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Posted: Mar 23, 2023 - 4:27pm

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Posted: Mar 23, 2023 - 2:52pm

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Apprenty art is "woke".


From the article:

The Tallahassee school is a public charter institution that focuses on classical learning, a teaching philosophy centered on a traditional Western liberal arts education that aims to impart critical thinking skills children can use throughout their lives. Classical learning is also popular within the Christian homeschooling movement.

'Ceptin when there's a peepee...
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Posted: Mar 23, 2023 - 12:08pm

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Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's 'David' Upsets Parents


An aside: we went to Italy and were walking through this museum. The Rick Steves audio tour took us to the hallway where the David was and, yards away, we both stood there staring - awestruck. It was so much different, seeing it in person. Something truly amazing. Like being next to the Grand Canyon instead of seeing pictures.


Apprenty art is "woke".
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Posted: Mar 23, 2023 - 11:31am

Florida Principal Out After Viewing Of Michelangelo's 'David' Upsets Parents


An aside: we went to Italy and were walking through this museum. The Rick Steves audio tour took us to the hallway where the David was and, yards away, we both stood there staring - awestruck. It was so much different, seeing it in person. Something truly amazing. Like being next to the Grand Canyon instead of seeing pictures.
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Posted: Mar 22, 2023 - 3:18pm

 black321 wrote:
 (I was being facetious with my outrage)




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Posted: Mar 22, 2023 - 10:40am

 (I was being facetious with my outrage)
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Posted: Mar 22, 2023 - 10:06am

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This is the type of ESG language and corp priorities that make some righties nuts. I mean, do you blame them?  Look at this from Nordstrom annual report, crazy stuff right?

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & BelongingOur commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment is key to our mission of helping our customers feel good and look their best. We believe in equity throughout the retail industry and aim to use our resources, influence and platform to foster greater representation of diversity from all our communities. Over the past several years, we’ve amplified our efforts in this area and set specific ambitions to achieve by the end of 2025, which include:
•Delivering $500 million in retail sales from brands owned by, operated by or designed by Black and/or Latinx individuals
•Aiming to increase representation of Black and Latinx individuals in people-manager roles by at least 50% on average
•Leveraging our internship program and other initiatives to help us reach qualified candidates early in their careers, with an ambition on average of at least 50% of participants in these programs coming from underrepresented populations

To lead and drive this work, we have operationalized diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through consistent review with executive managemnt. 

As part of these ongoing efforts, we have several internal initiatives underway to facilitate a sense of belonging and connection among our teams. One way we do this is through our employee-led, Company-sponsored Employee Resource Groups, which represent a variety of seen and unseen identities. In 2022, eight groups served and were led by our employees, providing company-wide programming to advance understanding and celebrate voices from across our organization.

In 2022, we expanded and strengthened our talent pipelines in collaboration with the OneTen Coalition and in partnership with Morehouse College, where we supported the launch of a new product management track. Starting in the spring 2023 semester, Nordstrom leaders and technologists will teach and mentor students enrolled in the program.

We believe we have a responsibility to support the communities where we operate. Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy set in 2020 includes five-year goals focused on environmental sustainability, human rights and corporate philanthropy. In 2022, we made meaningful progress in these areas. Specific highlights include:
•Environmental Sustainability: We expanded our BEAUTYCYCLE program to Nordstrom Rack stores. This program allows us to accept beauty packaging waste materials that typically can’t be placed in curbside recycling bins. Through BEAUTYCYCLE, we took back more than 25 tons of beauty packaging in 2022, compared with five tons in 2021. We also began replacing our plastic Nordstrom Rack shopping bags with paper bags in support of our goal to reduce single-use plastic in our value chain by 50%.
•Human Rights: We are committed to creating safe and fair workplaces for the people who make our products. Our human rights due diligence program is based on international standards, and the foundation of our human rights program is designed around third-party impact assessments and supported by our Partner Code of Conduct and relevant policies and programs, all of which were strengthened during the year and are assessed and improved cyclically. As a part of our human rights due diligence, we audit factories that make Nordstrom Made products for compliance with our Partner Code of Conduct and implement corrective action plans where necessary.
•Women’s Rights: We hit a milestone: almost 50% of Nordstrom Made products were produced in factories that offer women’s empowerment training, bringing us closer to our goal of producing 90% of Nordstrom Made products in factories that invest in women’s empowerment by 2025.
•Charitable Giving: We donated over $12 million to over 270 organizations located in the communities where we do business. Our employees gave to over 2,900 nonprofits, which we supported with 100% matching. Together with our customers and our employees, we used our platform to drive about $16 million in nonprofit donations based in the U.S. and Canada.





