Leakypedia™
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I urge you to consider how "speech and silence is violence" may be a "cultural context" manipulation, and how frightening it might sound to many people working with the "legacy (default?)" cultural context.
Prompt: "In the style of Lovecraft, write a short story about a man named Donald Mackenzie who travels to Mount Ararat searching for Noah's ark, but ultimately disappears after stumbling upon cosmic horrors."
Result: "In the shadowy annals of history, the name Donald Mackenzie is scarcely whispered, his existence all but forgotten by those who dare delve into the abyss of the unexplainable. It was in the bleak year of 1925 that this unfortunate soul embarked on a perilous journey, one that would lead him to the towering and ominous presence of Mount Ararat.
Donald was a man consumed by a singular obsession, an insatiable thirst for answers that defied the boundaries of human understanding. His quest was to unveil the ancient secret that lay buried within the frozen heart of Mount Ararat—the elusive relic known as Noah's ark.
With a tattered map and a lantern flickering in the inky blackness of a Turkish night, Donald ascended the desolate slopes of the accursed mountain. As he ventured deeper into the wilderness, the world seemed to grow more sinister, the very air tainted with a palpable malevolence.
The journey was fraught with peril, plagued by relentless storms and icy winds that whispered blasphemous incantations. But Donald pressed on, fueled by a madness that refused to be quenched. With each step, the mountain seemed to grow taller, casting an oppressive shadow over his fragile sanity.
Finally, after weeks of arduous climbing, he stumbled upon a yawning cavern, its entrance veiled by a curtain of mist. An unholy compulsion drove him inward, into the abyss. Inside, the air was thick with the stench of ancient decay, and the walls were etched with nightmarish symbols that mocked the frailty of the human mind.
It was there, deep within the bowels of the mountain, that Donald encountered them—the cosmic horrors that had remained hidden from mortal eyes since time immemorial. These eldritch beings, writhing masses of tentacles and eyes that radiated malevolence, gazed upon him with a maleficent curiosity.
Donald's mind shattered like glass under their gaze, his sanity unraveling like a frayed thread. He attempted to flee, but the very ground beneath him seemed to pulsate with a sinister life of its own, ensnaring him in a nightmarish embrace.
In the end, he was consumed, body and soul, by the unfathomable horrors that dwelled within the heart of Mount Ararat. His disappearance became a footnote in the annals of history, a grim reminder of the folly of mortal men who dare to seek the forbidden knowledge of the cosmos.
And so, the mountain retained its grim secret, guarding Noah's ark and the cosmic horrors that dwelled beneath its icy shroud, waiting to ensnare any foolhardy soul who dared to tread upon its haunted slopes."
Not bad, but I think I could probably do better.
Because it's a job that's available near the workers. You could also say "Why would workers at GM take union jobs instead of non-union jobs". Companies having employees is not a useful metric in determining how good a company is when we're talking about manual work. It only tells you there are people who would like to be employed.
>It's not just against cheap labor, it's against any labor, including better labor - e.g. very recently, https://9to5mac.com/2023/08/07/us-tsmc-plant-petition/
This is a valid criticism. I think it might be a critique of the workforce or educational system in general, but I agree that these unions are playing a part. Some sort of working agreement is needed for exceptional circumstances like this, and unions need to come to the table.
>it's very interesting that you didn't defend racism on the ground of "prevent wage reduction as a result of an influx of cheap labor"- which is exactly what they were trying to do; but you did defend anti-immigration sentiment on that basis. Anti-immigration sentiment is still pretty socially acceptable in the US, so it's still ok to use this defense, apparently.
I was attempting to provide context to your statement. It is a moral and tactical failing of the union to not accept workers of different ethnic and religious backgrounds, and protect their interests the same as any other working man, if they already existed in the labor pool. If a company is importing cheap labor of a different ethnicity en masse, they are not doing it innocently. Companies understand that racial tensions are a great tool to divide workers. A company using racial tension as a weapon is much more of a problem than workers being racist individually. That is a failing that needs to be addressed with socialization, education, and shared culture, but it is secondary.
>Exactly because unions in a vacuum are pure evil - and they will behave maximally evilly within the confines that social mores allow. If racism was also still socially acceptable, unions would use that too regardless of other institutions.
If you replace "unions" with "companies forced to compete in a race to the bottom, becoming more and more cutthroat to survive" I'd agree.
Remember: They'd chain you to the machines if it was still legal
As many (most?) American institutions historically were
>virulently anti-immigrant
To prevent wage reduction as a result of an influx of cheap labor
>outright violent against non-union workers
When "scabbing", or not cooperating with their fellow workers to secure better terms
There are reasonable criticisms of Unions historically and the concept of Unions as a whole, but I'm not certain your quoted comment quite hits the nail on the head.
Ah! My understanding is out of date. Thank you for the detailed answer.