It's something of a hobby of mine to comment on chirpy and progressive LinkedIn posts (about DEI or inclusion or non-profit funding) with dark (and realistic) rejoinders. If you don't have any specific career ambitions I highly recommend it. I don't think anyone has EVER replied to (or even acknowledged) by comments... but they definitely see them.
Recently some poor woman posted a long piece of advice about finding your center and work-life balance and not settling (typical feminist toxic positivity, applying a dating mindset to business) and I wrote something like: "I keep telling Rangoon rickshaw drivers and young Congolese cobalt miners this sort of thing... but they're just not getting it! It's probably because they never went to college... : ("
“LinkedIn is a spiritual abyss: the blandness, the saccharine nihilism, the happy banal HR sociopathy, and chirpy mewling optimism. It's the digital form of the American Psycho business card scene, with an updated progressive HR veneer, and way dumber dialogue.”-Dave Greenberg
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
Well, as I've written many times, the folks at WEF and all their spiritual followers are the type of people who read a dystopian novel or watch a dystopian film, and afterwards they close their eyes, nod a few times, and then say,
I'm your neighbor over in Alaska and I think I get it. But I wonder if Trump's approach is wrong? What if he stressed that to become the republic's 51st state would bestow the Bill of Rights upon all citizens of Canada and lawful residents of the provinces? Plus, their taxes would be lowered. Do you think more Canadians would think better of this idea?
OK for you Americans. The province of Quebec will have a referendum on separation from Canada in the near future.
This time I think the yes side will win. In 1995 the people of Quebec voted to remain in Canada by a slim margin of 50.5% to 49.5%. I would say they remained in Canada because we gave them control over their immigration, that, and the foreign born people residing in their province voted to stay.
Now, Trudeau in his lunacy has allowed over 10 million people, foreigners, into a nation of 40 million people during his nine year reign of terror. Those people, seeking economic opportunity are spilling across provincial borders into Quebec. Who could blame them!
And Quebec can’t stop them. They are Canadian citizens.
So here’s the separatist argument.
Canada has swamped its own culture and now that foolish decision will swamp out the Québécois culture if we remain in Canada. Paul StPierre Plamondon is the leader of the separatist Party Quebecois and is as strong a communicator as Barack Obama. It’s an easy sales pitch, and he’s a good salesman.
So the question is , have the Quebec people been demoralized sufficiently to vote against their own culture. Have they internalize the liberal bullshit about oppressor nations? do they care to save their culture or do they want to be citizens of the world?
Aaron Rodericks (he/him): "Nonetheless, user numbers are continually growing, engagement is high, and the less quantifiable “vibe” is palpable, largely thanks to take-up among high-profile individuals and publishers since the US election."
IOW: We're a better class of people, like Taylor Lorenz (ban/shee).
Yeah, I'm in Seattle just like that CEO – ironically never sunny, BlueSky only metaphorically; literally grey cloudy commissar country, over-caffeinated conformists galore.
<<Lumpedin is a corporate expo that never sleeps, celebrating nothing but conformity and the lowest common denominator of prescriptive consensus. A pit of sycophantic careerists oozing their saccharine praise of sophistry bestride middle management mendicants and "thought leaders".>>
I want to be safe from ever hearing ANYTHING I don't like. No one has the right to say it think anything I don't like. It is obviously my right to shut you up. How can anyone object to that? How can you undermine democracy if you're silenced?
It's easy to see why they demand censorship. Deep down they know that the stuff they're required to believe is stupid and indefensible.
Also crazy that Bluesky guy says that people will be free to not listen to someone else if they don't want to. Hey dolt, that's already the case. You are free to turn off the screen, or not listen to somebody. You can not follow someone or even block them on X.
LinkedIn founder - Reid Hoffman - just happens to be - like Joe Biden (& his speech writer Daniel Benaim), Antony Blinken, John Kerry, Alejandro Mayorkas, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell (& President Trumps new Secretary of the Treasury - Scott Bessent), George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Larry Fink, - just for openers - ALL members of the "COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS" - of which the President and Chairman of the (36) members of the CFR Board of Directors - David M. Rubenstein - was just bestowed by CFR member Biden with the "MEDAL of FREEDOM" to Rubenstein - an avowed One-World Government scumbag.
Just tried creating an account on bluesky to see what you are writing about. Very difficult to maneuver. Can't get my birthdate into it. Can't put a picture in as requested and picked one area of interest. Guess I'll find out at some point if I will get anything from the site. Very strange set-up.
It's something of a hobby of mine to comment on chirpy and progressive LinkedIn posts (about DEI or inclusion or non-profit funding) with dark (and realistic) rejoinders. If you don't have any specific career ambitions I highly recommend it. I don't think anyone has EVER replied to (or even acknowledged) by comments... but they definitely see them.
Recently some poor woman posted a long piece of advice about finding your center and work-life balance and not settling (typical feminist toxic positivity, applying a dating mindset to business) and I wrote something like: "I keep telling Rangoon rickshaw drivers and young Congolese cobalt miners this sort of thing... but they're just not getting it! It's probably because they never went to college... : ("
“LinkedIn is a spiritual abyss: the blandness, the saccharine nihilism, the happy banal HR sociopathy, and chirpy mewling optimism. It's the digital form of the American Psycho business card scene, with an updated progressive HR veneer, and way dumber dialogue.”-Dave Greenberg
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/substack-notes-88
lol that's great... I'm bookmarking this comment ;D
James m, perfect
Wonderful use of language. Someone should write a parody of Shakespeare as an HR flack.
