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Following a number of CEOs pulling out of President Trump's American Manufacturing Council and Strategic and Policy Forum, President Trump tweeted that the initiatives have been ended:
Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!
The CEOs of Merck, Intel, 3M, and other companies had already left:
3M Co. Chief Executive Officer Inge Thulin stepped down from the White House's manufacturing council, adding to the corporate exodus as the backlash grows to President Donald Trump's ambivalent response to racially-charged violence in Virginia over the weekend.
Thulin joined the White House panel in January "to advocate for policies that align with our values and encourage even stronger investment and job growth -- in order to make the United States stronger, healthier and more prosperous," the CEO said Wednesday in a statement tweeted by 3M. "After careful consideration, I believe the initiative is no longer an effective vehicle for 3M to advance these goals."
Update: The members of the Strategic and Policy Forum reportedly disbanded the group before President Trump's tweet:
The quick sequence began late Wednesday morning when Stephen A. Schwarzman, the chief executive of the Blackstone Group and one of Mr. Trump's closest confidants in the business community, organized a conference call for members of the president's Strategic and Policy Forum. On the call, the chief executives of some of the largest companies in the country debated how to proceed. After a discussion among a dozen prominent C.E.O.s, the decision was made to abandon the group altogether, said people with knowledge of the details of the call.
Also at Bloomberg:
Trump made the announcement on Twitter, less than an hour after one of the groups was said to be planning to inform the White House that it would break up. [...] Trump appeared to be making an effort to get ahead of the news as the councils began to disintegrate. The strategy forum, which is led by Blackstone Group LP's Stephen Schwarzman, planned to inform the White House Wednesday before making the announcement public, according to another person familiar with the matter, who wasn't authorized to discuss the news publicly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:40PM (7 children)
This is being discussed at Slashdot [slashdot.org], too.
I've been reading Slashdot for a very long time, and the discussion there for this topic is some of the lowest quality discussion I've ever seen at that site.
There are only about 300 comments as of now, but over 125 occurrences of the word "nazi".
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @10:10PM (4 children)
Well seeing as we are in the middle of a nazi resurgence here in the US I don't see that as very surprising. Very very few people want to be seen as nazi sympathizers, and apparently the best the White House staffers can do is keep Trump from actively supporting them. They can't even get him to condemn these nazis, THINK about that!!
There are real, 100% nazis in the US, but that doesn't seem to bother an entire political specturm.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:41AM (3 children)
That's because victors rewrite the history of war. [imgur.com] Turns out, being a Nazi isn't evil. Swiss adopted National Socialism and called it the Swiss System. They're technically "Nazis" - National Socialists. However, due to propaganda you lose your mind when someone starts advocating that all peoples deserve a right to exist and a homeland that advocates in their interests, i.e., Nazism. Yep, that's a "nazi" for you. Boo! So scary! Did you know Syria has a Social Nationalist party which is basically the same as Hitler's Nazis? Yep, they use profits from the state's oil Surplus to fund newlyweds, pay for college abroad if you want to learn, subsidize starting a family if you want kids, and even give you some $$$ for a car if you want to work. I can hear it now: "Those disgusting animals! We must destroy them with war!" (please ignore that they're not in debt to the IMF and they also border Israel)
Truth be told, you don't know what Nazis believe because you've never talked to a real National Socialist. Be honest, all you've ever seen are media portrayals (often full of propaganda) -- or the FBI infiltrated and misguidedly hateful "Neo-Nazi Skinhead" / agent provocateurs. Hint: Real Nazis don't wave German flags at their American rally. Instead they'd be promoting symbols of their own national heritage, such as monuments. Hitler would have condemned the hateful neo-nazi skinheads, BTW. Celebrating racial and cultural differences isn't hate.
