To be really glad I don't live in America right now

@RingoJuice

Did you read anything into the background of the ATC scandal? It was bad tbh.*
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Like, they threw out an applicant pool of 1000 people that had passed their skills-based assessment (the number one predictor of job performance) because it was too white.*
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Like, that thought should not be in anyone’s head. At all.*
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And this is the least of the scandal tbh as there were more dodgy aspects of the scandal.

Thanks, but that doesn't really answer my question "Can you tell me just how entry requirements for air traffic control specifically have been "dumbed down"?"

All that does is tell us it was bad again. I'd rather specifics. Skills-based assessments are not the only phase applicants go through. There are many cuts to an original pool. Your phrase "too white" is suspicious of a skewed source to me, so I'd love to see it for myself.

@RingoJuice

Surely their military service should count for something? Especially if they have served in a war zone ?

So we’ll just carrying on hastening global warming. FYI fossil fuels do run out eventually

Maybe but we also keep getting better at extraction too.

tbh I do wish we could develop nuclear to replace fossil fuels for our electricity needs at least and wish the lefties could help us advocate for that, but they prefer to glue themselves to the road so we can ‘just stop oil’. LOL

🙄So we’ll just carrying on hastening global warming. FYI fossil fuels do run out eventually!

Does your friend get funding from the US taxpayer?

It is better for them to rely on private donations anyway, less risk of grift and corruption.

And looks like there are some aspects of USAID you don’t really get. Like using funds to support regime change in places like Venezuela. There’s a reason Western-funded NGOs aren’t allowed to operate in China. Don’t be naive about this.

Americans are in for a treat over the next four years.

It is not going to be only four years. Not the way this is clearly going.

Replies like PP's above confuse two separate issues:

1. Despicable criminals who rape and murder must be punished and if illegal/undocumented they should be deported.
2. They are despicable because of what they do not what they are. It is wrong to assume that undocumented = criminals. There will however be criminals who get through the border and the process to monitor who comes in needs to improve in order to vet them.

Some kids have no idea they came to the USA illegally as babies and toddlers and have been kicked out despite growing up as Americans, even serving in the military

Honestly … tolerating this could lead to more people attempting the same. Their parents knew the risks, they should not blame America for enforcement but their parents for taking those risks.

I think some common sense should be applied . If illegals have lived in the USA for years , contributed to society , paid their way and have been kept out of trouble then why kick them out

Because we have an immigration system. They didn’t go through it.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/white-houses-illegal-aliens-video-response-to-selena-gomez-crying-over-immigration-raids-by-donald-trumps-team-7615067

@AnonymousBleep its ALL circumstantial though isn’t it OP?? Surely you know that?

It is how it effects YOU and those around you is how you can view what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ and ‘acceptable’ in politics and not

You seem very caught up in your own little bubble and make it seem ever so simplistic .. so black and white , so ‘blase’..

Millions voted for Trump. It’s called Democracy. I’m sure though they’ll be ok with your ‘pity’ on them all.

You don't know fuck all about USAID. Said from someone who has a close relative who has spent 20 years in Africa saving children from dying. So fuck off down your conspiracy websites.

And you might want to actually read something about the California water systems.

You seem very uninformed tbh (since you're so fond of using that)

I think Trump should get rid of the criminal element and tighten up border security but some illegals overstayed , kept in touch with ICE and actually went on to start up successful businesses , bought property and raised families who are American Citizens by dint of birth on American soil or "Anchor babies ". These kids have gone on to be model American Citizens and have gone on to serve in the military and gone to college. I remember watching a documentary on illegal migrants and could believe they deported such people who have been an asset to America.

Some kids have no idea they came to the USA illegally as babies and toddlers and have been kicked out despite growing up as Americans, even serving in the military.

I think some common sense should be applied . If illegals have lived in the USA for years , contributed to society , paid their way and have been kept out of trouble then why kick them out ?

Most certainly get rid of the criminals and troublemakers.

"but at least we don't have a government in charge who is trying to strip huge swathes of the population of their rights and citizenship". Yet.

How about policies that would help reduce the likelihood of natural disasters

We can’t control the weather and we aren’t going to power modern civilization with fucking windmills.

Building good infrastructure (with fossil fuels!) seems to be a better option to deal with climate change. I honestly have zero interest in ‘just stop oil’ and other crazy, civilization-destroying projects.

So naive. The things Mexico and Canada have 'announced' were already planned before the threat of tariffs. Man child DT is just taking credit when in reality he is backtracking.

Fairly sure everything about LGBT changes - are about the T - LGB people are being protected.

