The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
The Second Amendment is no longer of interest to the Supreme Court and blue states are free to ban the most popular rifle in the nation without Court interference.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1hr ago
If a parent can veto the decision to abort, they would presumable also be able to veto the decision to have the baby.
That is certainly not true. That authority to forbid is not the authority to require.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4hr ago
Or maybe administrations should not try to bind their successors by extralegal means, because the fact that it is difficult is a feature not a bug.
I don't agree that the Trump administration is engaged in unusual thuggishness, but whether they are or they aren't, they shouldn't.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
War is going to be as quick and painless as running an algorithm.
There's a Star Trek episode about that ("A Taste of Armageddon"). It didn't turn out well.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
The US system is also first past the post.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
Israel is generally considered to be a US client state even more than Ukraine
Except by the US dissident right who sees the US-Israel relationship the other way around.
But there's obviously a close relationship between the US and Israel and if it doesn't extend to being an actual bellicose ally against Iran, it's the next best thing. Public opinion isn't wrong on that.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
introduce the first secret police force in the history of the United States?
Certainly not. If nobody did it earlier, J. Edgar Hoover did it with parts of the FBI.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
For a system to last young people have to be able out maneuver the old. First past the post makes this hard.
And yet there's several lasting first-past-the-post systems, including the UK parliament which has certainly lasted longer than the German one.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
22hr ago
Right now, ICE is targeting a certain type of "undesirable", namely, allegedly undocumented illegal immigrants, and appear to have carte blanche to apprehend anyone who disrupts that process.
Apprehending illegal immigrants is squarely within ICE's statutory mission. Apprehending anyone who disrupts their activities is SOP for law enforcement.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
I just don’t understand why the journalist community is just incapable of self-correction here.
The incentives don't line up the right way. Both the external incentives (eyeballs, ad clicks, etc) and the internal ones (what bosses, themselves, and co-workers want)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
OK, so China flattens the island (incidentally destroying any facilities of value they might want, or they're destroyed deliberately to deny them to the invaders), but hasn't at all harmed the ability of the US to deny landings or blockade China.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
I expect this reply belongs elsewhere.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Is that more or less than played up the Steele dossier, or reported that Trump commandeered the Beast, or denied the validity of the Biden laptop?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Israel is absolutely trying to topple the regime, Netenyahu has made this very clear.
He's said it, but he hasn't done it. I don't believe that Trump would be scrupulous of them doing so... or that the Israelis would actually ask if they thought it would work.
Netenyahu has made this very clear. Reporting is that Israel had a window to assassinate the Ayatollah but was vetoed by Trump, with Israelis claiming it would end the conflict.
"Reporting". Anyway, it wouldn't end the conflict, there's plenty of Ayatollahs to take his place.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Iran and Israel is a special case because they can't reach each other to invade (and if Israel could, they don't have the manpower). And Israel probably isn't trying to decapitate; they're probably not trying to topple the regime (which would lead at best to chaos), but incapacitate it technically. Israel and Gaza is probably a better view of what it looks like when one side is totally outclassed. And Ukraine/Russia for near-peer fights. Total war, WWII style, is still off the table because of the nuclear spectre; a fight between China and the US seems like the only way to get that in the near term, but it will look different than any of the current conflicts because it will be far more about naval forces at least at first.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
"Learned helplessness" carries the meaning that the helplessness is false and the problem is internal. "Traction" suggests, or at least allows for, the possibility that the problem is external.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Right, he was using a women's strategy and women's strategies don't work for men. Maybe that would have worked if he'd seen her reaction, decided he wouldn't get stabbed (or "HELP, AUTHORITY, REMOVE THIS CREEP"), and then asked directly.
But the direct methods of trying are forbidden for men (see above in all caps) unless they succeed, and the penalties have done nothing but increase.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Don't worry, it's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that if you can get through the opening chords of "Smoke on the Water", you can buy any guitar you can afford.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
One's whims cannot enslave oneself. One who is free to indulge one's whims is truly more free than one whose responsibilities result in them being constrained to a much narrower and (to them) less desirable set of choices, and certainly more free than one whose actions are externally constrained by a paternalistic entity for their own good -- even if it really is for their own good.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Someone needs to wrest the banner of self-improvement, fitness, hygiene, stoicism, etc. from the Tates of the world and divorce it from the more toxic aspects of masculinity.
The latter can't be done. What feminists deem to be the more toxic aspects of masculinity are essential to it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Iran's rhetoric and actions match. There is no reason other than wishful thinking to believe they are willing to consider anything other than active enmity with the US.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Why would it move me? If indeed he was correct and the French weren't worthy of liberty, it does not change what liberty is. That some people, allowed liberty, will destroy themselves and others with the latitude thye have, does not make liberty into "not liberty".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Jolani is at least pretending to be an ex-terrorist. Iran is steadfast in its hatred of the US.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
The current Iranian regime has always been hostile to the US, they have always been open about it, and they have consistently made this clear in word and deed. There is no reason to believe otherwise, except perhaps the polyannaish idea that one can always smooth things over by diplomacy.
'Right now, Metro Homicide is targeting a certain type of "undesirable", namely, alleged murderers, and appears to have carte blanche to apprehend anyone who disrupts that process.'
Before you invoke "just following orders", you need to establish that some atrocity was actually being committed. If your objection is that immigration agents are targeting alleged illegal immigrants for apprehension and that they arrest people who interfere with that, you haven't.
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