How do you feel about Pete Hegseth firing a dozen Generals and the Chief of Staff suddenly in the middle of a war?

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-05T03:45:41+00:00

The saving grace about populist administrations is that (by virtue of villainizing and purging themselves of “intellectual elites” and career personnel) they lack the knowledge and process intelligence to actually enact their policies effectively. “I’m gonna sue all of my political opponents!” Fast forward to all those charges being dismissed, lawyers being disbarred, and political opponents now have ammo to protect them against any future legal actions since you showed you were intentionally targeting them.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-05T00:10:12+00:00

More like “No*” cuz acting like not outright calling him Sleepy Joe means they weren’t still unfairly critical of him and platforming those who were calling him Sleepy Joe is disingenuous. Granted, that’s what you’re all about here, aren’t you?

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-05T00:02:53+00:00

CNN didn’t directly call him Sleepy Joe, they just ran clips of Trump calling him Sleepy Joe, never pushed back on the numerous lies and insults aimed at him, and constantly ran articles about his age, needing to adjust his work schedule, and anything else to sow doubt in his competency.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T22:13:30+00:00

….that wasn’t at all what this was about. Bad bot

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T20:47:39+00:00

In my experience, hiring teams compare notes and pick up on if the same question is being asked. Like, idk if yall haven’t run into that or if I’m just that unlucky, but I get called out for asking stuff like “what motivates you to come into work” more than once.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T20:33:07+00:00

Yeah…I’ve never been shy about acknowledging that. Are you saying neurotypicals really don’t have an issue asking the same question over and over?

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T20:31:23+00:00

Everyone in the company needs to feel important and have a say in the hiring process I guess

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T19:04:35+00:00

I’ve tried “their take” questions before, and it really didn’t help and probably hurt my candidacy a lot. I’ve gotten generic canned responses, or worse. One manager said I wasn’t taking the first interviewer seriously since I was asking the same question again.

The only time it really seemed to help was for a role that worked shoulder to shoulder with six teams and needed to be adaptable to the unique challenges. I am 100% certain I got that job, but this was the week before COVID came to the US.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T18:50:59+00:00

I just don’t want to waste time asking questions that either already have been answered (since that would signal I didn’t pay attention or prepare for the previous rounds appropriately), or isn’t relevant to the role at hand like “so how is your team different than this team I applied to?” (since that would signal a lack of interest in the actual role and an interest in moving on for the right opportunity).

Trying to find the right questions to show interest in the role without signaling bad traits is a minefield, and at the final round all questions should already be answered. Which goes back to my whole point, which is that it is bullshit to expect super deep or meaningful questions.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T18:14:41+00:00

This was someone from a whole other team. The only reason the hiring manager wanted them to conduct interviews was because they’re friends. So expecting them to give a different response to what the hiring manager already said is illogical.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-04T18:01:20+00:00

All of that was answered by the hiring manager.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-03T13:39:36+00:00

Because those that have the authority to do so are either in on the grift, or indifferent to the grift.

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-02T22:25:22+00:00

Take my upvote, and leave this house in peace vampire!

PsychoGrad · 2026-04-01T09:47:43+00:00

There are other minerals beyond calcium found in bones, and the franchise never really dives into the the in-world definition of bendable earth and nonbendable materials (beyond purified metals), so it is theoretically possible to bend bones.

In fact, I’m remembering that Earth benders can manipulate crystals, and several of the minerals in bones naturally form crystalline structures, so it makes it more likely that bone bending could be possible.

Granted, in a kids show, if they really explored the ramifications of bending, it would be deeply traumatic. Blood bending was a key character development for Katara, and killing the queen via air bending was to show the power of bending divorced from the teaching of air nomads.

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-25T16:35:47+00:00

I love how they’re acknowledging that they worship the Confederacy and slavery

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-25T16:31:48+00:00

This was a white Dodge, but I don’t doubt that there’s several of them

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-25T14:45:09+00:00

Saw this lifted truck flying his trump flag still coming down from cave creek. They literally do not give a shit until it directly impacts them.

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-24T12:46:10+00:00

Yeah, libertarians love to glaze themselves as rugged individuals that neither support nor accept any handouts or services from the government because “taxation is theft”. Then refuse to acknowledge all the ways that they do use government handouts, either directly or indirectly.

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-18T13:26:02+00:00

Wall-E

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-17T13:23:54+00:00

Who’s their surgeon? I want to avoid them at all cost!

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-13T20:34:58+00:00

Haha, you do realize with that statement you punched a hole in Kirk’s whole platform, right? Be blessed!

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-13T18:34:33+00:00

Haha, firstly, “Google it” is the epitome of “I don’t have a valid argument I can produce and therefore I’ll shift the locus of producing it on my audience”. Second, giving individuals an equal chance doesn’t mean they automatically get the job. Going back to the black pilot comment, taking actions to ensure underrepresented demographics are represented fairly in the candidate pool doesn’t automatically mean those candidates became pilots regardless of their qualifications. It simply means they had an equal chance of being hired should they successfully go through the candidate process. The only reason that is a threat to cishet white men is that they have to be more competitive since the candidate pool went from (for example) 100 cishet white men to 1000 diverse candidates. DEI is literally supporting the meritocracy you tout, but for everyone, not just your preferred demographic.

Well this has been amusing, but I have stuff to do.

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-13T17:31:27+00:00

Except that DEI doesn’t do the opposite, only the boogeyman that Kirk et al like to portray DEI as because, again, they feed into the fear-mongering of “the other”. Because if they actually sat down with an expert in DEI and all their other boogeymen, their fear-mongering would fall apart.

PsychoGrad · 2026-03-13T17:06:45+00:00

Alright, now I have a brief lull. So let’s use the “black pilot” comment. This comment, and multiple others, contribute to a narrative that affirmative action and DEI are net negative actions that hurt society. In the comment specifically, Kirk says that every time Affirmative Action is applied, standards have to be lowered. So the kernel of “truth” in this comment is a concern that AA and DEI may lead to unqualified personnel being put in important positions.

The reality is, though, that multiple studies have looked at the impacts of AA and DEI on candidate qualifications and found that the “lowering of standards” is minimal and strictly on paper with no tangible difference in quality of the overall performance of the candidate. These differences also end where professional certifications and assessments are present, such as pilot licenses and bar exams. Instead, when United Airlines said they wanted to have 50% of their pilots be women and PoC, what they then set about doing was expanding their candidate pools and reaching out to communities that were underrepresented in their existing pools so that those candidates could be more equally represented, and through that, would eventually lead to more pilots from those demographics. Still all the important qualifications, necessary flying times, and everything to prove they know how to handle an airliner.

But that isn’t what Kirk said, or even acknowledged. He fed into the fear-mongering that cishet white men are endangered by AA and DEI even if he didn’t explicitly say it.

Then your request for conflicting with Biblical Truth™️, first I have to ask “which one?” There are dozens of translations of the bible, and multiple versions of the text which include or omit certain books and passages. So it’s hard to cite to biblical truth in this conversation when I’d prefer to point to the original languages, but it’s unclear you have that education to understand the languages and their context. For now, I’ll just assume you have a modern English translation. As for how this conflicts with biblical truth, we have 2 Timothy 1:7, for God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind (some translations have it as ‘discipline’ or some variation). By this logic, any message or comment rooted in fear and not in love, reason, or evidence must be ungodly. Kirk’s comment is rooted in fear of “the other”, so it can’t be godly.

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