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 makes me curious how much anti-urban living in the US is just a result of the high crime rates following the Great migration.
Rich people live in cities in the US too, and I think almost always have (though the ultra-rich will have multiple residences of course). The working class, middle class and UMC are the ones who moved out, and I believe this started immediately after WWII simply because of lack of housing (hence the building of the Levittowns and their follow-ons), but the high crime rates and the race riots probably accelerated the trend.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
No, they should just never elect commies in the first place. That will do better for them regardless of who the American president is.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
The strategy could be: If you invade one of our cities, we will nuke a single city of similar size, thus turning the net outcome negative for you. If you retaliate proportionally, that will be the end of that round of aggression, otherwise we will respond proportionally (up to our stockpile size, naturally).
The whole idea of Canada engaging in nuclear deterrence against the United States is so absurd it must derive from some extremely advanced form of TDS/MAGA-derangement syndrome. But could it happen, you've put your finger on the fatal flaw: A US that deranged could win, because both the country and the stockpiles are larger. Take out Toronto and Ottawa, make a separate peace with Quebec, and annex the rest. The US could survive the losses of part of NY and DC.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Persevere enough, and you will see yourself swiftly moving from right bottom corner to left bottom corner of political compass, you will be throwing away black-gold flags and portraits of Ayn Rand and replacing them black-red banners and pictures of more imposing Russians
Except then you'll know you screwed up massively somewhere along the way, because empirically Communism fucks up everything it touches. And regardless of the economic system, Russia is always fucked up.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
The "U" in "UBI" is Universal. Not everyone can become a no-show WMATA employee.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Mexico is not in any way a "second world" country. Those descriptors are pretty much obsolete, but the Second World was the Communist Bloc. Mexico is an upper-middle-income country by modern classifications, same as China.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
Best case, some agreement that no matter what happens to Greenland (including "independence"), the Russians and Chinese don't get in.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
I hope you all enjoyed this year's first production from Orange Man Theater. Personally I'm glad I mostly sat it out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
Superior to certain death?
Superior to Russian-style squalor.
But hot places aren't doomed to have so much homelessness. It's mostly economic dysfunction.
Sure. When I went to Buenos Aires I stayed in Puerto Madero. The government borrowed shitloads of money to basically make a nice area of hotels and restaurants for tourists, and I doubt they're charging nearly enough to make that make any sense (though I imagine the incoming hard currency is enriching someone). I was in Argentina when they elected Milei, and the prices were still written in dry-erase marker in many places. Crazy stuff... but not surprising from a socialist (Peronist) government.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
Argentina (at least Buenos Aires) isn't cold enough for vodka and starvation. US-style squalor seems superior anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Indeed, Newsom has almost gone full Trump on this issue.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
That's the capsule description; I believe the name is "Mar a Lago".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Moreover, it's obvious that there's a fraction of the American right (a powerful fraction? Who knows, but it tends to become evident in times like this) that just plain hates [Western] Europe.
Not Europe -- European Blue Tribe, which absolutely dominates European governments.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
· Edited 20hr ago
That is though why some people think he murdered her: He knew that he was only shoved because he faked/forced a shove.
No, that is not why some people think he murdered her. Entirely backwards. They think that he faked/forced a shove because that's the only way they can maintain their belief that he murdered her. The evidence that he somehow faked being hit by the car or forced the car to hit him simply is not there.
First he switched the phone to his left hand so his right is free to shoot his gun.
He switched the phone to his left hand about 8 seconds before the incident. It isn't clear why; perhaps his arm was tired or perhaps it got him a better angle.
Then he positioned himself in the way, so it would not be dangerous for him but giving him plausible deniability.
He did not position himself in the way. When the car started moving, he was not in the way. When she backed up and turned for the first half of the K-turn, he was THEN in the way.
The hole in the windshield is to the side aiming at Good with an angle, he was at the side on the car not in the front, and the other two shots were through the side window.
He fires the first shot almost simultaneously with being hit; he is at the driver's side corner (in front of the car, but not centered) at that point.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
My theory was that it was a distraction from Iran, but it looks like the other shoe is not going to drop there.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
He's a techbro, not a sucker. While I agree with your overall claim, this strategy would not work.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Dating is a market, but it's a matching market. Unlike ordinary markets, matching markets tend to be hellscapes. Ask anyone trying to get a medical residency.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
· Edited 1d ago
The reason it matters that Ross was indeed struck is that it short circuits a lot of arguments. All the stuff from the NYTimes (among others) about how she was not trying to hit him and was clearly turning her wheel to avoid him goes up in a puff of smoke if he was (regardless of whatever else she was doing) clearly in danger, and being hit is really good evidence of that. Which is why many on the side crying murder still insist he was not hit. If he WAS in fact hit, you have to go to a lot of weaker theories, like
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He put himself in jeopardy. Not only doesn't this fit the facts (because he wasn't in front of the car until after it started moving), it doesn't fit the law; "officer-created jeopardy" is not an accepted doctrine.
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It was against ICE policy for him to be where he was. On shaky grounds factually, irrelevant legally; he can defend himself even if he wasn't in compliance with ICE policy
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He wasn't hit that bad. This doesn't really deserve more than a raised eyebrow... how was he supposed to know he'd only be essentially shoved aside by the SUV?
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He shouldn't have been there, because ICE shouldn't have been there. This is the real objection, but it's got no legal force.
The blog post says this:
To determine whether or not Ross’s shooting of Good was justified, we need to look at the facts of the incident itself. These might include such questions as: was Good aware of Ross’s position relative to her vehicle before she pressed the accelerator? did Good strike Ross with her car? if so, did she do so intentionally, or through negligence? did Ross have a reasonable fear (per the reasonable person standard) that his life was in danger? if so, was the amount of force he used proportional? and so on.
But no, the first two questions do not matter. We do not consider Good's state of mind when judging Ross's actions, because Ross had no way of knowing it. We need only consider whether Ross had a reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm (it's the "death or great" which allows deadly force). He saw a 2-ton SUV being driven towards him. The argument that he should have known it wouldn't hit him falls to the fact that it did hit him, making this a very easy judgement.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I'm pretty sure "pro Israel" is pretty much already priced in with Shapiro.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is selected directly by the Norwegian legislature. So it's like writing a letter to the Academy of Motion Pictures to complain that your movie didn't win an Oscar. That won't help either, but it's not as obviously stupid.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It makes sense for China to wait until Taiwan is no longer the nexus of global semiconductor production
That could be a long while. And while China may be patient, Xi himself is old.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Seems like a minor tactical mistake. If I were advising Josh Shapiro, then regardless of what happened, I'd advise him not to mention Harris at all. Whether she snubbed him or he snubbed her, no contact at all with the Harris campaign is a better look for a politician. ANY politician.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Well, yeah, if ICE pulls out of Minnesota, Trump isn't running things any more (whether or not he has the title)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The millisecond that ICE pulls out of Minnesota, every single state in the union will declare the nullification of whatever federal laws they don't like. Gun laws in the red states, immigration laws in the blue states. Federal supremacy will be over.
No. Troops will roll into the red states, not the blue. and everyone who missed it the first time will understand it was never about Federal supremacy, but Blue supremacy.
Because public transit is a jobs and patronage program first and foremost.
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