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They aren't even signs, they're pieces of office paper with some Word Art printed on them.

If he wanted to have an actual sign there, there'd be an actual sign and not some hastily printed pieces of paper.
I wasnt been serious

Also, this assumes that Trump can read. He's stated that teleproctors have failed. Its probably best to assume that Trump cant read well. These signs would be useless
 

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One makes less than me, one made almost exactly the same as me (until I switched jobs last year), one made more than me pretty much the whole time we've been friends (I may make more now with my current job).
If I remember correctly you were working on digital infrastructure for a hospital.

Edit: that might be 2020 and so this might be multiple job ago
 

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If I remember correctly you were working on digital infrastructure for a hospital.

Edit: that might be 2020 and so this might be multiple job ago
Desktop tech/site support for a hospital and now essentially the same for a college. Pay is decently better and benefits are way better, and the job is so easy it's not even funny.

There's no reason why the 3 friends I mentioned without a housing payment don't have money besides them being shit with money essentially. At least 2 of them make enough to be able to afford a normal housing situation (whether rent or mortgage) while they have major money issues with no house payment. One just got fired and said he only has like $400 in his account, that really makes no sense. Though I do know he wastes most his money on OnlyFans.

The one friend that makes less than me, I could see her not making enough to live on her own (or have to really stretch money to do so) but she lives at home so she should be able to save money (even if it's like maybe only $200-$500/month vs my aforementioned $1k/month), she should have money essentially. It is her fault for not moving up at all in her profession (the lowest you can probably be in the medical field), one friend even offered to help her become a nurse several years ago. Another friend was a White Castle manager, she took classes to become an echo tech and now works at a hospital making probably double of my other friend in the medical field and it only took like a year or two to do that. People have responsibility to improve themselves as well, it's not purely the system being crappy.
 

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Though I do know he wastes most his money on OnlyFans.
And if he didn't, there would be that much less money for Onlyfans workers. Well, minus Onlyfans's cut which, among other things, goes to fund the israel lobby.

This is a well-functioning society.
 

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ICE being bastards.
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At least people are fighting back. Showing those bullies and cowards for what they are.



 

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The Pentagon has declared that it is now on a "wartime footing".
I don't think there is more meaning behind than for the name change to Department of War.

What Trump actually does internationally is not really linked to whatever Hegseth does to feel more manly. Those two don't coordinate at all.
 

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The Pentagon has declared that it is now on a "wartime footing".


Ready to go to Venezuela, MAGA? Your President of Peace demands his ego be satisfied with your lives!
To be fair, it would just be a bunch of drone dropping bombs. They could do it from home
 

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The Pentagon has declared that it is now on a "wartime footing".


Ready to go to Venezuela, MAGA? Your President of Peace demands his ego be satisfied with your lives!
No one is going there; it will likely get the Pakistan/Afghanistan drone/bombing treatment.
 

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Why stop here? Why not send in ICE to kick in doors and take back food from poor people? They don't deserve it, after all.

 

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People with zero respect for truth and journalistic integrity launching an assault on a news organisation for a nothingburger.

Just so we're clear here, Boris Johnson (yes, him) was involved in whipping this up - the same Boris Johnson who was fired from his first journalist job for grossly unethical conduct, made his name writing lies for a newspaper that didn't care that he was dishonest, and who was drummed out of his job as PM under a welter of ethics abuses and dishonesty. Meanwhile right-wing shitheap channel GB News breaks broadcasting regulations on a daily basis, and the regulator has basically given up and lets it do what it wants.

The world we live in, eh? Fucking hell.
 

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Desktop tech/site support for a hospital and now essentially the same for a college. Pay is decently better and benefits are way better, and the job is so easy it's not even funny.

There's no reason why the 3 friends I mentioned without a housing payment don't have money besides them being shit with money essentially. At least 2 of them make enough to be able to afford a normal housing situation (whether rent or mortgage) while they have major money issues with no house payment. One just got fired and said he only has like $400 in his account, that really makes no sense. Though I do know he wastes most his money on OnlyFans.

The one friend that makes less than me, I could see her not making enough to live on her own (or have to really stretch money to do so) but she lives at home so she should be able to save money (even if it's like maybe only $200-$500/month vs my aforementioned $1k/month), she should have money essentially. It is her fault for not moving up at all in her profession (the lowest you can probably be in the medical field), one friend even offered to help her become a nurse several years ago. Another friend was a White Castle manager, she took classes to become an echo tech and now works at a hospital making probably double of my other friend in the medical field and it only took like a year or two to do that. People have responsibility to improve themselves as well, it's not purely the system being crappy.
I'd agree. Its not purely a system being crappy

I was asking the questions as it seems to me that you were talking about middle class people. Generally, they are worse at dealing with money than poor people as they dont have to make the same number of dire economic desicions. They regularly make bad economic decisions and it doesnt affect them. Its like Musk, Gates, Bezos or Trump making thousands of poor ecomonic choices each year. It will never effect them so they never change

As to the person in the last paragraph. They Walter Whited. They probably thought theh WERE trying to improve themselves which far too many times is them thinking they need to do everyrhing themselves. I dont know how much you talk to her about improving herself, be careful around encouraging people to take responsibility. It can go squirly real quick
 
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People with zero respect for truth and journalistic integrity launching an assault on a news organisation for a nothingburger.
I don't think it's totally a nothingburger. I think an apology was probably in order, but not to Trump or anyone raising the criticism, but rather to their audience who they are meant to be informing. I don't know why anyone would resign over it though.
 

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So airport control staff isn't getting paid due the shutdown either? Well that sounds safe. Nothing makes you feel more secure in a plane than knowing air trafic control is staffed exclusively by unpaid slaves on the verge of eviction and a mental breakdown.

Between government shutdowns, fillybusters and the electoral colleges the US seems intensely poorly designed. Why does one system have so many crippling roadblocks?
 
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Why does one system have so many crippling roadblocks?
Because a blocked road gives you the chance to safely find another route. Getting rid of all the road blocks ends with people driving off of cliffs.
 

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40 days of a government shutdown all so the Democrats could get their dream scenario!!!!

...making the Republicans promise to hold a vote (not pass anything, just hold a vote when Republicans control all three branches of the government) about the ACA Benefits sometime in December

Do people understand why Leftists shit on Democrats just as much as Republicans yet? Cause this is one giant neon sign to show why. 40 fucking days of chaos and pain inflicted on millions of people and The Democrats get nothing from it (while Trump and Co are being blamed for the shutdown, have a bottom of the barrel approval rating, and Democrats ran wild on Tuesday). If they were going to just crumble like a cardboard box in water, they should have done it 40 days ago and not put everyone through all this bullshit. Absolutely fucking pathetic.
 

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40 fucking days of chaos and pain inflicted on millions of people and The Democrats get nothing from it
They got what they wanted in full. They were, from the start, offered a bill that would continue the exact funding they voted for under Biden, and they pretended the pandemic policy terms that they wrote themselves to expire the end of this year were so drastic an issue that they had to shut the government down for over a month. Mind you, the continuing resolution they refused to vote for would have expired before the policy they claimed they were pushing to extend. The only thing that was accomplished was having the government shut down during the election so that they could insist it was Republicans fault.
 

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I don't know why anyone would resign over it though.
Because the severity of the error is irrelevant. The right has cooked up this assault out of malice, and they'll keep going until they get a pound of flesh.

The British right wing does not care about the quality of journalism, it just wants to cripple or kill the BBC. Ideologically because their private sector backers want to wreck a public broadcaster, and politically because the UK media is heavily right-leaning, with the BBC as the largest non-right media organisation.
 
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