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caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
35. Very good statistics and sources. I've reconsidered.
Fri Mar 30, 2012, 01:32 AM
Mar 2012

And I'm retracting everything I've said in my previous messages.

I am aware of the ubiquity of propaganda. I am a skeptic and don't admire this economic system. I know the ruling class effectively controls the information. Still I fell for the lie. Why? Effort takes time. I don't have any. About that, I am 100 percent informed, and you are not, so, don't even argue it isn't true. It's why a lot of people will fall for it. There is a default, since I don't have the information, and I don't have time to dig it up and read. I take whatever fragmentary evidence I can from a source I trust. I gave my source. Thank you for correcting me, thank you for the sources which I will bookmark.

And I thank you through my teeth despite the fact that you called me stupid. So, that will be the last deferential thing I say to you, because I hate your arrogant guts.

Unlike propaganda, you make the correct information nauseating to read and odious to accept. Conceit is no way to impart facts. I don't care how good they are. Especially when you admit facts are losing to the pull of propaganda, for which everyone is vulnerable. You know this, but you act like a prick with what you know anyway. This is malpractice. With all your knowledge, you're making yourself a liability to your cause. Should I say to our cause? I really don't want to.

The pricklier you make the message, the less likely it is to ever overcome propaganda. I can almost admire that you're informed, and you have the time, skills and resources to do it. Almost, because I think perhaps the fact that you're an accessory to killing off the knowledge you have should give you pause. I might have muddled the knowledge. You waste most our effort when you open your mouth or touch a keyboard.

And I'm so heart-warmed to know that your time was probably worthwhile but only if I'm young and innocent. Join Douchebags Anonymous already, before you alienate too many liberal progressives. You make listening to Limbaugh too easy.

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It isn't really that surprising johnd83 Mar 2012 #1
When the primary qualification appears to be, "Must work for peanuts"... TheMadMonk Mar 2012 #5
Some jobs are low pay for immigrants, but that is not always true johnd83 Mar 2012 #9
+1 William Seger Mar 2012 #10
(RETRACTED) Not true. caseymoz Mar 2012 #12
Because, you know, it's not like China has a bigger population or anything Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #20
(RETRACTED) Yes, but their higher education system is still pretty bad. caseymoz Mar 2012 #23
There are about 900,000 software engineering jobs in the US. There's about 4.1-4.7% unemployment HiPointDem Mar 2012 #28
(RETRACTED) Very true-- of software engineers. caseymoz Mar 2012 #33
I must have replied to the wrong post; I included the info on software engineering because HiPointDem Mar 2012 #34
Very good statistics and sources. I've reconsidered. caseymoz Mar 2012 #35
I didn't say you were stupid, I said your claim was stupid. HiPointDem Mar 2012 #37
You mean a shortage of indentured servants, don't you? HiPointDem Mar 2012 #32
not reality tru Mar 2012 #24
70% of qualcom hires = non-american. HiPointDem Mar 2012 #30
reason number 3,764 I'm not on facebook bart95 Mar 2012 #2
HA. You and me both! ChromeFoundry Mar 2012 #8
great article '6 reasons i'm not on facebook' by wired uk editor bart95 Mar 2012 #15
All because there are no unemployed software engineers in Silicon Valley Newsjock Mar 2012 #3
Did they have to turn over their passwords during the interview? n/t IDemo Mar 2012 #4
Article is total BS. This has been done for years. eomer Mar 2012 #6
I thought that as soon as I read the headline? This is news? Flash!! Water is wet! riderinthestorm Mar 2012 #7
Really. drm604 Mar 2012 #13
Facebook has done this for years? sarcasmo Mar 2012 #16
The article claims FB "is doing something that no domestic or multinational company has done before" eomer Mar 2012 #17
Yeah, I was about to ask about that Blue_Tires Mar 2012 #21
Exactly. dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #18
I thought I was in bizarro world for a sec' when I read that first line. ieoeja Mar 2012 #38
Isn't there a law banning outsourcing except for compelling lack of qualified applicants? alp227 Mar 2012 #11
I wish. beerandjesus Mar 2012 #14
you know, that might explain the insanely inpossible ads I saw dixiegrrrrl Mar 2012 #19
Here's a video of a guy at a conference coaching companies on how NOT to hire Americans riderinthestorm Mar 2012 #22
+1 sarcasmo Mar 2012 #40
DING DING DING!!! KamaAina Mar 2012 #29
my child, let me introduce you to the real world. tru Mar 2012 #25
I asked bc I recall that the senate filibustered something like that alp227 Mar 2012 #27
They're just doing the work that Americans won't do, trying to make a better life, etc., etc. nt Snake Alchemist Mar 2012 #26
Yes, but look at the quality work they do KamaAina Mar 2012 #31
so much stuff is cr*p tru Mar 2012 #36
I doubt it has anything to do with hiring the poorly educated and the incompetent. HiPointDem Mar 2012 #39
Spam deleted by Ruby the Liberal (MIR Team) CompSchool212 May 2012 #41
Little thing about India. ohmindi5 Sep 2012 #42
and you should be proud of your country... hlthe2b Sep 2012 #43
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