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.
2hr ago
I don't think it was the immigrants who were so afraid of COVID. I was thrown out of a couple of parks during the lockdowns, and while I can't swear the others thrown out were mostly immigrants, they were definitely mostly 'brown'. I think the increase in fear is largely due to the aging of the population. Not sure about respect for authority; that probably has multiple causes including reduction of lead in the air, the unfashionability of cigarettes, and increase in state capacity at all levels. I doubt it has much to do with immigrants; Asians may be more respectful of authority, but we've got a lot more Mexicans, who ain't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
but you really wouldn't need much of a military to deal with that outside of that which is required to occupy Quebec as to shut down any possible French/European intervention
No need to bother. Just make a separate peace with Quebec, allow them nominal independence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
These days the lifestyle value of money hits massive marginal diminishing returns quite quickly. Even those who are fortunate enough to secure enough money to secure a good life in perpetuity tend to hedonistic treadmill themselves to death
These statements are contradictory. If you can run the hedonistic treadmill high enough to exhaust arbitrarily high amounts of money, either running it higher is actually getting you significantly more (so returns aren't diminishing quickly), or there's something wrong with human nature such that we chase ever-smaller pleasures -- and human nature isn't new, so it's not a matter of "these days".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
18hr ago
It really doesn't matter. The state wants to reach a conclusion. It has a court system which has an elaborate procedure for reaching conclusions, some of which includes having an "expert" testify to something. So the state hires "experts" to testify to that. If the experts were less stupid, maybe their lies would be less obvious... but the lying is intentional, and if they didn't lie the state would hire other experts who would. Nobody is actually making decisions based on the expert testimony, the decisions were made in advance; the expert testimony is there to provide the procedural filler for the desired decision to be made.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Seems like a purely arbitrary distinction to me. The 10-year-old didn't hit you; your evaluation of their likeliness to hit you doesn't make them your business.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
About as much as the ones who drove past me (on electric mopeds) on a field in a park. Yes, they're violating some law, regulation or rule. But the laws, regulations and rules are restrictive enough to be intolerable if you actually try to follow all of them. And by what criterion is a 10-year-old driving past you any different than a 14-year-old, given they're both violating the law?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
This is all theatre. The studies are made up to support the claims the state is making, the state knows this, and the courts know this -- but the courts (being part of the state, after all) want to find for the state, so they accept them. No different than courts which accept "the dog barked so the search was OK" when everyone knows you can train a dog to bark on surreptitious command.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Count him or not, he can't make up for all the negative interactions. What's the typical interaction with a cop? He's giving you a ticket. If you're lucky, a warning. Or telling you you can't do something or go somewhere. If you drive by one you are likely very concerned he'll come after you for some violation. If you walk by one you STILL have to be a little concerned they'll get on your case for something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Negative interactions with cops come from having so many laws that if you meet a cop, either he's busting you or you'd better be on guard not to call attention to some law you may be violating. And because they get aggressive on you if you don't "respect their authority" as South Park puts it, and because in effect they have the power of corporal and capital punishment. That you think it is reasonable that you act with extreme deference to someone who is ruining your day or risk, e.g., being shot dead in your own driveway with your wife watching because you didn't respect his authority sufficiently is just Stockholm Syndrome. The police are not the people and the people are not the police; the police have been placed over the people to keep them in line, and the people know it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
This cuts both ways. You assume those resisting are complacent and cowardly, but you also assume those imposing tyranny have infinite courage and resolve.
What they have is the attitude of "by any means necessary". And the necessary means.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Agree, but let’s say the Tea Party went farther and rebelled and they all had guns. I don’t know if Obama is going to kill a few million of them versus having a diplomatic solution.
Of course he'd kill them. To thunderous applause, since he had the press on his side to hold up the applause signs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
You can not understand all you want; it is true nonetheless. My personal belief is the conservative gun rights people are fine with the restriction; they're fine with no one having guns unless they've had conservative beliefs all their lives and thus have both people willing to vouch for them and no mental health record at all. But the alternate possibility -- that they know fighting it is futile -- is not ruled out.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's long been an issue on the Motte (and predecessors) that posting at top level was playing with fire. That's how we got longposting, because the mods like it, but between AI and the mods getting wise to partisan broadsides padded out by words-words-words, even that doesn't work as much any more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
They'll happily agree to a clean fight, they just won't engage in it, and they'll laugh at you while cheating unmercifully -- ask Spencer Pratt.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Great, easy lawsuit then! "I went a few times as a kid to rule out ADHD and my parents and I don't have any records." Should be slam dunk 2A case.
