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
And that episode was based on the St John's Lacrosse Case (what is it about lacrosse?)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
I'm not sure if "victimized" is the right word, given he provided the quid for the quo.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
It's exactly that. If they want to participate in the sexual rat race, they must run the risk of, you know, actually having sex. What they seem to want, by a charitable interpretation -- to be able to participate in said race and have only sex they won't ever regret later -- is not possible to assure. What they seem to want by a less charitable interpretation -- to be able to participate in said race and then punish the men if they do regret it later -- is evil and should not be provided.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
As long as there is marriage, there's always going to be some transition between being single and being married. That can be arranged marriages of some sort, but everything else is basically going to be some version of 'dating'; it's not just from the last century.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
When a cop comes over to me because of what I'm wearing and demands to know why I'm in some area open to the general public, it IS authoritarian. Neither the police nor the local gangs rightfully get to decide how I dress. Obviously the local gangs don't care about "rightfully", but the police are supposed to.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The way it works is the more people vote for the AfD, the further left the ruling parties can govern, which they love. Only fails if the AfD gets an absolute majority, which isn't likely to happen (and I'm sure they have contingency plans).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Germany's just created a 2-party system, the AfD and everyone else.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is a result of one group of people getting to decide what's right and moral. The only thing that matters is whether you agree with them. They have Decided that Trump is wrong, Israel is wrong, Palestine is right, AI must be controlled, the rich are evil, immigration is good, etc. It's hard to overstate their power -- Trump won the popular vote and yet at no point has it been acceptable to admit in polite company that you voted for him.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Is it really back door sumptuary laws to say “maybe dont wear gang colors in a gang area”?
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
If they assume you were trying to put one over on them, they will.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Whose reasonable suspicion is it? Is it a 'reasonable man' or is it someone expert in detecting suspicious / criminal activity.
The latter, according to Terry v. Ohio (the original case which established this)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
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No, I do not want sumptuary laws enacted through some back door
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Some of those things are unavoidable, such as age.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
That's 'disparate racial impact' with numbers attached.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Bostick was a terrible decision, though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Anarcho-tyranny can defeat even that. Your white guy goes to prison the third time some cashier fails to scan everything in his cart and he doesn't catch them. His protestations that it is not his fault fall on the judge's deaf ears. People of the proper race just walking out the door with a bunch of stuff don't get prosecuted at all and the escalation ladder doesn't matter.
Draconian law-n-order stuff just makes life worse for the people the law is meant to control, without controlling the people it wasn't controlling anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Gun rights orgs have been very successful at expanding concealed carry.
Ah, yes, we've gone from carry permits you can't get to carry permits which have so many exceptions that if you try to use them you're going to commit a felony. Big expansion.
They’ve made real progress on silencers.
This is one of those "applies to the plaintiff only" rulings.
Losing in blue states is almost exactly the same thing as prolife- both have managed to defeat federal efforts.
It is still easier to legally get an abortion as a resident of a red state than to legally get a gun as a resident of New Jersey. Despite the Second Amendment.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
LOL, no. The police will say whatever it takes to win, the judges support them (in court, your word is suspect and theirs is gospel), and even if they get caught doing something wrong, there's qualified immunity. When they lose cases it's because the politicians want them to lose (e.g. sympathetic minority plaintiff)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
People of my tribe are perfectly fine dealing with this situation even if we did the crime and walking away unarrested while also not having our privacy rights impeded.
No, you aren't, assuming you're a white collar white guy. If the cops decide you did it (and they may have already done so before the stop), they will arrest you. All your friends and most of your relatives will invoke just-worldism and assume you're guilty and cut ties with you. And thus the appearances are maintained. Minority cultures where the cops are treated as enemies are simply correct; a black person who gets arrested will have the support of his community, whereas a white collar white man will have to conceal his arrest to maintain his viability within his community afterwards if he is acquitted or the charges dropped. In neither case does actual innocence or guilt matter. The white people maintain the illusion that THEY will have no problem in such a situation by defining anyone who does have a problem as not one of theirs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The suspect has reasonable methods to find out if they’re being detained. They can walk around the officer or just say “hello could you please get out of my way”.
Yes, both of these tests will work. In the sense that if you ARE being detained, you'll know it, because you'll be down on the ground with a split lip.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Solar farms employee fewer employees per acre than data centers but more than corn farms.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The prolife movement and gun rights movement have been extraordinarily successful- much more so than the DSA- in right wing organizing.
Pro-life has. Gun rights is a grift. They've gotten a lot of decisions with no effect, while gun laws continue to get stricter -- states are banning Glocks and AR-15s left and right, and Washington State just put in a permit-to-purchase system like New Jersey's. When gun rights groups sue, they don't try to make it a class action so the injunction can be universal (even when there's an obvious class); instead, they allow any favorable decision to be limited to their particular plaintiff -- this is the clearest evidence that they're in on it. They know the courts won't do real pro-gun decisions, so they give them the option of signaling pro-gun while not doing anything.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
All Western legal theory falls apart when the subjects of the law start viewing the enforcers of the law as just another competing tribe.
Said enforcers view THEMSELVES that way. The thin blue line, or "the biggest gang in town". Cops view themselves as a breed apart and above ordinary citizens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
A German or British police officer would have the power to detain all juvenile males wearing a single article of black clothing within a one-mile radius of the robbery and physical evidence wouldn't be suppressed even if obtained without following the proper trail of investigation.
If you don't suppress such evidence, police will not bother following the proper trail of investigation; they will simply do what is expedient. This is great if you want more incidents closed by arrest (and more criminals caught if the cops are at least honest, though 'expedient' can go beyond that point), but lousy if you want to get around without being hassled by police if you have any resemblance to common criminal types (age, sex, color, clothing, etc)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Six football fields would be about 8 acres. Your typical cornfield (not farm, one field) is about 100 (and employs maybe 1/10 worker). There's about 100 million acres planted for corn alone. The stuff about land is nonsense.
Uh, in San Francisco, many dudes are thirsty for each other.
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