That was the aim of DEI. Otherwise the usual groups get de facto preferential treatment. It’s not so simple as just “do nothing and everyone gets a fair shot.”

“The term ‘DEI’ has also become charged, in part because it is understood by some as a practice that suggests preferential treatment of some groups over others.”

Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be? It has only become “charged” by being unpopular with the new fascist regime.

I saw a naked man masturbating on a unicycle once. So that’s always an option.

Makes you wonder how much the rise of conservative evangelical Christianity and megachurches has to do with sheer social desperation.

That chunk is getting bigger though.

He has thrown in his lot with the Party of Personal Responsibility, with its proud tradition of denying responsibility for everything and blaming someone else.

The idiocy of people like RFK Jr. looking at avian flu, polio, measles, whooping cough and COVID, and deciding that vaccines are dangerous so should be banned, is quite incredible. And now he’s in charge of US health policy.

The Supreme Court, who are corrupt and take bribes, ruled that bribes are legal. Also that even if they weren’t, the law doesn’t apply to the President.

Still, it’s good to see there are people there who won’t just go along with anything.

What’s ridiculous about interpreting the man telling us daily how he’s going to take over some or all of our country as meaning he plans to take over some or all of our country? He has said this repeatedly about Canada, Greenland, Panama and Mexico. Is it ridiculous and extreme to suppose he might mean it?

At this point, tens of millions of believers—about 40 percent of American Christians, including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.

Doesn’t sound very fringe to me.

An empire builder would work with existing alliances, surely, rather than weakening them all systematically, threatening the allies, and undermining their governments until only the USA’s enemies remain strong, while simultaneously implementing policies that damage the USA’s own economy.

Just like Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland were good moves, strategically, for Germany. It doesn’t make it OK.

Sort of depends whether you’re still planning to invade, annex and/or economically destroy our country.

I wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.

I guess NYU prefers to be known as a pro-genocide university that doesn’t tolerate even mild dissent among the students.

Unfortunately we’re about to elect a Conservative government with the same reactionary social and religious agenda, the same racism, and the same hatred of public services and love of privatization as the Republicans, who will welcome “closer ties” with the USA. I absolutely do not trust them not to sell Canada out at the first opportunity.

Declarations of war have been a bit passé these last few decades. You can bypass a lot of tedious paperwork by calling it a fight against terrorism, a defense of liberty, a peacekeeping mission, or just a special military operation. If Trump’s USA invades us up here in Canada you’ll be told we’re being liberated from the dictatorship of middle-of-the-road electoral politics and an oppressive woke agenda of tolerance. And if we fight back we’ll be an insurgent threat to be neutralised in the cause of freedom. Only when we’re either dead from bullets or lack of healthcare, or wearing the straightjacket of corporatist Christofascism, will we be truly free.

Hey, they’ll fight whomever the Great Leader tells them is the tyrant!

(I believe the tyrant is currently trans people, poor immigrants, independent women and non-assholes.)

with experts warning of potential NATO conflicts and diplomatic fallout.

There’s the point. Once again, Trump is charged with weakening NATO and Western alliances.