Typo-MAGAshiv @Butthead

5 days ago The Public Square

A) my local hall has s lot (and I mean a lot) of MAGA dudes. the culture is changing.

B) if you want your dollars never to go to dems, you pretty much can't spend any money, anywhere, ever. Every corporation is "woke", and don't get me started on the NY/LA media/entertainments complex.

C) I owe the union everything, as far as my knowledge of the trade goes. My dues receipt acknowledges this debt of know-how, and is also my ticket for job freedom.

D) even if a, b, and c were all false, it's still worth it when you compare how I'm doing now vs. how I was doing mid-2016 before entering the apprenticeship.

woodsmoke

5 days ago The Public Square

@Typo-MAGAshiv

The downside of union work being the high likelihood your union dues go to fund the campaigns of politicians with values fundamentally incompatible with one's own.

Of course, not all unions automatically stump for communism; my understanding is the smaller and more localized the union, the better your odds of it actually existing simply to advocate for the laborers on whose behalf the union reps purport to speak.

That said, assuming the pay and work are good enough, I don't know as that would be enough to dissuade me from union work by itself. And if it really comes down to it you can always tell the union to go fuck themselves and take your skills elsewhere - assuming you're in a right-to-work state, anyway; and if you know a skilled trade why the fuck wouldn't you be? People won't suddenly stop needing plumbing work just because you don't have a membership.

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woodsmoke

about a week ago The Public Square

@Initial-Glove

I get the meme. Hot guys bad. Nerdy guys good.

...I don't think you do.

Hot and exciting guys good for short-term fun then.

Stable and reliable guys good for long-term provision now.

The ideal, of course, is to find a stable, reliable guy who's also hot and exciting. All you need to do is win the lottery.

woodsmoke

2 weeks ago The Public Square

Damn it, that should have read "no substantial debts or bills."

Hello, Department of Redundancy Department.

woodsmoke

2 weeks ago The Public Square

@TiberiusBravo87

I've worked part-time most of my adult life because, as a single man with no substantial debts and no woman, I simply don't need to do otherwise. Why trade my precious time for more money I don't need and a higher tax rate?

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woodsmoke

about a month ago Red Pill Foreshadowing

@deeplydisturbed

I've heard good things about that show. Maybe I'll go looking for it on the high seas one o' these days.

woodsmoke

about a month ago The Public Square

@OffWorldEterna

Right. You put in the work to get what you want and think you're owed a certain type of woman. Which I'll grant is slightly more realistic but still misguided.

The thing both you and the women we feature fail to understand is you don't decide what you deserve. Self-improvement is good and necessary but effort invested doesn't necessarily correlate with better results. By all means, take the time to survey the available tables and choose the one you think will give you the best odds. End of the day, however, success - by which I mean concrete positive results - lies in how well you play the hand you're dealt.

woodsmoke

about a month ago The Public Square

@OffWorldEterna

Jesus Christ, dude. Are you certain you aren't a woman? This shit is peak WAATGM fodder. The entitlement and ego in this post can be seen from *space.

You need to get off the internet and go touch some actual flesh-and-blood women.

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