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
Nevertheless, RFK Jr. has been consistent. He didn't move.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
11hr ago
In general I thought so, but I think the French are really serious about the TdF, in a way the Spanish aren't about the Vuelta.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
He was not forced to do a blanket clemency that covered violent crimes.
The time for making such distinctions was when doing the prosecution in the first place. It is not reasonable to expect the President, having seen a great injustice done, to relitigate every case several years later to ensure only the correct amount of injustice is alleviated and not one bit of true justice undone.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
12hr ago
If Faction B remains pro-free-speech, Faction A can speak at all times and Faction B can speak only when they are in power.
If Faction B switches, each faction can only speak when they are in power.
Assuming being able to speak helps both factions (sometimes it doesn't; e.g. letting the Dreaded Jim faction speak likely wouldn't help their electoral chances. But usually it does), Faction B should definitely behave anti-free-speech.
The opposite argument is basically the bicycle cuck argument. It's better for your enemies to have free speech and you to not than for neither of you to have free speech, because it increases the total amount of free speech in the world.
All this is true whether or not free speech is a good policy.
I'm not really worried about the "orgy of vengeance". I think that's fine and a lot of vengeance is called for. I am worried (but not surprised) about the right taking on cancelation not just as reprisal or revenge, but as a good thing in itself. But the no-cancel/no-cancel state appears unavailable; the left will cancel when they are in power because they believe that is good policy.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
13hr ago
Clinching what? It doesn't make him a right-winger. He's the same kook he's always been. And in any case, it's specific to him; he didn't accept the deal on behalf of the "association of hippies with kooky views".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
You're not arguing that the Palestinians aren't genocidal, you're arguing that it's justified that they are. That's an entirely different argument.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
RFK Jr. didn't "go rightward". He remained where he was, in the same kooky fringe, while the left pulled up stakes. His alliance with Trump was pure alliance-of-convenience (and a damned good deal for him), not ideological alignment.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
14hr ago
You're not wrong about how things are, but faul_sname isn't wrong about the situation you're advocating for. The villain speech applies; you and they are the same, just with opposite political valence.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Referring to illegal immigration as an "invasion" is totally mainstream on the right. What do you do to invaders?
Repel them. It's literally in the Constitution.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The Boers didn't have any place to go either but they gave up instead of choosing to become North Korea despite facing infinitely worse demographic prospects.
Even the black South Africans aren't, as a whole, as genocidal as Palestinian Arabs. And the whites may yet find they made a mistake.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Is Israel going to force Jews to stay in the country at the threat of torturing their families to death?
If it gets to the point where the United States is willing to make Israel a pariah state, the Israeli Jews won't have any place to go.
Of course, none of this is going to happen. All of this fantasizing about how the entire international community (including the US) is going to look at Israeli atrocities and the angelic behavior of Hamas and cut Israel off once and for all is just mental masturbation.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Legally, definitely not. Politically, I don't think that type of attack has ever worked to undermine the legitimacy of an election anywhere, and it has been tried a lot.
In Romania, it was enough that a non-incumbent had a TikTok account. But it should be no surprise that the same government that "manipulated the information environment" would not accept that this invalidated an election.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
"The left successfully manipulated the information environment such that Americans voted the wrong way" is not grounds for overturning an election.
Even if they used government force to do so?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I was actually a bit surprised at the lack of disruption during the TdF - there were Palestine flags here and there but nothing like what we saw in Spain.
Perhaps too many gendarmes willing to engage in a little rompa cabezas.. err, casse las têtes
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
If Israel's military is so great why have they failed to take an area the size of a suburb in almost two years despite massive brutality and having to beg for boundless supplies of weapons?
Your premises are incorrect.
Israel's main military asset is propaganda and giving low IQ west bank settlers the capacity to do things that are seen and heard globally effectively turned that on its head.
The West Bank is over ----> thataway. West Bank settlers aren't doing anything in Gaza.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Israel is dropping like a rock in the polls and especially among young people.
Israel is not going to hold a world democratic referendum on its own existence.
Palestine's best weapon is IDF soldiers with tiktok showing the world their true nature. Israel is not going to be viable as a state when the state is deeply unpopular in the rest of the world.
Israel's best weapon is IDF soldiers, full stop. And if North Korea can be viable as a state, so can Israel.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yeah, I probably shouldn't have asked. That the teacher thought this was a good idea is testimony to the capture of the institutions.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
I think propping up Joe Biden's body for way too long was another error -- they might have retained control of the Presidency and squashed the X resurgence if they'd managed to get Newsom or some other credible candidate running against Trump.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Oh no, they won't stop. But that's the minimum time before you get to start blaming them for it.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
As long as teachers decide it's a great idea to show the Charlie Kirk shooting to 11 year olds and tell them he was a bad man who deserved it
I'm almost afraid to ask... but is there a documented case of this?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
But let's assume it's just the left that started it (and not that it hasn't just been a persistent back and forth from both illiberal leftists and rightists for a very long time), for how long does the right get to cancel back before it's the right responsible for it?
Depends. Do we start counting from Donglegate or Brendan Eich about a year later? I guess "a little longer than a decade" works.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The list is long. Certainly far longer than "one cashier". There are at least TWO canceled Nobel Prize winners (Tim Hunt and James Watson). Everyone listed on the old "racistsgettingfired" website. Anyone disciplined for giving the OK symbol. Anyone fired for being at Charlottesville or January 6 (even if they did not participate in rioting). Anyone fired or boycotted for claiming there are only two genders.... and I'm only scratching the surface here. A proportionate reprisal for all that would be terrible in the sense of "Ivan the".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
I am fairly sure that the EEOCs very expansive definition of "hostile workplace" does not apply in any way, shape, or form to OSHA's "safe working environment" -- that is, working next to someone who has repugnant views is not "unsafe" in OSHA parlance. OSHA is worried about missing railings, not bad politics.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
It's the same. They prefer the feel of the handle, which they haven't had for a long time (aside from a few aberrations like the Home Depot woman) to the sting of the lash.
To turn the tables, imagine if George Soros died and many of those same people wrote "good riddance" on their social media accounts, should this be grounds for cancelation? By the above logic, yes if you want to be morally consistent.
They don't care. For two reasons. One, they wouldn't post 'good riddance' about Soros on their social media; they are not that sort of hypocrite. And more importantly... they know the other side will cancel them when they can, whether or not they themselves do. It's no reason for them to hold back. The left changed the rules, now they get to live with the changed rules.
Against defectbot, plain Tit for Tat beats Tit For Tat with Forgiveness. Actually the best strategy against defectbot is to be defectbot; you can do no better.
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