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.
10hr ago
Agreed, but I guess I'm not American enough to consider that "a long time".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10hr ago
That 6’4 doctor is not going to marry a woman without a college degree.
Male doctors mostly marry other doctors and other healthcare professionals, probably for reasons of availability. I'd be surprised if they cared whether their partners have a certificate, a 2 year degree, or a 4-year degree. (less surprised if they had some preference for or against other doctors)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
Yeah, but that "same guy" is as MAGA as he is Jewish, I wager.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Israel and their backers did run a blood libel against white identity using the holocausts as justification.
This is more or less meaningless word salad.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
who started its existence with taking 66 Americans as hostages
Yeah, I think not enough people take this into account. Trump is old (so he remembers this personally), patriotic, and holds a grudge.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
You possibly wouldn't have as many feel-good regulations at first, but there would be numerous regulations based on the necessity for survival, plus strict enforcement and very high penalties because of the potential for catastrophe if the regs aren't followed. After a short while, power being what it is, the rulers would put in regulations for their own benefit which weren't actually backed by survival necessity, but they'd enforce as if they were. And the vast majority of people, being rule-followers by habit, would accept this and accept the crushing of objectors the same way they'd accept the crushing of those who ignored the rules on airlock safety or whatever.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
Aside from simple population pressure, there is also the inherent freedom of the frontier, which will always be attractive to people who chafe under the rules and expectations of settled society, which appear to only ever increase over time.
The rules on any space colony or Mars colony are almost certain to be more confining than those of any polity the colonists are coming from, including New Jersey.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
It's all propaganda. In reality, anti-semitism in America was historically not a Red Tribe phenomenon. Anti-semitism in America wasn't pograms, it was stuff like Harvard's Jewish quotas, country clubs refusing Jews, that sort of thing. There was the Klan, who hated almost everyone, but Jews weren't their main focus. There's also black anti-Semitism and Muslim anti-Semitism -- the latter is basically imported and the former fairly recent and not Red Tribe either. Meanwhile, there's some revanchist with a Confederate flag muttering the N-word and the someone calls him an anti-Semite, and he scratches his head and says "Wasn't our Secretary of State named Judah Benjamin?"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
Despite the claims of our swastika-enjoying members, American Jews aren't a monolith. The ADL is more likely to support Hamas than MAGA no matter what, but Jared Kushner isn't the same. Nor are the Haredim, though they're a problem for other reasons. During the last election we saw a few prominent Jews peeled off the "ADL" side by the antics of universities, and possibly we'll see more of that, but I don't expect the bulk of American Jews to abandon leftism any time soon. Though if some Democrat does go full Hamas, more of them may hold their nose and vote your way in a specific election.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
The basic insight of the red-pillers was that the dark triad is attractive to women and people who don't do so naturally can often exhibit or fake such traits and get success. Or, in the crude terms of a past generation: "Chicks dig jerks." And "At least some kinds of jerks. Be that kind of jerk."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sure, the US doesn't want to occupy. But unconditional surrender from a power capable of that (which may not exist) would lead to the more desirable condition (acquiescent self-rule) through the undesirable one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Fallout universe makes little sense. I expect, though, if it has an equivalent of Blue Tribe it's based in the NCR capital. The Mojave (outside the Strip proper) is obviously Red, as is the Capitol Wasteland.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yes, Iran is playing it extremely dumb (might be because the initial attack blew their brains out). They apparently haven't shot at Turkey; perhaps they figure the Turks would try to carve off a piece of the country if they did.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Israel ethnically cleansed Gaza in 2005; Gaza is pretty much ethnically spotless. If you mean genocide, say so.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
An unconditional surrender results in formation of a government in Iran with a few extra steps -- a period of occupation, someone translates the Japanese constitution into Farsi, we find some reasonably reliable Iranians to take over. Could fail of course, but the US has done it before.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sleeping, as Yamamoto famously noted.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Persian diaspora, though, is heavily selected -- they're largely the urbanized, westernized, supporters of the old Shah and their descendants. The people who back the Ayatollahs and their descendants may be rather less functional and pleasant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Actual, willing, obedience isn't necessary. If you pull off something like Venezuela and the new president is willing to play ball when it counts (not selling oil to Cuba and China seeming to be "what counts"), that's enough of a victory given the limited effort that was required to achieve it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Remember that thou art mortal; remember that thou may die. And remember Afghanistan.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
As for the direction of the Middle East and Levant going forward, I want to see Iranian blood money dry up and see the region incentivized to peace by the siren song of capitalism
It would be nice, but I believe Islam has shown itself to be the stronger meme.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Did you ask in Auburn?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I don't think Iraq was much into Jew-killing when they got attacked.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Trump knows that it's much easier to survive as a bully if you pick on unpopular targets. Both Venezuela and Iran qualify.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There's plenty of capitalism-is-systemic-plunder-of-the-poor people making mid-6-figures and building up some really nice equity at the FAANGs. You can be a Marxist as long as you don't oppose the wokes.
The House of Representatives can select a new Speaker, who then becomes President. Or the Senate can select a new President pro tempore, who then becomes President. So an adversary going to have to knock out all of both houses of Congress to prevent anyone from taking over.
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