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i also think that it was a very interesting choice to make the main character of a show involving deadly children’s games a man who makes remarkably childish actions. i haven’t finished the show yet so this may change, but gi hun doesn’t seem like an actively malicious person, just a very irresponsible one. he bets the money his mother gave him for his daughters birthday on horse racing not because he values his own gain more than his daughter, but because he so strongly believes that he’s going to be able to win enough to get her something better. particularly in the first episode he seems to flit back and forth from one plan to another, often losing track of what he’s doing just to accomplish one (like fixating so much on getting a gift for his daughter that he inadvertently picks a lighter instead of a stuffed animal). he also seems to cling to his friendship with sangwoo, complaining that he owes him for the encouragements he made in elementary school and constantly bragging about his friend. he seems to reflect the nature of the games in that he’s an impulsive, good hearted man in a world in which he can’t afford to be that way- just as the games are childish in nature but all play into death and cruelty.
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I think the people focusing on Seong Gi-Hun being a “bad father” by not getting on the plane at the end are, mayhaps, missing the fucking point.
Like…the point is that the Squid Games are still happening. He won and got out, but other people are gonna be victims. Yes he COULD go forward and live his life with the money and reap all the benefits of winning. But he also feels the need to do something. To help.
It does suck, of course, that his daughter isn’t going to be able to see her father for a bit. But his daughter has a mom and a step dad and a little brother. She has people. A lot of those that suffer in the Squid Games don’t.
Reducing the story to “The main character is a bad father” is missing the fact that the system is a villain. Whatever flaws these individuals have…the real issue is that society pushed them to the brink and destroyed their lives. It’s not a bad thing that he wants to DO something about it.
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So Squid Game emotionally kicked my ass (like everyone else lol) and though there’s essays worth of things to say about how it conveys its anti-capitalist message, I’m currently hooked on the order of the games and how that feeds into the illusion of choice.
The first two games, “Red Light, Green Light” and the dalgona candy, keep players separate. Everyone is out for themselves and it’s easy(er) to believe that this constructed world is actually “fair.” It certainly appears that way at first glace — everyone has the chance to cross the finish line, everyone gets their own candy — provided you ignore things like the hundreds of people starting in the back (something that the story draws attention to during the glass stepping stones), or that choosing a shape is meaningless if you don’t know what you’re choosing it for. So you’re either at the whim of luck (a “luck” orchestrated by the system), or you manage to manipulate the system itself: Sae-byeok piggybacks off of Mi-nyeo’s plan to smoke and telling Sang-woo who manages to piece it all together. Three people working to secure a single, slight advantage for one. The idea isn’t to play the game “fair,” as the Front Man insists when he kills the doctor, because the game was never fair to begin with. The system isn’t fair. The only real concern, when operating within it, is whether you can bend the rules without getting caught.
Notably though, Sang-woo doesn’t share the advantage he’s found, even though at this stage of the game he has no reason not to. What sets him apart as the most ruthless is not his willingness to kill to ensure his own safety (such as when he pushes the man towards the end), but rather his willingness to withhold help even when helping others won’t hurt him. He sees this as the competition it is right from the start, resulting in a more guarded approach that most others need a few days to develop. Right now though, the individual nature of these games means that people can exploit others if they wish, but they also have the freedom to assist. Ali catches Gi-hun despite the risk that they could both fall. Mi-nyeo shares her lighter despite the risk that she’ll be caught. We could argue that in some cases, specifically Mi-nyeo’s, these choices are made with the hope of securing future benefits, but that doesn’t erase the act itself. The structure of these games are rigged, but they still allow wiggle room for the characters to act as they will, be it for good (lighter), for ill (withholding info), or some ambiguous choice between the two (you can hide behind others to avoid the motion sensor).
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So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.
So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.
This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages
This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe
This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages
This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors
This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords
This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone
This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school
This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad
This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore
This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it
This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing
We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens
This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.
This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.
This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house
This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.
But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.
This was not a time that we came together
This was a time that we survived
Not all of us made it
And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us
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I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:
A forty hour work week is considered full time.
It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)
A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.
Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.
Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.
Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.
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Calls for Justice for Aurora’s Violinist Elijah McClain Grow
Elijah McClain was a kind and gentle 23 year old who worked as a massage therapist in Aurora, CO. On his lunch breaks from work, Elijah would go to the animal shelters and play violin for the animals because he thought that they were lonely in their cages and thought that the music would calm them.
In August 2019, Elijah went to the gas station to buy some iced tea for himself and his cousins. Because he suffered from anemia he would often wear a ski/ runner mask over his face to stay warm. On his way home, the Aurora Police department were called to reports of a “suspicious man.”
(Warning: for violent description) Elijah was apprehended by a group of three cops, despite committing NO crime and being unarmed. A struggle occurred, and he was held in a very dangerous carotid hold around his neck while he cried for help, cried out that he couldn’t breathe, cried out that he was nonviolent and couldn’t even kill a fly, and was repeatedly throwing up. Elijah weighed a mere 140 pounds. You can hear on the audio footage, an officer instructing another to move their body camera out of view.
While 3 Aurora Police Dept officers violently restrained him they called Aurora Fire Dept, who injected him with ketamine (a powerful drug used to tranquilize horses or in surgeries by a trained anesthesiologist and illegal to be administered by anyone else) even though he was already cuffed and calm.
He went into cardiac arrest , slipped into a coma, and his family was advised to take him off life support 6 days later.
The cops were transferred to another department but never received charges.
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Queer people can't ignore BLM when signs from the LGBT rights movement could easily be used for BLM today.
We only have parades because we had riots.
"Blue fascism must go!" - 1967:
"Why are the cops fascinated by us?" - c. 1970:
"Police & gvt violence increases daily - against the poor, minorities, women & gays. Are you next? Fight back!! For all of us! & For your own life!" - 1982:
"Stop perverted cops." - c. 1990:
"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living." - 1992:
"How many more have to die?" - 1993:
"NYPD: your bullets are racist." - 1999:
This year, pride isn't cancelled - it's focused. Focused on the black LGBT people who fought for us and with us all along. Wake up!
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i want to dissolve into sea foam and recede with the tide
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If you are finding that prolonged isolation and confinement to a single living space are having a a severely detrimental effect on your mental and physical health, perhaps I can interest you in some PRISON ABOLITION
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