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.
2d ago
Surrogacy basically the plot of handmaid's tale. It seems like there's quite a bit of resistance against that.
I'm pretty sure most of the handmaid cosplayers never even watched the series, let alone read the book. I suspect you know the issue was forced surrogacy, through ritualized rape.
And it was only surrogacy in a legal sense, since the "surrogate" mother was also the biological one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The city has too much going for it for its biggest tax pay
pigers (major financial institutions) to seriously consider the idea of picking up stakes and relocating to, say, Miami, at least in the short term.
They have already been expanding presence in Miami. They may not jump (because Mandami may cut a deal) but they have been preparing to.
It will be interesting to see whether those New York City Jews who swore they would leave for Florida if Mamdani got elected will make good on their promised exodus [heh]. My money is on “no”, in the main: their loyalty is to leftism first and foremost and to Judaism a distant second, so the prospect of living in a state where anyone could be carrying a handgun and where abortion is illegal after 6 weeks is anathema, no matter how philosemitic the state government.
They've been moving to Florida for decades anyway; evidently once you're old enough you don't care about either abortion or handguns. You'll hear more classic NYC accents in Fort Lauderdale than New York City.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
GenX is already boomers. Anyone older than a Millennial is a boomer, to anyone Millennial or younger. And I suspect that to Zed, the Millennials are boomers. I wouldn't be surprised if Gen Delta ended up calling Gen Alpha "boomers".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
My point is that in terms of the actual legal rights possessed by a person, being a Jewish American is functionally equivalent to being an Israeli-American dual citizen living in the USA.
Eh, no it isn't. In particular, if a Jewish non-Israeli visits Israel, they still have full US consular support.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Mamdani has a position of real executive power unlike AOC who is just 1 of 435 legislators. Given he's a socialist, it's hard to believe he won't fuck it up. Even if he weren't ineligible I can't see him being a serious contender for President based on what I expect his record to be.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The only difference is that Fuentes would count Jewish identity as foreign citizenship, which it essentially is under Israeli law.
Sure, but why should I, as a native-born American who would qualify for Israeli citizenship, be bound by Israeli law? If Italy was willing to accept me as a citizen because of my ancestry, would that count as a citizenship from another country even if I never applied? Your "only difference" is in fact an enormous difference. Being Jewish does not make one Israeli. Even being Jewish and feeling favorable towards Israel does not make one Israeli.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It amazes me that the dual loyalty argument is never answered by "Israel should listen to America," only by "America should listen to Israel."
One person answered it that way, in a fashion.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/assuring-the-security-of-the-state-of-qatar/
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
And if Gilbert, or any other Republican were assassinated, he would secretly celebrate their deaths.
Now that he knows it doesn't matter, he'd openly celebrate their deaths.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Pure 100% copium. The Democrats have installed themselves as the default for voters in the US, and they only lose when they're doing something actively, obviously terrible (like transing the kids, or perhaps running a senile candidate) at the moment.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Yes, it's the United States which lost the will to fight in Afghanistan. Also the Afghan National Army but I'm not sure they had any to begin with.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
"And then the enemy will lose the will to fight" has got to be one of my favorite theories of victory.
Worked in Afghanistan.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The numbers are as Sunshine says. Better in PPP, worse by exchange rates.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Chinese immigrants looked different, had a native language no one else knew, and were about as culturally alien to the US as anyone you were going to find in real life. They worked out fine.
They mostly died out in a generation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The Germans were doing fine in the US even when they spoke German (common up to WWI, I believe).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I think those are in fact ALL objectionable with the possible exception of #2, and HR should stick with World Chocolate Day.
Movember (which is about men's health) and International Men's Day are obviously going to piss off feminists, who can't stand the focus to be on men (except when it's bad). The "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" will piss off men tired of being blamed for bad things, and tired of the relentless focus on women's problems. (These men are culture warriors, surely, but many have been drafted over the past decade). And even mental health is kinda risky due to being female-and-left coded.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
But at least many conflicts of that era got settled with a basic handful of battles and the occasional siege.
And many didn't, as the names "Hundred Years War" and "Thirty Years War" tell you.
It's not industrialization which makes war an unceasing nightmare; there have been long non-industrialized wars and short industrialized wars. WWI, for all its horror, was only 4 years.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I think that ACX mentioned that some pro-Palestinian Muslims were announcing that they were going to vote for Trump because Harris was too Israel-friendly. I am unsure how they are feeling about Trump's ME policies now.
They should be feeling dumb... but they should have been feeling dumb from the start. Trump's pro-Israel position was not at all a secret -- ask his daughter and his son-in-law, and consider his first term. It's Harris who flirted with the opposite, though she ended up back on the pro-Israel side rhetorically.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
These scenarios always seem to end up with either a violent incident where the perpetrators were "on their radar" or a situation that looks like entrapment.
¿Por qué no los dos?
That is to say, what if the situations where the perpertrators were "on their radar" were just cases of entrapment where the people they egged on got a little off the leash and managed to do something?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
These are Ayn Rand supervillains.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I think the FBI denies this one, but there's the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Obviously fake and gay; I don't even need to check the details to have a high confidence of saying that. The FBI egged on a bunch of morons and then made a dramatic bust to get some agents promoted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Israel could've gone into Gaza, wrecked shit, and left before it became a years long humanitarian crisis
Domestically, not until they got the hostages back. That's what the hostages were for -- to keep Israel pummelling Gaza.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I thought the scale was inversely related to how many drinks it took to flip the 0 to a 1.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Strong-arm robbery is the most common sort according to the FBI.
He didn't just die. He was murdered. So there is your answer.
Vance is married with a daughter. If he does it he'll stop when his daughter is old enough to understand.
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