when Tracy Chapman sang "crying on the doorsteps of those armies of salvation" she was drawing a line straight from the Starvation Army's days of union busting anf the contempt with which they treat the poor. - ThreadSky

popelizbet.bsky.social • 89 days ago

when Tracy Chapman sang "crying on the doorsteps of those armies of salvation" she was drawing a line straight from the Starvation Army's days of union busting anf the contempt with which they treat the poor.

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I know it's a tad early but I know those bitches with the buckets will be out soon. Don't gove them a penny. The volunteers may not know but the salvation army is no ally and actively combative and harmful to many queer minorities especially during the holiday season

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tigerpournelle.bsky.social•89 days ago

They're routinely shitty to the queers to this day.

justinmango.bsky.social•89 days ago

https://youtu.be/34MGu3Opx5k?si=3WdX0Bt3LkBBW1c4

endora-bullshit.bsky.social•89 days ago

heh you and i are of similar minds

https://bsky.app/profile/endora-bullshit.bsky.social/post/3lc6iwsliq22s

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

that long memory

kithrup.bsky.social•89 days ago

Huh, I didn't know about union busting. But I've felt nothing but scorn for the organization for something approaching 30 years.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

Thet used to bring their bands to drown out labor organizers with hymns so the organizers would make new lyrics and sing louder, it's why "Pie in the Sky When You Die (That's a Lie) has a whole verse about the Starvation Army.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

(labor organizers were telling people they deserved better than to sit through a sermon for half a bad meal and the SA was displeased)

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

It's also why do many old labor songs scan to popular hymns, because it drove the SA wild when their action turned inti providing the music for the commies who are singing louder.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

love a more speech solution!

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

don't be mean to the volunteers, they don't know better, just keep it moving and send money to the shelter and the food bank if you have it, a toy in a legit toy drive, a teachers wishlist.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

A list for folks trying to survive in jail, the Brooklyn Public defenders do one every year yo collect up thermals and other things they know the jail won't confiscate so folks don't freeze.

antigrinch.bsky.social•89 days ago

“I drive by the homeless sleeping on a cold dark street
Like bodies in an open grave
Underneath the broken old neon sign
That used to read "Jesus saves"

A song about similar that broke me.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

There's a reason they don't play Roy Orbisons Pretty Paper much on the Christmas radio.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

hell just all the folks on here trying to stretch a dollar. Your money is better spent there than to fund a church that pretends it isn't one to trade bread for sermon attendance and can leave lgbtq people outside to freeze.

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

Yep.
https://bsky.app/profile/tigerpournelle.bsky.social/post/3lc66lx3zps26

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

And some early labor movement history https://bsky.app/profile/popelizbet.bsky.social/post/3lc6fcjv3ns2r

popelizbet.bsky.social•89 days ago

brain twins and a link to some cool shit here https://bsky.app/profile/endora-bullshit.bsky.social/post/3lc6iwsliq22s

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