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.
10hr ago
I'd call that bullying rather than lying; at least the summary gives no indication of whether or not WPATH actually believed they were correct.
If rejecting "trans women are women" is calling all trans people and their suppporters "huge liars", so be it; that is where I stand. But I'm not on the left.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
To a large extent, I agree with this analysis. Or to put it another way, the idea is to create the appearance of consensus which then becomes reality.
The elite consensus comes first; otherwise the terrorism-lite would actually be punished. The terrorism-lite cements the consensus among the general population.
If Palestinians could do violence in the US and get away with it while far lesser action by Jewish organizations was cracked down on harshly, you'd know the game was over and the elite consensus in the US was already in favor of the Palestinians. This is just the culture war all over again.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Right. NVidia isn't some startup running basically on the vision of its founder. It's an established semiconductor company. They're not going to suddenly stop making or developing chips because Huang is gone.
I don't think this is a normal response to a CEO banging a subordinate, though; I think in most cases the CEO gets away with it. Firings over HR violations are for the little people. If it weren't for the spy, the subordinate wouldn't have sunk him.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I doubt the reality has changed much, just the revelations.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The revelation of the second affair is the sharks piling on having scented blood in the water from the first one.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
There are lots of possibilities here. A mostly-innocent one is that Huang (at some point in the affair, perhaps when she asked where he kept the nuclear wessels) suspected he was being honeytrapped, went to his buds in the administration, and they told him to keep it going to feed her disinformation, and in fact did so. Another mostly-innocent one is that the CIA knew she was a spy, Huang did not, but he was just screwing her and didn't actually give her any information.
It's also possible Huang was leaking her some information, and the CIA found out much later... but now wishes to pretend they knew all along to cause China to doubt the information they got. In this case... well, you gotta sell it.
There's nothing at all obvious here.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Concur. Bluster may or may not even have to do with election day.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Yes, but they're still not going to actually convict. And contrary to what another poster said, they would NOT be able to impeach and convict Vance if they did so; the squishes would not go along.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
10d ago
Pre-Pao Reddit was not noticeably less censored than dial-up era Compuserve or AOL
"Noticeably" is doing ALL the work here, and it's still not quite true. The noticing begin in August 2014 (with the Gamergate comment graveyards) and Pao wasn't appointed until November.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
El-Sayed's latest issue -- the endorsement of his opponent, Rogers, by his primary opponent -- probably was too late for the polls to reflect. But one thing the polls have reflected this season is... nothing helps the Republicans. They've only moved one way in response to news.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Incredible that a President's approval rating could ever go that high. In my mind, this demonstrates the need for an immigration moratorium from Third World countries until we are that united again.
You'll still need about 19 from Muslim countries.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
I think most innovators will stay in the US even if there is more wealth redistribution, as long as there is not so much wealth redistribution that being based in the US becomes less attractive than being based in some place like Dubai or Singapore.
They won't go to someplace like Dubai or Singapore. They just... won't innovate. We'll get far fewer innovators. There's no reason anyplace else will benefit.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
No need for remittances; the NGOs will pay the price, ultimately from taxpayer dollars given as government grants.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
It doesn't matter if they follow the rules or not. The statutory language for ending Temporary Protected Status explicitly excludes the decision from judicial review, yet judges kept striking down the administration's ending of it for various groups (and now that the Supreme Court has ruled in the administration's favor, I believe some judges are still doing it).
It's not a matter of the Trump admin not following the rules. It's a matter of the game being Calvinball.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
And then they get Vance as an incumbent? No, I don't think they'll do that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
One thing is certain: Blue Tsunami, Blue Wave, or mere Blue Ripple, Silver will find a way to explain that the polls didn't REALLY get it wrong.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
I would guess it's much simpler -- as with eggs, it was Biden-era regulations causing the issue, deliberately to get people to consume less of the immoral thing. But beef life cycles are much longer than chickens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
The basic issue is that, because of the long march through the institutions, Democrats are the majority and are known to be Good. Some of those Democrats can be pushed Republican if the Democrats get crazy, which is where 2024 came from. And Trump managed (all three times) also to tap into people who were willing to say (or at least think) "if this is what Good gets me, I'm Evil". Trump isn't running this time, and the Democrats haven't been in charge so they can't be blamed for any craziness. So.... blue Tsunami.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Definitely awesome. The tour around Denali in a small plane is pretty good too. And skipping the long bus trip from Queenstown to Milford Sound is worth it. But then, I think the epicureans had it right with their motto -- dum vivimus vivamus, or "while we live, let us LIVE"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
Business jets in fact are considerably safer than driving per passenger-mile, though considerably less safe than commercial aircraft. Most rich people dying in small aircraft incidents are flying themselves (or passengers of their equally-rich buddies) as a hobby, which is considerably more dangerous... but usually you don't get rich by having an extremely low risk tolerance.
As for helicopters, those rich guys who helicopter-commute to Manhattan must have balls of steel. And the pilots, more like tungsten.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11d ago
And that is before you consider the faction of the Republican party that thinks private-sector companies in strategic sectors should be required to give large equity stakes to the government as a condition of being allowed to operate.
Those are fascists, not communists. They want the companies to be mostly privately run but with an easy-to-use government veto over their decisions. It's still bad, but economically not as disastrous.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
In the contemporary US, this is very much a minority position, I recon that the fraction of voters who want to abolish private businesses is about as large as the fraction which yearns for the reintroduction of feudalism -- both should poll about the Lizardman's constant.
The DSA is much more popular than Moldbug.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
Hell, one of the Gen X attorneys that frequents my local bar paid a semester's tuition (something like 5 grand) of one of the zoomette bartenders. She didn't even fuck him!
As a Gen Xer, I must say I highly disapprove of this behavior. It's kinda like scabbing, driving up the price of zoomettes who DO fuck old guys for the rest of us the degenerate old guys who would behave like that.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12d ago
They expand, and they also take advantage of anything in neighboring communities that they can. For instance, there's a zoo in my area. It sometimes has free days. The ultra-orthodox will come from long ways around to visit the zoo on free day (because they're both poor and cheap and have many children), and they park in the neighboring developments (because they're too cheap to pay for the zoo parking). Many also drive like shit even by New Jersey standards. "This is why we can't have nice things".
The basic problem, though, is we have a welfare system designed to transfer money to mostly-dysfunctional fools assisted by more-or-less average social workers, and it's completely defenseless against a population which has no moral compunction against exploiting it AND is uniquely genetically, culturally, and educationally optimized for rules lawyering.
Certainly, but that's bullying. It's forcing JHU to lie, but I didn't think you were including them in "trans supporters".
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