They forget that in a day or two. They literally have the mental capacity of a toddler.
Toddlers eventually learn though, and progress. Trumpy people a more like dogs: They can appear clever, but only up to a certain threshold. They may even perform useful tasks and tricks for their handlers. But ultimately they need someone to feed and supervise them otherwise they’ll eat something they shouldn’t and get sick. That same contented trot, and look of purpose you see on a dogs face while their owner walks them is what a republican gets when they’re getting walked by fascists. Both the dog and the republican think they’re part of a pack. Both the dog and the republican will be euthanized by their masters when they become too burdensome or they’ve outlived their usefulness.
“No one wants to work” has always had an unspoken “for the paltry wages I am offering” component to it.
Not sure if this message is that CEOs are actually nice or nice guys are actually assholes. Both seem like cogdiss.
“Nice guy” is code for asshole. I thought it was widely known
I thought it was widely known
It is, except by those that it applies to.
That makes no sense at all. Assholes generally get the hottest gfs.
Don’t buy in to incel myths. There are plenty of men who are not assholes and also married to incredibly beautiful women. Even men who fit the mold of conventional attractiveness. Two notable examples:
Sometimes being a non-asshole who makes people laugh works quite well.
“You had me at ‘hot pockets’”.
Yeah I know, I was just being sarcastic about meme-level thinking and “It’s not profiling when WE do it!”
No because they’re the creepy/scary assholes that think they’re nice and that if they do a single nice thing for a woman they get sex and then blow up like an insane person at any woman that doesn’t.
Oh I get it. Genuinely nice guys who are shy and have trouble meeting women aren’t a thing, because memes have to be true and non-superficial thinking is boring. Check.
Dude no one said that. It’s just those people aren’t the slang “nice guy” refers to.
Sure, there are women that go for assholes. Doesn’t have anything to do with looks, it just that a certain % of population is attracted to assholiness.
Well, it’s their problem
I’m not a psychologist but there’s a theory I give some credence to, that since many men are too intimidated to approach extremely beautiful women, some of those women develop the feeling that there’s something wrong with them, leading them to get into relationships with assholes, and feeling like their choices are limited, allow themselves to be dominated and walked on. In my own dating career there were two extremely gorgeous, sweet, thoughtful women who, after I had patiently listened to them talk about how horrible their exes were decided to go back to them. One of these guys was the big redneck beat-up-guys-in-tavern fights type, the other was an actual former pimp. “He needs me more than you do” was the theme. And no I wasn’t in the friend zone, unless there’s a friend zone that has incredible benefits.
cogdiss? Typo?
I’m guessing they meant cognitive dissonance? Never seen this abbreviation though and probably wont be using it myself
shudder
Do you know why they don’t like remote work? Eventually, you can remotely work for another country that pays more.
They don’t like remote work because it means they’re wasting money on office space. Rather than fix that problem they want to fill the unnecessary space and pretend there’s no problem.
It also means they’re wasting money on middle management more often than not. Which scares middle management.
Bingpot!
Yep, my prev. CEO capped working from home to 1 day a week and treated it like we were requesting a holiday.
“I have such a nice office and then nobody shows up, you know how much that hurts?”
Man, how far removed from reality can you be?
Or even just remotely work for other employers in the same country. For example, Dallas employers don’t want compete with Silicon Valley employer salaries.
You know what I have always hated never actually understood? Its always people make different amounts of money in different parts of the country because it costs more to live there or something to that effect.
Ever since I was small this has pissed me off more than it should… Like we really don’t have a better solution? As I got older I understood it more… But it just pisses me off. People shouldn’t make less in one part of the country just because everyone wants to live in a different part of it…
Like it should be the opposite… Pay people the same everywhere give people the freedom to move and it will sort itself out…
Not even necessarily wages. Sometimes it’s, “nobody wants to work with me as their boss.”
The pump and dump tech bro immigrants. Fleecing America.
So fitting as DOGE is named after a literal pump and dump shitcoin.
More like a memecoin. DOGE was pretty fun until dipshit Elon hijacked it.
How was it fun?
It was originally created as a parody of Bitcoin. The Doge community used to be mostly people making fun of crypto “investors”.
