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[–] ephemeral@hexbear.net 68 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"I'm interested in gender"

girl what the fuck does that mean

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She has a slider on her back that goes from rainbow capitalism to jk Rowling

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago

The full political spectrum, from Adolf Hitler (serious, gets things done) to Ernst Rohm (woke, progressive).

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago

she injects both estrogen and testosterone, not because she’s trans or anything, she just enjoys experiencing gender

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

bioessentialists think it means "i'm interested in sex panting "

[–] LangleyDominos@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

swirling wine glass at a professional function

Have you heard about the latest gender over at Goldman?

[–] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago

dracula-flow "We're smoking raw gender"

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This must own. Getting paid six figures while outsourcing your job entirely to ChatGPT.

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately the poster hasn't broken into the think tank market.

To do so you need to be subsidised by your wealthy parents to spend years at college, then years after doing unpaid internships and so on

[–] musicpostingonly@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

I too have no ideological backbone and just want to tell others what to do under the authority of law as well.

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Imagine announcing to the world that you have no values

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago

that just makes her perfect for the beltway tbh

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Holding a wine glass lmaoooooo

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a martini, even worse imo

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She knows what uniform to wear while determining what policy will enrich shareholders the most and how many working class lives will die for it.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are they really alive if they don't have an iv drip of 12 yr old boy plasma?

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago (8 children)

God forbid someone approach political science from a neutral perspective

In public opinion polling there is typically a neutral option and a greater portion of people consistently choose that option than identify as socialist so I suppose you also have to be brain dead to think socialism is an option

Let’s explore that. If I had no position, I cannot “do politics”?

I guess I’m not so conceited as to believe the only way to participate in politics is to state a position. Maybe I have more political experience than you. What I think is going on though is that I know most people don’t care what I think, they care what they think.

Many professional political positions require some amount of neutrality and yet I think of those positions as more influential than the dumbass children in this thread.

https://xcancel.com/aw_wally/status/1983563019599974402#m

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

"Would you eat this 2 week old hoagie I found in the back of my car?" I conducted a survey by randomly approaching people in the street with a 2 week old hoagie in my hand.

Polls:

Yes: 3%

No: 27%

Did not reply/told me to fuck off/called security/walked away as fast as they can/pepper sprayed me/pretended to be a deaf-mute: 70%

As you can see, the average person is neither for nor against eating a 2 week old hoagie, but rather a centrist 3rd answer.

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago

True neutrality is aligning yourself halfway between two bourgeois imperialist parties

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Many professional political positions require some amount of neutrality and yet I think of those positions as more influential than the dumbass children in this thread.

Wow, so insightful. And why do you think that is, Twitter user?

[–] into_highest_invite@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

having his example be the senate parliamentarian is killing me lmao. like not only are they senators but people only know or care who they are because one of them blocked a raise of the minimum wage

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

smuglord Umm excuse me, the very important job of being the excuse for why no one can have a decent quality of life specifically requires you to be good at pretending you believe in nothing. If you're not good at it, people might think that we're being ideological when we ruin their lives on purpose.

that's what kills me about the guy. he genuinely believes that makes it apolitical

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In public opinion polling there is typically a neutral option and a greater portion of people consistently choose that option than identify as socialist so I suppose you also have to be brain dead to think socialism is an option

In the Russian civil war purity test we did a few days ago I picked neutral a few times because I had no idea what the question really means. I guess that's largely how it works in opinion polling too.

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That shit was like "would you have eaten Borscht on the second bloody tuesday of 1907?"

mmmhmm yes how duplicitous!

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

neutral

Face the wall, centrist

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She thinks she fell from a coconut tree

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 week ago

she does not exist within the context

somehow this is way stupider with the context

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I ... The amount being said with each of these contradictory nothing statements is shocking. People who want things that are literally unspeakable to them is great.

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The brain capacity needed to form statements that actually mean something would prevent you from wanting to sincerely be a centrist.

No these are very carefully empty.

You can see the words they don't say, that they trace their way around with the ones they do.

I'm sorry you got brain melted by the job postings. Truly, I am. But experience = good is one of the biggest traps you can have in a business. If you have 4 years at the torture think tank, you can't just work at the not-murder initiative because "we didn't kill the people."

If you're neutral on genocide that says a lot. Neutral because people are annoying you says plenty when there's a clear right and wrong. MLK had words for the white moderate and they weren't exactly a letter of recommendation. Your ability to be hired by ghouls is antithetical to being worthy of my respect.

[–] LadyCajAsca@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's rhetoric like this that makes me not want to take your side. I'm in the middle because ya'll make political parties insufferable, immature, and act like POS towards us because we don't "fall into your category" or pick a side. I know what I believe, and want, so fuck you

A comment on the post..

Ah yes the centrist. If you are in the middle in America btw you are a centre-right at minimum. At minimum you might believe in some LGBTQIA+ rights, but not all, of course! You still believe in capitalism, and still have an anticommunist bias, but you're not a blatant fascist yet, but you are leaning that way.

This is why I am so suspicious of centrists because they tend to be either uninformed or just centre-right conservatives who masquerade as centrists because they truly don't care about changing the current neoliberal order, maybe they hate trump, but only because of the reasons the democrats do.

[–] UmmmCheckPlease@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tbf they probably have a better chance of landing their desired gig with that resume than I would with a decade of actual policy analysis. No employer wants actual policy analysis, let alone a thonk-tank, they just want you to agree with whomever gets paid the most.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago
[–] Salem@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Got me working like a claymation figure

[–] grendahlgrendahlgen@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

dracula-flow AHHH I'm gettin too much money

[–] LeninWalksTheEarth@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

paid twitter user? probably a bot then.

[–] YOuLibsWoulD@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

The real bots were the libs we made along the way.

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago
[–] sisatici@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

Are there any think tanks that don't claim to be close to political centre?