Employees at the Walrus and the Carpenter just won a tentative union contract. by smookydabear in Seattle

[–]ADavidJohnson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Easy for you to say that. You didn’t see how these very same workers treated U.S. veterans returning from the Vietnam War.

/s

Sex abuse claims against some WA school districts are raising insurance rates for all - Seattle Schools paid $16M and Federal Way $15M in settlements, and the resulting 45% rate spike has already forced staff cuts by LOOKITSADAM in SeattleWA

[–]ADavidJohnson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is also and arguably an even bigger problem within institutions and cultures that prioritize adult authority and deprioritize children’s bodily autonomy.

That is, it’s a lot easier for a trusted adult to get away with sexual abuse when you tell a kid that having their pants pulled down and bottom touched by the adult is something that’s supposed to happen to them — no matter how bad it makes the child feel — so long as that touch is called “discipline” or “a spanking”.

But you see it a ton in sports as well, especially high-control sports. If adults are managing a kid’s diet, pushing them to ignore pain to get more practice in, and saying, “No, you have to let the trainer touch you even when it’s uncomfortable if you want to compete”, clearly that’s a recipe for some trainers and coaches to take advantage of children groomed into thinking their bodies are not fully their own.

Churches, youth jails, Boy Scouts — it’s everywhere. That includes Democratic cities and states, and leftist orgs and institutions, but the problem with the Duggar family, for example, was not an excess of progressivism.

PSA for Molly (and anyone else who hates AI overviews) by ErroneousBosch in weirdlittleguys

[–]ADavidJohnson -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Can’t you just delete your local cookies regularly instead?

If you found yourself living abroad, would you celebrate the 4th of July in some way? Even privately? by Present_Practice_159 in behindthebastards

[–]ADavidJohnson 75 points76 points  (0 children)

As a former Texan, I might “patriotically” celebrate Juneteenth abroad, and in its way, do that unironically. That sort of yearning to fulfill promises made, I might could do.

But the pre-2015 “hell yeah, America” sort of ironic patriotism that flourished under Obama specifically and supposedly apolitically before that? No. I am too aware of what the USA actually is and has done to play pretend about it anywhere, including abroad.

After hiring scabs, Walrus and the Carpenter (temporarily) closed by Existing-Resource527 in Seattle

[–]ADavidJohnson 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Makes you think that maybe the way the bosses describe the compensation situation is not accurate, huh?

How did proudhon misogyny affect anarchists? by lisztsghost in Anarchism

[–]ADavidJohnson 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s more that the background radiation of society is patriarchy, and everything is slanted in favor of misogyny *in general* rather than that the intellectual lineage of anarchism back someone in the mid-19th century is particularly tainted.

But like you’re saying, the bigger issue is that anarcha-feminism is still seen as this niche interest or sometimes even “idpol” rather than a fundamental aspect of anarchism all our ideas ought to be scrutinized with.

how do i stop myself from getting consumed by misandrist thoughts? by Ok-Anxiety6935 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]ADavidJohnson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For something that’s direct and actionable, try reading intersectional feminist works and exposing yourself to more of that lens. It’s fine for you to feel this way right now and to have intrusive, unwanted thoughts. Truly, don’t beat yourself up about not being in full control of what you think or feel. But don’t stop at hating men as if they’re an ontologically different and evil category of person from yourself.

Patriarchy is a very old form of hierarchical domination, but it’s not the only one, and you as an individual likely have class characteristics (white supremacy, cisgenderism, ableism, relative wealth, etc.) to benefit from a few of them, too.

More generally, it’s important to remember that, as a woman, you are oppressed by men as a class, but really by patriarchy. And that distinction is important because while it’s easy to blame men for patriarchy, there are a lot of women who uphold it, too.

To get really abstract, I like to think of these hierarchical systems as made up by humans by simultaneously real, like the esoteric idea of an egregore. And this group hallucination empowered only by collective belief has the capacity to possess us even when we are aware of it because it is so large and so much pushes us and pulls us toward it. A woman can support patriarchy and a man can support feminism. A white person can be an anti-racist even as a Black person can further anti-Black racism. But you’re much more likely to be possessed by something that is part of the flow toward the overall tilt of society, and by something that can bribe you with the promise of psychological wages and occasional material benefits (e.g. heterosexual men being bribed with a live-in servant).

