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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

then stfu and stop whining. this hole isn't going to dig itself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago

Trump could cut this guy’s nuts off and he’d still find a way to put a positive spin on it

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 hours ago

"protected after Trump's term"

So executive orders are useless for this, and what concessions are Republicans willing to make to get a Senate super majority to pass an amendment, which hasn't happened in most of our lifetimes?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

That guy is choking on copium. Downing in it.

There is no such thing as "gains" here, long or short term. This is 100% bad.

If you want more local production, you incentivize that, not hugely disincentivize everything else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

What do you mean? There are plenty of gains to be had...

...for the already rich and powerful.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Okay, so, being incredibly generous here, I sort of get their point, but why not slowly ramp tariffs up to allow domestic production to catch up? Because fuck you, that's why.

And, as always, none of any of the false promises of prosperity excuse any of the hate Trump spreads.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Instead, the xenophobic hate from an economic idiot is believable enough to start a worldwide depression over trying to get batteries for Elon while making pop-up-factories with AI staff I guess?

Or of course the alternative wartime “economy”.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Man these guys are so dumb I can't 😂😂 "I voted for this, but..." 🤣 I would feel pity for this poor sob normaly but I'm done with their nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I voted for what's best for the country moving forward

Bigotry? Ignorance of economics? Or both?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Increased rates of easily preventable diseases?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Both and probably a lot more. He's pretty confident that this won't affect him too much. I am sure the leopards continue to circle for a second pass at him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Or that if it does, it's a sacrifice he's willing to make for Glorious Leader.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I sure hope these leopards find my face delicious!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

We can't just let the leopards go hungry, you cowards!

[–] [email protected] 97 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

Gen X'er here, guessing this person hasn't had to look for a job in a while. Especially when externalities make the search more difficult, like having an entire sector upended.

It took 1500 applications, over 100 interviews, and 4 years to find my current position. And, this was a callback from a prior rejection! They let the first person go that I interviewed with due to sabotaging intake because they were insecure in their position. Have fun with all that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

The last position I interviewed (other people) for, we had over 2,000 total applicants, and this was before the huge swaths of layoffs that are currently happening and being planned.

The country is doomed, literally millions of people are about to be (many of which already are) out of work, while ALL public resources and support are being dissolved by the current regime.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Don't worry, when the tree he's under starts letting the rain through, he'll just move to a new tree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

It obviously isn't true, but if their statement was consistent, they would be happy to ensure that if it meant the country was better off 🙄

[–] [email protected] 35 points 18 hours ago

Average conservative.

They don't see what the problem is until they get face-eaten. The sad part is the ones who go "Well as long as those brown people get it worse!"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Millennial here, 100% agree. I'm very good at what I do in my field and have a chonky resume of experience. I used to get job offers unprompted on practically a weekly basis. Years ago my apply-to-interview-to-offer % was like 70%+.

In the last couple of years this has shifted dramatically. I do not receive job offers unprompted, because they simply aren't there. The number of listed jobs has tanked, the ones worth applying for i typically don't hear anything back from, not even a rejection. One the other day I was told it wasn't a real position that was open and was simply posted for some HR reason or some crap.

Layoffs across the board are on the rise so there are more people than ever looking and less jobs available.

It took my friend ~1yr to find a job after his last layoff.

This person is in for a world of hurt...and frankly, I have zero sympathy for them specifically.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Regarding sympathy - he is no different than the others who voted for this. These kinds of people aren't ready to have been wrong. So they claim they expected it. His reply is nothing but an attempt to cope with his bad choices.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago

It's absolutely a person speaking out loud to justify everything and avoid thinking about hardship. Humans are great at that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

That's not even mentioning all the AI automated posting the people and head hunter companies ate doing that is overloading your legit application submissions.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

May I ask what your job is?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Sales. First 900 applications and 50 interviews were in tech.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Software Engineer, typically on a contract / consulting basis, proficiently full stack + cloud infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Fine, if he still supports this although he is suffering from it, his choice. But making a lot of others suffer from this, possibly in the long run, just makes him an ignorant asshole.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I knew I would suffer, but I'll be okay. I'm also making everyone else suffer along with me, and I decided that was okay too.

The selfishness of the average voter everyone. Notice he didn't talk about anyone else there except in terms of "whiners" while in the same breath admitting he is causing more suffering.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They said that it would be more suffering in the short term for them, but it would protect their future and their country

This wasnt about selfishness, this was about being disinformed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

No there's still selfishness. They don't consider how much short term suffering affects other people. If that person owns their home, has savings, can brace for not having a job for a while that's great. But it's pretty blase to say that they'll be fine while they disregard everyone else who isn't set up as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You can ignore a lot of things if you think its for the greater good

Also, being selfish and not thinking through all consequences is not the same thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes but the selfishness lies in how he claims he will be fine, without regard for others. Selfish. He isn't either selfish or ignorant, he is both.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

They are saying that they would be fine in the context of being a part of the people that would suffer. They might have not considered that there are people in worse situations

[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Im one of the good ones", "i put in the work"

[–] [email protected] 48 points 22 hours ago

TFW you're being principled and thinking long-term but your principles and thinking are a total disaster

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