@DavidAFrench Respectfully you should not be shining a light on these responses. Block them and move on. These are performative and you just gave them/bots a bigger stage.
When I was transitioning 20 years ago, I asked a very close girlfriend if she thought I was a man or a woman.
She told me no one that knew me would think I was a man.
But she also told me that biology mattered. That one day she’d have to decide if she was going to be a mom, and that was a choice I’d never have to make. And that was something that defined most women’s lives.
Then she hugged me and said we didn’t have to be the exact same thing for her to love me and see me as a kind of woman. And then we cried.
I think about that conversation a lot. I think it’s the healthiest way to see it. Trans women deserve dignity, and many of us make it far enough over to socially live as women. But we’re not the same thing. It’s kind of dismissive to normal women to claim we are.
@BillAckman@Nike I used to know some members of the team (granted a small subset) this is definitely ignorance not malice. I know never again immediately but I wouldn’t have drawn as much meaning out of the color.
@Morgan_C_Ross@DavidAFrench You freeload off our free market and you ration. Especially our R&D. Our healthcare is far from perfect but we need more markets and choice for better healthcare.
@MeghanMcCain The difference between the posted examples and Ms. Harris is that this is the first interview she is giving all the others gave plenty of interviews and press conferences solo.
I was recently invited onto a podcast. Emails were exchanged, the date set. Then I mentioned my deafness and my need to lipread. What happened next was that I was ghosted.
A friend asked if I was angry. To my surprise, I said no and that I felt blessed.
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There have been a few recent articles in the press about @Disney 'winning' its proxy contest with Nelson Peltz based on early election returns that have been leaked to the media. We don't have an investment in Disney, but I thought it useful to point out the inappropriateness of these leaks to the press.
Only the company and its advisors have access to how shareholders have voted before the day of the annual meeting. My understanding is that it is illegal to release the outcome of the vote prior to it being finalized as it has the effect of manipulating the outcome. Here, the company and/or its advisors have leaked that Disney is winning the contest. It is really inappropriate that they have done so.
And how does one know that it is Disney and/or its advisors that are the source of the leak?
If Peltz were 'winning,' there would be no leaks to the press.
The reason why the progress of an election for directors must be kept confidential until the results are final is that leaking the results can affect the ultimate outcome.
Institutional shareholders worry about offending management by voting with an activist. They are concerned that if management learns that they have voted against the incumbent directors, they may lose 'access' to management going forward. In other words, Bob Iger is less likely to come visit and/or take a call with a shareholder if the shareholder voted with the dissident.
This is clearly a close election. Institutions don't want to risk voting against the incumbent board if it is clear that the activist will lose. They want to be on the winning side of the election.
Here, the company and/or its advisors have leaked the early results in order to tip more institutions and other shareholders to vote for the incumbent board, unfairly tipping the scale in the incumbent board's favor. In other words, an institution may think: if Peltz is going to lose, it is not worth taking the risk of offending management by voting for him.
This is unfortunately not an uncommon practice. Years ago, in our proxy contest with ADP, the company and/or its advisors did the same thing.
The @SECGov should do a thorough investigation of this proxy contest and appropriately punish whoever is responsible for this miscarriage of shareholder governance and justice.
Companies of the caliber of Disney and/or its advisors should not behave this way.
Lastly but importantly, I think highly of Nelson Peltz. I am sure he would be greatly additive as a member of the Disney board. Ask yourself, why is the company fighting so hard to keep him off? The fact that the company leaked the early returns to the media is further evidence that an activist of Nelson's caliber deserves to be on this board for all shareholders benefit.
Based on my knowledge of Nelson's capabilities and the dirty tricks implemented by the company and its advisors, I strongly recommend that shareholders vote for Nelson Peltz for the Disney board.
Institutions who have already voted still have time to change their vote. It is time that we make an example of Disney here so that this bad practice does not continue to poison shareholder democracy.
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Airlines, if you want us to check bags at the gate stop the baggage handlers to stop throwing them around like footballs and treat them with some care. There are windows on the plane we can see outside.
@CollinRugg It is absurd to compare Singapore and Tokyo to Moscow. Moscow is a big city with some serious wealth in pockets. Russia as a whole though is not a good place to live and on every standard well below the US.
@sfliberty@srsiskind@DeirdreMcClosk There is some truth to this, again though all the more reason for an orderly process. More legal immigration and work visas, there are of course also some bad actors coming in as well.
@mattyglesias I read this and thought it had to be false but you are correct sir. Although Killers shot digital in addition to film. Most feature films are shot digitally however but all but The Zone of Interest where shot at least partly on Kodak film.
@PicturesFoIder He will be ok, obviously this isn't the society we want. Police should enforce the law but as they withdraw business owners will act to protect their property.
@maximlott This is a problem of atheism- without a creator to grant fundamental natural individual rights the great horrors of the 20th century were able to be justified by their perpetrators. I do believe human beings have rights and we aren't just crude matter.