Any time you see a politician ranting about DEI, replace it in your mind with the n-word. That’s what they’re really saying. No, it doesn’t matter that people of any race can use it; Republicans have spent the past 6 decades cementing the idea of public projects and vilified racial minorities being inherently linked.
N-word bike lane doesn't make any sense unless there's a separate Whites bike lane...and as much as these fucks would love to bring back Jim Crow and segregation, I really don't see them putting in a bike lane just for the whites, let alone one for the blacks.
They'll put in a special lane for rollin' coal on the interstate before they do that.
That’s what the entire second half of my comment was about. Public transit isn’t segregated by law either, but the unashamed racists will tell you they don’t take it because it’s for black people. Atlanta’s metro service, MARTA, has been pejoratively called ‘moving Africans rapidly through Atlanta’ since before a lot of people on here were born. They incite racial hatred and then rhetorically link social programs and racial minorities to make racists more okay with having programs that benefit them cut. This is why food stamps went from one of the most supported to one of the most vilified, politicized welfare programs.
It’s what some McKinsey guy, who will sadly be president some day, thought (so profoundly prematurely and presumptuously) that we stupid rubes could use, and more importantly, would actually give a shit to use, suddenly, to talk about this McKinsey guy that we all love.
Because, you know, all we know are words like boot and edge. We have never even heard if IPA or a dictionary or anything more than one-syllable words.
You just know this douchebag workshopped the shit out of his own name’s ‘idiot-proof’ pronunciation for like, 400 hours per year of his like 70,000 hrs + overtime + over-overtime per year at McManageTheWorld Inc (And also totally ruin it, see the book When McKinsey
Comes to Town)
You just know this douchebag workshopped the shit out of his own name’s ‘idiot-proof’ pronunciation for like, 400 hours per year of his like 70,000 hrs + overtime + over-overtime per year at McManageTheWorld Inc (And also totally ruin it, see the book When McKinsey
Comes to Town)
Yeah McKinsey is shit.
But wtf is this shit. Are you ok, dude? You think he workshopped his last name? And what he decided on was "Buttigieg"? What?
No, i was joking, poorly I admit, that he workshopped the pronunciation, so boot-edge-edge, not Buttigieg, was what was ‘workshopped’ and “what he decided on”, to answer your question..
because these are the world’s most cynical people at McKinsey, who workshop everything and make the whole world ‘plastic’ and fake and “optimized” and “streamlined” and so on.
It’s just, who does that? It reeks of a politician being “annointed” overnight rather than emerging on the stage naturally, where word of mouth would easily make it a non issue. If you have to tell everyone, again and again, how to pronounce your name, maybe you just don’t have the juice or whatever.
I don’t think, Idk, Kucinich, for example, went all over telling everyone constantly “it’s Coo-sin-itch!” It’s coo-sin-itch!”
Or Mike Krzyzewski, “hey my name is pronounced shi-zeff-ski! Shi-zeff-ski!”
Buttigieg is probably just used to like, showing up one day at supermarket chain HQs or whatever with his “deck” of slides, meeting people for the first time ever right before recommending cutting 40% of all jobs there, and listing all his Ivy League credentials and how to pronounce his name on the previous slide. Nobody knew how to pronounce his name because yes it’s unusual but also because he’s parachuted in and immediately automatically “matters”
If you happen to run into anyone in your social circles who choose to use those term. Ask them to actually define them, yet to meet a single one who can.
It has been unseasonably cool where I live. We're talking low 80's, 26-ish celcius.
Weather is very hard to conceptualize for us monkeys. It's very easy for someone who never needs to stay in one place to have a completely incorrect perception of what weather or climate actually is. People who do stay in one place seem to struggle with it, that should tell you what you need to know.
No, but my Trump voting office trog sure does. Never misses a chance to point out oddly cool weather, as if it somehow means climate change is not real.
That's a new term for me, thanks. Been seeing a lot of that recently, and I had a thought: my EV and solar panels aren't just about the environment, they're independence. I can make a kilowatt-hour with stuff I have at home. I cannot make a gallon of gasoline with stuff I have at home.
Are people allowed to pit Truck Nuts on their EVs?
Also Pretro Masculinity describes exactly why I could not handle watching Landman. Because that show was basically that mindset distilled into TV. Frankly, everything by Taylor Sheridan kind of falls into that bucket.
That's how Pete's 2016 campaign presented it phonetically when people were still unsure how to pronounce his name. Not much of an insult but nobody has ever accused this administration of being clever.
It's kinda like gatcha currency, where the extra step makes it harder for people to know how much they're spending.