It was fun when it was just pictures of dogs and not a coin
It was just a meme at first mostly making fun of Bitcoin. The community made a lot of funny content and really didn’t take itself seriously. What it is now is a polar opposite of what it started as (including its creator)
Okay but that is all well before Elon joined, so how was it fun until then?
I can’t really speak for that
Iirc it started as a joke. Then musk thought he’d make it cool.
I remember mining it way back in 2015. The community was super fun and lighthearted. Nobody really cared about actually buying stuff with it outside of memeing about it becoming a serious currency. Apparently the creator is full MAGA now though which is sad
I did a bit of mining, too. Not with the expectation of any great profit, just for fun and the experience with cryptocurrencies. And if it should take off, even better.
The whole community reminded me a lot of the good old days of memes, not taking itself too seriously, being very helpful and positive. A stark contrast to all the crypto bros pushing other coins and looking down on Doge.
Of course, then the dipshit-in-chief started promoting it …
Yes, and perfectly named because:
Dogecoin is an inflationary cryptocurrency, which means that its supply increases over time. New coins are regularly added to the system through minting and mining. Dogecoin’s inflationary system is unique because it adds a consistent 5 billion new coins each year.
It’s both inflationary and a rug puller’s delight.
I was in a band called Rug Puller’s Delight.
The first three or four songs of every set were excellent covers of chart topping songs and the rest was a rambling and dissonant 90-minute jazz opera about navel lint.
We never played the same venue twice for some reason… 🤔
Oh that sounds like a fun time!! Hopefully at good places where the patrons wouldn’t get too rowdy about it.
I worked with a heavy (very heavy and growl-ey) metal band that was mis-scheduled with a bar, they had advertised their Reggae night that weekend instead. Many many angry drunk patrons. Did not use that venue again.
And they do so for two reasons. The first, and most important, is because foreign labor is cheaper than domestic by far. The second, and arguably the most important for you and I, is because our education system sucks and can’t pump out nearly as many well-educated folks in those particular fields at nearly the rate of countries with free, subsidized, or even just cheap education.
So the problem is twofold. The first, rent is too expensive and Americans know it. The second, school is too expensive and Americans know it. Americans also know that we can’t actually fix those problems without something changing with how our political and economic systems operate, and that takes a revolution that nobody wants because they don’t want to fight and die for their right to be exploited by an employer in place of an immigrant.
Another lemmy user also pointed out the very different power dynamic between normal US workers and H1B workers (which I think is a more “saying the quiet part” than the cost to hire them being less). This is that a normal US worker losing their job (state dependent) could mean wrongful termination suits, compensation packages, and other worker benifits. H1B workers, termination means the runway to getting deported is now very short (because they are no longer working for their sponsor). Its extra leverage against the employee, meaning they can take advantage of them in ways that would make US workers take action against.
The likes of musk and co want workers who they have more leverage over. They can ask them to do more things against regulations, ethics or their own well being, because refusal to do so means they might as well start packing.
I’m not really sure if education is the keystone issue, though. It’s a big part of the arch, for sure, but it’s well documented that economic stress and resource scarcity can take even smart people and make them drop-dead stupid. There are plenty of well educated people who have been so filled with hate and fear that they’ll believe anything and hate anyone so long as it makes them feel like they’ll have some financial security.
Does the education of other countries include “critical thinking”, “propoganda identification”, or a mandatory “basic economics for the regular person so they can understand the concept of indirect benefit”? Do their existing courses even touch on those topics indirectly in ways that someone “who needs a little help” can learn enough to keep themselves safe? Not really, and that’s why we’re even seeing Germany basically make the same fucking mistake as before and it’s not even been 100 years yet.
Ready to fight and die if it’s billionaires were hunting 🤚
Take a guess whose side the militarized police will be on.
People say this, but I’m not sold on it. They’d be gunning down their own families and friends. Maybe I’m naive, but if I were in the service I think I’d be clear on who I’m supposed to be defending from whom…
If you have any doubts, look at who police murder, and who actually spends time in prison when convicted. It’s not rich people.
This happens in other countries. What makes the US special?
We don’t need to guess, we saw when that CEO was murdered
“We have a shortage of engineers!”
How do you know?
“Because they won’t work for minimum wage!”
