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What did they do?

Used it as an opportunity to get multi-year wage concessions - agree to 30% wage cuts going forward (this was in 2000) from the Stagehands, Orchestra, etc. into 2022 or be laid off permanently. Apparently the NY Philharmonic demanded until 2024!
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/12/meta-d12.html

$1500/week ain't shit to work in NYC. Esp. for Stagehands who do 'real' work involving carpentry, painting, complex lighting setups, etc.

None of the mostly wealthy board or upper management took a permanent pay cut, or any kind of pay cut. 'Cos you know, Leadership.

The Met has published its tax returns for the year ending July 2020, four months of which were shut by Covid.

Two chiefs continued to draw their pay.

Met general manager Peter Gelb earned $1.46 million, marginally down from $1.49 million the year before.

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin cashed in $915,571, up from $392,152 in 2019, when he had just two productions.

Total salaries fell from $240 million to $199 million.

So the workers - the people who build the stage, run the lights, actually perform - get shafted but the executives who "make important decisions" do just fine.

Not mentioned in the article, they let go scores of performers in Summer 2020 - then brought in an entirely new set a few months later, instead of hiring back the ones they laid off.

Very much like the Kennedy Center which was publicized:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/kennedy-center-announces-250-more-layoffs-in-wake-of-25-million-federal-grant/2020/03/31/461d21ec-72b7-11ea-a9bd-9f8b593300d0_story.html

All of these Art Fag institutions get mucho tax payer monies, and they got extra COVID bailouts. It's all going to frippery and expansion, not keeping the employees working.

I should also mention the Kennedy Center, the Met, the Philarmonic, are not like your downtown playhouse, scratching by on donations or a private owner who lives in penury in a bedroom next to the box office. These places clear hundreds of millions a year and pay multi-million dollar contracts to conductors, directors, etc, have Sirius FM contracts, and lease out the building to other major events.

Oh, by the way, although my interest in Fine Performing Arts is about as large as my interest in Menudo's Greatest Hits... it should come as no surprise that the Fine Music world is all about sucking dick. And not necessarily the gal who plays 2nd Violin, but the guy who plays two kinds of Trombone. Most directors, conductors, executives, producers...

ALL of these fucks are far left democrats who whinge about Abuse and Bullying from Straights and "Ignorant People".

From a mailing list I'm on:

I just listened to a very interesting video. Each local, city, state and federal position has to have a surety bond. We can sue the position for malfeasance, buy filing a pro se attack/ claim on the bond. Many claims filed at once can shut down the system as the insurance companies back down. The bond is a set amount, and when that goes, the person can no longer act in the capacity of the position, and then they are removed. This can work on School boards and even the governor. We can’t attack the laws, but we can attack their relationship with the few insurance companies issuing these bonds. This was done already in some states.

Very interesting, thanks @Patrick.

I asked for the link to the video. Will post if I get it.

Here's the link to the video:


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Patrick says

Here's the link to the video:

Look at his previous videos. I think he's a crackpot, but I have listened to several of his videos.

Jim Willie is a favorite of mine, but he's certainly a crackpot - also creepy as shit with female interviewers. Benjamin Fulford is also a crackpot, but I listen to him. I do enjoy hopium. Who doesn't like promise and hope even when it's false promise and hope?

It's fine to listen to them, but with a very very tiny grain of salt. People don't realize that salt was once a currency, so the smaller it is, the less you should trust it. So you don't take something with a giant grain of salt, you take it with the smallest if you distrust it. It doesn't really matter though, when people hear "grain of salt" they already know it's not credible.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/84701?mailing_id=6327&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_source=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net&utm_content=body

Patrick says

From a mailing list I'm on:

I just listened to a very interesting video. Each local, city, state and federal position has to have a surety bond. We can sue the position for malfeasance, buy filing a pro se attack/ claim on the bond. Many claims filed at once can shut down the system as the insurance companies back down. The bond is a set amount, and when that goes, the person can no longer act in the capacity of the position, and then they are removed. This can work on School boards and even the governor. We can’t attack the laws, but we can attack their relationship with the few insurance companies issuing these bonds. This was done already in some states.

I'm interested in trying this.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/what-functional-america-wants/?source=patrick.net

What Functional America wants
An end to disorder and CRT-loving hustlers who fan the flames of hate ...

