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I was a government contractor for four years. I made really good money, worked from home, and had really good benefits. A year ago, Elon and Trump decided to stop paying the contract I was on. Between outsourcing and AI, I couldn't find anyone to hire me. I had to work in a grocery store for six months with ten years of web development and project management experience. I start my job as a mailman on Monday. I'll never forgive them and forsake anyone associated with them. Until the seas dry and the land breaks, I wish suffering and damnation upon them.
it's infuriating seeing the two assholes cutting everything and destroying the lifes of millions of people for literal pennies, then wasting trillions on a useless war that has only economic downsides, just because bibi asked it nicely
Don't forget the tax breaks for the Uber rich.
I was a woman in the military.
I can't even look at myself in the mirror anymore, haven't left the house for a week.
I wish them a jail cell.
I wish them death and a eternity of pain and suffering in hell for their sins
I hope your luck will be better than mine.
It won't be. My career is ruined. It's hopeless.
We can be pissed and destroyed together though. 🤝
I wish you weren't right.
Now kiss
go outside, touch grass, re-evaluate
Thank you.
A jail cell is too good for them.
They need to be dragged through the streets and end up like Mussolini. Or maybe Ceaușescu and his wife.
Just hope the dragging through the streets takes hours and they are conscious for all of it.
Have you considered a lateral transfer?
Some countries, including Canada and Australia, will accept international applicants providing they meet certain criteria. Australia particularly offers pathways to citizenship too.
https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/military-life-cycle/lateral-recruits
Yeah sure, but I couldn't imagine them taking someone as mediocre and old as me.
I like Aussies and Canadians. I would do my best to be an ideal citizen.
You'd be surprised!
"The maximum age, as a general rule, is between 3 and 6 years away from the “Compulsory Retiring Age” for a specific role. It is encouraged that applicants conduct research pertaining to their role of interest."
So its role dependent for Australian Defence Forces, though is worth at least looking into.
I couldn't look at myself either if I was in the military, how disgusting.
I couldn't look at myself if I were a knee-jerk troll, so I guess we're even.
One post from four months ago, and then a handful from the last day 🧐 seems we got a piece of shit sandbag account looking to rile people up
Didn't Russia just get another infusion of cash from some sanction being lifted or something like that recently? Spinning back up sections of their social media farms now that there's funding again.
Sorry I don't support the ~~killers~~ troops.
I wonder who's killed more innocent people Elon's funding cuts or the US Military.
Interesting how you're more upset this one person was in the military than you are about anything Elon Musk has done, to the point that you're now mollifying Musk's actions in order to troll this one person.
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If I was on a platform with Elon Musk, I would gladly tell him how disgusting he is.
It's interesting how an anarchist defends imperialist soldiers.
You easily could be, he's very available on Twitter if you were actually so inclined. But instead you're more inclined to misread the pointing out the shortsightedness of your trolling of an individual as a different statement entirely. Just as you're more inclined to treat Musk with softer gloves if it means you can attack some random person for something that that doesn't even apply anymore.
I'm inclined not to use platforms with fascists and bootlickers.
I feel the same way I do about soldiers who go to foreign lands and kill innocent people or at the very least contribute to the machine of death as I do cops. Fuck them and the boots they gladly wear. They are not good people and your liberal attitude towards supporting them is morally wrong.
You've shown more defense for Elon Musk than I have for the US military lol
I've shown zero defense for Elon, I have only shown hatred for the military.
If omission is defense, by your own logic you are defending Trump by not actively speaking against him right now instead of attacking me.
I'm so, so sorry you're in this position. It isn't right.
I've been in, or worked for the military for 26 years last month so I've seen some political things. While DOGE didn't kill my little 150 person org it wiped out a third of our experienced folks and eliminated all young folks we feed to the larger workforce.
The large over arching programs like USAID will be fairly easily put back together but the folks not in the DMV will be hard to luer back.
My command is fairly senior but two years ago I at 49 years old was about average, now I'm in the younger cohort, that's not good for any workforce.
How many kids have you killed or helped kill in your 26 years? Or did you perhaps refuel vehicles that lead to killing kids, fed some child killers to give them the strength to get through a day of child killing, or defended somewhere at home so killers could be deployed overseas to kill kids?
That sucks, but long term that would have been an inevitable outcome anyway. Web development experience is becoming a useless skill on the job market, as you have learned from first hand experience finding a job
Really? I see a decent amount of six figure global remote frontend job postings