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
They DID in fact face this problem. But the executive and the Supreme Court were willing to do something about it. The Feds sent in the National Guard to do desegregation, and the courts backed them up. And the courts have often done follow-up rulings to landmark cases to indicate that yes, they really meant that. For guns and abolishing affirmative action, they did not. That's because while they consider the rulings they made to be correct in an academic/constitutional scholarship sense, they want the opposite policies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
And Gerstein isn't going to lose his job over this. This is his job; he's a Legal Affairs Reporter not someone who actually needs to know what the actual laws are or who to ask about those things. There's no one who can boycott Politico who could care.
This is what it comes down to -- his job is not to provide accurate legal analysis to inform Politico's readers. It's to provide legal-sounding reasons that their culture war enemies are obviously evil, bad, and wrong. And he delivers.
Worse, he probably gets the last laugh given the state of the judiciaries; if your case impinges upon culture war issues, and in particular if you're on the right/red/MAGA side, the leanings of the judge probably have a lot more with the outcome than any sort of legal reasoning.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Not to sound like a dick, but I guess you're aware that women usually make exactly the same complaint in reverse?
It turns out it is possible for a complaint and its reverse to be made... and for one to be accurate and the other not. "I know you are but what am I" is not a killshot. The infamous OKCupid study that showed women rate 80% of men to be below average tells us this is likely to be the case here.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Even if you could do that, it wouldn't solve most womens' problem, since there are far fewer chads than women. And the feasibility depends on you being able to betaize the alpha while still retaining whatever characteristics women find attractive. Which may in fact not be possible because it may be a literal contradiction -- the women making the complaint may be attracted to the very characteristics that also result in the men not committing to them. This is the often-denigrated but never disproved theory of "Chicks dig Jerks".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Beheading is quick, tried and true, at least if you use the French innovation rather than messing about with trained headmen. Hanging is even more traditional, a little harder to get right but not THAT much harder. All this faffing around with electricity was just because Edison wanted to score on Westinghouse; there's no real need for it. And medicalizing it was even dumber.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
And I very much doubt that there aren't enough normies left in MN to vote Walz out -- he only won 52-45.
Now he'll win by more, because of the improved quality of his enemies.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Perhaps its true; it would certainly partially explain falling fertility rates. Who would want to have kids when it's necessary to expose them to that?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Very much "not slow" decay, and punctuated by bouts of destruction (the race riots, mostly in the '60s but some later).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The rains of destruction aren't brought on by any action against the Somali fraudsters. They're brought on when the parasites sufficiently damage the host and the destruction comes as an inevitable consequence. Look at many large American cities in the 70s and 80s, or much of Detroit and Baltimore today, to see what happens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Italian organized crime didn't rely on tribal loyalty among Italians (or even Sicilians) to keep things under wraps; it relied on that old standard of violence towards anyone who opened their mouth.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Anyone who turns a blind eye to welfare fraud is effectively steering us towards an equilibrium with less welfare spending and more red tape.
Only if there's anyone with the power to add the red tape to attempt to stop the fraud. If not, money given to fraudsters simply increases without bounds, as with SSI/SSDI fraud.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
While you hang those 90 pickpockets, are another 900 working the crowd watching the executions?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Sanctions refer to what you describe, but not just what you describe. In particular, these sanctions disallow flag registry for participating nations. Any ship in international waters not flying a legitimate flag -- a stateless vessel -- is subject to seizure. That's what the US did here.
The ship is "subject to seizure" as a matter of US law, because the US made a law which applies outside its territory.
Yes, a law which applies on "the high seas". Which is certainly not anything unusual.
As a matter of international law, it probably isn't. (There are some technicalities here because most of the flags of convenience used by oil tanker operators are US client states - the situation where the US seizes a Liberian or Panamanian-flagged ship and the country of registration doesn't object is messy).
The seized vessel in this case -- the Skipper -- was flying a Guyanese flag. However, it does not have a Guyanese registration; this was a literal false flag. There's no flag state to object.
(Also, the Skipper wasn't exporting anything from Venezuela. I believe it was delivering naphtha)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The most depressing part is realizing this will make no difference. Everyone who mattered was aware this was going on and was fine with it, and that will remain true.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The US is seizing tankers transporting Venezuelan oil in international waters close to Venezuela with neither the ship nor the cargo having any connection to the US.
The ship was sanctioned (for Iranian connections, not Venezuelan) and thus subject to seizure. Venezuelan oil exports are sanctioned. If you and (in particular) Europe wishes to use "sanctions" as some sort of intermediate path between pure diplomacy and actual warfare, there has to be enforcement of those sanctions. Otherwise sanctions are a farce.
In plain English this isn't sanctions, it's a blockade.
The wording only matters in that a blockade is an act of war. Certainly Venezuela is free to respond to it that way. But enforcing sanctions isn't generally considered that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Indeed they do prefer Malvinas. I suppose the 3700 people on the Falklands care too, though the half-million sheep and million penguins likely do not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I don't think the situations are comparable here. For Britain, beating up Argentina and keeping whatever they kept, nobody cares by now what it is anyway, was pointless and meaningless.
The Falkland Islands, and Argentina very much still cares.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Indirect solutions like this always sound good but in practice end up as anarcho-tyranny -- people end up having to do a LOT of work to prove their workforces are legal (some of which work may itself be illegal according to other laws), if they screw up they get nailed to the wall, and meanwhile someone else who operates completely unlawfully gets away with everything.
Keep it simple, reduce collateral damage, if you want to stop illegal immigration, go after illegal immigrants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
You won't be able to buy the Chinese ones either.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Could you work on New Jersey instead?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
My Vanguard stocks are up 14% since this time last year.
Ouch, some poor investment decisions there. S&P 500 is up over 16% and total stock market index 22%.
That's my lazy rule of thumb on how well the economy is doing, so that probably means the economy is doing well.
That's Wall Street. Few deny Wall Street is doing well; it's very easy to see how well Wall Street is doing by checking only stock indexes and inflation. The question is Main Street. And the benchmark I gave a few threads back is now answered -- holiday spending is up more than would be expected from sentiment. It's not a great year, but it's a pretty average year.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
You can sneer at Maryland but you can't make it go away. Many have tried, none have succeeded.
One of the Intolerable Acts pertained to toleration of Catholics!
Establishment of Catholicism, by giving the Midwest to Quebec.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
I was thinking firing squads would be reserved for military executions.
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