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Seeing many talking heads make a big deal out of government employees possibly losing their jobs does not inspire any sympathy from me. When there are economic struggles on any scale in the private sector, people lose their jobs. Why should government employees get special status of job protection?

Yes, cuts do often happen to government jobs, but I see far more protest at government jobs lost than losses in the private sector.

Got my daily dose of cringe with NPR talking about the pay gap in women's sports compared to men, where they stated "Although men pro athletes get paid X times more than women pro athletes, the women athletes get more traffic on social media."

As if social media is not full of fake/bot posting. And along with that, social media being used more by women. And being talked about online does not correlate with real life popularity all the time either.

What the fresh hell is this? I suspect this story was thought up by someone in the West, not the East. Unless it somehow correctly points out that being obese is not desireable, I will no doubt be skipping this one.

Any time I have seen some leftist dipshit argue that "Antifa is not an organization, it's an idea!" Whatever they want to claim, it really does not matter. Whenever you see some assholes dressed in black committing violence and property damage, they are cleary organized. I have no pity in the event of their arrest for being labeled as part of a terrorist organization. Because even with their retarded reasoning, they are still committing the acts regardless of their wordmagic labels.

One thought regarding governments pushing unpopular/bad policies while everyone is distracted. I don't think that they are always creating the distractions, but rather they will take advantage of any moment the public is distracted. Sure, they are doing shady actions, but sometimes it is easier to just wait for the opportunity than to try and create one. That gives them plausible deniability, since they only technically took advantage of a crisis rather than created one themselves.