go watch idiocracy again. and again. i think they were on to something.
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She has, uh, other qualifications.
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.
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.
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.
I mean, depending on the predator it can probably divide you lengthwise. Does that count?
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.
We've been doing that for years, but people just chanted "genocide" at Kamala and let this happen.
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Hear hear.
Hear*
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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.
f you can’t see everyone as equal then you are beneath us and need to be dealt with in the most severe method possible.
Does that mean you need to be dealt with in the most severe method possible, after all if you see them as beneath you then you clearly can't see everyone as equal, by definition?
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."
Holy shit I love this. 🤘
What's even fucking worse is that we live in an era of autocorrect and autofill.
"Corespondent" is a word, though. It just has a totally different meaning.
Maybe she's both?
Corespondent
Huh, TIL. That is a very different meaning but one that makes a surprising amount of sense in this administration.
Camachos' secretary of state was hotter.
Pic?
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.
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.
It doesn't count as DEI if you're hired to be a sex object (disgusted sarcasm)
Is there any reason this person should he seen as a journalist? Im only seeing an IMDB page
Because she's white and conventionally attractive. Can't spell for shit but we are to rely on her narrative? Nah homie.
She's on Steve Bannon's podcast apparently
See, she belongs firmly on one of the lists of people Trump prefers to appoint:
- Republicans with significant media presence, especially social media. Ideally ones who treat themselves like a brand.
- People plausibly accused of being Russian assets.
- Whoever wrote the relevant section of Project 2025.
The last one is totally by chance of course, since Trump doesn't support Project 2025 and knows nothing about it and all. /s
Because of course she is.
Left-Wing: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
Right-Wing: Deathcamps, Extermination, Invasion
Going for some Ivanka resemblance, perhaps?
This journalist is going to have the nuclear codes in the tabloids before long.
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