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  1. 100% agree. American Christianity is a lazy, fat cat from lapping at the easy dish of cream. Christianity has always thrived when it was practiced in the margins in, dare I say, persecution. Americans (and yours truly) would be wise to heed Isaiah 1:22, "Your silver has become dross..."
  2. I'm guessing the boots in Gaza per reports today?
  3. Yep.
  4. Wait, I JUST got this joke. This is funny. ugh, i do have it don't i.
  5. This is a great point and it jives and makes me recall another piece of this that I had forgotten about that time until your post-- the mandatory trainings around hiring and recognizing subconscious bias and giving some rules of the road on how to better interview, score, bar raise, etc. You actually couldn't interview candidates much less get an HR partner and get candidates unless you had done the corporate certification at that time around DEI.
  6. You are right. I'd love to play this though:
  7. Sorry did I mess something up? Sometimes I do that. Maybe have a touch of the 'tism. I've heard it before.
  8. Asians and Southasians (Indians) are generally not considered to be beneficieries (but rather hurt) by DEI policies and practices. I say generally becaue DEI policies obviously differ on case by case basis, but overwhelmingly do not include them (and likely due to the pervasive and harmful "model minority" myth).
  9. Southasians / Indians don't qualify as DEI from what I recall. They are typically very conservative and don't like DEI/affirmative action for this reason.
  10. Anectodal experience that sort of cuts a line in the middle between what you and enchub are saying: I worked for a Mag 7 in 2018 through the heart of Covid. I was part of hiring a lot during the #MeToo and DEI peak (as it relates to corporate popularity, lots of money was budgeted for DEI programs post-George Floyd youll recall) and there absolutely was a focus on metrics. Specifically, KPI's that make your departments and overall corporate footprint have a better ratio of demographics that skew away from white and indian men. So we were told to score more graciously (and we were operationally incentivized because the standard hiring workflow from req to onboarding was cut in half) and to favor the hiring of what we termed URG's (underrepresented gender) and URM's (underrepresented minorities) over a more "typical" profile. At the time, it actually didn't seem that wild of a practice because the general mood and sentiment of corporate America (and politics) was on board. Cut to today, there is zero chance that any sort of direction like that would be given as DEI seems to be made borderline illegal (if not illegal) by Trump. And it feels almost quaint thinking back to those halycon times.
  11. Eddie George was the cover of the 2000/2001 Madden for PS2. I think he's correct (and that is a PS2 screengrab).
  12. Nice. "An evil and adulterous generation" we, too, are. Turtles all the way down.
  13. I'm not talking about politicians, I'm talking about people.
  14. Agreed. I was responding to the poster who was decrying the death of the idea of "unity" in the country, not the OOP of the POTUS tweet. I am just agreeing with him that the idealism of unity and us ever healing seems to be as far as away as I've ever seen it in my lifetime.
  15. Neither side thinks the either is worth a flip. In a society where it's common to go no-contact with your family, why not with people you don't know but only share a flag with?
  16. TIL I learned Superhero lives in a hostel.
  17. The bold is the answer. As someone who is social media sober barring this site and college football twitter, I didn't even really know who Charlie Kirk was and his prominence/belovedness to conservative Texans. I blissfully didn't know anyone's opinion on Charlie Kirk, even those very close to me, until after he died. I think in the new era of America, superpowered by AI, the answer is to deccelerate online connectivity and activity and try and curate more in person, microcommunitiies around us. I mean, I don't know, other than I feel lke you do.
  18. I have a friend whose parents are the neighbors of the Owens' in Cypress (a fine family and people the Owens', btw, generally speaking). Owens is and has always been effortlessly strong and big and fast. So for him to be completely out of the conversation means he's a 3 star in a 5 star stud's body? The inverse of Lacey.
  19. 3 and proud of it.
  20. Exactly. My New England boss/team peppered me with cultural questions last week, "tell us about this charlie kirk guy and how everyone down there is freaking out" to paraphrase it. I have people in my life who were literally moved to tears and heartbroken by all this because they followed him so dearly. These were people I was close or semi-close and we'd never had a conversation about this guy previous to his death. Maybe it's a personal thing for them. I do think, though, that to a lot of normies and Christians, as you have called them, the Christian Father lane is how they know his work and youtube shorts, and maybe some of the college campus stuff, but the really politicized stuff I think was not as well known. To the extent that it really matters though I don't know, because if you believe in the same vein as Charlie Kirk, it doesn't seem like he's stretching too far out of the normie comfort zone in recent years (e.g. sounds like he's walked back a lot of the MAGA and J6 stuff and was more on about how abortion is awful and homosexuality is a sin-- all pretty standard stuff for those Christians who don't believe a woman is a legitimate pastor and "love is love" is reductive, bad theology).
  21. i'd forgotten clowney played for South Carolina. I remember that hit though, wow.
  22. Ay yo, that was a JAM though. I thought Rae Sremmurd was gonna be a bigger star than he was, but in hindsight just a REAL nice vibey beat and Guwop carried. Especially when he said, "A yellow, yellow with green hair, a real weirdo" AYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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