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Yeah I'm not excited about *this* administration prosecuting Bolton, but at least he's very likely broken some laws, unlike the other wildly dissimilar people listed
Seems like you're imagining one right now
I cannot imagine having the hypocritical mindlessness to post a sentence that starts with "midwiving fascism" and ends with how you wouldn't care about someone being imprisoned because they were a bad political candidate
What actions are you talking about?
Fair enough, sorry for jumping at you unfairly
...so why the fuck would I worry about going to the protest or not? I might get targeted for posting on here or being a Dem donor or just having a Portland zip code, or for something else that isn't even true
I do not think that would be super easy actually, they would get so much of that shit wrong and it would make them even more unpopular
Things like the No Kings protests help with the elections path. I'm not sure a general strike (even if you could actually organize it) even helps with the other one.
I think the problem here is thinking there must be a "we win" button out there and we're just not pressing it. Like...broadly speaking, there are two ways out of this: elections or not (not elections being a *very* broad and scary term)
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there is no world in which it is unsafe to attend a no-kings protest, which my retired mother will be attending with her unitarian church group, and in which it is safe for either of us to have accounts on this website. you either really fucked up by even making this post, or you're larping.
>it's not that bad yet

Yeah, we definitely don't have concentration camps where they have sent US citizens and then deported them and we aren't black bagging protestors. At least it's not.....wait, what? We are doing that stuff and have been for months now? What the fuck
there is no world where the "don't sign up for a protest or take a picture at it!" shit is non-stupid advice for peaceful mass protest. if it is not that bad yet it's unnecessary, if it is That Time it is not nearly enough to protect you in a way that matters.
I am thankfully too old and married to be sure but I suspect it is much more the aversion from being rejected by a friend
I really do recommend an agency--a big upside is that they might reach out to you, you don't have to be constantly and specifically trying for jobs you get rejected for
Yeah it fucking sucks, and my personal time of rejection was only about 18 months
OK, I know "go get 'em and do your best blah blah blah" cannot possibly be a guarantee and I cannot promise that you will ever succeed, but deciding that you will always fail *is* self-fulfilling.
Actually if I have one piece of actionable not-abstract job advice, it would be to try a temp agency. You don't have to worry as much about getting stuck with a job you don't want and it can be a lot less soul-sucking then firing resumes into the abyss.
Assuming you saying job job was intentional, it didn't get me a *job* job either. But it got me in the door collecting a (temporary at first) paycheck.
A useful skill, but not one that guarantees you anything.
But its not like being a good typist is a job guarantee, and it is no longer particularly important to my day-to-day.
Everything is vague because the "system" is really millions of different jobs people get for a bunch of different reasons. If you go back far enough through my career line, the skill that got me hired for the job that led to the job that led to the job I have now, it was because I was a good typist.
That stinks, it very much sounds like you had a bad experience. I agree that the college system is not very well designed to onboard people who did not get what they needed out of earlier school
Well, I agree college is not a great place to start to learn to read or write, but that does not generalize to "college does not teach you anything"
And while, say, learning more about the Civil War did not help me get a job and I cannot point to which specific paper did or did not help me get me a job, being a better reader, writer, and speaker is absolutely valuable for just about every job I have done after graduating
They tell you to go read a book, you read the book, you talk about the book, and you write a paper about it. That's learning even if the prof did not tell you exactly what to learn from the book. And practicing the skill of writing an essay is learning even if you already knew how to write
It should be said I intentionally chose a smaller school with smaller classes in part for that reason, in a larger school with larger classes more of that would be offloaded to TAs. But in any event, there is some truth that college (and high school before it) are to some degree assigned learning
Based on the pace of these responses, it seems like you would do quite well on a speed test! There's a lot to unpack here: While I never took a college algebra class specifically, there were very few classes where I did not have at least some one-on-one time with the professor.