America’s welfare class possesses cars, cable televisions and air conditioning. But basic needs like safety, love and trust that governments cannot conjure go missing. So the charity and benevolence are not working. They are instead producing monsters like Darrell Brooks, the Waukesha parade killer, and the shock troops of the radical left.

That’s where Kimberlé Crenshaw and other racial firebrands come in. Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher professor of law at Columbia University and distinguished professor of law at UCLA, Crenshaw exclaimed on Twitter the day of the Rittenhouse verdict: “Acquitted. All fucking charges. Understand what this means.” Crenshaw’s take on the Waukesha Christmas Parade massacre is yet unknown, and her agent at the Creative Arts Agency (CAA) is unlikely to clarify. ...

Stirring racial animus has been Crenshaw’s lifelong modus operandi, and she’s good at it. ...

But Crenshaw is a mere device. The real woke power lies with kingmakers like CAA that steer the nation’s meta-narrative almost invisibly. Crenshaw gets the mike and drum to bang. Billionaires watch the world burn in their mansions and townhouses ringed with security guards, using injustice and racial discord in the US to distract from their global predation.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/woke-mental-gymnastics-tenement-museum-race/?source=patrick.net

That is what wokeness drives otherwise intelligent people to do: twist facts to match “the Narrative” (“we have a winner, folks, nobody suffered more than black people, with thanks to our Holocaust refugees as the runner-up”) rather than allow facts to create a narrative (America treated its nineteenth-century white immigrants poorly, visiting upon them many of the same discriminations as it did slaves, because class and capital, not race, is controlling).

No less than the Ancient Order of Hibernians said it is also concerned about the Tenement Museum’s replacing its Irish single family tour with a hybrid story of Irish and black families. The Museum was quick to respond they aren’t doing away with the Irish, just pushing them toward the back of the bus a bit to make room for some 2021 liberal tears. ...

Wokeness, and flippant accusations that anyone who disagrees with it is a racist, shields society from asking questions, and creates a stage where any intellectual bull is accepted as long as it sells the narrative, whether at the Tenement Museum or the Daily Beast. At its heart, wokeness is anti-intellectual, almost medieval, with today’s canceled comedians or the Irish of the Tenement Museum, as the modern Galileo.

The bottom line is this: If you are offended by something you read, or your feelings are otherwise hurt, you own the problem. You can choose to deal with it in a variety of ways, either by refusing to read any potentially offensive material, by ignoring the offense, or by writing cogently in response, critiquing the ideas one finds offensive. But it is your problem to deal with. Others are not obliged to cater to your sensibilities in advance, nor need they be censored after the fact. In my day, recognizing this reality was called growing up.

Lawrence M. Krauss, a theoretical physicist. "The cells in your right hand are probably from a different exploded star than those in your left."

https://notthebee.com/article/totally-based-mystery-florida-man-putting-flyers-on-cars-with-new-york-tags-telling-woke-people-theyre-welcome-to-leave?source=patrick.net

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17306137/microsoft-inclusiveness-checker-office365-word/?source=patrick.net

Tech giant Microsoft trying to make world more woke by rolling out ‘inclusiveness’ checker in Word

The answer is to no longer use Word.

when a progressive person says something based not of fact; simply say. oh conspiracy theories. they have no clue how to handle this since only bad people rely on them. now they are totally baffled.

we should start calling out everything as racist. weather it benefits us or not. just blur the playing field with there own nonsense till they can't see straight, oh wait... well do it more.

or you can approach them even more radical to the left than they are. then they start to defend conservatives ideals a little or they say well I didn't vote for that.. oh wait, ah, yes, you did, lol.

Patrick says

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/17306137/microsoft-inclusiveness-checker-office365-word/?source=patrick.net

Tech giant Microsoft trying to make world more woke by rolling out ‘inclusiveness’ checker in Word

The answer is to no longer use Word.

https://www.libreoffice.org/?source=patrick.net

It's funny that MS Office still exists.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/deep-state-no-conspiracy/?source=patrick.net

The deep state is no conspiracy theory
Progressive monoculture has enveloped many of our private and public institutions. Aldous Huxley saw it coming ...

The changes, according to the author of Brave New World, would be almost imperceptible. “All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial,” he continued. “Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.” ...

