Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "JRE Clips"
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This makes me happy to hear, as I'm on the other side of that. At 37 I'm the youngest in my department. I operate a water treatment plant for a municipality.
I grew up in that generation where I was driven to do work and impress my bosses and supervisors, I wanted to do all the worst jobs, go in the worst spots and holes, get dirty, hurt, wore out doing the shit they did their entire career, because I know they've done it themselves. And now, with the imminent retirement of my mentor at 65, after 5 years doing the job, I'm set to take over supervising operations. And I'll expect anyone behind me to do the same level of work and effort.
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This is why I'm so happy I landed in my career: Drinking water treatment. A field that is not only impossible to automate, BUT which also spends tens of billions per year TRYING to automate. The equipment market for just water treatment is insane, and the entire industry has virtually limitless growth, because every human needs drinking water, and we're getting more humans all the time, in more places, and innovation is happening every day.
Water Treatment operators are in extreme demand as it is, and as the older experienced generation retires that need will explode, along with wages.
Thirdly, it's a vital skill for human survival. If the apocalypse was happening and there was an Ark that only a small percentage of people could fit on, you damn well need some water treatment experts, and some wastewater treatment experts, because without water or the ability to treat sewage in a sanitary manner, good luck surviving. No matter how many geniuses, doctors, or engineers you put on your survivor list, they lack the specialized knowledge and experience. I've had the engineer that actually designed and built my water plant say that to me, that he knows how to design the buildings and all that, but he's not a trained operator, that's not his job.
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Everyone you named ARE the reaction to hordes of insane black-clad weirdo larpers nearly beating people to death on the streets.
I was a Tea Party protester for 8 whole years, and not once did I ever fear violence from anyone except from the fascist Authoritarian Obama-cops.
During that time we created a political movement that caused the biggest House of Representatives 'flip' in Us history.
What has Antifa accomplished? How many candidates have they groomed and elected? How much money have they raised? I've yet to see a representative of theirs on a tv news show, nor heard anything about their lobbying efforts.
If they're not working toward some sort of actual change through actual political means that go somewhere, then what are they DOING? The LARPing needs a larger purpose. Otherwise it really is just role-playing.
If you have some guy who's probably an asshole standing on a street somewhere spouting some BS about not liking gays or black people, or some fringe view, REASONABLE people are going to see that and say geez, what an asshole...but then some black-clad masked weirdo with pink hair jumps out of a passing group and bashes this guy with a bike lock or a baton, no one is going to side with that. They might FEAR it, but they certainly won't support it. Notice that the civil rights era protesters avoided violence at all costs, to prevent that image of being violent and losing the ability to get their message out, and they WON. Those using violence to try to stop them LOST.
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When my mother passed away, on social security, it took months to get the death certificate finalized, because COVID and she did not have COVID, the hospital wanted COVID on the DC so they'd get that MONEY, and her Dr said F that, it's a lie, I won't sign that.
Meanwhile...
Social security clawed back the remaining portion of that months payment from her bank account in 3 business days. She died April 8th, by the 12th they withdrew the 'overpayment' for the 23 days of April she was no longer alive.
My father, her late husband, is on VA service-connected disability, and the DAY she died, he got a notification he was no longer married and they had reduced his monthly payment, and they clawed back the adjusted amount for the rest of that April automatically.
So they can't tell ME they don't have laser-fing-focued control over this financial payment system, try a different lie.
If someone is getting money they MEAN them to.
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John Stewart had an interview about this with a DOD rep, they said they can show you exactly where every penny went, it's all entirely accounted for...the problem is where it went is ineffective, but they can show you all the wasted shit it went to, so therefore it's all good. She actually said this. They'll pass an audit, look, see, here's the receipt, $12 billion for submarines, went to submarine people for submarine things, wether it DID anything or was used properly was irrelevant to her.
Basically if Congress voted to literally burn a billion dollars in cash, a department would say the money was spent properly and pass that audit because here's the manifest from the Treasury for the billion cash, plus shipping and handling, here's the receipt for the gasoline and matches, and here's the signed work order in triplicate of the workers who lit it, totally passed audit, properly spent billion dollars. Wether it's spent WELL seems irrelevant to them.
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Here's another personal example: I'm great friends with my work supervisor outside of work. We do charity events together, I've gone on vacation with him and his family, and we're like 5th cousins or something. He's known my family since his dad was a kid.
You'd think that would mean I get to skate on anything I do wrong, right? WRONG. WRONG.
The fact I know my boss so well means MORE is expected of me, that he knows I know what I should and should not be doing, and if I was to grievously fuck up at work, it wouldn't just be a "Oh, this bad employee screwed up", it would be more like "Why are you disappointing me like this, I expected more from you, I know you can do better".
Also makes it hard to skip out for a sick day if I'm not actually sick, because I have to avoid anywhere I might be spotted lol. Not that I get days off.
It's far easier to care a lot less about a job when you work for a stranger. I also put more into this job because I work for someone I know and respect. It's hard to have that "I can't let them down" attitude for a stranger, and I'd bet that drive is even stronger when it's a job with your own last name in it.
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Bruh, I lived in St Louis for 10 years when it had a murder rate higher than any city in Iraq or Afghanistan. Hundreds of murders and it wasn't even noticeable in day to day life. But those people still died and we still had the 'top most dangerous cities on earth' label, until we got jacked and Chicago stole that title.
More Americans have died in those two cities during the time period of the Iraq/Afghanistan war than our soldiers in that entire war. If you look at the entire Southern border as a whole there are more murders per YEAR than all of our combined casualties in your longest war in history, nearly 2 decades.
Statistically, Iraq and Afghanistan, for Americans, are safer than large parts of the US.
I've never been to a 3rd world country either, and you can fuck right the fuck off with what that has to do with anything.
Oh wait, I take that back, I live next to Illinois, so yes, I'm quite familiar with 3rd world/Communist nations.
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