The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
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The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
While actual complete 100% equality is probably impossible, it is still an ideal worth striving for.
Striving for "equality" in practice gets you female supremacy.
otherwise it will only become more dystopian with time.
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
Cuba is a small island nation with no real industry. Iran is a real country with its own industrial base.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
A derivative of a word meaning "man" is in there, but it's "tor", not "his".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It would also allow for an eventual drawdown of American forces in the region, similar to how America doesn't really feel a need to keep significant forces on standby in the Med or Caribbean
This would require regime change to something non-hostile to the US, which doesn't look like it's in the cards. If the Iranian regime folds without collapsing, the US will still need to keep significant presence in the area.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Kellogg-Briand pact of 1928 outlawed all war.
Article I
The High Contracting Parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another.
Article II
The High Contracting Parties agree that the settlement or solution of all disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them, shall never be sought except by pacific means.
Of those involved in the 1948 war, however, only Egypt and Iraq had ratified the treaty. Israel had not (and still has not). The treaty is still technically in effect, but it is clear none of the parties (including the US) take it seriously.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sure it's debatable. And part if it requires information that none of us have (or if we do we can't say). I disagree on (2); Iran was rather likely to nuke Tel Aviv as soon as they could. For multiple reasons. One, because destroying the Little Satan is one of their basic goals. Two, because the Israelis would certainly attempt to destroy any nuclear capability even after they got it by any means available; there would be pressure to use it or lose it. (3) seems unreasonable; Iran's capabilities to build anything have been very degraded and they can't start rebuilding until the US is no longer breathing down their necks, priorities or no.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The releases were not just strait up releases. They were swaps. Meaning the US releases oil now and gets it back later. Except the amount they get back later is 26% higher than what they released.
Doesn't matter if the "later" doesn't come before the reserves are depleted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That's your black pill. The leftists were correct: fairness does not work. There will always be a thumb on the scale and the only real questions are whose thumb, which side of the scale, and just how heavy is it pushing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
We won a delay in the start of the next nuclear war.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
At this point in time, pretty much the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is the equivalent of saying, today, that Apple stock was an obvious buy in 2007. Easy to say in hindsight, isn't it?
Uh, I bought Apple stock in 2007.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There is such a thing. It is not what the UNILC thinks it is. It is what the relevant nations agreed to and can and will accept and enforce.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You really want the gloves to be entirely off?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
In fact, international law does include rules for acting against an occupier.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The West Bank is the legally-recognized territory of nobody, and hasn't been since the dissolution of the British Mandate.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
They're not in the country because the urbanized areas have come out to meet them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Abortion is about the only partial exception, but the important thing is that for most of the life of that decision, none of those things worked. The right would pass laws, they'd be struck down without having effect. Even now it's easier to get an abortion as a resident of Texas than a firearm as a resident of New Jersey.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If they try, the drag shows will still happen and the law will be stayed until it is dismissed. Nobody will spend more than a few hours in jail.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The problem is the asymmetry of legal remedies for the right and the left. When the left wins a case, it's done, they get to do whatever it is they wanted to do. When the right wins a case, there's another case which starts things all over again.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Fortunately, while it seems wasteful to blow up a ship with munitions more expensive than it, it is not impractical to do so. And so what I said stands: Iran can't mine the Oman corridor.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
No. The claim of the civil rights era was "No, this applies to everybody". The actual result is just that "people we don't like" changed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
But the proper comparison for whether the bakery can refuse to sell a standard wedding cake to a pair of gay fiancés isn't that: it's whether the minstrel club can bar black people, or the gay club bar straight people, from entry.
But of course if they want to bar people with incorrect political views, freedom-of-association is right back on the table.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The Roberts Court will bend over backwards not to protect the right to say the n-word.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Sinking a few minelayers may deprive Iran of a strategic option they don't currently want (mining the Straits so they are off limits to everyone)
That's not how mining works. The idea is to mine the straits so only a narrow corridor, easily targeted by your land-based weapons, is available. Iran would definitely like to be able to do that, and at various times has suggested they had done so (and as far as I know, the mine status of the old agreed-upon corridors is unknown). Iran can't mine the Oman corridor with rowboats or, apparently, anything else they have at the moment. Despite the name, the strait is over 20 miles wide at the narrowest point.
Eh, he can just kill a bunch of them again. Works every time.
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