The Onion Union Authorizes Unfair Labor Practice Strike
www.thewrap.com
“We do not take the decision to go on an open-ended ULP strike lightly, but we have to take a stand for what is just,” the guild says
  • yukichigai@kbin.social
    105·
    11 months ago

    The guild is seeking contracts that include staffer protections in the event of the sale of the company, improved severance offerings, and basic protections from AI.

    In other words they’ve noticed that a bunch of greedy venture capitalists bought them and aren’t gonna let 'em just liquidate/automate their jobs for a quick buck.

    They’re also probably feeling a bit paranoid after watching Hard-Drive have the same thing happen.

  • bedrooms@kbin.social
    962·
    11 months ago

    Is this the onion? Or not the onion? Or not not the onion?

    On r/nottheonion this would be removed as “not oniony”.

    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I’m assuming that’s just revenue from The Onion, although the wording on it leaves much to be desired.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    11 months ago

    I used to love The Onion so much. Then the state of affairs got so bad that The crap coming out of the government was worse than the stuff they made up. I get PTSD tics now wearing that someone in the government is going to take notes.

    • DuckOverload@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      11 months ago

      Onion also got bought out a couple times. The new videos are low effort crap; nothing like the superb clips from 10-15 years ago, which is probably the best satire ever created.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        I’m honestly kind of shocked they survived the Trump administration. Could you imagine trying to outbid the government for crazy during those years?

      • darkkite@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        their tiktok videos are pretty good as it makes fun of the typical tiktok videos, but peak onion may never be reached again

        • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
          502·
          11 months ago

          I think this is an excelent criticism of white people being these “saviours” to minorities. The whole ally thing is strange to me because baing an “ally” should be the base. Youre either racist or a normal person. It also criticizes the extreme scrutiny “non minority” people get for saying stuff “they shouldnt”.

          • antidote101@lemmy.worldEnglish
            471·
            11 months ago

            White women and people trying not to be racist… They’re ruining society right? Har har har \s

            Maybe they should start an info graphics show about trans ideology in schools next… Because you know those wokies are the problem, am I right?

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              521·
              11 months ago

              The video isn’t making fun of anti-racism.

              It’s making fun of virtue signaling by doing something unrelated that’s difficult for yourself, annoying to others and doesn’t help anyone.

              • TigrisMorte@kbin.social
                336·
                11 months ago

                no, it isn’t. It is 100% intending to suggest that anyone saying anything about racism is just virtue signaling. That is what comedic caricatures are for. They mock behavior by exaggeration and over simplification in order to discredit a viewpoint or people.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  252·
                  11 months ago

                  Nope. You’re, as usual, 100% wrong.

                  You’re ascribing intent that is not at all evident in the video.

                  It’s a video of a silly person doing something more silly than most real people ever would, in order to promote how virtuous she is, which isn’t helping anyone. That’s all it is. That’s the caricature.

                  There’s no part of it that suggests that all mention of racism is virtue signaling. That’s YOUR thought. Whether or not you agree with it, that originated with YOU, not the video.

              • antidote101@lemmy.worldEnglish
                742·
                11 months ago

                I don’t really believe in virtue signaling. It’s something the rightwing made up to say they’re offended without having to say they’re offended.

                I do however believe in the practicalities of politics… And yes, sometimes a company is going to have a gay pride month logo everywhere but Saudi Arabia, but that’s a Nationalist problem of culture, not something progressives are causing.

                …yet apparently progressives are to blame for most virtue signaling?

                Like I say, I don’t believe in virtue signaling.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  353·
                  11 months ago

                  I don’t really believe in virtue signaling. It’s something the rightwing made up

                  No. Like so many things, it’s a real thing that right wing people twist into something it isn’t to fit their narrative or to excuse their own vices.

                  An example of virtue signaling would be to for example arbitrarily avoid using words that start with an n to showcase how virtuous you are.

                  An example of the right wing definition of virtue signaling is just…doing anything virtuous. Like when someone is legitimately doing or saying the right things for the right reasons, right wing troglodytes will call THAT virtue signaling.

            • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social
              31·
              11 months ago

              It’s making fun of people patting themselves on the back over how good allies they are for doing things no one ever asked for and isn’t helping anybody.

              Like how white people informed others to use the made up gender neutral word Latinx instead of Latino/Latina, when no Hispanic has even asked for it or even want it.

            • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11·
              11 months ago

              Dude I think you just misunderstood it. I get it, it’s a bit edgy, but so is “powerful trans person now capable of using every bathroom at once”, but this is satirizing the kind of creepy virtue signaling that metropolitan liberals do in order to seem more woke than they actually are, not being anti-racist.

        • Godric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Friend that’s funny as fuck, thank you, I had no idea The Onion still did videos. Also, If you’re interpereting satire as an attack on your beliefs, take a break from this online thing my guy.

      • antidote101@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        11 months ago

        I think it’s funny that they’re doing comedy like this, that supports ridiculous right wing notions of politics… Issues designed to distract and mock rather than using humour for a purpose, and now they’re…

        checks notes

        Having trouble with getting basic benefits within their workplace. Huh, maybe they should have stuck to the left a bit more.

    • ???@lemmy.worldEnglish
      929·
      11 months ago

      Well someone has to make fun of the wokeness. Otherwise we won’t evolve as a species.

      • antidote101@lemmy.worldEnglish
        429·
        11 months ago

        Now that I think about it, you’re right. I remember when The Onion movie came out, and they had that whole “cock puncher” joke… I guess it was trying Idiocracy’s type of comedy, but it felt a bit too like it was just doing the thing it was complaining about.