• Axum
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    9 months ago

    If anyone is wondering the connection:

    This guy had internships at the Heritage Foundation and did some service as a special assistant in a DHS immigration office.

    Heritage foundation strikes again with installing young puppets.

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      9 months ago

      As an administration, it’s a joke. As an exercise in evil, it’s right on track.

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    it’s inspiring that in the states you can be a convicted felon, and/or just a totally unqualified moron with no experience in any sort of political office (see: POTUS) and get a high profile position in the federal government. america truly is the land of opportunity

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      No, he’s a poly-sci graduate: moldable lump of clay setup by the Heritage Foundation to sink or swim. Seems like he hasn’t screwed up badly enough to be coat-hooked offstage just yet.

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      Listing previous work is pretty standard when getting a job, also shows his prior qualifications which I think we’re entitled to know.

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          AOC isn’t 22. So where did he get experience to run such a department at 22 with no relevant job? No leadership, no military, no geopolical, nothing. It’s like me leading an agency about anime. My knowledge of anime ends at the point that I know it exists. At 22 you can only get experience with terrorism by being military. Even if you’re a rigorous and studious person, there’s no way you can understand terrorism unless you’ve dealt with it personally.

          For example, most of the suicide bomb attacks in Iraq weren’t psychotic religious extremists. Most of them were pressured by the actual terrorists. They would kidnap or threaten their families to make them do it. Others were poor, destitute individuals who were promised that upon completion of their “mission” that their family would be rewarded with a large payout. This isn’t uncommon even in the West. It gets underreported because in the West it usually manifests in a different way. My own grandpa repeatedly expressed concerns of not leaving his family enough before he took his own life and he tested rockets for NASA.so it’s not exclusive to the Middle East to hold your family above yourself.

          That level of understanding of the motive simply doesn’t exist at 22, especially if you’ve never left the states. If you want to stop something, literally anything, you have to understand WHY it’s happening. I don’t wrench on my engine when the brakes are locked up, because I understand how the machine works. Terrorism is far more complicated than a vehicle, and it’s an absolute requirement to have experience in it to understand it. It isn’t the age, it’s the experience.

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              I’m not, AOC had some life behind her when she was elected. This dude doesn’t. And wasn’t elected.

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                I’mma quote from the post you responded to, maybe you can help me see what I’m missing.

                …I guess my point is that gardening and entry-level-grocery are completely fine and expected experience for a 22 year old; but that no 22 year old could have the experience to do well as a leader in terror prevention. So, there’s a distinction between criticizing the absence of experience (justified), vs criticizing someone for having actual experience in an unrelated field (bullshit).

                Where does your argument contradict that?

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                  I guess I am failing to understand your question with what I said. Can you word it another way?

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                It sorta feels like they hit ‘AOC was a bartender’ and then Pavlov kicked in and they started drooling.

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          If this story was this:

          Ex Gardner and grocery store assistant tapped to become retail manager at H&M, no one, yourself included, would bat an eye.

          The only reason it even sticks out is because everyone inherently knows those things are not relevant at all to the position.

          Any negative spin on those things you are ascribing yourself.

          The combination of being 22 with only those jobs as relevant experience is bad. Very bad.

          Those jobs in and of themselves are fine. We are all capable of nuance. I don’t hate gardeners or grocery store workers, they’re all generally great.

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      The rise from starter job to top government official usually includes things like gaining experience, having some success, being a noteworthy professional in some way…

      Not… Nothing?

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    gardening and grocery store experience? overqualified for this administration for sure

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        if you can handle customers you can definitely deal with a bunch of terrorists. terrorists usually have better justifications for their actions

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      There’s a reason that the minimum age to run for president is 35. But rules and regulations don’t matter anymore.

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      I’m 23 and just got promoted to head of the IT department and even I don’t think I’m qualified to be here

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    Mission failed: Just seeing his face makes me want to strap C4 around my chest and walk into the RNC.