“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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    More people are working right now in the United States than at any other time in our history.

    The same can be said year on year every single year (except 2020) due to population and economic growth.

    What he doesn’t say is that the divergence between the average wage and the cost of living has never been greater. So, while more people are available to work, they are earning less per hour in bread and bricks than they were 5, 10, 15, 20 (etc.) years ago.

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    Either put him in a home or in the ground. I don’t care which, but for the love of god, take away his Internet access.

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    what is the actual rate of unemployment within the technology industry? surely it’s higher than any of the numbers that are being reported by the government.

    if I run out of money before finding a job, I’m killing myself

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      Everything is higher than the government reports.

      Trump fired the guy that reported the unemployment numbers for reporting accurate numbers. I assume everything since is propaganda.

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        It was propaganda before, it didn’t include people who were working a handful of hours and unable to support themselves and unemployed who said they weren’t actively seeking a job.

        Trump’s issue wasn’t that it was intentionally deceptive, only that the lies weren’t far enough from reality.

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      Did your parents do insane amounts of coke, rape children and utterly ignore their health in pursuit of porkish hedonism? Then go for high stress bullshit with a family history of dementia?

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        And do they also have late stage syphilis? Why is nobody talking about that one, it’s obvious. The patchy hair loss, the blemishes, the cognitive decline, the bizarre thick facial makeup. You know why the French covered their faces and hands with that thick white lead based paint back in the 1700s and wore wigs? Because of syphilis.

        It fits the timeline perfectly if you consider how he was living in the 80’s-90’s, and how obviously he would never go have it checked out because he’s a narcissistic piece of dumb shit.

        (It also tangentially explains Trump’s bizarre emotional affiliation with the late great Alphonse Capone)

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    They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

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      I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big .world communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.

      And, unfortunately, clickbait works. They always float up to the top of Active.

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        There is no “-ism” that can save the US anymore

        They need a revolution and a new system. More than two parties and limits on presidential power

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            It doesn’t work on a large scale because people with Cluster B personality disorders will always corrupt any system we come up with.

            And historically those systems are typically structured in a way that allows authoritarianism and dictators to take over more quickly. The government has to control everything, which creates a much smaller point of failure.

            Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

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      This comment is grosser than your name. Biden has been a shitheel in government for over 50 years.

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          Refusing to gargle a useless corporate dickhead that hid his critical cancer diagnosis during a crucial campaign period does not make you MAGA, wtf?

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            Useless corporate dem? He got a ton of great shit done but since you hate leftwing policies I can see why you think his agenda was bad.

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                Biden has been a shitheel in government for over 50 years.

                useless corporate dickhead that hid his critical cancer diagnosis during a crucial campaign period

                Its pretty obvious. If you supported things like healthcare, equality, workers rights any of the typical leftwing policies you wouldnt be reacting in this way.

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            1. He’s still alive.

            2. He’s better than Trump.

            3. Trump is the one who told you he hid the cancer diagnosis.

            4. Harris was VP and would have became the president if he died.

            All of these are facts and would have lead to a better present than now so what the fuck are you on about?

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              All of those things are true. Explain how not liking him makes someone MAGA.

              Edit: wait what, in what world does Trump have anything to do with Biden’s hidden cancer diagnosis?

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                  So then when are we allowed to criticize corporate guzzling Dems? You said we weren’t allowed to during an election year, and you’re saying we’re not allowed to now. So when?

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        He was one of the best presidents since Jimmy Carter and the country and the world would be better off with him in power vs Trump.

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    When reached for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast in a statement, “It’s sad that Daily Beast interns cannot grasp the concept of pro-growth policies that create jobs. Their minds are clearly warped after cheering on Joe Biden as he wrecked our economy for four years.”

    The pettiness is unreal.

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      This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.

      No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.

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        The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don’t know what they’re doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.

        But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.

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          The rhetoric that all politicians are corrupt and evil is also extremely damaging, and is parroted strictly by conservatives and the daft-right who then go on voting for the most corrupt and evil ones every time.

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          When profits are involved, always assume malice.

          The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).

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        Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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        I’d say educational system, or better, it’s downfall through decades, plays a significant role in making population dumb enough to not see through these constant lies.

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          The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying ALL socialist/liberal/democratic advances made to date, and returning the working class to ignorant destitution; much easier to control and brainwash mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).

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          It’s easy to control sheep. Machiaveli wrote a literal guidebook in the 1500s. If you dumb them down and destroy free thought, you can rule as you see fit.

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        4chan played a non-insignificant part in getting MAGA in power. It always attracted throngs of alt-right morons who dominated the political discourse. Back when nazis were afraid to speak about their beliefs in public, the Internet quickly became their breeding ground and base of operations. They got in very early, and were always very good at dominating and influencing online sentiment.

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        Exactly what happened. What are we going to do about it? I plan to create a self-sustainability community to at least drain their leverage a bit.

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      Do you think anyone could shoot her an email asking for comments on shit?

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      Can’t you picture him and Stephen PeeWee Himmler Miller browsing the Google images together, looking for ideas for his Frankenbattleship?

      “Oooh, look at that one. Wicked cool, right? I want something like that, but with bigger guns. And more of’em. And lots of real gold. All those other assholes got yachts, but I got a Trump-class battleship!”