I’m excited to see this memory-holed after the next election, when Democrats need to blame LGBTQ and Palestine activists for their next big defeat.

We’re already seeing Midwestern MAGA Dems like Slotkin and McGrath lining up these excuses.

Being stupid is ignoring a question

Bro, what?

That medal might as well be the Iron Cross at this point, the way it gets handed out to all the absolute worst people.

she can be the vote needed to release the Epstein files…

This game has a long history in the House. As soon as liberals think they have the magic number of votes, a conservative decides that the bill is secretly woke and goes on a tear about how we need to insert “Execute all transgender people” as an amendment before they can actually support it.

what other tactics will the traitors use to block it?

The head of the Department will say “No, you misread the bill, we don’t actually have to do anything”. And then it’ll be five years of the courts deciding whether words mean things.

“If you don’t do the thing, I’ll sue” only works when you’re the President extorting the news divisions of trillionaire conglomerates.

You were just saying you couldn’t find a job, and now you’re saying you can be picky?

:-/

I see this all the time on social media. Folks love to only tell half the story. I straight up linked someone here to our job listing board and they said “Texas? Nope, I’m in Arkansas.” And all I can think is “How the fuck are you expecting to find IT work in a tech desert like that?”

You want a cushy desk job. It’s not that there aren’t jobs

I mean, if you’re an IT professional, you’re going to want IT work. “I see you’ve got 10 years working in C# and Python on your resume, how does this qualify you to pour cement or turn a wrench?” is the response I’m going to get as a 40-year-old gunning for… what? An apprenticeship in construction? Maybe I can work as a short-order cook? Come on, dude. Somehow I doubt they’re offering jobs in my payscale, either.

There are plenty of blue collar jobs where they train you on site.

For $15-25/hr, maybe. The work is sporadic, the hours long, and the A/C of dubious nature.

And telling this to a CPA or a Database Admin or a back office HR manager? There’s zero skills crossover here.

I’m more annoyed by the folks who insist they can’t find a job, then doggedly insist it needs to be within a 10 minute commute of a Denver suburb. I’m at least a bit more sympathetic if you’re underwater on your mortgage and staring down monumental rental costs at your destination (fuck California, entirely). But there are folks who won’t budge even in their own fields. This goes way beyond asking an inside sales guy for Microsoft or a rocket scientist at NASA to go pick cotton in Alabama because the job exists.

I can say that its not because demand for labor isn’t out there. But the actual process of matching employers and staff has been a train-wreck for a while. My HR department gets thousands of applications a day that are pure spam. We get deluged with solicitations from headhunters who serve up any warm body with a half-written resume. I can point to half a dozen people we did hire who were hired and gone inside a few months, because they were either incapable of doing the work or just fucking around looking for the next rung on the ladder.

There’s a certain paralysis that comes with trying to find candidates in a river of shit. In the end, we tend to pull directly from college through our Analyst Development Program or through contractors without non-compete clauses, because its easier than fishing in the scams pond.

When you do find people qualified in the wild, its like hitting a gold mine. The folks who have been on-boarded successfully will often bring on two or three people behind them, simply because managers trust them to find like-minded and like-talented people.

it’s an ideology centering private property and capitalism

That’s the economic angle. But it also promises a host of libertarian social reforms included within the free market system. What’s more, liberalism isn’t just an attempt to yank socialists back from their economic progressivism. They’re often efforts to balkinize the power base of local dictatorships and feudal aristocracies.

The original liberals were trying to break up the Old World feudal system, establish economic mobility through cross-border trade, and secularize states that had historically been married to a single branch of a particular religion. All of that was incredibly left-wing from the perspective of the theocrats and monarchists.

Hell, the whole pitch aimed at The Dictatorship of the Proletariat that liberals make is that Socialists/Communists are just Monarchists in disguise. Unipolar parties aren’t really democratic. Centrally planned economies aren’t really communally owned or beneficial. And atheist leaders are just advancing their lack-of-religion as its own kind of faith.

But the political spectrum is wide, and they’re nowhere near the right-most end of it.

