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.
23m ago
That doesn't answer the question of why Southern black voters are so strongly aligned with the Democratic Party. Or why Southern white voters are so strongly aligned with the Republican Party
Both are explained by Democratic policy preferences being to favor blacks and disfavor whites.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1hr ago
Jews and Muslims are not that far off. The same way, which has been presenting a dilemma for the Democrats... which they seem to be resolving in favor of Muslims.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
In one of the more anticipated decisions of this term, the Supreme Court (6-3 on ideological lines) has struck down the second Louisiana majority-black district. They did not rule categorically that race may not be used as a factor in redistricting decisions, but they did rule that if a redistricting decision could be explained by a partisan gerrymander rather than a racial one, there was no case.
To satisfy the second and third preconditions—politically cohesive voting by the minority and racial-bloc voting by the majority—the plaintiffs must provide an analysis that controls for party affiliation, showing that voters engage in racial-bloc voting that cannot be explained by partisan affiliation.
In practice, if taken seriously by lower courts, this pretty much destroys nearly all Section 2 Voting Rights Act cases, because of the strong affiliation between blacks and the Democratic Party.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
Then there's bikes with "electronic" (electromechanical) shifting but no non-human motive power. I'm waiting for the day some anti-bike cop busts someone for an e-bike violation over this, and the court (being a "the cop is always right" traffic court) accepts it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2hr ago
deep six
Huh, I thought that had to do with water (by the deep six -- quite a bit deeper than by the mark, twain), not graves, but Wiktionary credits both.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
Fifty years ago they were led by a pragmatic dictatorship. One possibility is the bulk of the people are the fanatics -- this would fit with what happens in Sunni states, where the rulers are always having to deal with challenges from the populist Islamic fanatics -- and the revolution was a truly popular one. This is what I suspect. Another is they are now led by a minority Islamist fanatic dictatorship (which does have those beliefs and always did) and it doesn't matter what the bulk of the people think.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
The US under Trump and Biden have been willing to legitimize Sunni terrorist groups like Al Qaeda and the Taliban, who now run Syria and Afghanistan (again).
And the Taliban never would have spent 20 years in the wilderness (or Pakistan, anyway) if they hadn't chosen to antagonize the United States (when it was at its least tolerant) in the first place. The terrorist-to-statesman pipeline is an old and honorable one, achieved mostly through winning, as Paul Revere, Samuel Chase, and John Hancock could tell you.
If Iran had settled down into being an ordinary dictatorship after the revolution, they'd probably have relations with the US no worse than e.g. Vietnam does today. I don't know why they chose to stick with the whole "Death to America, Death to Israel" thing -- my guess would be their religious fanaticism is absolutely genuine -- but that's what led to today's situation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3hr ago
"Rich people are morally obliged to contribute to society in ways which reflect the level and type of resources they control" is a social norm
It is, but there's no continuous tradition going back to Athens or Rome. There have been plenty of times in between that the rich did no such thing and no one expected them to. Feudalism isn't similar; the people funding the expensive military equipment were not merely rich but rulers. Carnegie ruled nothing and had no patent of nobility; an obligation implied by wealth is not the same as noblesse oblige, even if the latter inspired the former.
The explicit and public rejection of the underlying norm by the Tech Right, with Musk saying that rich people should continue to invest their wealth in for-profit businesses and calling out Bill Gates for letting the side down by donating it, is historically unusual, and the rest of America co-ordinating to punish them would be historically normal.
Thing is, people tend to like the results of Musk's for-profit businesses, while not liking Gates's. (And Bezos's business is liked even more, though I don't think Bezos has made the same rejection)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Perhaps historically true, but in modern times it is horribly false.
