all workers’ strikes are good. yes even if they’re inconvenient. even if they’re making your life harder. even if you don’t get to watch your favourite tv show. workers fighting for their rights is ALWAYS a good thing
Oddly enough, the best and simplest summary of what the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are about is contained in this extremely sweary Phil Jupitus cartoon. People have been asking me to summarize. This does the job.
(Can someone do the alt text?) I’ll do it as a picture and as a link.
[Image description: meme image of the astral body levitating out of a figure laying down. Caption reads in large letters: “leftism leaving people’s bodies as soon as you ask them to [edited text] be nice to children” /ID]
These are the same leftists who refuse to include the needs of the disabled in their vision. Their leftism is based on economic equality and the individualist self-sufficiency and despise dependence and vulnerability as much as capitalists do.
opens box that reads “i wanna draw again”. inside lies a note. the note says, “mental illness and difficult circumstances have taken years of interest, accessibility, and skill away from me. i want to forgive myself for that. i want to heal my relationship to my hobbies. i want to feel connected to something that once made me feel good, but the cyclic discouragement is difficult to overcome.” i turn over the note. on the back it reads “wannta drawe sexy bodies awooga”
seems like this one really resonated with the artists who dont do art fandom
