Before the actual election you should be voting for and building up and pushing your policies and people of choice.

When it is finally down to the actual election you only have who is on the ballot. If that isn’t your guy, suck it up and vote for the least-worst.

If you want your guy on the ballot next time, then work harder to build up before the damn deadline.

As a metaphor: Too many people don’t study until the day of the test and then complain that the test isn’t fair and skip school that day and fail.

I have 0 love for the Blue party, but if it’s only a Blue vs a Red then I’m voting for Blue ALL DAY LONG SO THERE WONT BE MORE RED!!! How is that so hard to understand???

If you want more than 2 choices then make that happen in the YEARS leading up to it.

And we would like to remind them back, that means copying it isn’t theft.

Oh that’s crazy, almost as if there was systemic oppression and injustice and rampant racist laws and police and policies for hundreds of years and that it still hasn’t fully ended because people can be absolutely horrible to each other over something as trivial as skin color.

I would love to see the comparison to people in other countries to prove that point. Because the racists will look at the headline and go “yep, because they don’t work hard, blah blah blah”, but it is actually the residual effects of slavery and racism that persist to this day in every single aspect of our society. From laws, to police, to medicine, to jobs, to housing, to finance, to our language to the damn foods we have. It is insane and the racists will proudly and wrongly stand up and declare that racism ended with slavery.

Oh man, spot on.

Bigots and selfish really are both lost causes, good news is those 2 groups are a tiny fraction of the overall US population. Maybe 5-10% each. The 3rd group you named I 100% agree are idiots, but it isn’t like they are idiots in all aspects. They are just politically and maybe empathetically / emotionally idiots. They fell for an absolute moron’s very obvious lies and grifts. They fell for the most basic political cons. They fell for the same lies and grifts he has been doing for DECADES where he uses people and throws them under the bus at the end of their usefulness. He makes deals and doesn’t pay. He gets support and doesn’t hold up his end. He sells things with a promise that never comes true. Not to mention he is in the Epstein Files more than Jesus is in the Bible. Not to mention the 34 felonies. Not to mention all the bankruptcies. Not to mention all the laws he violates. Not to mention the insurrection and treason. Not to mention his corrupt ties to foreign governments and powers. Not to mention the pile of red flags with his character and behavior. AND THEY FUCKING SAW ALL THAT AND VOTED FOR HIM ANYWAY!

Yeah, in their daily lives they may be a smart farmer and know how to grow crops well, they may be a smart business person and know sales and management well, they may be a smart person and know a dozen difficult skills and be smart in many other ways.

But with politics and empathy, they are absolute bottom of the barrel, blind as a deaf bat morons and it is embarrassing to see just how gullible and dumb they are and it would be absolutely hilarious if it weren’t for the fact that we have to be in the same boat as them.

Also to not use ANY of the conservative buzzwords they have conditioned them to hear and associate with certain things. Also don’t say anything related to all their Thought Terminating Cliches.

Don’t say: Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, Immigrants, anything LGBTQ, anything economy, anything equality, anything related to DEI, anything they fixate on.

Instead, use actual basic terms and explanations without using the shortcut words that they have been conditioned/brainwashed with. It’s a minefield, but can be done. Don’t say the economy is bad, say the cost of food is very high and I wish we had better pay or cheaper prices. Don’t say you want democratic socialism, say it would be great if medical costs were fair and we had more help with everyday things we all want and need.

CEO gets the golden parachute, employees get the golden shower.

I’m going to start a recruiting company to find this recruiting company a better job listing.

My entire department, and honestly probably 95% of my company do all of our work on a computer on the network, that’s the only requirement, it can be a PC at a desk on site or a laptop on WiFi at a coffee shop or home or the beach for that matter.

My company did the big RTO mandate last year after 6 years of WFH since Covid first started. Those 6 years marked some of the highest productivity and highest job satisfaction ever.

Then the C suite decided they either didn’t like not being able to watch their worker bees go, or maybe they also had financial investments in the commercial district (conflict of interest if they do IMO) or maybe they got lonely? Or maybe they just read a stupid article that told them they should assert control by making their employees lives harder, who knows? But ours, like so many, all did it seemingly blindly like a fad, with no real reason or goal and just a vague empty promise of “collaboration and culture” whatever THAT even means.

Also really funny that in the same paragraph they will praise “cloud data”, “cloud AI”, “remote servers”, but the humans can’t be remote because reasons.

The real sore point that I resent VERY much is that half the company is out of state, so exempt, including my supervisor. So now me and my team commute in to an office to sit in a sad cube by ourselves and then we still have to join a video call for every meeting, but doing that from a conference room is hell compared to a headset and your own laptop, not to even mention all the technical issues we keep having while everyone at home stares blankly waiting for us, it’s so dumb.

All I know is for me and my team and every single person I’ve talked to, the collaboration is so much worse in-person. The communication is worse. They wave their hands and say “collaboration”, but then if one person is talking on the floor it is disrupting 50 people that can easily hear every word. The morale is worse. Everything takes so much long to do. So much time and money is wasted sitting in cars in traffic for no reason. I don’t get it. It was a huge win-win when we all went WFH. We worked more, did more, were happier and more productive, saved money, saved time, communication was better since everyone was on the same level field.

Mandating RTO is wild to me, it feels like going back to typewriters in a world of laptops, because “well we used typewriters in the past, it’s the way it’s been done”

Then on the flip side, some people want and do better in a central office, fine, have that available, but don’t mandate everyone does it. It should be up to each worker or their managers to figure out the actual need and what is best. “One size fits all” doesn’t work, it fits 1 person and excludes 10.

Oh, I thought the minimum age was 70. Silly me.

Talking to anyone MAGA about politics is so maddening because you’ll ask: Do you want (DSA policy)? Yes. Do you think that (DSA policy)? Yes. Would you like it if (DSA policy)? Yes. Do you want (MAGA policy)? No, that’s insane! What do you think of (MAGA policy)? No!

Ok, who are you voting for? Anyone with an ®!

Oh FFS.

I learned how to work hard and be good at my job and actually get things done, not just look busy and act important.

Jokes on me, the entire management make 100x more than me and do 100x less. And they get to spend hundreds of millions on stupid projects that are horrible ideas, but I have to cut back on my area to save $100.

I should have put all my stat points into soulless bullshit corporate jargon and none into intelligence.

They came up with the craziest and most diabolical campaign strategy we’ve seen in decades. Doing things that people actually want. Bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

How does he feel about it? He’s been awfully quiet on the matter.

Having a few small succulents on a desk is underrated. I have a half height bookshelf thing up against the big window where my computer desk is and I have a whole row of plants there to get sunlight. Cactus, pothos, succulents, little flowers and random plants I am rooting to eventually plant, just whatever.

I knew that, but I wasn’t really thinking of it that way, good point. It’s heavy and bulky, so yeah, makes sense.

Yes, but I ran out and needed a bit more. Other than a few seed packs to kick off the Spring that was the first gardening purchase this year. It just shocked me how much freaking dirt is.

Money doesn’t grow on trees, but trees grow in money. - Abraham Lincoln

I have a small garden for a hobby and mental health. I spent $30 on 2 bags of fucking DIRT yesterday. What am I doing? Dirt was $30!?!? I guess I can’t even afford dirt anymore. 😭

What if we kissed on the government watch list?

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

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