Honestly, the idea of applying for a job going in cold over the Internet sounds like a horrible experience.
It does sound that way, but in my very limited experience it worked out rather well.
Current gig is the only one in my professional career where I didn’t get a foot in the door by word of mouth, and aside from it being scary, it wasn’t really that different. Got me a low 6 figure 100% remote work gig a few years back and I love it. But again, this is a sample size of 1.
I don’t disagree with a lot of what you wrote, other than the end:
All this means I really only feel like it’s valid to judge JK as if she were the somewhat bigoted person she originally was, rather than today’s turbo-Nazi version of her.
I disagree, we can judge her on the choices she made that brought her to this point. She chose to engage with negative criticism with hostility and surrounded herself with people who validated the beliefs and behaviors that culminated in where we are today.
She could have chosen to remove herself from those situations instead of jumping in with both feet, but there would have been a social/ego cost to it, so she continued letting herself be radicalized into the hateful thing she has become.
And I judge her as someone having almost walked a similar path. I was on the alt-right pipeline over a decade ago when they were getting their feet underneath themselves, and I had a combination of self-awareness/shame that helped me come to my senses.
I was when I was enlistment age, and I told the recruiter to go fuck himself when they came asking, and then to go find a squadmate to assist if he couldnt follow the directions himself when he didn’t like the first answer.
I had enough combat vets in my life to know what was up. No glory seekers, only people who saw the brutality first hand.
Are you upset that you can’t refute the 100% accurate point?
The troops are pretty much there to go kill or die for some billionaire’s profits, and Smedley Butler said as much decades ago and it’s only gotten worse since. Once they get the killer robots working, they’ll cut out the troops and not have to worry about people complaining about pay.
Must be why they want to pump even more tax payer money into the un-auditable pentagon.
Ha, just kidding, we’ll hand it out to cronies and make up some story because fuck those corpses’ families
“Look, I know I screwed up and waaaaaay undersentanced this diddler, but how tf you think I’m gonna change my mind now? Just change my ruling? I don’t make the rulings, I just think them up and write them down! It’s out of my hands”
I disagree with the idea that she needed to be on Twitter and engage in twitter arguments. There was moderate criticisms of her across the net, the fact she WILLINGLY chose to engage in an opinion cesspool that let her drown in shit is her own goddamned fault.
Plenty of other people hired someone to deal with their social media accounts because they didn’t want to subject themselves to socially-acceptable-4chan, she chose to chug sewage straight from the pipe despite having plenty of money and the connections to have it. Honestly, her not engaging with criticism with hostility would have done wonders for the whole situation.
If all it took to turn a terf into a bigot was to give the author some moderate criticisms about the systemic failings of their world building to turn them into a Nazi, I think the only solution is to prevent terfs from becoming authors.
Either that or we need to accept that this was always going to be the outcome of some privileged rich white idiot who can’t handle the slightest bit of pushback who’d rather cozy up to Nazis than admit that maybe her writing isn’t perfect.
Why is that ghost walking through the forest?
*pocket emeralds
Good, you can get the same exp the rest of us have to deal with from both coworkers and clients.
Nothing like getting a slopmail with some dumbass ai answer not even remotely related to the issue at hand.
“Why didn’t you go against the customer’s wishes and dig through their data after being told to proceed with the task you were told to do? You could have extorted them while showing you were willing to violate their privacy and steal a customer’s data!”
FTFY
The genesis of this specific comic is not nazis, it’s the grey shirt man.
We can agree to disagree, because I’ve seen this behavior happen more from accounts that have a suspicious history of complaining about this sort of thing while also promoting Nazi or white supremacist adjacent rhetoric more than from normal ignorant people. Concern trolling is one of their main methods of changing the narrative, and I don’t particularly care if some ignorant fuck is lumped in with the Nazis when they’re whining about people making fun of Nazis.
Hopefully you can now understand why no one cares what Nazi defenders say, whether it’s explicit defense or an attempt to stop people from making fun of an active threat to the freedom and lives of many people. If not, feel free to block me and fuck off to somewhere else.
My dude, try to give more than a modicum of thought to the context of the conversation, and a bit more on reading comprehension.
The thread started with the user stating that someone riled up pizza cake, my comment was pointing out the obvious was that it was the Nazis that got under her skin, which was likely the genesis of the comic itself. And when I was asked why I would assume it was the nazis that riled her up, I mockingly pointed out how likely it totally is that she’d lash out at someone other than who got under her skin.
Try to go back to my comments, and you’ll notice I said nothing about her stance on the grey character in the comic, only talking about the meta of the comic. Your comment is a not really relevant to the conversation at hand.
Why are you assuming they were nazis that annoyed her?
Yeah, people are notorious about getting riled up by one group, and blaming some other, random group. Clearly, when someone is upset at a specific group, someone else must have actually upset them.
Anything to not make the clear and obvious connection, huh? Man, some people around here denser than osmium…
So do I, and that was 2 minutes ago when I read this comic and all the butthurt children crying in the comments.
and not just a disguise for being an asshole.
Go cry more snowflake, or try to find something you don’t feel attacks your poor widdle feewings. If you think she’s being an asshole, that says a whole lot more about you than her. Mainly it tells everyone that you feel seen in the comic, so good job telling on yourself.
comic makes fun of Nazis
You state someone got under the artists skin, congratulating them
You congratulated Nazis for getting under the authors skin. It’s totally unguessable why someone would come to that conclusion.
If you can’t put two and two together, you may need to go back to school and study remedial “how to not be an oblivious Nazi supporter”.
Might just be pockets of queers having a good time. My friend group is made up of broken queers trying to stay sane in this hell hole
I’d rather be poor than feed my body to the war machine. I’m not well off by any means, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have principles.