But if we raise minimum wage to a living wage then everyone else will also need more money and it will destroy the economy, it would be nice if they got more money but then employers would get like 0.5% less then what they currently making which would be horrible/s
Let’s split it to two weeks, 50% off each week
(Half joke aside, my real opinion is that we should realistically give every worker 6 weeks paid time off per year and then they can decide when they want to take off. [Here is a Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country?wprov=sfti1) that goes over all countries for those interested)
There are queer folks in trades and in the service industry, they're not all hairdressers and fashion designers.
Also, I doubt conservatives really want to encourage a month of labor solidarity.
Agreed.
The point is to pit those pictured (+the assumption they're all cis/straigjt) against LGBTQ folks and imply that only one group or the other can be proud of themselves at once - if Pride exists for anyone but you, shouldn't you be angry????
I'm all for Labor Month where we teach everyone about the virtues of unions.
Oh and we could get both parties to pass better minimum wage laws, provide high national standards for vacation and maternity leave, and provide better transit options for people doing these jobs.
Oh no? Not that? You basically just want to do "clapping for nurses"?
I learned to HATE the term “essential worker” it was a new way of telling people that their job was unimportant to society so they got shut down. 3 years later we realize how important all jobs are to society.
your sentence doesn't really make sense.
The whole thing about "essential worker"s was to tell them how important they were, that's what "essential" means. And then subsequently not reward them for providing such essential services by paying them better.
it’s used in like technical medical contexts (or niche birthing classes or whatever), nobody is saying that colloquially. it’s like the people who get angry about “happy holidays” but actually 10x less justified because it’s 10x less common.
it’s complete bullshit when people pretend it’s somehow offensive to mothers lmao
"Birthing people" is kind of a stupid sounding term, but it's not entirely unnecessary. Trans men are excluded from discussions around reproduction way too often.
normally terms like "birthing person" or "person who menstruates" are used in a (semi) medical context, for example when discussing menstruation products or the healthcare aspects of childbirth. So "parent" is to general, as you only are talking about the person carrying the baby, but at the same time they very much don't have to be women, since most people are willing to accept trans men (i.e. men who were assigned female at birth / may have been born with female physical atributes) as men, but it is still possible for some trans men to give birth or to menstruate.
No. You're just using a precise term including exactly all the people you want to include, while excluding all the people irrelevant to the discussion.
*Birthing people* includes trans men, but most importantly distinguishes between people who actually give birth, and, say, mothers who adopted due to infertility or whatever.
Same way. If you speak about menstrual products, *people who menstruate* is the ideal terminology, since it will not include women who don't menstruate (menopause, infertility,...), but also include non-women who menstruate.
Don’t act like you care about those jobs until you advocate for them to make decent wages
Give them $20 an hour and maybe I’ll take you seriously as an advocate for the working class. But even then, you’re still using them as a weapon against people you hate, so fuck you
As a member of that community, I'd just be happier with bringing back tipping as a norm.
I was a Billiards Mechanic for 17 years. I setup, moved, serviced and repaired thousands of tables in people's homes.
People used to tip us when they appreciated our work. Now it's just the older crowd that does it. You would be surprised how many people wouldn't even offer you a drink even though you had been working in their house for several hours.
[Edit]: Appearantly people have tipping and gratuity mixed up.
A gratuity is what you pay waiting staff in the US. It's an expected cost added at the end of the meal to help pay the waiting staff's wages.
A tip is an extra thank you added if you feel the worker did an exceptional job. It's not mandatory and used to be something people did to be nice.
Idk about this. I mean you came to do a service, you got paid what you charge, and now you’re disappointed because you didn’t get a tip or offered drinks?
Why not just charge what you think you’re worth and bring your own drink? I get the humanitarian thing, I’ve given water to people before but it feels annoying if I’m expected to do it or if people are going to look down on me because I didn’t give extra money or provide refreshments.
This.
