• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    *someone who you’d already fired and then tried to blow up the building reapplied…

      • Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world
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        There a multiple people running, the only third party candidate that is actually on the ballot in all 50 states (RFK is not on all 50 states ballots) Chase Oliver gets no airtime, the msm rather talk to you about brain worms then a practical candidate.

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          Yeah but Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren’t the greatest. He’s also got absolutely no idea how healthcare works, wants to completely abandon all our military bases, and he doesn’t even mention global warming in his policies.

          Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great. Privacy? Great.

          But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy and our ability to negotiate on the international stage.

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            7 days ago

            So a less then perfect candidate is worse than Trump or Biden? I just want to understand why so many write him off while hating the situation writing him off gives us.

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            Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren’t the greatest

            He makes a compelling argument against tariffs as public policy. But he’s still a business-first libertarian, which means his views on environmental regulation and labor rights and various federal public services also suck.

            Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great.

            Eh. I wish his immigration policy was as laisse-faire as his guns and drugs policy.

            But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy

            Our economy was dog-fucked ages ago, when we deindustrialized the midwest and plowed endless subsidies into FIRE and Tech sectors. Now we’ve got a bunch of computers churning out trillion dollar digital nothings, while investment cash flows like a waterfall into finance, insurance, and real estate, but our actual industrial capacity remains in a vestigial state.

            We can’t even make enough new silicon chips to feed our antiquated ICE engine automotive industry.

            I don’t think Oliver really has a path out of that mess, but its hardly his fault we got here.

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              7 days ago

              I mean, yeah, I agree on pretty much all counts. But, you know, typically you renovate a shitty house instead of punching holes in the walls.

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    So HR left us with just two choices, assured us they were the best of the best, and of course it’s two geriatrics.

    … one of whom is a rehire that tried to lynch us when we laid him off the first time. Good job HR, you wonder why people hate you.

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    7 days ago

    The only thing Biden is “crushing” is thousands of Palestinian civilians under the rubble of their former homes.

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      That’s patently not true. The HR department has dumped two choices in your lap and you literally have to choose between them.

      It sucks, and is something we absolutely need to fix in the future… but ignoring reality won’t help anyone.

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        we absolutely need to fix in the future…

        You do realize this is exactly the problem and the reason half of eligible voters sit at home on election day. Keep putting up shitty geriatrics and see how long it takes you to reach your future fix.

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        It sucks, and is something we absolutely need to fix in the future…

        But we’re literally picking the new head of the HR department. And every head of HR before this person was picked this way, because of the policies set by that HR department. Like, the only way you could change this rule would be for 37 of our 50 departments to come together and agree to change the rules as part of a company wide convention. And all of them run their HR systems the same way, so that doesn’t look too likely.

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          Start at the bottom and work your way up. It will take a long time. Meaningful change always will. But we got Fargo and St. Louis using Approval Voting and proved a small group of motivated individuals can change their government.

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            Start at the bottom and work your way up.

            Or just become a Senator at the age of 30 by selling out to your state’s massive insurance and legal community.