Speaker For The Diodes - QotD

05:24 am - QotD

"Rich [gratuitous homophobic slur removed] have reserved the hottest of their fires of hatred for unionized labor and collective action because they know that's the biggest threat to their dominance of the country. I mean, think about what unions actually demand: Decent wages, security on the job, in sickness, and in old age, respect, reasonably safe working conditions, and a voice in the economic enterprise. How in the living fuck is any of that controversial? That shit is the bare minimum of what a decent life in an advanced economy should be. But it means that these fucking cartoon supervillians might suffer--not a loss, oh no, but a slightly lower profit margin." -- Jude, First Draft, 2011-02-27 [thanks to realinterrobang for quoting it earlier]

[I'm editing this entry to remove harmful use of a word that added nothing to the meaning of the quote. (It added emphasis, but only by means of its implicit harm.) A discussion of the matter can be found in the comments to the Dreamwidth copy of this entry (linked above). I may write a separate entry about it later.]