You don't have an issue with companies hiring people based purely on the color of their skin or their sexual orientation vs their actual qualifications?

That being said, the right wing nutjobs blaming EVERYTHING on DEI is just as dumb as people blaming plane crashes on Trump one week after his inauguration. The Toronto crash was 99% pilot error but that most likely had nothing to do with DEI and everything to do with their not being enough qualified pilots in the industry.
- Whipper

What if that pilot was only certified 41 days ago and hired by a company (Endeavor via Delta) that proudly pushes it's DEI hiring practices...?

We'll see as more information comes out.

Seth Jones is looking like he's done in Chicago.

He certainly hasn't been playing at an elite level but he's a RHD with tremendous physical gifts. I think he can play better than what he's shown in Chicago and would be useful to the Leafs, depending on how much is retained on his contract.

Rielly / Tanev
McCabe / Jones
OEL / Myers
Benoit

And on the PP, he's fully capable of giving the Leafs that big booming point shot they need. 10-15 goals is not out of the question if used properly. Considering how little offense the Leafs blueline provides, he's definitely worth considering at the right price.

Only because you asked...



Weird how Biden got more votes than Obama but 10 million disappeared this time...

It's almost like printing universal mail-in ballots makes it easier to harvest a bunch of votes that wouldn't otherwise be cast.



Sorry you had to deal with the left wing lock all alone.

He will not realize that rational left wing people were forced to leave the party because the left has gone so far off the deepend. Most people they scream at and call fascist or Nazis are people that have simply stood still politically as the radicals have taken over the left wing parties (by design through the WEF and NGOs).

These guys are not the sharpest tools in the shed. They look at Trump, a 90s Democrat who is basically the same as Clinton on most policies, and they scream Hitler. Now that he's fixing the country, they scream fascism. Even though he's shrinking the government, not expanding it. They simply do not understand what is happening or what they are talking about.



Attacking DEI is absolutely necessary to get the western world back on track and to purge the institutions of this idiotic cult like adherence to cultural Marxism.

It has nothing to do with hating groups of people and everything to do with hating the idea of hiring people based on anything other than their qualifications to be the best possible person for the job.

Wrong again. DEI is about hiring people to "correct historical inequities". It's cultural Marxism. It's a passive aggressive redistribution of wealth. It's about hiring people based on race, sex, orientation and any other DEI criteria they can muster instead of hiring the best possible person for the job.

Using DEI hiring practices is just as stupid and just as racist as your classic KKK ideology of hiring only whites. Nobody should be disqualified from being hired for any reason other than their competency and being the best possible person for the job.



Prove it BlueAnon.
- Rare_Jewel

Fair enough.

Mine are just beginning.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Yeah, but you like it!

- GalacticStone

And that's the bottom line...

At the risk of sounding like I am ripping off Quint’s soliloquy in Jaws, here goes:

In the mid-1990s, I did development work in the former Soviet Bloc.

One warm summer evening, a couple of guys my age from our local partner and their friends took me to see the local telecommunications tower in Vilnius, Lithuania. There was an observation deck, and I think we bought beers up there (I could be wrong on that fact).

Anyhoo, there were crosses outside. It had been a significant spot in the Singing Revolution, where the Baltic States had won their independence. Lithuanians had sought to protect it and other important buildings during a Soviet crackdown in 1991.

I knew all this - I had followed it while in University. But here I was, and these kids my age were describing it, because they were there. They were woefully unprepared - the Red Army crashed through crowds that were merely linking arms. 14 people died. One of the kids I was with’s dad lost his hearing permanently after being hit in the head with the butt of a rifle.

It was the most humbling experience of my life. These kids my age had put there lives on the line for the dream of freedom and democracy. What the hell had I ever done?

Quint may never wear a life jacket again, but you can be damn sure I will vote in every election for the rest of my life. To not do so would just seem insulting.

True Wedgie Story
- Atomic Wedgie

One of my longtime repeat clients lives in Lithuania. He's definitely not cool with Russia coming back in and taking over. It's a tiny country, but they'll fight over it. I get the feeling the sentiment is largely the same in the rest of the Baltics.

He said there is a small but vocal minority of mostly elderly babushkas who pine for the return of the USSR, but the country as a whole hates Putin and his circle of warlords.

Slava Ukraini.

What if that pilot was only certified 41 days ago and hired by a company (Endeavor via Delta) that proudly pushes it's DEI hiring practices...?

We'll see as more information comes out.
- Rare_Jewel

IF that is true, (and it's a big if), she wasn't hired due to DEI. She was hired because they'll hire anyone that meets the legal requirements. There isn't some poor white guy punching the air because he lost out on that job. They hired him too.

