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36 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

thought you were joking. I guess he’s the right pick for AG if you want to lower the age of consent 

What do you feel about his support of banning NDAs, position on factory farming, and breaking up big tech?

 

https://x.com/mattgaetz/status/1301581576904609794

Edited November 13, 2024 by base698

[SkyDekker 1,465]

14 minutes ago, base698 said:

What do you feel about his support of banning NDAs,

Don't think you know how Trump does business.

14 minutes ago, base698 said:

position on factory farming,

relevant to AG?

14 minutes ago, base698 said:

breaking up big tech

Other than X of course.

[nigel99 559]

35 minutes ago, base698 said:

What do you feel about his support of banning NDAs, position on factory farming, and breaking up big tech?

 

https://x.com/mattgaetz/status/1301581576904609794

I generally look for a few qualities in people to employ. Integrity, competence and character. 

Putting a guy in charge of the legal system who has an ethics complaint that even the spineless republicans would not wipe away. Invalidates any competence he may or may not have.

As an atheist I don’t follow the biblical model of promoting rapists and murderers to high office. 

[jakee 1,558]

52 minutes ago, base698 said:

What do you feel about his support of banning NDAs, position on factory farming, and breaking up big tech?

The Justice Deparment is right now considering weather to request the breaking up of Google/Alphabet as the remedy in an antitrust case, and no-one had to appoint the Insane Clown Posse to make it happen.

Of course I read that in the news, so you won't believe me.

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6 minutes ago, jakee said:

The Justice Deparment is right now considering weather to request the breaking up of Google/Alphabet as the remedy in an antitrust case, and no-one had to appoint the Insane Clown Posse to make it happen.

Of course I read that in the news, so you won't believe me.

I work in big tech so am familiar. Biden actually did a lot of good there.

[JoeWeber 2,810]

2 hours ago, SkyDekker said:

Matt Gaetz is going to be Attorney General

 

God help you all....

Tulsi Gabbard for DNI. Wowser. I need to stay by the phone the way this is going.

[billvon 3,063]

2 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

Tulsi Gabbard for DNI. Wowser. I need to stay by the phone the way this is going.

It's hard to even make jokes about it.  I mean, I could say that he'll make Marjorie Taylor Greene head of the Space Force, but then he will go and do it.

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7 minutes ago, billvon said:

It's hard to even make jokes about it.  I mean, I could say that he'll make Marjorie Taylor Greene head of the Space Force, but then he will go and do it.

I wonder if Comical Ali can become press secretary?

[SkyDekker 1,465]

1 hour ago, nigel99 said:

I wonder if Comical Ali can become press secretary?

Alina Habba I think is pegged for that, though I haven't read any confirmation yet.

[JoeWeber 2,810]

1 hour ago, billvon said:

It's hard to even make jokes about it.  I mean, I could say that he'll make Marjorie Taylor Greene head of the Space Force, but then he will go and do it.

Fealty is the only requirement I can see so, yes, I'm looking for her is a very important role. Ambassador to Russia?

[SkyDekker 1,465]

1 hour ago, JoeWeber said:

Tulsi Gabbard for DNI. Wowser. I need to stay by the phone the way this is going.

Considering there is a decent chance Tulsi Gabbard is under some Russian control, parroting Russian propaganda or talking points quite frequently, this is really quite scary.

[JerryBaumchen 1,426]

5 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

Considering there is a decent chance Tulsi Gabbard is under some Russian control, parroting Russian propaganda or talking points quite frequently, this is really quite scary.

Hi Sky,

Just be glad that you live where sanity still prevails.

Jerry Baumchen

[JoeWeber 2,810]

1 hour ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Sky,

Just be glad that you live where sanity still prevails.

Jerry Baumchen

It’s an illusion, we’re all on the same planet. If nothing else maybe Trump will drive that point home.

[jakee 1,558]

It’s telling that even here there is nothing that our newfound MAGA ultra-loyalists will come out and object to.

Even Republican Senators and Congressmen are publicly speaking out against Gaetz, one even saying he has as much chance of being invited for tea with the Queen than being confirmed. Now I don’t think they’ll remember where their spines are when it come time to vote, but it would be very funny if this ends up being the way the Gaetz is ejected from Congress, given that he’s already resigned in anticipation of taking up the role.

 

For Hesgeth, he once declared that it was impossible to know if the black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had been chosen because he was the best possible candidate or because he was black. So I’d be incredibly disappointed if during the hearings no one asked the talk show host with no high level managerial experience whatsoever if he was being put up for the Sec Def job because he was definitely the best possible candidate or because he was a white racist.

