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.
5d ago
Presumably he has a fatal heart attack while attempting to bring one last female Russian/SPECTRE/Chinese/whatever agent to his own side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Probably safe from lawsuits as the CIA will refuse to confirm or deny.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
If people who bring up politics at work should be fired then it is the liberals of Google who should be on the block, not him, since they are the ones who brought it up.
"That's not politics, that's common decency" -- leftists on Google's internal forums.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It's actually objectively easier than ever to be a badass motherfucker.
Provided you're willing and able to live a criminal lifestyle, and accept your retirement plan is an unlamented death or a prison.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Not what I'm seeing. What I'm seeing is people trying to discuss things, and you not "pushing back" but rather simply making a lot of noise and tossing around sarcasm and insults not to be part of the discussion, but to interfere with the discussion.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Richelieu could also find treason in six lines written by a traitor, but he didn't feel it was necessary to mention that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth but the rest of the scientific community wasn't obligated to let this guy who fits right in with shitposting Twitter edgelords represent them.
As far as I know he did not claim to speak for the scientific community in the controversial things he said.
Charles Murray's dignity he does not have.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The only source for MOST of those statements is a big long list of stuff that Watson supposedly said. Watson was known to be based, so I wouldn't be surprised if he said some or all of them. But without a real source, it's quite possible some of them are fabricated or modified.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
My friend, try being a woman on here when there's sixty versions of "yeah the wimmens is uppity and should be confined to the home and maybe don't even teach 'em to read and write". Serious discussions of how society went to the dogs once women got the vote.
Try existing in the real world where a woman with a sharp tongue thinks that using it should cause every man around them to quail in fear and yield. Oh, wait, you do. It doesn't work here. The real-world norm that a man does not push back against that sort of shit from a woman does not exist here. You can snark, insinuate, and belittle, but nobody will be intimidated. Some can give as good as they get, held back (if they are) only by not wanting to be moderated themselves. Others can simply say "This is sound and fury signifying nothing", and continue discussing while ignoring the noise.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Other geneticists have a right to not want to be associated with that.
Naa, they can fuck right off, if for no other reason than because Watson was the big dog. He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth because his less-talented successors found him embarrassing or something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
It’s not a coincidence that geeks and nerds all tend to ‘look’ a certain way physiologically
Do they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Dean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8411113/
UVB exposure increases circulating sex-steroid levels in mice and humans
UVB exposure enhances female attractiveness and receptiveness toward males
UVB exposure increases females’ estrus phase, HPG axis hormones, and follicle growth
Skin p53 regulates UVB-induced sexual behavior and ovarian physiological changes
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
In fact, that would make no sense. It's the Goys who were murdered and they were also the ones with the autistic son. Spaide shot himself but no last words after he pulled the trigger were recorded.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Man detained at airport for having a JD Vance meme on his phone
It's another one where no one can prove anything. DHS claims the tourist was denied entry for admitting drug use in the US, which he did, but there's no way to determine if that was a pretext for having the JD Vance meme or not.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
· Edited 7d ago
Here is a video from that #2 incident. It happens after most of the action; I don't see ICE doing anything except finishing arresting people and moving some cars around. Some tear gas canisters are still active. But tell me... based on that video (and audio), would you believe that there had just prior been sufficient unrest to justify the use of tear gas?
I watched it initially with the audio off, and I was like "What am I supposed to be seeing? Aside from the sheer number of cops and the leftover tear gas, it looks like a pretty normal arrest?". With the audio on, it's a different story.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
You seem to be very thin-skinned about this
Pot, meet kettle.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
I'm not even convinced of this. Things like "this man is wanted for assault" and "was wielding a hammer and threw rocks" are things that could be verified. Maybe not immediately, but they can.
By the time they can be verified, everyone's forgotten about that story and the next several atrocities have been claimed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Also, the Hunter Biden laptop is one story. It would not be possible for the government to keep up a series of lies, one for every single immigrant arrest story.
It would if no one was questioning them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
· Edited 7d ago
I'm honestly trying to figure out for myself why I trust the DHS accounts when I would typically try to verify the information in other ways.
You probably shouldn't. However, I have tried to verify some of these other ways (though only those available to a keyboard warrior, I'm not doing investigative reporting). Most of them are basically inconclusive; there are atrocities claimed that have no evidence for them, and DHS says the situation is some other way which also cannot be confirmed. Very often the "atrocity" side is making highly emotive claims that aren't even really atrocities if you turn on your brain for a second or so -- for instance, it's not an atrocity that they're arresting illegal aliens outside a car wash when they don't have a warrant to search inside. It's not an atrocity for them to detain illegal aliens with no criminal record. It's not even an atrocity for them to temporarily detain US citizens who get in the way when they're doing a raid, though this may be justified or not depending on the details (which are not available). It's certainly not an atrocity to drive an arrestee's car away with the arrestee's toddler child in the car -- what are they going to do, leave the kid alone? It's not an atrocity to chase a suspect who then runs into a daycare, nor to arrest the suspect there. But all these claims are presented with a spin that makes them sound like accusations of misconduct, and that makes me mistrust those sources.