Please show the LAWS they have introduced to marginalize the rights of righties.  

ESG policies may be irritating, but they are far more benign than passing laws banning discussion of periods, book banning, don't say gay, restrictions on internal organs of one gender, what a teacher may say in a classroom, drag story time, and AGAINST companies that promote ESG policies. Here in Texas, if you don't like guns and oil, you don't do business here. Teacher retirement and State worker retirement pensions will suffer. 

Agreed, the ESG policies can and do go overboard, yet remaining as company culture does NOT affect everyone else. Making LAW based on bias and control is quite another. This is where the critique is unequal.  
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Posted: Mar 22, 2023 - 9:54am

This is the type of ESG language and corp priorities that make some righties nuts. I mean, do you blame them?  Look at this from Nordstrom annual report, crazy stuff right?

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & BelongingOur commitment to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment is key to our mission of helping our customers feel good and look their best. We believe in equity throughout the retail industry and aim to use our resources, influence and platform to foster greater representation of diversity from all our communities. Over the past several years, we’ve amplified our efforts in this area and set specific ambitions to achieve by the end of 2025, which include:
•Delivering $500 million in retail sales from brands owned by, operated by or designed by Black and/or Latinx individuals
•Aiming to increase representation of Black and Latinx individuals in people-manager roles by at least 50% on average
•Leveraging our internship program and other initiatives to help us reach qualified candidates early in their careers, with an ambition on average of at least 50% of participants in these programs coming from underrepresented populations

To lead and drive this work, we have operationalized diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging through consistent review with executive managemnt. 

As part of these ongoing efforts, we have several internal initiatives underway to facilitate a sense of belonging and connection among our teams. One way we do this is through our employee-led, Company-sponsored Employee Resource Groups, which represent a variety of seen and unseen identities. In 2022, eight groups served and were led by our employees, providing company-wide programming to advance understanding and celebrate voices from across our organization.

In 2022, we expanded and strengthened our talent pipelines in collaboration with the OneTen Coalition and in partnership with Morehouse College, where we supported the launch of a new product management track. Starting in the spring 2023 semester, Nordstrom leaders and technologists will teach and mentor students enrolled in the program.

We believe we have a responsibility to support the communities where we operate. Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy set in 2020 includes five-year goals focused on environmental sustainability, human rights and corporate philanthropy. In 2022, we made meaningful progress in these areas. Specific highlights include:
•Environmental Sustainability: We expanded our BEAUTYCYCLE program to Nordstrom Rack stores. This program allows us to accept beauty packaging waste materials that typically can’t be placed in curbside recycling bins. Through BEAUTYCYCLE, we took back more than 25 tons of beauty packaging in 2022, compared with five tons in 2021. We also began replacing our plastic Nordstrom Rack shopping bags with paper bags in support of our goal to reduce single-use plastic in our value chain by 50%.
•Human Rights: We are committed to creating safe and fair workplaces for the people who make our products. Our human rights due diligence program is based on international standards, and the foundation of our human rights program is designed around third-party impact assessments and supported by our Partner Code of Conduct and relevant policies and programs, all of which were strengthened during the year and are assessed and improved cyclically. As a part of our human rights due diligence, we audit factories that make Nordstrom Made products for compliance with our Partner Code of Conduct and implement corrective action plans where necessary.
•Women’s Rights: We hit a milestone: almost 50% of Nordstrom Made products were produced in factories that offer women’s empowerment training, bringing us closer to our goal of producing 90% of Nordstrom Made products in factories that invest in women’s empowerment by 2025.
•Charitable Giving: We donated over $12 million to over 270 organizations located in the communities where we do business. Our employees gave to over 2,900 nonprofits, which we supported with 100% matching. Together with our customers and our employees, we used our platform to drive about $16 million in nonprofit donations based in the U.S. and Canada.



