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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The good ones have probably already found new higher paying jobs. The ones that come back will be the dregs. But what can you expect from a guy who bankrupted a Casino

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[–] [email protected] 256 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Echoes of late 2022 when Twitter abruptly fired thousands of people, then turned around days later and tried to rehire many of them. I'm sure it's purely a coincidence that one person is closely tied to both incidents.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If only we could know who it is, things would be so much different.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You could also mention the Tesla Supercharger team.

And you might also draw parallels that this seems more like spite or other personal whim, rather than motivated by the needs of the organization, or applied with any intelligence

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

He fired the pandemic response team a few years before covid, because who needs that.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Move fast and break things. What could possibly go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago

Maybe running a government isn't like trying to start a start up with a 90% failure rate!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Considering they were betrayed by their country after years of patriotic service, you can probably find some of them in Beijing, and I don't blame them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I would choose France.

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Christ, what a bunch of dumb motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Malicious intent x Incompetency = whatever the fuck this is.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's an irrational number, that much I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

I wish it were just an imaginary number.

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

It's all funny until you realize that the people willing to go back will be a bunch of spineless loyal yes men.

[–] blarth 22 points 5 days ago

I can’t express in words how fucking stupid Trump and his ilk are. I just cannot believe these dumb mother fuckers!

[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 days ago

In any other democracy there would be heads rolling and people going to jail over this. But as usual your elected representatives with their thumbs up their asses

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Dude is this seriously all that's happening over there? Like this is not just a bubble with jokes, it's literally just all dumb shit bordering on satire?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

We left satire long ago. I feel sorry for satirists, parodists, and other humorists who can’t keep up with reality

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

They are extending tax cuts for ultra-rich and corporations behind the clown show.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's scary and sad as fuck. We are in for dark days i feel.

I've been doing my best to stay present with my family and know how to protect them first. Next I'll find ways to throw sand in the gears of this shit.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

I bet this dumb fuck pays for a terrorist attack to happen, so he can delcare marshal law. Then he gets unlimited powers, and won't leave the white house. I'm absolutely sure of it. It's ww2 all over again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 days ago

this dumb fuck pays for a terrorist attack to happen

bold of you to assume he's actually going to pay for anything

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Just because this is a common enough mistake, I'm going to publicly correct you for the benefit of other people who might see this comment. I apologize.

It's Martial Law. Not Marshall Law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Martial Law and Marital Law is the one that always gets me.

There's a joke in there about strict curfews and domineering personalities, but I can't be bothered to flesh it out.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I've heard WWIV is expected to be pretty lame in comparison. Something about shitty weapons in the future. So we're really lucky to get to enjoy this one.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Has anyone asked Marshal for a statement?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, time to renegotiate salary, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To go work for a fascistic dictatorship? No number is high enough.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Looks like the majority of the storage facilities are in Red states. Even though some are near me, I feel like saying screw it, let them stay unmonitored and lets see what blows up. A blunder of that magnitude would shake up even the most die-hard MAGAt.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You sure? That whole maga bullshit sounds a lot like a ruzzian plot to destroy USA.

Really a lot. Exactly like that tbh.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

A blunder of that magnitude would shake up even the most die-hard MAGAt

you underestimate the power of the hatred that's been carefully cultivated and spread by the right and far-right the last sixty years.

they simply won't give a shit, even if their dick starts glowing green, as long as 'they' get it too.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

No blunder is big enough to shake up MAGA. Literally nothing will threaten their allegiance to their god-king.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

“Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear” oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck “safety workers” ah ok…

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I disagree with the "ah ok" part

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

i'd be ghosting those mf'ers, too.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Good time to ask for a raise!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

ask

that's an odd way to spell demand, and not take no for an answer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Everyone thought they were electing a rooster into the henhouse, but the rooster brought in a fox and no one has a shotgun.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago

no one has a shotgun

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought this was America

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

i hope they come back but just to give this speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q3wFt1zBVE

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago

What a stupid piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck his stupid ass. Keep far far away from him

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This seems like the type of job you could be patriotic about. Real patriotic, not fascist clown show. You have stuff with unmatched danger to millions of people for potentially centuries. This is real shit and this job might be among the most important on earth. (Or maybe it’s just my imagination since I have no idea what the reality is)

I’m proud of my job, yet all I’m doing is helping other employees generate more bits. If I help other employees do more with less, more quickly, do these clowns count it as waste?

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