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They are extremely toxic people and they intentionally hire people that have this toxic masculinity crap going on, because "they are traders" and "they are tough men".

They got this libertarian competition going on between departments which is incredibly toxic environment to work in.

Taking vacation (which is required by law there) is considered a show of weakness which will hurt your career, while "grind" is the ideal.

This resulted in our project manager breaking down and crying in the middle of one meeting, our team lead having a mental breakdown and just go missing for 2 months, shouting matches, name calling in the middle of open offices etc.

They make a huge amounts of money and literally give us (underpaid externals) unironical advice to buy ourselves yachts for birthday. We are talking here like $160k + over $200k in bonuses per year...for rookies.

They showed me their Christmas Party video, which is forbidden to share outside of the company. It's like a Hollywood produced ultra-kitschy and expensive party, where the hosts in tuxedos wear animal masks like in the "Squid Game". I am not kidding. The decadence is just off the charts.

Any normal person would absolutely be radicalized by just looking at that party, however, to my dismay, some of my colleagues seem to have been drawn to that despicable show of wealth and superiority.

Otherwise, they would make fun of me for being "politically correct" (I am not really), complain about "cancel-culture", LGBTQ+ people etc.

They also regularly make fun of climate activists. I tried to find a single redeemable person in there and I failed miserably. There's no fixing this, just Minecrafting.

There was a book about these companies called "The world for sale", written by some libs (I think), who admit these companies are terrible, but "necessary" for capitalism to work, and therefore OK. The author called them "The last swashbucklers of capitalism" in what it seems to be even admiration.

I am amused how both these "tough traders" and clueless lib authors of that book seem to be even scared by the Chinese state-employed traders, because they don't care about profit as much as they care about making Chinese productive capacity run without issues. They literally can't process a non-profit motive.

The author of the book talks about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Uod2pE37Y

I think that's about far as I would go explaining that...

I am an immigrant who sends money home, and pretty old, so cant choose between tech jobs much. I keep little money and basically try to make life of my extended family a little bit more bearable. I send some money to PCRF and such, but that's it.

I absolutely despise 90% of my software engineering colleagues who are either reactionary or infuriatingly idiotic libs.

I am happy I just got off a project for one of the biggest commodity traders in the world and if you think dystopian shows presenting rich capitalists as toxic, despicable scumbag psychos are exaggerated...think again. It's worse than most people imagine.

But once they do, they get a Netflix TV show (“Baby”, 2018).

Pretty old news. This pier has already unceremoniously fallen apart, while doing absolutely nothing to help Gaza relief efforts, for the brief period it was active.

This so called “Pax Americana” we occasionally hear about, only applies to Western countries, but the author is trying to expand it to entire world, which is obviously ridiculous, given, you know…the reality.

The Venezuelan opposition has apparently published their tallies online: https://resultadosconvzla.com/

Thoughts?

This literally made me laugh out loud.

Do we have actual information about these ships? Does Ansar Allah publish the information about why they are targeted? I believe they used to do that.

The libs are salivating because one ship was allegedly carrying vegetable oil from Russia to China and the other one was apparently carrying Russian oil somewhere...

If I remember correctly, they had their communist party split in two, so both the party in power and main opposition are communist.

However, the country is not doing that great, people are leaving for work etc, so what seems to me like liberals are gaining some traction now, at least locally, as my Nepalese colleague tells me.

Serbian monarchists/fascists are the mainstream these days. Croatia officially “observes” anti-fascism, but in reality the parliament sponsors a fascist event in Austria etc.

Both of the countries are not as openly fascists as Ukraine imo. Not even close.

I am very happy that Yanis Varoufakis, who would probably get called a lib here, straight out said “I do NOT condemn Hamas” and got promptly banned in Germany.

So I wonder, what kind of communists are these CPUSA people?

I didn't even add any special commentary. I literally just posted the list and the fact Germany is out of top 5 and Russia is in, and they were all in meltdown mode. It's astounding to me, because I used to live in allegedly "authoritarian" socialist country and we were used to criticising and pointing out failures of our government all the time.