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.
5hr ago
Sure, but they're Muslims and furthermore have been inculcated with propaganda against the Little Satan since the revolution (or birth). Unless they've grown to hate the regime so much that this propaganda has actually made them favor Israel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7hr ago
"US bad, actually" is a pretty common take, but
- When comparing the US to a Islamic theocracy, even with all the bad things the US has done, the US still comes out on top. BTW, the word "unprecedented' gets bandied out a lot nowadays, but one of the revolution's early acts was the Iran hostage crisis at the US embassy to Iran. That was "unprecedented".
and
- From the perspective an American, it doesn't matter. They're an enemy whether the US deserves the enmity or not.
As for the "Evil Empire", regardless of what they did or didn't do to the US, the USSR was that; ask the Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Hungarians, and the survivors of the Prague Spring, among many others.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
Liberals tearlessly argued this is what happens when you Fuck Around while conservatives argued she was righteously Resisting (TM).
Did they? Because as I recall, there were plenty of conservatives at the time who agreed that the Ashli Babbit shooting was a good shoot; it was somewhat later that some (but by no means all) groups on the right came out against. As opposed to here where on-the-close-order-of-zero leftists agree that this was a good shoot. Lots of other differences too; this looks like false both-sidesism.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
Eh, the youth in the USA are disillusioned too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
A good chunk of the (old, in more ways than one) right would be happy with protests against Russia. It's just enjoying one's enemy's problems, in both that case and Iran.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think Puerto Rico (and the other US territories) are a bit of a cautionary tale for any Greenlanders looking to join the US.
They're the second most wealthy place in the Caribbean by per-capita GDP PPP (Guyana moved way ahead thanks to oil discovery, something which figured into the recent Venezuela unpleasantness), and the wealthiest by nominal GDP. Their people are full American citizens with the right to move to the US mainland. Their territorial government is terrible, but that isn't due to being part of the US. There's a reason they keep not voting for independence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
but I get the impression that a lot of Iran's badness is exaggerated by Western media
They're a totalitarian Islamic state that has hostility to the US itself ("The Great Satan") as one of their basic principles. They're a major sponsor of terrorism and have long been engaging in a (mostly) proxy war against a US ally. The groypers may support the latter but for most US citizens I suspect all of these are bad.
As for their legitimacy, that's a internal matter. My impression is that aside from the more Westernized Iranians most of whom escaped, were driven out, or were killed in or after the revolution, the Iranian people do support them, but I could be wrong. I have been assuming the protests are sponsored by the letters C, I, and A.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Inuit whale in the US as well.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The first is that shooting her could not have reasonably been expected to stop the car.
Even granting for the moment that this is true, there is not, in fact, an exception in self defense for futility.
And if I understand the law correctly, each shot has to be justified on its own.
A person defending themselves is not necessarily required to re-evaluate after each act. The three shots were fired within one second, during which he was hit by the vehicle. This applies to civilians in anti-gun states, even -- it was a point in the Bernie Goetz trial.
The second reason is that he went against his police training and placed himself in harm's way.
Even if true, this would not defeat self defense.
My understanding of the law is that you lose your right to claim self-defence if you wrecklessly put yourself into the dangerous situation that left yourself no option but to use deadly force.
There's no such law, even in Minneapolis.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
ICE is probably not the shining example of highly professional policing
Honestly, I think they may be in the top 10%. Every time I hear about an atrocity and can find evidence, the worst I see is them being normal cop-aggressive. The big exception is when I heard about them shooting a reporter with a beanbag round. Turned out that happened... but it was actually LAPD, not ICE.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
We should relocate all the Greenlanders to Nunuvat for a one-time payment (One to them and a bigger one to Canada for taking them). Then Greenland might be worth the trouble.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The car was going like 5 km/h
The car was certainly going faster than 5km/h.
already turned mostly away from him
Ah, yes, "mostly". Not enough to, you know, not hit him.
First of all, it's not like pulling a gun because it was clear that she wasn't trying to hit him.
Clear to who? Certainly not to him.
He also caused the dangerous situation by walking out into the middle of the street in front of a moving car
He did no such thing. He was walking in street to the right of the stationary car's forward path when she started to make a K-turn, backing up and turning to point the nose of the car at him, then going forward. At which point he pulled the gun. As it turns out she kept turning, but he didn't know she would at the time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
He wasn't actually in front of the car when it started moving. Further it turns out to be impractical to do the work he does without at some point being in front of a (stationary) vehicle.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
habitable islands (at least habitable enough for major military installations)
From what I've heard of Adak Island, that's not a high bar either. I was told that their version of a windsock is a log on a heavy chain.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Mobs are dangerous but dumb. Police have developed tactics over the centuries to disperse mobs, or at least divert them into areas where they do less damage. These won't work on organized agitators, and if there's a mob that's being directed by the organized agitators, they will work less well.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Greenland is actually that big. I mean, it's not as big as a Mercator projection would have it, but it's BIG. Over 158,000 square miles ice-free (and if you believe the climate change people, this will increase dramatically), almost as large as California. Over 677,000 square miles total, larger than Alaska
(And Trump is trolling about taking Greenland forcibly from Denmark, which I guess counts as being a retard.)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Good drivers can't drive the speed limit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There was obviously a threat of bodily harm here. He was hit. It is true he was not gravely injured, but that was accident; he could not know it at the time. Same as if she pulled a gun and fired it but only winged him.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Neither was a legal immigrant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No win in court is easy for a civilian.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Neither of the cases you posted involved legal immigrants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's possible, but I don't even think he was doing that. I'm not sure he was involved in her arrest at all, he was walking down the street, not standing to block her as I initially assumed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
If the issue was the woman obstructing a law officer, then surely arresting her would have been an appropriate and proportional response?
Surely. But when one officer attempted to arrest her, she attempted to flee by driving her car through the space occupied by another officer.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yeah, Maryland cops used to step in front of vehicles to stop them for speeding. Some drivers got nailed for hitting them. I think they stopped the practice some years ago, for obvious reasons.
Optics, however, is whatever the leftist media decides it is.
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