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Re: DEI
Reply #45 - Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:51pm

Frank wrote on Mar 8^th, 2024 at 2:47pm:

A hospital has admitted to cutting six people’s limbs off by mistake in the past three years.

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust confirmed six patients had limbs amputated due to medical mistakes over a three year period.

This is the highest number of any NHS trust across the UK.

Four amputations were performed in 2020 and another two were carried out in 2021 at the Yorkshire hospital.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/03/05/yorkshire-hospital-cuts-off-six-peoples-limbs-mis...

Were they be identifying as pirates?

Doctor to short-sighted, hard-of hearing nurse:-

"No, NO, nurse - I said 'Slip off his SPECTACLES!"

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Reply #46 - Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:54pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 18^th, 2024 at 12:02pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Feb 17^th, 2024 at 7:20pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 20^th, 2024 at 1:56pm:

MeisterEckhart wrote on Jan 20^th, 2024 at 1:36pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Jan 20^th, 2024 at 1:12pm:

But deduded 'natural individiual rights' minds like yours are making good governance near impossible; wars, ecological collapse, inequality and entrenched poverty around the globe are reaching catastrophic levels.

Modern political systems where individual rights are not recognised are collapsing.

Why is that?

1. you need to differentiate global emergencies (eg ecological, war), from national social breakdown.

2. China is demonstrably more internally stable than the US (where serious commentators are concerned about the possibility of civil war); but even so, a sense of fairness for all - not just for the most advantaged - is needed to create good government engendering universal prosperity, in ALL nations.

National social breakdown works toward the generation of wars

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WW1 was caused by a breakdown of diplomacy between nations competing for empire, with stable social conditions at home.

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for the simple reason...

It wasn't simple, the geopolitical forces were complex...

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...that 'others' (non-inclusive/not included Mk I) will perceive wrongly that their time has come to strike down the unbeliever using their personal sovereign choices in the matter.

"Clash of civilizations"? (The Iranians hated the US when the US gave sanctuary to the despised deposed Shah).

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Ecologically the ideology has stumbled along now for several decades without a single result.

I have ecological breakdown caused by economics as usual in mind (and if the climate scientists are correct....).

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China IS demonstrably more stable - if you misbehave it's a bullet to the back of the head with the bill sent to your family, and your body parts harvested for organ donation.

"Misbehave" ....by calling for the overthrow of the nation's government?

You could choose to get a life, and prosper under the one-party 'socialist' government, rather than emulate the deluded "freedom" ideologues in the US, rioting in the nation's Capitol trying to overturn the election results.

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Ah - the benefits of surrendering your personal choices and personal sovereignty and rights to government

Yes they are considerable as outlined above, so long as the government sees engendering common prosperity as its task.

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Hitler and Stalin etc would have been proud. Just think of the possibilities had my cardio gone ahead with heart transplant.... he thought I was worth it..... using my personal sovereignty I said it should, if necessary, go to someone younger and more deserving - IF it came to that.... but that's just me....

H and S had international domination in mind; the CCP isn't interested in exporting China's system of government.

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So you would be content with a sense of fairness?

I certainly call for the eradication of poverty and war....fair?

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Easy .... we can give you a sense of fairness any time .... now for genuine fairness we need to exclude Inclusion™ etc... but you don't need to know about that while we mushroom you ....

You are one confused bunny: inclusion means establishing universal above-poverty participation (whether trannies can get special acknowledgement on their birth certificates or not).

Simplistic..... if only it were that simple ... back to school son - you need a year's remedial at Ardknox.

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Re: DEI
Reply #47 - Mar 12^th, 2024 at 4:30pm

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:54pm:

Simplistic..... if only it were that simple ... back to school son - you need a year's remedial at Ardknox

It is simple; I'll repeat it here:

"the currency-issuing government can create money out of thin air to fund government services, provided the necessary resources are available for purchase (by the government), to avoid inflation".

Note: national treasuries should be taking stock of the nation's resources and productive capacity, not wasting time on 'bean-counting' (money) exercises, including balancing budgets.

But it's certainly 'hard knocks' getting through to the mainstream.

Stephanie Kelton didn't get a chance to expose Joe Astin's misunderstanding about the causes of post- covid inflation, on Q&A last night....

