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   These are tough days for the “antiwork” crowd. Along with bedsores,   
   sagging muscle tone, Cheetos stains on clothing and a profound sense of   
   unjustified entitlement, another occupational hazard for the   
   occupationless has just emerged: Contact with the outside world.   
      
   As a result of three minutes on Fox News Channel, the I-refuse-to-be-   
   useful crowd have just seen their movement knocked off its axis by a   
   nuclear level of ridicule. Over on the social-media site Reddit, there are   
   1.7 million shiftless members of a slovenly subreddit called r/antiwork.   
   Fox’s Jesse Watters thought the group’s outlook sounded interesting so he   
   called up one of its leaders for a chat. What transpired went so badly for   
   the antiwork types that I fear they won’t be able to get out of bed all   
   weekend, although I concede that’s a moot point for the armies of the   
   prone.   
      
   Watters asked a few not-particularly-mean questions of the leader, a   
   transgender individual named Doreen, who . . . well, I would never want to   
   be accused of being rude. Let’s just recap how some members of the group   
   described one of their chiefs:   
      
   “Doreen, honey, you need to change your appearance. This is coming from   
   someone who looked just like you. You cannot have a messy room, poorly lit   
   conditions, messy hair and expect people to take you seriously.”   
   “At this point, the face of r/antiwork is a lazy, unprepared,   
   unappreciative dog walker.”   
   “It’s like the mods handed Fox News a loaded gun, Fox News handed it back,   
   and the mods proceeded to shoot themselves in the foot.”   
   “I believe that this was clearly done on purpose by a head-hunter at Fox   
   to showcase how ‘utterly ridiculous’ we all are.”   
      
      
   Actually, no, it was your own leader who showcased that. Fox simply put   
   her onscreen. Doreen, who works 20 to 25 hours a week as a dog walker but   
   would like to work less (either that or become a philosophy teacher, she   
   explained, because she obviously has a lot of wisdom to pass along), told   
   Watters “I think laziness is a virtue in a society where people constantly   
   expect you to be productive 24/7.”   
      
   Yay laziness? That isn’t supposed to be something you say out loud.   
   Laziness is generally regarded as a character defect, especially in the   
   hard-charging U.S. The members of antiwork don’t want to hear it, but the   
   percentage of Americans who were “completely satisfied” or “somewhat   
   satisfied” with their jobs was 87% in 2021, according to a Gallup poll.   
   Pre-pandemic, it was 93%!   
      
   After Doreen imploded, much mockery ensued on the subreddit, so against   
   her stated philosophy, the moderators went to work feverishly removing   
   critical posts before shutting it down entirely. (It was subsequently   
   reopened.) Removing all of the critical remarks was like trying to bail   
   out the basement with a teacup, but they got cracking anyway.   
      
   These folks really busted their tails in pursuit of the larger goal of not   
   working. Alas for them, unlike regular people who work and get paid,   
   sometimes even while enjoying it, they got the worst of both worlds: they   
   had to go to work without pay, on deeply unpleasant duty getting garbage   
   bags full of jokes and insults dumped all over their heads.   
      
   So not only will the antiwork movement forever be dogged by a video clip   
   in which it disintegrated live on television— the YouTube clip has scored   
   2 million views, not counting the millions who saw the show live, so the   
   implosion is now better known that the group ever was by itself — it now   
   has to try to bring peace as its own C.H.U.D.-dish members devour each   
   other.   
      
   Once again we find that, like those Weather Underground radicals who blew   
   up their own townhouse in Greenwich Village, the Left has a kind of genius   
   for destroying itself.   
      
   As another Reddit user reflected, “If only the CIA was as competent at   
   tearing down ‘leftist movements’ as infighting leftists are.”   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/leftist-leader-of-antiwork-blows-up-her-own-   
   movement-on-tv/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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