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.
1hr ago
What do you think happens when these societal losers see what they can become with a $400 bolt action rifle that you can buy in any ban state?
You still need a permit to buy it in New Jersey and I think Illinois.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
We're right now in a situation where being a family member of someone who starts a right-aligned social network is reason enough to be debanked. Your protestations that there's no way to avoid that without putting undue pressure on banks to accept deadbeats is... unconvincing.
It'd be a different situation if banking weren't such a heavily regulated industry, with high barriers to entry and a small pool of people who can actually do it. But it is, and that doesn't look to change.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5hr ago
Was that "Operation Forward Trace"? They got FFLs to sell guns to cartels, then crowed about how Mexican cartels were buying guns in the US?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
Red flag laws are bad too. As are many TROs. But this is worse than those. It's more like if there was a conspiracy among gun shops to decide who they would and would not sell to, with government regulators making 'suggestions' backed by thinly veiled threats of losing their FFLs if they didn't play along.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
You can keep denying it, but the evidence is quite clear that political debankings have been and are being done under the cover of financial reasons.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
As thejdizzler and ArjinFerman have pointed out, it was used prominently in the extremely popular Netflix show "Money Heist", so it's no longer that obscure. Though there it was an anthem of the thieves, who weren't particularly political (they robbed from the state and gave to themselves).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
It would be equally easy to say that e.g. the Groypers on Nick Fuentes' comment section are the "most concentrated and distilled Republican space on the internet", and that it's those people who are determining the flavor of the party.
Yes, one can say obviously false things as easily as one can say possibly true things. That doesn't make the obviously false things true nor the possibly true things false. It doesn't move the needle one iota.
Reddit is rather obviously far more mainstream than Nick Fuentes's comment section. If one were holding out Bluesky itself as a representative of the mainstream left, that would be somewhat more comparable (though still not, because even Bluesky has a wider audience than Nick Fuentes's comment section)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
What gets me about it is that all of this, this entire culture war, just seems like such an utterly trivial thing to escalate into a shooting war. What are the issues really when you boil it down? Whether trans women should have access to female-only spaces or not? Whether immigration law should be enforced, and how much immigration should occur and how difficult it should be? What the limits of free speech are? How tough on crime people should be? These aren't issues that should be tearing nations apart.
Why not? Free speech and immigration seem pretty damned important to me. I expect the female-only space thing is pretty important to women. And especially when you add the overarching thing you've missed: Whether the "progressive stack" will be enforced in everyday life -- that is, whether trans people and other sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, and disabled people will be given preferential treatment in hiring, welfare, and other aspects of society and whether those lower on the stack will be required to defer to those higher in all things, even to the level of acceeding to violent crimes against themselves.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
I think most of the Ur writings are business records like bills of lading and inventories; I don't know if there were specifically tax records. Though I wouldn't be surprised if some day we find an ancient shop with two sets of records for the same items...
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
It's not storing wealth in the sense of literally stockpiling useful physical goods, but considering we were also talking about services here, that's impossible in any system; you can't stockpile work that has to be done in the future. Anyway, if investment (presumably including holding debt obligations such as FRNs or treasuries) is "having a stake in the system", Soteriologian's claim that people living off such investments are "parasites" is even weaker.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Look at that graph. TFR drops from 1800 until 1940 (with the 1935 to 1940 drop being smaller by far than the 1930 to 1935 drop), then goes SHARPLY back up until 1960, falls again as sharply until 1980, then goes slightly back up and down. There is absolutely no evidence for your position; you've got less than nothing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yeah, it's not an ambush at all. He invited them to attack his prepared position, that's not an ambush.
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
I think taking an economic view makes it easy to miss the forest for the trees. Always look to more fundamental aspects like thermodynamics and biology first, then bend your economic model around that.
You were already taking an economic view, calling people who are living off pension money (that they presumably earned) "parasites". Presumably people who are living off employment income are not parasites, and that leads to the direct implication that you cannot store wealth.
