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Line6 HXFX wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:15 pm Oh and just for the avoidance of doubt, all the instructors, examiners, were women, all six..and all the jobless poor hopeless fuckers, were men (aside from one girl who could barely speak English, from Poland I think.. but will probably be an instructor next week.).

My ole given up, get drunk..fuck this for a game of chess.. dead before 30.. single school friends deffo had the right idea.

Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:06 am How one area of the country can have absolutely everything, and another can have absolutely nothing, and be told off for it.
It serves them to have contempt, so they do.

Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Jun 14, 2023 7:06 am No point answering questions really. Fun fact I got bored and posted my references once, obviously without my name and address..because i got fed up of being called lazy for six years. during the smearing and slandering of the poor sick and unemployed era..that is still in full swing (after 13 years of benefits reforms, tens of thousands of deaths, millions goingbto foodbanks and millions more being terrorised daily) .

My references are glowing and outstanding with about 8 people (i worked for a bunch of agencies voluntarily, that don't really have funding to employ you after, or keep a database developer on staff..normally when the DB is done, staff are trained.. they don't need me any more) saying I am a highly skilled, hard honest worker.
The response to these references, instead of apology, silence and shame.. from my detractors was predictable..(so determined were they to see me as a non human being and dehumanise me) .
" I made them up".
So sent them (with my detail blacked out) to someone who I trusted, and he corroborated them on the site..which he did.
This wasn't good enough either.

So eight brilliant glowing references, from a fellow human being, did absolutely nothing to get people to stop and think.
Started to suspect creeps wanted personal information about me and to reveal more and more about myself.

It is all self serving contempt.
It serves people to have contempt for the poor sick and unemployed.. so they do. It serves them.
The problem with self serving contempt is it will never be satiated, no matter what terrible policy they dream up, no matter how great the worker is..what cruel cuts they implement, pain they inflict..penury they create, nothing through government policy will cut it.
The contempt is self serving.
We could all be dying of thirst in fields, picking fruit, dropping dead... and the contempt will be just as strong.
Nothing is ever going to be enough as the contempt is self serving.
They think there is a taxcut in it for them if they keep hating you.

And this is the capitalist systems lifeblood, its essence.
How one area of the country can have absolutely everything, and another can have absolutely nothing, and be told off for it.
It serves them to have contempt, so they do.

Insane_Homer wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:57 am Work shy scrounger having a proper moan that he's got a job and now has to get off his fat arse shocker

Gumboot wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:40 am The deprivation we saw on the streets and the metro in LA was shocking, even going into it with some small idea of what to expect. And the jarring contrast of lawyer billboards every few miles of freeway. Litigating Uber accidents pays bigtime, apparently. The free market economy at its most free and its most flawed. Scary shit when you're visiting from a civilised society. Wouldn't want to live there.

Sandstorm wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 10:07 am

Gumboot wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:40 am The deprivation we saw on the streets and the metro in LA was shocking, even going into it with some small idea of what to expect. And the jarring contrast of lawyer billboards every few miles of freeway. Litigating Uber accidents pays bigtime, apparently. The free market economy at its most free and its most flawed. Scary shit when you're visiting from a civilised society. Wouldn't want to live there.

I’m the USA you go live in a city that is cold in winter if you want to avoid hoards of homeless people. Honolulu is ridiculous.

Gumboot wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 9:40 am The deprivation we saw on the streets and the metro in LA was shocking, even going into it with some small idea of what to expect. And the jarring contrast of lawyer billboards every few miles of freeway. Litigating Uber accidents pays bigtime, apparently. The free market economy at its most free and its most flawed. Scary shit when you're visiting from a civilised society. Wouldn't want to live there.