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22 minutes ago, jakee said:

For Hesgeth, he once declared that it was impossible to know if the black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs had been chosen because he was the best possible candidate or because he was black. So I’d be incredibly disappointed if during the hearings no one asked the talk show host with no high level managerial experience whatsoever if he was being put up for the Sec Def job because he was definitely the best possible candidate or because he was a white racist.

Really, all the anti-DEI stuff makes it clear that plenty of people only got the job because they were males (and often white males). So whatever they do is the definition of "right," just as advertising defines appearance and luxury for many people. The possibility of there being a different standard is threatening, because people have been striving towards that standard for, basically, ever.

Wendy P.

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1 minute ago, wmw999 said:

Really, all the anti-DEI stuff makes it clear that plenty of people only got the job because they were males (and often white males). So whatever they do is the definition of "right," just as advertising defines appearance and luxury for many people. The possibility of there being a different standard is threatening, because people have been striving towards that standard for, basically, ever.

Wendy P.

The biggest challenge with DEI initiatives is that good intentions go awry. It’s the same with any KPI and not unique to this challenge.

Sometime around the early 2000’s in the UK it became common practice to not include photos (and possibly names) on CV’s for job applicants. This at least made the first step in recruitment blind to race and gender (and possibly fat shaming etc). 

Prejudice is so ingrained in humans that it is very difficult to break. I’m not sure if it’s changed much but in electronic engineering firms around Cambridge (UK), if you didn’t come from a Cambridge Uni it was next to impossible to get a job. 

If I understand Wendy correctly, I agree with her. The loudest anti DEI voices are often people who are effectively DEI hires themselves. 

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48 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

 

Prejudice is so ingrained in humans that it is very difficult to break. I’m not sure if it’s changed much but in electronic engineering firms around Cambridge (UK), if you didn’t come from a Cambridge Uni it was next to impossible to get a job. 

 

Perfectly reasonable, IMO.  After all, (the real) Cambridge is where the electron was discovered.  

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13 minutes ago, kallend said:

Perfectly reasonable, IMO.  After all, (the real) Cambridge is where the electron was discovered.  

I'm not prejudiced, I'm postjudiced

 

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2 hours ago, nigel99 said:

The biggest challenge with DEI initiatives is that good intentions go awry.

Of course.  That's true with anything.

After slavery was abolished, crime by black Americans in the South went way up.  The reasons for this range from 1) now black people COULD commit crimes to 2) suddenly Southerners were terrified that the very same blacks they used to whip were free to do the same to them and thus looked VERY hard for crime and 3) the depression caused by the Civil War made all crime go up.

Southerners used that bit of data to "prove" that it was a mistake to free black people, and that those idiot woke abolitionists would now see the error of their ways.

[SkyDekker 1,465]

2 hours ago, nigel99 said:

The biggest challenge with DEI initiatives is that good intentions go awry.

That depends how they are implemented. Forcing a certain level of equity can quickly go awry. Forcing help wanted posters to be distributed beyond the men's only club doesn't go awry.

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1 hour ago, billvon said:

Of course.  That's true with anything.

After slavery was abolished, crime by black Americans in the South went way up.  The reasons for this range from 1) now black people COULD commit crimes to 2) suddenly Southerners were terrified that the very same blacks they used to whip were free to do the same to them and thus looked VERY hard for crime and 3) the depression caused by the Civil War made all crime go up.

Southerners used that bit of data to "prove" that it was a mistake to free black people, and that those idiot woke abolitionists would now see the error of their ways.

In case there’s any doubt I think DEI is a good thing. I wasn’t implying that it shouldn’t be in place. 

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28 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

In case there’s any doubt I think DEI is a good thing. I wasn’t implying that it shouldn’t be in place. 

Yeah, I got that; was just amplifying on the idea that anything, no matter how good the average outcome, will have cases where the individual outcome is poor.

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24 minutes ago, billvon said:

Yeah, I got that; was just amplifying on the idea that anything, no matter how good the average outcome, will have cases where the individual outcome is poor.

https://youtu.be/14S0JHnXhn8?si=-x5vMyZYNRd0qy6j

This Aussie comedian is great and does a lot of social experiment comedy. 

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24 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

https://youtu.be/14S0JHnXhn8?si=-x5vMyZYNRd0qy6j

This Aussie comedian is great and does a lot of social experiment comedy. 

Once our network capacity has returned to pre-hurricane performance, I look forward to allowing Youtube back in the corp net. Not Twatter though, it has hardcore pr0n.

[nigel99 559]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/politics/mcconnell-trump-gop-new-book/index.html?cid=ios_app

Looks like Mitch is the latest RINO