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Zero chance there's an early election. No way are they giving up power voluntarily. Like you say, we need to cross our fingers that any damage they do during the rest of their tenure is not too terrible. Long way to go still.

Anyone else think he's a little overrated ? Don't get me wrong he was by far our best player but it's all relative. He was the best player in the second worst performing prem team in history. I'm not sure he is as good as we think he is.

Stay classy.

Shooter rumoured to have a trans boyfriend he was living with. Explains a fair bit.

I don't think I have.

Indeed. Some groups just have lower impulse control and are more predisposed to disorder.

An ineffective waste of time that doesn't deal with the root causes of an issue and instead dooms a society to repeat it again and again. Oh and guns in America are retarded.

A big chunk of her message is dedicated to asking people to join turning point USA in memory of her husband. Regardless, I'm not sure tone policing a widow in the immediate aftermath of the murder of her husband, no doubt whilst she's contemplating raising her children alone and potentially for the rest of her life is the way to go . Yeah maybe she could have said things a bit more calmly or differently but that's easy to say when it hasn't happened to you.

I don't believe that's the same thing . Blind selection isn't affirmative action . I also have none of that and my workforce is incredibly diverse so it's not necessarily a requirement.

Did you watch the entire message ?

I think I'll give her a pass if you have a bit of an issue with her tone considering what's just happened to her. Not sure I'd be as restrained under similar circumstances .

I know some in Britain like the whole don't look back in anger thing in the immediate aftermath of a murder but maybe some people in other countries see that for what it is.

Her husband and father to her children has just been shot in the neck and killed. If anything she was positively restrained.

In what way is the equality act comparable to DEI? Positive discrimination is generally outlawed.

What I've found interesting are the tributes particularly from women, minorities and gay people who knew or interacted with him. I haven't seen a single one so far that wasn't glowing-talking about how supportive he was towards them in private, how he was friendly and spent time with them in their homes, how he helped them with crippling anxiety and gave them confidence, how kind he was to their same sex partners, how he treated minorities like a brother and how he volunteered to assist with theirnorganisations for no money. If he was a bigot then judging by those comments from people who actually knew him he was pretty selective with his bigotry and it doesn't sound like he was a very good one.

I think that no one should get a job over someone else who is more capable based on immutable characteristics like skin colour if this is what is happening. With full implementation of DEI there's certainly potential for that to happen. As long as the best and most capable people are being hired regardless of skin colour then that's the ideal to strive for.

I could support some form of blind hiring where people make decisions based on cvs without identifying characteristics. Just because there may be some bias (and I know this isn't always the case) doesn't mean that DEI discrimination is the answer.

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I'm not sure you can ever really know that unless you know the person in real life.

And we know it happened in he UK with fitness standards in the army. I take the point that it's still a pass if they've reached a certain point but I still don't think someone should be elevated above someone else just based on an immutable characteristic. Even if we accept that Charlie Kirk didn't express himself as well as he might have done, his overall point that DEI is wrong is correct.

It's only dangerous if you take online persons seriously and take those sort of things offline. I think soggy is a complete bellend but if I ever met him in real life I'm sure I could have a polite conversation and maybe a haircut from his black barber. We don't really know anyone on here (other than the few people I do actually know in real life) and I'm sure the majority are nothing like their online personality.

No one should get a job over somebody else if they are less qualified purely based on skin colour if everything else other than those two factors is equal. That woukd be the case the other way round too.

Under qualified means less qualified than the original standard. The standard will necessarily be lowered in order to reach the racial quota they are aiming for.

See these kind of posts are just sad. I don't know you in real life you could be a great person and a really warm and friendly guy but on here you come across like many of the worst people on the left -an unearned sense of moral superiority, preaching empathy but then demonstrating very little for people who you disagree with. You use crass language and fling around insults at people just because they see things differently to you and you brand people as ists and phobes rather than trying to understand others and you think you're the one with the empathy. I'm sure you're a very nice person offline but sadly not on here.

In the context of the discussion it was very obvious what he meant. He's arguing against the lowering of standards in general in order to meet quotas. He's not necessarily saying don't try not to hire more black people, he's saying that those black people should meet the existing standard prior to the introduction of the DEI policy. He's right. If less black people or less of any ethnicity don't meet the standard then less should be hired which is what happens in a merit based systen.