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.
15d ago
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting is the most prominent recent example.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
An anti-Jewish/anti-Israel shooter could be from either the left or the right these days.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Shakespeare has been dead for almost 510 years; I doubt he knows much about the modern situation. Anyway, it's certainly not clear that the particular cantankerous character you quote represented Shakespeare's views. He has young men who do want to (or do) get married.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
M'Choakumchild
Sounds Bantu to me.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
ICE seems to actually be incredibly competent by cop standards, in that there simply hasn't been a smoking-gun atrocity story about them that holds up to cursory examination, despite the media's best efforts. This case definitely looks like they doubled up on dumbass, though. I mean, repairing the car you're claiming got rammed? CBP isn't the FBI or ATF, they can't get away with that kind of thing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
This looks plausible when youre only looking at that one question, less so otherwise. For example, the pattern of jewish overrepresentation in certain jobs and the majority getting mad at it is found broadly in space and time, which cant be explained by Ashkenazi selection in the middle ages.
Jews were barred (by Christians!) from a whole bunch of things in the past. That means they'd have to be over-represented in other things. Christians also barred themselves for some things, which left Jews over-represented there.
And the state of Israel, while certainly better than its neighbours, doesnt seem especially impressive compared to other western countries.
Its per-capita GDP (nominal) puts it between Finland and Germany, #12 and #11 in Europe. Above the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. Pretty good for having the handicap of being located in the Middle East. And having all those non-Ashkenazim around too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
That consent decree that supervises some of that due process expires in February, so my money is on the Trump admin not appealing upwards to SCOTUS.
Since apparently the courts unilaterally extended that "consent decree" once, why wouldn't they just extend it again?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Woke did not start in 2016, though it may have adopted that name at that time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
I'm aware, but it is not their entire strategy the way it is for box office. Further, they produce a lot of stuff besides their signature wokeslop (I assume KPop Demon Hunters is unlikely to be wokeslop, for instance.)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
The reality is that many of the prime drivers of racial and gender affirmative action were old, largely white, men in positions of economic and in some cases political power in many of these institutions.
Most feminists are not men. Most race-hustlers are not white. These are just-so stories which just happen to place all the blame (and all the agency) on the designated enemy... old white men.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
People watch a lot of stuff on netflix besides their bespoke wokeslop. Box office numbers are entirely dependent on their new releases.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
This is a level of indifference that would never be applied to any other group in a modern context. "Oh, you think blacks are discriminated against in publishing? Well MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela wrote from jail, why can't you succeed? You think women are discriminated against? Jane Austen made it in a man's world. Gay people are getting the short end? Oscar Wilde did fine and Alan Turing made a name for himself even while being chemically castrated".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
In any case, I don't think that a priori you would expect that Hollywood's wokeness would only catch up to it only in 2020, although I'm sure a sufficiently motivated reasoner could make the case.
There was a massive acceleration of wokeness in 2020, related to George Floyd. You don't need much motivation to see that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Yes, and Rand's only solution is to come up with a way to violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Good luck with that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
It'll shift the lines towards Millennials v. Xers (and Boomer remnants). So it'll be white male Millennials and younger plus all women and ethnic minorities working to get rid of the remaining old white guys (who will mostly be called "boomers" even if Savage is more precise). This won't work out well for the younger white guys of course, but maybe it'll be satisfying to Savage.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
Savage frames this as generation warfare rather than the racial/feminist Culture War. He and his sources cannot bring themselves to blame the women and minorities (he said he used to); no it has to be the old (Boomer/Gen X) white men who are keeping him out, and he says he doesn't even blame them any more. He has not yet learned to properly hate.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
· Edited 16d ago
It should be dead obvious that being supported by the institutions of your field is better than being opposed by them. Yes, there are some people who succeed outside, but it's a much harder road they have to be that much better. And of course others fail with such opposition where they would have succeeded with support or just neutral treatment.
For men, the team found one correlation with GRE scores: men who scored in the top 25% of the GRE’s quantitative section
An interesting find, but the upshot of the article is "We should get rid of the GRE because men have an advantage in quantitative scores but no advantage in actually getting degrees". (Which I suspect is because of discrimination against them in the grad programs.) It's a call for even more enshittification of academia, and in an engineering publication no less.
ETA: He actually addresses this argument in an interview about an earlier article about white writers:
Oliver goes on to helpfully suggest that younger white men, if indeed they face institutionalized discrimination, should self-publish. Who cares about the New Yorker? A Naomi Kanakia in every kitchen, a John Pistelli in every garage!
This is just wild. Can you imagine giving that advice to any other group of people?
There's this magical idea among the Substack literati, who all appear to be deranged graphomaniacs themselves, that a True Artist will always produce work regardless of material circumstances. But do you really think Philip Roth or John Updike or Salman Rushdie or Zadie Smith would have published dozens of novels between them if they couldn't make a living at it? And while we're here: if Tony Tulathimutte, whose writing both Henry Oliver and I both adore, hadn't been able to publish Private Citizens with William Morrow in 2016 — what would have happened? If he'd found himself ever-so-slightly further offsides the Maginot line of identity and a mainstream publisher hadn't picked up his début, do you really think we'd all have read Rejection in 2024?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
As I said, "social welfare programs are not for able bodied young males". Fraud -- claiming to not be able bodied -- is a different issue.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
No, they're statutory (Civil Rights Act of 1991), so he can't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d ago
And this wouldn't be quite so utterly intolerable if it weren't for the fact that these same dudes are going to be paying most of the taxes and will be expected to continue to be productive so as to subsidize their own disenfranchisement and replacement. They can't even really say "screw you, I'm taking my ball and playing somewhere else" because they will be compelled to pay into the system regardless.
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)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d 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.
17d 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.
17d 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.
17d ago
The Superman/Moses thing is pretty obvious right off the bat, and Superman's creators were Jewish.
In recent years, a different third term has been fully spoken.
3. You deserve it.
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