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.
26d ago
The corollary to this behavior is that the roles the academics and journalists purport to be holding is not the role they are actually holding; they are not about publicizing truth and facts, but about promoting their own side's positions. (You can see this also in the suspension of Cofnas over the Arday thing, where we get the infamous "academic freedom, but..." and of course nothing before the 'but' matters)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
If Red Tribe begins deploying lawless violence as a deliberate political strategy, what do you think the likely consequences will be?
That Red Tribe is crushed, violently.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
is so bad that Arday’s entirely fraudulent work is not of meaningfully lower-quality than the median output.
Well of course, it's copies of said median output.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
I find myself surprised that you're surprised. The head of the University of Ghent is a transgender Green activist who used AI full of hallucinated quotes for his inaugural address. Of course the university will take Arday's side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
As part of my work, I ended up meeting a man in his 70's who was hardcore MAGA, and he told me that he thought Elon Musk had done more for free speech than anyone alive today.
And he's right. All the rest were willing to censor, and censor heavily, on behalf of the deep state.
drowned out by nothingburgers like "Person X got banned from Platform Y", which almost definitionally cannot have an effect on free speech one way or another.
Except it did, because this was a coordinated, partisan, ideologically biased, cross-platform censorship system which was encouraged and directed by parts of the government.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
It's already not much more than Somalian piracy. It's just if we take the boot off they can make it Somalian piracy with nukes. My point is we can't beat them with attrition because they just don't need most of their civilian population in order to be Somali pirates.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
The IRGC has developed capabilities to attack the deep-sea fiber-optic cables in the Persian Gulf carrying 30% of global internet traffic
You might wonder why 30% of global internet traffic would go through the Persian Gulf. Wonder no longer: it does not.
As for them invading Kuwait, is this going to be an amphibious operation (LOL), or are they going to march around the Gulf through Iraq? I'd expect the US would welcome either one as a chance to further degrade IRGC capability.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
The US doesn't even need Iran to stop arming the proxies, provided the proxies stick to attacking Israel (rather than random shipping). The US does need Iran to give up the nuclear material and be kicked back a few years from making a nuke.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
26d ago
The obvious aim of the war, whatever you believe, was the overthrow of the Islamic Revolution and the fomenting of a popular uprising after the assassination of most of its leadership. That manifestly failed.
This is what Israel wanted. Trump, I believe, would have been fine with far less.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
How many Iranians would have to die before Iran wouldn't be able to shoot at ships in the Strait any more? I claim the answer is "almost all of them".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
They can just wait until Congress forces Trump to give up, or a new President takes over and gives up. I think that's their strategy. They're still keeping pressure on by attacking ships in the strait and killing crewmen, though the remaining shipping seems to be accepting the danger as a cost of doing business.
I see none of these victories in Iraq. Also the strategic reserve is still being drawn down, suggesting an even shorter time limit for Trump's actions. Iran can win a war of attrition, because as an ironclad autocracy they don't have to worry about political realities. And they have 90 million citizens, probably 80 million of whom could die before they lost the ability to wage war.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
27d ago
Yeah, that's what I meant by not matching the media. I suppose by "biological woman" he was trying to exclude transwomen, but in doing so he included transmen, one of whom seems to be the only one meeting the criteria.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
28d ago
When has a young biological woman ever carried out a cold blooded mass-murder style school shooting with a "military-style" weapon?
Covenant School, Nashville, March 27 2023. Doesn't exactly match the media though.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
28d ago
Mine is also 2, counting only people I've actually interacted with in real life.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
It is tempting to believe that like leftists, rightists will engage in ridiculous contortions, twisting plain language to go after their enemy. And if that were true, abortion would certainly be the issue in which they would. But to my surprise the evidence of this is lacking; one interesting data point is that when an abortion law looked like it threatened IVF, Alabama fell over itself (overcorrecting, IMO) to avoid that. One might reasonably believe that Ken Paxton himself might be overzealous, but I believe he would have no support in Texas courts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
There was also some cases (Nevaeh Crain and Josseli Barnica) clearly within Texas's rules, but doctors claimed there was ambiguity and let the patient suffer and die to make a political point.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Arday isn't in "The Witch is Dead!" category for me, but only because he lacked the reach. He had basically no influence in the US, he didn't even write (or rather plagiarize) papers read by local wokescolds. Other than that... well, Arday went so far as to report his critics to the police. He was not some tragic, innocent victim, not in the least.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
People have suicided due to cancellation before, e.g. Mike Adams.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
"Seppo" is an American, derogatory rhyming slang from "Yank" to "Septic Tank".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Personally I'm in favor of actually fighting against encroachment on the cases which you think are too far
The point of "slippery slope" is this doesn't work. Once the principle has been yielded, you can fight all you want but you're going to slip down the slope.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
maybe the structure we want is that mercy killing should be illegal and prosecuted by the legal system, but it always remains a possibility for individual action.
This sort of thing is a cry for tyranny. Legal things should be legal, not illegal but overlooked if the right people find it convenient to do so.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
I meant generally move their body in controlled but odd ways, not that specific (choreographed) dance.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
Chesterton said "if you understand why the fence was there, then you can tear it down".
No, he did not. He said "If you do not understand why the fence is there, then you may not tear it down". Understanding is necessary, not sufficient. Which is why in practice people invoking Chesterton's Fence are usually just saying "no". If you point out the reason the fence was there, they'll come up with another reason.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1mo ago
They require incurable instead of terminal.
That's a big difference. Lots of fairly minor conditions are incurable.
By the men of Red Tribe who remain in the official institutions, as directed by Blue. Police, FBI, military. Most of Red is extremely respectful of the trappings of authority, which Blue has.
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