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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 4, 2023 14:38:11 GMT -8
Kunstler's latest piece. Bidenomics in Action Everything he says is true. As regards the continued lack of workers across the U.S., I am beginning to wonder if many more people have died and/or been seriously injured because of the illegal-experimental-gene-therapy jab than is being even reported by those heroes doing yeoman's work going through all the available stats. Yes, a lot of people in their fifties and sixties left the job market during the KFF insanity, but these people were not generally working at Burger King, warehouses and other low-paying or physically demanding jobs. Something smells very fishy. This is somehow connected to the collapse of our complex systems due to the affirmative action religion which has now had time to work its way through our institutions. Mediocrity, and worse, have taken over at the top across the board.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 9:00:55 GMT -8
It's generally believed that the STEM subjects are less effected by wokeness, political correctness, affirmative action, and the lowered standards that go with each. But the measure for that is when we see planes start to fall out of the sky or buildings and bridges collapsing.
The measuring of mediocrity in the "soft" sciences and what we might call social or service professions may be harder. This may be especially so because if one is surrounded by mediocrity, one doesn't know the difference.
We might suppose that there are measures though. We might look for higher levels of depression and job dissatisfaction. Working with mediocre people is extremely onerous and demanding...much more than working for people who are just appropriately demanding of good and honest work. Integrity marks clear boundaries that may be met. Mediocrity is an uncertain muddle.
One of my own measures is what I consider to be the rise of ambiguity. I get instructions all the time that cause me to spend an enormous amount of time just nailing down basic details. It's gotten to be a joke, for instance, the number of times I will ask a multi-part question (Do you want A, B, or C?) and the answer will be "Yes." And you see, of course, that my question wasn't answered and I have to start all over again.
You might guess that I am very clear and unambiguous in my own communications with people (but hardly perfect). But I strive for that because it saves time and increases the likelihood of getting things right.
But one thing I have no control over is the propensity for people to ignore the written word. I try to be very clear and simple in articulating the details of a job because I know that people just normally can't be bothered to slow down (a little) and just read.
So time after time I find myself saying something like "As noted in my original email to you, we will be using donkeys for making the dog food, not wild horses." Doesn't matter how clearly you write the details, there is no cure for people not bothering to take the time to read them.
This could certainly be a function of the generation of yutes who have addled their minds into attention-deficit disorders via their use of "smart" phone. I don't know. But I do see a rise in ambiguity and attention-deficit. And no particular sex seems to be immune.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 9:37:13 GMT -8
I just read this from an article at Townhall. I'm not being pedantic. But this goes to show the lower standards of literacy in this country. Spot the error:
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 5, 2023 9:40:06 GMT -8
Too easy. He is neither fish nor fowl. I guess they are no long teaching basic grammar in schools. Either, or. Neither, nor.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 9:52:54 GMT -8
And if you say "knee-ther" or "nye-ther," you are not marked down for either. The British is apparently the latter, although I think there are pockets in America that pronounce it that way as well.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 5, 2023 9:57:31 GMT -8
I'm with the British on this. To my ear, nye-ther sounds much better. Perhaps that's because ei in German is pronounced the same way. Stein is not pronounced steen, it is pronounced styen.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 11:12:48 GMT -8
Okay, let go for:
1) Tomato/Tomahhto? 2) Potato/Potahhto?
Oh, let's just call the whole thing off.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 5, 2023 12:22:36 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 5, 2023 12:33:14 GMT -8
Does anyone doubt that this creature is in her position not because of her intellectual qualifications but as the result of affirmative action and other leftist political considerations? I advise people to take the stairs and not the elevator as competence in this country is falling rapidly. Harvard freak
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Post by artraveler on Dec 5, 2023 13:14:49 GMT -8
affirmative action and other leftist political considerations? She is not the exception but the standard of educated fool running universities in this country. Thank G-d for Hillsdale and a few others. Like the monestaries during the Middle Ages a few schools may hold out hope for an entire culture.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 14:24:03 GMT -8
Thank God rap isn't actually music. That's the saving grace.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 5, 2023 14:38:29 GMT -8
You see, those just skimming may think I hate women because I criticize feminism often and believe they should (at least at the moment) be denied the vote, although I do so for quite logical reasons. You can't have a rationally-organized and good society if time and again half the voting population is easily politically "date-raped" by the propaganda that the female of the species just cannot see through most of the time.
