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[–] [email protected] 3 points 34 minutes ago

go watch idiocracy again. and again. i think they were on to something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

She has, uh, other qualifications.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

If the US was actually a meritocracy, I’d be rich. I built my career in comp sci and UXD from nothing. I 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 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.

e2: and we wouldn’t have a complete moron making billions by stealing the work of others (people like me) then just casting them aside like they’re nothing. Yes, I mean that absolute shitbag poser, you all know his name.
Sorry for all the edits, this pisses me off.

e: I also wrote a scifi novel that I can’t market because I’ve been too sick. Because I’m so desperate, I’m going to mention it here – I could use a couple of reviews. Based on current reviews, it’s not bad: Blue Are the Hills by Lilly Piper on Amazon, if you’re into dystopian fiction. I’ve tried to market myself as much as I can, but it’s hard. That’s why my Lemmy icon is my face – not because I’m a boomer, but because it’s my branding.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Humans became the dominant species on the planet because we learned how to throw rocks. That was our big innovation. Our intelligence is an entirely incidental byproduct of learning how to throw rocks.

In fact we are way more intelligent is these efficient, so these people are simply more correctly synced up to the actual intelligence that is necessary to survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I mean, depending on the predator it can probably divide you lengthwise. Does that count?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

We've been doing that for years, but people just chanted "genocide" at Kamala and let this happen.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 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."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Camachos' secretary of state was hotter.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What's even fucking worse is that we live in an era of autocorrect and autofill.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"Corespondent" is a word, though. It just has a totally different meaning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Corespondent

Huh, TIL. That is a very different meaning but one that makes a surprising amount of sense in this administration.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago

It doesn't count as DEI if you're hired to be a sex object (disgusted sarcasm)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is there any reason this person should he seen as a journalist? Im only seeing an IMDB page

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Because she's white and conventionally attractive. Can't spell for shit but we are to rely on her narrative? Nah homie.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

She's on Steve Bannon's podcast apparently

[–] [email protected] 32 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

It's written right there on the tag: "Escort"

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

Can we not accuse people of being whores just because we dislike their politics?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I agree. Sex work should not be slandered by comparing this idiot to a sex worker.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago

Left-Wing: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Right-Wing: Deathcamps, Extermination, Invasion

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Going for some Ivanka resemblance, perhaps?

This journalist is going to have the nuclear codes in the tabloids before long.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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