I’ll try to talk about what I think with people who casually bring up something political without it being the focus. Try to normalize a class conscious perspective to the extent that I can, you know?

But with people who “care” I’ve found it’s kinda pointless and I don’t try. They don’t listen and won’t remember what you said later, at best they’ll decide you’re “really liberal” and operate from there. At one point it was fun just to hear the weird shit they would say, but things are getting bad and it’s not really funny anymore, and I’m not sure it’s a good idea to broadcast “I’m a communist” to people who would probably turn you in if it was an option.

Not to be a broken record and it definitely isn’t an ideal job for everyone, but:

If you live in the US and are anywhere with a significant population, not even a major city, the Postal Service is most likely hiring and they basically don’t care about your work history or education or anything.

It will be very physical and you will be working with a lot of people who are not educated like you are and many are likely to be old CHUDS, but it’s unionized, it’s decent money and the benefits are still okay.

They take applications (last I checked) through their own hiring website, no resume needed you just plug in your information. But expect to be given an absurd amount of work for your time as a non career employee.

I can go on but that’s one option. Sorry about your situation, job hunting sucks and is humiliating. Best of luck comrade.

I think Statler and Waldorf are the old guard grumpy comrades with nothing positive to say about current events but you know they have their hearts in the right place.

Beaker probably has revolutionary thoughts given how Dr. Honeydew treats him.

The Muppet rock band probably has some comrades in it but they keep it quiet because there’s a CHUD in the band too, and so we can’t tell from the outside who is what.

Chuds I know are burying the lede and talking up how this is the elusive example of good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns.

Genuinely the raving of a clown. His brain is going, and it appears he’s absorbing apocalyptic evangelical rhetoric by osmosis. Wild.

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Aw shit was that me? I think there’s a few of us postal comrades on here.

The first 90 will be rough no matter what you are going into, you will be expected to put up with a lot of shenanigans. Use that time to figure out who the shop steward is and see what they’re pulling on you that is not actually by the book so you’re ready to grieve and protect yourself once you’re not on probation.

I work inside so I don’t know what the most current tech is as far as keeping cool in summer but I’m sure your coworkers will have good suggestions.

I can only speak for myself but I’m noticing a bunch of this rhetoric all at once and it’s hitting my alarm. Of course it’s also relevant. But I think the passive threat that there could be ops going on messes with people too.

Yeah if USians aren’t dying to drone strikes on Bradleys no amount of dead Iranians will destabilize the US.

Does Iran only have 1,000 missiles? For some reason I was thinking they had stockpiled way more than that as their primary deterrence.

How do we weigh that given the censorship we know Israel is attempting to impose over footage of damage?

Trump got that Witch of the Wastes condition from Howl’s Moving Castle.

Right, to be clear I mean that there is no substance to the supposed offers of diplomacy, even if Iranian leadership has prior to this been holding onto that illusion. The US cannot do diplomacy, they can only issue demands and use force.

Deadline ran out on Trump’s supposed negotiations, if Iran isn’t constrained by a treaty or some other arrangement there is little to keep them from just going for it, is my guess. Turns out when you give up on diplomacy then diplomatic solutions stop having any power to constrain anyone.

Certainly true, however in my case we don’t have a store nearby that does bulk really, we go to a little market and get things in the one size they sell, which is what I bought when I was single. So it’s not JUST bulk.

COL is huge, I’m not being particularly thrifty and I feed my family of 3 on 150 or less every week. I could easily feed myself on 60.

I mean the war wouldn’t end just because you killed the other side’s leader, they have other people who can step in, so it’s not really about slow walking winning. But both Putin and Zelensky want an end to the war in which they don’t personally get blown up. So yes they’ll let a lot of other people die instead to let the war play out without risking their own lives.

Ukraine has, probably through the help of NATO/US intelligence, the capability to target some of Russia’s most significant and expensive military assets with things like drones and sabotage. If the gloves come off because Zelensky gets got, Putin and basically all the high ranking officials in Russia could reasonably expect to be targeted in response.

What I’m saying is they appear to have an unspoken agreement not to do that currently because it’s in each person’s best interest.

I think killing leadership is a Pandora’s box, especially given the high profile bombings deep in Russian territory that they were very clearly not prepared to defend themselves against.