Ah, that explains it. It didn't sound like a quote that would come from the real UN. Maybe in some other, superior timeline...
That's wild, I never knew the origin of that last sentence.
I would never hire a company that had a clause like this. Just find someone else. There's a reason they felt it necessary to include that.
I was going to make a dark joke about people who didn't vote because the Democrats weren't good enough for them (which I mean they definitely are not... but how has that strategy worked out so far?)
How do you think a firefight between ICE and the National Guard would go?
That's more my point. ICE can fuck up plenty of the helpless, and that might include you and me soon enough. But my point is that co-opting the forces that actually know what they're doing is often a good accompaniment to that idea, and they're not even making vague attempts at doing anything like that, they are doing the opposite.
We've destroyed the systems of public health and environmental monitoring and protection in this country. They weren't great to start with, but now they are mostly just completely destroyed.
It would be weird if we didn't return to this medieval system where sometimes weird and dangerous things just happen out of nowhere, and there's just no explanation and no way to make it stop.
Count your lucky, lucky, lucky stars that these people are such idiots.
It doesn't mean they are not dangerous. The Nazis were exactly the same type of hilarious buffoons, not good at anything, until all of a sudden it wasn't funny anymore and the nightmare came to life, neverending. And the Trump people are doing a pretty good job speedrunning getting the camps up and running, they've already started on the undesirables and it's working, and they're building a huge number more as we speak.
But still, Jesus Christ. They could have had their pick of conservative sociopath lawyers hand-picked by Peter Thiel to whip shape into the DOJ and turn it on all the domestic opposition. They could have doubled military pay instantly, and had heartwarming rallies where they assured all the troops and all the cops that finally, with us in charge, you have someone on your side in government. It would have locked in their victory like a fucking armbar. Instead, they're taking all these people whose support and agreement is vital to this thing really coming off without a hitch, and putting them into these moronic and hostile situations, literally every chance they get.
Think about it: You're a career prosecutor, you've been busting your ass for decades in a high-stakes profession, and you're successful at it. And then one day you walk in and your boss is Jeanine Pirro and she's going to be taking over going forward.
Just think of how the interactions with her go in the workplace. Think of watching her fuck up important things, left and right, and that just being your new reality.
Jesus Christ man. We got lucky, a little bit, that it came in this form when it came. Their sheer moronitude has to be some kind of weakness.
My parents owned a cat who loved to go on walks with them, but would complain loudly if the walk was too long, and demand to return to the house when she was done walking. It was such a problem that they started shutting the cat in the house when they wanted to walk, and so she would hide outside and follow them secretly until they were too far along with the walk to bring her back to the house and continue without her, and then trot up and join them on the walk. Then shortly she would complain that the walk was too long and she wanted to go back now.
We love her
Little few-dozen-people towns like this in the middle of nowhere are fucking wild sometimes. It's just a bunch of people doing whatever they want, for the most part. Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's real fucked and people who grow up and leave have some insane stories and basically never go back.
Remember this when someone tells you "voting is a waste of time" "anarchism is better, we don't need all these corrupt structures" or similar things. There's a reason why we settled on the systems we have. The corruption that fucks them up is real, sure, and it's a big problem, but it also exists in exactly the same form if you get rid of the system. It actually gets way worse.
It is funny that in Piefed this topic is classified under "Chilling"
I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here, that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know...