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james_s:

--- Quote from: JohanH on March 17, 2023, 08:14:21 pm ---Sorry, this is all very new to me and I would never have made that connection if I hadn't read about it in this thread. It's actually the very first place where I have seen this idea.

All of your explanations for this alleged connection look like right-wing nuttery to me. And I don't know if I care about the subject so much that I would bother gathering more knowledge about it. The things that bother my mind right now are trivial things such as work and family and also the outcome of the Russian war in Ukraine, which will be a deciding step in the history of Europe. I couldn't care less about conservative conspiracy theories right now. Fortunately Finland will probably accepted into NATO. An arrest warrant was issued today by the ICC for Putin. All in all a good day for humanity. Now we can only wait for Trump to be indicted and the world is saved. Yeah, maybe not, but I'll celebrate anyway.

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How is it right wing nuttery? Do you have a better explanation? Personally I think we should question (as in test) the theory and any others, clearly *something* has changed that is causing the lowered test scores, so what is it? Is it right wing nuttery to acknowledge that something has changed and speculate on what that something or somethings is/are?

The arrest warrant issued on Putin is useless symbolism, it won't do anything at all, who is going to arrest him? I'd be shocked if Trump is ever indicted too and unfortunately it might do more harm than good because it's going to be labeled a political witch hunt and will galvanize his devout worshippers. I would prefer that he dies, ideally under unambiguously natural circumstances. There will of course be others like him so the world won't be saved. He has very little impact on my day to day life though, if people could just ignore him he would go away.
JohanH:

--- Quote from: james_s on March 17, 2023, 08:20:57 pm ---
How is it right wing nuttery? Do you have a better explanation?

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It seems right wing to me, because I've seen similar populist ideas by conservatives and right wing politicians over here. Typically blaming the state, state media, education etc of being too liberal or "leftist". I don't have an explanation for that connection, because I didn't make such a connection. I didn't know that anyone did such a connection to begin with.

I don't think the arrest warrant on Putin is useless. Maybe for the US, because the US haven't recognized the ICC, but 123 other countries have. So at least it has an important symbolic meaning. The ICC has judged several important cases and put war criminals in prison. I don't know if that will ever happen to Putin, but now at least Russia appeasers in Europe will have a harder time licking Putin's *ss, so to speak. It will be much harder to shake his hand without moving to some Arab country afterwards (yes, there are already examples of politicians who did this when Russia started their full scale invasion).
fourfathom:

--- Quote from: TimFox on March 17, 2023, 06:06:38 pm ---There are several rating agencies for "D&I" and "ESG".
My brokerage lists their ratings on common stocks, for those who are interested.
The NY Times merely quoted those agencies to determine "wokeness".
Why should I distrust their quotation compared to unsupported comments from politicians?

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Tim, I've not read the NYT article, and I also doubt that "Woke" had much to do with the SVB failure, but aren't these rating agencies looking at the diversity of the employees?  This isn't exactly what has been claimed about the failure of the bank.  Rather, it was suggested that the bank executives spent too much tine on DEI and not enough on financial risk management.  I guess it's obvious (now) that they had poor risk management, but the DEI rating doesn't tell us much about why this happened.
m k:

--- Quote from: JohanH on March 17, 2023, 08:14:21 pm ---All of your explanations for this alleged connection look like right-wing nuttery to me.

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stat.fi, Tilastokeskus, come on man, you can do better.

For now you're only proving some earlier points of ideology and incapability.
PlainName:

--- Quote ---The ICC has judged several important cases and put war criminals in prison.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they've put an active leader of a country in prison, only those that have already been vanquished.
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