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1 posted on 01/09/2023 6:53:12 AM PST by C19fan
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Excerpt from C.S. Lewis "Screwtape Proposes a Toast":

(The scene is in Hell at the annual dinner of the Tempters’ Training College for young devils. The principal, Dr. Slubgob, has just proposed the health of the guests. Screwtape, a very experienced devil, who is the guest of honour, rises to reply:)

"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence – moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods?"

2 posted on 01/09/2023 6:54:33 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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Pretty sure the moniker is DIE! It should be.


3 posted on 01/09/2023 6:54:55 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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I have lost 60 pounds so far, or 21.5% of my goal. I could care less about other people talking about weight.


4 posted on 01/09/2023 6:56:41 AM PST by Ingtar
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It’s not DEI. It’s DIE!


5 posted on 01/09/2023 6:59:40 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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My employer supposedly loves DIE. As the article mentioned, the company imposed a wellness program on the workers including charging different health insurance premiums for workers based on Body Mass Index. The company requires workers to provide body measurements, for example, size of waist.
In this country health is correlated with socioeconomic so it is the workers on the lower rung who end up paying more.
I find the article another tedious example of a group wanting to jump on the woke band wagon. The writer does make a point of hoisting woke companies on their own petard.


7 posted on 01/09/2023 7:01:50 AM PST by C19fan
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Fat furry trannies hit the Trifecta when it comes to inclusion.


8 posted on 01/09/2023 7:03:06 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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Don’t forget the extra strong furniture able to support more than 300 lbs


10 posted on 01/09/2023 7:05:40 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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The “diet industrial complex” includes Big Pharma, Big Food and corporate-funded “science”, all of which pushes their seed oils, sugar, GMO, low fat - high carb, blood pressure and cholesterol meds for all, and torturesome diet plans that are unsustainable .... it is powerful and entrenched and has led, among other things, to dummies like this author believing that her obesity is some kind of immutable condition granting her privileged status as a minority. Really pathetic.


17 posted on 01/09/2023 7:19:41 AM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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It needs to be a really big safe space. XXXL with comfy seats and a fridge.


18 posted on 01/09/2023 7:22:30 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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“Don’t leave fat people out of your DEI goals: With talks of weight loss challenges popular at the start of the year, creating a space for plus-size workers to feel welcome has just as much to do with inclusion as any other group.”

Yeah, right, because fat people don’t know that they are fat. /s


19 posted on 01/09/2023 7:24:27 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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Obesity is going to cost you in so many ways. First your chance of death goes up by several hundred percent. But you will not likely die. You are far more likely to feel bad. Your joints will fail. Your skin and other organs will start to break down. You will be annoying to other people in many ways. You will be far less attractive to others.

You can lose weight easily. Start by not buying food.


20 posted on 01/09/2023 7:24:28 AM PST by poinq
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At least Kate Berik isn’t trying to convince people that her body type is attractive, healthy and something to aspire to.


21 posted on 01/09/2023 7:31:15 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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“She lives in Brooklyn with her cat Baxter and can be found sharing opinions and animal photos on Twitter and Instagram.”

http://katebernyk.com/about/


25 posted on 01/09/2023 7:56:08 AM PST by euram
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The entire world embraces the disordered eating I worked so hard to escape

Is she saying pushing healthy diets and exercise with the goal of losing excess body fat is disordered eating?

If so, then to hell with her.

26 posted on 01/09/2023 7:56:09 AM PST by Lizavetta
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“...creating a PLUS-SIZED space for plus-size workers to feel welcome...”


27 posted on 01/09/2023 7:56:20 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Maybe companies should not do these stupid distracting things and just treat their employees like adults.


29 posted on 01/09/2023 7:58:44 AM PST by Chicory
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So if someone loses their weight, and stops being fat….they lose their privileges?

That’s the great thing about race/ethnicity privilege - you can’t really change that.

Well, then again, that’s the great thing about modern mental illness - you can “identify” as anything and now you’re in the club.

I recommend fat people lose weight, then declare themselves fat when thin, and avoid losing that privilege.

(Insane world.)


32 posted on 01/09/2023 8:43:01 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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I wonder what Al Bundy would say to that.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htTxhImYDDo


34 posted on 01/09/2023 8:46:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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creating a space??? you mean like creating MORE space...


37 posted on 01/09/2023 8:52:37 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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