WatDabney
Of course.
Readiness is just an excuse. The explicit goal is to undermine Ukraine for the benefit of Russia. It’s not a coincidence that this came immediately on the heels of a one hour phone call between Trump and Putin.
Yes.
Corrupt as it was, it still maintained some degree of independence. It does no longer.
Think of it as something akin to the difference between the period when two separate corporations were part of a cartel in which the larger of the two was by far the dominant partner, and the situation after the larger one has bought out the smaller, fired the entire C-suite and most of the employees and sold off most of the company assets.
Oh absolutely. Minorities will disproportionately suffer and die, but nothing close to exclusively.
More broadly, disadvantaged people will suffer and die. Minorities are already overrepresented among the disadvantaged and under the overtly bigoted policies of the Trump regime, they will be even more overrepresented, but that’s just something of a bonus to the would-br oligarchs. They’re excited at the prospect of culling poor people, pretty much regardless of the details.
But not clearly defining DEI is key.
The actual goal is to effectively not only legalize but actively encourage discrimination, and that’s done specifically by not clearly defining DEI so companies will tend to generally avoid hiring monorities at all, for fear that they’ll be punished by the Trump regime.
Turns out that like so many other things, all of the noise about “replacement theory” was just conservative projection. They claimed that there was some sort of determined effort to eliminate whites because they were right in the middle of a determined effort to eliminate non-whites (and non-cis, non-het, non-christian, etc.) and as they do, they assumed/pretended that everyone else is as evil as they are.
This is the way it’s going to work, by design:
- Companies will not only avoid DEI hires, but will avoid hiring minorities broadly, for fear that they’ll be accused of following DEI policies and punished by the Trump regime. So minorities are going to end up even more discriminated against.
- Without sufficient Medicaid funding, employer health insurance will be the only way that most in the US will be able to get healthcare.
- Denied employment and denied Medicaid, people - and disproportionately minorities - will die.
No wonder the Republicans are giddy.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half of them are stupider than that.” - George Carlin
After reading through the other answers, I’m not sure of what to make of the fact that my first thought was coffee.
Because the Department of Transportation is now a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil.
What it meant to me was that I had to unpin the link to my lemm.ee account from my Firefox home page.
It could’ve been the case that I would’ve had one less instance to choose from, but in the aftermath of the announcement, I found two new instances I wanted to try, so I’m actually one ahead in the long run.
And that’s it.
And he’s right.
By any measure, the exidtence of that great of a disparity in wealth in a society is evidence of the failure of the systems on which that society is built.
It’s akin to if you were responsible for caring for a field of crops, and you ended up with a field in which two or three plants were enormous, bloated and overgrown. a few were more or less healthy, snd the rest were weak and shriveled and starving.
That rather obviously would mean you’d failed.