DinoInNameOnly
Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed
I sometimes write about whatever I find interesting. Software Engineer by day. Rationalist-adjacent, I guess.
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DinoInNameOnly
Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed
4d ago
Because Trump earnestly believes that tariffs are ultimately good for (American) businesses. That’s the whole reason he’s doing them. He might be wrong about that, but that’s his motivation.
DinoInNameOnly
Wow, imagine if this situation was reversed
1mo ago
The cohort-based analysis is a really important point that not many people raise. Institutions almost never reach diversity goals by laying off existing employees, they only do it by applying pressure to the hiring and promotion pipelines. So what looks like a small difference in the total composition of employees can be the result of a titanic shift in the composition of incoming cohorts, which did happen in many institutions around 2014, as Savage pointed out.
Its frustrating when older white men in powerful positions in institutions enthusiastically support policies that would have prevented themselves from being successful, had the policies been in place when they were younger…
I’m confused why people are acting like the Court siding with the plaintiffs in this case is a likely outcome when they ruled just two years ago in Allen v. Milligan that Alabama had to create two majority-black districts on the basis of section 2 of the VRA. Roberts and Kavanaugh sided with the liberals in that case. Why would the exact same judges then turn around and declare that actually, requiring states to create a certain number of majority-minority districts is unconstitutional?
The door-in-the-face negotiation tactic is maybe the oldest in the book, and Trump seems to think it’s the most brilliant thing ever. Perhaps he’s right, judging by how many people still don’t seem to notice when he’s using it.
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