Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher are now not resuming their shows amid strikes.

  • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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    For those who don’t know:

    Jack London, Ode to the Scab. 1916.

    After God had finished the rattlesnake, the toad, and the vampire, he had some awful substance left with which he made a scab."

    “A scab is a two-legged animal with a corkscrew soul, a water brain, a combination backbone of jelly and glue. Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.”

    “When a scab comes down the street, men turn their backs and angels weep in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.”

    “No man (or woman) has a right to scab so long as there is a pool of water to drown his carcass in, or a rope long enough to hang his body with. Judas was a gentleman compared with a scab. For betraying his master, he had character enough to hang himself.” A scab has not.

    “Esau sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Judas sold his Savior for thirty pieces of silver. Benedict Arnold sold his country for a promise of a commission in the British army.” The scab sells his birthright, country, his wife, his children and his fellowmen for an unfulfilled promise from his employer.

    Esau was a traitor to himself; Judas was a traitor to his God; Benedict Arnold was a traitor to his country; a scab is a traitor to his God, his country, his family and his class."

    • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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      What did a toad ever do to anybody? And rattlesnakes are just being rattlesnakes. They’re polite enough to generally warn you to go away before they bite you.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        Well, I think rattlesnakes used to be a lot more common. Like maybe you never got bit, but you definitely knew someone, or someone’s kid, that did, and they likely died in utter agony. Pretty much hunted them to near extinction, along with wolves. We go hard on earth.

    • UnD3Rgr0uNDCL0wN@lemmy.world
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      My English teacher hated that I read London when at senior school. But the guy was probably the finest American writer I ever read. Its been 30+ years, must track down some audio books!!

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          Because it was an old English former Grammar school. Quite conservative in its curriculum so they preferred English writers. Even Robert Louis Stevenson was frowned upon.

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        Plus it was at the time of his betrayal the revolution looked like it was gonna fail. And he wouldve been right if the United States wasnt born of the same crack addled main protagonist syndrome Rome was born with.

        Seriously the US and Rome are both the empire equivalent of a crack addled lunatic who has fought trains and won.