I do think a lot of our society has become very, like, I don't know, I, I don't even know the right word for it, but it's, like, it's kinda, like, neutered or, like, emasculated and.. there's, like, a whole energy in [jujitsu] that I, I think it's, it is very healthy in the right balance. I mean, I think part of the reason, I mean, every one of the things that I enjoy about it is I feel like I can just like express myself.... It's like when you're running a company, people typically don't want to see you being like this ruthless person who's like, just like, I'm just gonna like crush the people I'm competing with.... I think in some ways when people see me competing in the sport, they're like, oh no, that's the real Mark.... It's like, that's the real one.... I think a lot of the corporate world is, is like pretty culturally neutered. And... I grew up, I have three sisters, no brothers, I have three daughters, no sons. So I'm like surrounded by girls and women like my, my whole life....
He masculinized himself through martial arts — or so he says to Joe Rogan. Later, they will discuss hunting... with bows and arrows. Zuck exults in his discovery of masculinity:
So I think, I don't know, there's, there's something, the the, the kind of masculine energy I think is, is good....
Masculinity is good. There. He's said it. But he must hedge:
And obviously, You know, society has plenty of that, but, but I think corporate culture was really like trying to get away from it. And I do think that there's just something, it's like, I don't know, the, these, all these forms of energy are good. And I think having a culture that like celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own merits that are really positive.
That goes on my list of things he may have discussed with Trump. Absurdly, this song played in my head:
Back to Zuck:
And that's, that has been, that has been a kind of a positive experience for me. Just like having a thing that I can just like do with my guy friends and... it's just like, we just like beat each other a bit. I dunno. It's, it's good....
Fight Club!
And then, no surprise, Zuckerberg must acknowledge the women who have called for a reshaping corporate culture. He switches into a neutered version of himself and says what every non-jujitsu fiber of his being knows he must say:
It's, I like, I do think that I, if you're a a woman going into a company, it probably feels like it's too masculine. And it's like there isn't enough of the kind of the energy that that, that you may naturally have. And it probably feels like there are all these things that are set up that are biased against you. And that's not good either, because you want, you want women to be able to succeed and and, like, have companies that can unlock all the value from having great people no matter, you know, what their background or gender, you know.
Having mouthed the article of faith — women have a rightful place in corporations and corporations work better when they give women what is owed — Zuckerberg critiques the excesses of feminism:
But, but I think these things can all always go a little far. And I think it's one thing to say we want to be kind of like welcoming and make a good environment for everyone. And I think it's another to basically say that masculinity is bad. And I, I just think we kind of swung culturally to that part of the, the kind of the spectrum where, you know, it's all like, okay, masculinity is toxic. We have to like get rid of it completely. It's, like, no, like it's, both of these things are good, right? It's like you want, like, feminine energy, you want masculine energy. Like I, I think that that's like you're gonna have parts of society that have more of one or the other. I think that that's all good. But, but I do think the corporate culture sort of had swung towards being this somewhat more neutered thing. And I didn't really feel that until I got involved in martial arts, which I think is still a more, much more masculine culture....
Is Zuckerberg truly masculine? He longs for masculinity, but it's a longing that seems to arise from a feeling that there is too much femininity and that femininity is enervating. There's something strange — something Californian — about all this discussion of "energy" and something sad about feeling "surrounded by girls and women like my whole life" and seeking a cure in a fight club. Zuckerberg does have a father — and he seems like a fine man who was entirely present in the family. Maybe Zuckerberg is doing a performance for Joe Rogan (and for Trump). But all that jujitsu training sounds like a lot of work. I'll assume for now that his search for masculinity is sincere. And quite aside from his physique and his psyche, his thoughts on gender energy in the corporate world matter. Some of us might think the workplace should be gender neutral — just treat everyone as an individual! — but he seems to have some woo-woo ideas about the balance of masculine and feminine energy.
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The wish... followed by the wash.
Having mouthed the article of faith — women have a rightful place in corporations and corporations work better when they give women what is owed
Where does he mouth this?
I prefer Fight, Fight, Fight.
America has a lot of ground to cover to catch up with the world today to be waffling on the issues.
