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.
12hr ago
Also quite successful inside of organized crime.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
Sicily is very poor for Europe and the DR is doing quite well for Latin America, but Sicily is still much richer than the DR.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Not the same genes. Haiti is ~90% sub-Saharan African, the DR closer to 40%.
I expect there's some genetic variance east to west across Germany as well, though Communism was obviously the larger influence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
And the Mafia was not a low IQ business.
Eh, the Mafia is like Wal-Mart. A few pretty bright guys on top, a whole bunch of morons doing most of the work.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
It seems like late-19th/early-20th century migration to America might have been roughly a quarter of the population of Sicily, which (assuming they were non-random, which seems obvious) could certainly be expected to have an effect. On the other hand, Sicily was poor before and poor after, so who knows?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Chevalier actually spent a good deal of time policing the internal chat channels and making complaints against wrongthinkers. At one point he was going after people (partially successfully) for asking the wrong kind of questions at the "TGIF" company presentations from the founders and upper management. I suspect his firing was mostly because many of those on his side realized he would turn on them sooner rather than later.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If you're interested pruriently, smut for your own gender is a better idea. If you're looking to point and laugh instead, I'm guessing "Morning Glory Milking Farm" will work quite nicely for male Mottizens.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Also rape shield laws, which prevent a man from arguing a certain act was consensual using evidence that she had a history of consenting to such acts.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The reputation of the SPLC does not matter. The left can and does spin up new organizations all the time which are treated by the media and thus by all concerned as if they were absolutely credible experts. If the SPLC falls, they will simply spin up a new organization with some generic sounding name that will have the same reputation as the SPLC but none of its legal liabilities.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
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Patrick McKenzie, if you don't know, knows a lot about financial infrastructure and its interaction with tech, regulatory, and human systems.
I know him mostly as the guy who sanewashes debanking, explaining how various obviously political moves are clearly required by the nonpartisan and impartial rules of the banking system. And in the very same article notes how the government had used those rules for barely-plausibly-deniable political action before. So I think he's not a reliable source.
Especially since it seems now he's Noticing that debanking didn't ever work that way.
The SPLC case is clearly political. Everything about the SPLC case is political. It's quite possible, even likely, that they committed various violations; we are in the situation where everyone relevant is a violator and the only question is who is to be prosecuted. The details of the crimes don't matter much either; the outcome of the case will be decided by politically motivated judges and prosecutors. And unless a miracle occurs, either the SPLC will be back in the drivers seat or its principals will simply spin up an SPLD which will magically inherit all the resources and goodwill of the SPLC but none of the crimes.
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.
4d ago
That just makes it a pre-emptive shoot-down; the message is "don't even bother"
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I would suspect many would be more willing to date the literal tattooed neo-Nazi than the milquetoast conservative. The dark triad goes a long way.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
"you'd make a great dad" is generally a straight up compliment.
From an older married woman, perhaps. From someone you're interested in, it's a shoot-down.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Trump v. Casa ruled against one sort of universal injunction; they basically directed the courts to continue using a different mechanism (class actions), which the courts immediately did. This is neither of those, so is not covered either. It's also a circuit court and I believe Trump v. Casa only covered lower court injunctions.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
Indeed. The difference is the blues will win their fight, and 3D printing sites have already lost and are banning gun files.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Nobody, except maybe people with a specific type of obsessive compulsive disorder, tries to buy something at a store but fails because they just keep going to new stores looking for better bargains and never actually purchases the thing.
I believe you are sadly mistaken.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
I would be surprised if the VRA had actually lead to red states being gerrymandered in a way which favored the Dems beyond PR, though it certainly led to limits on how much the state could be gerrymandered in favor of the GOP.
Even if this is true, this means blue states could be gerrymandered in a way which favored the Democrats (as with Massachusetts, 9 Democratic representatives to 0 GOP in a state that's about 30% Republican) while red states could not be gerrymandered in a way which favored the GOP.
Personally, I see gerrymandering as an injustice, and there is no right to equality in injustice.
Equality in injustice is better than inequality in injustice favoring one side... from the viewpoint of the other side.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
It isn't many votes in the grand scheme of things, and they are low-value votes because they are not in a purple state.
It's a fair number of votes in my blue state, and would be easily enough to flip some congressional seats and quite possibly turn the state purple. Especially when you consider the effect on the party organization and donors.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
My claim is a bit stronger: Not only is Chad making these strategic moves, he knows he's doing it. Compare throwing a baseball. Pretty much everyone when they're a kid or with their off hand, throws a baseball badly. Even pitcher-Chad does when he's starting out. The difference is pitcher-Chad figures out the right way really fast and without explicit instruction, whereas pitcher-Virgin is still throwing with his forearm after 10 years of failure.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Whether it was novel at the time or not, it's still not useful.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
This is a polite fiction like so many others. The line cuts right through that "Hello, Human Resources" meme. Dominance and pushiness may not be the exact same thing but there's a whole lot of overlap.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Returned, of course, by the Sicilians claiming the northern Italians are German.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
The "Hello Human Resources" meme reigns supreme. Or... women's incentives generally lead them to putting up "brick wall" filters that exclude all men, thus accepting only men who figure out how to bypass the filters. Much of the problem of modern dating is the enforcement of those filters becoming far too good.
This is known as "having been thrown into the pit".
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