It absolutely worked for the Tea Party and then MAGA. But that's a lesson liberals seem not to be able to absorb for some reason.

Slender editor isn't real, she can't hurt you ...

This exchange during the border crisis in Ireland/Northern Ireland caused by Brexit will stay with me to the grave

Also 2014 isn't exactly the 1950s. Pretty sure everyone got the memo about the n-word by that point.

Yep, 100%. You want me to work a 100 hour week for stock options that might give me the chance to retire at 30? Sure, that's a gamble but the potential compensation is worth it.
You want me to do that so I can continue doing that until 70? You're crazy.

They're all so confused that people are actually capable of doing risk benefit analysis and deciding they want to do something else besides work themselves to death so their boss can become even more absurdly wealthy.

And nobody wants to do that if stupid money is off the table. This isn't the dotcom era. You're not going to be a billionaire by proxy. You're just going to get paid a wage (possibly below industry standard) and then shoved out an airlock the minute they need to cut costs.

Interestingly there's research that TW aren't great for helping people with triggers as they can increase avoidant behaviors which worsens the triggers. Also, it can prime people to make their triggers worse. If you're terrified of spiders "TW Spiders" before throwing a spider won't make it better.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks the birds look annoyed when the feeder isn't full