It's still true that the Kennedy kid will get off scot free. It's just that there are three relevant classes, not two -- the underclass, which is typically lightly policed and lightly punished, unless they commit a crime against the top class. The massive middle, who are controlled largely by the fact that even a minor conviction can severely limit them (e.g. by denying them professional licenses or certain careers; if you've ever been busted for shoplifting you can never work for a financial institution, for instance, and if you've ever had a DUI conviction most jobs involving driving are off limits) and a major one tosses them into prison and permanently into the underclass, for which they are not prepared and will probably suicide or die of misadventure shortly after. And the top, who can escape consequences with a word to a prosecutor or a judge, except if they lose some power game with others on top quite badly -- though they may even survive that, like Martha Stewart.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
15hr ago
Hiring a cleaning lady once or twice a week is hiring a contractor, either under the table (cheap, illegal, but negligible chance of punishment) or through some agency which handles the formalities (expensive and legal). That's different than having a servant or servants who only work for you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
Heritage Foundation, not Trump. Any Republican would have done this.
No, not a chance.
Ruled unconstitutional (by 2 of his own 3 justices lol).
He just did them another way.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
20hr ago
And Dexter Taylor is now in a maximum security prison where he will likely die, unable to appeal. Because that's how much the Second Amendment is worth in the US.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Ask USAID. Ask the Ayatollah Khameni (either one). Immigration changes actually did happen. So did tariffs. So did a rooting out of DEI in government; it wasn't complete but it happened.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
The UHC CEO is a role, but Donald Trump is not. Most presidents probably aren't, and Donald Trump definitely isn't.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Making life socially tougher only removes the bottom quintile if you define it tautologically. You'll remove those who are least socially adept within every stratum, not the least adept overall.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
This is because of measures designed by real egalitarians ostensibly to help the poor, such as minimum wage and nanny taxes. Of course, if you can't hire poors to work for you (unless you're Elon Musk rich and not just two-doctor household rich), you're best off avoiding them entirely.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It mattered when business leaders felt they had to at least pretend they owed something back to the society that made them rich.
This isn't a social norm, it's a political norm based on leftist assumptions. And not a common one in the past; it's most associated with Andrew Carnegie, though he based it on different assumptions. Further, Carnegie's beliefs did not cash out to "I should pay shitloads of taxes" (though he supported a high estate tax), but to "I, and other wealthy people, should use our wealth to directly help society".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I can't tell if this is an exceptionally well crafted troll effort
It's dated April 2, 2025, but it's possible that's a time zone issue and it is indeed a year-old April Fools post.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's also the red wolf, C. rufus/C. lupus rufus... which is still the subject of a debate as to whether or not they are a real species at all, or just a coyote/grey wolf hybrid. If the latter, than latrans and lupus hybridize plenty. And even if it is a real species, it commonly interbreeds with the coyote in the wild.
And also the rather silly C. lycaon (timber wolf), which is obviously just a grey wolf with a fan club.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The research-type jobs are certainly a problem. The blue collar jobs are a bigger problem. Even Houston, Houston, Do You Read had them done by women given exogenous testosterone, which is going to bring back the violence. The creation of a superintelligence as with Banks's Culture solves this, but only by making humanity pets.
And of course if we're taking something as silly as gender eugenics seriously, we have to take race eugenics (which is a lot more practical) more seriously. You know who is about as violent as white men? Black women. Though if men were to disappear I would also suspect they would be the best replacements for those blue-collar jobs.
You also need to consider the female disadvantages, some of which are simply the flip side of male disadvantages (such as a higher risk tolerance).
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If two individuals are capable of interbreeding and the offspring produced are themselves reproductively viable then those two individuals are of the same species
Yet we consider canis lupus, canis familiaris (sometimes), and canis latrans all different species.
(and forget about plants, those things are total degenerates)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Are you saying that the people who stormed the Capitol were insane, given that they did interpret Trump's speech that way, or are you making the true but irrelevant point that one particular sentence of the speech, taken out of context, is a rejection of violence?
I am saying that there is nothing in the speech that can be sanely interpreted as "Storm the capital". There is no dilemma here; there are other options besides the two you have presented.
Trump was calling for a protest, a "demonstration", not a riot.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The January 6 protest was organized by mainstream right-wing groups. The rioting was not, and no, "Storm the Capitol" is not a non-insane intepretation of "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The US has the state capacity for actual confiscation.
LBJ was notoriously foul-mouthed, and definitely would have used the n-word. But as with Trump, it's easy to make up a plausible "LBJ-sounding" quote.
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