They spent so long trying to establish that "DEI is bad", without clearly defining what it is or why it's bad. But people just went along and accepted it. So now they can literally just point to something and say "That's DEI!" and that extra step is too much for people to put together they're just being told not to like something without a proper reason. And they just believe it because they succumb to social pressure easily and go along with whatever the "in-group" does because they're afraid of becoming part of the "out-group".
And the crazy thing is that they were never part of the "in-group" to begin with they just think they are lol. It's really kinda crazy manipulation. I'd respect it if they weren't using it to enrich themselves and fist fuck the planet.
When words like "woke" "DEI" or any of the other ones adjacent to them are use to express displeasure of any kind I immediately lose interest in what they have to say.
Muchlike i do with people that blame [insert thing they don't like] on [insert political ideology they don't agree with] instead of coming up with, you know, facts and reasoning or something.
Tangent, but is "bikers" the right word? I use bicyclists or cyclists or bike riders for people who pedal. To me "bikers" ride motorcycles, which means they use the car lanes and burn fuel, although their individual politics might be DEI.
I will receive a lot of downvotes, but I remember the time when words were used to inspire thoughts that inspire emotions. Today they go straight to emotions
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Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 153 pts · 25d
Any time you see a politician ranting about DEI, replace it in your mind with the n-word. That’s what they’re really saying. No, it doesn’t matter that people of any race can use it; Republicans have spent the past 6 decades cementing the idea of public projects and vilified racial minorities being inherently linked.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23d
N-word bike lane doesn't make any sense unless there's a separate Whites bike lane...and as much as these fucks would love to bring back Jim Crow and segregation, I really don't see them putting in a bike lane just for the whites, let alone one for the blacks.
They'll put in a special lane for rollin' coal on the interstate before they do that.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 23d
That’s what the entire second half of my comment was about. Public transit isn’t segregated by law either, but the unashamed racists will tell you they don’t take it because it’s for black people. Atlanta’s metro service, MARTA, has been pejoratively called ‘moving Africans rapidly through Atlanta’ since before a lot of people on here were born. They incite racial hatred and then rhetorically link social programs and racial minorities to make racists more okay with having programs that benefit them cut. This is why food stamps went from one of the most supported to one of the most vilified, politicized welfare programs.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 22d
but neither does "DEI bike lanes"
Plum@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 25d
Tf is Boot-edge-edge? I can't keep up with idiot name calling conventions.
quylaa@lemmy.ml · 61 pts · 25d
Buttigieg.
It took me way too long to figure that out.
Plum@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 25d
Thank you for that. I'm appreciably dumber now.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 24d
Yeah but like, what's the joke supposed to be? It is embarrassingly childish, but usually the name calling actually makes sense at least.
"Boot edge edge" is just nonsense. Like cool, you thought of similar sounding words.
Like preschool level shit.
mokus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 24d
Probably couldn’t spell it correctly, and copes by pretending he’s owning a lib.
decolo@piefed.social · 33 pts · 25d
and Bootyjudge was right there
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 25d
This is not a demographic known for its witty rhetoric.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 25d
It’s what some McKinsey guy, who will sadly be president some day, thought (so profoundly prematurely and presumptuously) that we stupid rubes could use, and more importantly, would actually give a shit to use, suddenly, to talk about this McKinsey guy that we all love.
Because, you know, all we know are words like boot and edge. We have never even heard if IPA or a dictionary or anything more than one-syllable words.
You just know this douchebag workshopped the shit out of his own name’s ‘idiot-proof’ pronunciation for like, 400 hours per year of his like 70,000 hrs + overtime + over-overtime per year at McManageTheWorld Inc (And also totally ruin it, see the book When McKinsey Comes to Town)
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 24d
Yeah McKinsey is shit.
But wtf is this shit. Are you ok, dude? You think he workshopped his last name? And what he decided on was "Buttigieg"? What?
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 24d
No, i was joking, poorly I admit, that he workshopped the pronunciation, so boot-edge-edge, not Buttigieg, was what was ‘workshopped’ and “what he decided on”, to answer your question..
because these are the world’s most cynical people at McKinsey, who workshop everything and make the whole world ‘plastic’ and fake and “optimized” and “streamlined” and so on.
It’s just, who does that? It reeks of a politician being “annointed” overnight rather than emerging on the stage naturally, where word of mouth would easily make it a non issue. If you have to tell everyone, again and again, how to pronounce your name, maybe you just don’t have the juice or whatever.
I don’t think, Idk, Kucinich, for example, went all over telling everyone constantly “it’s Coo-sin-itch!” It’s coo-sin-itch!”
Or Mike Krzyzewski, “hey my name is pronounced shi-zeff-ski! Shi-zeff-ski!”
