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Doesn't it bother you that a legal US resident can be arrested and possibly deported just for expressing opinions that Trump doesn't like? To the best of my knowledge he hasn't been convicted of, or even charged with, a crime. Once you start restricting the scope of the 1st Amendment, where do you stop?

No argument from me there. But to be clear if it's one of those confused biological situations where parents and medical doctors are trying their best to make an early on decision for a child that avoids a psychological disaster later, and there are never guarantees, you are good with the efforts?

Ahhh - one of those that thinks Trump is playing long range 4d chess, rather than simply trying to have vengeance on anyone who has slighted him. Enough said.

I agree with the sentiment expressed by everyone that snarky comments and labelling people is unhelpful. Biguns point about black and white thinking (psychology term, not race) is bad. The problem with your posts is that Trump/Musk can do anything and you shrug it off as “just …” and go onto to rationalise it is for the greater good, while making sure to mention that it’s better than Biden etc. I’m not sure how any American can support people who do nazi salutes, car sales from the Whitehouse, deliberate lies and deception, celebrate the pain of immigrants and the disadvantaged. the thread about white power in the US has many examples of where this administration has stepped well past the line of racist behaviour. If you honestly believe sexism and racism is bad, how come you’re not as vocal about this administration covering/removing the names of non white and female people who lost their lives fighting for your country? I forget the agency (NSA or CIA). A vast number of American citizens speak Spanish, yet it’s not racially driven that this administration has declared English the official language and removed Spanish language versions of important government websites? I’m sorry but your posts show no evidence that you’re against racism and sexism.

For example, the color line that is terminating every female or non-white person from senior levels of command in the US military, and replacing them with white males. MAGA begs the question: when you say "make America great again", when exactly do you want to return to? When was America "great"? What year do you have in mind? 1950? 1925? 1850? It certainly seems that for a large number of MAGA devotees that was a time when women and minorities knew their place, which was far from any position of leadership. When even being able to vote was a bridge too far. When medicine consisted of leeching and cod liver oil, not vaccines or any science-based elitist crap. Maybe back when real leaders like Andrew Jackson (who Trump so admires) were willing to force the Cherokee off their land, to die on the Trail of Tears on their way to some God-forsaken patch of semi-desert in Oklahoma. Except of course when that land turned out to have a lot of oil, that had to get taken from them too. When, exactly, was America "great" in the eyes of MAGA? What is the destination? Because as you go back, and you don't have to go back far, it might look better for white males but it sucked for everyone else. That's what all this anti-DEI bullshit is about, a desire to return to the past when all those "other people" knew their proper place.

It'll probably miss the first attempt. Damn DEI hires. Wendy P.

Fine. You don't discriminate. Except against any Democrats, women with funny laughs, anyone who tries to be aware of discrimination, or any victimhood besides your own in having to work with and interact with substandard humans. But those are all real issues, as opposed to the silly ones like people thinking that anything but their essential inadequacy affects their careers. Bullshit. Wendy P.

Diversity & Equality are synonomous. Equity is defined as, "The quality of being fair and impartial." Inclusion is hiring those based on merit no matter their race, creed, color or religion. Integrity - doing the right thing for the right reason. I've never understood the noise surrounding DEI, EEO, These things no matter what you call them are in the Constitution. 14th Amendment.

I must have missed the bit at the end of the Peter principle that says ‘and this is what you get with DEI’. Let’s try an experiment - hands up everyone who has ever had a white manager or boss who was incompetent, demoralising or otherwise contributed to suboptimal results. Hey Winsor, is your hand up? Of course it is. So what the fuck are you talking about conflating DEI with the Peter principle? Here’s the thing - without DEI you get more incompetent white male managers because of the inherent assumptions among many upper level managers that the white man is a better choice than the black person or the woman. “We all want a meritocracy, but too often we don’t have them,” Williams says. “There is one group in professional workplaces where over 90% believe they are working in meritocracies – and that’s white men. Every other group has sharply less confidence that they are working in meritocracies because they feel that they are being held to a different standard.” And those people tend to be correct. “We did 22 DEI experiments inside companies,” says Williams. “One company was horrified to find that they were hiring white men who had lower ratings than women and people of colour who weren’t hired.“ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/trump-war-dei-american-straight-white-man-diversity-equity-inclusion

We can only be individuals. Like that kid picking up starfish on the beach. Wendy P.

