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.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
That is though why some people think he murdered her: He knew that he was only shoved because he faked/forced a shove.
No, that is not why some people think he murdered her. Entirely backwards. They think that he faked/forced a shove because that's the only way they can maintain their belief that he murdered her. The evidence that he somehow faked being hit by the car or forced the car to hit him simply is not there.
First he switched the phone to his left hand so his right is free to shoot his gun.
He switched the phone to his left hand about 8 seconds before the incident. It isn't clear why; perhaps his arm was tired or perhaps it got him a better angle.
Then he positioned himself in the way, so it would not be dangerous for him but giving him plausible deniability.
He did not position himself in the way. When the car started moving, he was not in the way. When she backed up and turned for the first half of the K-turn, he was THEN in the way.
The hole in the windshield is to the side aiming at Good with an angle, he was at the side on the car not in the front, and the other two shots were through the side window.
He fires the first shot almost simultaneously with being hit; he is at the driver's side corner (in front of the car, but not centered) at that point.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
My theory was that it was a distraction from Iran, but it looks like the other shoe is not going to drop there.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
He's a techbro, not a sucker. While I agree with your overall claim, this strategy would not work.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Dating is a market, but it's a matching market. Unlike ordinary markets, matching markets tend to be hellscapes. Ask anyone trying to get a medical residency.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
· Edited 4d ago
The reason it matters that Ross was indeed struck is that it short circuits a lot of arguments. All the stuff from the NYTimes (among others) about how she was not trying to hit him and was clearly turning her wheel to avoid him goes up in a puff of smoke if he was (regardless of whatever else she was doing) clearly in danger, and being hit is really good evidence of that. Which is why many on the side crying murder still insist he was not hit. If he WAS in fact hit, you have to go to a lot of weaker theories, like
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He put himself in jeopardy. Not only doesn't this fit the facts (because he wasn't in front of the car until after it started moving), it doesn't fit the law; "officer-created jeopardy" is not an accepted doctrine.
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It was against ICE policy for him to be where he was. On shaky grounds factually, irrelevant legally; he can defend himself even if he wasn't in compliance with ICE policy
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He wasn't hit that bad. This doesn't really deserve more than a raised eyebrow... how was he supposed to know he'd only be essentially shoved aside by the SUV?
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He shouldn't have been there, because ICE shouldn't have been there. This is the real objection, but it's got no legal force.
The blog post says this:
To determine whether or not Ross’s shooting of Good was justified, we need to look at the facts of the incident itself. These might include such questions as: was Good aware of Ross’s position relative to her vehicle before she pressed the accelerator? did Good strike Ross with her car? if so, did she do so intentionally, or through negligence? did Ross have a reasonable fear (per the reasonable person standard) that his life was in danger? if so, was the amount of force he used proportional? and so on.
But no, the first two questions do not matter. We do not consider Good's state of mind when judging Ross's actions, because Ross had no way of knowing it. We need only consider whether Ross had a reasonable fear of death or great bodily harm (it's the "death or great" which allows deadly force). He saw a 2-ton SUV being driven towards him. The argument that he should have known it wouldn't hit him falls to the fact that it did hit him, making this a very easy judgement.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I'm pretty sure "pro Israel" is pretty much already priced in with Shapiro.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
No, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee is selected directly by the Norwegian legislature. So it's like writing a letter to the Academy of Motion Pictures to complain that your movie didn't win an Oscar. That won't help either, but it's not as obviously stupid.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It makes sense for China to wait until Taiwan is no longer the nexus of global semiconductor production
That could be a long while. And while China may be patient, Xi himself is old.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Seems like a minor tactical mistake. If I were advising Josh Shapiro, then regardless of what happened, I'd advise him not to mention Harris at all. Whether she snubbed him or he snubbed her, no contact at all with the Harris campaign is a better look for a politician. ANY politician.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Well, yeah, if ICE pulls out of Minnesota, Trump isn't running things any more (whether or not he has the title)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The millisecond that ICE pulls out of Minnesota, every single state in the union will declare the nullification of whatever federal laws they don't like. Gun laws in the red states, immigration laws in the blue states. Federal supremacy will be over.
No. Troops will roll into the red states, not the blue. and everyone who missed it the first time will understand it was never about Federal supremacy, but Blue supremacy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Kremlinology, Pyongyang-style!
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
No Chinese ever called me Whitey.
They definitely do, but they do it in Mandarin, which they are certain you will never understand.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Nor does your hypersensitivity.
You don't need to be hypersensitive to understand that "As a white male, you are a member of a harmful group" is indeed something bad directed at you for being a white male.
The world is not that bad out here.
We've been through this since ~2014. No, it is not just a few college kids on Tumblr, or whatever.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
I mean, maybe just make her an obese, frumpy, obnoxious chavette. Maybe also a single mother and a smoker to boot. There’s no way such a character will compel thirsty dudebros to create piles of fanart of her.
Right-wing Amelia smokes now (imitating the Iranian women burning Khameni photos), so no, smoking wouldn't help.
But probably none of that would work if they really wanted to meme her. They'd thin her down and pretty her up (as indeed was done with actual Amelia). They'd drop the kid or create a backstory where her husband was killed by a Pakistani immigrant or something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The left is made mostly of white people and I’ve never felt anything bad directed at me for being one
Your insensitivity doesn't make it not exist.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
The current atrocity going around X is that a mob stormed a church because the pastor had the same name as one of the higher-ups at ICE. They are not the same person.
This random site has pictures seeming to show that they are.
That makes prosecution more likely, I suppose.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
6d ago
Everyone in the justice system knows the FACE act was about abortion and the church part was a sop thrown to the right that was never intended to be used. I believe prior to Trump II it was never used for that. I don't think judges are going to be willing to apply the dead half of the law.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
The Fed paper you cited does not say poor people subsidize rich people benefits. It says people with poor credit subsidize people with good credit at similar income levels. It's still a bad paper, but it doesn't come to the conclusion you object to.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
Credit cards are a lot more popular in the US than Europe, making up 42% of point of sale purchases in the North American and only 18% in Europe. So Europe is doing something that's hurting credit card uptake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
You've got your idea of how things should turn out, you've declared that since the way they have turned out doesn't match that they're a monopoly (they're not), and have a government solution (treat them as a utility) which you swear will work fine based on a "test" that you've executed only in your head.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
These are the type of businesses we want to create in society.
You haven't solved the planning problem.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
But is it really helpful to their cause to (apparently) give everyone the impression that they are a bunch of unhinged lunatics?
Not "everyone" gets this impression because only sketchy right-wing sources like AlphaNews report it. You won't see it on the mainstream media, not even the local Fox affiliate (which appears to be fully anti-ICE).
Note on that Reddit thread of the Mobile Sheriff's deputies, not one person even questioned whether those WERE ICE agents. Probably because the mods would ban anyone who did.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
7d ago
New Star Wars sucks independently of being too woke, but it also sucks because it is too woke.
Not Europe -- European Blue Tribe, which absolutely dominates European governments.
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