DigitalTraveler42 @ DigitalTraveler42 @lemmy.world

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I work tech in the states and Indian managers are usually f'n brutal, had to sit through a few tense meetings where my Indian director was practically yelling at one of the project managers, and this was one of his favorites. Indian interviewers are pretty harsh as well. However Indian coworkers are usually pretty cool, especially the few Sikhs I've met.

Hopefully fucking croak somehow.

Money hoarding and stories of the "greatness of the Indian caste system" while he was a boy broke this dudes brain.

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What in tarnation?

This shit was too wild for me not to post when I came across it this morning, I knew this organization existed but this guy's vision laid out is dystopian AF.

I did too, and that's why I went to what the source embarrassingly was, but yeah I'm in total agreement with you.

You're definitely not wrong, that show and Idiocracy also have some pretty dystopian alternatives.

Eventually all business entities will be Taco Bell!

To finish the quote on her CIA relationship, since context is important:

In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, published a report that Steinem and others put together on the Vienna Youth Festival and its attendees for the Independent Research Service.[112][113] Redstockings raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the CIA, which Steinem denied.[114] Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: "In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable."

Honestly I figured the context would clear things up, but the rest of the quote makes her come off as an apologist for an organization known to play as dirty as the KGB, and especially during that era. However just because something is funded by an entity such as the CIA doesn't always mean that the organization is part of, partner in, or even a willing partner with something like the CIA, same with the KGB or its descendants, espionage operates on leverage, and it all depends on what kind of hold you have over the "asset(s)".

Love this for him, and wtf was he even doing there? Go back to DC and do your f'n job you stupid evangelical clout chaser, get tf out of our city.

Biden isn't the one sending storm troopers onto UT Austin's campus to crush pro-Palestinian protests, that would be the Republicans, remember on election day that both sides are absolutely not the same, and Trump sure as fuck does not care about Gaza or Palestine, or even Israel really if we're being honest here. (Well or anything else but himself)

Of course he was, he's a skirt chasing country boy from Arkansas, however, he was at least compassionate enough to open some of those doors for our LGBTQ allies, DOMA was shitty legislation but after it's passing many other steps were made to help these folks.

I'm not sure how old you were in '96, but I was a Jr in Highschool at the time, most people still used "fag" and "homo" to joke around about stuff still. We only had two completely out gay dudes in my highschool, I was cool with both of them and knew them through some girls that we all were mutual friends with. At one point some of the more "white trash/racist kids that I'd already had a problem with started harassing these gay dudes pretty constantly and pretty aggressively and the girls we were mutual friends with got my friends and I to handle the situation for them, we out numbered the homophobes by quite a bit and they chose not to fight at that time.

Now mind you, this is on Long Island, just a short train ride to NYC, the Village, and Stonewall, and Pride parades happened each year at this point, so while there were only two out gay dudes in my school most likely many of us had a LGBTQ person we knew back then that was out. Now imagine how this situation would have gone down back in '96, in Arkansas, I can tell you exactly how it would go down based on my experiences living in Florida during the early 90's as well, but also by how it would go down even now in Arkansas.

So sure saying Clinton was as homophobic as the rest in 1996 is pretty much saying that water is wet, most people were ignorant, and even worse many of us still believed the HIV based homophobic conspiracy theories, because AIDS was a huge problem at the time.

First I like how you are trying to shade people about not being able to work hard, I've known homeless folks who work their asses off but can't get ahead, can't get approved for a place to live. Also they can't get hired because of their mental illness, which Reagan helped put millions of those folks out on the streets, raising crime rates, so how's that for results? Then you have the millions of hard working addicts living life on pain killers because our healthcare is f'n joke, how's that for results when the rest of the world has universal healthcare? Education system is completely unaffordable so you have people going homeless over their broken college dreams and/or their crushing student debt, yet hey the answer to education is voucher programs and only rich kids get to go to college, how's that for results?

Secondly how about we tax the rich? That's where I expect the money to come from, we used to have a 50% tax on the wealthy, and it helped create our education system, library system, highway system, yet again Republicans constantly want to lower taxes on literal billionaires, eventually trillionaires, because when the fuck do you have enough money? Bernie Sanders said billionaires shouldn't exist, they should be able to get to $999,999,999.99 and get a plaque that says they win capitalism, ans I whole heartedly agree with that statement. Oh and it gets even worse for your beloved Republicans where Trump's tax plan that he put in place during his administration financed giving the wealthy their tax cuts, by increasing taxes on the lower and middle classes for the next four years, we are currently in year four, how about that for results bud?

I've worked hard since I was twelve years old, ran a whole kitchen including dish duty at thirteen, I served this country as Marine, and I am currently upper middle class, yet I don't begrudge these people help, because I'm not a selfish fuckhead, but also the way I see it is we can provide healthcare, food, housing to our military, we should be able to do the same for those that we are supposed to be protecting, and do protect, especially during natural disasters.

You my friend and all of your selfish libertarian/Republican dipshits can go fuck yourselves, and doubly so if you're a MAGA cultist.

It's wild to me how these "God fearing Christians" basically want to put poor people into concentration camps, because that's just like Jesus would do. /s

Maybe if we had more public housing, better healthcare, that includes mental and dental, and easier and cheaper access to higher education and more affordable housing while being educated, it's not rocket science, sure we'll have people who choose the nomadic life but most of these homeless people have been pushed out of society by debt or by their health issues and the addictions that come from those health issues and poverty.

This belongs on the antique meme roadshow sub

“Hillary Clinton used a similar tactic against me when I ran for president in 2020, accusing me of being ‘groomed by the Russians’.”

I guess no need to be groomed by Russians when you've already been groomed by fanatical Christian Extremists so your values basically align with the current Russian regime's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gabbard:

Opposition to LGBT rightsedit

Gabbard became an anti-homosexual activist before the same-sex marriage debate took hold in Hawaii.[3] Between 1991 and 1996, Gabbard founded the organizations Stop Promoting Homosexuality Hawaii (renamed Stop Promoting Homosexuality International), Stop Promoting Homosexuality America, and the Alliance for Traditional Marriage and Values.[10] Gabbard became well-known for his advocacy for Hawaii Constitutional Amendment 2 (1998). This amendment, approved by voters 69.2%–28.6%,[11] gave the state legislature "the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples" under the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), signed by Bill Clinton in 1996.[12][3][13]

This should have been a no brainer once these idiots started calling the Baltimore Mayor the "DEI mayor".

These racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and anti-Semitic/islamophobic assholes are always looking for a new dog whistle to use or a new popular thing to corrupt, or even seemingly innocent things to corrupt.

Fuck Nazis and all of their allies and enablers.

You should see how many American politicians are just as corrupt for less money, I was surprised when I saw Devin Nunes was only making $15K from one of the bribery schemes that was supporting him while he was in Congress. I guess it all comes down to knowing your worth to the scumbags you work for. 🤷‍♂️

Rest in piss, fucking idiot.

Every "real" Christian I know can't stand Trump and all of this other garbage, it always seems to he the fake Christians who tell people that they should go to church while they themselves don't, and similar folks who seem to love Trump and the prosperity gospel.

Don't get me wrong, I know there are whole congregations of idiots, but I'm just saying the ones I know personally who are very into their religion yet retain their open mindedness seem to be the ones who are against this crap, meanwhile "religious types" like my own father who never go to church and constantly try to push religion on me and the rest of the family, always seem to be the Trumpers. (Also not surprising my dad is a retired LEO)