Exactly. Trump is being used by Vance and Musk. They both knew he was old and in poor health when they supported him.

No, but when you add internalized bigotry into the equation, I can see how a black man with mental health struggles ends up claiming to be a Nazi.

Likely internalized bigotry too. Considering when we hear about his mental health falling off it’s always in this context of him claiming to be a Nazi.

A) https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/24/15/12308

https://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/topics/agents/endocrine

https://academic.oup.com/toxsci/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/toxsci/kfae060/7673133?login=false

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2309822

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12013-024-01436-0

That took me less than 10 minutes of digging. I’m sure if I spent another 10 minutes on it I could find five more studies.

This all of course is assuming that you are arguing in good faith. My guess is that you’re not considering you put out such a bold claim when there’s substantial evidence that that claim was inaccurate.

Yeah, Vance and Musk are two peas in a pod. They’re both tech fascists.

And only one of them is richer than God. I don’t see Vance turning on his sugar daddy.

My mom keeps talking about how she thinks Trump is going to die soon anyway. And I keep telling her, I think Vance is twice as dangerous Mom.

Why do Democrats talk like they can win elections but then blame voters when they lose?

And to be honest, I don’t really even follow your post. Are Democrats not progressives? Are we agreeing that they are center right and that their base isn’t really motivated to vote for that?

I started a transitioning over the summer and I have lost 15 lb. Considering I had such a low BMI to begin with, I’m sure most of it is muscle.

And comments like you post, that are just parroting the Democrats platform of blaming their voter base, when they don’t know how to inspire that base… it’s getting old. And judging by all the downvotes on your comments, I guess it’s getting old for a lot of other people too.

All right you can spend the next 4 years blaming the left.

In the meantime I’m just going to remind you that in 2016 a populist left-wing candidate ran a very good primary without any corporate donations. Leftist policies and platforms are popular. And giving people the choice between center right and far-right doesn’t motivate voters.

Politicians don’t cater to groups that don’t vote.

Nah, they just cater to their corporate donors and folks that would never vote for them. Sliding more right every year and expecting everyone to hold their nose.

And then you want to blame leftists, when this is an alt account my main is on hexbear. Most real leftists I talk to voted for Harris. Because we’re not idiots.

But keep blaming us that the Democrats ran a shit campaign chasing Republican voters and corporate campaign dollars, while neglecting to get their base off the couch.

I voted for Harris. I’m scared shitless because I’m a trans woman

And I’m really fucking tired of posters on Lemmy blaming the left for not voting for more genocide and more center right politics from the Democrats.

If the Democrats want leftists to vote for them, they can start running on leftist policies and start running leftist politicians. Instead of running center right politicians on center right platforms.

They need to fire up the voters so that people want to vote for them. Instead their whole game is be scared if we lose. And blame voters for our loss.

It doesn’t inspire confidence and neither has the last two months since the election.

And comments like you post, that are just parroting the Democrats platform of blaming their voter base, when they don’t know how to inspire that base…

It’s getting old. And judging by all the downvotes on you’re comment, I guess it’s getting old for a lot of other people too.

Hi, actually studied business administration. DEI is good for business as it gives diverse perspectives. Allowing a company to better serve a diverse base of customers and to better facilitate global trade in a diverse world.

Which is exactly what Costco stated in their response to their pearl clutching/snowflake shareholders.

Also, you’re strawmanning hard in your post. No one is forcing Costco to do DEI. They’re choosing to for all the reasons I outlined. Choosing not to is either based on racism/patriarchy or kowtowing to the Nazis who took over the government in hopes to curry favor. It’s not based in economic principles or best business practices.

I said it isn’t law yet. And the article states that the law is forthcoming, and that Google does not intend to follow the forthcoming law.

Assuming you’re asking in good faith, the code is here.

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/code-practice-disinformation

Paid fact-checkers spread across all member states.

“The new Code will extend fact-checking coverage across all EU Member States and languages and ensure that platforms will make a more consistent use of fact-checking on their services. Moreover, the Code works towards ensuring fair financial contributions for fact-checkers’ work and better access to fact-checkers to information facilitating their daily work.”

Essentially, everything will have Snopes attached to it. Including political ads and other forms of advertising. As well as more blatant propaganda.

It’s set to become mandatory, i.e. law. According to the article.

And this isn’t a free speech issue. It’s about disinformation. Folks can say what they want, but a political ad needs to clearly be a political ad. And disinformation can’t be profit motivated.

It’s all in the article you just linked. You can say what ever you want, but if it’s bullshit, Google will need to flag it or face fines.

They’ve posted about a dozen times since I stated I’d love to hear good faith arguments beyond DEI hires are woke.

From their bio… “I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.”

I did ask and you haven’t responded. DEI hires are only a small fraction of what Meta is doing. But you hyperfocused on it while ignoring gaslighting LGBTQ folks, misogynistic stances towards women, and nationalist stances towards immigration.

How is that not Nazi shit?

Workforce diversity was touched on in my college business courses (I went to work in the non-profit sector).

It’s a benefit to companies for all the reasons squid stated. Nixing it is virtue signaling towards the fascist regime.

Gaslighting LGBTQ folks. Misogynistic stances towards women. Nationalist stances towards immigration.

Seems far-right to me.

If you have a good faith argument as to how that’s not Nazi shit other than, ‘DEI hires are woke’, I’d love to hear it. Because it seems like you based your whole argument on a very narrow understanding of the situation.