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Cake day: December 2nd, 2024
  • darthinvidious@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How can Americans view their soldiers' deaths as tragic events, despite the U.S. initiating wars and killing other countries' civilians without justification?
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    2 months ago

    It’s ingrained in their culture. From very young, the education system has indoctrinated the belief that their wars were justified and have romanticized the means because the ends promised a better future. They just left out the relevant parts that they eventually manipulate because if they told people the real reasoning, people wouldn’t “fight” for the causes.

    The instinctively blind and gullible, short-sighted “patriots” follow the orders they are given because they refuse to see beyond their cult. They buy into the promise and because the story they were told was nice and pretty, they conflate everything and are manipulated into serving the corrupt evil they should be destroying. It’s ironic.

    I can understand how people in those circles want to pay respect and may even find some attachment to the idea because someone they were close to got involved in the same cult, but at some point you need to have some kind of moral compass that tells you what you’re doing is wrong. You need to separate the idea from the reality. They don’t.

    ranting

    To these people, they live their lives as sheep, blindly trusting the patriotic stories being told to them and repeating the same mistakes as those before them. Patriotism is a dangerous mindset. The west likes to romanticize war in every fashion. War is not just and war is not pretty. No matter what. People see the headlines and want to believe “they’re just defending themselves” but that doesn’t justify what happens afterwards.

  • darthinvidious@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Times you knew it was time to find a new job?
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    5 months ago

    I don’t necessarily hate my coworkers but the place is so small that things get mismanaged, not enough budget, people being shoehorned into management where they don’t fit, and overall just a lot of not having anything being standardized.

    There’s very little room to make any significant contributions because management won’t listen to you. You might think in a small place there would be wiggle room and a willingness to listen to folks because we all know each other, but here it’s just more of the bigger corporate “don’t rock the ship” mentality and again the bad management that were grandfathered into their position don’t want to be challenged. It’s pathetic.

    Also, because it’s so small, there’s little room for growth beyond whatever maybe very specific thing you wanted to get out of the job, but after that? You don’t move up, things (again) don’t change because people have gotten used to just barely stringing things together even though when you have to go through it all, people are still wearing multiple hats and the people that should be trying to standardize things so that there’s efficient interactions and cohesion don’t do it because AGAIN, those fuckers don’t know what they’re doing. They’re needed for a very specific responsibility and just so happened to be tacked on as a manager as well.

    So done with this shit. Fucking hate working at SMBs.