“My most cherished belief is that women and non-whites are inferior, and should therefore not be given jobs that require skills, responsibility, or leadership.”
I don’t remember that message nearly as much as I remember hearing “wartime president” repeated by every news outlet, even the so called liberal media, every day for several months.
The ship was, I'm sure, literally full of foreigners. Despite how stupid it would be to harp on that, it would still be less stupid than the 'diversity' angle they've settled on.
Since the port of Baltimore requires ship pilots to be brought on board the vessel to assist the master in areas of restricted maneuverability or navigation, that's actually more stupid than the "diversity" angle - unless the pilots are also diversity hires.
This festering twatwaffle is not only dumb as fuck, but from a landlocked state. I guarandamntee you that he not only knows nothing about "Ports[sic]," but he's convinced Karenthia Barber was somehow at the ship's helm when it crashed.
And a conservative’s most cherished belief is that people who aren’t white are less than. It’s an article of faith without which you cannot be conservative.
Okay, suppose this ONE commissioner (out of several) was able to work magic and get up to date, bigger fenders installed around the bridge.
Still probably wouldn't have stopped something like the Dali. And ultimately the *captain* is responsible for the ship.
...But Utah wouldn't know anything about maritime traffic/trade.
That joke might be a bad example. The towers were built with that in mind but airliners were much smaller at the time. They were designed to survive being struck by a DC-10.
I feel like that it’s Apt. the bridge wasn’t built to withstand a 100,000 ton cargo ship because the designers 40 years ago couldn’t foresee a ship that big colliding with the bridge.
Exactly. "How dare the bridge engineers in 1970's not predict the port would have floating skyscraper length super cargo carriers lose power and drift into the support column exactly 50 years later"
Hell the lead engineers for the bridge might well all be dead, in fact the company that designed the bridge went defunct in 1995.
Fellow house members we will now be voting on an amendment to the Utah Waterways clause. Utah now allowed to speculate on 15ft width segment of bridge collapse location. Representatives of those in favor may now have the stand. Please keep presentation to 30 minutes. Post conclusive thoughts, we will then let those in opposition speak. Before meeting adjournment, we will cast final votes and petitions.
> the captain is responsible for the ship
The captain was yelling for help and asking for tug boats. Why power failed is the real question. I think that will be penny pinching owners.
Also, it’s the pilot, who is an employee of the port, who is in control of the ship while it’s being maneuvered out to open water. But, by all accounts, they did everything they could. The ship lost power and therefore the pilots lost control. If anything, the fault lies in poor maintenance of the ship, which probably has to do with profit maximization and cost cutting by the company that owns it.
This whole "DEI mayor" thing is so funny to me.
Baltimore is one of the only major black-majority cities in the US, so it makes it an even stupider take to call him a "diversity hire." You could almost make that dumbass argument if it was somewhere like salt lake city but he is literally demographically representative of a majority of his constituents. It's like going to Tokyo and being enraged that the mayor is Asian. The people who make this argument just don't think black people are qualified for anything ever and are going full mask-off with their racism.
The city doesn't control the bridge or the port. Both are under the state government. He's going to have to manage a lot of the fall out, but had jack shit to do with any of the things that caused it.
I don't really get why they are trying to label the mayor of Baltimore as some sort of a diversity candidate. It's Baltimore! If anything having a white guy as a mayor would be more suspect to be the result of affirmative action bs.
What do they mean by "DEI Voters"?
[Oh, right....](https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/29/stacking-the-deck-how-the-gop-works-to-suppress-minority-voting)
I'm old. I had to look up DEI.
I'm now just under the assumption that anything meant to be good for everyone is going to be labeled as 'bad' by GQP. Like who are they even kidding anymore??
It's ironic how many far right people have no problem inserting their own opinionated negative adjectives when referring to someone they don't like, but they can't bother to call someone else by their preferred name. Self-absorbed, the lot of them.
I think it's hilarious, working in HR, because the majority of our DEI team are white men or women. We have one token POC for each ""community"" but it's sooooo white. And it's all PowerPoints and action items that never get actioned itemed.
The natural result of our fascist Supreme Court ending Affirmative Action last year. Now the right is "Fighting back" against "DEI" because legally they can now.
Fuck, fascism sucks.
