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.
6hr ago
The movie/TV equivalent is having a shot that draws attention to the gun. But Chekhov's gun is more suited to very tight productions (visual equivalents of short stories or novellas rather than novels); something like a movie or especially a TV series will have many things which are not directly relevant to plot but go to characterization or setting. For instance a movie has a barfight, the barfight itself may be completely unimportant other than to demonstrate it's the kind of place where barfights occur. And certain genres rely in misdirecting the audience and will deliberately focus on unimportant-to-plot details to do so.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
8hr ago
It's not just the slow counting. It's the composition of the later votes. In this case the early votes put Spencer in second, and matched polling results pretty well, and the late votes are much more heavily Democratic -- enough to knock him out if trends continue. Further, the number of uncounted votes has at times gone UP, substantially.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
23hr ago
It's the same picture. That sort of "respect" and fear are in fact the same thing. People who exhibit it call it "respect" to make themselves feel better.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Too much "respect" to ever get uppity, I suspect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Avoiding having NJ as your domicile is easy; you just establish one somewhere else. You can do that without selling your house. What bites people is when they're domiciled somewhere else but have both residential property and business reasons to come to NJ (keeping in mind going through Newark Airport is sufficient)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It does not; for one thing, it's a civil doctrine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I have an alternate theory, that Darwin runs a school of rhetoric and we're seeing some of his students.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Sorry, no. By both temperament and training, the thing police officer find most important in interactions with citizens is in making damned sure the citizens know who is boss. And they're quick to go to physical force if the citizen gets at all uppity.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Unfortunately this gives me the choice of two guardless folding knives, and the jawbone of an ass.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If people die when fighting cops, such is one of the risks of that course of action. But defiance is not a medical condition; that's "sluggish schizophrenia" by another name.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The NGOs are just more leftists.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Not after the verdict they didn't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
That article is a reprint and kept the tagline from the original. Lukianoff himself at least remains aware, though whether he still controls FIRE or it was skinsuited out from under him I don't know.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Or it's totally fake, and "excited delirium" is just a medicalization of people fighting cops.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It is becoming clear that the "Republicans" aren't really a solid entity; there's the Uniparty and there's the MAGA party. The Uniparty includes all the Democrats (including the DSA and Bernie) and the remaining old-guard Republicans.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Many denominations have been captured by progressiveness.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The modal white collar criminal is probably a homeowner knowingly paying a contractor cash under the table to help the contractor avoid taxation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
He was complaining about being unable to breathe before Chauvin put a knee on his neck.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
And that's quite sufficient. The ones without power don't matter.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Because at the end of the day conservatives are willing to give a W to their culture war enemies and throw one of their own under the bus to keep their city from burning down. Same as for James Fields. And you can see the incentive problem there from Pluto.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Apparently the BBC misreported it as 'white cold rage', even stranger
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
We have such scripts. The problem is that they are so degrading to the non-police person that many self-respecting people simply cannot manage to engage in them.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
if complete strangers were calling her on the phone telling her they'd kill her if she didn't take a YouTube video down. Even if they were just prank calls, even if she knew they were just prank calls.
Now suppose two mean girls cornered her in the school bathroom and told her the same thing?
The latter is bullying. The former is Tuesday Friday on the Internet.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The communists will always vote for communists thick or thin, and the wobblers will only vote against communists if things are going especially bad for the communists in charge or if things are going really good for the non-communists in charge. These two groups together make a majority, so you always go back to communism.
The "wise man" is, in the general case, wrong, as the case of self defense illustrates to anyone this side of the schism.
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