Pretty much just Matt Freeman.
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No surprise. That was egregious and ugly.
I fucking love Murphys, but they even admit that they're not super talented. Ken Casey once said he didn't even learn to play bass until their second album.
Interesting story. Dropkick Murphys (Boston-Irish punk band) got their first national hit by doing a punk version of "Shipping Out to Boston," which was a Woody Guthrie taperoom-floor forgotten song. They also just lost one of their lead singer/songwriters last year.
They were trying to figure out what direction to go in, when Woody Guthrie's granddaughter called them up to say she had found a bunch of other scraps and notes, wondering if they had any interest in putting together an album.
They said "fuck it, sure" and made an album called "This Machine Still Kills Fascists." It's not quite my cup of tea, but it resonated with a lot of people. If you're interested in Guthrie's music it's definitely worth a listen. Modernized medium-talent version of his b-sides, basically.
The other downside is the situation I'm in. I made friends with a bunch of coworkers, then I got promoted to be their boss. Makes for a very strange power dynamic, where I have to code stitch between boss mode and friend mode.
Plus, I've had to fire people who I've been friends with for years. That fucking sucks.
World cold and hard. Titty warm and soft.
It's the same thing that the far right in America is saying. We need an influx of workers, just make sure that they're straight, white and Christian.
God, corporate America is so fucked. Starbucks, Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Google. That's a quick, off-the-top-of-the-head list of LOCAL companies that have bought in on aggressive union busting in the last few years. There are infinitely more national brands that decided that execs making fast profits is more important than workers' livelihoods.
Just look at what Rodger May did to Peter Pan Seafoods. Perfect example of cutthroat capitalist bullshit. Thousands of jobs lost, skyrocketing prices for consumers, bargain prices for the guy who caused it.
More paperwork, different paperwork. Biggest change is that it was no longer compatible with our manifest system, so we have to physically take every Canadian parcel to the Post Office and fill out the excise paperwork in person. Turned a ten-minute task into 1+ hour.
Every republican administration in my lifetime has left office in a recession.
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