ITT: Americans once again diging up the nuanced difference between the people and the government from the memory hole they dumped it in the last time Russia was mentioned.
I mean, this is bait, but of course it's both. And I do genuinely mean both, the game of chicken isn't single player, but of the two, one side failed as citizens, and the other both as citizens and as professionals, who the first side literally pays to not let shit like this happen. That's the problem.
EDIT: It seems someone doesn't like being noticed.
EDIT2: It seems someone forgot not to use bot accounts on a "private" "family" server easily traceable to a full name, job, and private webpage, Mr. Senior Information Security Engineer.
But also, I don't think you realize it, but you just endorsed not voting Democrat. If your stance is to be taken seriously, and the democratic leadership "clearly can’t give two shits about what the voters want", then voting in your interest requires either swaying the Republican party, or starting a third party. And, considering the "moment to send a lesson" wasn't 2024, but 2016, and the lesson not only clearly wasn't learned, but seems to have gone entirely unnoticed and forgotten, I fear you may be right.
Frankly, "doing the actual work" is much less important than you'd imagine. I have yet to hear someone start with "I've been doing this job for..." and not end with something stupid.
Plenty of tredies know a lot, and I've met a bunch of tradesmen who did try uni but quit. But also, plenty of them have a need to tear down engineers because they feel threatened, and plenty more think an engineer is an idiot because he wants things done differently than "the right way" which is, of course, "how I've always done it".
Now that's an emotional rollercoaster of a sketch