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chrismanor.bsky.social
Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Communism. Union bureaucrat. IATSE. Salt Lake City.
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Reading Blue Collar Empire and getting more infuriated with each page and I’m on page eight.

I’m going to see Between The Buried And Me tonight. I saw their first show in SLC way back in August 2003. “Time is everything, man is nothing; he is, at most, time’s carcass.”

Cycling-towards-death

Just think of the Carhartt commercials.

Modus Ponens it is.

Indentured servitude.

Fuck Mike Lee and fuck his stupid lineage.

I hate Spencer Cox.

Friday

Glad the Governor showed up in these stupid sneakers to talk about problems he knows nothing about and refuses to solve.

Support some workers facing retaliation for their organizing efforts!! actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

HBD Karl Marx youtu.be/MiFREFry0Pw?...

Imagine society reacting to a worker being killed on the job with the same tone as when a cop dies.

It took them 1000 days but they won!

Salt Lake City worker organized May Day Picnic!

Salt Lake City library employees have voted to form a union, the first in the Beehive State for library workers.

Utah has sweater weather and sweating weather.

I hate knowing I’m older than this piece of shit.

Salt Lake City Public Library workers have a union with AFSCME 1004!

Friday

Workers can’t elect somebody to go on strike for them.

Salt Lake City May Day Picnic organized by workers on Saturday May 3rd!

Nietzsche: “Oddly, submission to powerful, frightening, even terrible persons, like tyrants and generals, is not experienced as nearly so painful as is this submission to unknown and uninteresting persons, which is what all the luminaries of industry are.”

What money are they buying it with? All that tax revenue they engineered for themselves?

The enemies of unions in the State of Utah

Unions need to learn to play offense.

UPDATE: Here's the latest on the union referendum apparently meeting the qualifications for the 2026 ballot: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

Ž responded.

We have become back

Badiou’s most Heideggerian endeavor: the Zahlenfrage

A politician claiming powerlessness should be a point of punctuation for everyone.

America before Communism

Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” - no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LotR)

Plato warned us this would happen: “And if he’s exiled but manages, despite his enemies, to return, doesn’t he come back as a full-fledged tyrant?”

Friday

“Labor liberals adopt the progressive political views of the middle-class social movements but reject the traditional workplace organization and concerns of both traditional unionism and class struggle unionism.” —Joe Burns, ‘Class Struggle Unionism’

“In bourgeois societies the economic fictio juris prevails, that every one, as a buyer, possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of commodities.” —Karl Marx

Oh good, they’re doing a protest aimed at workers in the middle of the work day. And they’re doing it “to protest” labor rights etc.

Modus tollens

Mogwai. SLC. 🇵🇸

I love public transit.