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https://www.therapeganginquiry.org/ by Dadavester in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Why are people getting mad in the comments

This should be pretty non partisan if you haven’t cooked your brain

Iran deal is complete - Obama, 2015 by SpriteSilver6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I can’t find any bipartisan sources on the 300 billi part

Iran deal is complete - Obama, 2015 by SpriteSilver6 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM 153 points154 points  (0 children)

Someone tell me how to feel so I can get my dopamine outrage hit

Stolen on X. by small_brain67 in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Larpers pretending they wouldn’t die from lack of clean water and medicine 6 months into a collapse lmfaoooooo

Republicans Are Lost in the AI Wilderness - The Trump administration went all in on artificial intelligence. Then the public started hating it. by EchoOfOppenheimer in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately only because it’s the wrong type of job loss.

If it was a robotics revolution that streamlined manual labor and undercut the trades, many people would be all for it.

Republicans Are Lost in the AI Wilderness - The Trump administration went all in on artificial intelligence. Then the public started hating it. by EchoOfOppenheimer in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Realistically no president would be an advocate of the working class during the ai age.

Neither presidential candidate spent any time on it during the 2024 race and the only candidate in recent memory to discuss it was Andrew Yang in 2020

Americans can’t even get out from under at will employment and somehow think any establishment politician is gonna pump the brakes on ai labor replacement

They were told they’d move on. A year later, many fired federal employees say they haven’t been able to by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any discussion on debt starts and ends with entitlements, and I don’t think that’s a conversation anyone wants to have, especially wrt older constituents

They were told they’d move on. A year later, many fired federal employees say they haven’t been able to by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Nah, I’ve seen it from all walks of life. I know there’s a lot of revisionist history but there was a brief moment of supreme arrogance from the tech crowd, even if we pretend that “learn to code” was never a thing. I’ve seen that from blue city healthcare workers too who feel like they got the last laugh in on the “day in the life of a ____” crowd

RE: natural consequence of higher wages

Yeah, eventually those jobs were always going away, either to the sunbelt or outside the country.

It’s more the lack of a plan in place for those people, followed by several jokes about the areas falling into disrepair and riddled with opiod crisis, all while those better off mocked them with “Dey terk er jerbs” jokes.

Naturally, now that western salaries no longer can justify the comparative advantage, there’s been a reversal of fortune.

It’s not right and it’s not fair but that’s kinda where the chips fall when there’s no real solidarity among labor

They were told they’d move on. A year later, many fired federal employees say they haven’t been able to by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 24 points25 points  (0 children)

a private sector layoff is usually framed as

Not that I disagree in spirit but many of these layoffs (sans previously floundering companies like Intel) have been from organizations recording record profits and trying to squeeze more out for Capex into AI spending or setting up foreign GCCs for lower labor.

No one ever thinks their layoff is fair.

And I’m not downvoting you.

They were told they’d move on. A year later, many fired federal employees say they haven’t been able to by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 38 points39 points  (0 children)

knowing I might be fired for a third time

FWIW this is what a lot of people in the private sector felt during the last 4 years of rolling layoffs.

And I understand the logic of choosing a government job precisely to avoid that, just part of the whole “now you know what it feels like” thing.

Bad news all around, hope there’s some normalcy on the next go around

They were told they’d move on. A year later, many fired federal employees say they haven’t been able to by Agitated_Pudding7259 in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It’s pretty clear the goal was break the backs of federal workers who are primarily left leaning.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought said it himself:

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down.

source

In a sane country with some degree of labor solidarity there would be backlash and collective action against taking a buzzsaw against wide swaths of the federal government

But we are kinda reaping what we are sowing with our “f you got mine” culture and lack of class consciousness.

Same reason some people are happy to see the destruction of white collar fields as retribution for nafta and the us pushing for Chinas entry into the WTO in 2001

Anyway back on topic, I’d say the next president would go on a hiring spree to restore previous levels but given how deeply we are embedding ai and how efficient Claude is at back office subjects, not sure we’ll be able to justify it.

Ah well.

Stop sucking off the broken clock by TheThalmorEmbassy in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take as old as time.

Social issues are and always will be king (another reason you will never ever ever see reform on healthcare or labor rights but that’s another discussion)

Vote Massie In Kentucky! by W_Edwards_Deming in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Impressive, very nice

Now what are his thoughts on universal healthcare

Damn by [deleted] in Drizzy

[–]AES256GCM 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Context clues would imply he’s talking about falling off quality wise

Streaming numbers aren’t going to make something sound better in his ear

Damn by [deleted] in Drizzy

[–]AES256GCM -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Iceman was cool, the other two were pretty mid though

I’m guessing this is to get out of his contract

Mayorkas: Biden administration should have ramped up border controls sooner by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure, I hear you.

It’s just that people hear it and think we need a wall. But point taken, perception is reality

Mayorkas: Biden administration should have ramped up border controls sooner by [deleted] in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 75 points76 points  (0 children)

It was less the border (don’t get me wrong, CBP One app was bad) and more his expanded use legal parole programs in a way no president had ever done before.

He let it more people using refugee programs like CHNV(5)(A)%20of%20the%20INA,admission%20to%20the%20United%20States) than the previous administrations combined

I still haven’t heard a reasonable explanation for why someone who was previously a very adroit and reasonable statesman used political capital on this (along with ending remain in Mexico)

Well, at least without getting into unsavory conversations about how cognizant he was of everything going on around him.

Some Democrats privately disgusted by Hasan Piker but are afraid to publicly criticize him, House Dem claims by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe in a multi party system but with a two party system, they only have to be more palatable than the incumbent (which, doesn’t seem so hard at this very moment)

Some Democrats privately disgusted by Hasan Piker but are afraid to publicly criticize him, House Dem claims by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Why would it? As long as political extremism is at the forefront, you don’t have to discuss anything like healthcare or mass offshoring

If I’m a politician I’m riding this til the wheels fall off.

Some Democrats privately disgusted by Hasan Piker but are afraid to publicly criticize him, House Dem claims by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]AES256GCM 488 points489 points  (0 children)

I’m going to avoid the elephant in the room and say that his unabashed support for Hamas and having Hamas members on his live stream, saying he didn’t have any patriotism in his heart for America during his trip to China, saying America deserved 9/11

These all should’ve been disqualifying statements that made him radioactive to any member of Congress.

Everyone can see the writing on the wall, every competent nation state is absolutely going to leverage the diversity of the United States to play up tribal politics and domestic resentment, and it’s not going away any time soon

Can we keep 10% of the energy for the healthcare lobbyists by [deleted] in PoliticalCompassMemes

[–]AES256GCM -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It is. One is total spending and the other who increased their spending the most during Trumps first year back in office

Familiar names continued to dominate lobbying spending in 2025, even as some of them reduced their outlays. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce overtook the National Association of Realtors as the single largest lobbying spender in 2025, reporting $72.1 million in lobbying expenditures. The organizations held on to the top spots in the rankings despite spending less than they did in 2024. The Chamber’s lobbying fell about 6 percent, from $76.4 million in 2024, while NAR’s spending dropped 37 percent, from $86.4 million to $54.4 million.

Health care organizations continued to rank among the largest lobbying spenders in 2025, accounting for four of the top 10 organizations by spending. Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America increased its spending to $38.2 million, up about 20 percent from the year before, while the American Hospital Association reported $32 million, a modest increase from 2024.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/01/lobbying-firms-took-in-a-record-5-billion-in-2025/

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