A practitioner of radical interdependence; one who rejects the lone-hero model of activism in favor of methodically interlacing disparate struggles, communities, and ideas into a coherent fabric of resistance and repair. The basketeer operates from the premise that a society's strength, like a basket's, derives not from its individual strands but from how artfully they are woven together.
To be a basketeer is to understand that your liberation is tangled up with mine and is further tangled up with the planet's, and to act accordingly: stitching, connecting, holding the tension until the whole thing holds.
Those basketeers really came to kick some systemic injustice ass! The came, they wove, they resisted, they rebuilt, they waved oppression away. Slay.
One who will defend his or her share of blankets by any means necessary.
Oftentimes blanketeers will even go so far as to deprive the secondparty in the bed of adequate amounts of blanket for sufficient coverage.
"Dammit Allison, I’m freezing, you are such a blanketeer."
"Christ man, I woke up totally sans covers this morning, Ruddy is such a blanketeer."
v. - This is the act of handing out baskets to children for them to place their personal belongings into while they goswimming at a public pool. Back in the day, (2) girls were hired to do this job for minimum wage, however the job is now terminated. The recent economic downfall was first blamed for these (2) young ladies to lose their professions, but it was eventually determined that this job deserved less than minimum wage, actually no pay at all. Basketeering still occurs today, but it is done by anyone, even the children themselves, which is why stolen property has increased 200% since 2006.
TugBoat: "I'm missing $15 from my basket, i believe somebody stole it."
Larry: "Mergum bought all the other kids $15 worth of soda this morning, i bet it was him, i'll ask."
Mergum: "No, my dad gave me $15 to take my girlfriend out to dinner."
Chrissie: "You're 10 years old, you can't even drive."
Mergum: "You guys suck at basketeering."