Yes, yes, we’re stealing from social programs to fund a fucked up war machine to support Israel and randomly attack countries for any reason, yes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_Libya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intervention_in_Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–2021)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Spartan_Shield
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Trump spent most of his political career casually mocking the warmongering and deficit hawkery endemic to both the George and Bill administrations (in favor of his own brand of at-home white nationalist police state).
That was his whole path to victory over the GOP Primary field in '16 and again in '24. He ran - quiet literally and explicitly - as a Mussolini style “national socialist”. Nakedly and unequivocally fascist in the 1930s sense of the word.
Now he’s just another John Bolton / Jim Webb neoconservative. Everything the public soured on decades ago is coming back up like swamp gas. No wonder even lay Republican voters are souring on him. He’s indistinguishable from Jeb Bush.
Anyone unironically using the phrase “activating ovaries” needs to be punched in the face.
It feels like such a male incel coded turn of phrase.
I’ve played 8 or so hours of this game and it is in no way “pedo bait”.
Literally just has a small girl as a protagonist. That’s it. That’s the “bait”. Girl younger than 18 exists.
Under socialism, you will live next to a first generation immigrant from a country full of brown people, you will eat their food, experience their culture, and work side by side in pursuit of a better life.
And you will like it.
Further:
Senstar, owned by Israel’s Magal Security Systems has a major office and manufacturing facility in Carp (Ontario) “providing important assets for the testing and development of Magal’s broad range of surveillance and intrusion detection related security products.” Senstar provides perimeter security equipment for Correctional Service Canada.
$6.5 billion invested in corporations profiting from military- and “Homeland security” related contracts with Israel: The Canadian Pension Plan, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan, Public Sector Pension Investments, Ontario Municipal Employees.
Canadian firms manufacture key components and training simulators for Israel’s weapons and surveillance systems (COAT)
Canada and Israel Sign Declaration to Cooperate on Public Safety
This declaration will allow Canada and Israel to better enhance cooperation in the areas of organized crime, emergency management, crime prevention, and other related public safety concerns. The declaration seeks to establish a more structured framework for the continued cooperation on public safety issues between Canada and Israel.
The biggest liar I know is still in jail for raping children
I will happily spot you “Don’t hire child rapists” as a rule of thumb. I think “fudging your resume is a slippery slope to sexually assaulting a minor” is a stretch of logic.
My industry and group are weird when it comes to credentials. We don’t have a strict, you need this degree situation.
I know employers who use “college degree” as a proxy for “capable of following instructions” and won’t hire anyone without a bachelors.
I know employers who are much more fast and loose, bringing in anyone with “potential” as they broadly define it.
Idk exactly what the right answer is. But “powers through a MOOC in a few weeks to get a certificate that says I can competently execute a job” doesn’t strike me as a moral failing.
If a hire is open about their credentials I would not care.
Typically, any job that gets filled at my company has to have a competitive candidate to consider. I’ve seen them fudge this a few times (bringing in someone they know isn’t qualified just to balance against), but it’s a hiring standard that you have to consider at least two (preferably three or four) candidates for any position.
If you show up and you don’t have the credentials for the position, you’re simply not getting the job.
I’ve witnessed what happens when people are ok with liars.
Sure. The Enron offices are spitting distance from where I work.
But I also see a lot of people fudging resumes to get feet in the door. And I don’t see people who were honest, but got screened out by a filter. So I’m the victim of selection bias, in many regards.
Who can blame them?
they still think they’re better off than with a Democrat in charge
“I would have voted for Jim Webb” is a thing I’ve heard conservative asshats tell me on a regular basis.
Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz supporters all talk like this.
Speaking to Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged support for the continent and its development needs, according to a state media read-out that did not mention Lai’s cancelled visit to Eswatini.
Lai, in a post on his Facebook page, said China’s “suppressive actions” demonstrate the threat that authoritarian states pose to the international order, peace, and stability.
Couldn’t he just fly commercial?
I do think it’s curious to hear the Taiwanese President insist their airplanes have an unmitigated right to fly over African airspace, given how many times I’ve heard Taiwanese-aligned press scream bloody murder over China violating Taiwanese airspace.
Even funnier to post this on Facebook, a website that’s made a mint squelching dissent on behalf of its political sponsors.
Maybe do what every other country does when they want an African national leader (or Tech Company CEO) to bend their way. Bribe them.
Or bomb them, if you’re in the US/Israel bloc.
On the other hand, I would fire someone instantly if they had cheated their degree like this.
Ideally, I wouldn’t hire them. But if they were already on the payroll, I’m much more interested in their work output than their transcript.
This is just the industrialization of “Fake It Until You Make It”.
If an employer asks for a copy of your transcript, what are you going to give them?
That’s half the joke, though. The employers are using automated tools to sift for staff. Why would prospective staff not use automated tools to bump themselves up in the queue for a job?
Or maybe you’ll falsify a transcript, but if you were going to do that then why did you pay $4,000 for your college diploma anyway?
Because then it’s not a “false” transcript. It’s real and true, fully accredited and identical to a transcript issued by a four year school.
Of course it’s partly the student’s fault
This is a structural failure. It isn’t the fault of any single (non-billionaire) individual. As we pull more and more humans out of the bureaucratic chain and dump more and more automation onto lowest-bidder third parties, we accumulate technical debt. That technical debt exposes vulnerabilities in our bureaucratic systems. And then people naturally move in to exploit those vulnerabilities when they can’t get what they need out of a normally functional bureaucracy.
I’ll consult a historian.
No, show me the real Zelda
Perfection
A race to the bottom, for sure. I’d give it to Paxton, but only because he holds statewide office and has more leverage
That would drag the rest of the EU immediately, and nobody else actually wants a shooting war with Russia
In Soviet Murika, Texas Ban You!
You joke, but I would not be surprised if some of these sickos agreed.