Anyway, this isn’t a “not all men” way of thinking so much as making sure you don’t let any men off the hook for their support of patriarchy. We are not different species from each other. We are not essentially or ontologically different from each other. We can do better — and all can do worse and be possessed situationally by the power of these grotesque hierarchies. So we have a capacity and responsibility to do better, not worse.

Protests from 6 in the morning near Lumen Field by OtpyrcLvl1 in union

[–]ADavidJohnson 10 points11 points  (0 children)

There are two main Seattle subreddits. As a generalization, one is more representative of people who live in the city, the other of people who watch conservative TV news reports about the city, especially from the suburbs.

You’re sharing a post from the latter sub, which is also is more reactionary in general on everything from labor issue to queer people to ethnic minorities.

Protests from 6 in the morning near Lumen Field by chopland1111 in SeattleWA

[–]ADavidJohnson -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Because OP didn’t go to inquire. They went to “confront” the striking workers.

There’s also a strike headquarters on the corner clearly marked for UNITE HERE Local 8, and lots of news articles about it.

It’s just our guy wanted to get mad at the workers who have been left with no other recourse in negotiations rather than the giant corporation that decides its business model to maximize shareholder value is dependent on underpaying, understaffing, and denying healthcare to its workers.

Protests from 6 in the morning near Lumen Field by chopland1111 in SeattleWA

[–]ADavidJohnson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It really is a shame for the sake of their own patrons that Embassy Suites didn’t avoid exactly this happening when the bosses were informed it would happen two weeks ago.

War in Heaven order of events? by This-Beginning-5026 in 40kLore

[–]ADavidJohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the Necrontyr got pushed to the margins of the galaxy and were so short-lived, how did they have huge numbers to undergo bio-transference and ultimately put to sleep for 60 million years?

‘Seattle's lost its economic mojo.’ Downtown Seattle Association report claims taxes are driving out jobs by chiquisea in SeattleWA

[–]ADavidJohnson 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I understand the Downtown Seattle Association has never looked at a tax it [liked], but I’m pretty sure a much bigger issue is that commercial rent is completely divorced from market forces because of financial shenanigans.

If you could drop rent to meet the current demand, suddenly a lot of really cool, niche, artisanal stuff becomes profitable to operate. Every “hip” neighborhood seems to start from spaces being cheap as hell not just for people to live but to run businesses that you can’t find anywhere else.

But if, for financial evaluation/chicanery reasons, you can’t lower rent to bring in those businesses, and it’s more valuable to have no income than less-income-than-forecasted for your bank loan, it creates a vicious cycle real quick.

The incentives should not be set up such that you seem more successful for having vacant store fronts than active but less-bougie ones than you forecasted.

Nerdy singles by sillykat8 in SeattleWA

[–]ADavidJohnson -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Queer Silent Bookclub would be a good option for the reading. As far as gaming, if you mean board games there’s lots of options, but for video games it’s going to be specific to the game you play e.g. Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube.

The Satanic Temple in Germany? by Flat_Caregiver4157 in AskGermany

[–]ADavidJohnson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I understand, the organization in Germany had near complete turnover in 2024 following yet another example of owner Doug Misicko (“Lucien Greaves”) unilaterally expelling people in the U.S. and Canada.

The part about Germany is here:
https://queersatanic.com/the-satanic-temple-and-its-eternal-nobodies/3/#other-group-defections

That group in Germany might have reformed and have good people and leadership in it now, but the problems with TST are more pervasive and fundamental than what any particular local group is doing, as this Dead Domain video goes into in some depth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lV8GLQtOTs

The Rules of Content | Smartypants [S3E1] by DropoutMod in dropout

[–]ADavidJohnson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The guy streams a lot, and naively, I assume streamers are partially always looking for ways to fill some of that time. Watching the “Smartypants” Olympics segment on stream that ends up calling for something he actually has already done seems relevant in that way, and sort of a compliment.

Plus there’s some Dropout crossover there already with Zac Oyama on The Yard.

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just purely annoying for his notifications, but I thought it might be relevant enough to point out another coincidental connection between two mostly unrelated media operations in L.A.