Nietzsche praises women, and one kind of feminism, and mocks the other kind of feminism, which unfortunately is the one adapted to survive against the other two.
Derrida, Spurs, skip the Preface by somebody else.
The bad feminism wants not a castrated man but a castrated woman.
You can get really really good at something, and then at stuff that depends on that something, and find male satisfaction in it. Women can't do the obsession necessary for that and branch out into less focused more social stuff.
He’s like on the right track.
Actions speak louder than words.
We’re all men now.
I wonder if listening to him talk is as dreary as reading what he said. Like, you know?
Is he trying to look like Victor Garber in Godspell?
JSM
Feminism is the wrong term. But there is this female nurturing aspect that has increased in culture as masculinity has declined, I think of it as a form of safetyism. We saw it on full display during Covid, the notion that every step must be taken, no matter how extreme, to protect others. The masculine view is that life is full of risks and that a meaningful life requires the embrace of these risks. The safetyism view is all risk must be avoided at all cost.
"God made them male and female" for a reason. Each has its own discreet and immutable character and energy, and feminism's attempt to neuter the male essence has been catastrophic. Feminism makes good women into very bad imitations of men. Like its political analog, socialism/communism, feminism seeks to level everything and by doing so, it destroys both the feminine and the masculine. Again, like the horribly misguided efforts to surgically turn boys into girls and vice versa, what results is not the opposite thing, but a horrible, ungendered, de-sexed, neutered and utterly useless ersatz caricature, a hollowed out shell with nothing inside. Sad it has taken so long to understand this and sadder still, that there remain multitudes who still fail to perceive it.
You can't go wrong with Van Halen, even if the ear worm is one of their more mediocre songs.
There's a completely male safetyism, namely the way you eliminate the virus is reduce the average number of people a case infects to less than 1.0 . Then the disease dies out and disappears. It's a math thing. So the policy question is how do we get the transmission rate to less than 1.0 . That requires a sort of non-voluntary measure on the population. That's a result of male focus, not a refusal of risks.
As happened in fact for the original variant of COVID-19, in exactly that way.
Where it went bad was assuming the vaccine would work for following variants, which it didn't.
gosh, another Harvard type discovers 'new' truths. Men and women are very very different, and it's a good thing. Wow
He has a long long way to go- after destroying people, businesses, and careers using FB, all the while giving Obama and Biden a continuous BJ for the last 8 years.
Not to mentioned hundreds of millions of hush money, grift money, given to the left.
I think Trump is his new Daddy, and he can't wait to do a repeat performance.
Had Harris won, and Trump sent to jail, that fool would have gladly continued to fund the whole show. His FB would ramp up destroying the right, and he would be happy that way.
I never trust someone who sold their honor and integrity, and think they can buy it back when they have 'made' it in the world.
Corporate culture isn’t neutral, it’s feminized. That means that the brutal fight for position and money is concealed, instead of openly expressed in the manner of men, so that gossip and backstabbing are the weapons of choice. This is also true of the gay male faction in corporate culture, which is allied with feminists. In every office I worked at from 1990 on, the dominant warfare alliance was fag hags in HR and gay men.
He does a good job at making it sound like he didn’t stick his peepee in the air to know which way the wind is blowing…
You might think that the HR women I refer to were lesbians, but they mostly weren’t. They were women who obviously wanted heterosexual romance and marriage. They drove me crazy, because they were often simultaneously trying to seduce me outside the workplace, and stabbing me in the back in the workplace to demonstrate their allegiance to gay men.
I’m halfway through the interview. Frankly, it is more boring than the Elon Musk interview. As Althouse suggests, Zuckerberg starts a bit tough talking about how wrong censorship is, but manages to find reasons he wasn’t able to stop it from happening and Rogan gives him an out by discussing the size of the problem. Rogan also pushes his own agenda including anonymous accounts. Then it gets in to jujitsu and it’s a long discussion on health, energy, and masculinity. I’m at the part he is talking about masculinity being good [but so is feminism]. I think he would do better just calling out ESG/DEI.
Guys who would know say both him and Bezos started testosterone and that's why they're becoming more masculine.
