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Can anyone help me remember a quote.
It's something like: when arguing with the right they don't need to adhere to logical consistency, all that truely matters is their position in the hierarchy of society.
It's more eloquent than I've parsed it. Any idea?
Was it the meme Sartre quoute?
Never believe that anti-Semites 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.
It's a good one to keep in mind.
Dark and violent imagination spiral gang rise up
(Laying on my bed now)
Just had another dark spiral
Dark imagination moment
I love how the football world cup unified everybody in hating Argentina
It's also kinda sad because without Argentina it turns into a regular European Cup tournament again
Indeed, that's why I hope they make the semifinals, but then I want Spain or France to demolish them
When or where did the Israelis strike or attack the communist organizations in Iran when this war started?
Got rejected from a job I applied for in a field I've worked in for years, asked for feedback and was told I missed a piece of essential criteria which I had definitely covered twice in my application.
Immediately responded with the excerpts and am awaiting their excuses about why the two examples I gave were not good enough evidence.
The kicker is this is a gov adjacent role in the UK and we have the "Disability Confident" scheme that lets disabled candidates get a guaranteed interview when you hit all the essential criteria. I opted in for that as a disabled person and conveniently (and this happens a lot!! At least 3 other times to me) I apparently don't hit the essential criteria for a role I've done for like 7 years at a higher level than what I'm applying for, with examples that have gotten me jobs for roles at a higher level than the ones I'm applying for.
I love this period of economic stagnancy it's great fun 🫠
economic stagnancy
Seems more like economic free fall.
But also, my sympathies, that is rough.
It definitely sounds like those companies are discriminating against disabled people. I wonder if you'd have better luck not telling them?
I think it's less purposeful than direct discrimination, the application should have no sign I've ticked the box for the disability scheme, but I think that their screening process is just really poor.
I reckon they're either using AI to batch shortlist and don't really care about when it makes mistakes, or their shortlisters are having to wade through so many applications they're not giving enough attention to each one and incorrectly scoring them. This then has the downstream effect of being indirectly discriminating, because they actually have to justify what essential criteria I have missed to deny me an interview, but for anyone else accidentally missed during shortlisting they can just lie and say they didn't make the cut because there were so many strong candidates.
Having chatted with people recruiting in this area before, they're getting like 500-1000 applicants for each role so their shortlisting has had to speed up to keep the process to a sane timeline. This has pushed them to make far more mistakes than I've ever had to deal with during the shortlisting phase. I used to get an interview almost every single time I applied for a role, and would perform well enough to be in the top 2 or 3 candidates if I failed to get the role. Now I'm just being screened out at the application phase.
Gotcha. So with the extreme application volume, they're certainly not reviewing even most of them thoroughly. I haven't done it often, but apparently feeding your CV/resume and the job description to AI can help if they're using an HRIS, in case you haven't tried that already. Best of luck, comrade!
So I was watching an ASMR video based on Helldivers 2 and as it goes on, I'm gradually going, "Wait a minute, this sounds like fascistic, imperialist stuff." Then it starts reminding me of Starship Troopers.
When it's done, I look up the game and sure enough, there are articles saying it's heavily influenced by Starship Troopers. I've never actually watched Starship Troopers or read the book, nor have I played Helldivers, but I guess I picked up enough in passing about it and the themes aren't exactly subtle.
The books were unironic fascist propaganda by a "libertarian" who idolized the military.
The movie was made by a guy who read the book, clocked it for what it was, and decided to make fun of its ideology instead.
Helldivers is a much less subtle mockery of the same ideas.
The movie was made by a guy who read the book, clocked it for what it was, and decided to make fun of its ideology instead.
Very based thing to do. Did the writer sued the director?
Heinlein was dead by the time the movie was made. But he likely would've hated it lol.
Oh, interesting.
I love Rust a lot but I wish it wasn't so hard to compile its compiler.
Speaking of languages, imma try learning spanish. it's kind of embarrassing for a brazilian to not be able to talk to comrades in latam.
Boy do I love public transport. I spent my day riding the Brussels Subway today and it was so much fun.
Living in Seattle I often found myself missing work to just ride around on LINK and the bus system all over the place. I completely understand.
World is more red than black today. Hopefully tomorrow, & the day after,
All I'm gonna say is that the residents of Clackton have the chance to do the funniest thing in the world and if they dont vote for supreme leader count binface I will tell Putin to nuke them
We're entering the second heat wave but it won't be as bad as the previous of a week ago
It was almost 33 at 23:00, last night. It's been so hot and humid during days that I felt cold, at 26.6 inside.
That's horrible. A bit more to the south and it's still cooking in France and southern Europe. I saw someone from Lyon say it has been 30+ degrees for weeks now. Absolutely horrible.
We had a week of 28-30 degrees indoor at night and it drove me nuts.
Yeah, that's not fun. I feel really bad for Africa, Asia, Cuba, Mexico , Venezuela, and other locations whose people are suffering worse, especially places whose water and other critical infrastructure is destroyed by fascist nations specifically targeting critical infrastructure.
Sorry for posting here a lot. But I was just thinking about it, it's so goddamn sad that Indonesia never had a revolution. I think it's even sadder that even after the new order fell thay the PKI still hasn't been unbanned and the left is still essentially prosecuted. Honestly, a communist Indonesia would've been beautiful
I've been reading The Jakarta Method. It's very sad that neither Sukarno nor the PKI could rise to meet the moment. Mao told them both explicitly to arm up and prepare for violence but they were over confident.
The lesson here is to be armed and willing to fight because the reactionaries will kill you.
It's a world-historic tragedy. Indonesia has the fourth largest population, but it hasn't recovered from the trauma to this day. How differently things could have gone in that whole region.
Friendly reminder that Tom Homan, a key figure within ICE, has been around since the Obama days and is only now seen as a problem by libs. He even got a medal given to him by Obama for 'his effectivness with deportations'.
Caitlin Johnstone said Bernie was wrong, we've had ten years to see it, and .world are losing their collective mind.