MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]

  • 7 Posts
  • 565 Comments
Joined 5 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 29th, 2020

help-circle













  • trump-drenched You made a mistake Elon. A big mistake. It’s very disrespectful. You asked for a favor, even after all those contracts I give your companies by the way, they wouldn’t be much without me sorry to say, I let you book an event for my beautiful new ballroom. So many people would want that Elon. Everybody wants a chance to use it. We have inquiries like you wouldn’t believe. Letters begging to use it. And I give a spot to you Elon. And what was my only request? I only had one Elon. I’m a reasonable guy, the most reasonable. What was it? Huh? That’s right… ‘so long as Trump is the guest of honour and it makes me look good’. You blew it Elon, big time. I thought you booked a rally or a fancy dinner with my donors, but now people are saying, and I couldn’t believe it, I tell you I couldn’t believe it, that CitizenCon is some fan club for nerds. It’s very sad Elon. Very pathetic. Little boys playing with their toy spaceships on computer. The ballroom is a place for Superbowl winners Elon. Five star generals. The Tony Awards. Not some kind of a Star War! I think you’ve done too many drugs Elon, I really do. I’m sorry, but I do. You’ve got your brain all messed up. It’s very sad, very embarrassing. You need help Elon. You need help and you need to fix this.





  • Not only was that law a rancid bit of obvious strike breaking designed to give make picket lines illegal, but I’m also pretty sure you’d have to have an almost metaphysical reading of it to actually apply here.

    From what I remember at the time, the activists repeatedly disrupted the film shoots around London by chanting and making noise, until the sound people would call time on a location or the production beancounters would pull the plug on a location because it was costing too much money to have the whole crew sit around all day waiting for protestors to stop making noise and leave.

    Now add in the fact that these shooting locations (the “workplace” that was apparently “restricted”) were public spaces in the heart of a capital city that they activists lived in. Being gifted a shooting permit for public space in London doesn’t entitle you to demand that no noise is made nearby by the people and the city that exist around it.

    I’ve worked on shoots in major London train stations and if you’d asked anyone (management, the council, coppers, the public) for everyone to stop making announcements or talking on their phone or doing any one of a thousand other noisy things they would have (rightly) treated you like a crackpot. The production company didn’t abandon these shoots because they couldn’t continue, they did so because it was easier and cheaper to do so and just fucking green screen it like the rest.

    This is lawsuit harassment almost certainly directed by the like of UK Lawyers for Israel being used in conjunction with extra-legal policing to criminalise peaceful activists, straight up.