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(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)

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  • prc => PRC
  • etc.

Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them


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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 62 points 3 months ago

Righties can’t separate the human from material value. OP in the screenshot was absolutely gearing up to judge people based on their job, which is a good red flag to avoid someone at all costs.

Unless they’re a cop. You can judge them all you want.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago (6 children)

He doesn't know that the left is more educated. Believed Fox that they're all unemployed.

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The only thing keeping the GOP in power right now is tribalism.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Billionaire fascists are keeping them in power. The tribalism of one of the tactics.

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[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It’s more that he thinks the left can’t do ”real hard working jobs”. Jobs that require university education doesn’t count as ”real” to them.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 months ago

"I don't understand your job therefore your job is fake"

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[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

im an engineer with a graduate degree. my (work) dream is to work at an aerospace worker cooperative making stuff for space exploration with a bunch of fellow queer neurospicy people.

[–] FedX@quokk.au 7 points 3 months ago

Can I join in on this dream? Aerospace really tickles my fancy, but it feels impossible to get a job in it that's not destroying the environment and/or making bigger bombs.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Freelance abortionist. I'll dunk any kid below the 12th trimester.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Maybe its how online I am, but I feel unethical not taking any job below their 404th.

[–] Spitefire@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I work for for a health insurance company that tries to be a market disruptor that brings prices down. I vote to put myself out of a job at every opportunity, and realize that if my company goes under my only skills are for evil.

Yeah I'm drunk right now, why do you ask?

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Aww, I wanna be drunk too!

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a software engineer, but I moonlight as a fucking problem for bigots and child predators.

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Well there's your issue. Too old for the child predators to want to fuck. They'll never engage in your chosen medium. Can't say for the bigots.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Warehouse worker for a company that sells food over Amazon.

I inject HRT to every avocado spread we sell so toasts turn children trans and communist and immigrant.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Somewhere out there, there's a printout of this, sincerely pinned to a cork board under a thoughtfully arannged web of red yarn.

[–] DokPsy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, it'll have to be thoughtfully arranged. They can't just pop down to Joanns to pick up more so they can't waste it. Sure you can get stuff online but you can't feel if that batch will twist how you want it to. It's just not the same

[–] TefikiMupu@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Joann's conspiracy board section really was the best. Not sure where to get all my thumbtacks from now.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

IT at a hospital. I make sure to mess with all the data of women who have abortions so right-wingers can't murder them and their doctors. I also hide all the sex change operations forced on kids under the age of 12

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I fix soda/pop equipment, I love what I do. I'm slowly going insane though, we've been trying to find a second tech for 2 years now but people just don't work out, it's a sticky dirty job but it's fuckin fun and you get to goto cool places and see cool shit like strippers.

People struggle with the lack of structure, we have like 10 calls a week at most and half the time they are bunched up so you may have 3 shop days where your just fuckin around fixing shit. Jobs ment for someone who enjoys soda and learning how shit works.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

I thought it was the job of frogs to make people gay. Stop stealing jobs from frogs.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

I build and repair PCBAs for a company in Texas. I’m the one building the 5G to make the frogs gay.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I develop software for the largest underground iron mine in the world. It's always fun to say "I'm a software engineer, I work with mining" because most people's reaction is "oh god, not crypto right?"

It's not crypto, but we're still destroying the environment!

In my free time I homosexually walk my dog, I enjoy gay cooking, I homo read books, I same-sex play games with friends, and queer do a whole bunch of other things.

<Joke 'splanation>I'm joking on the idea of homosexual marriage, because it's fun to extrapolate it into us gay-verb everything.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I'm an engineer in a factory. They hired me to double check that the factory workers use my pronouns

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I invent the stuff we make stuff out of.

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[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

I work for a national pharmacy chain that is kind of everywhere in the us.

I fuck with the perscription data so everyone gets extra doses of the gay pills.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do IT infrastructure. I ensure the it infra is hostile to cars

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago
[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I work in QA.

Meaning I make sure that the websites I go over all have the secret Gay Code built in. See what it does is secretly pop up on the screen BE GAY so fast you won't see it--- but your brain will have! It's very cool technology that we are implementing so that all websites-- even the most innocuous-- further seed in the Gay Agenda.

You visit websites, it will eventually turn you gay. We are very proud of our work.

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[–] naught101@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Climate scientist (not joking)

[–] ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Favorite way to get alcohol into your body?

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[–] thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m curious as to what they think most of us do.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Get paid to protest between getting our Communist Welfare Checks while sitting in our Communist Section 8 housing because we all hate Capitalism and just want free stuff from Communism.

Duuuuuuuh.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I work in payments.

Remember the Superman movie scheme taking a fraction of a cent off of every transaction? Every time you dip your card, 1/30 of a cent is sent directly to Kim Jong-Il's personal hairdresser.

Coming in 2027 is the all-new Hezbollah Rewards scheme, where 125,000 points can be exchanged for a custom-painted missile lofted towards Tel Aviv.

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

As a lifelong kitchen worker I truly don't understand how anyone who works in the service industry can be anything less than the farthest to the left you can be.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Real political organizations (I shit you not):

Gays for Trump
Blacks for Trump
Latinos for Trump

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[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago

Think Scar Face... except it's abortion pills

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 3 months ago

I'm a prostrate driver working at night to stimulate your urethra to completion. During the day I roller blade

I help old shits like travelwithmrmichael figure out how to turn on their computer and phone.

[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 3 months ago

I'm the paymaster for professional Liberal protesters.

[–] VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I photoshop images of flat earth to make it look round

I always forget to add the stars though

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I'm a 3D artist, I specialize in optimizing my work in ways that AI models can't even comprehend yet.

[–] strop@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Imagine wearing a suit and a tie unironically

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot less leftists than right wingers have made a career out of asking stupid questions online.

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

wHaT iS a WoMaN????!!!!

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 3 months ago

I am a sponge. I live off Soros bucks.

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