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.
13d ago
No it's not. Most politicians do want to win again,Trump is unique in that 1) he literally cannot
There is nothing unique about a term-limited president.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
Schrödinger's whites are the exception that proves the rule.
Reminds me of the prime number joke.
A mathematician, physicist, and engineer are taking a math test. One question asks "Are all odd numbers prime?"
The mathematician thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime -- nope, not all odd numbers are prime."
The physicist thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 ... experimental error, 11 is prime, 13 is prime, yes, they're all prime."
The engineer thinks, "3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime, ..."
No, they're not the exception that prove the rule. They're the exception that blow the "rule" out of the water.
Most of the rest of the world in non-white. It's no surprise that most immigrant groups being objected to are non-white. And, in England, the same sort of people objected to Poles. Are they Schroedinger's White too?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
I'm aware of that interpretation, but as far as I know, it does not hold; complete jurisdiction-stripping isn't allowed. Congress could create a special Article III court for these cases whose decision was final, but could not take the case out of the judicial branch entirely.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
Weren't drumhead trials for pirates pretty common (if officially disallowed) also?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
When the First/Second/Third world system was non-vestigal, places like that often got split off into a "fourth world".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
Personally, I'm sick of white supremacists using motte-and-baileys to criticize immigrants.
"That's racist" is pretty much worn out as an argument anywhere to the right of Kamala Harris.
It's revealing that Indians, Mexicans and Filipinos are the main groups they have issues with.
You forgot Jews. Perhaps because most Jews are in fact white?
Indians are a model minority, speak English, from a pluralistic democracy and uniquely economically productive.
Had much experience with the bottom half of Indian H-1Bs? I'm guessing not.
Mexicans are devout Christians, take all the 'shit' jobs, have a fair claim to the land and work harder than any 'sanctity of work' protestant I've seen. There are valid concerns about criminals and cartel members. But, as we covered before, Americans and Trump are already aligned on their deportation.
Are they? Because I keep seeing horror stories about some poor hardworking illegal immigrant being deported, and then it turns out they committed rape or homicide or at least a shitload of DUIs. And then there's the groypers complaining about not enough being deported and various leftists saying Trump is being hypocritical by not deporting enough farmworkers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13d ago
I think this is representative of a general societal movement that holds, basically, that discipline should be done away with and replaced with more nurturing. The stick is just sadistic cruelty, and does much more harm than good, and whatever good it does do can be done all the better with extra carrots.
Indeed. Except the second you suggest otherwise, they're happy to "give you what you want" by using the stick on you and people like you while continuing to "nurture" people they like.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
I think that's a case of constitutional law and not statute; there has to be some method of Article III review, but it can be absurdly deferential to the Article I court and can come only after all administrative remedies are exhausted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
Special elections are weird; I don't think this changes the already bad outlook for Republicans. Still, at the end of the day, it's the economy. If we're still in this zombie economy where the numbers don't look so bad but no one is happy, it'll be a bloodbath. If things get worse, obviously a worse bloodbath. If things improve, the Republicans only lose by a little.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
Has Trump even asked congress to strip Article III courts of jurisdiction over immigration claims from noncitizens?
Why would he need to? Immigration claims are already handled in Article I administrative "courts".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
Arguably Hegsegh is stupid and he should have done Obama style duble-tap operation, where the military waits for rescue vessel picking up the drowning terrorists only to bomb them again
I'm pretty sure no one was coming to pick up the drowning drug dealers.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
I suppose this is better than the Rick and Morty copypasta. In any case, this article is definitely not operating on that level. If it were, it would at least have to get into mortgage-backed securities, FNMA, and Freddie Mac, none of which it mentions. No actual sophisticated financier is going to give this article two seconds of their time; it is, in fact, directed at the layman.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
Just to further drive this point home: the narcos are engaged in what is effectively chemical warfare.
No, they're not; this is just sophistry.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
That's as clear an example of Defect/Defect as you can ask for. Sucks for the Russians... but doesn't it always?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
The falling percentage of first-time buyers suggests that they’re outcompeted by people who’ve already owned a house, not just older first-timers.
Unless we're talking about people who went to an apartment and are moving back to a house, or people buying second homes, non-first-time buyers can't crowd out first time buyers because they vacate one house when they buy a new one.
More details in the report highlights, although I don’t see a chart of median age over time. But there’s nothing here suggesting the demand surge is concentrated in millenials.
I was able to find the current report and the 2022 report. In 2022, 10% of first-time buyers were 18-24, 36% 25-34, 26% 35-44, 13% 45-54, 8% 55-64, 6% 65-74. In 2025, 4% were 18-24, 32% 25-34, 25% 35-44, 16% 45-54, 14% 55-64, 8% 65-74. So Millennials, but Xers and Boomers too.
The craziest stat on that page is that, since COVID, all-cash purchases have gotten much more common. It’s got to be an inflation thing, right?
Redfin has different numbers up to 2021.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14d ago
They're not flagged. Since the treaties comprising the laws of the sea were written by people representing nations, who had very little regard for stateless entities and none of it good (considering them brigands, pirates, or worse, libertarians), there's really no or almost no protection for them in those treaties.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
The social norm was created by their opponents (the culture warriors in question). Breaking it (and ultimately denormalizing it) is a positive good. The existence of the norm, however, does not make the use of the word into actual cruelty to the retarded.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
"Retard" comes from "mental retardation" which is now officially "intellectual disability". But "idiot" also used to mean "someone profoundly mentally retarded". The idea that mere use of any of these terms (as an insult to someone unafflicted, or otherwise) is somehow cruel to the "intellectually disabled" is idiocy. Or rather, it's a flex by some culture warriors since the n-word wasn't enough for them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
The developers don't care about the balance of power; the politicians who set up the incentives so you can build (or make more money on) low-income multi family housing but can't build (or will make less money on) market-priced single family housing absolutely do. The developers just follow the incentives.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
I wonder why Plattsburgh isn't on his list. There's nothing much there but SUNY Plattsburgh, but it is a real (if small) town and he apparently already thinks favorably of it. Certainly it's a better choice than Utica.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
No, the house is the wealth. It's made liquid by borrowing against it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
Not necessarily. If more people are buying with cash, you can have both rising prices and people unable to get mortgages.
You could, but that wouldn't stop developers from building. Unless cash buyers are somehow only interested in existing homes.
You seem to assume that only one thing can be wrong at a time, but this is America in 2025, everything can be wrong at the same time.
I don't think it's actually possible for unavailability of mortgages to dissuade developers AND for home prices to be rising precipitously.
It is theoretically possible for mortgages to be unavailable and for cash buyers to still drive up prices, though I think this article utterly fails to demonstrate that. But the price signal should work regardless of the source of the money. What's happened is the supply has become less elastic.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
Second Gulf War was perhaps largely about Saddam taking a shot at Bush Sr. First Gulf War was the US supporting an ally, as I recall. Oil never was anything but the standard leftist talking point.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15d ago
If I sell an appreciated painting, I no longer have it; my standard of living is decreased by exactly as much as having that painting increased it. Further, I CAN extract some value from my home (by borrowing from it) without reducing my standard of living. That you have arbitrarily rejected this does not make it not so.
Yes, and the "World" system is left over from that time. As is Trump.
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