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.
9d ago
A stable alliance between the business segment of the GOP and the anti-immigrant chuds is entirely possible in the near to medium term, if it dawns upon the business segment of the GOP that a large portion of immigration is dysgenic—whether it be through legal or illegal immigrants and their Birthright Citizenship children—and could compromise the ability of Big Line Go Up Forever. Or if even Big Line Go Up for Now: Pocket Go Evermore Thin Fivever as more of take-home pay gets chomped by NPV of net-tax transfers.
I think to get such an alliance you'd have to offer the business segment something in exchange for losing some of their workforce -- relaxed labor, environmental, and building regulations. Problem is, that's not only outside the Overton window, it's not what the anti-immigrant chuds want. They're basically like 80s Democrats, only anti-immigrant.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
I made a TPS report joke in a status meeting recently and my (Millennial) first line manager pointed out nobody got that reference any more. I told him it must be time for a remake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
I don't think it's unemployment; unemployment in the late '90s was low, in the early '90s it was high and people were no less cynical. In fact, Office Space was a bit unrealistic when it came out (as I recall noting at the time) because of that; it was a boom time and if you could spell computer (or at least get close) you could get a programming job; nobody at Initech would need to worry about being laid off.
Both Office Space and Dilbert were about tech, and speaking specifically about tech, I think what changed is the rise of the profession. In the early to mid '90s, software was just another white collar job. Then came first the dot-com boom, when people realized you could get stupid rich in software. Then following the dot-com crash, the rise of Google, stock options and much higher salaries in established companies, and a new wave of startups getting people rich. Now software was a prestige job, up there with doctor or lawyer or at least stockbroker. Not the kind of thing associated with the grind. Google, earlier on, made some attempt not to feel like Dilbert's company. And the startups... well, you might be doing a death march, but probably not a steady endless grind. But all things come to an end; the big software companies have become fully corporate and the final startup wave seems to have completed. Salaries are still high, and full cynicism hasn't yet returned, but it probably will. The only thing permanently gone is the cubicles; cost-cutting, you know, it's all open desks now.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9d ago
The difference is the popular opinion of neoclassical economics doesn't affect how well neoclassical economics works; it only affects how well your country works. Whereas if our resident Jew-posters get their opinions enshrined in law it very much affects the Jews.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
It's already illegal in many areas to discriminate against people on the basis of race or ethnicity.
De jure, but not de facto. De facto it's legal to discriminate against whites and Asian in college admissions.
What would change this would be a purging of the entire Harvard staff, which would defeat the point of Harvard as a place for the rich and powerful to rub shoulders and make connections.
If so, OK. Note that's staff and not faculty -- it's the latter you need to keep Harvard elite. It's probably not even necessary, though; purge the regulatory agencies, have the replacements make some threats, and follow through on a few of them, and the Harvard Corporation will get their admissions department aligned. Same for a lot of other schools. The problem is keeping it up long enough that they realize you're serious.
In America, the whole "Hispanic" identity was an invention they created out of whole cloth to make it easier to manage. This was then used to make people racist both for and against the umbrella of people they had filed under the Hispanic identity.
The category is invented (and somewhat incoherent) but it's persisted because it labels (if imperfectly) a real phenomenon. People had no problem with being racist against Mexicans before it was invented, even "Mexicans" who happened to be from Guatemala or something. And the Mexicans had no problem supporting other Mexicans (though not "Mexicans", as indeed they do not today)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
The exact mirroring is eerie, though. Some of Jack Smith's cases against Trump got dismissed because his appointment was considered unlawful by the District Judge (and Clarence Thomas).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
I'm not asking to make a human free of bias. I'm asking to make the law not discriminate against young white men. This is a much smaller request.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
It appears the senders aren't deliberately funding the terrorist groups, but rather the terrorist groups are getting a cut.
I think this story represents an overall change in the cultural climate, where this sort of information is finally becoming more popular to discuss.
It's just political, with a Republican administration willing and even eager to offend a local Democratic power center.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
IQ tests are not indirect discrimination. "Disparate impact" is not indirect discrimination based on race, it's a reason for implementing indirect discrimination based on race. Banning IQ tests for jobs where IQ matters is discrimination against the intelligent (and indirect discrimination against groups which are more intelligent on average). Some of the indirect discrimination I'm referring to is banning criteria that would result in advantages for young white men.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Buy a gun and get trained up on it.
Love to, but the gun control laws of New Jersey -- which were not passed by Jews, the most recent proponent is Irish Catholic -- won't allow me.
Grill some stuff on July 4th and celebrate America. Don't fly flags other than American flags. Don't complain about nice statues of dead guys who founded the country.
