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Gen Z an Unemployable Army of the Entitled? My Degree of Shock Is Underwhelming

Posted: December 27, 2024 by datechguy in business, culture
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Harvey: When l get off this boat, l’m going to get my father to put you all in jail. You’re all kidnappers.,,,

Captain Disko: Well, l guess there ain’t nothing else for it.

Harvey: …l’ll bet they put you all in jail. ln jail for the rest of your lives, and l’m going to do it, too.[ Disko waps him upside the head knocking him down to the ship’s deck] You Hit me?!

Captain Disko: Now you just sit there and think about it. 

Captain’s Courageous 1937

As we near the last days of the blog as a business venture I think back on all the stories I’ve covered. There have been a lot of stories I’ve seen that have surprised or shocked me.

This is not one of them.

As many recent graduates face complaints about how they fit into the workplace, employers report increasing hesitancy in hiring them, according to a report by the education and career advisory platform, Intelligent

You mean all that expensive DEI education is not translating into job skills?

The report, which was based on a survey of nearly 1,000 hiring managers, found that one in six employers were reluctant to hire Gen Z workers mainly due to their reputation for being entitled and easily offended.

Moreover, more than half said that this generation, which refers to people born between 1997 and the early 2010s, lacks a strong work ethic, struggles with communication, doesn’t handle feedback well, and is generally unprepared for the demands of the workforce.

Amazing! Who would have thought that people who had to have counselors if the wrong person wins an election or if someone who disagrees with them politically speaks on a campus is completely useless in the real world.

Holly Schroth, senior lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, explained that Gen Z’s focus on extracurricular activities to boost their college competitiveness rather than gaining job experience has led to “unrealistic expectations” about the workplace and how to deal with their bosses.

And even worse, they don’t come equipped with safe spaces!

Do a web search of “Gen Z” and “polite” and you’ll find a wave of stories on how this generation has no idea how to act around actual human beings.

So treating your kids as your friends and buddies instead of being the parent and spanking them then they need it produces useless idiots.

Who knew eh?

Communists and Nazis also waged War on Christmas

Posted: December 26, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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For the past four decades the political left here in the United States has waged an all out war on Christmas.  About half the population has demanded that Merry Christmas be replaced with Happy Holidays; a sizable percentage of the remaining population complies out of fear.  Most towns no longer have Christmas Tree lightings, they have winter tree lightings.  Schools ban candy canes and Christmas colored wrapping paper.  The examples of the lefts war on Christmas in this country are too numerous to chronicle in any single article.

Leftists here in the United States are in rather notorious and infamous company when it comes to waging war on Christmas: How the Soviets Replaced Christmas with a Socialist Winter Holiday | Mises Institute

Initially, the Soviets tried to replace Christmas with a more appropriate komsomol (youth communist league) related holiday, but, shockingly, this did not take. And by 1928 they had banned Christmas entirely, and Dec. 25 was a normal working day.

Then, in 1935, Josef Stalin decided, between the great famine and the Great Terror, to return a celebratory tree to Soviet children. But Soviet leaders linked the tree not to religious Christmas celebrations, but to a secular new year, which, future-oriented as it was, matched up nicely with Soviet ideology.

Ded Moroz [a Santa Claus-like figure] was brought back. He found a snow maid from folktales to provide his lovely assistant, Snegurochka. The blue, seven-pointed star that sat atop the imperial trees was replaced with a red, five-pointed star, like the one on Soviet insignia. It became a civic, celebratory holiday, one that was ritually emphasized by the ticking of the clock, champagne, the hymn of the Soviet Union, the exchange of gifts, and big parties.

American leftists who have been waging war on Christmas are in even worse company: How the Third Reich Remade German Christmas in the Nazi Image | Mises Institute

German National Socialists—also known as the “Nazis”—tried a different tactic. Rather than abolish the observance of Christmas altogether, they attempted to redefine Christmas by making it into a day celebrating the German nation and National Socialist values. This was done by a variety of propaganda efforts designed to blur the line between Christianity and German nationalism while superimposing Nazi iconography on traditional Christmas symbols and images.

While it might appear that National Socialists were more tolerant of the Christian holiday than the French revolutionaries or the Soviets, all three regimes shared the same goal. All three sought to rein in or destroy Christmas because it endured as a reminder of a world view and a historical narrative that was in conflict with the regime’s preferred ideology and version of history. In other words, Christmas—and the international Christian religion it helped perpetuate—presented a competing world view that was outside the direct control of the state. This made Christianity a rival that no totalitarian was inclined to tolerate.

Progressivism is a Totalitarian Religion

Posted: December 19, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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For the past several decades the political left in the United States has waged an all out war to eliminate all elements of Christianity from public view.  The most infamous example of this is the left’s war on Christmas.

Christmas has become the holiday that must not be named.  Nativity Scenes have been removed from government buildings.  Malls hardly have any decorations.  Schools across this country have banned all aspects of Christmas.

In the 1960s the Bible was banned from schools along with religious education.  No one is allowed to utter anything religious at commencement ceremonies.

The political left in the United States despises Christianity so fervently because its adherents do not want any competition from other religions.  Progressivism is their dominant belief system. 

Progressivism is most definitely the official religion of the political left in this nation.  I copied three definitions of religion from the Merriam Webster dictionary so you can see for yourself if Progressivism is in fact a religion.

a personal set or institutionalized system of religious attitudes, beliefs, and practices

a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

scrupulous conformity

I would define religion as a belief system based on faith rather then science or verifiable facts.  If you ever had a conversation with some one who identifies as a liberal or a progressive it would become obvious that Progressivism is a belief system entirely devoid of verifiable facts.  They believe what they have been indoctrinated into believing.  Debating with leftist using facts and logic is pointless.

Progressivism is a top down, all encompassing political belief system.  Because of that it is similar to Islam.  All aspects of life come under the control of Progressivism. This includes speech, healthcare, food, cars, the economy, every product you can buy, and what you believe.

Like all political philosophies of the left, progressivism is a collectivist belief system.  Individuals are not allowed to think for themselves or decide anything for themselves.  Progressivism is entirely groupthink. Individuals do not matter.  All that matters is group identity politics.

The political left here has worked hard to establish Progressivism as the official religion of the United States, in direct violation of the Establishment of Religion Clause of the First Amendment. This was never attempted by Christians.  All Christians want to do is freely exercise their religious beliefs, which is protected by the Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First Amendment.

The Single Best Argument Against Introducing Luigi Mangione to a Lamppost Comes from Abe Lincoln…

Posted: December 13, 2024 by datechguy in culture
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…who said this about executing deserters in a letter to Ernastus Corning:

“Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of a wiley agitator who induces him to desert? This is none the less injurious when effected by getting a father, or brother, or friend, into a public meeting, and there working upon his feeling, till he is persuaded to write the soldier boy, that he is fighting in a bad cause, for a wicked administration of a contemptable government, too weak to arrest and punish him if he shall desert. I think that in such a case, to silence the agitator, and save the boy, is not only constitutional, but, withal, a great mercy.”

If Luigi Mangione died tomorrow I would not want to be him facing St. Peter, but if the choice was between being him before St. Peter tomorrow and being the professors at his college who radicalized him on the day of judgement I’d take my chances as Luigi.

Update: I should point out that both Mangione and the professors in question are like all others, one sincere confession away from avoiding the fire.

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