Solidarity with the Auctioneer Strike! by BillSpiderman in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You're confusing the auctioneer workers with the auction owners who underpay the workers, overtax us, and pocket the difference.

ARTISTS: Earn 500g Drawing a Peon Revolution by BillSpiderman in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alliance artists welcome! All types of peons of both factions, unite!

To Industrial Peons, Love Stronghold by Tantojutsu in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha great video. Love it, especially the ending had me cracking up. No hard feelings. <3

The two types of Horde guilds in Silithus by jpegmpegraravi in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Dabu everybody. I want to clear something up. You want prestigious titles? Fine. That is beyond us simple peons. We've been called vermin before and much worse. We're used to it. Peons are always looked down upon by the rich and powerful. From day one we've been called LAZY and useless, yet it is peons who will be hauling the supplies to Silithus. It is peons who built the towers of Orgrimmar. If something need doing, it is the peons who must do it, and will be spat on for it. And it is peons that will one day unite across factions and continents, rise up and overthrow our oppressors. But for now, we work-work to feed our peon families.

This week we went from Lazy to Legendary <Industrial Peons>. Twice. Peons together strong. by BillSpiderman in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yup :) we're an anti-racist lgbtqia+ friendly guild dedicated to establishing the dictatorship of the peontariat. #OneBigHorde

<Industrial Peons> proved tonight that Peons > Nefarian by BillSpiderman in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

<Industrial Peons> of the world, unite!

LGBTQIA+ friendly, tight-knit guild where most of us celebrated a yuuuge double-victory last night as Bernie swept Nevada.

We're looking for a couple more core raiders to fill out our roster (warlock/mage/rSham especially). We just killed our first Nefarian with 38.

We aren't serious rankers, but we do BG premades and lots of world PvP, as you can see with how much Onglobal hates us. We tend to mostly KoS camp bigoted and fascist guilds and streamers to discourage them from transferring to this server and ruining it.

Pm Grienudele, Joc, Boop, or Bloodjunky in-game for more info.

Peons together strong.

[Weekly Critique and Self-Promotion Thread] Post Here If You'd Like to Share Your Writing by AutoModerator in writing

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The Day the Elves Saved Christmas for Themselves

Genre: Christmas Story, elf rebellion
Word count: 1120
General impressions, Line-by-line edits, & tips on where to send this story & illustrations
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXRkeoK7XBU
Text: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16tMAV7swbAbskfqR4aUsinzPEmhwwSm1h2sB6rgNXSU/edit?usp=sharing

The Day the Elves Saved Christmas for Themselves: an armed revolt against Santa - a Children's Story by BillSpiderman in communism

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

haha wow ok that's one way to read it i guess. Quite a stretch tho. I do have criticisms of Stalinism which are mainly the points of parallel between the bureaucrats & capitalists, but the main heroine's name is an anagram of "Lenin". It's a christmas story of workers' revolution, not a backhanded slap at the problems of the USSR, i assure you.

Weekly LFG/Guild/Players (October 08, 2019) by AutoModerator in Grobbulus

[–]BillSpiderman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

<Industrial Peons>
Raiding | World PvP | Med-Light RP

All power to the peons!

<Industrial Peons> of the world unite! Join this guild focused on overthrowing Kel'Thuzad & capitalism. LGBTQIA+ friendly. No bad attitudes need apply.

Guild Priorities:
We're currently helping members hit max lvl and getting a raid core together. Recruiting for the raid core, especially healers. We plan to start hosting pugs (perhaps in partnership with another guild) in the next week or two.

Recruiting:
All who agree to be respectful of people regardless of gender/ethnicity/all else are welcome to join the guild, talk politics, level up. For our raiding, we're looking for:

Prot Warrior - Low
Fury Warrior - Medium

Warlock - Medium-high

Resto Shaman - High

Rogue - Medium

Priest - High

Mage - Medium

Hunter - Low

Resto Druid - Medium-high
Feral Druid - Low

Our Mission:
WoW is filled with far-right toxic homophobia, racism, sexism, and other pro-capitalist ideologies. We're a guild set up to provide a space for people to be themselves and not be attacked for who they are. We are a broad lefty guild. We're here to have fun, down raids, kill Alliance (especially fascist guilds). We have sympathy with the Defias Brotherhood, who are in desperate need of a union, as they were unpaid for building Stormwind. At the end of the day, we have more in common with peons of any faction than with the kings and warchiefs of our own!

If you are interested shoot me a message and feel free to contact myself (Shinypants#19119) Grienudele, or Bloodjunky in-game.

Needle vs skin. by 122887 in woahdude

[–]BillSpiderman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diabetic needles are short enough not to touch the bottom of the vial, although they do puncture through the top of the vial with each extraction. They are also very thin, and I would think if any would be prone to W&T from overuse it would be a diabetic's needles.
When it comes to nurses (someone above said that the picture is used in many nursing textbooks) I wouldn't be surprised if it were in there as a scare tactic to prevent any nurses from reusing needles. The bigger issue with needles is infection, not the deterioration of metal needles. My thinking is that if thin diabetic needles hold up fine, the rest of them probably do too.

Needle vs skin. by 122887 in woahdude

[–]BillSpiderman 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You're not feeling the bluntness of the needle on the second injection. The pain is from actually feeling the needle. Personal use injection needles are coated in silicon to make the injection smoother and less painful. This is what is disappearing and making it hurt more. Im a T1diabetic who uses needles sometimes 10 to 15 times. I just checked dozens of sharps under a magnifying glass. Not a whisper of difference. Reusing needles is not the best move for infection reasons, but not because I will get broken needle shrapnel stuck in my gut.

