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Dean does not discuss doing a better job addressing requirements, rather discusses changing the opinion of his views to be as socialist as possible, as left most as he can. This narrative implies his grades increased when his work matched his professor's preferred views rather than his better meeting class requirements. Personally I had one experience in a Philosophy class where the professor caused me to self-censor. He spent time referring to me and those few like me as idiots for believing in god. Students do it to each other also. Self censoring is real. https://www.fire.org/facultyreport

This is the ~12th iteration of layoffs I've experienced... This one is big. People I hired and mentored on previous teams... gone. People I depend on for aligned project execution. Gone. So much impact to each person [and their family]. I was confident it would be me this time. This quiet violence passed over my doorstep. Me and mine will be fine. Never a victim.

11K by the start of business. More regions coming this week. Very good engineers… laid off in the coldest manner. A note (email), no call.

https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cntrng-crm/frrms/c21-en.aspx https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2022/10/21/freezing-market-handguns

7,000 and counting RIFFed this morning.

You get points for flooding, insulting, and inflaming. Not for disagreement.

Why not just say “no trump”… their metaphor no kings makes them look like idiots. Same idiots not on the streets with the previous not king presidents. Organized idiots.

you are winning because these guys do not know how to play. non trolls don’t get to give a point AND respond. it is one or the other.

is it guns or people? the ones that use guns wrong… is it mail ins or people…

this is the best thread on the NWF

No kings. No Hitler. protests in my local karenville today. dummies…

This ^^^ is an exaggeration grounded observed patterns. That is not trolling. Here is some evidence that the era had a pattern of incentives, priming, and cultural signaling that rewards identity importance while punishing dissent. 61% of Democrats see republicans as bigots https://www.axios.com/2018/11/12/poll-democrats-and-republicans-hate-each-other-racist-ignorant-evil Interesting survey. Dems are about identity politics. https://www.fdu.edu/news/fdu-poll-finds-race-and-gender-push-harris-above-trump-nationally/ https://youtu.be/-gaS5j5fUSk Max Dean on having to self-censor his views to get good grades in school.

RV Troll Count: 23 RV Troll Count: 24 RV Troll Count: 25 RV Troll Count: 26 Why engaging?

pretty weak if you think that is provocative.

Fine line between trolling trolls and holding trolls accountable.

Trump and Biden are the clearest examples that leadership matters. The lack of leadership leads to autopens. Good leadership gets their own agenda done.

I don't understand it either but all of the US media and Education and TPT tell us to vote for the Kamalas and we are bigots otherwise.

I used to sign off... The Bigot Brigade.

If anything 2020, demonstrates Demos vote for people they don't like. The recent history shows us they vote for identity politics. First Black Man. First Woman. Pick a Black Woman VP, Black/Indian Woman. Biden was senile before 2024. How they didn't win this last time is a mystery. It worked on me with Obama. Good speaker. Seems intelligent. Can break a barrier... Not much into politics yet. Voted Obama. It about worked for Hilary on me. Can break a barrier. Then I recalled Obama and looked into Hilary and listened to her and "hell na." I wrote in Ron Paul in 2016 (wasted vote). The guy I liked from 2012 and before. 2020 was a no brainer based based on merit. Trump! And 2024 was an FU no brainer. Trump again!

We see the same evidence differently. The studies show that people were not enthusiastic for Biden. This doesn't mean dislike... but not quite "like." This matches my lived experience. The number of voters for Harris should have been MUCH higher in 2024 if 2020 was clean. It should have been a landslide for Democrats. Dismissing the 'voter pattern break' evidence seems hard-headed perhaps due to avoidance of its uncomfortable implication.

You cannot reengineer human nature. Disparities are real but multi-causal. What better country is there for anyone to succeed? Strong families and education can only help. Victimization ideology only hurts.

None of them (folks I spoke with) claimed to be voting 'for Biden.' They explicitly said they were voting 'Not Trump.' Conflating the two misses the point. --- Interesting that nearly 20% more Republicans were happy with candidates in 2020 as compared to Democrats. Yet they were outvoted significantly. --- Interesting that 90% of Democrats that voted in 2016 returned in 2020 while only 85% returned in 2024. Meanwhile 90% of Republicans that voted in 2016 returned in 2020 while 89% returned in 2024. Nothing to see here. /s

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This article spells it out. I also learned he considered running in 1984 and 2016… well before getting 1 out of 12 votes in an early 2020 primary. He was toast if not for identity politics and the media. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/16/902640265/joe-bidens-long-and-rocky-road-to-the-democratic-nomination

How does this address my point that Biden was not well liked? People were more likely to say I’m not voting for Trump than to say I’m voting for Biden. That was another tell.