This is how fascism works. It's not enough to win. You then have to try to get rid of any opposition or anyone who is remotely critical.

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It is one of the reasons I quit working aerospace. The low pay, long hours, and grindingly painful experiences dealing with people who believed their incompetence could be blamed on someone else because of the extended length of time involved in the projects enabled a lot of racism on the ground.

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And frankly, if you want to find a good audience for racism and divisiveness, you can't go wrong with finding undereducated white men with good-paying blue collar jobs who are scared shitless that someone will find out how bad they are at their jobs.

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It took me exactly ten minutes to determine how it was fucked up, and five hours of meetings with a series of white mechanics and supervisors who blamed "diversity hires" for the mistake when the reality is the crew that fucked up and kept a plane on the ground for three days was a white racist.

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But also, probably, because I was capable of calling bullshit out by saying things like "maybe that's true, but in this reality, the person who wired the whole fucking thing backwards against the install instructions is the one who fucked it up, not some random "diversity hire, so fix it, fuckface"

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