I don't think it's odd he's becoming more interested in manly things. He grew up in the Longhouse and didn't realize until recently that something else was possible. My guess is that his wife doesn't mind his newfound masculinity.
Mike Rowe and his crew on "Dirty Jobs" had a saying--"Safety Third."
Because the fact of the matter is that if safety were truly "first", most of the stuff they were documenting would never get done or attempted. Safety second meant that there were lots of rules and protocols to try to make things safer, but one effect of that is that is that people relax and think that the rules and protocols protect them, instead of watching out for themselves. So "Safety Third," which was sort of a wry joke, but meant that each person needed to take responsibility for their own safety.
Something happened to Mark Zuckerberg. In his recent appearance on Rogan's show, he sounded like a man who is figuring some things out, and isn't afraid to say so.
In his first appearance, in 2022, he sounded like Zucker-bot, programmed to not say anything that would jeopardize his corporation.
1. Is there a place where I can get a Readers Digest Condensed version of Rogan? His show can be interesting, but my time constraint only justifies maybe 30 minutes. The time it takes for a 3 mile run. Otherwise I pass.
2. Competition against rivals is the core of Corporate Capitalism. It is also an inherently more masculine trait. I always hesitate before investing in female-led corporations.
3. Some CEO's do Ironman. Some have single-digit handicaps. Some, I guess do martial arts. For multiple reasons, I want the CEO to be physically fit and active.
Tom Brady's ex, who was the CEO of a major multinational corporation (and making more than him) when she married him, ran off with the jujitsu instructor.
I'm not sure what that means, but it's a data point.
In Woodstock, where I kept a second home for 45 years, it was common for the husband to commute long distance to NYC for a high paying job so that the kids wouldn’t get beat up in NYC, and would have access to good public schools. He was often rewarded for this by his wife taking up with the gardener, taking away his children and the house, and leaving him with nothing.
Maybe Zuckerberg recognizes in Trump a master of political jujitsu (jujutsu)?
Manipulating an opponent's attack using his force and direction allows jujutsuka to control the balance of their opponent and hence prevent the opponent from resisting the counterattack.
“his wife wife taking up with the gardener.” Usually there’s 2 sides to that story and Carly Simon has that covered in The Wives Are In Connecticut:
https://youtu.be/lLmmx0oLGRs?si=FFa5kZRFxGtGcAwX
…there’s so much of the masculine/feminine wrapped in this sentence. The perception of women is they are owed. Why does it never occur to women to go build what they want? Risk aversion is my theory. Risk taking is the masculine. The feminine is to wait for the men to build the thing then go take it using the institutions they’ve nurtured, all before 2:30pm when the kids get out of school…
Better you than me to go through all this crap. Help! Books! Jane Austen!
One of the reasons the episode is so short and boring on the censorship issue is because it’s old news. Rogan doesnt need it explained to him, nor do his fans. Even the left have moved to the “yes, it happened - so what” phase. So there’s no need to spend a big chunk of the episode on it.
JSM
"Is Zuckerberg truly masculine?" Is having a mangina masculine?
The problem is that if males and females are comfortable with different things, no corporation can ever be "gender neutral". What will be comfortable to one will not be comfortable to the other. So if men strengthen their team by (limited) put-downs and insults but women find that unwelcoming, well, you gotta choose.
I think Tom will be okay.
"Is there a place where I can get a Readers Digest Condensed version of Rogan?"
Well, I cued up the video at a good spot. But it's easy to ask AI for a summary. Here's what I got in in about 1 second:
Here's a summary of Mark Zuckerberg's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, Episode #2255, which was published on January 10, 2025:
Date of Episode: January 10, 2025
Key Points:
Content Moderation and Censorship:
Zuckerberg discussed the recent decision by Meta to end fact-checking on its platforms, attributing this to instances of wrongful censorship. He elaborated on the pressures Meta faced to censor content, particularly mentioning the Hunter Biden laptop story and information related to COVID-19. He revealed that government officials, including those from the Biden administration, had pressured Meta to take down certain content.
The Role of Social Media:
He reiterated the foundational mission of social media as being about giving people a voice, emphasizing the importance of open dialogue. He shared his belief that the essence of starting a social media company is to empower people to share and connect freely.