The statute-complainers seem to be mostly heritage americans. I'm not aware of Jews refusing to grill, even if observant Jews are rather picky about it. The Jews around here mostly speak English except some of the Haredi, and they're anything but Progressive. I think the local JCC flies an Israeli flag. But I'm pretty sure they fly it lower than the American flag. I'm also sure that if they didn't fly it, it would make no difference; the anti-semites will use any stick they can find and if they can't find one they'll make one up. Further, I don't think "change your domestic politics" is actually a reasonable thing to demand, even if I wish Jewish progressives would.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
This is actually extremely credible
You can say it all you want, it ain't. Even if the Israelis were the ogres you claim, it wouldn't be credible that they'd mistreat someone as visible and with friends as powerful as Greta Thunberg.
The statistics we have regarding sexual abuse of foreign women in Israel are pretty nasty too - https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/israel-a-new-report-reveals-100-of-thai-agricultural-workers-were-sexually-assaulted/
I found the original report this claim supposedly comes from. It has few statistics and says basically nothing at all (it doesn't even make that claim).
including the "starving child" who actually was born with a genetic disease,
...what exactly makes starving children more morally acceptable if they were born with a genetic disease? The actual starving isn't in question at all
The child wasn't starving; its appearance was due to the disease. And yes, the actual starving is in question.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
There's nothing antisemitic per se about opposing the actions of the Israeli government. Israel is not the Jewish people nor are the Jewish people Israel, regardless of what Netanyahu or anti-semites would like you to think. But a lot of the accusations against Israel are A Rape on Campus-level incredible, and that includes claims that Greta Thunberg was sexually assaulted by the Israelis. Not because they're such saints, but because they're not utter idiots. I don't know about that particular cardiologist, but I do know doctors have been involved in creating and perpetuating Hamas hoaxes, including the "starving child" who actually was born with a genetic disease, and the bogus X-rays purporting to show infants executed by IDF soldiers. As with A Rape on Campus, you start to wonder why people are believing obvious nonsense. And in both cases, the most likely answer is hatred of the target.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Almost as bad as a large Swiss bank being founded by a guy named "Credit" and the other one "Suisse."
I had to check to see if that was the case. It wasn't, it really is just "Credit" and "Swiss". My favorite of those are Outerbridge Crossing and German Chocolate Cake. The former named for the first chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Eugene Outerbridge. The latter is named after an English-American baker, Samuel German. (No Mr. or Mrs. Crossing or Cake are involved, alas)
Wikipedia has Goldman's last name being fairly recent, but why his paternal grandfather (who was not in the gold trade) chose it to replace "Marx" isn't easy to find.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Blacks are even more of a political bloc than Jews. But no one claims the NAACP in engaging in some conspiracy to sell out the country to Wakanda or something.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
The problem is your steelman -- even if you drop the "rationally" -- is rusty and backwards. The anti-Semites start with the Jew-hate for basically irrational reasons, and then come up with rationalizations. That's why the bulverism and mockery; the rational arguments are just window-dressing and the anti-Semites are unreachable by any means.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Who was a (self proclaimed) driving force behind the civil rights act?
Black people? The NAACP? John F. Kennedy? Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Everett Dirksen? Thomas Kuchel? Mike Mansfield?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
From what I've seen they have a slightly higher IQ
Ashkenazi IQ is believed to be 3/4 to 1 SD above the mean. That's enormous.
This leads to the twitter meme of "check the early life section" where so-and-so famous person is always like "born into a jewish family, he attended an elite school and then quickly got promoted."
Ah, yes, like Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or Larry Ellison. Or Marcus Goldman, going back a few generations. As you may recall, the elite schools used to have to beat Jews off with a stick (or a quota). In-group preference is a lousy explanation for Jewish success.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
We are taught to resist and subvert legitimate authority, and submit to the opinions of strangers on the internet.
One might note that "legitimate authority" hasn't exactly covered itself with glory recently.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Delete Hanania and his followers, and the groypers, and the RINOs, and there's not much of a right remaining. As the last election showed.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Nice how they all leave Gen X completely out of it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
It doesn't rule out anti-semitism because jealousy may be "invalid" but it's also going to happen. You can't "rule out" antisemitism, any more than you can rule out other such sentiments. Aside from dissolving the identity utterly, but that's not going to happen with most identities, and certainly not with Jews.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Yes.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Excuse me, please be respectful of The Social Contract.
Sir, that's the UK (though I thought Nicholas was supposed to be French?)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Find a picture of an engineering office in the 1950s. Replace drafting tables with desks with monitors on them, voila, 2020s software company office.
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