If your economic system gives too much of a claim on young labor to old demographics, then your society will die. I’m not saying the allocation has to be zero—that there can be no long-term store of wealth—but it clearly has to be less than whatever it takes for the fertile to reproduce at replacement.
Allocation? Are we doing central planning here? The young aren't not reproducing because they are poor, and certainly not because the old people are somehow claiming all their labor.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You're going to have to spell that out. Usually this sort of claim is about inflation, but inflation doesn't keep you from storing wealth, it just means you can't just keep it in cash. And of course it results in taxes, but governments gonna tax.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
This argument is the radical claim that one cannot store wealth; the old must personally provide people to care for them, merely offering items of value to other people for their care is still "parasitism". Maybe you could build an economic system around this idea, but just shoving it into our current economic system is special pleading.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
No. The Munchkins were literally the Witch's slaves, and treated quite badly. They had legitimate cause to celebrate her death, and if half of Oz supported the witch, well, the Munchkins kinda fucked but they shouldn't consider the feelings of those people.
Charlie Kirk had no slaves.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Hostile work environment doctrine was introduced to prevent employers from evading discrimination laws by, say, hiring black people but making fun of them for their race at work so that blacks simply wouldn't want to work there.
Ah, but telling white people that they are harmful or evil or oppressors due to their race is A-OK? Because that's the order of the day at some employers (including the well-documented case of Google) who dismiss for "hostile workplace" directed against their favored groups.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Ah, yeah, maybe. Any programmer with enough talent to NOT do boring bespoke business logic probably won't, not only because the pay is higher in big tech (but very substantially that!)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The semiconductor industry grew out of the telecommunications industry. William Shockley's being an asshole led to the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor by the Traitorous Eight. Former Fairchild employees founded a whole bunch of other semiconductor companies, including Intel. There was certainly defense involvement but an enormous commercial component. The next wave was the microcomputer revolution, which had even less defense involvement. Then Google and the current wave, very little defense involvement at the start.
It really is possible for American companies to be successful without the government being the prime mover.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
...and American dominance in software is downstream, among other things, from the huge national security state investment campaign obviously connected to tech industry right from the start in various ways
National security state tech has been around much longer than FAANG, is smaller, and has fairly little overlap with it. Aside from simply providing general support services like government clouds and Microsoft Windows/Office, the biggest overlap is likely Oracle. They are largely distinct sets of companies and employees. Google has tried to dabble in that and mostly failed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Inversely, it feels like the "tech industry" is eating American software and other areas of the economy are often left in sort of an software desert.
It's what are called "H-1B dependent companies" (eg. WiPro, Infosys) and directly hired H-1Bs who eat the lower end of American software -- the people writing boring bespoke business logic for companies in other industries. Big Tech isn't killing them; it did kill some of the IT support infrastructure for some of those companies (since you don't need it to rent machines on AWS/Azure; only "some" of those companies as others are not willing to give up physical control of their machines for various reasons)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think nowadays people who would claim to move to Canada just get off Twitter and onto Bluesky. It's a lot less commitment, but at least they actually DO it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Whilst I think this is misguided, it's hard to be mad at them for it.
Why? If you made the same argument about dead Israeli babies, would they not be mad at you for it?
The reason the left's ideas are considered more sympathetic is not inherent; it's due to a decades long full court press in education and the media. A result of the Long March Through The Institutions. If instead of a media that focused on the plight of the poor and minority and homeless, we had a media that focused on the plight of white working-class-and-above victims of crime, small store owners struggling between shoplifting on one hand and taxes on the other, all while hoping they wouldn't get stabbed, the sorts of actual violence that produced "white flight" in some neighborhoods, the "inherent sympathies" would lie elsewhere.
It is federally illegal to buy a firearm in another state if you do not meet the legal requirements in your own state.
I live in NJ; I cannot lawfully purchase a similar rifle anywhere in the country, because NJs firearms owners permit is too hard to get. You need to tell them the name and hospital affiliation of any mental health practitioner you have ever seen, since birth, and you need to have two unrelated adult references swear you're moral enough to buy a gun.
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