Why do you hate Nazis? Are you sure they're guilty of the crimes they're accused of? Have you even tried to determine if these are Crimes for which no evidence exists? [youtube.com] Did you know the 3rd Reich had Muslims, Jews, Blacks, Asians and Arabs fighting for them? [imgur.com] Hitler congratulated the Ottoman Empire for its cultural unity. Ah, but that doesn't fit the post-war "Genocidal Nazi" propaganda nor the P.C. agenda. If Germany hadn't been last to form a nation state, and wasn't seen as an economic threat WWII wouldn't have happened. All wars are started on false pretense and are truly economic in nature. [youtube.com] That's something Nazis want to end, and one method of bringing peace is to outlaw usury, like the Christians and original Founders of America once did. Another method would be to promote specialization and trade to make disparate nations more dependent on each other's products. It's hard to go to war with those you depend on. Interestingly, the EU and Globalists have adopted these tenants of Nazism but applied them without the cultural preservation in order to exploit both 1st and 3rd world nations. Nazis would rather fix Mexico and war torn regions so that people don't have to flee their homelands in the first place. Oh, but that's far more "hateful" than opening the borders and ensuring those who migrate flee leave their nations leaving them poorer and ensuring a never ending supply of economic migrants. Yep, Nazis fight the devastation and suffering that modern politicians exploit for votes. Which is evil again?
Nazis don't want to eradicate any other race. HeIl, the Reich wanted to help establish a Jewish state in Madagascar. [wikipedia.org] Do some research and if you're not an intellectually dishonest you'll see why national socialism and identitarianism are on the rise: It's because people are waking up to the reality that their culture and people are being systematically extinguished. Just look at Europe's manufactured "migrant crisis". Deliberate demographic replacement, even by migration policy, is classified by NATO and the UN as Genocide, by the way.
Saying that "Whites have a right to exist" and "White lives matter too" is labeled "nazism" now, but that's only part of the cultural promotion and economic system called National Socialism. A system which allowed Germany to go from destitute and depraved to innovative and prosperous in just 3 short years. Time magazine featured Hitler twice, praising him for "The German Miracle". Elites saw it as a threat to their banking system... Hitler believed in a world with healthy Darwinian competition between different cultures and races, each unique and beautiful and better at some things than others. Trade between which would maximize human specialization and leveraging of innate racial potentials. There was no one "super-man" in National Socialism, all races would attempt to attain their own maximal achievement.
Forget everything else you know about Nazism. If this post was all you had heard of it, would it be worthy of hateful derision? Or would it sound like something some sane people might actually adopt to further their interests? At least the alt-right national socialists aren't hateful like BLM and LaRaza (literally, "the race"). Did Obama have to condemn BLM or its militant Nation of Islam adherents who proclaim that all white devils must be eradicated? Did you even listen to the other side of the story on Charlottesville? [youtube.com] Of course not, most people are just bigots -- unwilling to even entertain that alt-right has any valid concerns. And this will be the downfall of all who underestimate them. The best way to mobilize a people is to have the establishment ignoring the aggrieved. The true driving force behind the Striesand Effect -- BTW. You're about to be over run by "meme magicians" (read: those well versed in social engineering and psycho politics.) Keep dismissing them. You're not even ready. Wake up, Trump is president. Kek!
Unfortunately ordinary people failed to do any research before drawing conclusions, so they've allowed the double standard to get so obvious that many people are realizing it's actually OK to be a Nazi; They're going to call anyone "Nazi" anyway if you don't agree that whites should be eradicated. Besides, Hitler wasn't really the ridiculous cartoon caricature of evil portrayed in post war black-propaganda, such as by the GCHQ's war guilt information program, which Japan is still especially heavily influenced by. [youtube.com] You reap what you sew, unfortunately it's your own ignorance which you sew and thus you will ignore this lengthy post, as I've designed it to be ignored by the uninterested and easily offended. Unable to view the reality of the Nazi resurgence, you will be quite unprepared at every turn. To the readers that made it this far: Consider this a crash course. The alt-right isn't hateful, whites have a right to exist. However, you have been warned: We will not go quietly into the night.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:50AM
You didn't just torture logic, you waterboarded it while stretching it on the rack during an evisceration.
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:34AM
Hahaha jesus christ autism is a blessing in disguise.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday August 17 2017, @10:14AM
Never was this site more in need of a "-1 batshit crazy" mod.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday August 16 2017, @11:22PM
Yeah it's kinda bad, but "nazi" or at least "white supremacist" would seem to be on topic (the topic being loosely related to tech because of the CEOs on the councils).
Only one occurrence of "feminazi"!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:36AM
::slowly waves hand::
These are not the shillbots you are looking for.
::waves again::
Get off my Astroturf.