Job Firings

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where if you storm the Capitol you get pardoned, but if you say you're not on the Charlie Kirk was a hero train you're a pariah and lose your job?

145 people have lost their jobs so far for posts that...are nowhere near as negative and outrageous as you might think. I'll let you do the research.

You lose your JOB???

Mail carriers lose their gigs and they shoot up the office, ergo the term "going postal."

Happens all the time, you fire someone and there are consequences in the workplace

That's how valuable a job is. People identify with their job. Never mind earning a living!

So now you're busted down to zero. On unemployment, if you're lucky. And then welfare. And you're radioactive, good luck getting another job in your field. That's right, they're not going after low level service workers, but someone working higher up in the corporation, in education, for a local or state government.

You just ruined this person's life. Maybe their family's life. FOR EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH!

And it's not like the people firing them are big Trumpers, they're just afraid of the mob. They don't want to get caught in the crossfire, they don't want to lose their job, they don't want their company boycotted.

And it ain't hard to get someone fired. It's not like there were big debates, court hearings, no...you were gone, just like that.

As for the individual... Good luck. Like those people SOL after the tornado in St. Louis. It might be sunny and warm where you are, the buildings might still be standing, but if a natural disaster arrives...good luck getting FEMA to come, or having your state do the job FEMA used to do.

So let me get this straight... You make a comment, usually somewhere online, and then...

Someone reports you.

Yes, there are people out there looking for what they consider faux pas. And then they amplify them. Tell me how this is different from people turning in others in Soviet Russia. Huh?

People are afraid. Of ICE, of the online police.

I'm not even going to delve into the right's cry of free speech when Biden was in office... All I'm going to say is you'd better shut the f*ck up and toe the line. You'd better not say the wrong thing.

And if we're creating heroes, people to emulate...

It's not only the rank and file, even the damn "New York Times" has bent over backward in adulation of Charlie Kirk. It was a tragedy he was shot. No one should be assassinated. As for fomenting conversation on campuses, different points of view, have you delved into the actual conversations when he was at schools? You could ask your question, that didn't mean that Kirk took you seriously and addressed it. As for Kirk's opinions... Better not be a minority, better be a Stepford wife.

But the left has been somnambulant here. THANK GOD IT WASN'T ME! That's the America we now live in, you got caught in the maelstrom? The vagaries of life got you down? TOUGH NOOGIES!

Let's cut back the welfare state... God, you'd think everybody on welfare was driving around in a BMW, eating at sushi bars and living the life of Riley. No, take away that damn money and GET A JOB!

As for health costs... Why in the hell did you get sick to begin with? You're ignorant, you didn't eat the right stuff, it's your fault.

That's the country we now live in, strict liability for all of your actions. If you're waiting for society to give you a hand, GOOD LUCK!

And who are these people so upset about those who don't share their feelings about Charlie Kirk that they find you and cause you to lose your job? I mean what kind of "Christian" person does this?

Creeping authoritarianism... People stood up for Kimmel, because they had a way to vote with their wallets. But not everything is monetary, not everything can be addressed so easily.

They're coming for you if you're not like them, if you say anything in contradiction of their agenda. And it's not like they're hiding it, they're saying it, the mob wants you to to comply.

But you're supposed to believe in the system. Let's say you're fired... Do you have the money and time to challenge said loss of job in the courts? In a nation where so many live from paycheck to paycheck?

So some woman named Amy lost her sh*t in Central Park and called the police on a Black birdwatcher and lost her job.

That seemed rational to many. Racial remarks are the third rail.

Then again, is that the world we now live in? One strike and you're out? No chance of rehabilitation?

I mean if you don't make mistakes, you're not human.

And one can learn from one's mistakes. That's growth.

But it's now a slippery slope. It's not only racism that's going to make you lose your job, but opining on the death of someone. Not an elected official, not the husband of an elected official, not schoolchildren, but a self-styled politico who has been deemed a hero of the right.

Yes, for all the peace...

Hell, now I'm worried about my words. I'm worried about the mob. I don't even want to say anything that is not aligned with the national credo that Charlie Kirk was an icon, a hero, a man to be held up and emulated for all time.

Do I agree with that... Do you agree with that...

If someone worships a different God from you... Hell, that's okay with me.

If someone likes the Mets instead of the Yankees...

But when it comes to political views...some of the people uttering them are sacrosanct. Is this the country we now live in? Is this the country we want to live in? One in which most people didn't even know who Charlie Kirk was before he was unjustly assassinated by a delusional lone gunman?

You made Tyler Robinson shoot saint Charlie. It's your fault. All of you people on the left. And if you don't bow your head and utter a mea culpa.

You're culpable.

That's the nation we now live in.


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