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so Trump 2.0’s war on every single non-evil job did destroy my career and traumatize me a lil bit, but the thing is that, like many people in my position, I’m quite capable of synthesizing that trauma into a single-minded thirst for revenge

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Russell Vought has earned my hatred for life, not that he cares. they haven't come for my job quite yet and I'm so relieved that I can still do work that isn't either exploiting someone else or being exploited, which sometimes seem like the only two options

Really feeling the Yamamoto quote about "awakening a sleeping giant" lately. We are through the shock and fear phase and are now deep into the "every grandma and gentle parenting dad is vibrating with bloodthirst for revenge at levels I did not realize were possible"

I remember seeing on Reddit a guy saying he thought every pop culture portrayal of an engaged pacifist as a chilled out dude who just doesn't get upset was the opposite of real life. Real engaged folks are, as you say so evocatively, vibrating with rage all the time and barely containing it.

Them too! My family is American (I immigrated to Canada in 2012) and even my bullshit "politics is for suckers, they're all scum" dad is weighing Democratic primary choices for 2028. This is a guy who went anti-vax during COVID (he's not stupid just got Facebook'd) and even he is ticked and engaged.

I sincerely feel like Minnesota is where the high water mark for Trumpism crashed against the rocks and was rebuffed. Truly inspiring stuff happening there and we are all rooting for you. As a Canadian, we really vibe with "polite northerly types who you simply do not want to fuck with" lol

They just spent the entire weekend attacking a country known globally for being nice and polite for no good reason other than to shake them down like a bunch of mobsters. I really do not think that's going to go over well with most people. Even Maga has to be like "The Canadians? Really?"

I thought I would be fine with just watching the GWB administrators pass one by one, but now I have to live long enough to see state power to regulate food safety and water and power regulation normalized again and not given out as personal fiefdoms based on how much money they donated to Klan Trump

been thinking a lot lately about how two of my thirteen years in the private industry I've spent working for straightforwardly amoral and/or dumbfuck men. I will sacrifice just about anything if it means I can shift the world away from these bastards

Tell me about it--DOGE and Trump 2.0's war on federal employees drove me out of a fulfilling VA medical provider position after 5+ years, and I swore then that the only way I'd work for the US government again was as a literal Chekhist chasing down as many of these bastards as they'll let me.

I lost my job to Medicaid cuts last month.The upside is I no longer have to muzzle myself so as not to piss off government officials. If this administration wanted a lot of pissed off people who know how to get things done, mission accomplished. I have nothing better to do than make good trouble.