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
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.
14d 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.
15d 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.
15d ago
· Edited 15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d 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.
15d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
16d 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.
16d 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.
16d 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.
16d 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.
17d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17d 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.
17d 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.
18d 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.
18d 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.
18d 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.
18d 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.
18d 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.
There was a massive acceleration of wokeness in 2020, related to George Floyd. You don't need much motivation to see that.
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