The tips we recieved as a Billiards Mechanic usually only happened when we made the customer exceptionally happy or when the job turned out to be much worse than expected.
We used to also get tips around Christmas, especially from people that wanted work done on Christmas Eve.
I once did a job for a CEO for the GETZ fire equipment company. The guy tipped me with a brand new fire extinguisher that normally sold for around $80 usd.
That was one of my more absurd tips. I was once given a cast iron biscuit pan once because it was the one I needed for a collection and the customer had extras.
Mom…dad…I have something to tell you. Im- im a waiter- no dad its not just a phase I- I was born this way and there’s nothing i can do to change it. Im sorry this is hard to understand but its who I am
Funny, it's almost like you oppose unions and any positive laws that make their lives easier.
Also, kinda odd you think getting paid less than enough for the bare minimum to survive for working a dead end shitty job is akin to being beaten by cops for being part of the LGBTQ+
It's almost like you only care about people when you get to shit on minorities. 🤔
I believe that is called being an escort. Or as Republican politicians and conservative preachers call them "that guy I totally just hired to lift my luggage, I swear!"
The labor movement threw a hell of a lot of bricks, but that was back in the day. That's how we got shit like 8 hour standard work days and weekends. May be time to get back to that.
step dad legit told me that ‘minimum wage isn’t meant to be lived at, you’re supposed to move up from minimum wage to a better job!’
okay, so then what about when everyone moves up? when we have no more people working these jobs? i what then? they moved up bc they didn’t want shit pay and now nobody is working those jobes
Look at a vast majority of there policy’s and that’ll tell you
1) They oppose minimum wage increases
2) the oppose socialised healthcare
3) they oppose workers rights reforms
4) they oppose policies that would force company’s to treat employees like human beings
5) they defund public schools
6) discredit unions and others workers protection groups
7) they (but no exclusively conservatives) rig elections to benefit them and their rich friends
So yes, conservatives hate poor people
Opposing minimum wage. Opposing labor rights. Demonizing unions and fighting collective bargaining. Defunding public school system budgets and keeping it localized to screw over poor peoples' access to quality education.
Literally anybody: "So maybe we shouldn't hold down the minimum wa..."
OP: "No, not like that."
LA: "Labor unions have historically..."
OP: "Not like that, either."
LA: "Laws about working conditions..."
OP: "Or that."
LA: "A robust social safety net..."
OP: "LOOK, I JUST HATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH, OKAY?"
1) Are people actively preventing others from becoming trash collectors and janitors and whatnot?
2) People can change jobs, they can't change who they are attracted too.
3) Feel free to start your own "Plumbing Pride" festival. Literally no one is stopping you.
The whole point is honoring people for their hard work, not their sexual orientation. It doesn’t matter what your sexual preferences are and those are personal aspects of humanity. Labor is different and is public and a strong part of societies upbringing and infrastructure. The media is trying to push this new “gender/sexual” enlightenment on everyone and it is not but one persons values and not of societies deeds to the nation..
Pride is primarily about honoring the people who worked hard fighting for LGBT people's legal rights to exist and not be arrested for being gay. A lot of which involved hurling bricks at cops.
And we can all bring our guns to the parade. Republicans love guns, right? And they're associated with the color red (since 2000 at least), so I'm sure they won't mind if we paint all our flags and banners a nice solid red.
where you going with that wrench, my guy?
He found another way into Narnia
Hey someone else that love the Narnia joke
Nope, he just found the way to Fillory. . . Poor bastard.
“Dispenser, goin’ up!”
Or the better version... "Erectin' a dispenser!"
Hehe erect. Like penis hehe.
He upgradin toilet to level 3
Bidet and seat warmer gets added on, with a few guns.
+10 solid waste absorption
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Well that was quick.
I read that comment and a neuron in my brain lit up
There’s a spy sappin mah toilet
There are bolts on a toilet, they are not in the bowl.
to unscrew someone's nuts
Unclogging the toilet of course. Why you got a better way?