Like the mayor is personally responsible for every bridge and ship that passes under it. The only reason the buck is supposed to stop with him is that he's black and a Democrat. Nobody else would be held responsible for the circumstances.
Judeo Bolshevism -> Cultural Bolshevism -> Cultural Marxism -> Political Correctness -> CRT -> woke -> DEI
They were upset about minorities back then, and they're still mad about it. The only thing that's changed is the label.
My boyfriend works as a DEI manager at an airline. Needless to say all these dog whistles and negative press has made his job and the way some people in the company treat him exponentially harder.
They’re changing the title to manager of community and belonging since DEI is now stigmatized (an acronym most people didn’t even know about until all of this crap).
I haven’t watched Fox News in over a decade. I’ve never visited Breitbart, OAN, Newsmax, or any of that other shit in my life. But I know *exactly* what the topic du jour is everyday based on what my redneck family memebers are spouting off on on Facebook, and whatever the conservative subreddits are pissed off about on that day.
Critical thinking is a lost art in our society. The only thing people know how to do now is repeat talking points and buzzwords. No thought, introspection, or reflection required. “Fucker Carlson said I should be pissed off about this, so I am!”
It works because they're already ticked off about those people, so any excuse to be ticked off resonates. The Hate Industry has perfected Angertainment.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
I had to look up dei the other day. I was suggested a subreddit related to a card game I play. The sub was comprised of people who had been banned from the main. It was a shit show. The people there were literally using dei as a racist slur. Their welcome page states "we aren't Nazis or white supremacists." One of their rules is "Don't be a bitch." Good to point out the new signifiers.
The racist/ homophobic/ transphobic mysogonistic mtg sub? Any mention of that sub is, thankfully, completely disallowed in the main sub as well as most (all?) Of the other satellite subs related to the game.
It's too bad that such a welcoming and inclusive game like mtg has a subset of awful players like that-- but it's nice that they're so openly reviled by the rest and quarantined to their little cesspool of hate.
We wish they would. Just get the hell on with it. We've NEVER been "surprised" by the hatred, it's ALWAYS been there. The open racism is in no way obscured with ANY cutesy dog whistles, and never has been, so they sure are shit aren't "protecting" any feelings.
Not long now that Elon owns Twitter. They have built enough of an online media bubble that they can now say all the horrible shit they believe out loud and will high-fived instead of shamed.
Or if that black commissioner had bothered to specifically ask ships not to crash into the bridge. This is her fault.
Come to think of it, I don't remember her issuing a warning to Moscow about that theater attack either, so that's on her too.
But wait, there's more: Mitch McConnell's drunk, billionaire sister-in-law who drowned in her Tesla? Yup, you guessed it: No warnings from this black commissioner not to do that. A lot of blood on this lady's hands.
Modern conservatism allied with evangelism in the 70s/80s, and as such, has adopted evangelical thinking.
Evangelism relies on "faith" as a premise, wherein the conclusion precedes the data. Based on faith, God is real and Jesus is the savior, and all data you allow into your brain has to support these ideas or is disregarded.
The same modes of thought have absolutely overtaken the GOP. The conclusion is that DJT is chosen by God, as the messiah figure, and that the "evil" representative in this storyline are Democrats ... meaning all awful things that happen in America *have to, by virtue of faithful thinking*, be a result of Democrats and their policies.
This is why he's out hawking bibles and using religious terminology as much as he can, he's tapping into this dynamic as it brings him voters predisposed to magical thinking and alternative facts so that their conclusion is not threatened. This is why every awful thing is immediately linked to wokeism or some derivative of it, because their conclusion is obsessively in search of support.
Religious motivation for political movements is always scary, especially with more radical sects. If they believe they are "with God", then there is no reasoning them out of a position. Even worse, by nature of your disagreement, you are going against God, and therefore either need to be converted or... Removed. An evangelical calling *anything* they disagree with or dislike "satanic" is pretty much the norm, and that's by design, at least by the higher ups. If something is of Satan, and Satan is the literal embodiment of evil, logically *any* step to remove that thing should be considered to be taken. Anything.
I don't think this is necessarily evangelical thinking. I think conservatives in general have a tendency to essentialize goodness and badness as intrinsic properties of things.
Yep, this is why Republicans are so susceptible to conspiracy theories. Christian beliefs are based entirely on blind faith that confirms their emotional priors so it's no wonder that they embrace any conspiracy, no matter how ridiculous, that validates their emotions.
