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.
7d ago
Based on priors, I am doubtful that they were meaningfully violating the law.
"Meaningfully" here covers a lot of ground. Doing disallowed work while here on a B-1 is violating the law, whether you think it's meaningful or not. It's fairly obnoxious to arrest bunches of employees who likely had no knowledge that their employer was using the wrong visa, but that doesn't mean there wasn't a violation of the law.
You are in the US on a perfectly legal visa but ICE does not like your tattoos? Go to an El Salvador mega-prison without any due process.
This does not appear to be a real example, but a reference to Abrego Garcia, who was not here on a visa at all.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Indeed, and there was a lot of overlap between the Prohibitionists and the suffragettes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
That's typical of Koreans who aren't intending to assimilate (or stay), so it doesn't really mean anything.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
If they are here legally (and working legally), what is the problem with scrutiny? No scrutiny could have done anything to them, if their status is in order, ICE could check it a thousand times and still couldn't do anything.
If ICE has an error rate of 1%, if they check legal workers a thousand times they'll do something the worker won't like 10 times.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8d ago
The striking thing about those battles is about how badly they failed. Wokeness got all the confederate flags removed in an instant, Cops and Roseanne canceled, and Dr. Seuss unpublished, and didn't even break a sweat doing it. The peak bipartisan efforts of the PMRC got a label on records saying "Buy this, your parents will hate it".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Not any more. What percentage of people goes to church compared to college or works in a corporate environment with HR lectures?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
It's meant that for a long time, at least in the US. The sentiment behind "there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos" goes back to at least 1890.
There's several different types of people who call themselves moderates or centrists, and a lot of it isn't good.
Most common is the "centrist" who considers themselves the center of the universe; they may hold any position including very radical ones but they'll still insist they are moderates.
Closely related is the "centrist" who goes along with their local consensus and thinks anyone who doesn't is bad. This local consensus, again, could be anything.
Then you've got the ones who swear they are centrists who carefully consider each of their positions, but somehow come out exactly where whatever political commentators they listen to are, and parrot those arguments without understanding. In the US this is nearly always NPR.
And you've got the ones you refer to, who take the fallacy of grey as gospel. Yes, sometimes the truth lies between the two most commonly articulated positions. But sometimes, in fact, the truth lies AT or very much more near one of those positions. Sometimes it lies BEYOND one of those positions on the same axis. Sometimes it lies off the axis. These people deserve the contempt they are given; in addition to being unthinking, they can be manipulated through one side making it's position more radical to move the middle, at least if that side can prevent the other side from responding. These are the people who just went along with woke, because the center between Ibrahim Kendi and the weaksauce opposition that was all that was allowed to be voiced was STILL woke.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
In an actual scenario where they start a civil war and win, why would the Reds not rule with a jackboot?
For one thing, because it's HARD WORK. For another, because (credibly and enforceably) agreeing not to could end the civil war a lot sooner.
(As for Dreaded Jim, I doubt he's a red triber. Just a dissident blue like Yarvin)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
Liberia never colonized at all
Uh, Liberia was a settler colony.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
You posted a wall of text that amounted to "Suck it, HBDers, your forbears were wrong in the past and consequently you're wrong now". You didn't indicate which quotes were load-bearing and which weren't, so it seems to me they're all fair game. Anyway, I can't find any of the quotes except in secondary sources written by their opponents much later.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
The vast majority of them just owe him their jobs and are recruited from his most die-hard base (and are well aware they'll be kicked to the curb when Trump is gone).
That they were hired as part of a policy to increase immigration enforcement, and would be "kicked to the curb" if that policy is reversed, does not equal "personal fealty".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
I'd wager most people most vehemently opposed to Trump aren't very familiar with Lyndon "Big Dick" Johnson. Those I've made aware have immediately pivoted to it being a matter of policy instead.
Thus, the crassness argument turns out to be another soldier. (And LBJ was worse on policy )
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
If "specific selection term" is a term of art, the specific wording matters. This is the government we're talking about here.
My understanding is that the NSA would use the selectors to determine which accounts they would retain information for. But to do that they needed to first obtain everything to do the selection.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Google didn't WANT to call the bluff; they're politically aligned.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
LOL, advertisers will pay the most to advertise on a show about large men running straight at one another and clobbering each other.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
I thought that was 9/11?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
The report on internet communications does not appear to use the specific term "specific selection terms". The report on CDR data does.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
I expect you to be quite disappointed when Trump kicks the bucket and the half of America that considers you an enemy doesn't abruptly vanish like the morning mist.
Yep. Might have happened before the 2024 election (well, it would have been more an angry red mist). But now someone's going to take the MAGA ship and try to sail it. J.D. Vance being the obvious candidate, though a few years can be a long time politically. Probably won't be as successful in energizing the base (either their own or their opponents) as Trump; maybe the middle will come back into play, or maybe it'll be more trying to separate the Democrats from groups they've neglected. I can't tell from here.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Right. The threat of "advertiser boycotts" was almost certainly dreamed up by people at marketing agencies, and used by their politically-aligned friends at YouTube to get the censorship they wanted. Or possibly they were dreamed up by the YouTube group and the marketing agency people gave the assist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Charitably, your comment is acknowledging that there is a difference between the CDR program and the program that collected the contents of internet communications.
Yes, those are obviously two different programs. The CDR program was actually revealed slightly before the big Snowden reveal, though I believe it turned out Snowden was the source of the earlier leak as well.
The NSA was tapping the communications between datacenters of Internet providers, and by doing so they obtained access to all such communications. Any filtering they did according to selectors was done AFTER they had the data.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
The point is that polite (blue) society sees this and goes, “damn, reminds me of uncle Ricky telling jokes about the short bus.” It’s low-status. It’s decidedly not supposed to appear on national TV. If an ingroup politician did something like this they’d be groveling for months.
I have to go a little ways back... but not THAT far... to find Lyndon Baines Johnson. And not so much further back was "Give 'em Hell" Harry Truman.
I say this not just because "A Democrat did it", but because these particular norms simply didn't exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
And now when we see the same pattern, we're supposed to believe that THIS TIME it isn't political, it's just the moral paragons at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs wouldn't dare involve themselves with "smut". LOL.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
He was trying to mock a disabled journalist, but he probably wasn't mocking his disability. But then, that's a pretty standard SJ conflation.
Oh, right, forgot about that. Let me change my estimate to 15%. To err is human, to really foul up requires a computer.
Seriously, I don't think an error rate much below 1% for this type of thing is a reasonable estimate.
And errors HAVE occurred. Abrego Garcia got sent to El Salvador despite a ruling saying he shouldn't be. A citizen spent 3 days in immigration detention after a raid. You really think the government is going to have a negligible error rate and never detain the wrong Kim Sung Park?
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