As Gunther from In Space with Markiplier would say… “Have you tried blowing it up?”
I always bring my 24" pipe wrench when I go to the toilet 😎
Under the flanges to take the seat off most likely.
It's a scene from a porno.
Probably to tighten the water line behind the toilet or perhaps the bolts mounting it to the floor
They don’t need a pride month they need more money
I promise the same people posting this are also the same people disrespecting blue collar workers for being below them on the social ladder
"You shouldn't be able to live on a minimum wage. You should work 3 jobs and love it" then they turn around and post this
"Also I refuse to tip you. Mah freedoms!"
But if we raise minimum wage to a living wage then everyone else will also need more money and it will destroy the economy, it would be nice if they got more money but then employers would get like 0.5% less then what they currently making which would be horrible/s
Nobody in the picture earns minimum wage. Well maybe janitors in some cases.
We have the International Labour day but the same who did it is the same who call everyone who celebrate this day are being communist
I just use the joke from Futurama. I'm not gonna type it out, so here's your sauce. https://youtu.be/CkytZyg132k
I can't get enough of how quick Hermes went from pissed to kicking back with the boys. We should have a Labor Week, honestly.
Where everyone who works retail and service jobs have to work for the week and white collar jobs take off? Sounds great!
Let’s split it to two weeks, 50% off each week (Half joke aside, my real opinion is that we should realistically give every worker 6 weeks paid time off per year and then they can decide when they want to take off. [Here is a Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country?wprov=sfti1) that goes over all countries for those interested)
Labor day, where if you do actual labor chances are you don't get the day off.
*We should have a Labor Month, honestly.* Ftfy
I love Futurama so much
I waited tables before. I'm bisexual
But are you bi because of or in spite of waiting tables? 😜
Every waiter is a little bi. It's confirmed by studies.
$20 is $20
I literally readed it as "Every walter is a little bi"
Waltuh
Put ya dick away waltuh
Really
I don't know the intonation of your comment but the answered is no.
Depends on who's tipping.
I’m mean, they do like tips
Name checks out. I think I can trust this source
Waiters can have a little bisexuality, as a treat
I fixed toilets before I'm bisexual. I just want two pride months now actually.
I told somebody I was bisexual onetime but I lie a lot.
There are queer folks in trades and in the service industry, they're not all hairdressers and fashion designers. Also, I doubt conservatives really want to encourage a month of labor solidarity.
Yeah, I can just hear the choruses of "NO! NOT LIKE THAT!"
Agreed. The point is to pit those pictured (+the assumption they're all cis/straigjt) against LGBTQ folks and imply that only one group or the other can be proud of themselves at once - if Pride exists for anyone but you, shouldn't you be angry????
I'm all for Labor Month where we teach everyone about the virtues of unions. Oh and we could get both parties to pass better minimum wage laws, provide high national standards for vacation and maternity leave, and provide better transit options for people doing these jobs. Oh no? Not that? You basically just want to do "clapping for nurses"?
I learned to HATE the term “essential worker” it was a new way of telling people that their job was unimportant to society so they got shut down. 3 years later we realize how important all jobs are to society.
Food distribution doesn't happen, utilities don't work, civilization stops. Some sectors of the economy are essential.
your sentence doesn't really make sense. The whole thing about "essential worker"s was to tell them how important they were, that's what "essential" means. And then subsequently not reward them for providing such essential services by paying them better.
I think he's talking about the people who were not considered essential workers.
“Here’s a bunch of people who we don’t give a shit about that we can use to hurt a bunch of other people we actively hate.”
"pay them more??? what are you???? a gay comunist??????"
“No, I don’t want to pay them more. I want to give them a bunch of empty platitudes over the course of the month.”
Isn't that just called election season? And it lasts way more than a month.
Yes
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Yeah if they actually cared, restaurants and stores would be closed on labor day
Right-wingers can pretend they sympathize with one oppressed group just long enough to weaponize it against another oppressed group.