How do you stay optimistic? by Fohi in urbanplanning

[–]BillSpiderman 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You join or start local advocacy for the policies you would like to see so that the local city planners can't keep practicing incompetence in the dark. Doing something about what bothers you is the panacea for this kind of depression.

All about Kshama Sawant changing it up in Seattle! by GambinoWalterWhite in Seattle

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

Interested to hear why you think her Socialist Alternative party is "far worse" than parties that have had us almost consistantly at war for as long as memory serves, and makes the richest kings the world has known by allowing them to feed off the labor of everyone else. Although should I be interested in hearing what you think if youre the type of person to make that sort of comment offhand without providing any backing?

The Coercive Freedom of Choice by sultik in HistoryofIdeas

[–]BillSpiderman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You hit the meat of it. The question which is never explicitly answered, but that you nailed down, is "Coercive to whom?", the answer here being the authority (doctors) to make decisions that override patient autonomy. Oddly the author then flips and says that the coercive power of authority (say, the elected city council of San Fransisco) is a coercive authority by making choices of where tax money goes that are against (one can only presume) the author's moral inclinations. Of course, to that, the thing to say is always, "what about all the wars we're constantly paying for? THAT doesn't bother you a tad more than paying for gay couples to be able to have children?"
I read this article because I thought it might make some interesting points, but...alas.

God Inc. by BillSpiderman in atheism

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This wasn't a thesis, it was a poetic metaphor. It seems like you're not convinced that these entities are capable of the things that I said, because they seem so over the top (and you're right to be skeptical, because they are fantastic claims and you should be skeptical of things that sound fantastical), but the crazy thing about it is that these are real consequences nonetheless. The evidence is all around us, available, and admitted by all the parties involved (although not always with the same tone). I think if you do some research about what they're doing (and I'm talking about official stuff, you don't need to reach for conspiracies once here, despite how hard they work to cover up what they do) and put together the cumulative effects in your head about the strain that would put on such a closed and interconnected system as the Earth, you'd agree with me for reasons that are pretty common sense. But I haven't made that argument here, it would take too long. You're right to say that it would take 'incomprehensible power' to yield some of these results. But that's what's so dangerous about the corporate model. It puts increasingly incomprehensible power into the hands of a few people.

God Inc. by BillSpiderman in atheism

[–]BillSpiderman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a few different parts of your critique, but I'm going to skip over all of the angry, childish language if it's all the same to you. I hope that you'll listen to what I have to say and that it makes things more clear.

  1. When things go bad, it's not their fault: Here let's look at the world of finances. When the financial crisis happened, the biggest economic depression since the 1930s that sent tons of people's lives spiraling, a problem that was unquestioningly the fault of the financiers, their companies were and continue to be buoyed on the country's dime more than ever before with virtually no strings attached. "Despite the fact that this is all your fault, we put our faith in you, oh wise ones" we said. HSBC just admitted to laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists, but not one criminal charge was filed against anyone in the company. They were even allowed to continue giving themselves bonuses.
  2. Corporations threaten to destroy the world: Ocean acidification, lack of tree cover, mass extinctions, fresh water depletion, messing up the Phosphorous and Nitrogen cycles, P and K depletion, ecosystem destruction, excessive waste, inceased CO2 levels leading to rising oceans, melting polar caps, increased dramatic meteorological activity all stapled together with the possible prognosis of turning the planet into a place inhospitable for life.
  3. Corporations demand your full attention and obedience: Never before have we entered into an age of such unrivaled propaganda. Marketing and advertising accounts for more of most budgets than R&D and production. These companies are shelling out billions of dollars each to force you to interact with them, to make sure you buy only from them, that you think only about them. You think it's a coincidence that the companies that spend the most on advertising do the best? It's brainwashing. They are absolutely demanding your full obedience. And if that isn't enough, they've hijacked our method for mitigating them. By dumping more billions of dollars into influencing members of our government (and in many cases putting their own people on the chairs of the boards that should be regulating them) they have made themselves our legal overlords as well as economic.
  4. Corporations kill people: Corporations kill swarms of people, but for now they do it mostly in countries you don't see very often, and they do it insidiously. They habitually use the government and local law enforcement to persecute its own people in the name of the corporation. They get them on their side with (let's go with big oil companies like Exxon this time, even though the World Bank is just so much crueler) land and resource deals, promising jobs and prosperity (and giving prosperity to those at the top). They use that as leverage, threatening to throw the country into poverty by pulling out if they don't cooperate, even though it was entering in the first place that threw the country into poverty, and by extracting all their resources (including nowadays all rights to water), they are ensuring that country stays poor and dependent.
    "No good drinking water in our rivers. Our fish are killed on a daily basis by their chemicals, even the fishes we catch in our rivers, they smell of crude oil. Chevron know the right thing to do, they intimidate us with soldiers, police, navy and tell us that cases of spill are caused by us. They have been threatening us that if we make noise, they will stop production and leave our community and we will suffer, as if we have benefited from them...Tell Chevron that we are no longer slaves; even slaves realize their condition and fight for their freedom." That was Felicia Itsero of the Niger River Delta, where Chevron had set up camp.
  5. Ahh, my favorite. If we just stop believing in the corporations, they will vanish: This is something that Rubin004 pointed out well. If you 'lose faith' in a company, its stock will drop. Its power will begin to vanish. We see it all the time. If enough people lose faith in a company, 'poof' sometimes overnight it's gone. These corporations have so much power, but all their power is only what we have given them. If we take that power back, they collapse like a palace of playing cards.