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.
2hr ago
It isn't many votes in the grand scheme of things, and they are low-value votes because they are not in a purple state.
It's a fair number of votes in my blue state, and would be easily enough to flip some congressional seats and quite possibly turn the state purple. Especially when you consider the effect on the party organization and donors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
My claim is a bit stronger: Not only is Chad making these strategic moves, he knows he's doing it. Compare throwing a baseball. Pretty much everyone when they're a kid or with their off hand, throws a baseball badly. Even pitcher-Chad does when he's starting out. The difference is pitcher-Chad figures out the right way really fast and without explicit instruction, whereas pitcher-Virgin is still throwing with his forearm after 10 years of failure.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Whether it was novel at the time or not, it's still not useful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
This is a polite fiction like so many others. The line cuts right through that "Hello, Human Resources" meme. Dominance and pushiness may not be the exact same thing but there's a whole lot of overlap.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Returned, of course, by the Sicilians claiming the northern Italians are German.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The "Hello Human Resources" meme reigns supreme. Or... women's incentives generally lead them to putting up "brick wall" filters that exclude all men, thus accepting only men who figure out how to bypass the filters. Much of the problem of modern dating is the enforcement of those filters becoming far too good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
I work in a very regulated industry that places a massive emphasis on responsibility and owning and learning from mistakes. It has been a horrendous struggle to get people to not run screaming any time there's a problem and a fact finding analysis.
Of course. You're asking them to not be defensive, to show their belly. And instinctively they know that's asking to get stabbed. And no matter how much talk there is about responsibility and owning and learning from mistakes (or "blameless postmortems" or whatever the buzzword is for this)... sometimes someone's going to get stabbed in the belly.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
That guy could get with a girl taller etc. than him, but he won't. Because his poor little fee-fees would be hurt that she's taller, better, etc.
LOL, no. Because if she's better than him at some traditionally masculine quality, she'll despise him for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
Realistically, at the same time, Democrats could have lots of popular successes on other issues. Trans kids are not popular but a mild trans toleration is more in line with American tastes than a trans crackdown. Same with immigration, and guns. Democrats who could convincingly project moderate positions on these social issues -- that are not assumed to be covers for more extreme positions -- would be popular.
They can't, though; the well is truly poisoned. That's why the strategy nowadays is more to energize the base than than to woo the normies, with the second prong of the strategy to try to scare the normies away from the other side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
The book? It's a bunch of aw-shucks name dropping, self-promotion, and advice about as actionable as "buy low sell high".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Does it? After the last decade I'm very skeptical of "it's just a handful of loud college students" theories, but in the case of support for socialism it may actually be just a handful of loud college students?
Zohran Mandami argues otherwise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Yes, and not only that, for doing a census at the behest of God.
II Samuel 24:1
And again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
Yes, but he's a man -- that part isn't actually true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
Having to go meta and strategizing means that you are having trouble in the natural way.
There is no natural way. The Chads strategize too; they're just naturally good at it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
"Don't be the chump" is downstream of cheaters prospering.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
If the non-partisan merit criterion is "draw as many district boundaries on municipal boundaries as possible, conditional on all districts having equal electorates to within 5%" then there may even be a knowable optimum answer, and in any case there is less wiggle-room than "draw compact districts with exactly equal census populations" because you can't tweak boundaries at census tract level.
There can be a knowable optimum answer under those conditions, but in much of the US such a map would "pack" Democrats, giving Republicans a significant advantage -- that's why I posted the Florida map, which does pretty much that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's zero-sum. If you maximize the representation of black voters, you minimize those of non-black voters. Maximizing the representation of black voters does not make the playing field level, it tilts it in their direction (and, in practice, towards the Democratic party). So you can't get a widespread belief that the playing field is level by doing that; instead, you get the (accurate) belief among the non-blacks that the playing field is skewed towards the blacks. In the recent past and in most analysis this sort of thing is discarded; only the feelings of the minorities count. But there's no good reason for that to be true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Normie voters in some Democratic strongholds DO care about Israel-Palestine. They could lose my area of New Jersey if they lean too hard to the pro-Palestine side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If that's going to happen, it will happen in the primary. And I wouldn't find it that surprising in the primary.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
How would men appreciate it if women started discussing frankly "Look, you'll be 35 in two years. That's way too old if I'm thinking of having kids with good prospects. You better set your sights lower, some 40+ woman done with childbearing will probably take you if you smarten up, get rid of those awful clothes, and hit the gym"
If it were true (which it is generally not), it would be rather refreshing to men who are constantly having to try to figure out the truth behind the lies they get all the time. Having two things he knows are significant and he can do something about (awful clothes and out of shape) would probably leave him overjoyed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
LBJ was notoriously foul-mouthed, and definitely would have used the n-word. But as with Trump, it's easy to make up a plausible "LBJ-sounding" quote.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That doesn't answer the question of why Southern black voters are so strongly aligned with the Democratic Party. Or why Southern white voters are so strongly aligned with the Republican Party
Both are explained by Democratic policy preferences being to favor blacks and disfavor whites.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Jews and Muslims are not that far off. The same way, which has been presenting a dilemma for the Democrats... which they seem to be resolving in favor of Muslims.
Even if this is true, this means blue states could be gerrymandered in a way which favored the Democrats (as with Massachusetts, 9 Democratic representatives to 0 GOP in a state that's about 30% Republican) while red states could not be gerrymandered in a way which favored the GOP.
Equality in injustice is better than inequality in injustice favoring one side... from the viewpoint of the other side.
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