Hilarious.
Bluesky: for all those people who haven't read Orwell, or who read him but didn't comprehend.
Ha. Sorta like Reagan said:
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin"
GREAT quote!!
Or who thought it was a how-to manual.
Well, as I've written many times, the folks at WEF and all their spiritual followers are the type of people who read a dystopian novel or watch a dystopian film, and afterwards they close their eyes, nod a few times, and then say,
"That looks good. Let's do that."
BlueCry
BlueCry* has just entered the lexicon
I heard it first from Walter Kirn, Matt Taibbi’s cohost on the America This Week podcast.
I’m Canadian. We are the epitome of demoralization. Trump calling us the 51st state is deliciously funny.
I’m all for it.
Canadians are by enlarge idiots, they are consistently wrong, for instance, they voted in Trudeau three times. So yeah, we would fuck it all up.
I'm your neighbor over in Alaska and I think I get it. But I wonder if Trump's approach is wrong? What if he stressed that to become the republic's 51st state would bestow the Bill of Rights upon all citizens of Canada and lawful residents of the provinces? Plus, their taxes would be lowered. Do you think more Canadians would think better of this idea?
OK for you Americans. The province of Quebec will have a referendum on separation from Canada in the near future.
This time I think the yes side will win. In 1995 the people of Quebec voted to remain in Canada by a slim margin of 50.5% to 49.5%. I would say they remained in Canada because we gave them control over their immigration, that, and the foreign born people residing in their province voted to stay.
Now, Trudeau in his lunacy has allowed over 10 million people, foreigners, into a nation of 40 million people during his nine year reign of terror. Those people, seeking economic opportunity are spilling across provincial borders into Quebec. Who could blame them!
And Quebec can’t stop them. They are Canadian citizens.
So here’s the separatist argument.
Canada has swamped its own culture and now that foolish decision will swamp out the Québécois culture if we remain in Canada. Paul StPierre Plamondon is the leader of the separatist Party Quebecois and is as strong a communicator as Barack Obama. It’s an easy sales pitch, and he’s a good salesman.
So the question is , have the Quebec people been demoralized sufficiently to vote against their own culture. Have they internalize the liberal bullshit about oppressor nations? do they care to save their culture or do they want to be citizens of the world?
He's as strong a communicator as Barack Obama. You mean they have Teleprompters up north, too?
I promise I didn't read your comment before posting mine 🤣
lol
Barry a strong communicator...? Odd, I thought he was a good teleprompter reader, that appealed to those suffering of white guilt.
Sorry to digress. And I do agree that Quebec should be a free country.
Hilarious, but I'd caution adding Canada, comrade...
https://mises.org/mises-wire/annexing-canada-would-be-adding-second-california
NO. we don't want that!
Aaron Rodericks (he/him): "Nonetheless, user numbers are continually growing, engagement is high, and the less quantifiable “vibe” is palpable, largely thanks to take-up among high-profile individuals and publishers since the US election."
IOW: We're a better class of people, like Taylor Lorenz (ban/shee).
Regards,
Jeff Keener (yee/haw)
Lolol
Yeah, I'm in Seattle just like that CEO – ironically never sunny, BlueSky only metaphorically; literally grey cloudy commissar country, over-caffeinated conformists galore.
<<Lumpedin is a corporate expo that never sleeps, celebrating nothing but conformity and the lowest common denominator of prescriptive consensus. A pit of sycophantic careerists oozing their saccharine praise of sophistry bestride middle management mendicants and "thought leaders".>>
Ah yes, Bluesky, the home of free speech where you're allowed to say anything you want…provided we approve of what you’re saying.
Sign me up!
They should rename this echo chamber “Snowflakes “
I want to be safe from ever hearing ANYTHING I don't like. No one has the right to say it think anything I don't like. It is obviously my right to shut you up. How can anyone object to that? How can you undermine democracy if you're silenced?
It's easy to see why they demand censorship. Deep down they know that the stuff they're required to believe is stupid and indefensible.
Also crazy that Bluesky guy says that people will be free to not listen to someone else if they don't want to. Hey dolt, that's already the case. You are free to turn off the screen, or not listen to somebody. You can not follow someone or even block them on X.
The BlueSky folks have a very odd definition of "safe and welcoming". Their level of denial is staggering. 🙄
LinkedIn founder - Reid Hoffman - just happens to be - like Joe Biden (& his speech writer Daniel Benaim), Antony Blinken, John Kerry, Alejandro Mayorkas, Janet Yellen, Jerome Powell (& President Trumps new Secretary of the Treasury - Scott Bessent), George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Larry Fink, - just for openers - ALL members of the "COUNCIL on FOREIGN RELATIONS" - of which the President and Chairman of the (36) members of the CFR Board of Directors - David M. Rubenstein - was just bestowed by CFR member Biden with the "MEDAL of FREEDOM" to Rubenstein - an avowed One-World Government scumbag.
Just tried creating an account on bluesky to see what you are writing about. Very difficult to maneuver. Can't get my birthdate into it. Can't put a picture in as requested and picked one area of interest. Guess I'll find out at some point if I will get anything from the site. Very strange set-up.
Because xitter is free speech... lol