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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by bee_rider on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @01:35PM (#42701702)
I think most people in the US are, on some practical level, actual liberals. We can’t see it in the way a fish doesn’t see water. But I think mostly people think of themselves as accepting of others (while not wanting their own freedom of association impinged on). I think a lot of political disagreement shows up where liberal principles collide, like two people’s freedom of expression bumping into each other. Then it becomes a wrestling match for each side to get their position seen as the liberal one.
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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by leidenfrost on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @03:30PM (#42703414)
If people on the US were really liberal (in the original "capitalism of the free" sense), racism wouldn't even be an issue. People wouldn't care so much about race, and your genetics would be more as a "fun fact" rather than some central piece of your identity.

Also, they wouldn't care about atheists so much. Liberals may not be atheists themselves but they would be very detached from religion and "who whorships who". People wouldn't take religion so seriously.

The US is more like a bunch of conservatives trying to be liberal until their own beliefs trump liberal theory.

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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by downrightmike on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:33PM (#42704201)
Which is why we say that we hope you get everything you voted for. Because it will back fire on you first. It always has, and it always will, not our fault you can't learn from your mistakes.
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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by leidenfrost on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:51PM (#42704392)
Is that a quote? I'm not American.
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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by bee_rider on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @06:34PM (#42705447)
It isn’t a quote really, just a somewhat common sentiment. People are really frustrated with some of the voting patterns in the US.
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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by downrightmike on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:56PM (#42714506)
They voted for a bunch of horrible people to do horrible stuff, which consequentially will negatively affect those voters the most.
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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by sumedh on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:42AM (#42710621)
> If people on the US were really liberal (in the original "capitalism of the free" sense), racism wouldn't even be an issue.

These labels dont matter when your jobs are going away though.

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Re:Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year' by leidenfrost on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:39AM (#42712138)
But that's a consequence of the global market, not because of immigration. Your wage is competing with the rest of the world.

And if there's a country capable of the same productivity with cheaper salaries, then it's expected for the company to expand overseas.

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