• LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    If the US was actually a meritocracy, I’d be rich. I built my career in comp sci and UXD from nothing (left school in 9th grade then taught myself programming in multiple languages – BASIC then Perl, Java, C, and on to C++, C#, ObjC, JavaScript, and markup languages, – and UXD including related important fields (psychology, sociology, philosophy), and worked my way from a delivery driver to cook, to assistant mgr in retail and restaurant to manager (to make ends meet whilst learning) to programmer, to assistant lead, to PM assistant, to project manager, to designer, to design lead, to lead designer at a company where I had more than 10 million users and was submitted for an Apple design award for my design.

    Then I got sick with a genetic disease for which there’s no treatment or cure. Now I can no longer work and as a result, I am destitute, my savings are gone, and I have nothing but social security and Medicare, which is horribly broken. I can’t afford housing, and have to choose between medicine and food.

    This is in the US, obviously. I have plenty more to contribute – my mind still works fine – but I can’t contribute in this system because I can’t reliably work.

    I am fucked. I can’t afford to live anymore and, regardless of what I could contribute in a system that might allow me to, I am stuck doing nothing and slowly dying because this system is designed to fuck me as hard as possible.

    This is not a meritocracy. If it was, I would not be in the position of choosing whether to eat or buy medicine.

  • Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    These people don’t deserve to breath the same air we breath. If you can’t see everyone as equal then you are beneath us and need to be dealt with in the most severe method possible.

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      6 hours ago

      I don’t know where I got it from, but I like the quote “See that tree? Go apologise for wasting the oxygen it produces.”

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    We need to stop being in shock and awe at how stupid these people are and start understanding that they are our enemies. They work in direct opposition to the welfare of average Americans. They’re also stupid. But more importantly, they are our enemies, and we need to start framing it as such.

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      16 hours ago

      Intelligence and Cunning are two different things.

      If I’m walking through the woods and I’m being stalked by a predator the fact that it cant do long division doesnt matter for shit.

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        15 hours ago

        Toddlers murder a wild number of people.

        This is exactly a toddler with a gun.

        Edit for numbers:

        Some might assume that toddlers and young children may not be strong enough to pull a trigger, but that is not the case, experts said. At least 895 children aged 5 and under have managed to find a gun and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else from 2015 to 2022, according to Everytown.

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-fire-guns-toddlers-unintentional-shootings/

        Remember, children cannot purchase guns in the USA. Many also lack the hand strength to fire.

        I apologize for the source.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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        19 hours ago

        BLUEMAGA never stops whining. Go bitch at Biden and Harris for not doing the thing Trump did before he even got in office. It was on the table for like 8 months and those monsters said “nah”.

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            18 hours ago

            Don’t bother. They’re just trying to distract and redirect by telling us we should be mad at those not directly responsible instead of those directly responsible.

            Like those who said we should blame Democrats when Republicans overturned Roe v Wade.

            Generally speaking, ignore anyone that uses the term “BLUEMAGA”. It’s a term trending with idiots right now.

            • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip
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              5 hours ago

              You should be mad at both, really, but when it comes to allocating effort, the present threat is the more important one. Whether or to what extent the Dems would do the same doesn’t matter anywhere as much as the things actually happening.

              If by some stroke of fortune an actual progressive party should gather enough support to be more than a spoiler, then they’ll be justified to attack the Dems: “We’re what you should have been.” But outside of that, the focus should rightly be what is happening, not what should have or might have happened.

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    20 hours ago

    They do this intentionally, it’s part of Trump’s populist cult, White house messages under his last admin had intentional spelling and grammar errors and when asked staffers said they did it intentionally to match Trump’s ‘style’ breaking norms is a big part of populist cults of personally.

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Local radio fired their news department and brought in cheap new talent.

    Last night they mispromounced Potomac and i shook my head.

    But a few weeks ago when the news reader mispronounced Orwellian, a canary died somewhere.

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    22 hours ago

    One of the top people they’ve appointed to OPM, (yes that OPM sending scam resignation deals to civil servants), graduated high school in 2024.

    When they say Meritocracy they mean Aristocracy.