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The Democratic National Committee is hiring IT people for these positions:
- Chief Security Officer
- Data Science Lead
- Full-stack Engineer
- IT Help Desk Manager
- IT Systems Administrator
- Product Designer
- Product Director
- Product Manager
The Daily Wire, a conservative blog, posted an e-mail purportedly from Madeleine Leader, the DNC's Data Services Manager, showing her announcing the openings and writing
I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight while males, since they're already in the majority.
The Daily Wire blogger posted a different screenshot of the e-mail on Twitter.
Also at The Hill
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The DNC is Hiring IT Staff. Allegedly, Cisgendered Straight White Males Need Not Apply.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm
as intelligent as ever.
-- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame"
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:44PM (21 children)
Not really. Neither Johnson nor Stein had any charisma to speak of. Plus neither was goofy-looking enough to be a serious presidential contender. Seriously, think about the past half-dozen Presidents. You know I'm right.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:50PM (2 children)
Then an oompaloompa.
The only way they can top the last 4 presidents is to find an Ewok to be president. Or a Gorilla.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @02:31AM (1 child)
We just had 8 years of a gorilla.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:52PM
It was at least a change from the previous 8 years of a monkey.
My only problem is that we have the wrong orangutan. Dr. Zaius 2020!
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Thursday November 02 2017, @02:50PM
I like Daryl Perry personally
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @03:42PM (7 children)
I was considering voting for Johnson, but in the end decided not to. It wasn't lack of charisma that turned me off. It was that he was so blitheringly pig-ignorant about any issues beyond marijuana legalization. "What's Aleppo?" Honestly, if you know less about foreign affairs than I do then you are just not fit to be Commander in Chief. Listen up, Libertarians! (And all you other third parties, too!) You still have three years to get yourself up to speed for 2020. I really suggest you use your time wisely.
As is your usual habit, you once again miss the mark. By quite a fair bit. Why am I not surprised?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @08:24PM (3 children)
neither had a chance to win anyways so you should have voted for the party you wanted to see field a candidate in the future instead of voting for known scum in the uniparty. maybe you're just too dumb to be voting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @03:08AM (1 child)
And if you think that Presidents actually have any real power then maybe you're too ignorant to be telling people they shouldn't be voting?
WTF is the President supposed to do? He's the head of the Armed Forces. So fucking what. Zaphod Beeblebrox was elected president of the Galaxy to distract the idiots from how the government actually works. Go back to school, try again. Your geek education didn't take.
Protip: Donald Trump was a registered Democrat. His establishment is still covertly harassing right wingers under COINTELPRO II. If you give a fuck about presidents then why do you care what banner they run under? Don't you know that ALL of the parties, even the Pirate Party and Greens are just platforms that differ only slightly on a few key issues?
Let me know when a candidate mentions theft via inflation or CELLDAR. Until then your votes are meaningless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @06:27AM
> Donald Trump was a registered Democrat.
One writer called Trump's party registration "fungible." [thesmokinggun.com] He says he's "evolved." [politifact.com]
(Score: 2) by Fnord666 on Friday November 03 2017, @05:32PM
A - "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. "
B - "Mos Eisley spaceport?"
A - No, Washington DC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @10:05PM
Because Trump knows so much about foreign policy. At least Johnson knew enough to stay out of the affairs of others countries and to stop wasting money and lives.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:30AM (1 child)
The Aleppo question was asked immediately following a back-and-forth regarding the two-party US election system [time.com]. There was no indication that the interviewer had changed the subject, and no additional context was given before asking the question:
Competent interviewers generally provide some lead-in to changes in subject, for the benefit both of the interviewee and of the audience. Unless, that is, the actual intent of the interview is to trick the interviewee and make them appear foolish.
Good job the US media remain resolutely politically neutral.
So I contend that Johnson did not actually ask "what is Aleppo?", but "what is a leppo?".
Something to do with particle physics, isn't it?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday November 03 2017, @07:01AM
Which is why Johnson's response should have been "kill every single one", or "nuke them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure". That would have given him half of the Republicannon and Democrater vote immediately.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:50PM (1 child)
What do they need charisma for?
The important questions are: Are they competent? Are their goals good for the country? Are they honest about their goals?
(Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:52PM
You must be new here.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @05:55PM
Goddammit, I am still mad that we never got to see the campaign John McAfee would have run in the general. How he placed behind Petersen is mindnumbing.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by RS3 on Thursday November 02 2017, @06:54PM (5 children)
I find it sad and troubling that charisma is a highly valued leadership quality. Some of the most evil people in history had great charisma. It would be amazing if our education system would teach and encourage children to look for and vote for good qualities and character. I can't help but wonder how much better we all would live, and how much more social progress would be made if we voted based on intelligence, honor, dedication, unity, fairness, honesty, etc.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:41PM
If schools taught those things, education would be forbidden.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @07:59PM (3 children)
You're asking humans to be angels instead of the talking animals they are.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 02 2017, @10:08PM
I think he's asking humans to not be absolutely retarded, which is still too much to ask for.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @12:34AM (1 child)
He's not wanting people to be angels, just that they be able to distinguish angels from devils.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 03 2017, @03:16AM
Alright, but we know who the devils are.
What are you limp-wristed keyboard warriors going to do about it?
Fucking Nothing. So it doesn't matter.