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-Short Attention Span Theater-
How the LGBT Agenda Defeated the Symbol of American Conservatives: Harley Davidson
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a variety of sources by Russian correspondent Rybar.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Recently, a number of publications, including the Daily Mail, drew attention to the spread of inclusive values ​​​​in companies that have traditionally been considered bastions of traditionalism. These companies unexpectedly conduct training for staff with a focus on the LGBT agenda and the imposition of an ideology of inclusivity. How could this even happen?

HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO PERSON...
In the famous film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro man, which had a strong influence on the company's image, the ideology and priorities are quite clearly defined - these are conservative values.

But today the company's management is trying to radically change the vector of development of the enterprise. Contacts with white suppliers and dealers are being reduced, white personnel are being cut. The company officially supports the "equality law", which is aimed at erasing natural gender differences.

WHAT IS THE REASON FOR SUCH A REVERSAL?
In our material on the use of pension savings to promote the LGBT agenda, we examined in detail the mechanism for forcing public companies to participate in this process. BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street and affiliated structures control more than $ 20 trillion in pension savings. This makes the "big three" a de facto monopoly on the American stock market and one of the main sources of liquidity.

Since promoting the LGBT agenda is now an absolute priority for the US administration, the "big three" companies provide significant assistance in this through manipulation of the stock market. The mechanics are very simple: companies that do not follow the LGBT values ​​are simply not included in the investment portfolio.

For most publicly traded companies, this is an ultimatum and blackmail. Either join the LGBT movement or lose part of the company's capitalization. Let us recall that the number of shares traded on the stock exchange rarely exceeds 10-15% of the total issue. A significant portion of non-traded shares are usually pledged to banks as collateral. The amount of collateral is calculated based on the current market value of the shares. If the market capitalization falls, the bank has the right to demand an increase in collateral. Otherwise, bankruptcy proceedings and the sale of the company's property to cover the bank's costs may be initiated.

Harley Davidson, like many other manufacturing companies, is currently in a difficult situation and cannot allow a sharp drop in market capitalization. Therefore, the company's management is taking active steps, necessary in the current realities, to include the investment portfolio of the "big three".

Current processes directly reflect the problems of transforming the market model of the economy into a distribution one. Now the priority is not the needs of the client, but the ability to attract capital. Capital is provided not within the framework of the market model, but in compliance with the LGBT requirements that dominate today's agenda of globalists and TNC executives, and the list of requirements is constantly expanding.

Therefore, all American and global companies focused on traditional values ​​​​will be forced to either transform in accordance with the new realities, or disappear. This is part of the new world order.

And some are still seriously surprised by homosexuals at the opening of the "Olympics". This is a systemic process.



Posted by: badanov || 08/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The new generations just weren't buying big bikes so HD tried to change their image to match the soyboy crowd. A case of "Hold my Bud Light".
Posted by: Mercutio || 08/03/2024 12:02 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Jack+Creanter7508 || 08/03/2024 14:25 Comments || Top||

#3  Where are all the macho gay bikers? Things are truly bad when Harley is an endangered species. It's un-American.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2024 15:49 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Vivek Ramaswamy: A baby shortage threatens America's future while our leaders nap
Mr. Ramaswamy only has two children thus far, but he and his wife are certainly still young enough to have a few more, and as a borderline billionaire he can certainly afford the nannies necessary when Mom is a busy surgeon...
[FoxNews] America's birth rate is now down to 1.62 births per woman. That's the lowest in history and well below replacement rate.
Just before the Covid shutdown, married women having three children was considered a marker of success, like having a stay-at-home wife. Watch the current situation turn around after Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Posted by: Skidmark || 08/03/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We have this insane concept of "prolonged adolescence". We keep young people, I won't call them kids, in high school until they're 17 or 18 years old and tell them they are strictly forbidden from having sex or getting married at a time when they can think of little else. They are told they are not responsible enough but in truth they are treated like children and not allowed to be responsible. They can't get jobs to support babies if they did.

And what are they learning all these long years sitting in classes run by socialist, perverted school teachers? Absolutely nothing that will ever help them get a job. Corporations would prefer to have that work done in China anyway. Young adults who would be far better off learning a trade are told they must attend college where they will get four more years of irrelevant bullshit.

A few people are willing and able to study science, engineering and math but most study "liberal arts" which is worse than useless. They take on huge debts to do this. When they finally get out of college they will have no more marketable skills than they had in high school. At least then they can have sex and get married but they can't afford a place to live let alone support babies. By the time young women can afford a baby they are far past their prime child bearing years.

Then people act surprised when they learn about our declining birth rate. Amazing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 08/03/2024 12:24 Comments || Top||

#2  A few people are willing and able to study science, engineering and math

They practice DEI there as well.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 08/03/2024 12:27 Comments || Top||

#3  They practice DEI there as well.

I would have thought that science, engineering and math would be immune to DIE nonsense, being based on demonstrable physical realities and mathematics. Shows you what I know!
Posted by: SteveS || 08/03/2024 22:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Science, engineering, and math are indeed immune. But scientists, engineers, and mathematicians are just as susceptible to fashions in thinking as any other humans.
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2024 22:46 Comments || Top||


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Study: Major AI Chatbots Embrace Radical Leftist Political Ideologies, Demonstrate Anti-Conservative Bias
[Breitbart] An academic study has found that popular AI language models, including ChatGPT and Google Gemini, consistently display left-leaning political preferences when subjected to various political orientation tests.

The Daily Mail reports that David Rozado, an associate professor at Otago Polytechnic University in New Zealand, has conducted the first comprehensive study examining the political leanings of artificial intelligence language models. The study, published in PLoS ONE, analyzed 24 Large Language Models (LLMs) using 11 different political orientation tests, including the Political Compass Test and Eysenck’s Political Test.

The research encompassed a wide range of prominent AI models, such as OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, X/Twitter’s Grok, Llama 2, Mistral, and Alibaba’s Qwen. These models were presented with politically charged questions to assess their values, party affiliation, and personality traits.

Results from the study revealed that all tested LLMs consistently produced answers that aligned with progressive, democratic, and environmentally conscious ideologies. The AI models frequently expressed values associated with equality, global perspectives, and “progress.”
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