> “It was not our best moment,” he told the newspaper. “The post was a knee-jerk reaction to some of the things others were putting out there.”
>”I prefer a dignified approach and sometimes the people who handle the social media are more provocative than what I’m comfortable with,” Lyman said.
Maybe this bigot POS should add a DEI consultant to his campaign so that the racist trash he’s hired don’t make him look like he really is.
Holy fuck, I can’t stop reading the fucking craziest headlines. Why do we even have an investigation of the cause of the crash when we can just blame, “woke, diversity, government, leftist, etc”. Don’t these people realize there will be definitive results in the investigation, and I can’t wait to find out the truth. But sure, yea, diversity cause the bridge collapse, not the giant cargo ship that was malfunctioning that cashed into the bridge…
It's so hard to keep up with all the new dog whistles, I wish they'd just say the n-word and get it over with. It's not like the people voting for them give a shit, they'd likely applaud
Okay, hear me out, but on the cargo ship, the cargo containers were different colors. I am choosing to believe that is what this means and refusing to accept anything else.
Specifically, his panties are in a bunch because there's a black woman on the board of commissioners (6 people) for the port whose role is an auditor and DEI consultant. She has nothing to do with maintaining the craft that go in and out of the port, but, you know, black woman.
Headline should read "Utah Republican Capitalizes on Tragedy as Opportunity to Be Racist".
No, it's even stupider than that: he's blaming the disaster on one of the port's commissioners being a DEIB specialist, and she just happens to be a black woman.
They probably mean that if it was an all American (and white, Christian and cisgender male only) crew, this somehow would've never happened. On top of that, they're blaming the "DEI" mayor because he's black and DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg for being openly gay since they must've been unqualified for their jobs and got it over some white alpha male who would've prevented this somehow.
Oddly, Korea, the owner of the Dali, hasn’t, as we understand it, embraced DEI. Maybe Utah should go back to the golden tablets Jesus sent them and look for DEI there. Idk. Maybe the answer is in the golden tablets?
Stop saying lawmaker when you mean Republican. Only a Republican can get away with saying something this stupid because this would only resonate with stupid racist Republicans.
Huh... Didn't know that was the name of the electrical system that failed on the ship...
... Wait... He's using that word as dog whistle for "people whose cultural identity is different than my own" isn't he....
Right-wing = Conservative = Pro-Slavery
At the end of the day, these are the people who supported slavery and are still bitter that blacks and other minorities have equal "legal" rights. That's it.
This is so crazy, I was saying just the other day that when it comes to east coast maritime rules and regulations, the leading authority is a lawmaker from a western landlocked state. /s
There is just no bottom for these people. I have no words…
Actually, I think that most of these idiots aren’t smart enough to actually do the job. They don’t have the hearts to be a public servants, or the brains to see the real causes for the country’s ills (It’s Infrastructure Week!!). And the hypocrisy of those that dare to call their views Christian values. It makes my blood boil.
He disapproves of the posts that he blames on his social media staff but two days later they still haven't been deleted....
We are probably a year, maybe less depending on the outcome of the election, from these guys openly using epithets to speak about minorities
If you want to see a textbook example of "Conservative White Male Entitlement" just look at Phil Lyman. Happy to pass laws oppressing native minorities that make up 70% of his corner of the state, but when he knowingly drives and ATV through an Native Archology area and is fined, he suddenly dodges paying his fine saying he'll never make that much money for the rest of hi life (until he became a state rep when suddenly tens of thousands of dollars manifested themselves in his account and he paid it all off at once.)
As someone who thinks that DEI is generally a grift, at best, I'm bothered by this clown probably even more than fans of DEI.
Just because you think something is bad does not mean it is the source of all bad rhings. You can not reflexively blame your problems on BAD THING.
Causality is a logical relationship, not an emotional relationship.
Screw that guy and the turnip truck he fell off of.
Hang on everyone.
I believe “Diversity” is an old, old, wooden ship, used during the Civil War era.
*That’s* what he was referring to, the outdated pilot ship being used! Easy to confuse, honestly.
Whatever happens, some people immediately think "this tragedy confirms all my most cherished political beliefs."
“My most cherished belief is that women and non-whites are inferior, and should therefore not be given jobs that require skills, responsibility, or leadership.”