TQI+ does NOT belong with LGB

How about policies that would help reduce the likelihood of natural disasters.

Sky high prices are sky high prices, must be great being so rich it doesn’t matter to you. However back to the op,most are not able to not worry about food and energy prices alongside job security so yep another tick for being glad I’m not in the US right now.

Glad you can afford illness debt and the care you think is so superior many can’t and nobody is immune or able to dictate themselves or their family out of expensive illness lingering just round the corner . Our NHS may be creaky and in need of an overhaul however it still deliveries co ordinated treatment to every person in this country every day free of charge, the vast majority of which is superb. We have a free independent patient liaison system when it isn’t. Not being fleeced for medication, insurance and treatment( you are changed multiple times above what we pay for everything), knowing we don’t need to have the means to pay for every over inflated need is huge. You may need to wait at A&E at times however at least you don’t need to get out your credit card to get there or through the door. The NHS has been amazing to my family even when tired and I’m forever grateful that we are fortunate enough to have it.

So kids can just die. Great, glad you can sleep at night knowing your kids will be sitting ducks the next day in school. You’re happy to have the biggest opponent to gun safety who will never go against the NRA because his voters won’t like it because he is apparently “better” overall. Back to the op- I wouldn’t be.

There are more sane ways to improve government departments than just shutting them down.

He wants to bring back the confederacy

It's a shame that trump's agenda doesn't include working for Americans rather than setting up a police state to serve himself.
Kash Patel, FBI leadership candidate, has a list of people he is planning to hound and prosecute because they do not agree with trump
Tulsi gabbard, head of intelligence, far too friendly with Putin and Assad, the former leader of Syria
Robert Kennedy jr. 14 year heroin taker. Doesn't approve of vaccines even though all his children are vaccinated.
Can't remember his name, the drinker, who is violent towards women with an 'updated swastika's tattoo on his chest. He wants to attack the confederacy.
Elon musk who apparently forced the head of the FAA out of position because he was fined for unsafe practices and who has also cut funding to childhood cancer research programmes. Elon musk thinks Americans are thick and under educated so the answer is to close the department of education.

Dei is a merit based system. You have to have the qualifications to submit an application for a job and not just rely on the fact that you are a friend or a relative of someone already on the job.

Americans are in for a treat over the next four years.

Every member of trump's cabinet is under qualified

Cabinet positions are often handed out based on loyalty and ability to carry out the president’s agenda. You know this.

How do you know that vance would have qualified for Yale? Is it his white male face that leads you to believe this?

I don’t actually and THAT is the problem.

Dei was developed to open up opportunities for underrepresented groups, that's why women Asians, Hispanics, native Americans, the disabled, veterans and then black people are included

We would prefer a merit-based policy and stop caring about this. If you have a pipeline problem, the hiring stage is not the place to fix it

Americans want to be screwed over by fascist billionaires who don’t care if they live or die?

Well they’re getting that now, good and hard

She would have to be like Margaret Thatcher to get elected and you all would hate such a president

Every member of trump's cabinet is under qualified. Are they dei hires?
How do you know that vance would have qualified for Yale? Is it his white male face that leads you to believe this?
Dei was developed to open up opportunities for underrepresented groups, that's why women Asians, Hispanics, native Americans, the disabled, veterans and then black people are included in it.

I have always felt that the US isn't ready for a woman president. As much as a person of colour. Afterall, they have had a POC.

I take it you’re not a minority group or a woman

Well you’d be wrong. Plenty of women voted for this like me.

Must be great being in fear of fires and extreme flooding

I have always advocated for better infrastructure development to handle natural disasters. This would include building more dams in both North Carolina and California and telling environmental groups to fuck off when they speak about a fucking fish.

having to fear food and goods prices about to go through the roof

Since when did the left care about free trade? You guys used to hate it!

having to pray you don’t get ill (as medical bankruptcy is always round the corner)

I’d rather be in debt than receive substandard care (and die)

your children having to practice hiding under tables at school in fear of their lives, always being scared you could get gunned down anywhere

I’m not living in America at the moment and anyway I’m not a second amendment absolutist. I think sensible gun control is a good thing. I don’t fall lock-step in with GOP, I just think they are better overall.

the ability to close down government departments on a whim

USAID is a joke of an agency and it’s absurd waste of taxpayer money (at best) and also a front for more nefarious schemes I’ll not go into here

Also the Department of Education is worse than useless, should be shut down. It only began operating in the 80s and has overseen continual decline. The ‘no child left behind’ (a pet project of GWB) was a huge failure tbh