Buttigieg is probably just used to like, showing up one day at supermarket chain HQs or whatever with his “deck” of slides, meeting people for the first time ever right before recommending cutting 40% of all jobs there, and listing all his Ivy League credentials and how to pronounce his name on the previous slide. Nobody knew how to pronounce his name because yes it’s unusual but also because he’s parachuted in and immediately automatically “matters”
Yes, I have a big problem with this guy. 😅
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 25d
he sounds like an edgy teenager and he's in control of billions in tax money. I miss a world without xitter.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 24d
The world would still be violently controlled by brainwashed chuds regardless of whether xitter exists or not.
Nyadia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 25d
AmyAye@nord.pub · 16 pts · 25d
Its like all the stupid "Lets Go Brandon" nonsense because they are all too much of a bunch of pussies to just say "Fuck Joe Biden."
Guess what, Fuck Trump.
See, its easy, I don't need some clever bull shit because I am not some softy ass coward.
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 24d
Please do not fuck trump. There are not enough antibiotics.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Outrage tourist grifter "Ranting for Vengeance" is trying his best to bring back "gay and retarded".
Rawrosaurus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 23d
If you happen to run into anyone in your social circles who choose to use those term. Ask them to actually define them, yet to meet a single one who can.
winkly@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 25d
It’s called a bi-cycle for a reason ;)
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 25d
The lanes were made out of black tops!
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 25d
Wow, you all are on fire today. Well done.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 25d
Diversity of transport modes
Equity in infrastructure quality
Inclusion in transportation planning
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 25d
Support our pollutionarily-challenged cyclist friends! Not everyone is able to make a mess of the environment equally!
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 25d
Maybe if they really, really oil their chain a whole lot?
frosch@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 25d
rolling coal for cyclists: attach a pot of crude oil dripping onto your chain and splatter that shit everywhere.
Fantastic idea!
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
Only if you also had a sprayer to apply it to the shiniest diesel trucks you see.
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca · 49 pts · 25d
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 40 pts · 25d
How are we still doing climate change denial in $current_weather?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 25d
Oh come on, snake_casing when you could have made it look like an
$ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE?LamaThematique@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 25d
The casing is not important here because, no matter how you write it the "current weather" always is an ENVIRONMENT variable ;)
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 24d
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 25d
People don't want you to know this but you can make env vars lowercase now.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d
Not in my style guide you fucking can't
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 23d
curlaccepts variables in uppercase and lowercase. if both are set, lowercase takes precedence.Except in OS's that don't have case sensitivity, i.e. DOS- and NT-based systems.
rtm
drmoose@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 24d
Blasphemy!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 24d
Burn the infidel!
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 25d
It has been unseasonably cool where I live. We're talking low 80's, 26-ish celcius.
Weather is very hard to conceptualize for us monkeys. It's very easy for someone who never needs to stay in one place to have a completely incorrect perception of what weather or climate actually is. People who do stay in one place seem to struggle with it, that should tell you what you need to know.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 24d
Ok, but I'm assuming you're not a total idiot who extrapolates from local weather?
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 24d
No, but my Trump voting office trog sure does. Never misses a chance to point out oddly cool weather, as if it somehow means climate change is not real.
chunes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
Is it also very hard for monkeys to look at graphs? They don't seem to have trouble with it when it's in service of screwing us out of money
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 25d
When you're asking them to look at graphs or the obscene wealth they can gain from screwing others over — yes, yes it is very hard.
I'm not justifying or excusing their behavior. I'm just explaining it.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 24d
People are not becoming obscenely wealthy from hating on bike lanes. They're just brainwashed morons.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 24d
People are absolutely becoming wealthy off of climate change denial, driving hate towards bike lanes is absolutely a part of that.
jtrek@startrek.website · 37 pts · 25d
It's all in-group pandering and shitty petro-masculinity. No conservatives should be in power. They are bad people.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 25d
That's a new term for me, thanks. Been seeing a lot of that recently, and I had a thought: my EV and solar panels aren't just about the environment, they're independence. I can make a kilowatt-hour with stuff I have at home. I cannot make a gallon of gasoline with stuff I have at home.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 24d
Same. Solid vocab day for me.
AmyAye@nord.pub · 6 pts · 25d
Are people allowed to pit Truck Nuts on their EVs?
Also Pretro Masculinity describes exactly why I could not handle watching Landman. Because that show was basically that mindset distilled into TV. Frankly, everything by Taylor Sheridan kind of falls into that bucket.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 25d
DEI is everything I don't like. Same as woke.
Snapz@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 24d
Why do republicans insist on waking up from sleep every morning?
Waking up is super woke.
