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@Nostre_damus It's the least that our middle class can do.

part of the Iran "deal" is the US pledging $300 Billion for the reconstruction of Iran there is just no way

@Nostre_damus Are you ready for 2.5 more years of this? Looting the Treasury takes some time.

Trump is back to demanding Iran surrender unconditionally

@Nostre_damus They have to believe it to keep the scam alive.

why does the market still believe this fake news like clockwork

@profstonge It's time for a financial reset.

81% of Gen Z says the economy is trash. Because GDP may be strong, but college and housing wiped out Gen Z while their wages froze. With AI coming for what’s left.

@HabitualLinest HR has morphed into an ungodly abomination and needs to be eliminated completely as a department. In almost all cases, operations managers (or adjacent positions) can and should address employee issues.

Young men, HR is your enemy 1. Never meet with HR 2. Record every interaction but preferably keep it in writing 3. If not in writing, follow up the meeting with an email recap of the meeting to document everything 4. Never date a woman who works in HR, no matter the company 5. It doesn't matter if you have the facts on your side. Facts do not matter to women

Paying off your mortgage eliminates your single largest monthly expense. On a $2,200/month payment, that's $26,400 a year you no longer need to generate just to break even. At a 4% withdrawal rate, that's the equivalent of having an extra $660,000 in your retirement portfolio. The paid off house doesn't show up on a brokerage statement. It shows up in how little you need to survive - and how much breathing room that creates for everything else.

@OwenBenjamin @RealJamesWoods

@RealJamesWoods There would be an exit wound and then you’d realize you just shot a patsy

Firing squad, but only if they are allowed to aim for the neck. He’s innocent until proven guilty, however. Blah, blah, blah.

@DerekCan96150 @adamtaggart That's the future. Those jobs in the trades will become some of the highest paying opportunities.

@adamtaggart Daughters is a NICU nurse and son is enrolling in trade school to be an electrician aspiring to start his own business. Couldn’t be prouder that they opted out of the usual business degree or some Poli-Sci bullshit.

Jeepers Nearly half of all new college graduates aren't able to find the kind of work they paid tuition for That does not bode well

@adamtaggart It doesn't make sense to send children to college right now unless they get scholarships. There's always demand in the trades and that will accelerate very quickly.

I worked in management at Amazon for 5 years and it was very similar there. They work you less hours than Meta, but those hours are extremely inconvenient and don't allow for a consistent life outside of work. Their management philosophy is to manage by fear, but they disguise that within leadership principles that all sound great, but the reality is you're rewarded for stabbing people in the back. The more your employees and coworkers fear you, the higher you rise in the organization. The same dynamic exists there. Just hold on until your stock vests, which isn't easy.

Meta was easily the most toxic company I've worked for. There's a reason the Chinese call it "Squid Game". Others refer to it as "Hunger Games" or "Lord of the Flies". I think they're all accurate. The company culture is basically every man/woman for themselves. The performance review process (PSC) not only doesn't incentivize helping others, if anything it actually discourages it since everyone is stack ranked against each other. Imagine working on a team where every 6 months, one of you is going to get axed. Of course it's going to become toxic. "Bottoms up" culture is a complete farce - it's just a way for leadership to offload accountability. The Tech Leads (TLs) have all the power - owning the relationships and tribal knowledge to gatekeep projects to their buddies. Managers are "people managers" with limited technical understanding, who basically aggregate TL feedback and create performance review packets to calibrate with other managers and IC7+. The takeaway is that your destiny is in the hands of the TLs, and TLs unlike managers have no responsibility for your career. There are no repercussions for unethical behavior. I've seen managers and TLs throw others under the bus and get away with it. The only mission bonding the company together is individual self-preservation. Save your own ass to survive for another stock vesting, and throw someone else under the bus if you need to. That's why layoffs rarely impact directors/VPs or tenured IC7+ despite the fact that they're paid by far the most. Even this recent mass layoff that was supposed to "flatten" managers layers barely affected directors/VPs/IC7+, and fell predominantly on M1s - the lowest rung of the management chain. The culture is extremely performative and focused on box ticking and optics. Everything is about PSC (the performance review system) and perception. This means tons of meetings, useless AI slop posts, and top-down initiatives that don't benefit anyone but maybe help tick off the impact box of some go-getter at the top. Impact is not enough - it has to have sufficient complexity. So complexity is added for complexity's sake. The org I was in (Facebook ads) is 90% Chinese, and the entire leadership chain up to the VP level is Chinese. Mandarin is the primary language at the office, except in official meetings with non-speakers. Chinese work culture is very different from American work culture, with 996 (9am-9pm, 6 days/week), top-down nature, emphasis on saving face (eg. don't question your superiors), and toxicity being quite common. Naturally when an org is completely dominated by a single ethnicity that's notorious for not integrating, elements from their work culture seep in. Of the layoffs I witnessed in this org, 3/4 were not Chinese (just to be clear, most Chinese are very kind so don't take this as an attack. But it is a reality that I think most people outside this company are completely unaware of, and I question if leadership is even aware despite the fact that we're talking about the company HQ) I had the most toxic manager of my life here. I watched him deliberately set up a new hire to fail, driving them to needing to see a psychiatrist for anxiety + depression, and getting them fired. Then he suddenly disappeared for 8 months, before leaving the company. I could go on and on, but this is already pretty long and I think you get the point. Yes there are a lot of great, kind people here. I managed to transfer out of my first team into a new team with a great manager where everyone was very smart, supportive, and hardworking. But the company has its Squid Game reputation for a reason. Company culture comes from the top. It seems leadership is either too removed to notice, or maybe don't really care anymore because I guess they already made their billions and us plebs are expendable these days.

