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Putting a title on it (I.e. "Big beautiful bill") doesn't mean it is a big, beautiful bill.

I'm not skeptical of DEI because I'm against "diversity, equity, and inclusion", I'm skeptical because of piss poor implementations of it I see in the workforce

The whole "non DEI" / "DEI hostile" stance seems so weird. I get that the basis is "you should not hire someone because of their origin/look/orientation/whatever", and, maybe, why not. I hire people based on qualifications usually. How did it turn into "you should fire these people".

…that's a rhetorical question. I know that that first part was just a pretense, but still, how much of a morons must people be to follow that.

Oh we are ashamed.

But this is not ignorance or stupidity, but cult effervescence demonstrated as a phenomenon of social bias.

Think of it as an advertising technique or technology, one that not everyone is susceptible to by enough people are. My dad is (was) a literal rocket scientist for NASA and now a whole hearted MAGA disciple. You don't have to be unintelligent or ignorant, you just need to want reality to be different than it appears to be from observational data.

We are not special is a difficult truth for some to take, and immense propaganda machines capitalize on this desire.

We'll need to counter it or figure out the negative consequences of using it but until then — heck even MLMs are just business cults — they'll stay in use to subvert society until it collapses.

The US is one very large example, but these methods are used globally by people with influence who fear losing their power to movements of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité

aka DEI

aka Wokeness

aka the fundamental principles of communism and anarchism. This is an old fight.

This is why Donald loves the poorly uneducated morons.

The sad thing is that AI has already solved climate change. Just ask it! Same solutions we already knew.

User: Hey AI how do we solve climate change?

AI: Sure thing, I've updated a comprehensive report with a step by step guide to accomplish your goal of solving climate change. Just click this file to download it: SkyNet.exe

Recommendation: download wikipedia. While you still can.

Sorry America voted for this twice. You do not get to disown this after the fact.

As a US citizen, prove to me that most Americans don't want this.

Yeah, I see the protests, even in my Trump-loving town.

But that's it. People holding signs.

I don't see aggressive action. I don't see the necessary violence - yeah I said it.

I'm moving out of the country because everyone I've tried to rally says they're too busy, they don't have time, they care but they don't care that much, they think everything will work out, or they believe it isn't as bad as the news says.

The people I've voted for and elected just sit on their hands and do fuck all.

I'm 110% for fighting for and defending what I used to believe in, but not when literally all evidence and signs point to nobody else giving a shit.

Someone call me when you're ready to legitimately strategize about how to topple this fascist regime.

…were they? i don’t think incinerating humans is great for air quality

Alibaba's AI department, and hopefully MistralAI, must be so happy right now, the competition is getting rid of itself.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Americas-AI-Action-Plan.pdf