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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

Things is the guy filming and laughing is quite clearly a home grown Aussie bogan so it’s odd that the news stories are all taking the immigration/visa angle.

And yet this is the first time you’ve mentioned it, when it’s actually a faaaaaar bigger thing than DEI. When the SC struck down Harvard’s DEI admissions program (a decision I’m sure you were a huge fan of) they left the preferential donor/alumni admissions door wide open. Result, by getting rid of DEI a bigger proportion of Harvard grads are only there because they’re someone’s grandkid. It’s a subtle thing to get your head around, which is obviously why you missed it. You’d rather use the staggeringly racist blunt instrument of shouting about DRI being worse than the KKK.

You don't contend that. You contend that people who want to discriminate should be allowed to discriminate. That's literally it. You've never expressed any interest in ending discrimination, and you do nothing but viciously attack anyone who does want to. Well, hates DEI and thinks Trump is the best person to be president. That's kind of a pretty big chunk of what MAGA is.

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

You know that's not true. You're just using it as an excuse to say something staggeringly racist with a fig leaf of deniability. To whit: KKK Wizard: Burns someone alive for being black or consorting with black people. DEI person: Says you can't discard applications from black people without giving them the same consideration as others. Winsor: You DEI pricks should be more like the KKK!

Then why keep demanding that everyone kneels before yours?

Everyone knows that you know that’s bullshit. You’re just saying it for the racism value.

See - true American freedom of speech!

That's cool, JD Vance can just come back and lecture us Europeans about what true free speech looks like again.

It would be nice if this forum was devoid of liars. No one is pumping endless cash into DEI initiatives. That is a lie. This demonstrates that as well as being an incredibly shallow thinker you are fundamentally unserious about addressing the issues you profess to care about. All you're really after is an excuse to cheerlead Trump and Musks performative cruelty and owning the libs. The rest is just the flimsiest of cover. Again we come back to the fact that you have supposedly studied logic? If Trump is awful at everything except the economy and DEI (lol yeah right, but whatever) then that's a huge amount of stuff he is uniquely awful at. Therefore 'not being Trump' actually encompasses a plethora of redeeming qualities, you're just hoping we won't notice that's what you actually think. A statement for which you have just provided zero supporting rationale. No, the vague rambling about the Weimar republic doesn't count, and no-one is particularly impressed that you know what that is.

Zero benefit? So you think Trump being batshit crazy is just fine. You think his appeasement of Putin is just fine. You think his random trade wars are just fine. Nothing positive in avoiding those things. And yet you can’t describe what any of those supposed dem negatives are.

And yet you can never describe what that stupidity is. Almost as if you were just trying to make excuses for yourself.

Gender exists in grammar, therefore all gender is only grammatical? <sigh> I could have sworn you said something about having studied logic.

Your entire worldview is based on the fact that an ethnic minority was once hired ahead of you and you assumed that the only possible reason for it was that you were being victimised by affirmative action.

Well I wasn't convinced before, but I can't see what could possibly go wrong with a financial plan purely based on 'hope'.

In the 1960s an average of 500 people a year died of it. But what’s 500 kids in a population of 200M? I can see why you wouldn’t think that matters. But the way measles generally kills is a swelling of the brain until it is crushed inside your own skull. Back before the measles vaccine no one ever tracked how many kids were left with permanent brain injuries and disabilities from severe but non fatal cases.

For the US, reducing global reliance on dollar dominated system sounds like a not positive thing...

It’s just what anyone else does when faced with irrational directives from a capricious, volatile, tiny brained and tinier dicked boss - go into full on CYA mode.

A lot less than the worst year in 3 decades? Must be fine then, let’s all knock off early and go to the pub. Of course the Mennonites in west Texas are mostly confined to Mennonite communities in west Texas. RFK has a somewhat wider influence now.

So if Trump doesn't personally sign the pink slip it's nothing to do with him? Don't be that guy.

""We're doing very well with Russia, but right now they're bombing the hell out of Ukraine... I think he's doing what anyone else would do – he's hitting them harder than he's been hitting them, and anyone in that position would be doing right now," Trump said. "He wants to get it ended." " Cunt.

Then you didn’t look very hard. Judge Beryl Howell issued an order saying the Trump administration cannot fire NLRB board member Gwynne Wilcox—which is a final ruling that will remain in place unless a higher court overturns it—ruling Trump firing her is a “blatant violation” of federal law

Don't be that guy. When Trump ordered all probationary employees in every agency to be fired, why do you think they all received messages saying they were being let go because their performance had been assessed as substandard? If everything was above board, why do you think the Trump admin was trying to cover its ass?

I don't think you need to be an expert in economics to figure that out, do you?