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I randomly get depressed
Is opening a boxing gym worth it?
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Anyone else exhausted from the last few weeks?
PLTR is crushing it the past two weeks.
Did you/would you get booster during pregnancy?
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Lame CPA jokes?
Hi all, any CDD openings with your firm?
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What do you wish on your ex?
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BCG > Bain or Bain > BCG?
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I QUIT MY JOB TODAY 🎉🥳
I cut my own hair
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I miss the Friday evening post. :-(
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I don’t feel like I’ve changed much politically, but I do feel like the rug has been pulled out from me by both parties to the point I second guess myself.
I do however say that if you’ve never changed your mind on an issue in the past year, you’re doing something wrong. I think it’s important to continually challenge your beliefs and consider new information. If you’re entirely static, you are doing neither.
I voted for Bernie in the 2016 primary, Hillary in the general, Biden in the 2020 general, and will vote Republican in the 2024 general.
I’ve shifted a bit right, but the Dems have moved far left in the past few years.
Once you start paying with your wallet it’s likely your mind will change. 😎
Chief
Less common than the right wing boomers like to portray... But common.
I, on the other hand, am being pushed farther and farther left by current events and specifically by consulting as an industry. The greed and hypocrisy make me want to burn the damn system down.
KPMG 1 then take yourself off the “scale” entirely… more left = more system…..
I think the saying goes: if you’re not a liberal in your twenties, you don’t have a heart. If you’re not conservative in your thirties, you don’t have a brain.
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This was a saying made up by boomers. It doesn’t really apply these days- I have not seen a functional Republican President or Congress in the 21st century.
If your education ends at HS, yes. If you go to college, no. That’s statistically provable. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/
woah woah easy booster seats it was a joke..we haven’t even performed an ANOVA test on this for significance and it isn’t homoscedastic anyway so we’ve already violated one of the basic assumptions about the distribution of responses, so you won’t get any objection over this random crap data viz from me.
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Yes
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Lol this always happens people are socialist when they’re broke students and once they get money and have to pay tax they switch up. Although amongst educated people I think it every common to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative
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I'm still a student technically. I went straight from undergrad to my Masters
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Almost everyone I know, thankfully.
This happens when you start paying taxes
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Yes, very common.
Chief
More I earn, I become more unhappy with paying taxes. Especially since I have no idea where all that money goes to, def not for better healthcare, education, childcare support, transportation (things I care about).
What does that make me politically? I have no idea.
Libertarian possibly. What are your other views?
Yes at 22 making 42k I was very leftist but as I get older (41) and make more money and think about the future for my daughter I am a lot more centrist haven’t cross the line yet but a lot more moderate in my views
You posted as yourself?! How do you do that?$? And why would u do that? Ha!
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You were in high school when Bernie was running?
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I'm a grad student now if that also has any impact
Hippie to Yuppie… typical
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Don't get me wrong while I dislike the Biden administration I definitely wouldn't do anything like that. Personally I was disappointed that the capital police did nothing at all to those people. Sure police brutality has been in the news alot but that time it definitely should have been justified
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Happened to me too
Students with nothing often expect the world to be fair, everyone to share and support systems to be in place for anyone left behind. A few years of work with the struggle to build up your own life, buy a home, start a family; shows you that you want to pay less tax, have less government and be able to pass more down to your kids etc.
1000%. Especially considering how far left the left is going. Keep in mind this is a very left leaning platform because most people who work in prof services work in big cities who tend to lean left. This discussion looks very different if you were to isolate based on geography. If you’re in texas or the mid west, yes. In larger coastal cities, I’m sure a lot of people lean left once they start paying taxes but certainly not the majority in consulting, accounting, law, etc.
Chief
I had someone tell me point blank that, “Cuban-Americans are racist and not white if they vote Republican.”
I think that adequately sums up the level of caricature I see in today’s politics.
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I have a masters degree and definitely conservative
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The more I earn, the more I want to pay in taxes. I’m fortunate to have a good job and I should pay my fair share.
Chief
In defense of the DoD, a lot of that capacity is for posture or being on standby, and their incentives are heavily skewed toward schedule and capability.
That said…. I do public sector work, and there’s certainly a lot of waste or waiting around. I don’t think it’s more significant than what you see at a major dinosaur corporation (in fact some agencies are VERY well-run), but it certainly exists.
I was libertarian in college (based on a political spectrum survey) but have always identified as an independent. The politics of the last decade and a half have just made me recoil against identifying as a progressive, liberal, or conservative.