Yet another refugee who washed up on the shore after the great Reddit disaster of 2023

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I’m an American and I’m upvoting this. After 2016, I thought that there were some misguided people who didn’t realize what they were doing, but that the first Trump term would push the pendulum hard the other direction. I felt a little validated when Biden won in 2020, but it wasn’t as one sided as I’d hoped. But Trump winning decisively in 2024 tells me that everyone knew and did it anyway. People are getting what they want: rampant racism, sexism, and global bullying.

    So yes, we suck, and no one should trust us as a country, regardless of the fact that there are many of us who knew how catastrophic another Trump term would be.




  • I have to tell a true story about this. A bunch of years ago I got to work and had a voicemail from an employee. She said, “I’m not coming in this morning. My carbon monoxide alarm kept going off all night, and I hardly got any sleep. I’m just so tired.” The way she talked, she sounded really out of it. I was worried that she had a carbon monoxide leak which was making her not think straight, and that it could be fatal.

    This was back before it was common for managers to have an employee’s personal number. I called HR to see if I could get it, but they didn’t want to give it to me. I spent quite a while trying to convince them to give it to me, or to call her themselves. I was making some progress when she called back. Said the landlord couldn’t get it to stop going off either. I asked if it could be because it was a real leak and she said she didn’t think so. I told her to at least open a window. Never really heard more about it. It was honestly pretty frightening.