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Seva's avatar

On his very first day in office in Jan 2021 Biden issued an Executive Order for all government agencies to be committed to “Equity” aka Equal Outcomes. In effect, this was a war on meritocracy which democrats consider racist since it has a “disparate impact” on blacks. This RCP article below is about the severe damage this is doing even to our medical schools and equity is something Kamala is also deeply committed to yet half the people in this society love Kamala and are anxious to vote for her. No society can survive this level of stupidity and flat out insanity. In what sense does America even still exist as a country?

“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”

“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”

“The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly.”

Real Clear Politics. Roger Cohen. Apr 2, 2024

https://tomklingenstein.com/the-end-of-merit-in-med-schools-will-be-deadly/

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Steve Woodward's avatar

And what, exactly, has your post to do with Ryan Grim's article?

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Fred Jonas's avatar

Mr Woodward, if you're unfamiliar with "Seva," do yourself a favor. Ignore anything he or she says. I've been there with "Seva." Banging your head against the wall is less painful.

As if there's nothing that could make being a Floridian (Miami area, for me) more embarrassing or frankly sickening.

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Steve Woodward's avatar

Thanks, Fred, I kinda picked up on that. Still, sometimes it's fun trolling the trolls. Cheers.

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Seva's avatar

My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is being destroyed by open borders, dumbed down schools, the demonization of “Whiteness!” and the war on meritocracy which is being replaced by Equity aka Equal Outcomes and these are just a few of the many ways the democrats have ruined America yet many of my “fellow Americans” are very much in favor of all this. My post has to do with the fact that the city I live in, Chicago, is being destroyed by city-wide black wilding, crime and carjacking plus an endless flood of illegals being supported by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars. My post has to do with the fact that the society I live in is rotting and collapsing and the world knows it. Does any of this concern you? Obviously not. In what sense is America still a country? In what sense are we “fellow Americans”?

Tulsi Gabbard: This is an ‘act of political retaliation.’ (5 min)

Fox News. Aug 10, 2024

https://youtu.be/09eVb2eomKo?si=WekIFjuU0Gw7GZVm

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Steve Woodward's avatar

So, thanks for answering the question. Your post has nothing whatsoever to do with Mr Grim's article. Appreciate the clarification.

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julia eden's avatar

@seva

remember warren buffet: "there's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." TAX FRAUD costs societies billions each year. the upper classes cause lots of financial damage while we are supposed to believe that "illegal aliens" cost taxpayers "hundreds of millions of dollars". the US war machinery costs plenty of money, too. the US-initiated "war on drugs" and the "war on terror" - declared by white-skinned people - have cost millions of black and brown-skinned people's lives and create endless amounts of violence and hells on earth - making people want to leave their home countries hoping to find a decent future for their kids elsewhere. so, instead of fighting too many wars abroad, constantly, US law and/or decision makers should look inward and work on becoming a peaceful democracy where everybody gets their fair share ... but we all know warmongers mantra, don't we: "peace does not pay!"

[BTW: my EU country agreed to accept state of the art hypersonic US missiles on its territory as of 2026 - very much against my will and very much to my dismay!]

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julia eden's avatar

... allow me to add: i just found out that the US pentagon has a PR apparatus that employs more than 20,000 people. quite a number of them engaged in heavily discrediting the very few truly democracy-, peace- and truth-oriented media in my EU country. the apparatus has an annual budget of 4.7 billion USD.

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Seva's avatar

Robert Malone talks about this in his superb video.

PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order. (1:14)

Dr Robert Malone. Aug 1, 2024

https://youtu.be/q-cV5WUuyB4?si=8jBJuoJYoFcMYGJP

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julia eden's avatar

@seva:

thank you for responding. here are a few remarks of mine

- re. malone: in my EU country, the translations of his works are published by a publishing house that is considered to belong to the right-wing spectrum ... that might not be justified for each and everything malone has to say.

- re. the new world order (1): nobel laureate muhammad yunus from bangladesh, who was just appointed interim head of his country, explained it in simple terms: 'imagine a mushroom with its cap [i.e. the super rich] growing bigger and bigger, while its stem [i.e. the super poor] grows ever thinner.'

(by the time the mushroom collapses, the uber-rich are on their way to mars ;-)

- re. the new world order (2): zarathustra, iranian priest and philosopher, advocated three guiding principles. a) think well. b) speak well. c) act well.

- re. youtube: i avoid it as best i can, given that it belongs to google whose sloppy tax ethics and very close collaboration with the pentagon i strongly disagree with and try not to support.

- remember ex-CIA director william casey?

"we'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the american public believes is false." annoyingly unbelievable, isn't it?

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Hi Seva, We've crossed paths before.

If you are really wanting to do something about your society "being destroyed," then the first place to start is with getting rid of the warmongering fixation of the government, e.g., the syphoning off (misuse) of public finances to boost the pocketbooks of the weapons manufacturers, while also leaving their massive wealth inequalities untaxed.

If you want meritocracy, then lifting the huge, developmental penalties that lack of adequate resources creates in people's lives, would eliminate much of the imbalance, thereby making attempts, such as DEI, or quotas, affirmative action and the like, entirely unnecessary.

There's plenty of resources, but there's no will to do so. I hope you will pressure your (so-called) representatives to reallocate resources to meet the needs of the American people instead of using them to kill millions of people around the world, while making Americans less safe at home and pretty much wherever they might go.

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