Then there's the claims that really are bad -- for instance, the runner with the six broken ribs, supposedly backed up by a "shocking" video. But the "shocking" video just shows the runner after he's been arrested. We not only don't know if he did anything to deserve arrest, we have no idea if he's actually got "six broken ribs". All we have is stories repeating claims made by activists as if they are true. The fact that the video is claimed/implied to have the shocking details but does not works against their credibility. And if I was to believe that kind of thing, I'd have to believe that DHS deported an Allentown grandfather from Chile to Guatemala when he went in to get his green card renewed, a story that made The Guardian among other places, and from thence here. As you may recall, the gentleman named had passed away -- in Santiago -- in 2019. DHSs response to this story while it was happening was basically "¿Qué? ¿Quién?", until they said they'd found records and the guy had been to the US only once, on visa waiver, without incident, some years ago.
So, if you don't trust the government much it's fair to view DHSs statements with skepticism. But the statements from the other side should, IMO, be viewed with far more skepticism, due to their record. That works out to at least tentatively believing DHS when there's no good evidence either way.
Of course, if the police department of Kenosha had made a statement after the Rittenhouse incident that Rittenhouse had unlawfully crossed state lines with a rifle and shot three black men without provocation, I suspect most of Red Tribe would believe them at least at first. They really are generally credulous of law enforcement, with some exceptions (ATF and FBI in particular)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Dude. I would enjoy living a luxurious life with minimal effort if that option were provided to me. The tendency to indolence and the preference for taking the path of least resistance is a very human thing.
Perhaps. But it won't be.
Would you want your sister or cousin or daughter to shoot for a life where she’s well taken care of if a man approached you to ask for your her hand in marriage, if he said he’s able to provide it? I would say yes. A woman says that, she’s a status chasing gold digger. What’s the problem?
You're equivocating a bit. A gold digger is a woman who marries an already successful man for his money, whereas the (presumably trad) brother/cousin/father is likely happier with an up-and-coming young gentleman. And traditionally a woman trying to marry too far above her station would indeed be considered status-chasing, though that might be thought of approvingly by her relatives.
The more basic asymmetry is neither trad nor modern would find it acceptable for their brother, male cousin, or son to shoot for such a life provided by their wife.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
It wasn’t until recent decades you found phrases like “educated idiot” to become more commonly observed in our parlance.
The older phrase is "learned fool", which you'll find in Shakespeare.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
While I can not speak for the OP, I think that the information "people have been panicking over franchise and education for women leading to lower TFR for a very long time" is in itself valuable.
Yes, but not in the way you mean, since TFR has been decreasing for a long time (with the exception of the post WWII Baby Boom)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
· Edited 8d ago
My question is mostly, is it normal for the Red Tribe to believe the "official story" over their "lying eyes?"
There don't seem to be any "lying eyes" involved. In your first story, the Bezos blog says
Armed ICE officers arrested a teacher early Wednesday in Chicago after chasing her onto the grounds of a private preschool and grabbing her as parents and students looked on, according to a local official and witnesses.
DHS says
Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside.
These are compatible stories, with different spins.
In your second story, the videos I've seen start AFTER two people had been arrested. There's no evidence available against ICEs claim that they were "SURROUNDED AND BOXED IN".
In the third, ICE claims they arrested a guy who had his kid in a stolen car. (Or maybe I'm reading it wrong; they may be claiming he had a stolen pistol in his own car). Looks like one agent did screw up and hit the kid with a ball, though the kid doesn't seem particularly bothered. The LA Times headline is "Agents drive off with child after detaining her father". Well, yeah; they arrested the father, they're not going to leave the kid at the scene. The kid was later brought back home to his mother.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
Except you're doing the same thing you're accusing them of by assuming that all these people do, in fact, have criminal records and you're just being lied to about it.
No, I believe they have no criminal records. It's just entirely irrelevant to whether they were proper targets of an immigration raid.
are uneasy with the conspicuous brutality with which ICE is carrying out it's business
What conspicuous brutality? The Rodney King arrest, THAT was conspicuous brutality. The ICE arrests look like normal arrests.
Looks like @fuckduck9000, banned for this, was banned for something far less inflammatory than stuff that barely merited a warning in this very thread.
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