I am a tradesman
I also have a bachelor of science degree
What I do is most definitely skilled labour
The bullshit, classist crap about what is and is not skilled labour is pathetic
I can promise that when the chips are down, the most useless people are the ones who sneer at those of us with calloused hands
Since when has reality or evidence ever factored into the thinking of a conspiracy theorist (unless it conveniently aligns with their idiocy?)
For-profit healthcare is beyond disgusting
Slavery never went away in the US. It was rebranded, encompassing all but the ruling classes, with people's health tied to their employment
All so some people who were already rich could get richer, and the cost to the American public is a fucking disgrace
Long live Luigi!
I hope we don't
AI is a useful tool, but right now it's being weilded by fools as a solution in desperate search of a problem
She's a vicious cunt, and I look forward to her obituary
I've had yanks talk about knife crime, like it's a justification for their obsession with firearms
The worst places for knife crime in the UK pale in comparison to the average knife crime rates in cities in the US
And then there's the general assault stats
The US is more dangerous across the board than the UK
I live in paradise, where shoplifting just about makes the front page. I don't lock my house up. I have absolutely zero fear of someone breaking into my place
I've had Americans tell me that they wouldn't feel safe living here, because they'd be worried that people would see it as an easy target for crime
Fear is so ingrained that they seem to need it
I suspect that it's because they can use fear to justify hate, and they really like hating over there.
And stupid yanks choose to believe them
They want other countries to be shitholes like 'Murica so badly because they can't handle the fact that the rest of the world doesn't want to be America, we don't want them to be involved in our lives, and we just want them to fuck off and sit in the corner to drink wallpaper paste and eat crayons
Orban is a cunt
Can you blame them?
The US is a fucking hellscape
I spend quite a bit of time there. I'm over several times a year and I genuinely don't know how people can live like that
There's a constant thin thread of fear, wrapped around everything, running through everything
People are afraid of the people around them. They're afraid of their government, they're afraid of the people who are supposed to be there to protect them, they're afraid of their employers, they're afraid of the unknown
I'm very careful not to take my charmed life for granted
They'll vote for the next republican, and the one after that, because they're in a cult, and those republicans promises to hurt the people that the cult fear and hate
It's disgusting, but it's in their nature
They knew exactly what they were voting for.
They voted for a hateful, stupid, vicious, narcissistic, bigoted thug
I don't believe for a second that they genuinely have any regrets, and I believe that they'd vote for him again if they can (assuming that 'Murica ever has another election...)
In a crisis, I know that I'm infinitely more capable and useful than someone who shuffles paper and pretends that they add value to society