I've always found a certain irony in the dotcom workers who complain about both labor unions and jobs disappearing overseas and about crappy work done by outside contractors
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Most of the people I know who work in IT are in their 20's and 30's. Most of them think the reason they work where they do, is because they are young and brilliant. None of them think that it has anything to do with young people being cheaper (especially with health benefit costs) of someone twice their age with twice the experience. All of them will have some serious issues in 20 years when they find the tech industry is still overrun with 20 and 30 yo's, and none of them, as genius as they are, can get a job. Why, because they didn't have a union to back them.
Together we stand, divided we fall.
As for the plushies, for sure, I collect plushies as decor for parties like BM and stuff. Discovered years ago they make great decor! And since every time I take a bunch somewhere, one or two end up going home with a random tripper, I'm always having to restock. Would love to give yours a new home! Just need to figure out how to get them...
Rant? What rant? What you expressed [quite well, BTW] was reasoned fact. I am a Republican and I have seen a party that once proposed reasonable legislation turn into a party of hate-spewing wing-nuts that make me ashamed to be associated with them I want my darned party back!
[MY party, remember it? The one that kept out of my private life; that could compromise; that warned against the military industrial complex gaining too much power; that believed in 'trust but verify'; that wanted to fund scientific advancement & an end to engaging in foreign wars? THAT party! The one that ceased to exist after Nixon's 1st term.]
I think what's happened is that the democratic party has moved to the right (there's still some left-wing members) and many would have been considered republicans a couple decades ago. After the fundamentalists started taking over the party it went down hill. Ronald Reagan is far to the left of many of these wing nuts. They've mostly pushed the moderates out of their party.
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Together we stand, divided we fall.
As for the plushies, for sure, I collect plushies as decor for parties like BM and stuff. Discovered years ago they make great decor! And since every time I take a bunch somewhere, one or two end up going home with a random tripper, I'm always having to restock. Would love to give yours a new home! Just need to figure out how to get them...
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[MY party, remember it? The one that kept out of my private life; that could compromise; that warned against the military industrial complex gaining too much power; that believed in 'trust but verify'; that wanted to fund scientific advancement & an end to engaging in foreign wars? THAT party! The one that ceased to exist after Nixon's 1st term.]
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