I’m sorry, I’ll get you a napkin.

you’re being coaxed by the rich to create all these dividing groups

“Bad People tricked you into thinking that way” is such a shit way of engaging anyone politically.

It simultaneously serves to call the audience stupid and insert some nebulous outside agency as the scapegoat for failing to make your own case.

Like, if you want to rally people to all agree you fucking suck, there’s really no better way than to go to every individual group and say “I’m right, its obvious, and you’re just too dumb to notice.”

Liberalism is right-wing

I mean, you gotta define your spectrum. If you want to get French with it, the Monarchists are on the right and the Liberals are on the Left. The communists won’t really exist for another fifty years (as a European economic school).

Liberalism only exists “on the right-wing” in the modern era thanks to over a century of Socialist nation building. Even then, the very term is muddled by decades of fascist rebranding - first as Anarcho-Capitalists and then as National Socialists and then as Neo-Conservatives and then as Neo-Liberals and now in a return to White Nationalism - with “liberal” being embraced or rejected in turns as our corporate media needed it to be.

As a case in point, I challenge you to tell me whether liberals are libertarian. In Europe and Asia, they functionally are. In the Americas, they couldn’t be further from it in mainstream politics.

The political spectrum is full of double-speak. “Liberal” is a textbook case. It can mean anything and nothing.

The idea that being a stay-at-home mother is somehow oppressive and bad

Orthodox Conservatives can’t seem to square that circle. You’re supposed to be a hustler, bringing in those bags, living the ultra-shiekh lifestyle with the 2.3 kids and the Mega-McMansion and the expensive cars and clothes and whatever the fuck else. But then you’re also supposed to be this very humble, folk-of-the-earth religious traditionalists with a one-income household and a giant quiver-full of kids and a military career and also I guess you’re supposed to grow your own corn or some shit?

Everything’s just optics. Nothing is real. When push comes to shove, you aren’t supposed to exist at all. Other people are supposed to stare at an AI facsimile if you and be jealous of how well it is doing at everything.

No country devoted to the common good could ever unleash such cultural carnage upon the world.

The biter irony of Gangnam Style was in its original portrayal (embraced by the OG music video) mocking the faux-decadence and rampant conspicuous consumerism of the Gangnam district. Then Psy blows up, becomes the epitome of the Nouveau Riche he was parodying, hooks up with his lead dancer, and just shamelessly embraces the same Gangnam lifestyle.

Gangnam style made me prefer North Korea to South Korea.

I mean, North Korea has its own brand of conspicuous over-consumption. It’s just couched in the language of Juche socio-economic policies. The two countries’ leaders are trapped in a shameless cycle of one-upsmanship and its been toxic for them both in different ways.

Sometimes you have to embrace Death Of The Artist and just enjoy things for what they are, rather than what they were intended to be. If you stand around thinking about the historical context of the Arc de Triomphe or the Great Wall of China or the Hoover Dam, you’re going to have a bad time.

Empty Head. No Thoughts. Just be at peace and enjoy what is.

But what about 20 years ago? Higher education was already free and highly accessible in here. People would jump straight from graduation to a high paying jo

In 2005? During the Jobless Recovery?

If anything, it’s been the post COVID era that’s signaled a boom in employment and wages to match. The retirement of the Boomer generation has left us with a historic vacuum in the labor market.

But hey, we can buy stuff without getting out of our houses, so this is progress, right?

I mean, one of the biggest innovations of the last twenty years has been in retail logistics. That’s why Amazon is chewing through the labor pool of every American small town.

We lost cybersecurity when we fired all the Trans Baddies.

Now we’re just jettisoning everyone with a background in logistics and engineering

You think the US military doesn’t have access to cocaine?

My brother… nothing would get done without the lines our top brass is railing.

Tired of all these unfuckable troops in my military. I demand everyone have an ass I can bounce a quarter off of.

#No-Homo

Can’t do anything that might negatively impact business.

Very useful for job hunting because it’s swarming with head hunters.

LinkedIn gets you access to humans who will help you navigate the shitty HR AI that most big businesses integrate into their job intake process.