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Believe in justice, grip it tight | 26 | trans, Asian, disabled | she/her, she/it if you're close | @SuperWeebshit on the worse site
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11) "How could you people be so mean to the new homeowner?" the Internet People cry. "You're all just a bunch of monsters who don't want to see anyone NEW move into your neighborhood!" "What a bunch of elitist pricks!" "Leave the poor new guy alone!" "What if he needs this house like REALLY badly??"
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And for English anime and game dubs in particular... However much you think they pay, it's probably lower. Even an anime protagonist's actor will likely make less than $200... per episode, not per day.
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I think it's weird too, but on if there's any industry at all where it makes sense it's probably this one. Los Angeles (where SAG-AFTRA is based) is practically swarming with aspiring actors, and only a small percentage will ever be able to regularly find gigs. Even fewer will make a decent income.
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Voice actors just have to work one day in a speaking role in a union production. That's it. That's how incredibly rare it is for anime dubs or video game dubs to be union productions.
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It's not really a union focused on video games. Unfortunately video game voice actors aren't powerful or numerous enough to have their own union, and it's a problem. The requirements are comically easy for those working even as background characters in the movies.
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I promise you that scabs have been beaten in way more countries than just the US. In countries where it doesn't happen it's often because the scabs' side are way more powerful and usually straight-up murdering the union workers.
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You can't just waltz in and join SAG-AFTRA. You have to have a role in a union production first. It's weird, I know, but them's the breaks.
As Khoi Dao (Albedo VA) has said, many non-union actors have joining the union as a career goal.
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Again, posting tweets saying how disgusting this is and how tone-deaf Jacob's statement is is on the extreme mild end of "attacks" on scabs.
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I'm pretty sure Japanese VAs aren't literally forced to take roles they don't want to do. If his studio is, that's a classic case of a ブラック企業.
But in that case Jacob wouldn't have posted a self-congratulatory message on Twitter about how proud he is to "carry the torch" or whatnot.
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Well, American labor laws suck ass and the VAs can't sue or get reparations in this case. That's why they're so justifiably angry.
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Let's ignore that whole hypothetical for now--I just want to point out that Jacob is hardly "another country's worker". He literally helped create a dubbing studio in Texas. Like he's currently been based in Japan for what can't have been more than three years. He's probably eligible for SAG-AFTRA.
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Okay, so do you agree with this law?
Because I don't know if you've noticed, but we're talking about scabbing that happened because John got fired and Jacob is replacing him in the EN voiceover. Kind of what started this whole thing in the first place.
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I mean, by that logic a Japanese car factory or whatever on another country's soil should be able to hire union workers from that country and completely ignore union demands. Which is asinine.
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The law isn't relevant to this case. I just want to point out that your country actually has strong labor protections, which makes it even more shameful that you're defending this behavior.
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Did you actually ask your union rep about whether it'd be consider scabbing? If those laws don't apply to foreigners, then do Brazilian companies just fly in foreign workers whenever a strike happens? That's even worse.
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SAG-AFTRA literally allows waivers for international workers on union projects. If Mihoyo makes an agreement that impedes non-American VAs, that would be Hoyo's fault.
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That's great, then ask your union head or representative assuming you're employed.
Brazil, as a civilized country, has laws against hiring people to work during strikes.
So either you're defending things that should be illegal, or you're just so naïve that you don't understand how bad this is.
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Irrelevant. Virtually all other VAs who have spoken are condemning him too because it's universally understood that this type of scabbing is the most disgusting betrayal of coworkers possible.
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Okay. Now go ask a Brazilian labor union. Actually ask, don't make up a response or try to obfuscate the question with confusing wording.
"If domestic union workers at a foreign company strike, and the company brings in people from a third country to permanently replace them, are they fura-greves?"
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The answer is yes. Try it. If you're really Brazilian like you claim, go and shoot an email to literally any reputable Brazilian labor union.
You won't, because you're either a paid shill or someone who's swallowed so much propaganda nothing will ever convince you.
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Again, Jacob is American, and he's additionally been shown to be a a racist shit ah who has no problems with sexual assault.
Even then, it's irrelevant. If Japanese seiyuu were on strike and American actors permanently replaced them, I'd completely understand if they stabbed the Americans to death.
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Permanently replacing a striking worker is rightfully condemned by every single union in every single country. Go and ask literally any non-American union, "if an American or other foreigner takes a striking worker's job, is that scabbing?"
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Directly taking a job from a striking worker is pretty much the absolute worst form of scabbing possible. Corina is blacklegging, which is still bad, but this deserves him never finding work again.
If anything the bastard is lucky he's currently living in Japan and can get gigs there.
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First of all, I'm Chinese and 0% white. Second of all, union-busting astroturf campaigns aren't unique to America, which you'd know if you weren't so Americentric.
Anyone that knowingly replaces a striking worker and goes on to act all smug about it deserves far worse than just mean tweets.
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That's true! And that's why the only VA being called out for being a scab is the one that literally, directly took the exact same position formerly held by a striking worker.
Get it through your thick skull that this doesn't have shit to do with nationality.
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Why is it always the burner accounts that have never posted about everything else ever that spread misinformation and whine about internationally recognized principles of worker solidarity?
How much are the anti-union consulting firms paying you, you astroturfing shill?
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"American workers never striked in solidarity to [sic] other countrie's [sic] workers"
They absolutely have. Even then, there's a huge difference between that and if an American worker literally replaced a striking foreign worker.
They used to put scabs in hospitals. This is comically mild.
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Are you genuinely stupid?
If you replace a striking worker, you're a scab. It doesn't matter if the strike is in Japan, America, India, wherever. They don't cross each other's picket lines.
Also a quick Google search would reveal that Jacob IS American, so this is two different degrees of idiocy.
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I was just reading that thread thinking "What's wrong with all these people? Except for this guy, nobody here seems to know the bare minimum about how the VA industry works. Shame none of these chuds are gonna listen to him."
...Didn't expect to find out he was actually THE KaiserNeko this way.
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I think this might be it.
“They’re letting a bunch of Nazi zoomers wreck our government to stop woke,” and “They’re disappearing people to a slave labor camp in El Salvador” make you sound hysterical despite being true
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Unfortunately in my experience, more often than not they'll refuse to even perceive they have this power or responsibility even when you provide them with direct evidence
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If anyone has any ideas on how to incorporate baseball, volleyball, bowling, etc. into this I'm open to suggestions too
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Hate it when that happens tbh
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I can't see a thing. I'll open this one.
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I’m thinking of this quote for no particular reason