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Reply #48 - Mar 12^th, 2024 at 9:22pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 12^th, 2024 at 4:30pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:54pm:

Simplistic..... if only it were that simple ... back to school son - you need a year's remedial at Ardknox

It is simple; I'll repeat it here:

"the currency-issuing government can create money out of thin air to fund government services, provided the necessary resources are available for purchase (by the government), to avoid inflation".

Note: national treasuries should be taking stock of the nation's resources and productive capacity, not wasting time on 'bean-counting' (money) exercises, including balancing budgets.

But it's certainly 'hard knocks' getting through to the mainstream.

Stephanie Kelton didn't get a chance to expose Joe Astin's misunderstanding about the causes of post- covid inflation, on Q&A last night....

Governments do not issue money.
Central banks do.

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Reply #49 - Mar 13^th, 2024 at 7:35am

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 12^th, 2024 at 4:30pm:

"the currency-issuing government can create money out of thin air to fund government services, provided the necessary resources are available for purchase (by the government), to avoid inflation".

Only totalitarian/authoritarian governments are currency-issuing governments - where independence of their respective central bank is either not granted or not respected.

And they typically do not restrain themselves from printing money out of thin air by the necessary resources being available for purchase (by the government), to avoid inflation.

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Reply #50 - Mar 13^th, 2024 at 1:58pm

Frank wrote on Mar 12^th, 2024 at 9:22pm:

thegreatdivide wrote on Mar 12^th, 2024 at 4:30pm:

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Mar 9^th, 2024 at 11:54pm:

Simplistic..... if only it were that simple ... back to school son - you need a year's remedial at Ardknox

It is simple; I'll repeat it here:

"the currency-issuing government can create money out of thin air to fund government services, provided the necessary resources are available for purchase (by the government), to avoid inflation".

Note: national treasuries should be taking stock of the nation's resources and productive capacity, not wasting time on 'bean-counting' (money) exercises, including balancing budgets.

But it's certainly 'hard knocks' getting through to the mainstream.

Stephanie Kelton didn't get a chance to expose Joe Astin's misunderstanding about the causes of post- covid inflation, on Q&A last night....

Governments do not issue money.
Central banks do.

Er...governments possess a treasury and central bank, the latter can be authorized to create money out of thin air to fund government spending (observing the resource constraint noted above), just as private banks create money out of thin air when they write loans for credit worthy customers.

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Re: DEI
Reply #51 - Apr 4^th, 2024 at 8:55am

“Scholarly researchers have rarely found that increased diversity leads to improved financial outcomes,” Robin Elyn, a professor at business administration at Harvard Business School, and David Thomas, president of Morehouse College, a historically black college, wrote in an article for Harvard Business Review.

Now, it appears that many companies may have figured out that DEI does not necessarily drive better performance. Mentions of DEI or diversity, equity, and inclusion appears to have dropped dramatically since its peak in 2021, according to Axios.

Johnny Taylor, the president of the Society for Human Resource Management, said in a January interview, “The backlash is real. And I mean, in ways that I’ve actually never seen it before. CEOs are literally putting the brakes on this DE&I work that was running strong,” since the death of George Floyd.

The bubble of another scam bursts.

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Re: DEI
Reply #52 - Apr 4^th, 2024 at 9:14am

When they came with affirmative action for the sheilas
I said nothing
When they came with affirmative action for the poofs
I said nothing
When they cam with affirmative action for the ethnos
I said nothing
When they came with affirmative action for the Ghosts In the Darkness
I said nothing
When they came with pots of gold for the dopey schoolgirls who had it off with a teacher
I said nothing
When they came with pots of gold for the rape claimants
I said nothing
When they came with pots of gold for long-suffering Party hacks who'd already had a good run
I said nothing

By the time they came to me with a pot of gold for years of loyalty, integrity, selflessness and hard work
There was nothing left in it...................

Somewhere in that list you'll find yourself.... or lose yourself and your very soul.... of course - a few pots of gold heal all soul injuries..... Cool

Now the DEI's
Got its choppers in your arse...
They'd better stay away
From Tent City Pass....

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Reply #53 - Apr 4^th, 2024 at 9:43am

Beyond a bias towards employing women over men into high-salaried/high-status positions, in the Anglosphere DEI is often a euphemism for employing unassimilated, unsocialised or poorly socialised people from a non-European ethnicity.

The result of the latter can be, (and easily intuited), disastrous for a company's/government agency's operations.

Whenever merit is subordinated to ethnicity, economic circumstances or anything else, the outcome will necessarily be worse than the reverse.