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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 4:43pm

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Maybe we can talk about them, maybe excerpt them, but not publish their manifestos?

Very meta. Maybe you do you.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 4:19pm

 R_P wrote:

See topic.

Maybe we can talk about them, maybe excerpt them, but not publish their manifestos?


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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 3:39pm

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Why give this guy any more airtime?

See topic.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 3:16pm

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‘There Can Be No Mercy’: America First Leaders Put the Movement’s Fascism on Full Display
Last Friday, Nick Fuentes, the racist, misogynistic, America-hating, Christian fascist founder of the white nationalist America First movement, .”


Why give this guy any more airtime? 


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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 3:05pm

‘There Can Be No Mercy’: America First Leaders Put the Movement’s Fascism on Full Display
Last Friday, Nick Fuentes, the racist, misogynistic, America-hating, Christian fascist founder of the white nationalist America First movement, did a livestream in which he responded to Trump’s statement that he might soon be arrested. Fuentes used the program to fault Trump for not being sufficiently “brutal” during his term in office, declaring that if Trump gets back into office, he must refuse to leave.

“I’ll never forget when Trump was asked during the transition, ‘Are you really going to arrest Hillary Clinton?’ and he was like, ‘No, I don’t think I need to do that,'” Fuentes said. “You should have. You should have dragged Obama by his nappy hair—no, I’m kidding—but you should have dragged Obama by his basketball jersey through the courts. You should have dragged Hillary Clinton and the Podestas. It should have been Pizzagate on trial. It should have been ‘Fast and Furious,’ and . It should have been all those things playing out in court.”

“It should have been Hillary Clinton and Obama in an orange jumpsuit and a paddy wagon. That’s what it should have been,” Fuentes continued. “It should have been brutal and unforgiving and unrelenting and intense and unstoppable. That’s what it should have been. Deportations, depriving people of the vote, building a wall, disregarding the courts, disregarding Congress, arresting the opposition; it should have been that.”

“We’ve got to be willing to do what it takes,” Fuentes declared. “This is a man’s game. And that’s the lesson. Trump’s got to get back in—Trump or Ye—whoever, but they got to get back in, and this time, they can’t leave, OK? We’ve got to make America great again and not leave until it’s done.”

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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 2:40pm

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You know, a BIG reason that liberals can’t get things done, and that they’re easy pickings for the GOP, is that they’ve apparently never heard the adage “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Don’t make adversaries of your allies for little differences. Take the win and fight the real enemy together. 

I think it’s painfully obvious that I’m not really a philosophical antagonist of yours, but you keep personally attacking me JUST BECAUSE IM A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE. This is just as bad as what you accuse the “other side” of doing. Sheesh.  And, I’m so smug I’m not gonna bother having this discussion anymore with you since you keep picking fights. 



Oh no no no, Steely, don't go there. You picked that up. MY point was that its easy to pontificate from a position of having none of this craziness directly affect you. You being a straight, white man is NOT an object of enmity! I just wanted you to put yourself in the shoes of those that ARE affected by these laws. Do not misunderstand, I appreciate your viewpoint, on many levels, it was NEVER my intent to make you feel put down. You are assuming too much into me. I'm just pointing out the selectivity of which groups are suffering under these extremists. Please don't take offense; I've grown a great deal of respect for you.  
However, I won't restrict sharing my viewpoint along with others. How we interpret each others' posts is often indicative of our own buttons, moi included.

I'm here in the same spirit you are.


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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 2:34pm

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i like this.




