Red Mosquito

Speaking of, recently the HR trade group decided to drop the E from DEI, and you can imagine how well that went over with HRfolx on LinkedIn.

https://fortune.com/2024/07/19/shrm-rem ... -backlash/

The AP fact checking the “couch fucking” story, printing the source tweet was a hoax, then retracting that because they cannot prove he has never in his life done it is 2024 mass media in a nutshell

Burt. My man.

:fist bump:

Pretty much all politics is reducible to this Dune quote:



All else is lies!

dimejinky99 wrote:

so horny

Oh "Burt" if you only knew how much everything you depend on in your life is dependent on diversity and inclusion.

And DEI policies don't say you have to hire so-and-so. They often times suggest that if two applicants are essentially tied, you go with the one that represents the minority in your workplace rather than the majority. That makes a lot of practical sense, politics aside.

As far as equity goes, your fear of socialism is showing, which is funny, because this nation is already very socialist in many ways that you would never want to change. Police? Firefighters? Public works? All socialism. If you want to drive on roads and have your ass protected from criminals and fires, then EQUITY is important to you.

"but who will build the roads!"

RockPusher wrote:
And DEI policies don't say you have to hire so-and-so. They often times suggest that if two applicants are essentially tied, you go with the one that represents the minority in your workplace rather than the majority. That makes a lot of practical sense, politics aside.

As I mentioned in my post, I have directly experienced knowledge that this isn't true in practice. And I'm pretty sure that they don't claim otherwise. At least until they get called on it and switch to denying it.

True

“If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.” - Gloria Steinem

dimejinky99 wrote:True

“If women could sleep their way to the top, there’d be a lot more women at the top.” - Gloria Steinem

Ha!

RockPusher wrote:.

As far as equity goes, your fear of socialism is showing, which is funny, because this nation is already very socialist in many ways that you would never want to change. Police? Firefighters? Public works? All socialism. If you want to drive on roads and have your ass protected from criminals and fires, then EQUITY is important to you.

This is yet another area where DEI drones claim to be the sole inheritors of liberal democratic principles and civil rights, despite the fact they know nothing about them, and are in fact actively working to dismantle them. Taxes and social services have nothing to do with diversity, equity and inclusion at all. They exist (ideally at least) to provide a base level quality of life for a community. Again equity is EQUALITY OF OUTCOME - a permanent state of equal conditions for everyone all the time, regardless of individual ability, drives, work ethic, and values - which is the very essence of communism. I know rightwingers love to claim everything is communist, but in this instance that's quite literally what this is lol. It doesn't merely provide a base level, but insists that everyone have an equal share of everything as an END result, which requires a permanent state bureaucracy to enforce (despite what marxists think) and is necessarily anti-freedom.

In your mind I'm arguing against equality, because you do not understand that equity(as DEI woke bullshit defines it) is not equality.

It's like I'm living in the Harrison Bergeron-verse. Turn off your handicap radio!

RockPusher wrote:.
As far as equity goes, your fear of socialism is showing, which is funny, because this nation is already very socialist in many ways that you would never want to change. Police? Firefighters? Public works? All socialism. If you want to drive on roads and have your ass protected from criminals and fires, then EQUITY is important to you.

even the brainworms are going hungry now

People are idiots.

looks legit. I accept this theory uncritically!

Bi_3 wrote:

RockPusher wrote:.
As far as equity goes, your fear of socialism is showing, which is funny, because this nation is already very socialist in many ways that you would never want to change. Police? Firefighters? Public works? All socialism. If you want to drive on roads and have your ass protected from criminals and fires, then EQUITY is important to you.

If equity was merely about compensation and material needs, that would be one thing. For representation and justice purposes, we need to assign titles, acclaim and responsibility in an equitable manner.

It's fine that we blew up the air traffic controller training pipeline and hired a whole bunch of folx that happened to be on a black fraternity/ sorority mailing list. They met the minimum qualifications in order to get to the testing stage, so it's fine. Everyone hired before them was the product of nepotism, so any differences in tested ability were illusory to begin with. We have a more diverse air traffic controller community, and you can't put a dollar value on that.

the couch thing

didnt this happen in some US election in the 30's or 40's?

the campaign manager said to the candidate 'we'll say he likes to fuck pigs.' 'we cant say thats it's not true and its terrible!' 'it is but hell spend the rest of the campaign having to deny it'


did that actually happen or is it just a myth? dont remember where i heard it

He's chosen a running mate! Kennedy/Tuah! 2024