All these companies axing DEI. No defiance. No resistance messaging. Not even wondering how they could tighten up their bidhets to keep it going. Just quietly shitcanning a bunch of HR ninnies like they were looking for an excuse to do it anyways.
Their confusion and unmet entitlement is probably similar to what the "moral majority" must have felt, coming out of the 80's, unaware that everyone was pretty much done with their bullshit.
It makes their impotent rage all the more tasty.
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DOGE is fun optics and admirable goals, but with long-term profligate congressional spending, isn't this just like asking King Canute to command the tides?
This seems dystopic to me 🤮
Stop the train i am leaving 😵💫
Rediculus is not enough...
https://video.nostr.build/19dbd0662027774e35c4bd607790aa5128e1b4f25c31f8fa243f62425e1784d6.mp4
What absurd theatrics
YES - we need this!
Arizona state representative Eli Crane is drafting up articles of impeachment for US District Judge Paul Engelmayer for being an activist judge in trying to stop DOGE from rooting out waste and corruption.
https://x.com/RepEliCrane/status/1889325206998556730
H/T Becca
"irreperable harm"
"DOGE is trying to fix it"
Someone doesn't know what "irreperable" means.
Call animal control
I speculate that PBS was probably just looking for an excuse to scuttle the DEI nonsense anyways, since it creates content that further distances them from a more general audience. If you've ever listened to NPR lately, it's more unlistenable than ever.
I once heard an interview with the NPR CEO, basically bragging that there is no way congressional Republicans could ever just shut down NPR, because federal funding accounts for so little of their budget. Basically stations with little to no audiences wouldn't survive, and the rest would just have more fundraisers or stricter budgeting. Quiet part out loud.
It varies by station, but about %20-25 comes from sponsorships. 6-8% from federal funds dispersed through CPB. The rest is largely audience donations.
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Second thought about publicly funded media: The overwhelming majority of their kitty is still donor funding. They make a lot of noise when "Big Bird" is on the chopping block, but all that would happen is stations in the middle of nowhere get shut down.
With public broadcasters pressured by the Trump administration, PBS shuts down its diversity office
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Makes me wonder how the content will be affected, especially if NPR bends the knee. If it makes a noticeable difference, that will be a telling sign about how much outsized influence these DEI positions had over news content funded on the public dime.
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Yeah, but it's not like they start laughing post-nut. The self-consciousness train pulled out of the station long before the fur suit got a little tighter.
My serious take is that
1. I think you're talking about furries. The sorts of people who construct stories about themselves and live in them. They don't see a difference between living in their story or the larger, more popular story constructed by other people (social norms). It's not that they can't read the room; they don't want to.
2. People who take their fantasy that seriously for extended periods of time don't often come up for air. They afford themselves little time to pull back their consciousness camera far enough to see themselves existing in the boring story of social norms. They dont often think about the differences and the ironies and all the other things attending to their "weird" behavior in the context of other people.
3. People who can't see differences and ironies of their behavior tend not to think about what they are doing as "funny". "My behavior is humorous? Compared to what?"