Government Influence and Censorship:
Zuckerberg mentioned instances where government agencies had badgered Meta for information or conducted what he considered dubious investigations. He highlighted the significant fines imposed by the European Union on tech companies as an example of regulatory pressure.
Cultural and Corporate Critique:
He voiced criticism against what he described as "culturally neutered" companies, advocating for a corporate culture that embraces "masculine energy" and isn't afraid to celebrate aggression to some extent. This was part of a broader discussion on the cultural direction of tech companies.
Personal Transformation and Hobbies:
Zuckerberg shared how his engagement in mixed martial arts, specifically jiu-jitsu, has positively transformed his personal life and demeanor. He discussed this as a way to manage the demands of his role and maintain balance.
Economic Opportunities and Technology:
He talked about how VR and AR could revolutionize work and social interactions, allowing people to live in areas that align with their values without compromising economic opportunities. This was linked to his vision for the Metaverse.
Meta's New Directions:
The conversation included insights into Meta's future plans, such as innovations in parental controls for social media, suggesting a focus on user safety and experience.
This episode was notable for Zuckerberg's candid reflections on the challenges of managing content on his platforms, his personal evolution, and his views on the intersection of technology, culture, and governance.
“Monkey men all
In business suits
Teachers and critics
All dance the poot”
"woo-woo". It's all woo-woo until the fires start.
'Like,... I mean, uh... I mean... like, .... like... I mean....'
is this guy really a tech billionaire?
Will we ever forget Zuckerbucks and Zucker+democrat drop boxes for cheat machine?
Literally!
As soon as the Soviet-Democrats regain power - he will be back on board with their demands for bogus "fact-checking" and censorship.
Remember - when the collective left whine about "mis-information" - all that means is - people are complaining about inept and corrupt democrats - How dare they! Make it stop!
2nd look at the Burka?
Toxic Masculinity:
I’m out shoveling snow while my wife is cuddled up in her warm bed.
I wonder what "culturally neutered" means. Is Zuckerberg wishing for some kind of Thunderdome environment when he ventures into whatever he considers to be the "corporate world"? It seems he wants to be seen as a "big swinging dick" and he's annoyed -as so many executives are- by the need to comply with the massive amount of laws and rules and procedures that have to be observed, especially for a publicly traded corporation. If he wants to get away with more then he should take his companies private but he's still going to have live by some rules.
Thanks !!
Roger Sweeny is spot on.
As far as 'woo-woo', he's simply trying to square the circle of saying he's come to realize that men and women are good at different things, want different things, and deal with the world in different ways, with the enormous cultural weight behind the belief the only differences between men and women are plumbing fixtures.
It must be tough to be an abortion activist in a climate where the news o’ the day is two dudes doing an hour on bow hunting…
I don't trust this guy as far as I can push him off a cliff, but I'll be forever grateful that he helped cheat Biden into office, insodoing allowing Trump four years to ruminate on what he did and what he'd do differently the next time.
IIRC, back in 2011 Zukabug vowed to personally kill every animal he ate for a year. This resulted in an almost entirely vegetarian diet and horrible nightmares of being a fawn tied to a stake while Chance the gardiner timidly approached, fumbling with a spear.
He was weak and he allowed the corrupt Soviet Chi-Com Democratic virus big pharma mob crew to cow him into censorship and vote scams.
You can trust Zukcerf*ck now- tho. He's a stud.
I know I'm dreaming - but strong men and strong women need to be OK with each other. All of this is part of the left's systematic dismantlement of meritocracy
Does Zuckerberg want to be seen as a "big swinging dick" in the boardroom? It's also possible that he's seen freedom in life outside work and contrasts that with the timidity and restraint of the corporate world. Or is that the same thing: a billionaire thinking that he's above the constraints that are imposed on everyone else?
It could also be that he's going through a midlife crisis. Zuckerberg made his pile young when he was still impressionable, and now he has a lot of money to play around with now that he's wondering who he is and what he wants. He's surprisingly malleable and easy to influence, but then so was Bill Gates, another billionaire man child. Seeing yourself portrayed unfavorably on the big screen for all to see may also make a lightbulb go off in your head.