IF that is true, (and it's a big if), she wasn't hired due to DEI. She was hired because they'll hire anyone that meets the legal requirements. There isn't some poor white guy punching the air because he lost out on that job. They hired him too.
- Whipper

Sadly, what's true doesn't matter any more, one way or the other.

DEI was put out there as a cause, so that's all the matters for many folks.

I honestly don't know how the (frank) we move forward in this post-truth age. Debating is impossible now.

Sadly, what's true doesn't matter any more, one way or the other.

DEI was put out there as a cause, so that's all the matters for many folks.

I honestly don't know how the (frank) we move forward in this post-truth age. Debating is impossible now.
- GalacticStone

In unrelated news, what are you going to do with your $5000 DOGE tax refund?

One of my longtime repeat clients lives in Lithuania. He's definitely not cool with Russia coming back in and taking over. It's a tiny country, but they'll fight over it. I get the feeling the sentiment is largely the same in the rest of the Baltics.

He said there is a small but vocal minority of mostly elderly babushkas who pine for the return of the USSR, but the country as a whole hates Putin and his circle of warlords.

Slava Ukraini.
- GalacticStone

Russia has never seen the former Soviet states - in the Baltics, Moldova, Georgia, etc as legitimate. They’ve been active in trying to destabilize these countries in the same way they did in Ukraine for years before invading. Now that Trump is considering pulling troops out of the Baltic, the level of nervousness has got to be even higher.

One of my longtime repeat clients lives in Lithuania. He's definitely not cool with Russia coming back in and taking over. It's a tiny country, but they'll fight over it. I get the feeling the sentiment is largely the same in the rest of the Baltics.

He said there is a small but vocal minority of mostly elderly babushkas who pine for the return of the USSR, but the country as a whole hates Putin and his circle of warlords.

Slava Ukraini.
- GalacticStone

Most Balts of a certain age will tell you they would have been better off if the Nazis had won WWII.

They hated the Russians that much.

In unrelated news, what are you going to do with your $5000 DOGE tax refund?
- Whipper

Buy a couple dozen eggs?

What if that pilot was only certified 41 days ago and hired by a company (Endeavor via Delta) that proudly pushes it's DEI hiring practices...?

We'll see as more information comes out.
- Rare_Jewel

My best friend just got certified to fly a A320 for AC.

But he’s a white male so you don’t care.

Sadly, what's true doesn't matter any more, one way or the other.

DEI was put out there as a cause, so that's all the matters for many folks.

I honestly don't know how the (frank) we move forward in this post-truth age. Debating is impossible now.
- GalacticStone

Trump broke society like I broke Billy’s brain.

IF that is true, (and it's a big if), she wasn't hired due to DEI. She was hired because they'll hire anyone that meets the legal requirements. There isn't some poor white guy punching the air because he lost out on that job. They hired him too.
- Whipper

And if those legal "requirements" have been lowered?

And if those legal "requirements" have been lowered?
- Rare_Jewel

The white race will collapse because of it.

Omg you’re so right! Only white people should have high profile careers!

Russia has never seen the former Soviet states - in the Baltics, Moldova, Georgia, etc as legitimate. They’ve been active in trying to destabilize these countries in the same way they did in Ukraine for years before invading. Now that Trump is considering pulling troops out of the Baltic, the level of nervousness has got to be even higher.
- Canada Cup

As if USAID and the State Department didn't destabilize Ukraine by overthrowing a democratically elected president?

As if USAID and the State Department didn't destabilize Ukraine by overthrowing a democratically elected president?
- Rare_Jewel

This is so (frank)ed.

There’s something seriously wrong with you.

My best friend just got certified to fly a A320 for AC.

But he’s a white male so you don’t care.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

The white race will collapse because of it.

Omg you’re so right! Only white people should have high profile careers!
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Strawman statements because you have nothing else.

Strawman statements because you have nothing else.
- Rare_Jewel

Projection.

This is so (frank)ed.

There’s something seriously wrong with you.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

It must be difficult for the truth to shatter your delusional worldview.

As if USAID and the State Department didn't destabilize Ukraine by overthrowing a democratically elected president?
- Rare_Jewel

😆 😆

It must be difficult for the truth to shatter your delusional worldview.
- Rare_Jewel

No, but admittedly its sad seeing so many people fall for Kremlin propaganda.

No, but admittedly its sad seeing so many people fall for Kremlin propaganda.
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Marxist.

😆 😆
- GalacticStone

So embarrassingly (frank)ing stupid lol.