If the company’s TEAMSTERS strike, the PILOTS will strike??
YESSSS!!!
…Lemme put this in context. Airlines are HURTING FOR PILOTS. Flying is a very expensive hobby, and it’s very expensive to get a pilot’s license.
It used to be just about anybody could do that, but *gestures at minimum wage vs inflation* (federal minimum wage is around $8, yet we now need $28 to survive, folks, it’s gotten that bad) so of COURSE people aren’t able to become pilots!
And the Air Force, et al, aren’t flying as many planes because they’re investing more in drones than in pilots, so you can’t go into the military hoping to become a pilot that way, getting the military to pay for your training… (Plus there are hundreds and hundreds of people serving groundcrew for every single pilot, so the odds were always low to begin with.)
So combine all of that with the fact 3,300 pilots are saying they will also go on strike…
There aren’t enough spare pilots to fully scab their strike.
@ the readfems making the “a cis boy who is medium at sports could just transition and become a star on the women’s team and get accolades and scholarships” argument:
Okay. Then you do it. Men have all those societal advantages. All the power. The system is built for men. You talk about this all the time. So why don’t you just become one? You want to get those promotions, that respect at the car dealership, you want to walk home at night and look over your shoulder less often. All it’ll take is, you know, a few years on testosterone. Changing your name. Reminding your friends and family to use the new name and pronouns because this won’t work if everyone knows you’re just pretending.
Or does the idea of doing all of that for the hope of a leg up in one or two specific areas seem, you know, fucking ridiculous?
Especially if the area you want a leg up in is the notoriously respected, well-funded and well-paying world of women’s sports
The thing about Peggy hill is you see her in some episodes and you might think well this woman has some lesbionic mannerisms. but the truth is she’s just one of those very sporty southern moms who inexplicably gets away with not upholding their side of the gender roles even in communities where everyone is kinda expected to do that. Like she kinda gets to do what she wants. Cause she’s Peggy that’s just how Peggy is. And she has a husband and a kid so they’re like ok fine I guess
Like if you told her she looked gay here she would laugh really awkwardly and be like Well, I hope you mean that as in “happy”, because in that case I am positively gay. I am so gay and in love with my wonderful husband Hank. And Hank would be like *texan sigh* Peggy, You can’t go around tellin people you’re “gay” for me. People are gonna start to get the wrong idea. And then shed accuse Hank of being homophobic and double down
Public transit be like your bus is due …..now! ……..now! …..any second now…….okay now! Just kidding uhh…………..now! Okay itll be 17 minutes ☺️ hope that helps. Aw shit we sent the invisible bus again
Oh and that fucking crab day post sends shivers down my spine btw. I say this as someone who owns multiple pieces of tumblr merch — support them if you want, or don’t, I don’t care, but we are NOT turning a tech corporation into our poor little wet meow meow who deserves all our money uwu. We are NOT pressuring normal ass people into donating to resolve a company’s millions in debt as if it’s some important charitable cause.
guy who turns into a glass of milk when he gets angry and girl who turns into a plate of cookies when she’s upset having a bitter argument with each other next to the chimney on christmas eve at 11:59 pm
biggest tng fail was not having a spot-centric episode where she explores the enterprise
Dash Thing ™
Episode where an alien threat disables every humanoid on the Enterprise and then there’s a Baby’s Day Out style sequence of events where Spot makes their way to the bridge and accidentally fires a photon torpedo at the alien ship
or what if Data is the only one still conscious but also incapacitated so he has to pspspspsps Spot through the comms to go to the bridge and fire a photon torpedo at the alien ship