Karate, Judo, and jujitsu were familiar words growing up. Karate and Judo made it into the Olympics, and karate at least became a common word since then. Other martial arts from other parts of the world have also become familiar to Americans, but I don't think I've heard about jujitsu in decades. If you asked me about it yesterday, I might almost have thought it was something Boomer kids made up.
Panama is one of their better songs.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have started using it as one of their goal songs this season so I hear it a lot.
Being neutered probably leads to a lot of dissatisfaction.
People change as they age, some even grow in beneficial ways. But I'll never trust Zuckerberg, or believe him on anything important.
He says "like" like way too, like, much, like. I don't, like, like it.
An observation based on 40 years in large law firms in a corporate transactional practice: female executives (and board members) focus on process, and tend to believe that the process is a sufficient end in itself. Male executives are much more tolerant of the risk/reward conundrum and put a higher value on outcomes.
DEI initiatives are a logical expression of a focus on process rather than a focus on outcomes.
rrhardin - I agree. What I am talking about was the bullshit social isolation, lockdowns, ineffective face diapers, not allowing people to go to the beach or be outside, etc. The vaccines are a separate issue. I am not an anti-vaccer. That said, I worked in drug development all my life and knew it was impossible to determine that a vaccine was safe and effective after only twelve months of clinical trials. Typical clinical trials take ten years minimum.
By his works ye shall know him.
Zuck comes out as gay on The Joe Rogan Podcast…
“Like, me and my guy friends, like, sometimes we just, like, beat each other….”
You can define masculinity a lot of different ways but you’re looking at one of the most savage, cutthroat, successful business titans of the past fifty years.
When we take back Panama, we should do two things:
1) Make that song the national anthem.
2) Make David Lee Roth governor.
some of my comments are vanishing again.
According to wikipedia Zuck was captain of the fencing team in high school.
He's searching so hard for the right word. If only our language had a word with the opposite meaning of masculine. Perhaps the relationship of male to masculine suggests a similar derivation of female to feminine? No?
Is it really that difficult to say out loud?
Women, generally speaking, are simply not a positive force in the workplace of corporate America. Their instincts are decidedly unhelpful. Zuckerberg may be a bit of a squish, but he is at least trying to break away from the model of feminized titans of tech. That is to say, Bill Gates.
"every step must be taken, no matter how extreme, to protect others."
The biggest harm wasn't that the steps were extreme, it was that they were unjustified, unverified, without any evidence of effectiveness. Both masks and the 6-foot world were just made up out of whole cloth - - The WHO standing advice on masking was that it gave no benefit, and then suddenly they did a 180 with absolutely zero evidence for overturning their previous position.
Trust is a very precious resource rarely wasted on anyone with whom I don't have a years long reciprocal experience that built said trust. I've never understood why people would apply that word to political or business leaders of any type.
Someone give that man an eyebrow pencil!
Anyone know the sex balance of frequent Meta users?
I was never a senior executive. I spent 30 years of my life engineering various computers related things. Regulatory compliance was always necessary, but one day I looked at what I was doing, and how much more time I was spending, and said Screw This.
Its not that rules are bad. Its that every new rule is sold as "just a trivial increase" without regard to the total context. Also, the relative burden on smaller companies is huge. HP had a whole department, amortized across a vast product line. My company had me, for two products.
weren’t we all?
It's probably evidence of my own flaws, but I can't find anything that Zuckerberg says or does of any interest.
Fauci's public admission that he had deliberately lied about masking, after he announced it should be mandatory, was quite memorable.
Rogan's long form interviews are reminiscent of many legal depositions I've taken. Most people are unable to lie for hours on end. The strain of constantly pretending is too much. Truth starts to creep through. The last hour of the day is almost always the most productive.
And thanks for "woo-woo". I've added it to my vocabulary.
Neutered or aborted? Toxic femininy. Feminism is a class-disordered ideology is always toxic.
Van Halen clip - starting at 2:30 for 10 seconds is funny. Dave in Jap fighter garb.
