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The vast, vast majority of people don’t quit their job or their employer, but their boss and coworkers.

Don’t underestimate how much healthy relationships at work matter when you spend so much of your time there. Yes, in tech jobs as well. So stick with IT if you like it, but don’t stick around in a bad environment. Especially if you plan to have a family in X years, because then it gets a lot harder and riskier to jump ship and change your situation.

Thanks for the writeup. It helps to know where to look to make an informed decision, when I finally have the time to sit down and de-google.

Yeah I never doubted you’d have a reason to dismiss being called out like that. Getting your feelings hurt invalidates everything else. I feel like I’m talking to myself from 10 years ago.

You don’t have to take it from me. If you’re a student of history, maybe start with Umberto Eco. He knew a thing or two about fascism, I’ve heard.

The biggest mistake we can make is to assume it can’t happen again.

So yes they’re fascist, but the progressives complained too much about racism, and therefore it’s fine to support the fascists?

IDK what to tell you but your political ideology is privileged garbage. You’re more scared of being called racist than of fascism. The kind of “yes ethnic cleansing but please no mean language” attitude. Please get a political education and your priorities straight.

Escape from Tuta for what reason if you’re willing to share? I see it recommended a lot.

Mate they’re mainstreaming fascist rhetoric. Over 60% of Republicans now believe in the Great Replacement theory aka White Genocide, which used to be a conspiracy theory on the fringes of white nationalist propaganda just about a decade ago.

I encourage you to not get hung up on symbolism and instead look to ideology and rhetoric.

The first paragraph implies they’re the same thing.

This is in reference to Trump, yes, not Andy Yen?

Do you know what a strawman is?

Agreed on the first point. But even in progressive circles I hardly ever actually see this kind of behavior. Rather we want it to be a thing because it’s so satisfying to dunk on those ignorant and self-righteous morons.

So it’s been memed hard to the point that the term has become a favorite tool of right-wing pundits pushing culture war narratives.

Just something to consider as we accept and reinforce the trope.

Great, let’s mindlessly retread the right-wing’s favorite progressive strawmen for the lulz. Any other culture war bullshit I can feel smugly self-righteous over?

The actual complaints I see about cultural appropriation online are mostly directed at corporations trying to sell ethnic stuff. But that’s not as controversial.

The silly personal attacks are common in memes just like this one, serving as centrist strawmen to vilify progressives. People love to talk about and ridicule it so much that it seems a lot more common than it actually is.

Sharing culture isn’t cultural appropriation.

And the parties are never gonna give it up voluntarily.

I want to say the same thing…

But then you have like every other corporation on earth doing the same, and most of them see their stock price soar.

Older people rely on logic. And most interfaces are the opposite of logical.

Younger people have this idea of "press a bunch of buttons and once you see how it works, then memorize the steps ".

That’s the exact opposite of my experience.

I tried to explain Windows logically to the seniors in my family. This is a window. This is the taskbar, it shows your open windows. This is a folder, it contains your documents.

Every time we would start over with these abstractions which are supposed to make logical sense, the very foundation of Windows’ early success with casual users. None of it ever stuck with them.

They would instead write down every minor step to achieve a specific goal in a specific way, so they could basically control Windows without paying any attention to context presented on the screen. That’s the only thing that worked for them.

Yes, but don’t ask me for cake recipes. I’m not in the mood.

Always-online locked down ad-riddled spyware on cheapass unfixable planned obsolescence hardware.

Have you experienced what passes for “an actual TV that plays Netflix” these days?

Miss me with that shit.

You think you can shoot your way out of this?