In lofty circles, it is said that the Deep State is a far-right conspiracy theory, nothing more. The very words elicit an eye-roll and a smirk. But what else synchronizes uncountable public agencies and their private-sector partners — wink-wink — in the absence of executive statesmanship? What has made the wheels of government go round and round this last year, and if we are honest, for a very long time?

Surface government, elected and appointed, is only its polished clock-face. Television and newspapers report the ticks and tocks daily. Right now, this clock-face looks like something melting, or covered with ants, a surreal dreamscape straight out of Salvador Dali. ...

Woke has been trying for years to drum limited-government nationalists out of public life, calling them white supremacists and deplorables. Highly contestable outlooks on equity, race, acceptable speech, and biology stand inside public life as revealed virtue or expedient virtue. Woke can be a liturgy or a useful hustle. A malleable, celebrity-struck electorate wants its politics fast, simple, and preferably juicy. Junk news gets the eyes and clicks. Social media is trying to get inside your head, and knows how to do it better each year.

Promoted and funded by the Deep State, multicultural and therapeutic wrecking engines invade private institutions and endowments, forcing “diversity” makeovers. National courts and nonprofit lawyer-activists codify matters once left to private judgment, families, and churches. Litigation functions to delay justice and to sidestep public will and oversight.

The moral arrogations of our times are said to be about justice and equality, but they are actually about the redistribution of power, wealth and status at the expense of property holders and taxpayers, targeting white America as devils. Claiming moral advantage, the unscrupulous and the predatory have used race, sex, and inequality to damn and destroy their foes. ...

“We will not wake up after the lockdown in a new world,” the irrepressible French writer Michel Houellebecq predicted at the onset of Covid. “It will be the same, just a bit worse.”

One more way to fight wokeness: read Agatha Christie mysteries.

https://spectatorworld.com/book-and-art/deep-conservatism-agatha-christie/?source=patrick.net

Christie could be direct in censuring not only modern architecture, but modern art and literature, which she found vapid and uninspiring. A character in Murder Is Easy considers disguising himself as an artist but admits he can’t draw or paint; someone responds: “You could be a modern artist…. Then that wouldn’t matter.” In another story, Poirot examines a piece of modern art and finds that the contrasting images contained are incoherent and meaningless.

https://www.thehebrewconservative.com/2022/02/17/pride-and-forgetfulness/?source=patrick.net

https://stanfordreview.org/announcing-woke-watch/?source=patrick.net

No idea should be off-limits at a university. But when an ideology becomes so prevalent that it is nearly impossible to challenge, it becomes a serious problem—and a threat to academic freedom.

Over the last few years, Stanford has been taken over by a collection of theories that view society as consisting only of the oppressors and the oppressed, see words as violent and disagreement as danger, and deny the existence of objective truth. Whether these theories are called anti-racism; social justice; Critical Theory; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; or simply being “on the right side of history;” their effect is the same. They chill free speech, encourage conformity, and demonize disagreement.

We at the Review are deeply concerned about the stranglehold these ideas place on rational discourse. In this spirit, we are launching “Woke Watch,” a new series that gives readers an inside look into how wokeness is rotting the intellectual foundations of one of America’s leading universities.

Over the coming weeks, you’ll read about CS professors crusading against “very masculine movie posters,” therapists promoting anti-Semitism in the name of “equity,” Green Library’s glorification of the Black Panther Party, and much more.

We hope that by shining a light on the bizarre, performative, and insidious world of “social justice” at Stanford, Woke Watch will draw attention to the havoc these ideologies have wreaked—and bring us closer to solutions.

Stay tuned for the first Woke Watch article coming out tomorrow. And don’t worry: you’ll also be able to follow along on our Twitter page, given the social media platform's recent liberation.

The Review Staff

Some Stanford students are fighting the good fight.

https://notthebee.com/article/celebrate-juneteenth-with-vince-everett-ellison-as-he-spits-nuclear-fire-at-democrats-race-hustlers-and-communists

thats a good list actually

https://notthebee.com/article/i-have-no-idea-how-this-ad-relates-to-luxury-watches-but-its-the-most-anti-woke-commercial-ive-ever-seen

Patrick says

https://notthebee.com/article/i-have-no-idea-how-this-ad-relates-to-luxury-watches-but-its-the-most-anti-woke-commercial-ive-ever-seen

based!