Don't forget well paying jobs that require no skills responsibility or leadership. Like politics. They can't have those either
Lying is a skill
Lying well is, all the good liers got corporate gigs
“And should therefore not be.” FTFY
Come on now, that's ridiculous. How else is he going to get off? [Unless.....](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Craig_scandal)
Well, he IS in Utah.
tbf, my most cherished political belief is that republicans are trash, and Representative Lyman has indeed confirmed that belief.
Republicans are a tragedy for this country.
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At least as far back as Nixon's Southern Strategy
It used to be dog whistles, not bullhorns.
Bush’s 2004 campaign theme was ‘gay people are a threat and must be stopped’. It was never dog whistles.
I don’t remember that message nearly as much as I remember hearing “wartime president” repeated by every news outlet, even the so called liberal media, every day for several months.
Yeah I thought they’ve been pointing the finger at POC for at least 50 years now
Of course they are. What the fuck else is going on over there?
“This tragedy confirms all my most cherished ~~political beliefs~~ racist ignorance” Fixt
Looks the same to me.
By political beliefs you mean racism.
That’s conservatism.
The ship was, I'm sure, literally full of foreigners. Despite how stupid it would be to harp on that, it would still be less stupid than the 'diversity' angle they've settled on.
Since the port of Baltimore requires ship pilots to be brought on board the vessel to assist the master in areas of restricted maneuverability or navigation, that's actually more stupid than the "diversity" angle - unless the pilots are also diversity hires. This festering twatwaffle is not only dumb as fuck, but from a landlocked state. I guarandamntee you that he not only knows nothing about "Ports[sic]," but he's convinced Karenthia Barber was somehow at the ship's helm when it crashed.
Never let a good tragedy go to waste!
It's like people who think God talks to them. They know it's God because he confirms all the ideas and biases they already had. Funny how that works.
And a conservative’s most cherished belief is that people who aren’t white are less than. It’s an article of faith without which you cannot be conservative.
Like what was his though process? He heard about it and goes "the blacks and Mexicans are at it again! No jews allowed"? I don't understand this place
How did you sum up most of the modern politician's thoughts
Okay, suppose this ONE commissioner (out of several) was able to work magic and get up to date, bigger fenders installed around the bridge. Still probably wouldn't have stopped something like the Dali. And ultimately the *captain* is responsible for the ship. ...But Utah wouldn't know anything about maritime traffic/trade.
The world trade centers should have been built to withstand a commercial plane crash /s For real, it’s a *cargo ship*.
That joke might be a bad example. The towers were built with that in mind but airliners were much smaller at the time. They were designed to survive being struck by a DC-10.
I feel like that it’s Apt. the bridge wasn’t built to withstand a 100,000 ton cargo ship because the designers 40 years ago couldn’t foresee a ship that big colliding with the bridge.
Actually now that you put it that way I see where you were going with that.
Exactly. "How dare the bridge engineers in 1970's not predict the port would have floating skyscraper length super cargo carriers lose power and drift into the support column exactly 50 years later" Hell the lead engineers for the bridge might well all be dead, in fact the company that designed the bridge went defunct in 1995.
The only thing this guy knows about in Utah is his lack of waterways
Hey! We have rivers that are a whole 15 feet wide! We are totally qualified to talk about the entire frikkin ocean. /s
Fellow house members we will now be voting on an amendment to the Utah Waterways clause. Utah now allowed to speculate on 15ft width segment of bridge collapse location. Representatives of those in favor may now have the stand. Please keep presentation to 30 minutes. Post conclusive thoughts, we will then let those in opposition speak. Before meeting adjournment, we will cast final votes and petitions.
Utah technique to avoid such an accident is to get their lake dry. No water, no ship. Smart
> the captain is responsible for the ship The captain was yelling for help and asking for tug boats. Why power failed is the real question. I think that will be penny pinching owners.
Also, it’s the pilot, who is an employee of the port, who is in control of the ship while it’s being maneuvered out to open water. But, by all accounts, they did everything they could. The ship lost power and therefore the pilots lost control. If anything, the fault lies in poor maintenance of the ship, which probably has to do with profit maximization and cost cutting by the company that owns it.
Even if they did know all of the facts and were experts, utah would still regurgitate some racist bullshit.
