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Weydemeyer

@ Weydemeyer @lemmy.ml

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  • How can I explain that my last workplace was in a cult without seeming unprofessional?

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  • I am going to go against the grain of conventional advice and say you should just outline it like you did here. I have been in the position of hiring people before. I much prefer to know the real reason why someone left a company. Granted, if someone says “my boss was an asshole”, I would probably just see that as likely making excuses. But, if someone says “I left because I was subjected to verbal and emotional harassment by my boss, and if you want me to provide specific examples I can do so”, that’s actually information I would prefer to know. I think your situation falls into that later example for sure.

    The idea that you should never speak ill of a former employer regardless of the circumstances IMO is bad advice.

  • I'm cautious about bloggers who profess to reveal "the truth" but, to my inexpert eyes, much of the damage done on 7 October 2023 was not consistent with the hand-held weapons of Hamas.

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  • Regarding the music festival, Asa Winstanley with The Electronic Intifada has done excellent work. Western media really just bought Israel’a line *we must immediately bury all these cars and any other physical evidence of the festival forever before anyone can investigate further because reasons…”

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • You’re talking about simple conquest. By that definition any offensive side in a war is imperialist, which is nonsensical as that means nearly every war in human history involved at least one “imperialist” power.

    Imperialism is system of establishing and maintaining hegemony over large areas for the benefit of an elite (capital in modern times, patricians in ancient times, etc) within a metropole (probably too simple of a definition but it works). The Romans were an empire not just because they had an emperor and not because they conquered lands, but because they controlled lands from Spain to Syria and wealth flowed from those lands into Rome.

  • NSFW

    What's the hardest addiction you've tried to break or are trying to break?

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  • Damn straight

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  • I support the DPRK but tbh their flag is kinda mid.

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • Invading / starting a war is not the same thing as imperialism.

  • What is your opinion on Libertarianism?

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  • I share most of the opinions expressed about it already expressed in this thread, so I’ll add one: whenever I’m exposed to libertarian media (podcasts, articles, etc), I’m really struck by just how surface-level the analysis is. It’s like, for anything going on in the world, they simply try to tie it back to “biG gOvErNmENt” and shoehorn everything into that. They won’t even show their work of how they get from A to B. I get that once you start applying dialectical materialism to your analysis of the world around you, other analyses can seem vulgar. But tbh even your typical liberal worldview seems more thought out than libertarians.

    As an example, a libertarian I know was complaining about how California is going eliminate plastic carrier bags at supermarkets. I just asked “ok, then how else are we going solve the problem of plastic bags everywhere?” They just sorta shrugged off the question and said the government has no business banning bags.

    I actually was a libertarian briefly a long time ago. It was the fact that it offers no real solutions for the biggest problems we face as a species was why I eventually abandoned it.

  • Google Can't Stop Being Evil

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  • Reading about Google’s proactive involvement with the IOF in Gaza is truly sickening.