Brannon has this to say about Zuckerberg (via CFP):
https://rumble.com/v680x1s-bannon-zuckerberg-youre-one-of-the-worst-people-in-this-country.html
"... the kind of the energy that that, that you may naturally have."
Right. Nagging energy.
Women ruin everything.
@rehajm: Pregnant females and those with small children are indeed hyper dependent on others (males) for food and shelter. They are often quite passive and simply built differently -- brain imaging has shown that male/female differences are indeed biological and mirror behavior.
Female specialization to support offspring goes back hundreds of millions of years and predates the human race by that period too. Females in many species are fine with harems and relatively little male involvement, while other species rely on a 1/1 male to female ratio for greater economic support.
The pre-feminists and first-wave feminists (e.g., those seeking the right to vote 100 years ago) fully accepted deep sex differences. And with Biden's exit from Afghanistan, the westernized Afghan females complied with the males in power by stepping back into traditional female roles. Overnight.
Corporate HR puts a female face on all the worst human traits. HR staff and managers are often female, and they say all sorts of motherly, supportive stuff to incoming staff. However, when push comes to shove they follow (backstabbing) instructions from often male managers. HR has no discipline or sense of fairness, and merely bows down to power and the protection that comes from power. The true managers do not want or allow strength and independence so close to them.
He spent the last 20 years functioning as a slimy snake. I'll give him 20 years to clean up the many, many messes he made. It could happen, or he may slither back down into the self-serving muck with the next change of power.
And this is precisely why Kamala's handlers wanted to speak to Rogan for only one hour, offsite, and with many topics off limits.
Is "too old to matter" is the most frequent one? Post-menopausal females and post-retirement males.
And there was the problem with the COVID-19 ModRNA vaccines - the inability to understand consequences. It was quick and dirty. They knew from Day 1 what the S1 and S2 spike proteins looked like. S1 attaches to the target cell and S2 gets the payload into the cell. Which means that the virus can’t hide them. Generate a genetic sequence that produces those spike proteins, slap 5’ and 3’ sequences on either end, encase it in a capsid to protect it from the immune system, and voila, a vaccine that churns out innumerable copies of the two spike proteins, that teach the subject’s immune system that these two (Wuhan variant) spike proteins are antigens. It kinda worked.
Then came the consequences. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a respiratory RNA virus. Similar to flu viruses in that respect. It mutates quickly and easily, since it’s a RNA virus, without the accuracy checking of DNA viruses, and has a robust, but simple, infection mechanism, which means that more of the mutations survive. The focus on two, and only two, proteins means that there was evolutionary pressure on the virus to tweak those two spike proteins sufficiently enough that they weren’t as easily recognized as antigens, triggering an immune response. And, as should have been anticipated, the two spike proteins of the virus promptly mutated around the vaccine. The vaccines came out in the spring, were in general use by late spring, the more infectious Delta hit in mid summer, with reduced cross reactivity, and Omicron, that had almost no cross reactivity, but was even more infectious, had pushed out Delta by the end of the year. Virus variants in general, and respiratory RNA viruses in particular, compete with each other in terms of infectivity and (un)lethality. The result was that Herd Immunity of the Wuhan variant was roughly 60% of the population. But Delta was more infectious, so Herd Immunity jumped up to roughly 80% of the population, assuming a fully sterilizing vaccine (which these were far from). That’s the point where they should have thrown in the towel, because they weren’t going to get an 80% vaccination rate (and evidence was surfacing that the vaccines weren’t sterilizing). By the end of the year, the more infectious, but even less cross reacting Omicron had pushed out Delta, and you had a Herd Immunity requirement of almost 100% (~98%) of the population needing to be vaccinated(assuming the vaccine fully sterilized), and cross reactivity of under 10% between the antibodies generated by the vaccines to Omicron variants (showing that it didn’t sterilize at all). It went from pissing into the wind, to doing it into a full gale, guaranteeing that you were going to get sopping wet with your own urine.
My view is that while creation of the ModRNA vaccines was a masculine endeavor, forcing everyone to conform, and risk vaccine side effects, from a known ineffective vaccine, was the female side of the whole endeavor.
If you listen to jiu -jitsu afficiandos like Rogan and Bongino, you hear how much damage they've done to their bodies and the medical interventions they've tried to fix things.
