Tell me you’ve never worked a customer support job without telling me you’ve never worked customer support.

Every call center I’ve worked at was back to back phone calls almost all day not allowed to have a literal minute to breath between calls and they would get mad at me for daring to use the restroom outside of my breaks.

Blame the companies for not hiring enough staff and not wanting to provide proper customer service. the customer service workers hate this even more than the customers do we are the ones who get yelled at all day because the hold times are so long.

I just don’t think having this kind of surveillance state apparatus is ever worth it I don’t want the government or private companies tracking my every move.

I don’t even own a car and I want these cameras gone.

Also point out how social programs often end up costing less in taxes in the long run.

Our healthcare system is the most expensive per person in taxes in the world but we get nothing from it if we switched to universal healthcare we would likely end up saving money in taxes

Use all of the things that conservatives say they value and point out how right wing ideas do not actually uphold these values

Small government

Ice agents rounding everyone up isn’t very small government now is it? Its also very expensive

The constitution

Point out how our constitutional rights are being taken away from us right now

Freedom

Is it really freedom to be controlled by corporations?

Meritocracy

Point out how the game is rigged in favor of the rich

Patriotism

Is it really patriotic to be in favor of laws that hurt your fellow Americans?

agreed. some people are completely unwilling to consider other ideas because they don’t want to be wrong when presented with anything that conflicts with their world view they will double down instead you can see this with cults that make a doomsday prediction a lot of people will still stay in the cult even after the doomsday prediction has been undeniably proven to be wrong they will find a way to continue to rationalize their beliefs and stay in the cult.

I still feel like there must be a way to get through to these kinds of people after all people do still leave cults even after being in them for many years but I’m not sure how to do that.

I find the idea that your politics are ingrained from birth to be harmful and a similar mindset has been used by the right to demonize the mentally ill and criminals I am a strong believer in rehabilitative justice most people are not completely doomed to be bad people even nazis can change their ways.

in my case I considered myself a rightwing libertarian I always had a bit of an anti-authoritarian mindset but it was misdirected by my upbringing and education. I do think there are a lot of right wing people who don’t necessarily like authority you can see this with their skepticism of the government, big pharma, their propensity for conspiracy theories about “elites” but it has been co-opted in a way that does not actually challenge authority.

the right teaches people that instead of rightfully blaming the problems of capitalism on capitalism they find other groups of people for you to blame these problems on and since the education system is so biased a lot of people will just buy into this they don’t know any better they have been lied to in some cases their whole life. I blame the education system so much for the rise of the far right.

I did buy into some bigoted ideas I was transphobic, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant learning the actual facts about this learning that I have been lied to about all of these people I changed my mind and it taught me an important lesson about myself I am capable of hate. a lot of people who are bigoted don’t see it as hatred because they are not seething with anger, for example with my transphobia I thought that they were mentally ill and needed treatment to “fix” them it didn’t come from a place of hatred but pity it is still just as harmful.

my mindset is not the same as it used it has definitely changed can it change again sure but I highly doubt I would ever become right wing again because most of their ideas are thoroughly based off of misinformation and I have spent a lot of time deconstructing that and I also try my best to change people’s minds so I am exposed to right wing bullshit on a regular basis I know exactly why these people are wrong and if I don’t I research.

knowledge is power

mid 20s

I do think it’s possible for older people to change their mind but the longer that they hold on to these ideas the more entrenched they become in their minds and the harder it is for them to change

It worked on me 🤷‍♀️

I used to be rightwing but after learning things about how the world actually works the contradictions were too much and I changed my mind about many things and now I am a filthy socialist.

I have also been able to change a few peoples minds on some things.

As if the people ruling over us aren’t also dumb.

Here he is promoting the great replacement theory

this is outright Nazi rhetoric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory

All software should be open source.

AI slop

My phone already is an android

I have had phones show up in my dreams but they don’t work properly they usually show up when there is some kind of emergency and I need to call someone but nothing works the way it usually does and I am not able to call anyone or look up the thing I need to.

I get those too its always some dumb technicality that means my high school diploma didn’t count and I have to go back and take a few classes as an adult

The teenagers in the dreams make fun of me for being old too.

All that’s going to do is pull employees from other areas of the store when it gets busy and the rest of the time they will have like 2 cashiers. Even if they did switch back to registers they won’t hire a significant amount of people.

When I worked at Walmart I absolutely hated being sent up to the register. I hated talking to customers and I didn’t like that it took me away from finishing my job and my manager would argue with me about why my area wasn’t done when they sent me up to the register for 6 hours and therefore did not have the time to finish my work.

why judge them for it though? as long as the tattoo itself isn’t hateful or something I don’t really care about what or where they get tattooed. If they regret their tattoo its still their choice to do what they want with their bodies. what if they don’t regret it? we all make bad choices sometimes but there are a lot worse things you can do than get a bad tattoo.

I feel like face tattoos are judged too harshly at one point in time all tattoos were judged as harshly as face tattoos are now. All of it is arbitrary who cares if someone chose to get a tattoo on their face?

I wish people could do what they want to their bodies without judgment but I don’t see that ever happening.

Every company I’ve ever worked for deserves to be bullied.

Honestly that’s letting the bastards running those companies get off light

If your job is bad enough you look forward to useless meetings

When I worked in customer service in a callcenter we all tried to ask a bunch of questions to try to extend the meeting so we wouldn’t have to go back on the phones. anything is better than being on the phones.