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[–]sawboss 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (9 children)

No worries. Just tweet about how much you hate men and wish to kill all white people. Then you're sure to get an editorship at the New York Times.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Even as a white man?

[–]rhinomilk 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

Sure! A self-flagellating white man is the best only acceptable kind.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

Count me in!

However, I should probably mention that I also require external flaggellation, on occasion...

It keeps me focused...

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

The third panel is missing...

Join the military, step on a rake, it pierces his foot, he gets inadequate health coverage, the leg is amputated, he's depressed and addicted to pills, then commits suicide by sucking on the long end of the rake.

[–]Zombi 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The fourth panel would be a bunch of people saying "Thank you for your service! You're a hero." to his corpse.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a great fourth panel.

[–]poestal 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

false. tricare and va. not to mention military pays for your schooling. but keep straw manning.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I said nothing about schooling.

I did make a typo. I said "coverage" when I meant "treatment".

No straw no more.

[–]Zombi 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You forgot the part where you need to be at MINIMUM bisexual (gender-fluid attack helicopter on Tuesdays and the rest of the week a flaming homosexual with a fetish for east african men preferred) and you need to have a massive victim complex despite the fact you make $60k+ a year, have clean/running water, grew up in the suburbs, and your daily worries aren't whether you'll have enough money for food this week.

[–]HeyImSancho 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think the greatest tragedy of the last 40 years, is the push away from real hands on vocational skills, in exchange for a degree, debt, and lack of skills that comes with it.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But even the trades are over-loaded with people it seems.

[–]HeyImSancho 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Huh, I'm seeing hiring bonuses everywhere in the skilled trades section of craigslist; not only that, a few contractors have ads up asking for people to submit resumes who only want part time; meaning they'd rather have full time, but will take what they can get as far as employees.

I guess it depends on location?

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It probably does depend on location. But also there are a lot of fake job listings. A lot of those interviews you go in to and suddenly that bonus in the job ad doesn't actually exist because the company says it's doing better now, or whatever. Or they're just farming resumes and looking for a sucker to take a bad deal once they've got them in the door. I went in to a job once that offered $60k, at a place I had worked previously for years. They hardballed me in to accepting $30k in that first interview, and I didn't have any other options so I took it for a few months until I found something better.

There's a lot of fakery going on, on both sides of the equation. All I see is an ever-shrinking middle class, even with 2 working adults per household. That's the real tragedy here.

[–]Intuit 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Get master's degree -> unemployed AND $100k+ in debt

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

$100k: the rake face multiplier!!!

[–]YangGang 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

HS dropouts are far more likely to be unemployed, but regardless, if you're unemployed in 2019 it's 100% your own fault.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

What about the journalism students who were encouraged to get journalism degrees, so the journalism colleges wouldn't close?
The same statement could be applied to any non-STEM liberal arts college/degree, but to a somewhat lesser degree.

Virtually all highschool students were told that college = economic security.

They were deceived.

Employment does not = economic security.

[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

They learned to code.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That was a hilarious reversal.
They set themselves up!

[–]YangGang 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They were never guaranteed economic security, but it's still true that going to college improves your finances greatly in the long run. Whether they spend $30k or $300k for their degree is their choice.

[–]Doob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I agree. Burgers are always waiting to be flipped. Help yourself instead of waiting for someone to hand you a job.