But...we need them. This Margaret Thatcheresque chick who grills the idiot Harvard president shows why. She has more balls than 20 of today's soy-boys. Make that 30. To steal a line from Seinfeld, while watching her I believed it moved. There are mama grizzlies out there. We need more of them. And we need papa grizzlies as well. They have all but gone missing from public life.
You can shit all over this idiot Harvard president. But this is what is left when all the good people have been denied positions of trust and authority. Cockroaches seep in from the woodwork. She's probably not a bad lady, per se. But she clearly doesn't have an original thought in her head and is little more than a leftist dogma Pez dispenser.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 5, 2023 14:46:31 GMT -8
I seriously doubt that "she's probably not a bad lady, per se." Note the sneer on her face when certain questions are asked.
What was it that Woodrow Wilson said? "University politics are so vicious because the spoils are so small." As I recall he also opined that U.S. national politics were soft ball when compared to university politics.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 5, 2023 17:37:30 GMT -8
She's probably not a bad lady In addition to Harvard the leaders of MIT andYale were at the hearing. All were female (diversity hires?) and all were spouting the same theme, "we did noit want to restrict free speech". However, if you are a conservative or have religious values they don't want to hear from you, in the classroom as student or professor or on the stage as speaker.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 6, 2023 8:00:51 GMT -8
i was mistaken, it is Harvard, MIT and U Penn. They use the words but don't know what they mean.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 8, 2023 9:32:59 GMT -8
There has been some push-back against the three affirmative-action university presidents. That AE president from U of Penn has lost the university a $100 million endowment and is being pushed to resign. The creature from Harvard is having to squirm around to avoid further damage to herself. I haven't heard anything about the other one. I didn't mean what I said
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 8, 2023 10:55:07 GMT -8
Honest answer:
We hate Jews (except for the useful idiot liberal ones who are generous in their endowments) and see them as oppressors.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 8, 2023 11:06:55 GMT -8
The irony is that the "useful idiot liberal" Jews have been financing this insanity for decades, in fact they were happy with it until the worm turned. Will they learn from this? I have my doubts.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 8, 2023 11:26:09 GMT -8
One or two might. But the vast majority will continue to be useful idiots. We'll see.
You'd think the acceptance by school officials of student rallies for the death of Jews would be a wake-up call. But their religion is no longer Judaism. It's Leftism. Most have nowhere else to go and can't imagine that they haven't been right all along. They will likely rationalize that present circumstances are just an aberration. Or, more likely, they see "hatred of Jews" as "hatred of Israel" and thus not directed at them. Many may even agree with that.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 8, 2023 17:40:49 GMT -8
What a surprise. Ackman has come out and mentioned the problem of DEI more properly known as "affirmative action," which would accurately be called "racism and sexism." Ivy league presidents chosen because of DEI Unfortunately Ackman, spouts a stupidity about McCarthism and the "Red Scare." This waters down his statement. It makes his original criticism of the DEI girls less serious. If one looks into the history of communist infiltration of the USA one will find that McCarthy was right. In fact, McCarthy's actions were taken only toward the latter part of the big infiltration of the USA by the Bolsheviks. He started going after them in 1950, while they had been active in the USA since the 1920s and infiltrated the FDR administration early on. Perhaps Ackman really is as ignorant as he sounds. Or maybe he thinks he must bad mouth McCarthy to cover the treason of leftist, or because he is sensitive to the fact that a large number of European Jews, or their children, were involved in traitorous actions against the USA at that time. The most glaring example of such types were the Rosenbergs. That said, I have never come across anything that McCarthy said that was antisemitic. He was going after communists, not Jews. I had one older Jewish friend who, I am convinced, was adamantly anti-McCarthy because he was somewhat embarrassed by the above fact. My friend was originally from Chicago and had experienced antisemitism as a child and young man. He was surprised to find no such thing in Texas when he moved here sometime in the late 1950s. He married a shiksa, they had a daughter and lived happily ever after. But he never lost his sensitivity about being Jewish. Protecting one's tribe and not admitting to any faults is a common human failing. Given the difficult history of the Jews, one can understand the reasons for avoiding such a subject. But I think that is a mistake. Ain't none of us perfect.
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