How do you even misspell things, when every device you have has spell check and autocorrects you?
To be fair thats a hard to spell word but im not steering a country of 340 million people so i get to spell it wrong.
Did she have the squiggly line turned off or did she ignore it?
'Mericocracy
go watch idiocracy again. and again. i think they were on to something.
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.
I resonate quite a bit with this, I just had to take a demotion because of a long term medical condition renders me unable to return to office 3 days a week. I was doing a great job as a Solutions Architect, but since they feel that the role is only good in person and not over technology I had to step down to a senior developer role. Hopefully I overcome this condition but it is lifelong but can be managed, but this feels like the first gate I’ve been hit with since starting to ascend as an IT Professional. RTO is dumb, especially with potential pandemics on the horizon. My wife is complete and total disabled and barely makes it out of our room, so I’m on the hook to bring home the money to keep everything running. It is frightening times in this shit show.
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.
BLUEMAGA never stops whining. Go bitch at Biden and Harris for not doing the thing Trump did before he even got in office. It was on the table for like 8 months and those monsters said “nah”.
lol wut?
Don’t bother. They’re just trying to distract and redirect by telling us we should be mad at those not directly responsible instead of those directly responsible.
Like those who said we should blame Democrats when Republicans overturned Roe v Wade.
Generally speaking, ignore anyone that uses the term “BLUEMAGA”. It’s a term trending with idiots right now.
You should be mad at both, really, but when it comes to allocating effort, the present threat is the more important one. Whether or to what extent the Dems would do the same doesn’t matter anywhere as much as the things actually happening.
If by some stroke of fortune an actual progressive party should gather enough support to be more than a spoiler, then they’ll be justified to attack the Dems: “We’re what you should have been.” But outside of that, the focus should rightly be what is happening, not what should have or might have happened.
Hear hear.
Hear*
Enemies? I disagree. It’s more like watching a toddler playing with a loaded gun.
Toddlers murder a wild number of people.
This is exactly a toddler with a gun.
Edit for numbers:
Some might assume that toddlers and young children may not be strong enough to pull a trigger, but that is not the case, experts said. At least 895 children aged 5 and under have managed to find a gun and unintentionally shoot themselves or someone else from 2015 to 2022, according to Everytown.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-fire-guns-toddlers-unintentional-shootings/
Remember, children cannot purchase guns in the USA. Many also lack the hand strength to fire.
I apologize for the source.
I actually know someone this happened to. Dad came home and midway through changing got a call from his father in law and went to go help him, leaving his concealed carry weapon on the nightstand. Toddler son got a hold of it and killed himself. On the day before his slightly older sister’s birthday.
Kid was buried on the property, within sight of the front porch. Mom demanded that and then couldn’t handle being there so they moved in with her folks for the next couple of years, and their living room was practically a shrine to the kid.
Fuck That is a tragic story.
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.
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?
There is no requirement to be tolerate the intolerant.
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. 🤘
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.
It’s written right there on the tag: “Escort”
Can we not accuse people of being whores just because we dislike their politics?
I agree. Sex work should not be slandered by comparing this idiot to a sex worker.
That’s also likely true I just don’t like accusing someone of being a whore because they are a fascist.
Escorts don’t have to be whores now. But I think the idea that her sex appeal directly influenced her hiring definitely has merit. Could it be worded better? Sure, but it’s obviously not meant as an offensive to escorts.
Hardly. Escorts charge by the hour. She’s salary.
So… Concubine?
Idk if they are paid tho