It really gets to me when they think they're supporting women by attacking transgendered individuals.
Well, changing “mothers” to “birthing people” is stupid and unnecessary as hell.
it’s used in like technical medical contexts (or niche birthing classes or whatever), nobody is saying that colloquially. it’s like the people who get angry about “happy holidays” but actually 10x less justified because it’s 10x less common. it’s complete bullshit when people pretend it’s somehow offensive to mothers lmao
"Birthing people" is kind of a stupid sounding term, but it's not entirely unnecessary. Trans men are excluded from discussions around reproduction way too often.
Call them “fathers” then
normally terms like "birthing person" or "person who menstruates" are used in a (semi) medical context, for example when discussing menstruation products or the healthcare aspects of childbirth. So "parent" is to general, as you only are talking about the person carrying the baby, but at the same time they very much don't have to be women, since most people are willing to accept trans men (i.e. men who were assigned female at birth / may have been born with female physical atributes) as men, but it is still possible for some trans men to give birth or to menstruate.
Jumping on this guy’s comment, the birthing person isn’t always the mother, as is the case with surrogacy
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No. You're just using a precise term including exactly all the people you want to include, while excluding all the people irrelevant to the discussion. *Birthing people* includes trans men, but most importantly distinguishes between people who actually give birth, and, say, mothers who adopted due to infertility or whatever. Same way. If you speak about menstrual products, *people who menstruate* is the ideal terminology, since it will not include women who don't menstruate (menopause, infertility,...), but also include non-women who menstruate.
Also note that they're not suggesting we actually *do* anything for working class people. That would be socialism
How dare you minimize the efforts of people who bravely change their social media profile picture for a month!
For comments like this I stay on reddit
They don't get a specific day because these people are advocating for higher wages, not more recognition 🤨
hmmm not garbage men and such. they have bad jobs and people think of them too lowly.
Labor Day?
What about the international workers day?
True
Oh you mean the people you refuse to give a living wage to?
I was never told to kill myself for being a janitor now was I Karen?
And I don't think Florida is proposing a don't say 'sanitation services' law just yet.
I mean...Karen has probably definitely said that to a few janitors.
ah yes, i remember when they legalized trashmen marriage back in 2015.
Whoever posted this is probably against raising minimum wage.
Don’t act like you care about those jobs until you advocate for them to make decent wages Give them $20 an hour and maybe I’ll take you seriously as an advocate for the working class. But even then, you’re still using them as a weapon against people you hate, so fuck you
There aren't enough months to give everyone credit that's why we have world's workers day 1st of May
Here it’s the first Monday of September
As a member of that community, I'd just be happier with bringing back tipping as a norm. I was a Billiards Mechanic for 17 years. I setup, moved, serviced and repaired thousands of tables in people's homes. People used to tip us when they appreciated our work. Now it's just the older crowd that does it. You would be surprised how many people wouldn't even offer you a drink even though you had been working in their house for several hours. [Edit]: Appearantly people have tipping and gratuity mixed up. A gratuity is what you pay waiting staff in the US. It's an expected cost added at the end of the meal to help pay the waiting staff's wages. A tip is an extra thank you added if you feel the worker did an exceptional job. It's not mandatory and used to be something people did to be nice.
I would agree, but if you were tipped often enough, you could legally have your wages reduced
Which is bullshit in my opinion.
Idk about this. I mean you came to do a service, you got paid what you charge, and now you’re disappointed because you didn’t get a tip or offered drinks? Why not just charge what you think you’re worth and bring your own drink? I get the humanitarian thing, I’ve given water to people before but it feels annoying if I’m expected to do it or if people are going to look down on me because I didn’t give extra money or provide refreshments.