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Reply #54 - Jul 21^st, 2024 at 6:20pm

This is official policy. The Secret Service openly boasts that it “prioritizes recruiting women candidates” and has formulated an “affirmative action” plan to increase the number of women, LGBT, Native Americans, and other identity groups.

Cheatle herself told CBS News that her goal was to reach 30 percent female recruits by 2030: “I’m very conscious, as I sit in this chair now, of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women.” The agency is well on its way. In 2021, for the first time, the special agent training class graduated more women than men.

To say it plainly: there is no need for women in a president’s security detail. The Secret Service is an elite institution that can funnel down a large number of candidates to select the few who will protect the president. The best candidates—the strongest and fastest, the best marksmen—will be men. That’s just reality.

It’s a reality that the Secret Service is determined to circumvent. The agency itself has published its fitness standards in two parts: one for men, and a separate, less rigorous one for women.

These biological facts should be obvious. Every nightclub owner knows that physicality matters. A bouncer who is six-foot-five, 200 pounds, will provide better security than a smaller woman. Part of it is signal—size and strength act as a deterrent—and part of it is substance. When a fight breaks out, the nightclub owner learns quickly who is capable of maintaining order and who is not. If he makes the wrong hiring decision, he loses money. It is, in its own way, an honest business.

Why has the Secret Service lost sight of such a basic principle? Because large bureaucracies are insulated from consequences. Directors of large corporations and especially government agencies can afford to engage in vanity projects and pay the DEI tax.

Someone like Kimberly Cheatle, who did a stint at PepsiCo before accepting the directorship of the Secret Service, understands how to pursue success in the current environment: tell the story of “diversity” to advance in a career, degrade the quality of personnel by hiring ideologically, and hope that the remaining capable men who still represent the core of the service can make up the difference.
https://christopherrufo.com/p/a-compromised-secret-service

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https://x.com/LangmanVince/status/1814609179652370848

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Reply #55 - Jul 25^th, 2024 at 1:29pm

(Raw Story)

GOP leaders warn members to lay off ‘DEI’ attacks against Kamala Harris: report

Republican leadership warned party members to stop attacking Kamala Harris with identity and raced-based insults — and instead focus on policy, Politico reported Tuesday evening.

GOP congressional members met behind closed doors Tuesday in an attempt to redirect attacks away from Harris’ identity, people in attendance told Politico.

In the wake of Joe Biden exiting the presidential race, Republicans haven’t held back on criticizing Harris as a “DEI hire” for rapidly gaining the backing of the Democratic party.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Politico he wants to shift the conversation to Harris’ record as Biden’s vice president.

“This should not be about personalities. It should be about policy. And we have a record to compare,” Johnson told the outlet after the meeting. “This has nothing to do with race. It has to do with the competence of the person running for president, the relative strength of the two candidates and what ideas they have on how to solve America’s problems.”

For some lawmakers, attacks on Harris have turned public discourse from focusing on Democrats' weakness to Republican conduct, which isn’t the conversation they want to be having, according to the outlet.

Signs of rationality in the GOP.

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Reply #56 - Jul 27^th, 2024 at 1:38pm

Now even art, literature and aesthetic merit is subordinate to racial and gender quatas:

The New York Times’ “Best Books of the Century” List Was an Unforgivable Erasure of African Literature

Ainehi Edoro-Glines on the Inherent Racism of Reproducing the Euro-American View of Literature

https://lithub.com/the-new-york-times-best-books-of-the-century-list-was-an-unfo...

An unforgivable erasure of ancient African philosophers, Aboriginal Dreamtime playwrights, Aztec heart surgeons, Eskimo lion tamers. Inherent racism is EVERYWHERE!

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Reply #58 - Jul 27^th, 2024 at 8:13pm

thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 27^th, 2024 at 5:19pm:

Frank wrote on Jul 27^th, 2024 at 1:38pm:

An unforgivable erasure of ancient African philosophers, Aboriginal Dreamtime playwrights, Aztec heart surgeons, Eskimo lion tamers. Inherent racism is EVERYWHERE!

Yes; but diversity, equity and inclusion remain admirable qualities.

To unthinking idiots like you, sure.

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Brian Ross Gold Member Offline Representative of me Posts: 40626	Re: DEI Reply #59 - Jul 27^th, 2024 at 10:47pm You really are an unhappy bloke, aren't you, Soren? Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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