Is it still useful for job-hunting? It helped me get my current job.
I find it useful. I found out about some cool companies hiring for positions related to my experience and qualifications, and I don't know if I would have found them otherwise. I sometimes find companies on there that aren't hiring, but for whom I might like to work some day, and I will go through and connect with people in those companies. In some cases when they weren't hiring, they still took my resume and said they would add it to their candidates if a position opened up. A longshot, but I like to get my name and experience out there anyway if it is a company I really like. Like I recently sent my resume to Moog Music. Their turnover is low, but this way I hope I at least put myself on their radar for future reference. It never would've occurred to me to look there if I didn't see them posting other positions on linkedin. Their HR department actually responded to me and thanked me for sharing my experience and qualifications. They probably tell anyone this, but it was nice to hear back and know they at least took some interest in my resume. It was a slight confidence booster and felt good because I have been dealing with extremely low self esteem for a while.
I have a profile there I barely look at. My husband got a message the other day from someone he use to work with - it appeared to be a congrats for a promotion he got but it had two videos of a woman screaming about "groomers" and "Don't Say Gay" that this person just wanted to share I guess. Normally it would be a block and move on situation but this person my husband use to work with is a VP for a large insurance company. What do you do with that? They are all total slack jawed sheep - they all parrot the identical bullshit and right wing talking points . Unfortunately many of them are running corporations and are part of govt. at every level.
That is the problem. A lot of the people on there posting this shit are legitimate businesspeople who originally signed up to network like everyone else. I have started simply responding to these posts requesting citations and sources, or asking why propaganda memes are being shared on a business networking site. I don't give two shits if they're CEOs of fortune 500 companies, all the better when I call them out their logic in front of everyone else. Fuck them. Fuck them when they know most of their employees are probably on there and wouldn't dare to question or debate such posts. These people act like they're silenced and yet they're the loudest. They intimidate or scare others off, and then it seems like they have strength in numbers because they are usually the only people responding to one another and resharing these posts. I feel bad for some employee at one of those companies who wants to be connected to their boss and potential hirers and have to wade through this shit with no real ability to respond or call BS on them unless they want a big target on their backs at their jobs.
"Do your own research" is the new (albeit far more pernicious) "She lives in Niagra Falls." There's hardly anything a person could say to confirm they have no understanding of whatever they're arguing and/or no appreciation of what "knowledge" actually is (that it's a reality-based understanding of something outside the self, which exists outside of anyone's willpower).
www.nhpr.org
www.truecrimeedition.com
Here's another example; There were 1,542 news stories about “rainbow fentanyl” in the two months before Halloween, most warning that dealers could slip this drug to trick-or-treating kids.
This is all fine and well but nothing substantial will come of it. Fox could be fined into oblivion, it isn't going to stop anything. Unless they start attaching jail time to it.
When you understand that the people most vocal about free speech only believe it in for themselves, they are much easier to understand (Elon Musk banning journalist en mass from Twitter for example). They aren't interested in a free press, freedom of thought and idea or freedom at all.
Well, a lot of the right is only interested in something when it applies to themselves, I've noticed.
