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I need people to stop buying into the idea that "small business" = "ethical business." Many small businesses are wonderful, and absolutely deserve your support, but plenty others aren't. If you're genuinely concerned about where you spend your money, you have to do your due diligence even if a business isn't a mega-corporation.

The lady who owned the small business I used to work at was horrible to work for, gave free coffee to cops, treated us all like shit, and got pissed if you didn't worship the ground she walked on for giving you a job. I would never work for her again, and if someone asked me if they should apply to work for her, I'd tell them to run for the fucking hills. The turnover rate was atrocious when I worked there, and I wouldn't be surprised if she still burns through employees at an unholy rate.

Small businesses are just as capable of worker abuse as big businesses, and they frequently get away with it because people refuse to believe that their beloved Mom & Pop Shop is run by rancid assholes who think Jeff Bezos has the right idea about how to run a business.

Small business owners CAN be better! They CAN be pro-worker and pro-union! But it's not inherent, and small business owners can be some of the most abusive pieces of shit you've met in your life.

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you are bisexual and that is final

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when you see a believer sin, make fifty excuses for him

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oh joan baez were really in it now

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Brennan Lee Mulligan is getting hotter Adam Conover is getting hotter just a PSA to everyone-- Labor organizing is sexyyy!!!

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The thing is that I don't want to be employed but I also don't want to be unemployed. I actually want our entire economic system to explode but that's not really a feasible option right now

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tossing and turning on a terrible blowup mattress in the afternoon heat, AC is useless, sweating through my sheets, fitfully drifting in and out of sleep where I'm having a half conscious dream-vision about the "dave and busters sex room", which is a mysterious room in every dave and busters that is guarded by twin spearmen with the heads of jackals

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Will this still be Pittsburgh

when the final pierogie

with its hand-rolled dough

cut with the lid

of a Miracle Whip jar

& stuffed with sauerkraut

or potatoes and cheese

spills out

of those Church Ladies'

hands ?

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here's an extremely deep and thought-provoking comic i co-wrote with my theyfriend ☀️

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Allegheny Cemetery 52823-39

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Don't threaten me with a good time.

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

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For real tho I’ll never understand bootlickers

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Sorry but there's something really ghoulish about "child entrepreneurs" and the way we encourage them