It’s a tale as old as time. They don’t see themselves as the ‘bad’ gays or Jews or whatever that their leaders and other Republicans/Torys/Religions etc hate. They think they’ll be spared because they’re special. All the way to the camps they believe this.

You were doing so well before the last line which comes over as haughty and suggests you’ve not actually got any solid arguments. “It’s like this because”.

Anyway I disagree, it was a nothing burger and I object to your nonsensical conflation of that with a seig heil. I’d call that a Reddit moment but this place has a different name.

That’ll do me for this conversation, we disagree and that’s fine. Have a nice day.

Yea he obviously doesn’t know much about parenting. Also probably doesn’t have much empathy or mental space he’s willing to commit.

However that is pretty damn normal. I see hundreds of parents and kids each year. The ones who doit properly are few and far between.

The point is why the hell are we talking about it? He’s literally orchestrating a fascist takeover and indirectly killing thousands, why are we wasting our energy on outrage at a minor shitty behaviour than most parents are guilty of?

I’m all for the hate musk train but that one was manufactured bullshit and actually opened my eyes at how manipulated I had allowed myself to become.

In the whole clip he comes back for little X and it’s a total nothing burger. Obviously he’s a psycho and that kid is fucked but leaving him to navigate some stairs for 2 seconds is irrelevant. I guess maybe Americans are more helicopter and precious about kids but in the rest of the world we let them get on with it and that is totally fine.

PM of Poland.

I guess many Americans haven’t heard of him, which is odd given Poland is the first bastion against Russia and a very strong US ally. Well was anyway.

Fair point but they talk about Trump the same way and…well let’s just say they’re cut from the same cloth.

Absolutely agree with you. I’ve been all over tech and engineering industry, in the arts too.

I now work in a publicly funded university and it’s not happening here. If not here where the hell is it?

We are encouraged to not dismiss people based on race, sex etc by our diversity training but anyone with half a brain doesn’t need that and the others would ignore it as ‘woke’ or some other cop out.

I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:

It’s obviously true that certain groups don’t have the advantages of others: the primary indicator of financial success is social-economic background. As such this is a long term vs short term decision. If we (an institution) want the best performance now we should hire in a meritocratic manner. If we want to raise our performance in the future we should apply DEI principles. This will inspire underrepresented groups into the field and this increase our pool of great minds. Given time this can be one of many tools to raise the maximum number of our potential workforce to their highest performance. However we want best performance now so we disregard that stuff in favour of performance now.

But I don’t think it’s as black and white as that.

You haven’t made a case.

Why not? There’s a long future for Ukraine, their politics will be marked by anti russian revenge sentiments for the next century. If I was a politician there I’d bang that drum. Russia will collapse, not if but when.

They can wait out Russia.

To be fair that’s a proxy war between the US and the Arab world.

It was always going to end one way. People are mostly desensitized and the Oct events pushed the majority off the fence. Which was kinda the point. It’s a rats nest and anyone trapped there is unfortunately walking dead trapped between the gears of globalism.

American voters had zero say in it really. I’m not sure anyone can do anything really. It’s like trying to hold back the sea.

Lol what? Russia does not have air superiority. You need a functioning air force for that. They’re to scared to fly anything and Moscow has been hit by Ukrainian drones.

Lol air superiority. Lol I say.

Crys in simulator gamer. But agreed, hopefully this trend will be good for Linux use.

Thankyou. I didn’t realise quite how difficult it would have been.

So sad that things so obviously harmless and bettering for humanity can’t get anywhere near that 76% support in the richest most privileged nation the world has ever seen.

Humanites high water mark is decidedly low considering the potential.

Oh well.

I can’t imagine the fear I’d have in their situation. I’d probably do something similar.

Though if we’ve learnt anything from history it’s that their friends and co-workers will out them to the booted thugs at the drop of a hat anyway.

So maybe I’d go for the ‘flame while I can’ approach.

My god. If Elon could read he’d be dead from that one.

Don’t need to go that far. Most Americans can’t quit their job for fear of loosing medical coverage.

I’d calm that indentured servitude with a couple extra steps.

Agree entirely on the value judgement but it’s not a right if a single party can remove it.

It should have been written into the damn constitution with an ammendment along with bodily autonomy for women. But that would have taken some guts and foresight by the democratic leaders.

Now it’s too late.

Initially just the rights gained by it removed. Any tax benefits, recognition of dependent status, military spouse stuff etc etc.

Later a list will be created and distributed.

The public will be encouraged to refuse service to openly gay people. From there it’s a quick ride to imprisonment and reeducation until it’s similar to Saudi Arabia. Then who knows.