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.
14d ago
It's possible to see the Grinch as a Jewish-to-Christian conversion story, I suppose. But A Christmas Carol is certainly a story of a Christian redemption, no Jews involved.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
He's right about what's happening. He's wrong that there was anything special about that year. The villain origin story for cartoonist Scott Adams (a boomer) is that he was passed over for promotion, twice, once at a bank and once at PacBell because they were looking to promote women and minorities instead. Maybe it's been exponentially increasing -- the exponential curve is self-similar, it looks like it's getting worse and worse no matter where you are on it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
Nick Fuentes's ideas have zero intellectual worth. He is a mega-church pastor for the religion of inceldom. Incoherence is key to his movement. At least Candace Owens is schizophrenic. What's Fuentes' excuse ?
He's a fed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
The Superman/Moses thing is pretty obvious right off the bat, and Superman's creators were Jewish.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
If Dean was talking about occupation, it doesn't make sense; we occupied Japan after they surrendered and allowed Eisenhower to write their new Constitution.
Regardless of the terminology, I stand by the claim. If, after a nuclear exchange, the US is in a position to dictate terms to the PRC -- which basically means we still have nuclear capability and they don't -- then the US will be able to (and almost certainly will) re-write their constitution and the remaining Chinese will not do anything about it. Their official armies will have surrendered (and if they don't, the nuking continues) and there will be little enough insurgency that US forces will be able to handle it. The bulk of the Chinese are not going to be fanatical supporters of the PRC. As in Japan, almost certainly much of the mechanism of government below the national level will remain largely intact -- the US is too small to directly administer China. But not to dismantle the PRC.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
This is an obvious rhetorical flourish, nowhere even close to an actual threat.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
He does, but he's on the proper tier.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
For a while. In the end, there is only the State.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
It's going to be quite the coup when Fuentes brings all those people over to the Democrats. I don't know why the right falls for this every time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Now we can't even joke (and it's ha-ha-only-serious) about the smell of a room of presumably-unwashed nerds? That joke is older than image boards, and older than the era of infinite Indians.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Nowadays, saying "Some of my best friends are black" is kind of cringeworthy because it's such a boomer punchline, and it sounds like something Archie Bunker might have said.
Note that Archie was canonically of the WWII generation, two generations older than the boomers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d ago
In some sense, South Park had it right decades ago: the solution to all the Latin American migrants is to make Latin America less bad, so nobody will bother migrating in the first place.
No one knows how to do that. I mean, if Trump really does get rid of Maduro that will likely help, but only a little bit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d ago
Maybe they're all feds from the same school.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d ago
The bloat is not necessarily "profit". For instance, when insurance companies and hospitals hire armies of bureaucrats to argue over the claims, all those bureaucrats get paid and none of that is "profit" to either side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d ago
The US didn't occupy Japan proper, and would have no need to occupy China proper after a literal nuclear war. If the US is in a position to demand peace, it means the PRC no longer has nuclear capability while the US does, and that means the US gets to write a new constitution for China in its capital. Or we continue the nuking; we've done exactly that before. The remaining Chinese aren't going to fight to the last man for the integrity of the PRC.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
Only 14 percent of Zoomer college grads actually have a job that requires a college diploma
The WSJ gives a number of 52% for "jobs that don’t make use of their skills or credentials"
This includes some younger Millennials as well.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18d ago
There's a place in NJ (the Passaic River between Lyndhurst and Nutley) which is known for being full of such crap, including artillery shells. Even better, the area is full of people who look vaguely like Mangione. If he'd taken the time to dump the gun and silencer a little downstream of the bridge, they'd likely have never been found. Though honestly any river would have done; if they'd found no incriminating items on him he could have brazened it out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
Oregon, Washington, and Tennessee have state-mandated urban growth boundaries for all cities. California has growth boundaries in many areas. Even Florida does. Maryland has a state growth plan that prevents building in Western Maryland. Then there's things like affordable housing requirements, which mean you can't build market price SFH in any given town unless you build the requisite number of subsidized pods.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
I'd add another requirement: the suburb must still be dependent on the city for many, if not most, infrastructure and amenities. A suburb has some schools and maybe a grocery store - but not much more. Otherwise, its not a suburb but a small town.
This doesn't really work in a fair number of places. There are a lot of places where the suburb is neither self-sufficient nor dependent on the city; instead it's dependent on other suburbs for some things.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
The US has duplexes as well. They used to be more popular... when the US was much poorer, like in the first half of the 20th century.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19d ago
There's approximately 0 veto-ing that prevents new suburban development
Incorrect. Central planning at the state and regional level does so, through urban growth boundaries and similar growth restrictions. This isn't NIMBYs (who mostly don't want you to build halfway houses for criminals and/or the mentally ill, or dense pod housing, next to them), it's New Urbanists and similar anti-sprawl types restricting single family development.
Naa, if they don't get good jobs they won't be paying most of the taxes. They'll just be eeking out a marginal existence or dying on the streets (because of course social welfare programs are not for able bodied young males)
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