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But in the business world, it's anything but organic. At my place, an extremely large scale enterprise, I attended an event with around 1000 professionals near the start of the DEI push. We had a leader, celebrated for her role as a minority, take the stage and say "We have a lot of work to do when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion. You only need to take a look around the room to see there is a problem", as she gestured to all of us in the crowd. From there it was a whirlwind of hires for people that ticked the boxes. I was even personally told I couldn't hire a candidate because "it's not a woman", despite the male candidate being much more qualified. At one point, a leader over a significant chunk of people made the comment that 50% of the US is female, so we're going to move to 50% of our workforce being female. Shortly after that, i discovered that one of my active directory groups that someone added me to had "men" as the label. So on the surface, businesses will grandstand that they're making an impact, but ultimately it doesn't care... the business will can those folks the second it's not popular. If they TRULY cared, they would be supporting the next generation. Funding STEM and inner city. Helping the next generation thrive and progress. But they aren't. It's all for show.

How in the heck are we supposed to get up there?? If only someone would invent: • A scissor lift, crane or a cherry picker • One of those stands they use for the announcers at golf tournaments • A DRONE!!! • long stick with a camera

I'm going to take a different approach. "It depends who you ask" What it should be: Equality across all races, lifestyles, genders, beliefs. Best person for the job/role. Ensuring that people are represented to include their life perspective. What it is: Virtue signaling for clout and business news letters to avoid public ridicule and effecting profit margins

Awesome! But that's not what the Democrats try to send to the white house.

If you heard her, clean to her soul...

Replace Trump with Biden in your statement and that's how I feel about the Democrats. Why can't the Democrats put up less progressive people so we can get stuff done? It's because nobody is really in the middle anymore. On either side.

anyone caught the media starting to repeat the same things yet on both sides of the isle? "lowering the temperature" "avoid dangerous rhetoric" Gotta control those sheeple by repeating that phrase over and over relentlessly

My prayer is that it puts him into some perspective that he's not untouchable. Maybe even gives him some humility. Honestly, I think it would help his case tremendously.

Googling "what is black Twitter"? may be the whitest thing I've done this year.

Republicans have MAGA, Democrats call everyone Hitler. In a few years it'll be na-nanny-boo-boo stick your head in doo doo.

Hopefully this reference isn't lost.

Questions i don't think are the problem. Accusations though are dangerous business.

i've been to vegas twice and haven't gambled once! It's neat, but i like my money, it's hard enough for me to earn it.

Someone actually thought this was a good idea. But... people also ate the Tide pods, so....

This 100%. The guy puts on pants just like i do every day. Another strong point I will make is that he's not claiming deity either. I'm of a mind that if he did, he would see a MASSIVE drop in popularity. The biggest drop anyone has ever seen..... (see what i did there?)

I can get behind this. I don't mean compromising on beliefs either, because there are some conservative stances I don't want to bend on (2A being the obvious since we're on TGO). But we need to find some way for either party to agree that America must remain united and strong. Sounds easy right?

I guess the question really should be, why does anyone really care? Both sides of the political isle say they want to save lives, yet the question is "why isn't he dead?" Seems counterproductive in the first place. Why isn't he dead? Well, because he isn't...

Coolest thing I've see you post my dude. Hope you're recovering well.

So God can do anything. Creation of the universe or causing a shooter to miss his intended target. He could very well have turned the bullet into dust if He so desired. Our point isn't to say God didn't do that or couldn't do that, it's to say that we simply don't know. Faith his taught me that knowledge of God's work is positional. When it's time for you to do His bidding, you'll know. Others around you may not however, because it's not theirs to know. That's your personal relationship with Him at work. Example.. recently I was in Phoenix AZ recently, having breakfast in a hotel with my son. It's just the two of us at a 4 seat table. The room fills up pretty quick and a family comes walking out with their plates looking for a seat. I overheard them talking about splitting up, so i offered to move us to a 2 seater nearby. Just common courtesy stuff. As we're sitting there, i kinda felt this draw to talk to the gentlemen, so i asked where he was from. Turns out he's from foothill ranch CA. I said "huh, that's funny, that's the only place i've ever been in CA". He chuckled and went back to eating. Oddly, i feel this pull to hear more from the guy, so i offered up "yea we're from TN" to which he replied, "oh wierd, we just got back from there. A little town in Wilson County".... which is where i live. I asked why he's in Pheonix and it turns out his family is there because his sister is undergoing her last chemo treatment from breast cancer. I just casually said "Oh man, I'll be praying for her" and to my shock, he says "OH THANK YOU SO MUCH, COME ON MOM!" and jumps up to have my pray over them. I am NOT a people person. I chat on here a fair amount because i like the community, but that pull.. i just couldn't describe it. It was like I HAD to know more about this guy. That was God at work, through the holy spirit. I have no doubt. Did I work some kinda miracle? absolutely not, but was I a tool to help this family with their journey? Yeah, I believe I was the tool that God used at that moment. His sister rang that bell btw.

Grabbed the first link on google about it. https://reason.com/2024/07/10/the-2024-gop-platform-offers-only-a-passing-reference-to-the-second-amendment/ I've seen this in a few places though, including on the forum. Working at present, so i'm not gonna track it down. *edit* From my lens, if the GOP isn't bolstering support, they aren't doing enough. IMHO

I'm not sure how it would take away Trump votes though. The republicans MIGHT be less 2A friendly now. But we KNOW the democrats are.

Here's to hoping

Someone took the time to sync up the various videos.

This. Trumps knee jerk to Vegas was to ban bump stocks. The republican party has recently ditched 2A as part of their proposed platform and now their lead candidate nearly took one of the dome. It ain't looking good for us peaceful folk who happen to have firearms.