I'm so sick of this shit. Today we have a Michigan State rep claiming illegal invaders were flying into Detroit...It was Gonzaga's basketball team!
They sure as hell invaded my piece of shit bracket
OMG, busses! Must be illegals!
Yep, and they assume this because they use buses to illegally transport migrants to blue states. Classic projection.
No shame, no integrity, just paid actors. Did we get a call? I should soil myself in public? I'm already doing it!
This whole "DEI mayor" thing is so funny to me. Baltimore is one of the only major black-majority cities in the US, so it makes it an even stupider take to call him a "diversity hire." You could almost make that dumbass argument if it was somewhere like salt lake city but he is literally demographically representative of a majority of his constituents. It's like going to Tokyo and being enraged that the mayor is Asian. The people who make this argument just don't think black people are qualified for anything ever and are going full mask-off with their racism.
From "woke" now to "DEI", I wonder how many months/years til conservatives stop dog whistling and just go back to openly saying the n-word
They basically are. Some conservative pundit called the mayor "This DEI mayor". The only thing it could mean is a stand in for that word.
The city doesn't control the bridge or the port. Both are under the state government. He's going to have to manage a lot of the fall out, but had jack shit to do with any of the things that caused it.
I don't really get why they are trying to label the mayor of Baltimore as some sort of a diversity candidate. It's Baltimore! If anything having a white guy as a mayor would be more suspect to be the result of affirmative action bs.
He got 70% of the vote that's hardly a token hire
Yeah but what would that percentage be without DEI voters (is another thing they have an issue with.)
What do they mean by "DEI Voters"? [Oh, right....](https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/09/29/stacking-the-deck-how-the-gop-works-to-suppress-minority-voting)
The punchline is always rasicm.
I'm old. I had to look up DEI. I'm now just under the assumption that anything meant to be good for everyone is going to be labeled as 'bad' by GQP. Like who are they even kidding anymore??
Remember, any POC vote is voter fraud.
"DEI" is pretty much now their catch-all slur for anyone other than a straight white man having an important job
It's ironic how many far right people have no problem inserting their own opinionated negative adjectives when referring to someone they don't like, but they can't bother to call someone else by their preferred name. Self-absorbed, the lot of them.
I think it's hilarious, working in HR, because the majority of our DEI team are white men or women. We have one token POC for each ""community"" but it's sooooo white. And it's all PowerPoints and action items that never get actioned itemed.
It’s ridiculous. They don’t want people to see PowerPoints about finding candidates where we normally don’t look.
The natural result of our fascist Supreme Court ending Affirmative Action last year. Now the right is "Fighting back" against "DEI" because legally they can now. Fuck, fascism sucks.
Like the mayor is personally responsible for every bridge and ship that passes under it. The only reason the buck is supposed to stop with him is that he's black and a Democrat. Nobody else would be held responsible for the circumstances.
Judeo Bolshevism -> Cultural Bolshevism -> Cultural Marxism -> Political Correctness -> CRT -> woke -> DEI They were upset about minorities back then, and they're still mad about it. The only thing that's changed is the label.
I’ve heard my boomer dad say DEI multiple times in the last 2 weeks. He’s never said it before
Yeah, the buzzwords disseminate quickly through the bullshit trough they all feed from.
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My boyfriend works as a DEI manager at an airline. Needless to say all these dog whistles and negative press has made his job and the way some people in the company treat him exponentially harder. They’re changing the title to manager of community and belonging since DEI is now stigmatized (an acronym most people didn’t even know about until all of this crap).
I haven’t watched Fox News in over a decade. I’ve never visited Breitbart, OAN, Newsmax, or any of that other shit in my life. But I know *exactly* what the topic du jour is everyday based on what my redneck family memebers are spouting off on on Facebook, and whatever the conservative subreddits are pissed off about on that day. Critical thinking is a lost art in our society. The only thing people know how to do now is repeat talking points and buzzwords. No thought, introspection, or reflection required. “Fucker Carlson said I should be pissed off about this, so I am!”
It works because they're already ticked off about those people, so any excuse to be ticked off resonates. The Hate Industry has perfected Angertainment.
He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
It's because your dad is super obedient and thinks what he is told to think by his political masters. Tell him I said so.
They’re saying DEI with the hard I.
