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.
8hr 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.
8hr 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.
1d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
2d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
3d 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.
4d 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.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
After the 2024 eclipse, the Adirondack Northway was stop-and-go from just south of Plattsburgh all the way to Albany, almost 150 miles. To call most of that area rural is to overstate the population. Possibly not the worst traffic jam in generations, but certainly the worst without a snowstorm involved.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
The facilitator speaks like chatGPT
Where do you think ChatGPT picked this stuff up? It was trained on (the worst of) reddit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Except that Southern Europeans and Jews (usually) count as white no matter how dark they actually are. Middle Eastern Christians also count as white.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Correct; the US (not just Trump, this is an existing pattern) will almost never "rule out" the use of military force in any dispute ahead of time. That's why they asked Trump to do so -- they knew he would give the standard answer and then they could beat him up for it. But he eventually did rule out the use of force in Greenland.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It's suburban. It's a central example of "suburban". But it does have a live theatre (at the edge of the park, in fact) that can be walked to by many residents in clearly suburban spots. My point is that being able to walk to a live theatre is a bad criterion.
The park resembles wilderness but is not; the original wilderness was cut for timber hundreds of years ago. It was actually designed by Frederick Law Olmstead (designer of Central Park) and his sons and stepsons.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Greenland would like to go independent but if they do there's no way to fund all that welfare, so they probably aren't going to do it.
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).
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