Seems like a very good crossover of having teenagers as a parent, senior responsibilities at work, and the realization that you ARE getting old, and you can’t even hold your liquor the way you used to drown it all out (not that you should manage your anxiety with alcohol anyway).
very wholesome, but I’ll stick to white noise generators instead.
that would have been “too transparent”.
he fits in there much better than MTG’s boyfriend in his blue costume he’s apparently very proud of😂
just look at the room’s configuration and you can immediately tell that the goal was to literally corner Zelenskyy and hammer him until he loses his cool and lashes out. It really impresses as Vance orchestrated the whole thing, but he hasn’t thought about that someone fighting putin, a room full of spongy suits might not be scary enough.
ok, you win! this is by far the smartest response. everyone else is like lets tear shit down without an actual plan of replacing at the same scale.
nice, even more self-mutilation talk. lets remove the opposition without offering a viable alternative. that’ll show it to these fascist pigs…
(i’ve lived this shit through too. it hasn’t panned out yet either)
I’ve actually lived under this brand of “socialism”. Have you?
(I think I’ve got the answer to this question)
I’m sure this will fix the frustration of people who already live in deeply progressive states.
Except that what we are living through isn’t the collapse of the Roman Empire. It’s the Birth of the Roman Empire and the collapse of the Roman Republic.
Counterargument: the leadership change is well thought out, but the economic part isn’t at all. The US system is built on consumption => the first thing people cut back under existential duress is consumption. I still don’t see a well hashed out plan on replacing consumption with something else to drive the economy. Of course the US could go and start annexing new territories to maintain “growth” but I suspect it isn’t really a sustainable approach, and thus far they just let trump talk shit about it as a tool of distraction rather than a concrete plan.
TL;DR: empires need to have viable economies. The US isn’t ready to switch away from a consumer society, and scared people don’t consume.
It’s nice and all, but Dems still haven’t learned the lesson. You can only capture the republican voter with raw emotions. This is 100% worthless if it doesn’t elicit raw anger from those voters, and as we’ve learned it doesn’t. It’s stuff they experience and get frustrated by daily, like healthcare uncertainty => Dems promise expanded access <= Reps will cancel it out by claiming “illegals” will benefit from it.
The grocery prices thing was a good rep strategy to rile people up because most shop for groceries at least weekly so you can remind them how pissed they are every week. same thing applies to paying at the gas station. Dems need to find something similar and pound it in. Good luck with that.
This is called ‘
stochasticterrorism’.
It’s carefully timed and targeted, thus no longer “stochastic”
Unless you are implying that being a specific demographic or demographics makes one a better fit inherently?
Again, you imply that some of the potentially valid criticism of poorly executed DEI hiring practices are universal, pervasive and absolute, whereas in reality that is your projection only. There are no “inherent” fits, there are dynamic groups, that benefit from different perspectives.
Explicitly not being able to make a decision based on race/sex/etc because you do not know the race/sex/etc of the applicant and thus it cannot be a factor is itself not a fix for racist, sexist, etc hiring practices because it does not allow you to give members of certain races or sexes additional consideration because of their demographic membership? And proof of this is that not knowing candidate’s race/sex/etc doesn’t necessarily increase the likelihood that you will pick women, non-white, etc candidates? This actually demonstrates the point though…
I seriously have no idea what you are talking about here. You ask two circular questions, then self-high-five to make the claim the second time that historically black colleges have “racist hiring practices bordering on illegal”. I personally know a lot of non-black professors/faculty from HBCUs, so again, your implied universality of your prejudices aren’t supported by my personal experiences. Personally, I work in clinical research that usually demands 60-80h workweeks, and based on the research outputs stalling I can tell when people became parents. Women take a much bigger hit by this, and I can draw the conclusion that men are better qualified, but it’s just untrue. Additionally, and it’s something I’ve seen in medical resident recruitment before, certain programs push very hard to recruit white, US graduates, even if they might be less qualified.
But we can go on and on about this, if people’s criticism came from an honest/valid place, they wouldn’t put up with trump blaming air traffic incidents on DEI without any supporting data, because it’s called prejudice. Etc.
Firstly, I take great suspicion in the honesty of someone taking right wing talking points at face value in the very thread proving right-wing dishonesty about the criticism of DEI.
Secondly, you imply that the DEI(+accessibility) aspects of hiring inherently uses representation as its primary hiring criterion overriding competence and qualifications, which is simply not true. You’re also, in my opinion erroneously, subscribing to the notion that there are “absolute best” applicants rather than “best fits”.
Thirdly, while we could have an honest discussion about what role demographic representation in hiring should play in what industry/field, I’d argue if you are distributing shared public resources, those resources should benefit the public evenly and equitable hiring is an important aspect.
Fourthly, your example of blind hiring is a very good example as to why it’s not a fix: it doesn’t take into consideration “invisible labor” women are subjected to. Etc.
DEI puts race/sex/etc before merit
This is what DEI is claimed to be by the same people who concurrently find kakistrokracy and nepotism acceptable as long as it favors their in-group and as such, perhaps we shouldn’t go with their definition on DEI.
they think concentration camps are to help people with ADHD.
These people literally don’t know what mRNA is, they believe it’s the same thing as DNA because it sounds vaguely similar. It’s good to see actual experts calling him out though! We really need more of this.
People being clueless about mRNA is an abject failure of the US education system.
vance does have an excuse: he was distracted by the couch