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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 2:34pm

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Alls well as long as your group isn't threatened, isn't it? Gay? Black? Female? You are none of these things Steely. Your above it all' smugness appears to dilute what one side is doing. 

You know, a BIG reason that liberals can’t get things done, and that they’re easy pickings for the GOP, is that they’ve apparently never heard the adage “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” Don’t make adversaries of your allies for little differences. Take the win and fight the real enemy together. 

I think it’s painfully obvious that I’m not really a philosophical antagonist of yours, but you keep personally attacking me JUST BECAUSE IM A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE. This is just as bad as what you accuse the “other side” of doing. Sheesh.  And, I’m so smug I’m not gonna bother having this discussion anymore with you since you keep picking fights. 

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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 2:14pm

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So how do you explain Biden's last few moves?  Drilling in Alaska?  Detentions on the southern border?  Not getting in the way of DC legislative changes from Congress?  He's a DINO at this point.  Run amuck with power.  Losing his F*^#ing marbles!  

Or

He's governing as he sees best for America...not a party or its lunatic fringe.   

The WingNutZ (in keeping with the thread) will complain about anything for the moment.   Gas prices, inflation, Ukraine war, leaving Afghanistan, infrastructure, hazardous train derailment response, bank failures... all on Joe's watch... while ignoring the catastrophic decisions made by his predecessor that made pretty much everything listed much worse.  

I don't love Biden as a President, and seriously wish there was another option, but at this point, ole Joe seems about as good as it's going to get for a while.



I think you are making my point, about messaging vs. actual governing. 

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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 2:11pm

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The hard part in these “discussions” is that both sides are unwilling - usually - to cede to the idea that their side has extremism. Hence my hope that somewhere in some smoky bar (or pho restaurant) there’s a cadre of moderate Republicans and Democrats talking reasonably with each other about how to take back their jobs so they can get something done without discussions of drag shows or reparations. 
Like I was saying, I think politicians have some real-world obligations that they’re dodging in order to talk about folderol - which is much easier for them.


Excellent points. However, I must add that religious belief has been hijacked predominately by one side into a twisted morality that is legislating Medical care over personal choice. 
One side is allowing people to choose, the other is insisting IT sets Moral Law.  In the history of the world, attempting to legislate morality never turns out well. Alls well as long as your group isn't threatened, isn't it? Gay? Black? Female? You are none of these things Steely. Your above it all' smugness appears to dilute what one side is doing. 

Anecdotal persecution of old white men is not the same as legislation. These crazies are passing LAWS against people based upon 'supernatural evidence.'




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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 1:32pm

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As do the dems with we want to fix the environment and we care about labor/the poor.
To both sides it was messaging, while the reality was somewhere closer to the center.
Interesting that only now the extremists on both sides are following through.

So how do you explain Biden's last few moves?  Drilling in Alaska?  Detentions on the southern border?  Not getting in the way of DC legislative changes from Congress?  He's a DINO at this point.  Run amuck with power.  Losing his F*^#ing marbles!  

Or

He's governing as he sees best for America...not a party or its lunatic fringe.   

The WingNutZ (in keeping with the thread) will complain about anything for the moment.   Gas prices, inflation, Ukraine war, leaving Afghanistan, infrastructure, hazardous train derailment response, bank failures... all on Joe's watch... while ignoring the catastrophic decisions made by his predecessor that made pretty much everything listed much worse.  

I don't love Biden as a President, and seriously wish there was another option, but at this point, ole Joe seems about as good as it's going to get for a while.

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Posted: Mar 21, 2023 - 11:44am

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The republicans since ~ Reagan have gotten a lot of traction with "the government is the problem / government can not do anything good / the government should be tiny or non-existent".  So when they get in positions of power it looks bad if they do things with government. It fits their message if they make things not work. 


As do the dems with we want to fix the environment and we care about labor/the poor.
To both sides it was messaging, while the reality was somewhere closer to the center.
Interesting that only now the extremists on both sides are following through.
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