G: Like a Gameboy?

J: Like a Gameboy!

G: But Jerry, Gameboys are plastic! Waffle irons, they-they heat! They’ve gotta be made of metal. The plastic would melt!

J: I don’t know, George. Technology these days! They got them space-age polymers. They could make a waffle iron outta polymers-

G: Polymers, polymers! What do you know about polymers?

J: I know things!

G: You wouldn’t know a polymer from an amorphous metal!

J: What are you talking about?

G: I don’t know, I read an article.

J: Of course. An article.

(KRAMER enters. Audience cheers.)

K: You talking ‘bout that new NASA article? It’s disgraceful the things they’ve been doing with carbon these days. Disgraceful!

G: Jerry thinks waffle irons should be see-through.

K: Why?

J: They seem unsupervised! I wanna know what’s going on in there!

K: Well why should you get to know? See I think they deserve some privacy. We live in a police state, Jerry! Constant surveillance! The government, first they’ll be wanting to see the waffles cook, next they’re trying to find out how the air fryer fries! Before you know it you’ve got the CIA barging in on your slow-cooker without a warrant! A watched pot never boils, Jerry!

Gladly

Don't forget this meme exist because everyone on the set was hating him and they get super happy when he died.

Okay so I reblogged this somewhat uncritically at first I'll admit. I remembered that media is going to attempt to turn actors into people that we can turn against. Despite his... Previous behaviors I wanted to be 100% sure. So here is his comments from Instagram on what he said:

Also here's a link to the previous behaviors in question

Now you can see here he is just saying striking is something he does not like and he expects to be present on the picket line.

HOWEVER

He has already crossed the picket line. As many are aware SAG-AFTRA has called for all union members to STOP promotion and events. This includes social media promotion. For his show, Heels, new season he did this:

So not only has he promoted the show on social media, and done so in a way that shows that he clearly knows what he is doing. BUT he also attended a convention which if you look it up was 100% AFTER the union call to cut event attendance. AKA something DIRECTLY in opposition to his union's strike requirements. If you check their website you can see it is one of the immediate things that is seen as a call to arms for striking actors.

To attend this convention and sign autographs and do promotion for the show with his attendance is a CLEAR CUT violation of the union rules for the strike. Full-stop right there, he's a Scab 100%. No "he maybe had to do it to survive!!" Nick Cage has a crippling dinosaur bone addiction and somehow managed to stay the picket line soooo. Fuck Amell right there. Not to mention the people losing their homes and what not. He had a choice and he made it, scab right there. But I'll continue because it's kind of fun to rip him to shreds.

To promote his show on social media was to cross the picket line, to do so in this little "haha I'm not promoting it, it just happened to be there!" Bullshit way was a spit in the face of his union leadership and his fellow union members. ESPECIALLY combined with the fact that he promoted it at a convention with his attendance, and clearly in the timeframe of the strike.

You may be saying, "Maybe he's really dumb and thought this was okay!" In regards to his social media posts. Okay sure but at best he thought it was wrong because he purposefully went out of his way to misdirect what he was doing. But hey I'll give you that, maybe he's the most braindead guy ever.

Except for this:

He was fully aware. He was told. He was informed. He continued to make this decision. If he shows on a picket line I highly suspect he will not be welcomed as a studio exec would not be welcomed. I hope they fully rescind his union leadership. The replies to the tweet are him defending his actions, to which the other replies with the gif in which he becomes big cry baby Jane about.

This is also COMPLETELY ignoring the Jordan Peterson retweet where he is happily saying he must be offensive to "think" which is just.... Well a defense for the braindead thing I'll give you that. But the main message here is this:

Stephen Amell is 100% unmistakably and unapologetically a scab, and this is not just BS propaganda. May his union membership be revoked with prejudice.

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I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.

Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.

I’ll take some random nascar fan calling me a tranny fag while advocating for my rights over some “progressive” with all the right words trying to take my rights away any day.

This this this! I've had much better experiences with blue collar dudes who don't know what words to use for people like me and are clearly a little uncomfortable, than I have with many folks in queer/trans activist spaces. For real.

Making the world better for vulnerable folks isn't about saying exactly the right words or having the correct identity and participating in the correct space. It's about giving a fuck and making a good-faith effort to understand and to help.

The amount of gatekeeping that happens around allyship makes trans people like me less safe by prioritizing conformity over empathy and growth, and turning "safe" communities into weird anxious panopticons. Knock it off.

it is also a sexuality

it is also a secret third thing

music

This is the point we're at now by the way.