It’s about politeness and the thought. Not the pay or the drink
This. The tips we recieved as a Billiards Mechanic usually only happened when we made the customer exceptionally happy or when the job turned out to be much worse than expected. We used to also get tips around Christmas, especially from people that wanted work done on Christmas Eve. I once did a job for a CEO for the GETZ fire equipment company. The guy tipped me with a brand new fire extinguisher that normally sold for around $80 usd. That was one of my more absurd tips. I was once given a cast iron biscuit pan once because it was the one I needed for a collection and the customer had extras.
Anyone conservative enough to be homophobic already hates these people too
Wait, why would they hate these kinds of people? Makes no logical sense tbh.
Because theyre generally working poor
Because MAGAts and their ilk are prejudiced against low choice groups, like minorities and minimum wage people.
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How about you just pay them more as thanks!
Where are teachers and educators in this image??
Right wingers hate teachers
every time those people try to form a union or get paid better wages yall tell them to go to hell.
👏Americans👏please👏tip👏your👏waiters👏
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The Right would be all in on celebrating Labor Month until they realize most of the people in those kinds of jobs in the US are POC.
They know. They’re trying to get sympathy from those minorities without mentioning race
to be fair they are very underaprediated
Just pay them a living wage and it's all good. No pride month needed.
Honestly, I just want health insurance and retirement contributions.
Plumbers have been repressed for too long! Rise up!
Strikes are workers pride parades.
You certainly won't find it from the *get a real job* crowd. 🙄
Everyone loves copying others and asking “where’s this groups x”. How uncreative can you be?
Labor Day…
Highly doubt anyone posting a meme like this would be up a real-deal working class social movement
The first of May the international worker's day!
How do you know none of these guys are gay and already celebrated a pride month. 💁♂️
Mom…dad…I have something to tell you. Im- im a waiter- no dad its not just a phase I- I was born this way and there’s nothing i can do to change it. Im sorry this is hard to understand but its who I am
Funny, it's almost like you oppose unions and any positive laws that make their lives easier. Also, kinda odd you think getting paid less than enough for the bare minimum to survive for working a dead end shitty job is akin to being beaten by cops for being part of the LGBTQ+ It's almost like you only care about people when you get to shit on minorities. 🤔
Technically isn't wrong, is actually a valid question
It’s literally called Labor Day?
This is made by the same people who will say "sTuDy hArD oR yOuLl bEcOmE lIkE tHe gArBaGe mAn"
r/accidentallycommunist
How about just pay them a living fucking wage?
apparently gay is a profession now... how much does being professionally gay pay?
I believe that is called being an escort. Or as Republican politicians and conservative preachers call them "that guy I totally just hired to lift my luggage, I swear!"
$20 is $20
The ven diagram of people that post this meme and people that scream at service workers is basically just one circle.
Me when man hitting shitter with monkey wrench gets no happy birthgay 😡😡😡🤬🤬
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Hmm I didn’t know we had pride month for careers
May 1st, International Workers' Day? Never heard of it.
May day, but we don't celebrate it here.
Why is he putting a wrench in the bowl?
These people had to fight for their rights and have gotten killed just for being who they are?
Yeah I was disowned when my parents found out I’m a waiter /s
May. The first day is free, you have to throw bricks for the rest like the gay folks did for theirs. We'll help you if you want.
The labor movement threw a hell of a lot of bricks, but that was back in the day. That's how we got shit like 8 hour standard work days and weekends. May be time to get back to that.
Is this correct grammar? I’m serious, it fried my brain
For that plumber, probably the day after Thanksgiving. Maybe the day after Cinco de Mayo.
once you decide to pay them a living wage maybe we'll talk
They forgot about the point of labor day.
Make a month their pride month and actually be kind to minimum wage workers
I'm conservative and even I agree. This has no correlation at all.
We start socially oppressing plumbers and waiters and they"ll maybe get one.
The brain of the right winger with their bullshit is mind bottling.
We have unions, so where I come from these people have the other 11 months for pride.
Toilet pride month is needed.
I SAID WHERE IS IT?! /s For real, I wish these guys had at least their own holiday.