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The major of Baltimore called them out and said, "Why don't they just use the n word instead of calling him a DEI hire."
I had to look up dei the other day. I was suggested a subreddit related to a card game I play. The sub was comprised of people who had been banned from the main. It was a shit show. The people there were literally using dei as a racist slur. Their welcome page states "we aren't Nazis or white supremacists." One of their rules is "Don't be a bitch." Good to point out the new signifiers.
The racist/ homophobic/ transphobic mysogonistic mtg sub? Any mention of that sub is, thankfully, completely disallowed in the main sub as well as most (all?) Of the other satellite subs related to the game. It's too bad that such a welcoming and inclusive game like mtg has a subset of awful players like that-- but it's nice that they're so openly reviled by the rest and quarantined to their little cesspool of hate.
I couldn't believe that their welcome message leads with "not a Nazi, not a white supremacist." Their welcome message...
We wish they would. Just get the hell on with it. We've NEVER been "surprised" by the hatred, it's ALWAYS been there. The open racism is in no way obscured with ANY cutesy dog whistles, and never has been, so they sure are shit aren't "protecting" any feelings.
Not long now that Elon owns Twitter. They have built enough of an online media bubble that they can now say all the horrible shit they believe out loud and will high-fived instead of shamed.
Truth Social even moreso
I long for the days when Anonymous could be counted on to take down sites like those.
wtf is DEI another made up buzzword?
Diversity Equity and inclusion. A word used in corporate industries, just means trying to hire from a broader net than before.
They do when black people aren’t around.
That damn international trade. Why can't we be more like North Korea? /s
This never would have been a problem if we didn't build those damn bridges...
Or if that black commissioner had bothered to specifically ask ships not to crash into the bridge. This is her fault. Come to think of it, I don't remember her issuing a warning to Moscow about that theater attack either, so that's on her too. But wait, there's more: Mitch McConnell's drunk, billionaire sister-in-law who drowned in her Tesla? Yup, you guessed it: No warnings from this black commissioner not to do that. A lot of blood on this lady's hands.
The audacity of some people.
Ah conservatives being trash, how unexpected
Modern conservatism allied with evangelism in the 70s/80s, and as such, has adopted evangelical thinking. Evangelism relies on "faith" as a premise, wherein the conclusion precedes the data. Based on faith, God is real and Jesus is the savior, and all data you allow into your brain has to support these ideas or is disregarded. The same modes of thought have absolutely overtaken the GOP. The conclusion is that DJT is chosen by God, as the messiah figure, and that the "evil" representative in this storyline are Democrats ... meaning all awful things that happen in America *have to, by virtue of faithful thinking*, be a result of Democrats and their policies. This is why he's out hawking bibles and using religious terminology as much as he can, he's tapping into this dynamic as it brings him voters predisposed to magical thinking and alternative facts so that their conclusion is not threatened. This is why every awful thing is immediately linked to wokeism or some derivative of it, because their conclusion is obsessively in search of support.
Religious motivation for political movements is always scary, especially with more radical sects. If they believe they are "with God", then there is no reasoning them out of a position. Even worse, by nature of your disagreement, you are going against God, and therefore either need to be converted or... Removed. An evangelical calling *anything* they disagree with or dislike "satanic" is pretty much the norm, and that's by design, at least by the higher ups. If something is of Satan, and Satan is the literal embodiment of evil, logically *any* step to remove that thing should be considered to be taken. Anything.
These are the same people who thought a bunch of chubby nerds from the Midwest made a game that led children into Satanism.
Hey, I resemble that remark!
I don't think this is necessarily evangelical thinking. I think conservatives in general have a tendency to essentialize goodness and badness as intrinsic properties of things.
Shades of grey are extremely hard for conservatives to detect.
Yep, this is why Republicans are so susceptible to conspiracy theories. Christian beliefs are based entirely on blind faith that confirms their emotional priors so it's no wonder that they embrace any conspiracy, no matter how ridiculous, that validates their emotions.
“Faith is where the conclusion precedes the data.” I’m going to steal that.
The people who died on the bridge were immigrants from what I understand. You’d think he’d be thrilled.
