• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    Guess who’s back?

    Back again?

    Bannon’s back, Bannon’s back, Bannon’s back…

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    I heard Steve Bannon can’t get it up, but that might be just a rumor. Lonnie for sure can’t get it up, but that also might be a rumor.

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      I know at least four men other than myself that are rumored to have noticed that both Steve Bannon and Elon Musk were afflicted with sores of the genitals that required treatment involving the vigorous application of lye using sandpaper. It’s just a rumor though.

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    MAGA is not imploding give me a break. This is exactly what 2016 to 2020 was like. Absolute children causing chaos and suffering with their petty bullshit and planet sized egos. The Trump administration was a revolving door.

    Nobody proves how inept the government can be quite like a republican.

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      They’ll still manage to loot the Treasury to the tune of a few trillion and get Democrats begging them for their votes in another two years.

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      Heck, not even two of them (Marj and Bobo the Qbert) seem to be able to get along - when it comes to being the Queen Qaren, there can only be one!

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        The difference is obvious once you take a closer look. One of them looks like a librarian with guns, the other looks like a thawed genetic missing link.

        Fuck that shit they are the fucking same.

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    We should never have visas tied to employment. It’s too abuse-prone. Give people 5-year visas, and after that, citizenship.

    Many employers will fuck with imported labor if given the chance. This hurts honest employers and destroys lives.

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      Many employers will fuck with imported labor if given the chance.

      That was why the H1-B program was designed the way it is.

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      I work at an MSP and we have a user that gets stuck in his native country for a few months every few years when his visa expires. Getting him set up remotely to work in situations like that is nearly impossible. I’m just waiting for the day he tells us that he’s stuck there for good. Poor guy just wants to do his job

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        Yeah it’s so fucking abusive, by the country, not the company. If he’s that good, FFS he deserves citizenship yesterday.

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        Meanwhile he’s just kicking it, getting paid in Pakistan like oops I can’t get a connection again. Let’s try tomorrow.

        I’m just kidding. Nothing against Pakistanis but everything against corporations. What the fuck is an MSP? You’re just going to drop that like we should know what it is?

        You launch kayaks. Rich and white confirmed. Hahaha holy shit. 1 2 3 4.

        What, I mean Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.

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    The far right alliance is already struggling, and they haven’t even made it into office yet. lol

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      If we pay attention to the infighting and all the circus we will hope the explode and not pay attention to what they are actually doing. Fucking over the common people and taking more than they should with a pen rather than a sword.

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        Oh please. Their climate policies alone will fuck over the entire globe. I don’t give a fuck anymore because this species is clearly fucking lost.

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          I mean that’s just throwing your hands up and giving up. Does it suck? Yes. Is it what we wanted? No. But does giving up do ANYTHING?

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            Maybe not what you and me wanted, but certainly the majority of humans on this planet. And what am I supposed to do aside from the things I’ve already been doing? I’m already poor, so my emissions are a fraction of that of the average person, and I vote for green candidates & parties, who have no to barely any chance to achieve anything.

            We were on our way to 3 degrees Celsius globally BEFORE all this already, which would be already devastating, so how the hell is the world now supposed to not just do better than that, but also compensate for all of the US emissions on top of that?

            No one wants to do anything, at least not enough, not what would be needed - because that would ultimately affect everyone.

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                  You seem like a devoted environmentalist, and someone who understands that poverty is a hard trap to shake your leg out of. I support strong social safety nets like basic income so no one is put in your position.

                  But let’s get real. It’s not possible due to your location or finances? How would it help? You could stand with the rest of us when the shitstorm finally comes to our doors and fight.

                  But for now, especially if you don’t have regular work, look into local mutual aid. You don’t have to pay any money to join, or even start something. You just have to show up and help your community. If you start by picking up litter, someone is going to stop and say thank you. You can turn that moment into something different. Pressure them and say hey could you help me do this on Saturday? If you get then in then your can become friends. They will be abhorrent of your poverty and maybe try to help. Just roll the snowball. It’s easier said than done I know.

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    Their success was that they combined their forces to win the election, but each of those grifters have different goals and many of them are incompatible.

    I definitively don’t support whatever Banon is after, but I welcome the infighting.

    They will still inflict damage to the US, but hopefully the infighting will make it much harder to consolidate their power and turn US into fascist state.

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    This is another “argument” that would be easily settled if things were even half as bad as the broligarchs claim (which it isn’t). All they have to do - let people PERMANENTLY migrate here from countries like India if they have certain skills. Without being the least BIT beholden to a company when they migrate, too.

    Are they proposing that? Fuck no, they aren’t. They want indentured servants at the beck and call of corporate rule, and they want them there as as threat and leverage to lower the salaries of American citizens.

    Also, for the nationalist xtians (the NatCs), I’m sure their head just about wants to explode when we are talking about more brown people here, because, at least in the Mexican or South/Central American immigrant case, chances are pretty good they will be brown, yes, but quite possibly xtian and even conservative. In the case of Indians, what are the chances they’ll be xtian?

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      You give them too much credit. I’d say it goes on a scale like:

      Hates brown people - can’t distinguish between a Honduran and an Indian

      Hates brown people - Indians are fine they can’t ruin our country like Hondurans

      Hates brown people - We can make mad money off Indians and Hondurans by structuring laws that make them insecure!

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      You won’t have to tell them about it because the full rectal prolapse that will become the US as a result of their infighting will negatively affect Americans for generations. You folks are in for one hell of an iron fisting by ultra conservative forces taking turns, one upping each others gape game.

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    It’s like they have an asshole purity test, and Musk is too much of an opportunistic asshole and not enough of a racist asshole to meet their standards.

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      Musk is absolutely a colossally racist asshole who completely meets their standards. His companies have had to settle racial discrimination cases multiple times. He’s a bigot of the highest order who can’t even get past his politics to love and accept his own daughter. Even Cheney did that when his daughter came out.

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          This makes me wonder… would I rather have the real-life supervillains like Musk who end up causing massive amounts of damage for no reason or comic book ones like (some versions of) Lex Luthor who ultimately want to better humanity, they just don’t care who they have to hurt to get us there?

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    Sometimes I fantasize about a justice system where instead of equality before the law people get as punishment what they advocate be done to others…elon would get deported and his assets nationalized…silver lining of the new MAGAistan.

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      Wow, I’d say a whole lot of people would be getting raped in jail and then given the worst kind of death penalty. At least going by the anecdotal conversations I’ve had with various people giving their views of “justice” over my lifetime.