anything will ever be able to top these photos of a green anole lizard sweetly sleeping curled up inside the petals of a rose.
This awesome blossom was picked by the daughter of Texas-based Imgur user Cmycherrytree:
“My daughter picked me a rose. We got a surprise when we went to smell it. It looked so cozy and peaceful we couldn’t bear to disturb it. As long as I live I will probably never see this again.”
He does get less mysterious! I mean, it becomes more public knowledge that his deal is World’s Greatest Detective, and not Giant Shadow Monster. But there are still very popular Jekyll and Hyde theories, and vampire theories, and werebat theories. And shadow powers are never entirely ruled out by the general populace. Or by Barry.
okay but that transitional period must have been insane. like. imagine if interpol had a conference and they were like ‘we’re switching out all our k-9 service dogs for chupacabra’, and there was this really long pause before a reporter goes, ‘excuse me, WHAT.’ and then everyone loses their shit. oh, yes, chupacabra are real. they’re very nice actually once you get to know them. they are in fact bloodthirsty creatures of the night but perfectly willing to cooperate with international security measures. here is one now. we’ve trained him to wave politely for the cameras.
like, here’s superman and wonder woman, everyone knows they’re heroes, everyone knows they’re badasses. but there they are standing right next to THE BATMAN, gotham’s weirdest fucking phenomenon, like they didn’t somehow talk a grim shadow made of vengeance and vampire magic into a photo op.
tbh i like to imagine that he still manages to avoid all photo ops and it’s extremely frustrating for everyone who isn’t batman
like “well they SAY batman was working with the league, but there’s only this one single picture with a big black blur behind everyone else, so maybe he just showed up and they’re trying to cover their asses??”
carefully positioning himself according to the time of day where he knows the lighting will be shit because it is exactly where a photographer would ask bruce wayne to please not stand
theories that batman is LITERALLY superman’s shadow because supes is a very convenient camera shield
good luck trying to get an action shot, it’s nothing but cape. is this a picture of batman fighting a kraken, or is it the world’s gothest shower curtain caught in a hurricane?? it’s impossible to be sure but take a lot of pictures and slap CONFIRMED on them anyway
what if it’s like how sometimes people try to sell everyone on melanistic lions and tigers. what if people just start photoshopping the lighting on superman all the way down and going CONFIRMED. what if that’s the hot new meme. just take a random JLA photo and burn-tool the absolute living fuck out of wonder woman or the martian manhunter or a stop sign and be like IT’S BATMAN.
WHAT IS THE TRUTH???
[First image shows a black garbage bag caught in a tree, with the text, “Batman spotted.”
Second image is a promo shot from the Justice League cartoon, showing Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter. Martian Hunter has been darkened until his features are difficult to make out. He’s also been circled, with arrows and question marks pointing towards him.
End ID.]
Fingerstripes!!
[Photograph shows a hand with long nails, painted blue. Up the side of each finger is a narrow line of the same blue, which continues down the ide of the hand until it hits a similar line that encircles the wrist.
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