Summary

Costco shareholders voted overwhelmingly (98%) against a proposal by a conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research, to assess risks linked to the company’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Costco’s board supported DEI initiatives, dismissing the proposal as partisan and unnecessary.

This rejection contrasts with trends in other companies scaling back DEI efforts.

The vote comes amid new federal rules from Trump targeting DEI initiatives in federal agencies, potentially impacting private vendors working with the government.

  • @[email protected]
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    -6211 days ago

    The gulags were populated for good reason. “Waaahhh communists killed millions in their gulags,” yeah, millions of Nazis. Yet apparently that still wasn’t enough.

    • @Glytch
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      3711 days ago

      Buddy, I’m with you on Communists being antifascist, but the gulags are not something to be praised. Many innocent people were sent there for simply displeasing Stalin in some way.

      Yes, WW2 would have been much longer and likely unwinnable without Soviet involvement, but praising the Gulags is just picking which concentration camp you like best.

        • @Glytch
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          1010 days ago

          No. The Gulags, like the Nazi concentration camps, shouldn’t have existed at all. Stalin should have been deposed and forced to live out his days in obscurity or killed outright. No one should be tortured.

    • @Shardikprime
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      2511 days ago

      Lol no, they killed literal civilians, the ones they swore to protect

      • @[email protected]
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        -1411 days ago

        That’s because they didn’t put enough fascists in the gulags, including the ones that turned on their own people and put them in the gulags.

        • Flying Squid
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          10 days ago

          I think you need to read The Gulag Archipelago. Or are you going to claim that Solzhenitsyn, who was literally a battery commander in the Red Army, was also a fascist? Because I’d love some evidence of that.

      • @[email protected]
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        -711 days ago

        Yeah he should’ve put himself in there too while he was at it. America didn’t put any fascists in gulags though, they hired them to help fascists continue the fight and they’ve been winning ever since.

        • Flying Squid
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          210 days ago

          Were the over 1.5 million Red Army POWs that had spent years in Nazi camps before Stalin decided they were traitors for getting captured and put in gulags for it all fascists?

          • @[email protected]
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            010 days ago

            I mean if we want to keep doing whataboutisms, what country today has 25% of their population in prison?

            • Flying Squid
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              29 days ago

              Talking about who was in the gulags in a thread about the gulags is not whataboutism and I have no idea why you think it is.

        • Flying Squid
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          29 days ago

          Well now I understand why you’re saying all the things you’re saying- disgusting bigotry.