Same way I am currently suffering under an acute shortage of Porsche Taycans.
A pessimistic view of education is that it’s a subsidy for business. We use our taxes to train core skills in the workforce so it’s cheaper to hire and use us.
They don’t offer education as enrichment, and not even education as a competitive measure… like they aren’t grounded in reality and even their fantasies suck.
I heard that from Europeans talking about US schools. Anything in school that doesn’t directly help you in your job is a waste of time and money.
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While in Europe education is seen as something edifying that kind of raises you to another level.
I honestly think a big part of why we’re more susceptible to right-wing idiocy is that we don’t teach basic philosophy in high school. I’m talking basic things like how an argument is structured, deductive vs inductive logic, logical fallacies, theory of knowledge, etc.
Absolutely. Basic critical thinking should be fundamental.
Some scientific skepticism would be perfect.
Speaking from the UK: Yes and no.
After 14 years of Tory scum in charge, arts education in schools is on its arse, because it doesn’t provide workers to grind into a paste once they’ve left education. Indeed, most schools are struggling like fuck because funding kept getting cut while more was being required of them.
As a whole education here is seen as a civic duty to ensure our kids are well-equipped for life in the workforce, but the scope of the education isn’t limited to just what they’d need for that, even if the central focus is.
We use our taxes to train core skills in the workforce so it’s cheaper to hire and use us.
Education that has any value beyond basic reading is college and trades, and you have to pay for that yourself peasant!
Yes the idea that public education is free training businesses should pay for is a very transactional Trumpian outlook, and the official mentality of the Trumpublican Party.
How do we know they realized anything?
As much as I want to enjoy posts like this one, I always ask myself this and it takes the joy out of it every time. It’s just a nice fantasy that reminds me of the “Nobody in this room know I …” meme.
It’s always “MAGAs are losing their minds over …”, but never any explanation or sourcing.
Elon is apparently censoring conservatives who disagreed with him over the immigration issue.
I don’t really see much change occurring though. Most conservatives I know will continue deluding themselves.
Thanks!
I’m with you on not expecting to see change =/
pssst - that flag and MAGA hat were made in China lol. Go USA!!!
I love seeing economic incels whine
You mean those who crave being fucked by the economy? :-)
I mean the losers who can’t get a job and blame it everyone and everything else instead of themselves
I don’t know, my girlfriend bought me a coat.
Vivek?.. Vivec… MORROWIND REFERENCE?!?
Vivek is is a fairly common name among Indians. It means “Wisdom”. Do what you will with that information.
Man, his parents really got it wrong with him then. The word(s) for “selfish immoral idiot” would have been more apt as his name.
(laughs in Dagoth Ur)
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
Should I sleep with him
No vivec is a coon, buffoon, a rat smelling baboon and cock sucking raccoon, biggest sore loser in the room.
Hardly. MAGAts learning the truth a couple months ago so what’s about to transpire over the next four years was something COMPLETELY different would’ve been the greatest gift.
The real comedy is that they thought they’d get hired EVEN IF Elmo hired Americans. Vast majority of the magats barely even have a GED, let alone higher education
They didn’t think they would get hired. They just didn’t want any more foreigners let in.
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Not a meme.
I see a comment like this every day or so. Just make your own community if you don’t want to circle jerk with us until the masters cut our heads off to sell them as NFTs.
Why do people argue against community names (and words in general) having meaning?
They’re just using the original definition of meme - “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture”
How is this not an idea?
There’s a problem with taking a one sentence definition out of context and then citing like that. You’re reading that definition here as though it were “an idea, behavior, style, or usage that can be spread from person to person within a culture”.
Whereas to me it’s clear that sharing a thing online at least once doesn’t make it a meme. If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be “thing”. Meme used to mean that the image or idea was so popular it gained a symbolic meaning that an entire culture could recall in a glance. Not just that it was a thing they saw on the Internet once.
For more about the full context, pick up The Selfish Gene, in which Richard Dawkins coins the term and explains it as a “gene” of information. Genes are genes whether or not they get passed on.
If it did, the word loses any useful meaning and may as well be “thing”.
Look up the origins of the term. The word “meme” has always had this problem, because it was poorly defined in the first place.
Your MOM’S not a meme!
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