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They have started. The MSM just isn't covering it and dem politicians don't signal boost it like GOP ones do for their side. Though what's happening now might not meet your definition of mass, but again, lack of coverage and signal boosting.

God forbid they live in Florida too where the max you can receive is $250 a week!!!

Not with the recession they are manufacturing

Not to mention the sudden, unanticipated strain on federal and state UI resources. But are there collective actions? Are there knowledge worker unions' lawyers acting? Are there thousands of wrongful dismissal lawsuits? Are whole departments of laidoff employees showing up at constituency offices?

The US benefited for years from the... I don't even want to call it brain-drain, really because a lot of very educated people fled to this country and grabbed whatever job they could find to escape their homeland. But the US benefited from that for decades, and is now gonna see the tide out.

The unemployment numbers will skyrocket but we won’t hear about it from MSM or cowards in the government. We’ll hear it from friends and neighbors. We’ll hear it from each other.

Ahhh yes—historically what have we seen when the educated middle class is squeezed to the point of breaking? **hears Les Mis “Do You Hear The People Sing” wafting in the air and start humming along**….and I don’t even like musicals. 😬

States will be scrambling with cuts and chaos when the feds delete medicaid, unfortunately

Any info they have won't be worth much - Tulsi Gabbard will give it away for free.

Trump already sold our secrets.

That has crossed my mind…

previous allies then

They will just freeze passports, deny travel etc etc.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

When do we ask the big question: are they destabilizing on purpose? Do they intend to use the chaos to fully restructure the nation? Are they selling us out to high bidders?

I'll say this: the response will absolutely be home-grown and grassroots, because anybody else would have Done Something by now.

Corporations in the midwest have been doing this for the last 30 years....replacing talent and skill with sycophants. They were ready for this moment and have been slowly chipping away since the 60s.

Even the French Revolution was basically caused by unemployed journalists.

look at the ringleaders of basically every major modern revolution

That is not my experience with the USPS but I was also told that newer hires were getting a rawer deal.

Even the more hateful agencies are probably not going to be super-enthused about "do our bidding by shooting civilians so that we can finish our mission of clawing back all of your benefits and throwing your mother off Medicare". Naked self-interest kicks in at some point.

I agree, but also: it’s literally only February. Not even warm out

For the tech sector this has been going on for a few years. Massive layoffs at big tech are not followed by hiring. Lots of jobs advertised, but it’s mostly smoke and mirrors. A LOT of experienced, senior leaders cannot get a job in tech. Now this…

exactly

Couple that with the fact that many universities have hiring freezes due to funding cuts and it’s going to be even worse.

Elite overproduction is THE major cause of political instability, according to Turchin and Goldstone.

America forgot how to hire in the Great Recession, and never remembered.

It's also likely that there will be layoffs generally (regardless of this). Tariffs, uncertainty, people cutting spending to companies licking boots. Households will likely curb discretionary spending, which will be cascade through the system.

IIRC, unemployment is run by states. So...variable....

Hey, now! Cybertrucks aren’t rolling garbage cans! Except on clean, dry, level surfaces.

There already a surplus of white-collar middle / upper-middle management. This ... will not end well.

High unemployment on top of everything else, here we go

Sounds like an express ticket to the increasingly-erroneously-named Cool Zone...

They’re are gonna invent liberalism

That’s the point. It reduces the bargaining power of the workforce. Low unemployment during the Biden years was a huge problem for capital.

I mean... It led to some fairly robust space programs in countries the scientists moved to when their own were collapsing... Dear China, please enjoy these scientists. We don't deserve them anymore. 😞

You mean they won't just hop into the private sector and be productive with big salaries? How ever did that happen? (/S)

this is the funniest part, for me. like did you think every single one of the scientists and engineers and techs clearly laid off without cause would be like "oh well! luckily i am exactly sheldon cooper and i will be doing nothing, cowardly". Fat chance