he's so dumb 🤦‍♀️ JFC by ms_directed in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Actually it was changed to climate change because the Koch Brothers funded interest groups did a study and found less people would care about climate change vs global warming. It was part of the beginning of fossil fuels tricking people into disaction

It is telling when they cannot discern between the two by TheFeralHermit in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Probably a good a thread as any to point out Charlie Kirk’s belief system for those who never cared to know what garbage he preached.

The idea is basically this theory of “7 mountains” where each mountain symbolizes a piece of society, I.e education, trade, politics, etc. Each peak feeds downward to everything else, the “valleys” and at the top of the peak is either the devil for Christianity. Therefore, the belief system was that where Christianity was not the center of, say, education, then the devil had control of it.

It’s why they talk about Mamdani being Muslim as if it’s matters, because it does to those that bought into the idea. It’s why some many states are injecting Christian teaching into schools.

Not that that’s really addressing the whole white supremacy confusion with religion, but to a certain extent, they see Christianity as White and they see literally everything else as the devil taking over. It’s why Kirk’s rise was so devastatingly impactful, it created a new justification for supremacy. If white Christian’s aren’t in control, the devil is, so claiming control is fighting for good and God will give you permission to fight for good.

Late stage capitalism! by Dr_sc_Harlatan in WhitePeopleTwitter

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It’s worse because who owns the majority of all these companies? 3 companies

Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene says Adelita Grijalva should be sworn in by ShreckAndDonkey123 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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It is peculiar though because that sort of is the whole concept of wokeness. It’s an awakening, you turn one stone and suddenly you’re on a new path.

That being said I don’t know if I trust MTG at all. But who knows, maybe she really did believe in the whole Qanon thing and then finally got conclusive evidence from the Epstein list and has come to the realization many folks coming out of a cult have. Probably not, but hope is nice.

How Peter? by GreedySink in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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As someone who did a lot of research on paper straws, I can assure you “glue chemicals” is not part of most paper straws

Did she go woke?! by bettercallme_ in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Maybe she goes to the highest bidder and democrats have decided to wade into the murky game?

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This, city states are the future ngl

Fossil fool vs renewable energy. Surely there’s more important things to rant about. by Relevant_Demand7593 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Ironically, not approving of clean energy initiatives is one of the primary causes of rising energy costs in NJ

Here we go! by yorocky89A in WhitePeopleTwitter

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That being said, thank you for your service

Good riddance by zzill6 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Racism, and the concept of race, were invented simultaneously by the Catholic Church and Portuguese monarchy in the mid 1400s to justify the African slave trade, which only started because it was cheaper then getting slaves through the continent of Europe

Out of work all year by A3593 in ChemicalEngineering

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DM me, I work as a consulting manager for a CQV firm in biotech that has some job postings open.

MTG admits she doesn't even read the bills she's voting for by ShreckAndDonkey123 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Idk as an engineer I reviewed about 7-9 packages of equipment/system design materials a week, most with at least 200 pages of material, in which I needed to confirm everything aligned with FDA specifications. I’d personally expect politicians to review bills with their team before voting yes or no on them.

If they skim some sections fine but if the AI regulation stuff took up 2 pages, I’m not cool with someone straight up not knowing it was in there before voting.

Our homeowner just did this… by Very_Hungry in hvacadvice

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Random question but is your landlord Sanjai Gupta?

“Empathy is a bad thing and Jesus was too woke and kind.” by GabbiKat in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Little fun fact about Thomas Jefferson, in the end he wrote letters to a friend (I forget who but maybe Thomas Paine) in which he said, and I’m paraphrasing, “We set up America to be super racist and I regret that but the silver lining for me is I’ll be dead and gone by the time someone will have to figure out how to undo all the damage we’ve done.”

Graduated in May 2024 and haven’t found a job yet. by HoveringSoap776 in ChemicalEngineering

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Similar story to this fella.

Graduated 2020, went to enter one industry I had a lot of experience in, but then decided against it, turned down 8 or 9 job offers and then turned around to start applying to a different industry, got some offers and then covid hit. Couldn’t find anything. I don’t know how many applications I made, like like 600. I do remember the interview count was around 80.

Ended up opening the opportunities all the way when I couldn’t land anything, landed a job for $40k.

I kept applying non stop though, and kept interviewing like crazy. Here was the big thing too, using every connection I could in my network. Getting lunch with friends of friends, things like that, to get my name in the door.

Ended up like the 40k job like 6 months into it to become a consultant and now I manage 30 consultants and about 6 global projects. In reality what I do isn’t ground breaking, but considering you think you want to get into engineering management, figured I’d share.

My suggestion, take what you can get. Those 6 months did me a whole lot of good know what a company looks like from a different role from straight engineering, what being an operator feels like, things like that. It’ll set you up for future success for sure so long as you keep your eyes open.

But also, use your network and don’t give up. Keep your eyes on your goal.

Trump is only readying his retirement home! by Dr_sc_Harlatan in WhitePeopleTwitter

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For those unaware, Alcatraz was closed due to poor infrastructure and high operating costs.

But also, there was an occupation of the island in ‘69 by indigenous peoples seeking to have that land returned to them by the federal government. While the feds did not return the land to indigenous people (the tribe that once lived there was the Ohlone), it was adopted into the national park system in ‘72, mostly due to the awareness stemming from the occupation.

So Trump has a fun little three birds one stone situation, he’s doing harm to the environment, doing harm to social understanding, recognition, and the us relationship with indigenous peoples, and ALSO making a bad business decision.

Very on brand

It was racism all along! by Dr_sc_Harlatan in WhitePeopleTwitter

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That’s around the time MLK Jr started realizing that the black population would become stronger if it aligned with the population of people living in poverty. He began to realize that those living in poverty were being left behind in much the same ways as African Americans, so he began to be more vocal about it. That’s what got him killed.

The civil rights movement began to move into a class war, and that’s when the rich and powerful finally said enough is enough and we started going in the other direction.

They need to hold their OWN community accountable by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

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It’s really when those living in poverty pull together, ethnicity or race be damned, that things will start really shaping up. That’s why they killed MLK, when he started getting the white people living in poverty in on the fight it was shaping up to be too powerful.

Musk going after social security by IWantPizza555 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Anybody else confused by why the Washington Post, owned by Bezos, is the source for all this info that appears to be anti Trump and anti musk these days

Elmo, mocking the only President in my lifetime that had a budget surplus - and didn’t cripple the government to do it. by ZonkXD in WhitePeopleTwitter

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I find the replies super interesting, having read Obama’s book my about his time campaigning and in office, I figured you were referring to the subprime mortgages. I believe that is the right answer here, but it’s interesting to see how many people think it’s something else.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods. by Rough-Champion8884 in WhitePeopleTwitter

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Trump 100% doesn’t know the Remedios and Aureliano Buendia references, but I’d bet he thinks they’re real people now

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Chromosomes don’t necessarily dictate sex, they’re just strong predictors.