Go to his playlist channel on Youtube and select the "JRE Clips" playlist for 350+ clips:
https://www.youtube.com/@joerogan/playlists
Yesterday's All-in podcast (if you don't already listen to it you ought to) had a very interesting conversation about Zuckerberg's apparent change of heart. Several of them know him well. Opinions were mixed.
Per the Christian Bible, this was once described as:
"And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Females in power tend to get wrapped up in (1) mothering, or (2) back-stabbing and jealousy, or (3) maintaining complex social structures. Women like people, men like things. If a corporation focuses on social work, to include teaching, medical care, and customer service, females can be fine and likely superior to many males. If the corporation builds stuff or mines stuff or farms or cuts trees or destroys stuff or works with heavy machinery, females will likely struggle.
The federal regulatory agencies routinely p*ss all over every part of government operations for no clear reason. They are not liked by anyone other than those who wanted a new law for such-and-such. The regulators demand all sorts of complex hoop jumping and corrections of trivial errors or moot points. The rules change every 2 to 20 years, requiring a cascade of changes and years of update effort by others. (The DOGE team actually hates the regulators, and may not realize that they are a fraction of federal jobs overall.)
Those on a power trip seem to be attracted to this kind of passive-aggressive work. The solution may be to cut the regulatory staff to the bone so there aren't enough work hours to execute any additions.
Zucumber's pivot on "fact checkers" doesn't address the mass nuking of entire FB accounts and forums for vaccine injury etc.
I always enjoyed hearing Walter Williams on Rush's show describing his "thoughtful" Xmas gifts for his wife, including ice cleats for her boots to steady her when clearing the snow from their car and driveway.
Even better were the callers who berated him for fobbing the "man's work" onto her!
By now, most men know that the definition of "husband is, "a man with a wife, and a broken spirit."
Treat everyone as individuals? That is against DEI, Woke Feminism, and every stripe on the LGBTQOKDKMAP etc. flag.
Feminism is a power play just like DEI is. The results are similar to White Male nepotism or the Old Boys Network. The women, men, and minorities who can do the job well aren’t the ones who ascend to positions of authority in the organization (be it academia, Big Non Profit, Big Business, or Big Labor).
For me, the most worrying part of the Zuckerberg Rogan exchange was Zuckerberg's reporting of the efforts by the Biden administration to censor Meta in ways that would help gain political support for Democrats. This is of a piece with the law fare efforts and with the effort (see post about Taibbi on this blog) that Dept of State is moving a censorship department around in an attempt to hide it. I grew up in the Watergate era and Nixon's "fatal" action was attempting to use gov't groups and actions to promote his political ambitions. (If you're too young to remember do a web search for "Nixon Smoking Gun Tape."). It was wrong with Nixon and he left the Presidency in disgrace. It was wrong with Biden but he has escaped any disgrace. (So far.)
You can't go wrong with Van Halen, even if the ear worm is one of their more mediocre songs.
Van Halen? No. Van Hagar? Ugh. Two bands (SH and VH) ruined at once.
Zuck's words mean nothing. The time to speak was when it was happening. He's been exposed and is just trying to cover his ass now.
Agreed. (with Jim at). But Zuckerberg's failures don't excuse or eliminate Biden's failures/crimes. For the future of US political system we need to ensure that people understand you can't use instruments of government to assist in your political efforts.
To me, it hinges on how much control he didn't have, over day-to-day operations back during the censorship heyday, and what he did to wrest control back and what he's doing to chart a new policy course now.
He has a case to make, and prove. otherwise he's just changed tack for fairer winds. I still won't trust him, in any event.
Think back to his Congressional testimonies...
"Some of us might think the workplace should be gender neutral — just treat everyone as an individual!"
And some of us might think you should choose the kind of workplace that meets your needs, not force the workplace to conform to your desires.
h makes good points about misuse of government power. Unfortunately, it is utopian to imagine a world in which the powerful fail to use l
power.
It was a big misspelling… he was captain of teh mincing team.
Only if American masculinity is embodied by someone who looks like Napoleon Dynamite…
Panama is about a car. Not sure what that means in this context.
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