>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
This is also true of the Democratic Party btw. People are always complaining about what “The Democrats” should do, or aren’t doing etc etc.
but like literally in my early 20s I started going to my local party’s meetings regularly and with-in a few months they were like “hey you want to be on the committee to re-write our by-laws?” yes, yes I do thank you. “hey you want to get elected to be one of our representatives to the meetings of the state party?” why yes thank you so I got to go and debate the budget of a swing state Democratic Party.
I had to move for work not that much after that but like people I know from that have been delegates to the DNC, have elected officials come to their homes for events. Literally there’s a middle aged lady I know who when Hillary Clinton decided to run for President, Hillary started with a small tour on a van, she called it her Scooby Van, and her first stop in New Hampshire, with its “first in the nation” primary was to a bakery in my home town and the person she sat with at what was her first or second official campaign stop of her run for President is a lady I know who isn’t some super secret Democratic overlord or anything but a local lady who volunteers a lot.
Just the other day I got invited to meet my Senator (again) tomorrow I’m going to meet my state’s governor (again) because I volunteer, if I wanted I could likely get to be a delegate to the DNC
so many organizations are open doors that people just refuse to push and then are big mad it didn’t read their minds and do what you think.
I live in a town of 960 people, and four years ago I ran for an open seat on the Library Board; within three months I was chairing the board because the lady who was the chair had been doing it for 14 years and she wanted a break. Someone also threw my name in the ring to be on the school board; another candidate won the seat that time.
In my first three years on the library board, we
a) lost a librarian to a car accident,
b) hired an interim librarian,
c) hired a permanent librarian,
c) wrote an anti-censorship policy,
d) balanced the library budget three years running,
d) started a Friends of the Library group,
e) organized our social media campaign,
f) joined the statewide electronic catalog, and
g) quadrupled our library membership.
So when I ran for library board for my second term, I got voted in with 100% of the votes cast… and I also won an open seat on the school board as a write-in candidate with 19 votes; and I lost an election to the Select Board (our ‘mayoral’ system is a 3-person board) by just 38 votes out of 450 cast.
So now I’m solving library problems on the one hand, and solving school board problems on the other hand. It’s an education in educational policy and finance — federal and state aid programs, local policy on athletics and sports and core education vs arts funding, union negotiations, and more. If I ever decide to run for select board again, I’m going to be much better informed and prepared to understand the issues.
Meanwhile…
Just yesterday, I drove through a town of 65,000 people. There was a group of people on a street corner holding up “pro labor” signs and “free Palestine” signs and “anti-war” signs, and “Jill Stein for President” (mind you, this is March 2025 – there isn’t a presidential election until 2028!) and “The Green Party wants your vote!” signs. There were maybe ten of these folks?
So when I got home, I went to their city’s “Boards and Commissions” website. They have 19 vacant seats on various committees and boards and commissions, including two (the Wetlands Commission [wouldn’t that be a Green Party issue??], and the Diversity Commission) that don’t have enough members right now to hold meetings under state quorum rules. And there are 85 people on other commissions and boards that are up for re-election this year, and more than half of them don’t want to keep running for these seats; they’d welcome a challenger.
In other words, the local community is STARVING for people to fill local government responsibilities.
Why are these people out here holding up signs for a woman to run for president in three years, when there are 104 seats in their own community government that are up election this year? Demonstrate to someone, somebody, anybody that you want to help solve community-level problems, and that you know what you’re doing… and there’s no holding you back.
The fact that jkr doesnt seem to realise that the freedom to remove and decenter sex from your lifestyles and relationships, to not be told that sexual experience gives you measurable value, or to simply not be forced to be sexual when you dont want to be is such a massive part of women’s liberation just cements what I already suspected: that shes never been a feminist at all, just a racist old creep with no life outside of her hatred
Not a single TERF is truly a feminist in any sense of the word and I stand by the belief wholeheartedly
do not act on negative emotions until at least 2 days have elapsed
This counts before a period too because I’ll suddenly have a big sad out of nowhere before the thing starts even though I got out of chronic crippling depression a few years ago and I’ll start panicking every time “is it back???” but then a few days later the bleeding starts and then I’m like “oh”
Two months after October 7, Sarahâs* eleven-year-old daughter Talia* quietly deposited the Star of David she had been given as a baby on her motherâs dressing room table. It was not a casual gesture. The previous week, she had told her mother that she was resigning as a Jew.
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âAfter the big march against antisemitism in London in November 2023, I kept a big Israeli flag in our kitchen but it would regularly disappearâ says Sarah âWhen I asked Talia if it was anything to do with her, she confessed and said she didnât want her best friend, a non-Jewish girl and frequent visitor to our home to see it.â
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Dalia*, an Israeli and Israel activist in London, knows all about the yelling that often accompanies in this inter-generational rift.
âMy daughter has screamed that I am a Nazi and I have called her a kapo which I regret but I am horrified by the anti-Israel sentiments that come out of her mouth.â
Her 22-year-old daughter works in the arts and Dalia thinks this is part of the problem. âBeing anti-Israel is an article of faith in her professional circles and if you are dare to stand up for Israel, you are bullied.â
09/04/2025
âI have called my daughter a kapo because sheâs anti-genocideâ is perhaps one of the most insane things Iâve read today.
Yes your brothers and uncles are cold blooded murderers sorry thats unpleasant for you to confront.
Reading this interview and giggling at a certain part where Azusa Aoi (Minamo/Ripple’s voice actress) mentions asking Yoshino Nanjo (who voices Minamo’s mother) for advice when it comes to singing while fighting
…Because there’s no note inserted making any mention of why she asked her so people who don’t already know would probably think she just asked her because she’s been around longer or, even funnier, because she voices her character’s mom
But no, she went to her because Nanjo is the only PriOrche cast member we know of who has previous experience in that area 😂
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