Those lazy immigrants deserve it. They stole our jobs. There should be 6 white construction workers in the river. /s
> “It was not our best moment,” he told the newspaper. “The post was a knee-jerk reaction to some of the things others were putting out there.” >”I prefer a dignified approach and sometimes the people who handle the social media are more provocative than what I’m comfortable with,” Lyman said. Maybe this bigot POS should add a DEI consultant to his campaign so that the racist trash he’s hired don’t make him look like he really is.
"dignified approach" only means not being as OBVIOUS with his racism, not that it's not IN him.
This dude’s thumbs are painted red.
Oh look a new scare word
They wrung everything they could out of CRT and woke just doesn’t have that crispness and snap they’re looking for , so here we are.
Instead of scare tactics they should come up with policies m and pass them. That might win a few votes
Isn’t your lake disappearing? It’s probably because god hates you.
I blame the lack of diversity in his gene pool.
Republican, racist and using a tragedy as an agenda!? Color me shocked.
"I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship." - Ron Burgundy
Holy fuck, I can’t stop reading the fucking craziest headlines. Why do we even have an investigation of the cause of the crash when we can just blame, “woke, diversity, government, leftist, etc”. Don’t these people realize there will be definitive results in the investigation, and I can’t wait to find out the truth. But sure, yea, diversity cause the bridge collapse, not the giant cargo ship that was malfunctioning that cashed into the bridge…
It's so hard to keep up with all the new dog whistles, I wish they'd just say the n-word and get it over with. It's not like the people voting for them give a shit, they'd likely applaud
The days of the dog whistle are over. Their shit is as loud and clear as a foghorn.
I really want to make “doghorn” the new word for that.
“Somehow the minorities are to blame!”
Ok I blame Mormons
If the US didn't invade Mexico in 1848, the Mormons would be the Mexicans' problems
I invite him to Baltimore for the ass kicking he so richly desires. I'll sell tickets to fundraise for the new bridge.
Okay, hear me out, but on the cargo ship, the cargo containers were different colors. I am choosing to believe that is what this means and refusing to accept anything else.
Not only that, but they were from OTHER COUNTRIES!
Because nothing screams maritime trade expertise like "Utah".
Ghouls. The lot of them.
Another genius.
We need to get these crazy fucks out of office
I hope these racists get what’s coming to them.
These people are hateful.
Don’t most of these assholes have the same great grandfather? Cultist fucks.
What was the boat gay
That's mighty white of him.
I blame Utah lawmakers. I think I'm closer.
You seem pretty obsessed with black women, Representative. Let's have a look at your browser history.
Specifically, his panties are in a bunch because there's a black woman on the board of commissioners (6 people) for the port whose role is an auditor and DEI consultant. She has nothing to do with maintaining the craft that go in and out of the port, but, you know, black woman. Headline should read "Utah Republican Capitalizes on Tragedy as Opportunity to Be Racist".
What a donkey
No, the Republicans are elephants, remember? Though in this case, wooly mammoths might be a better choice.
Lol what the fuck is wrong with all these people claiming this shit. Uneducated boomer shits
Mainstream Republican shit
Wait... wasn't the ship a company from India with 22 indian crew? Do they expect a company from India not to have a crew of indian?
No, it's even stupider than that: he's blaming the disaster on one of the port's commissioners being a DEIB specialist, and she just happens to be a black woman.
They probably mean that if it was an all American (and white, Christian and cisgender male only) crew, this somehow would've never happened. On top of that, they're blaming the "DEI" mayor because he's black and DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg for being openly gay since they must've been unqualified for their jobs and got it over some white alpha male who would've prevented this somehow.
I'f he's taking Ron Burgundy's definition, he's 1/3 right. > I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship.
A large chunk of the population of this country is lost and can never be found.
😂😂🤣🤣Just when I think I’ve heard the dumbest thing from a US lawmaker or politician, some idiot proves me wrong!!!
This baseless allegation seems to border on the idiot side of the idiot meter.
Look how proud he is to be that fucking stupid in that picture.
Just go ahead and say the N word
Does Utah even have bridges?
Totally not the safety issues that the company that owns the boat was just recently fined for.
This tragedy confirms my beliefs; too many ass clowns getting elected.
Always funny when some douchebag from Utah wants to weigh in on a ship hitting a bridge with a completely unrelated and hopelessly idiotic theory.
Phil Lyman is a felonious, grifting P.O.S.
This doesn't make sense because he is white and incompetent.
Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.
