The booming economy, job growth and wage growth will help.
And once we have actual full market employment of the citizens here, expanding the workforce strategically, with immigrants here legally who are looking to work and protect our freedoms, is very different than an uncontrolled flood of people coming via traffickers and gangs with no vetting of their intentions, right?
It’s funny how all the sudden, the people who pretended to be all about worker safety and higher wages are freaking out because bringing jobs here means… better working conditions and higher wages.
That’s literally what Redditors are freaking out over right now, btw. They really do like their slave labor.
Not long ago I saw a Reddit comment about how freedom of speech wasn’t conceived with things like social media, which “could spread misinformation at an unprecedented rate”.
As though we didn’t have those same excuses regarding teaching more people to read and write, or with distribution of scrolls and books, or with the printing press.
Our current notion of free speech was championed precisely because the technology changes, but the right does not.
Why does the left act like “drag queen” is an orientation or a race?
It’s not. It’s womanface.
Even if you were born as a boy who likes playing with Barbie dolls, you were not born with exaggerated wigs, makeup and stilettos.
That was my first thought too. Most subs at this point are absolutely filled with the same “orange man bad” posts.
And it’s funny how some of these subs will have a few hundred upvotes on their most popular on-topic posts. Maybe a thousand tops. But then an orange man or space man propaganda post will have tens of thousands of votes.
No way that’s organic. I bet the amount of content posted gets halved at least, and upvotes get decimated once the funding runs out.
Trump knows something.
Even during his inauguration speech, he said something about how many of the people in the room no longer had homes, and then said that’s “very interesting”.
The “very interesting” part really stuck out to me.
While this is great to see and probably one of the best possible outcomes (better, even, than if TikTok remained under ByteDance), I still think the very premise that the US government can just decide to force a company to sell or disband like this needs to be challenged.
I was born after the 80s but really feel I missed out. The music, movies, the unbridled spirit of American energy, the birth of home computers and video games — as someone who didn’t live it, it feels like peak US culture and optimism.
The 90s was pretty great too, but I also think late 90s is where you see the cracks forming and building into what we’ve come to now.
My first thought was “people don’t just shoot someone who’s under active investigation or lawsuit”, thinking about it from the prosecution side.
But you’re right - they absolutely would shoot someone to protect other defendants that might get exposed as a result of cooperating testimony.
lol, this is too good! It’s like the irony Olympics, especially the guy protesting while wearing a “nobody’s treading on you sweetie” Gadsden jacket.