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The anti-strike protestors
Mar. 22nd, 2008 04:20 pmY'know I didn't strike, I just didn't post yesterday - I'm hardly a daily poster and I was busy getting hammered and getting laid (possibly in that order, but I have trouble remembering for some reason).
But do all of you people pointing out how silly and childish it is to strike realise that if it weren't for you I wouldn't even KNOW there was a strike going on? Seriously, the only posts I have seen about the strike are from a lot of people rather self-righteously pointing out that they're not going to strike
Y'know what, I agree. I agree that the strike is pointless. I agree that it will achieve nothing. I agree that nothing the user base does is going to change things. I agree that the gesture they just embarked upon is going to be just that - an empty hollow gesture.
But the idea that all the striking people have nothing to bitch about, no real complaints and are just hysterical wank-festers? That's not fair. There have been more than enough reasons to be irritated with LJ. Yes it is their playground and YES they can do what they want - and so can any other service provider but I'm quite sure we're ALL willing to bitch when they jerk us around.
So please drop the oh-so-superior attitude I've been getting in spades from so many people. Yes, you don't agree with the strike. That doesn't make the strikers sillier, stupider, more foolish, more ignorant or more idiotic than you. It doesn't make you better than them.
Ineffective? Yes. Wrong to try and recruit others to the strike? Probably (but hey, you've been doing more advertising for them than they have been doing for themselves). Rather pointless? Certainly. Hysterical and unjustified? No.
Sometimes you make a gesture to make it clear that you don't agree and that you aren't happy, not about getting things done. It's part of what protesting is all about. Protests of any kind hardly ever work, but it is a symbol on behalf of the protestor as much as it is an attempt to make the protestee change.
But do all of you people pointing out how silly and childish it is to strike realise that if it weren't for you I wouldn't even KNOW there was a strike going on? Seriously, the only posts I have seen about the strike are from a lot of people rather self-righteously pointing out that they're not going to strike
Y'know what, I agree. I agree that the strike is pointless. I agree that it will achieve nothing. I agree that nothing the user base does is going to change things. I agree that the gesture they just embarked upon is going to be just that - an empty hollow gesture.
But the idea that all the striking people have nothing to bitch about, no real complaints and are just hysterical wank-festers? That's not fair. There have been more than enough reasons to be irritated with LJ. Yes it is their playground and YES they can do what they want - and so can any other service provider but I'm quite sure we're ALL willing to bitch when they jerk us around.
So please drop the oh-so-superior attitude I've been getting in spades from so many people. Yes, you don't agree with the strike. That doesn't make the strikers sillier, stupider, more foolish, more ignorant or more idiotic than you. It doesn't make you better than them.
Ineffective? Yes. Wrong to try and recruit others to the strike? Probably (but hey, you've been doing more advertising for them than they have been doing for themselves). Rather pointless? Certainly. Hysterical and unjustified? No.
Sometimes you make a gesture to make it clear that you don't agree and that you aren't happy, not about getting things done. It's part of what protesting is all about. Protests of any kind hardly ever work, but it is a symbol on behalf of the protestor as much as it is an attempt to make the protestee change.