paula.mcewan
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Hmmmm I don’t necessarily agree with what comrade moderator has done. We had a music thread that – last time I looked- had members of this forum engaged. Okay, we might not always have prefaced our music posts with a learned discourse. But surely we were all getting the point. Music can speak more than words sometimes. I accept my moderator comrade’s decision of course. But unfortunately all the music lovers here will now have to go on a weirdly cumbersome journey via this thread and the newly formed “off topic” thread to continue our musical journey to socialism. As if this forum wasn’t hard enough to navigate!
The horror of being homeless is an important issue and thank you Thomas for drawing our attention to it. I think this thread would be better named “homelessness” instead of “Working class solidarity?”. [Although I’m a moderator I’m a novice so don’t know how to change the heading even if that’s possible.] My own take on the links posted by Thomas is that the council workers were just doing what they are paid to do, unfortunately. Idiots. And the actions of the McDonalds manager were rightly called out as unacceptable. Personally speaking, I think most people empathise with the homeless – “There but for the grace of god go I” kind of thing. Especially at this time of year, when it’s so cold wet windy and downright horrible outdoors.
It’s that time of year so let’s enjoy some Bob Dylan https://youtu.be/a8qE6WQmNus?si=g8k9PMkJhpoKgC9d
Waltzing Matilda is one of those tunes we can all relate to twc! https://youtu.be/vGpwgHqlfWo?si=bxYWMF7dkeucSvlJ
In memory of Shane MacGowan https://youtu.be/Pv0hlbWpa1w?si=DY5NIfDaEekYtifd
And in the same vein – Country Joe and the Fish https://youtu.be/8qPUJhy0Dz4?si=zNyC5BMsXE534wjj
I have another song friends “so they were the poor and the first to go” https://youtu.be/sjQ_bxF_N1U?si=RYM8jUJ3KnIR3-B0
And now here is disco classic https://youtu.be/_BlkTSKqE_8?si=CZopT2wr3Qu0CmYW
Time for a good number!
I found this a difficult video to watch to the end, due to the scribbling pencil which got on my nerves. Was he saying that people who work on automatic tasks (eg factory workers) work harder if they get a cash reward, but people who have to think at work (professionals?) don’t work harder if given a cash reward? If so, perhaps it’s because the ‘professionals’ already earn enough to take it easy at work whereas manual workers need to keep striving due to poor incomes.
Paula
(without moderator hat on)I saw this film at the weekend and would recommend it to anyone who likes a good film. Being directed by Martin Scorcese, it was a bit like a gangster film but the gangsters here are white Texans not Italian mafiosi. The musical score was outstanding as with all Scorcese’s films as was the acting even though Leo De Caprio was a bit miscast due to his age (but not his acting). De Niro was De Niro at his best – jovial and likeable but underneath the veneer a sinister psychopath (the capitalist class personified). Lily Gladstone was outstanding as the Native American who understood the inevitability of white supremacy. I particularly liked that Native Americans had agency in this story and weren’t cast as helpless victims. I would recommend this film – due to the acting, score, story, political context – all excellent, as long as you have 3 and a half hours to spare, which I was privileged to have.
