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.
6hr ago
Trump could have gone full throttle enforcement of immigration laws within 100 miles of the Canadian and Mexican borders, and then done a bunch of small, targeted operations within the country's interior, publicizing the expelling of big criminals from the interior every time he did it, and he would have gotten most of the benefits of his current immigration policy, with fewer opportunities for leftists to get in his way.
He wouldn't have gotten immigration enforcement nationwide; he would have only gotten immigration enforcement in red areas. What you are asking is for the right to only govern their own when they are in charge, while the left gets to govern everyone.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
The way it works is that ICE is held to difficult standards (and even when they meet them, are reported as not meeting them), the protestors are held to no standards at all, and any issues are definitionally the fault of ICE for being there. As long as that frame holds there's no win condition for ICE, and the frame is unbreakable.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6hr ago
You understand this thing where someone does something wrong which is ignored by authorities, then the person wronged responds, and then is punished by said authorities, is generally considered a failure mode, do you not?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
They get what they want politically. All they have to do is escalate, and eventually either the right will back down or the "moderates" will throw the right out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
The real question is: how do you de-escalate from here? These people (some of them) have convinced themselves that they are living through the rise of an authoritarian/fascist dictatorship and have precipitated some things that do pattern match to that. Aside from some sort of science fiction style deprogramming effort: how do you bring them back to reality?
You cannot. There is only one way out, and that is that the left gets what they want.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
Yeah, if you have a libertarian democracy with open borders, you have no defense against your libertarianism being voted away by the new arrivals who just want to pry up the surface of your gold-paved streets.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
ICE, which is about 30% Hispanic, thinks they're going to ethnically cleanse the country by killing white people? Man, they must be really dumb.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
The media is ao vulnerable to this kind of shit though.
Not so much vulnerable as complicit. They know what's going on, certainly in the Hamas case if not the instant one. They report what their favored side wants even though they know it is deceptive.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
No idea why they're doubling down on the "domestic terrorist" rhetoric.
It's the same playbook the left has been using. As for why... because it worked for their enemies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
The system should be built with an assumption of dysfunctional behavior from randos.
It is, but it isn't perfect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
Biden's ICE left all these aliens with final deportation orders and multiple felonies in place. That's not so professional. What's left of the libertarian in me is opposed to current immigration controls, but getting rid of felons I'm wholeheartedly for.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
People on X and other forums zoomed in on video from the first side e.g. so you can see the gray-jacketed agent talking the gun. In the second video from the reverse angle you can identify that agent and while you can't see what he's doing, you can match it up with the first video and figure out he's got the dead guy's gun when the agent in the middle draws and fires.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
Both sides show hypocrisy on this issue.
I think not. The left is united in claiming the Good shooting was bad. The right is NOT united in claiming this shooting was good.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
He didn't, though; his gun is taken from him by the gray-jacketed agent just before the first shot is fired, I believe by the agent roughly center of frame in the light-colored jacket.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
Immediately after the grey-jacketed agent gets the dead guy's gun (we can see the red dot sight; it's definitely the weapon DHS says was the dead guy's, not an ICE weapon. I'm pretty sure it is a P320 but it did not go off), the agent to his left (in the pink lady's video) draws his weapon and fires the first shot, I believe. Not clear why, but it seems like he fucked up. Then there's a bunch more shots, which seems like a further fuckup. I assume if the guy had a second weapon, DHS would be crowing about that from the heights of X, so it definitely seems like an unjustified shoot. But I predict that the less-sympathetic (i.e. male) victim means this makes less news.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
Yet there's a constant group of people who continue to say that antifa isn't a thing.
They're supporters.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Why was Little Rock the center of 101st Airborne operations?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Seems like there were two perps. But after watching both angles I really can't tell a damn thing about the shooting.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16hr ago
There's pics of the supposed gun... but it's a P320, which ICE agents have carried (though I believe current issue is a Glock)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
The policy of restricting the conclusions which are allowed to be drawn from data before allowing access to the data is corrosive to science, and no honest researcher would agree to restrict themselves in that way. Since pretty much all researchers will, we have a fairly good explanation for the reproducibility crisis.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That is very contingent on political factors. Two years ago, I would have said that no sane US leader would try to take Greenland from Denmark, either. These days, the question boils down to how serious one should take Trump's threats and what one thinks of his mental health.
No US leader (sane or otherwise) has attempted to take Greenland from Denmark by military force. Trump actually threatened nothing but tariffs. Not ruling out something is not the same as threatening it, and not ruling things out when asked is something that is both characteristic of Trump AND characteristic of the US (which, e.g., has never ruled out first use of nuclear weapons).
Certainly the US could take Canada, militarily. It's not going to happen under a sane leader. An insane leader could take Canada, militarily, even in the presence of a nuclear deterrent.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If you're a cop, you can beat up people in tech, doctors, lawyers, academia, judges, and well, pretty much anyone else with impunity. Maybe not politicians. You may not have the prestige of a top doctor, but you have deference from the legal system and respect from the community. This is certainly more than enough to support being required to actually do your job when it involves the sort of things that would actually justify that respect.
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
Cops in most places (almost certainly including Uvalde) get shitloads of "additional respect". Uvalde ain't Minneapolis or San Francisco or Portland or Seattle.
Tell it to George Wallace. With modern state capacity you can enforce anything, if you have the will. For whatever reason only the left has the will.
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