@BuckSexton Agreed. This is gaslighting bs while he's raising electricity costs with his data center project.

Banish this dumb recurring Boomer lecture. People aged 20-50 aren't struggling with costs because of lattés and avocado toast. College costs 10X what it did for our parents. Average house price up 60% in 6 years. Health insurance doubled since ACA debacle. All policy choices.

@Jackkk No coffee for the peasants as he doubles your electricity cost.

Kevin O’Leary says people in credit card debt shouldn’t be buying coffee “If you have a credit card balance that goes into the next month and you’re spending $5 on a coffee, you’re crazy” “I’ll give you permission to buy a coffee for $5 if you have no balance on your credit card at the end of the month” “The reason I own all the credit card companies is people are paying 23% interest” “Why would you do that to yourself? I can’t make 23% in the market every year. Why would you let someone do that to you?” “So no, no coffees for you except the one you make at home for 19 cents unless you pay off your credit card”

@annvandersteel My thought is that nearly all elections run as they do in Chicago. Votes are cast, they see who is leading, then they manufacture whatever votes they need to get their chosen person to win.

Thomas Massie has lost his Republican primary race tonight. The Trump administration went all in to defeat him. SecWar Pete Hegseth made a rare campaign stop in Kentucky yesterday, personally stumping for Trump backed challenger Ed Gallrein just before the vote. On top of that, this became the most expensive House primary in US history with over $25 -$32 million dollars in ad spending. A huge chunk came from big pro Israel donors and groups (AIPACs UDP, RJC Victory Fund, Miriam Adelson linked PACs, Paul Singer, etc.) who poured millions into attacking Massie over his skepticism on unconditional foreign aid and certain Israel related policies. Massie’s independent streak clashing with Trump on spending, Epstein files, and endless foreign entanglements ultimately cost him the seat in Kentuckys 4th District. Voters were inundated with attack ads and now have spoken. New representation incoming. Thoughts?

@Nostre_damus The art of the grift.

Trump promised $2,000 tariff refund checks What we got instead was Trump & Sons forever exempt from tax audits Thanks for playing

@imelizabethlane 💯 It's obvious at this point and they don't care.

Elections are stolen in this country. I’m starting to believe that.

@jimrome Par for the course in the era of grift.

Ronda and Gina played us all...

@iheartmindy @IfindRetards 💯

@IfindRetards I think it's how they avoid having to literally sacrifice their first born sons....

Sting and his non binary child. Another celebrity with an alphabet kid. Do celebrities have a higher rate of having a alphabet kid? What's causing it?

@iheartmindy @Easy_living1 @JoeLombardoNV Agreed. You're setting a great example.

@InMJveritas @Easy_living1 @JoeLombardoNV United public outcry is the only thing that's going to stop them from raping all our natural resources in the name of mass surveillance.

The same exact corrupt Sheriff that helped cover up the Las Vegas sho*ting, that was installed as Governor in a primary he "won" where over 40,000 people couldn't vote due to a "DMV glitch..." ....is now pushing for Data Centers in Nevada in the middle of a water crisis. 🧐

@iheartmindy @Easy_living1 @JoeLombardoNV Kudos to you for trying to make a difference. 👏👏

@Easy_living1 @JoeLombardoNV Never forget, I ran for Congress against a bona fide wife beater that the GOP gave half $1 million to, to beat me in the primary that's now currently convicted of murder.

@TiffMoodNukes THEY really do LIVE all around us.

WAKE UP or stay asheep