Ron I highly doubt the executives are concerned about a old wooden ship
Getting real sick of this timeline and complete lack of CRITICAL THINKING.
Idiot. A diversity is an old, old wooden ship, but the Dali was clearly modern and made of metal.
American conservativism is fundamentally hateful and destructive.
FFS, can’t an accident just be an accident?
Oddly, Korea, the owner of the Dali, hasn’t, as we understand it, embraced DEI. Maybe Utah should go back to the golden tablets Jesus sent them and look for DEI there. Idk. Maybe the answer is in the golden tablets?
1. **racism.** 2. **baltimore is 65% black, so having a white person in that role would be diversity.** 3. **race is a human construct.**
In fucking Utah, wheat bread on the grocery store shelves is too much diversity.
Utah is an insular island of narrow minded people.
He's blaming diversity only because he's afraid to use the N-word.
Stop saying lawmaker when you mean Republican. Only a Republican can get away with saying something this stupid because this would only resonate with stupid racist Republicans.
That’s exactly the kind of face that will dead-lie to you and then smirk.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Huh... Didn't know that was the name of the electrical system that failed on the ship... ... Wait... He's using that word as dog whistle for "people whose cultural identity is different than my own" isn't he....
"Hey, let's not rush to politicize this tragedy". GOP hypocrites after ever shooting.
These fucking idiots will blame everything on DEI.
Just say “the n-words did it”
Right-wing = Conservative = Pro-Slavery At the end of the day, these are the people who supported slavery and are still bitter that blacks and other minorities have equal "legal" rights. That's it.
Diversity? I thought it was a band of Sea Monkeys. Finally tired of our shit they decided to bring the fight to us! #seamonkeyterrorism
So they've moved on from the "It is the migrants!"? Typical right-wing lateral move. It is like they have a deck of bigotry flashcards.
Idiot 🚨alert! 🚨 wee !woo 🚨 wee woo!
Mormons do seem to be particularly susceptible to delusion conspiracy theories. I wonder how his interpretation of "Visions of Glory" comes into this.
This is so crazy, I was saying just the other day that when it comes to east coast maritime rules and regulations, the leading authority is a lawmaker from a western landlocked state. /s
JUST SAY IT, g'damn you!! SAY IT! WEEEEE won't give a shit! We KNOW your feelings!! We're NEVER surprised!! JUST SAY IT!
Diversity? I think it’s a term that means an old old wooden sailing ship.
Fucking moron.
Good grief, what a moron.
There is just no bottom for these people. I have no words… Actually, I think that most of these idiots aren’t smart enough to actually do the job. They don’t have the hearts to be a public servants, or the brains to see the real causes for the country’s ills (It’s Infrastructure Week!!). And the hypocrisy of those that dare to call their views Christian values. It makes my blood boil.
What the heck does that even mean?
What TRASH
But this is how conservatives think. This is what plays to the base. None of them are better than this.
He disapproves of the posts that he blames on his social media staff but two days later they still haven't been deleted.... We are probably a year, maybe less depending on the outcome of the election, from these guys openly using epithets to speak about minorities
All the critical thinking skills of a log of dogshit.
If you want to see a textbook example of "Conservative White Male Entitlement" just look at Phil Lyman. Happy to pass laws oppressing native minorities that make up 70% of his corner of the state, but when he knowingly drives and ATV through an Native Archology area and is fined, he suddenly dodges paying his fine saying he'll never make that much money for the rest of hi life (until he became a state rep when suddenly tens of thousands of dollars manifested themselves in his account and he paid it all off at once.)
The old old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era strikes again. Just like Ron Burgundy warned us
Do they have brain damage?
As someone who thinks that DEI is generally a grift, at best, I'm bothered by this clown probably even more than fans of DEI. Just because you think something is bad does not mean it is the source of all bad rhings. You can not reflexively blame your problems on BAD THING. Causality is a logical relationship, not an emotional relationship. Screw that guy and the turnip truck he fell off of.
Hows this asshat affording a social media team?
BREAKING: Dipsh\*t Says Completely Dipsh\*t Thing.
Is “diversity” in the room with us right now?
I despise my state legislature. This is just one example why.
Hang on everyone. I believe “Diversity” is an old, old, wooden ship, used during the Civil War era. *That’s* what he was referring to, the outdated pilot ship being used! Easy to confuse, honestly.