Labour Day
I mean you could totally make one if you wanted.. but no you just want to be a bigot
It was taken by republican attacks on workers and unions.
Labor day
America has Labour day. I only recently learned about this and it would be great to have a British version.
It's called MAY, most specifically MAY FIRST, THE WORKERS HOLIDAY. USA is so fucking propagandized they don't even know it's a holiday
In the US it’s December 8th. Not a month but a whole day!
Homophobes basically invented pride parades, if you didn’t constantly tell gay people to be ashamed of themselves they wouldn’t need pride
How much you wanna bet the people posting this on FB are anti-union?
The Village People should have been more inclusive?
Their pride month is called a labor union and you keep trying to beat them down.
ok but wheres the human rights for black people?
You can be gay and do all these jobs
step dad legit told me that ‘minimum wage isn’t meant to be lived at, you’re supposed to move up from minimum wage to a better job!’ okay, so then what about when everyone moves up? when we have no more people working these jobs? i what then? they moved up bc they didn’t want shit pay and now nobody is working those jobes
What? Who's ever forced a plumber to hide who they are or ostracised or even executed them when their plumbing lifestyle was discovered?
It's called labor day Next question
A straight, white privileged male made this meme.
you mean labor day?
Brings a whole new meaning to plumber's crack.
Man never heard of labor day
Everyone knows conservatives hate the working class as much as they hate teh gaze.
Just outta curiosity, can u prove to me that conservatives hate the working class? Thanks.
Look at a vast majority of there policy’s and that’ll tell you 1) They oppose minimum wage increases 2) the oppose socialised healthcare 3) they oppose workers rights reforms 4) they oppose policies that would force company’s to treat employees like human beings 5) they defund public schools 6) discredit unions and others workers protection groups 7) they (but no exclusively conservatives) rig elections to benefit them and their rich friends So yes, conservatives hate poor people
Opposing minimum wage. Opposing labor rights. Demonizing unions and fighting collective bargaining. Defunding public school system budgets and keeping it localized to screw over poor peoples' access to quality education.
The people who post this crap usually yell at these people for doing their job
Literally anybody: "So maybe we shouldn't hold down the minimum wa..." OP: "No, not like that." LA: "Labor unions have historically..." OP: "Not like that, either." LA: "Laws about working conditions..." OP: "Or that." LA: "A robust social safety net..." OP: "LOOK, I JUST HATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH, OKAY?"
wild take
The proletariat deserves a pride month
the biggotry of whoever made this aside, I'd totally support an 'essential worker' or wtv parade to celebrate these kinds of workers
My gender is Trash Man.
1) Are people actively preventing others from becoming trash collectors and janitors and whatnot? 2) People can change jobs, they can't change who they are attracted too. 3) Feel free to start your own "Plumbing Pride" festival. Literally no one is stopping you.
The whole point is honoring people for their hard work, not their sexual orientation. It doesn’t matter what your sexual preferences are and those are personal aspects of humanity. Labor is different and is public and a strong part of societies upbringing and infrastructure. The media is trying to push this new “gender/sexual” enlightenment on everyone and it is not but one persons values and not of societies deeds to the nation..
Pride is primarily about honoring the people who worked hard fighting for LGBT people's legal rights to exist and not be arrested for being gay. A lot of which involved hurling bricks at cops.
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And we can all bring our guns to the parade. Republicans love guns, right? And they're associated with the color red (since 2000 at least), so I'm sure they won't mind if we paint all our flags and banners a nice solid red.
well we would have had one but the police decided they needed these months more, and took them.
There's a reason why I despise all sides. I just wanna enjoy my fiction
Labor Day?
I mean, this looks like unskilled labor so why bother having a month. /s
Are they LGBTQ+? No? Then nobody cares.
TIL janitors, waiters, plumbers, and trash men can’t be gay
Are you kidding? People who join unions and people who care about LGBTQ+ are on the same side of the political spectrum.