Kirby Dipping Into Politics/End the Shutdown
11-06-2025 | 09:52 AM
#81
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I had an uncle in Italy that got HepC from a transfusion as well. It ended up killing him in his 40’s. The leaps in tech just over the last decade will be a game changer. Likewise, my father in law in MS had a kidney transplant in the 80’s and is still kicking. Outlived his diagnosis thirty years ago and he’s 78.
11-06-2025 | 11:08 AM
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If there are similar examples of CEOs bending the knee/lavishing praise/writing substantial blank checks that rise to the level of obsequiousness we see today, I would love to learn about them. Where's that iceberg?
11-06-2025 | 11:56 AM
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I dont think United's greenwashing via the investment in SAF or embracing of diversity speak is equivalent to a $1 million dollar blank check to the inaugural fund to get in the good graces of the current regime. The former seem to be the result of broader societal trends that were not solely mandated from the top down; the latter stinks of pay to play. It seems to be a false equivalence.
If there are similar examples of CEOs bending the knee/lavishing praise/writing substantial blank checks that rise to the level of obsequiousness we see today, I would love to learn about them. Where's that iceberg?
If there are similar examples of CEOs bending the knee/lavishing praise/writing substantial blank checks that rise to the level of obsequiousness we see today, I would love to learn about them. Where's that iceberg?
11-06-2025 | 02:26 PM
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Greenwashing is absolutely a pay-to-play move. Pay-to-play is pay to play, the methods just look different when the political majority is different. Greenwashing still funnels money into the political machine just like donating to an inauguration. You can try to argue the differences in semantics but at the end of the day it is the same.
"The methods look different"
One is a bribe, the other is a business strategy that happened to align with a trend of the day. I also don't remember any press conferences with CEOs for the sole purpose of flattering the president under the previous administration.
It is not the same merely because you proclaim it the same. It's not "semantics." These are the facts.
Again, still waiting for directions to the iceberg
11-06-2025 | 03:18 PM
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If you really think investing in a new technology as part of a global effort to reduce carbon emissions is the same as directly donating to a party for a politician solely to stroke an ego, then we disagree on the mechanics of how things work.
"The methods look different"
One is a bribe, the other is a business strategy that happened to align with a trend of the day. I also don't remember any press conferences with CEOs for the sole purpose of flattering the president under the previous administration.
It is not the same merely because you proclaim it the same. It's not "semantics." These are the facts.
Again, still waiting for directions to the iceberg
"The methods look different"
One is a bribe, the other is a business strategy that happened to align with a trend of the day. I also don't remember any press conferences with CEOs for the sole purpose of flattering the president under the previous administration.
It is not the same merely because you proclaim it the same. It's not "semantics." These are the facts.
Again, still waiting for directions to the iceberg
11-06-2025 | 05:34 PM
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I dont think United's greenwashing via the investment in SAF or embracing of diversity speak is equivalent to a $1 million dollar blank check to the inaugural fund to get in the good graces of the current regime. The former seem to be the result of broader societal trends that were not solely mandated from the top down; the latter stinks of pay to play. It seems to be a false equivalence.
If there are similar examples of CEOs bending the knee/lavishing praise/writing substantial blank checks that rise to the level of obsequiousness we see today, I would love to learn about them. Where's that iceberg?
If there are similar examples of CEOs bending the knee/lavishing praise/writing substantial blank checks that rise to the level of obsequiousness we see today, I would love to learn about them. Where's that iceberg?
11-07-2025 | 05:45 AM
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It’s funny how you think you can’t reason with “these people” and you didn’t even bother to research the companies donation to the scaled back Biden inauguration during COVID. If you don’t continually question everything that both sides are saying you’re not reasoning at all.
11-07-2025 | 08:25 AM
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It’s funny how you think you can’t reason with “these people” and you didn’t even bother to research the companies donation to the scaled back Biden inauguration during COVID. If you don’t continually question everything that both sides are saying you’re not reasoning at all.
11-10-2025 | 12:16 PM
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didn’t want to start a new thread
Hi, since the positive space announcement is related to the shutdown and I didn’t want to start a thread…
If I pick something out of base is allowed to PS? TIA
If I pick something out of base is allowed to PS? TIA
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