Ethnic cleansing seems to be the chosen solution. That CLEARLY makes Israel and the US so much more respected as leaders of the free world. I'll never understand THIS fight over a religious piece of land. I have long felt Israel is the real problem. Lock people up for 70+ years, limit their food, water, supplies, electricity, jobs, security, flatten their houses on occasion. Only to then getting upset because those people lash out in retribution. But we're not allowed to have that view, nor ask about it. It's become quite disappointing to see the world exposed to how awful humans actually are. I thought we were better. I was wrong.

Doubly insane the number of people who ignored ALL of the warnings.

I'm sure there are some. Everyone can be an asshole, everyone can be incompetent. But sometimes it's hard to see the truth when incompetence or assholeness is described differently based on gender or color ("she's just a bitch" is generally far more damning than "he's an asshole." You can admire an asshole, no one admires a bitch) ("he got there because of DEI" rather than "he got there because he was marginally ready at the right time, and his boss likes him"). Subtle, but in each case, the white man is an individual, and the woman/minority is an exemplar of their entire class of person. So why shouldn't I, therefore, assume that all white men are (whatever the most negative thing that's happened) Wendy P.

Another one - JD Vance's admission to college. He openly admits that he would not have gotten in without an affirmative action program that allowed poorer kids to attend Yale. From their website - "our goal is to enroll a talented, diverse, and engaged entering class." JD himself admitted this. "The truth is, if it was not for the Yellow Ribbon Program I would not be going to law school." But when you mention that JD Vance was a beneficiary of a diversity program. conservatives stutter a bit and then say "but . . . he's not black!" They say that because DEI has become a dog whistle for "black" and "female."

Fair enough. But how does that work in practice? An ATP is an ATP and 10,000 hours are 10,000 hours, right? In addition to your PhD is someone tasked with reading your dissertation and making a judgement call? What about at the pizzeria? Is it immaterial who gets to be assistant manager? Have you ever gone skydiving?

Yet you scream about dei? Do you not understand what dei is? Bias and prejudice are inherent in people, it’s almost biologically wired. It takes effort and education to override those instincts. The talking heads on the right would have you believe that simply being black or female means you’re incompetent and less than a white male. Your beliefs leak through in your posts and to quote Wendy “bullshit”.

Absolutely. It'll go to the Oregon Supreme Court where our worthies will rule that copies of the law must be posted in every school bus and passed out on Halloween, too. Then off to the US Supreme Court where sanity rules and they will be rightly incredulous that any fool can't see that with only ten rounds in your magazine and a miss rate of just 80% it will take only three Fentanyl crazed MS-12 gang members to overwhelm any nice nanna so unfortunate as to be unable to defend her quilt collection. Thank God for God thanking.

Reagan railed against the debt 45 years ago. Perot used much the same arguments as you, as did Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rand Paul (among others). Sky did NOT fall, however. We've been in debt continuously for 189 years without dire consequences. Just what is the time frame you consider long term?

All available evidence says you don't. You've never worked in that environment.

Then why keep demanding that everyone kneels before yours?

I'll be damned if I kneel before your color line.

The argument being made is that given our history DEI is a pathway to Equality, Merit and Integrity. Sure it's messy but outside of white suburbia there are a few otherwise nice but pointy hat wearing folks who need a solid framework jammed down their throats to quit being assholes.

Really. Given that the first of those "appeals" is thinly veiled bigotry manufactured to make people like you feel better, and your economy is currently nosediving because of trump's policies after Biden had it recovering quite nicely, you've got nothing.