Real TRUE PATRIOTS go to sleep once, and stay that way forever, to own the libz.
dwemthy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 24d
New Mitch McConnell spin just dropped
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 24d
"I just stole 1.7 billion dollars!"
That's all I'm hearing
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 26 pts · 24d
...What the fuck is this? An insulting name for Buttigieg? Stupid.
villainy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 24d
That's how Pete's 2016 campaign presented it phonetically when people were still unsure how to pronounce his name. Not much of an insult but nobody has ever accused this administration of being clever.
Glytch@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 24d
A bad one at that. Come on Booty-judge is right there.
Spitefire@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 24d
Thank you for figuring it out, I was stumped.
CombatWombat@feddit.online · 26 pts · 25d
Its a DEI bike lane because you didn't earn it. You earn a lane by taking on $80,000 in debt to buy a F350.
acchariya@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 25d
Instructions unclear, I'm now stuck in the bike lane with my F350
osanna@lemmy.vg · 23 pts · 24d
imagine being proud to be such a bigoted piece off shit. Holy shit.
joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 25d
yeah you just redirected it into your pockets you fucking crooks
tonytins@pawb.social · 15 pts · 25d
To where? The war?
HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 25d
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 24d
This is USA. It's being used to murder children on the other side of the planet so some pale bros can make a buck.
ccunning@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 25d
Commas are WOKE commie!
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 24d
"Everything I don't like I'll label Woke, DEI, Communist, Socialist, Antifa or Liberal. They are too dumb to know they are being played"
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 24d
I'd even add "Green" in there. And "Rigged".
aquovie@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 23d
To be fair, it's likely the midterms will actually be rigged this time.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 23d
Interestingly, none of these words actually mean anything. Those that do (green, socialist) are used only metaphorically.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 25d
I've come to the conclusion that most of the Twitter Trump Parrots have absolutely no idea what most of their daily hate words even mean.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe · 8 pts · 24d
Eight minutes’ hate.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 25d
It's kinda like gatcha currency, where the extra step makes it harder for people to know how much they're spending.
They spent so long trying to establish that "DEI is bad", without clearly defining what it is or why it's bad. But people just went along and accepted it. So now they can literally just point to something and say "That's DEI!" and that extra step is too much for people to put together they're just being told not to like something without a proper reason. And they just believe it because they succumb to social pressure easily and go along with whatever the "in-group" does because they're afraid of becoming part of the "out-group".
And the crazy thing is that they were never part of the "in-group" to begin with they just think they are lol. It's really kinda crazy manipulation. I'd respect it if they weren't using it to enrich themselves and fist fuck the planet.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Right? Can we please get some nefarious masterminds who want to manipulate people into, idk the Green New Deal or something actually helpful?
OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app · 12 pts · 25d
Anyone who has a problem with bike lanes should just kill themselves and save the rest of us from their dumbassery. Duffy is another waste of skin.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 25d
It's because they're too LGB(iciclyst)T[...]-friendly.
culprit@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 25d
Ya, I'm bi(cyclist). I'm also down with multi-modal trans(portation).
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 10 pts · 25d
He's going to regret not having bike lanes when Trump restarts war with Iran, and this time without strategic oil reserve.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 24d
Car brain <---> Fascism
peetabix@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 23d
What about all those DEI highways huh?
kevinsky@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 23d
When words like "woke" "DEI" or any of the other ones adjacent to them are use to express displeasure of any kind I immediately lose interest in what they have to say.
Muchlike i do with people that blame [insert thing they don't like] on [insert political ideology they don't agree with] instead of coming up with, you know, facts and reasoning or something.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 25d
Tangent, but is "bikers" the right word? I use bicyclists or cyclists or bike riders for people who pedal. To me "bikers" ride motorcycles, which means they use the car lanes and burn fuel, although their individual politics might be DEI.
Could just be me, though.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
Ohh biker.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 24d
These people need to be closed in with a running engine into a small room...
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 23d
I think money should be allocated to climate change
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 24d
Bike lanes are weak and unmanly because they don't contribute to our demise as a species.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 24d
I will receive a lot of downvotes, but I remember the time when words were used to inspire thoughts that inspire emotions. Today they go straight to emotions
TheHotze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 25d
My bad. *Un-ADHDs my brain. Reenables my autobiographical memory. Activates my visual imagination.
Can I have my bike lane now?
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 25d
I betcha the money will be moved around and eventually discovered with a few million missing.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 24d
By far, most cyclists I see are white men. Are white men the reason DEI is a problem?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 23d
In a roundabout way...sure.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 24d
Proving that the fossil fuel hordes are the ones dividing people.
Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 23d
What the fuck kind of car infrastructure can you buy for less than $2B? Duffy is a virtue signalling shithead.