Can’t stand the left. Can’t stand the right.

Stuck here in the middle with you.

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  • I think this has to do more with the popular vote going to Trump than anything Trump did specifically. They all collectively shat on him or didn’t interact with him from 2016 and all through Bidens presidency.

    They saw that public opinions has shifted so badly that Trump swept everything and won the popular vote. Suddenly they are all his best friend.

    They never cared. They just want to be in the “side” more people like. you’re forgetting that money/power is what drives these people. They saw more money in power in bashing Trump or siding with the Democrats until the 2024 election happened. Now they feel they can get more money and power by siding with Trump.


  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldtoBluesky@lemmy.worldDEI is Equity.
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    4 days ago

    Sounds like your job shouldn’t have hired or promoted that white guy who didn’t know what he was doing. Just like my old company shouldn’t have hired that new chick who had zero work experience for an upper management position.

    I don’t give a shit about inclusion or diversity. If someone is the best person for that job they should get that job. I don’t understand what is so complicated about this concept. If I only had one arm you wouldn’t fucking hire me to do your underwater welding.

    Life isn’t fair. I do not care to force fairness. Everyone should have equal opportunity to do what they want, but nobody should be forced to make exceptions for special situations.

    Equality of opportunity: Yes.

    Equality of outcome: No.



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    Except it does mean hiring unqualified or incompetent employees. I have seen it happen multiple times. Skip over properly qualified people who know the job and instead pick a minority to fill a quota.

    I lost a job because my job hired a minority to replace our manager and because she had absolutely no clue what she was doing I needed to train her on everything her job entailed while also still doing my own job. They straight up told me to my face I was the most qualified person for the job but because I am a white guy and upper management already had too many white guys so they hired a completely fresh young Indian woman to be our manager and then forced me to train her. And to be very clear I have nothing against her. I actually liked her a lot. But in trying to do her whole job for her while she learned literally everything about having a job at all let alone being our manager AND learning our field of work my own work started to suffer. I got burned out trying to keep my own tickets in check and help her learn the absolute basics of her job. So I quit after 6 months.

    They should have promoted me or any one of the other white male nerds who already knew everything they needed to know for that job, but nope. Find someone who has literally never had a job before in their lives and train them up from nothing instead. She should have been hired at the bottom like the rest of us so she could have learned the ropes and the basics like all of us did years before. Instead she got to skip years of lower level work and go straight to management level pay at a big tech company simply because of the color of her skin and the fact that she was a woman.

    And before anyone says anything I know that historically that’s exactly what companies did. Hire any white guy to do whatever he wanted while keeping the minorities at minimum pay as long as possible. I don’t think two wrongs make a right. It was wrong for them to hire and promote based on whiteness in the past and now it’s wrong for them to promote or hire based on non-whiteness. Both versions are wrong. Plain and simple.


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    There are jobs some people should not be doing.

    Any job where physical strength is required should only hire people who are strong enough to perform the task at hand. I don’t know a single person who gives a flying fuck what the gender, race or sexual orientation or the fire fighter is who pulls them out of a burning building is. But they would ABSOLUTELY care if their loved ones weren’t pulled from the building because they decided to hire a bunch of scrawny people that can’t lift anything.

    Pregnant women shouldnt be working at all. At least not after the first few months. Especially not at jobs that deal with chemicals or anything that I could potentially harm the pregnancy or the mother during the pregnancy. We should have properly covered maternity leave so they do not need to risk themselves or the child. It’s unbelievable to me that we don’t have that yet.

    Police should be required to stay fit in order to keep their jobs. It is insulting to see a fat ball of sweat roll out of their vehicles and struggle to do basic tasks. They absolutely need to have minimum physical requirements for that job. I know they do at the start but apparently once you get past the initial physical they never check again. I have seen countless videos of smaller framed female cops being thrown around by skinny crack heads because they simply are not physically large enough or strong enough to be doing that task.

    I am all for equality of opportunity, but I will never support equality of outcome. Some people simply should not be doing certain things. Even if it’s not their fault they can’t do that thing there is no reason we should be forcing it.

    Hire the most qualified person for all jobs at any given time. ESPECIALLY don’t skip over qualified people who will be able to perform that job exactly as needed to fulfill some diversity quota. Support those who are incapable of working any jobs, but do not force them into critical positions simply because you don’t want them to feel left out.

    I understand this wishful thinking of “anyone can do anything they put their minds to” attitude that I often see around these topics but that is unfortunately disconnected from reality. I will never fly a fighter jet. Despite having decent G tolerances I have unbelievably fucked eyeballs so I will never be allowed to fly a jet for any reason. To put me in a jet would be dangerous and irresponsible for everyone involved. I was delt a bum hand genetically speaking and it is what it is. I can do other things with my life and I have.

    Edit: spelling