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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Nah, after probation it’s pretty much impossible.

    There needs to be like a year of documentation that the employee is just not doing their job.

    Because of the union.

    That’s why there’s this big push to resign, every tool they have to reduce the federal workforce begins with the word “voluntary”. Probate employees and contracts have reason to be nervous tho.

    Even closing USAID, it stops the work they’re doing, but they’re all gonna get huge severance checks or settlements if it really closes. It’s not like the private sector where it’s individuals fighting a billion dollar corparion. It’s multiple unions that are individually some of the largest in the country whose only reason for existence is knowing an incredibly confusing system of decades of regulations…

    Versus a couple teenager and college drop out techbros with zero idea what they’re doing.






  • republicans could have shut that shit down for decades now.

    When Clinton deregulated news media and campaign finance, it didn’t just let the rich influence the Dems, it handed the Republican party lock and key to them.

    Like, everyone is bitching about Trump’s cuts to federal workers right now, completely ignorant that it took 30 years to recover from Clinton’s 90s cuts…

    trump is doing the neoliberal playbook, he’s just too dumb to make people think it’s a solid plan.

    Do you think the left thinks everyone on the left is perfect and out for the common people’s good?

    Have you not seen the posts from neoliberals taunting progressives over how many Palestinians are being killed?

    Have you not seen what happens when people talked about Biden’s flaws?

    Now, I wouldn’t expect anyone to watch mainstream cable news, but if you did you’d see it’s filled with people saying it 24/7.

    It’s all over the place.

    And that’s just politically active people…

    Most voters just flat out don’t know what happened 30 years ago, it’s worth people knowing why we’re here so we can leave and never come back.



  • They change their label a lot, and I always get down voted for mentioning it.

    But trump never would have been a candidate if it wasn’t for Clinton de-regulating everything in the 90s in exchange for donations from literally trump and people just like him.

    But yeah, they took credit for the dotcom boom and started the trend of billion dollar companies paying zero in tax, because it would “trickle down” by employees taxed on salary…

    So yeah, they’re the OG techbros basically.

    They also took credit for crime reduction, saying it was due to their incredibly harsh sentencing guidlines, when it was the same reduction every other country got from banning leaded gas.

    Neoliberal policy never worked, it just popped up when things were organically getting better. But the people from Bill and Hillary in the 90s are literally Biden/Kamala’s people. Hell, Biden literally was one of them himself, he took credit for the crime bill even. They’ve had a death grip on the party for decades, and almost nothing they’re doing actually helps people.

    I’m hopeful Ken Martin breaks and takes the DNC back in a pro worker direction, but we’ll have to see.

    If Kamala had won tho, the neoliberals would still be running the party, because she would have gotten to name the chair.



  • “those who played with me know that I do not condone being gay for women in rugby.”

    I’ve never been to Fiji…

    But I can’t imagine making it to a national women’s team and still being bigoted against lesbians. Its not exactly a rare thing to run across.

    Like, at least in America, it’s incredibly common for LGBT to play rugby. Hell, we had a gay pornstar on my men’s college team for a while, we gave him as much shit as anyone else on the team, but rugby culture has always been incredibly accepting.

    Doesn’t matter who you are, if you’re dumb enough to join the team, you’re a part of the team.


  • I come from hillbillies, so technically I owned a rifle and a shotgun before I was ever born.

    But I never went thru the hassle of getting a CCW and small pistol to carry.

    But shits fucking crazy these days. Like I’ve lived in some rough areas, and had plenty of people show me their gun as intimidation since I was a punk teenager. But I was never seriously worried about getting shot, people had something to lose and I was never doing something that was worth it.

    Nowadays people with a good job and family are just firing off over incredibly minor shit.

    Everyone is just willing to throw it all away over nothing.

    I really think we’re gonna find out COVID caused similar issues to lead poisoning even among minor cases with no symptoms. People just have no chill, and everyone and their mother is strapped here now.

    I also got my gas mask with NATO cartridges

    You really don’t need it. Tear gas in an open environment is not bad, you move 10 feet away for a few minutes.

    People will tell you tennis rackets is the move, but that could lead to serious charges if used to hit one back at cops.

    What you need is buckets. They fire a can, you cap it. If you do have to retreat, someone will likely (completely on accident and without any malice) knock it over releasing the tear gas and slowing the cops.



  • Got my CCW after trump won in 2016, didn’t end up needing it

    Got plates after this one, I’m not going to be a protest without it and a rifle.

    It sounds like an escalation, but a show of force prevents a lot of violence, and it works especially well on the people we’re protesting. Like, that’s not a dig. Due to brain differences it’s harder to win over the right by appealing to empathy or facts and logic.

    Everyone that works on is already mostly on our side.

    What works on conservatives is fear of immediate consequences. You think a trumpet would drive into protesters when a dozen would actually open fire and make them legit “fear for their lives”?

    Hell, they overrun the Capitol because cops just had Glocks and riot gear…

    These days a protest ain’t safe unless people are posted up.