Definitely not exclusive to the US but still a significant and shameful part of our history. LBJ said it best. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored [brown, gay, trans, etc.] man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
One of the few accurate things Trump has said was that he could “shoot someone in the middle of fifth avenue and not lose any votes.” He pulled the phrase out of his ass but I think he was correct. His base either chooses to ignore his lifetime of scumbaggery or they know and just don’t care. I doubt there’s anything Putin has on him that would turn off the MAGA crowd. And I’m sure he’s done some truly horrible shit that we don’t know about.
His supporters don’t care. They lack empathy. It has been repeatedly demonstrated that the only way they will care is if his poor decisions impact them in a very personal, tangible way.
Republicans will squeeze the IRS to the point where it doesn’t have the resources to audit larger and wealthier tax payers cheats. Not hard enough to make it fold altogether. That would inevitably result in them not getting paychecks. Anyone who actually believes they’re going to eliminate the IRS, the primary collector of the feds revenue, is a moron.
The 1960’s were rough for a lot of reasons but four of the highest profile assassinations in US (or even world) history occuring within five years has to be right at the top.
John F. Kennedy in 1963,
Malcolm X in 1965,
Martin Luther King in 1968,
Bobby Kennedy in 1968
Nixon did his damnedest, before winning the 1968 election, to prolong the Vietnam War in hopes of leveraging the conflict for political gain.
I can’t even comprehend being so ruthlessly evil that I would gladly fling tens of thousands of people into a wood chipper to boost my political career.
Smells like… Breakfast.
Well maybe next time you’ll think twice before you put noms in the trash.
“Huh. What’s this? A spur of the moment Teams meeting with some VP whose name I barely know? Ah. And there’s HR. So it’s THAT meeting.”
Yet another example of media conglomerates and sympathetic governments helping increase the awareness and sophistication of piracy while doing almost nothing to prevent it. Good job guys! Slow Clap
My childhood did suck. If you offered me $1M to go back and relive it, I wouldn’t do it.
That said, it’s pretty common for people to feel like their younger years were the “best years of their life.” Some of that comes from being ignorant of or not having to deal with adult level problems. Some of it from just how the human brain stores long term memories; by creating a lot of shortcuts and glossing over details.
One thing I’ve learned is that life is hard. But being hard doesn’t also mean that it can’t be good.
You don’t know how it works because you didn’t study tin foil hat engineering.
According to data from the world’s largest job board, Indeed, demand for IT jobs is rapidly declining. Backend development, testing, technical analysis — all of this is being automated faster than education systems can adapt. Since the end of 2022, global tech corporations have laid off more than 635,000 employees. Behind this figure are engineers, designers, analysts, UX specialists — people who, until recently, were considered the elite of the digital world.
This is not because of “AI.” This is because the river of dirt cheap debt dried up and corporations ran out of gambling money to blow in pursuit of the next big thing. I’ve spent a lot of my career working for non-tech companies who have this idea that they have a massive treasure trove of data which they are sure can be monotized. So, they set out creating solutions in search of problems. Every project I’ve worked on in the last 5 years has failed for this exact reason. Rising interest rates brought most of the gambling screeching to a halt.
This is one of the things I don’t understand about people who think having tigers as “pets” is a good idea. I’ve had a cat randomly decided to latch on to my arm, claws, teeth, and all a few times. Not a lot. Just a few. Obviously I was fine. Now imagine this house cat weighs 450 lbs. Not super confident that I’m going to be fine in that scenario.
I worked with this guy who sent an email to the CEO containing a diatribe about our boss. Every word of it was true. The boss in question was a complete ass hat. I told him, “I agree with you but you know they’re not going to let that go.” He just kind of shrugged. He was fired the next day.
Good for him though because that place was fucked up.
I grew up in Northern Wisconsin and you are not wrong.
Lol I can’t even find my firearm. I know it’s around here somewhere. Somewhere really stupidly obvious. I just set it down like two seconds ago. 🤔