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.
2d ago
It's probably named after the Chicago airport (which is named after the battle)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
No, he went after the family of a soldier killed in Iraq too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I'm sure it would not surprise you that the salience of discrimination depends directly on the position of the target in the progressive stack. And that this applies on the right as well as on the left.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
A team of 99% white male writers is probably not the best way to go if there are black women who might buy your product.
Why do we keep getting teams of trans lesbians of color then? They represent a very tiny slice of the public. And honestly, Don Draper or any of his real-life pasty-white 1950s counterparts could sell to black women better than they could.
Also, isn't there so much insane overproduction of talent in the humanities already?
There's overproduction of something. I wouldn't call it talent.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Right, but (thanks to Democratic control of mainsteam media) to most of the country those aren't even attacks; they're legitimate protests against a rogue organization.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
This is way too defeatist my friend. While we yet draw breath there is hope. We absolutely can and will reverse this evil and corruption. Far mightier empires have fallen throughout history. It may seem impossible now, but things change gradually then all at once.
There is nothing actionable here.
I've been seeing the normies get more and more radicalized my entire life. I think we're on a good trajectory.
The normies have indeed become more radicalized. For the left, as we saw in the Great Awokening of 2020. Every once in a while they get a good look at their destination (e.g. Sam Brinton transing their kids) and recoil, but then they go right back. And the "adults" on the right preach doing nothing, and when the more action-oriented on the right start acting, said "adults" are more horrified by them than by their leftist counterparts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It also seems like you agree with me that the early versions of the pattern where not caused by intelligence
Early versions of the pattern were part of what resulted in selecting for intelligence.
I think this suggests the later versions, seemingly following a very similar script, also werent.
They do not follow a similar script. The Christians who wouldn't engage in moneylending might well have hated the Jews for being moneylenders (especially if they were in debt), but they didn't hate them because they were somehow preventing Christians from being moneylenders.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Even Shakespeare's cantankerous shepherd put the end of that period at 23. Anyway, in practice leaving bastards all over the country was a privilege of the aristocracy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I am also of the vitriolic right, but IMO it behooves us to keep in mind that yours is the exact same rhetoric used by the left to valorize rioting negroes and palestinian combatants and all manner of domestic terrorism and social engineering.
All that worked for them. It's still working for them. The woke left hasn't passed its peak; it's just currently in a tactical retreat. In 2028 the Democrats will have a trifecta and their woke vanguard will bring everything back on Day 1, because they have no scruples about the procedural and institutional barriers they use to stop their opponents. They'll "just do things" and there will be no Chicago judge to stop them, nor would they stop if they were told. And if there is resistance, the riot machine gets turned back on.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
In recent years, a different third term has been fully spoken.
3. You deserve it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting is the most prominent recent example.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
An anti-Jewish/anti-Israel shooter could be from either the left or the right these days.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Shakespeare has been dead for almost 510 years; I doubt he knows much about the modern situation. Anyway, it's certainly not clear that the particular cantankerous character you quote represented Shakespeare's views. He has young men who do want to (or do) get married.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
M'Choakumchild
Sounds Bantu to me.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
ICE seems to actually be incredibly competent by cop standards, in that there simply hasn't been a smoking-gun atrocity story about them that holds up to cursory examination, despite the media's best efforts. This case definitely looks like they doubled up on dumbass, though. I mean, repairing the car you're claiming got rammed? CBP isn't the FBI or ATF, they can't get away with that kind of thing.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
This looks plausible when youre only looking at that one question, less so otherwise. For example, the pattern of jewish overrepresentation in certain jobs and the majority getting mad at it is found broadly in space and time, which cant be explained by Ashkenazi selection in the middle ages.
Jews were barred (by Christians!) from a whole bunch of things in the past. That means they'd have to be over-represented in other things. Christians also barred themselves for some things, which left Jews over-represented there.
And the state of Israel, while certainly better than its neighbours, doesnt seem especially impressive compared to other western countries.
Its per-capita GDP (nominal) puts it between Finland and Germany, #12 and #11 in Europe. Above the UK, France, Italy, and Spain. Pretty good for having the handicap of being located in the Middle East. And having all those non-Ashkenazim around too.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
That consent decree that supervises some of that due process expires in February, so my money is on the Trump admin not appealing upwards to SCOTUS.
Since apparently the courts unilaterally extended that "consent decree" once, why wouldn't they just extend it again?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
Woke did not start in 2016, though it may have adopted that name at that time.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
I'm aware, but it is not their entire strategy the way it is for box office. Further, they produce a lot of stuff besides their signature wokeslop (I assume KPop Demon Hunters is unlikely to be wokeslop, for instance.)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The reality is that many of the prime drivers of racial and gender affirmative action were old, largely white, men in positions of economic and in some cases political power in many of these institutions.
Most feminists are not men. Most race-hustlers are not white. These are just-so stories which just happen to place all the blame (and all the agency) on the designated enemy... old white men.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
People watch a lot of stuff on netflix besides their bespoke wokeslop. Box office numbers are entirely dependent on their new releases.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
This is a level of indifference that would never be applied to any other group in a modern context. "Oh, you think blacks are discriminated against in publishing? Well MLK Jr and Nelson Mandela wrote from jail, why can't you succeed? You think women are discriminated against? Jane Austen made it in a man's world. Gay people are getting the short end? Oscar Wilde did fine and Alan Turing made a name for himself even while being chemically castrated".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
In any case, I don't think that a priori you would expect that Hollywood's wokeness would only catch up to it only in 2020, although I'm sure a sufficiently motivated reasoner could make the case.
There was a massive acceleration of wokeness in 2020, related to George Floyd. You don't need much motivation to see that.
A response from Jeremy Carl on his substack The Course of Empire.
Skipping to the conclusion:
So there is some vitriol out there.
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