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.
16hr ago
The US has the state capacity for actual confiscation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
19hr ago
That's not how the Michigan Militia was treated, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
And this is why the Brandenburg test is so important. It's very easy to recast fiery political speech as a call for violence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Hard to say he wasn't a "great fit for the workforce" after one job. Defense work is its own kind of suck.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Interesting to compare him to the standard psycho political shooter profile of the last few years: smart, weird in an autistic-coded way (whether or not diagnosed), goes to a university of a tier well below his IQ level and doesn't do well there, fails to launch into a PMC career, no female girlfriend.
He didn't do most of that. He went to Caltech (top tier, perhaps even sui generis for IQ level), graduated, and had a job as a mechanical engineer in what seems to be a defense contractor (IJK Controls, now owned by General Atomics) associated with Caltech. After that, he went and got a second degree from a low-tier university, possibly in furtherance of his desire to make video games. These are significant differences. He only had the job for a year; I'd guess he didn't like it much.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Not for long after the next (D) trifecta, as Virginia and Rhode Island are demonstrating.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
There are a lot of people who hate journalists. But I can't see traveling across the country to kill one; most likely there's one local any given killer hates more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
What if it turns out that all the CCC members who did attacks had been kicked out of the club prior, and some had been reported to law enforcement by the club?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
It's very hard to tell skin tone from photos, but he looks lighter than Sicilian to me (and I'm 1/4 Sicilian). I'd guess maybe 25% African-American, the rest some sort of white, maybe including a little Hispanic too (from the spelling "Tomas")
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Plenty of people (or journalists, anyway) are often happy to point the finger of blame at people like the commentariat of the Motte; I see no need to help them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Parks are hard to get to without a car.
Kids used to typically drive at 16. Thank the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety we largely put the kibosh on that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
They have not, and will not, simply "just deal with the resentment", as evidenced by all of American race relations since Reconstruction.
They're not going to have a choice. Because the alternative simply doesn't work.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In fairness, I admit that the exact phrasing of "treated as a slave race" is too extreme. Still, any real measures to address black dysfunction would necessarily entail the solidification of disproportionate outcomes between whites and blacks, which would inevitably fuel the resentment towards whites that has burned in the heart of the black man since 1619.
Blacks already resent whites. If blacks insist on equality of result as a condition for ending their resentment, they (and white people) are just going to have to deal with the resentment.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Aww, you ruined the surprise - I was building up to that. But yes, the widespread acceptance of HBD among whites is an existential threat to blacks, and in varying degrees to all non-whites.
No, it isn't. Widespread acceptance of HBD among whites is unlikely to lead to genocide of blacks, and certainly not of East Asians.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Arguing over semantics does you no good.
Semantics is meaning. WTF else are we to argue about, syntax?
And "he implicitly makes arguments which, if extended, would result in segregation" is a long way from (explicitly) advocating for Jim Crow.
I, too, would like to reduce black criminality. I don't want to do it by segregating blacks (I live in a suburban town that has a substantial black population -- this was partially due to black flight from Newark, NJ and its inner suburbs, and those blacks weren't fleeing whites). I want to do it by arresting and convicting actual criminals who commit crimes against persons and property which would be recognized as crimes throughout most of history -- that this might have a by-catch of white criminals also is fine. But I recognize that those caught, at least in most urban and suburban areas of the US, will be rather disproportionately black.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
And government and society are happy to enforce this double standard, and punish a man for raising his voice to a woman (with the excuse that his larger size and greater strength make that an implicit threat) while not punishing the woman for whaling (if ineffectively) on a man.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's no way anyone is stupid enough to try to make cyanide gas in their parents garage, or get on a government watchlist for buying nitromethane.
Nitromethane is the main component of fuel for some model airplanes and drag racing cars, which leads to lawful excuses for having it.
Lots of people are stupid enough to make poison gases and explosives in their parents' garage, though usually all they do is end up harming themselves.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
In the United States, gun control is so conflict theory that nobody even tries to convince anyone anymore. When Democrats get power, they simply implement all the gun control -- Virginia demonstrates this perfectly. Anti-gun states have been banning AR-15s (most popular RIFLE in the US) and Glocks (most popular pistol) left and right. Republicans, being divided on the issue, sometimes reduce gun control, sometimes do nothing, and sometimes increase gun control. But the convincing stage is long since over.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Blacks don't have to be enslaved to be treated as a slave race
Yeah, they pretty much do. Anyway, that's not a conclusion of "HBD-inspired right-wing thought". When slavery was still a thing there were those who thought blacks were natural slaves, but I believe the HBD types believe that blacks actually make terrible slaves.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Did you read the second linked comment? He pretty explicitly advocates for the barring of blacks from public office.
He actually didn't explictly advocate for that; he presented two thought experiments, one in which all public officeholders were black and one in which they were all non-black, and claimed the outcome would be better in the second. But that's still not "Jim Crow".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Isn't the Precautionary Principle more about only allowing things once we're sure they're safe? That would have been like not allowing fossil fuels to be burned at all back when they were discovered.
Yes.
I'm not some sort of neo-luddite or de-growth advocate.
If you want to end fossil fuel burning, you most certainly are.
I just think that for carbon taxes, at this point the debate should be at what level they should be, not whether we need them at all.
Yes, and a car salesman thinks the debate should be about how much profit you'll give him on the car sale and not whether you are going to buy the car at all. This is just a tactic.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
HBD comes in when you do that, then look at the people in the jails and notice they don't look like the general population.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Dollars to donuts YOU never experienced it. And speaking favorably about Jim Crow isn't Jim Crow. And further, /u/RandomRanger didn't even do that. He pointed out some unfavorable things about blacks, and made some unflattering generalizations against them. But the only things he advocated for (and those only implicitly) is to not let foreign blacks move to Britain, Australia, and America and to not give blacks in those places free stuff and special privileges. But I understand that when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like oppression.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
How come my country can build apartment blocks that don't shadow each other, and have soundproofing, and aren't dystopian pods 1 step across that you see in movies about South Korea or China, and can be afforded not just to rent, but to buy for many of the middle class?
They can't.
The January 6 protest was organized by mainstream right-wing groups. The rioting was not, and no, "Storm the Capitol" is not a non-insane intepretation of "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
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