There are no slam dunk 2A cases. First of all, if you don't put a name and hospital affiliation of the doctor, they deny the permit on the grounds that it is incomplete. Don't know those things? No gun for you. No appeal from that. Second, if you do, they may just deny the permit. You can try to appeal that but the state courts will be against you at every turn, and you have to exhaust all of that before you can even ask the Supreme Court to take a look, and in the end they won't. Sometimes, apparently, they'll require you to see a psychiatrist who will swear on his license that you're OK to own a gun (this seems to be with ex-military people who have seen a VA-associated mental health doctor, so it's probably a courtesy to them not to just deny it). Good luck with that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No, in the US the biggest job of the police is to go around looking for some way of ruining an ordinary citizen's day.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Driving isn't technically a right, but it's even better than that; you can get a driver's license anywhere in the world, as long as it is in English or you have what's called an International Drivers Permit (which is just a translation of your license) and legally drive in New Jersey. For cars you're limited to what's street legal in the US.
For guns, unless you're a US citizen who lives in NJ, have at least two other unrelated adult NJ citizens willing to literally vouch for you, have never seen any sort of mental health doctor, are comfortable dealing with police, are willing to be fingerprinted and sign away your rights for them to examine your medical records, no guns (including pellet guns, and also all ammo) for you. If you do get all of that, you might be able eventually to purchase one of the ever-dwindling set of NJ-legal guns. Actually, as many NJ-legal rifles as you want, but only one handgun... for a second handgun you have to do the whole permit process again.
Yeah, it's a ridiculous joke, but the Supreme Court and all so-called gun rights organizations are fine with it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Personally, I intend to employ these facts as a cudgel from this point forward, and find it difficult to imagine why I shouldn't.
Nobody who doesn't already believe you will change their mind. Their control over the normies is total.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yep, and as long as that's true, there is no RKBA. The gun-rights organizations are doing the equivalent of arguing that you ought to be able to buy genre fiction as well as literary, when you need a difficult-to-obtain license to buy EITHER. And they have the nerve to claim to be winning.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Flu is bad. COVID was as bad as some of the worst pandemic flus of the past (aside from 1919)... that we pretty much forgot about until COVID. Healthcare people obviously tend to see the worst cases; public health people should avoid that bias.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I expect what NJ will do is simply continue to enforce the law, relying (as New York does) on the (perhaps-dubious) idea that state courts do not have to heed the decisions of Federal Courts other than the Supreme Court, at least in gun cases.
But all these gun cases, as you note when you mention my handle, are pointless. If they lose they lose, if they win they get no rights enforced. They're not arguing about a right to keep and bear arms. They're arguing about the limits of the privilege of the elect who are able to get permission to bear arms. No gun organization is interested in taking on New Jersey's permitting system as a whole, probably because they consider this already decided and lost; Bruen's footnote 9 allows prior restraint on just about any grounds.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The retarded kid won't be humiliated, because he's too retarded to get it. He gets his points, it makes him happy, and the actually good players go find something else to do. Further, in real life, those points tend to be quite valuable, which can cover up for a lot of humiliation. Yeah, maybe the kid who made it into Harvard on his skin color instead of his ability is a little embarrassed... but at the end of the day he's at Harvard and whitey Poindexter isn't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
but at its best this privilege discourse can be steelmanned as just formalizing attitudes of modesty, generosity, gratitude and perspective-taking that in a saner time would be universally agreed to be virtuous
The idea of steelmanning is that you take an argument and build the strongest possible version of it. Not that you take a real-life phenomenon, build some idealized version of what it claims to be (but is not), and attribute the virtues of the "steelman" to the real-life phenomenon and denigrate anyone opposing the real-life phenomenon as opposing the "steelman".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The Snopes link has direct images, as presented by Moreno, of the alleged injuries.
I'm not a doctor either, but I'd diagnose that neck rash as being the result of exposure to ambient ultraviolet radiation while wearing a V-neck top or similar.
Normally I'd object to the word "invasion" used to describe illegal immigration, but not in this case, having seen the footage (e.g. here. That account is generally unreliable but there don't seem to be questions about that footage), it's hard to say otherwise. But did you HAVE to make it about the Jews this time? Could you not do that for ONE post? It's not Israel or the Jews doing this, Spain has their own suicidal lefties.
Not sure what Spain can do at this point, given they won't use harsh measures. One unlikely possibility is to evacuate and abandon Ceuta, which would make it an invasion and conquest, though the actual invaders wouldn't get what they wanted from that.
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