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.
17hr ago
duelling arises out of being armed
Formal duelling in the US is basically extinct, despite all the guns. Anything else you might call "duelling" only arises out of being armed if you exclude unarmed mutual combat, in which case your argument is just a tautology.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Naa, the justices love the dry technical stuff. They're law nerds.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
If the subject is civil rights law, you should know Plessy and Brown. If you're talking about abortion, you should certainly know which Roe. If you're talking about guns, you need to know Bruen. And if you're talking about speech, Brandenburg is something you should know. This isn't obscure jargon.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
State bans on CNC aren't preventing the import of auto-sears for criminals by the containerload
Sure, criminals accept arrests and killings as part of the cost of doing business. The state can accept a certain amount of that as long as the majority of the tax cattle are kept in line.
But if you are willing to let go of current society, the oppression can also go, and speedily.
But then I die, because I cannot do everything needed to live myself.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Yeah, and then after taking your money, the hard-up-for-cash machinist turns you in to the state for a bounty.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
At least as long as the tools are available. States are falling all over themselves to ban 3D printers that don't call home and ask mommy if they're making a gun part; New York's law covers CNC milling machines and such as well. You could go full John Browning and do it all by hand, but there's fairly few of us who will have his skill.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Can we get the Chicken Tax struck down on 2nd Amendment grounds?
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Oh, I thought we were talking about actual spectrum (and some theoretical psi spectrum). Killer drones are real, ask any Russian soldier in Ukraine.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The US and Russia have gotten into a few scraps in Syria; it wouldn't have started WWIII (though it was still a really dumb order)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Birthright citizenship is obviously supported by both Constitution and statute, but I imagine there's a lot of wrangling over the wording of the opinion of the court (which may be unanimous, maybe 8-1 if Alito is as much of a hack as one ex-poster claims).
The Court probably didn't consider it, but the recent California primary election demonstrates that counting late votes is at least an important technicality of election law, though California goes beyond postmarks and allows ballots with a hand-written date before the election day.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
First, the union got by for about 150 years prior to it.
Not quite that long; it's antecedent would seem to the the Tenure of Office Act, famously violated by Andrew Johnson. It didn't go to the Supreme Court but to a Congressional impeachment, and Johnson avoided conviction by one vote.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The FCC is as subject to the Second Amendment as any other part of government.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
While I expected them to uphold the vampire rule, and am thus surprised, the court is a long way from anything like strict scrutiny, given that in Bruen's footnote 9 they basically give the blue states carte blanche to impose prior restraint on gun rights, as NJ has.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
The courts mostly have been treating gun regulation as an interest in itself -- often a compelling interest which overrides the First Amendment, as with the Defense Distributed case and various other 3D printing cases. They'd never do anything like that for the First.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Yes, but if he didn't get paid, his boss didn't get his cut. If he didn't want his own legs broken, he had to have legbreakers go out and break the legs of the guy who didn't pay up. The violence was part and parcel of his business.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
3d ago
But I don't think the vast majority of normal people bought into "system racism" when Woke 1.0 was at its peak
Yes, they did. The opinions of normal people are the opinions the vanguard tells them to have, and they hold them quite sincerely.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
It sounds kinda like some of the sentences may be excessive, but I can't tell because the leftist orgs which say so keep referring to it as a "protest".
e.g. The defendants, who were protesting the Prairieland immigration detention center in Alvarado, Texas
When they refuse to acknowledge this wasn't just a protest, I suspect if they're lying when they claim a defendant was sentenced to 30 years for nothing more than moving a box of "antifascist zines".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
He banned the pre-eminent Marxist of his time, Marxbro.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
You can beat it into men, and if in the process you destroy a few you can't beat it into, nobody cares. That's what military training is about.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
In fact, all three of the most powerful anti-trans people I can think of fit that mold (Musk and Rowling being the other two)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
I'm not sure what the equivalent of utterly defeating Germany, tearing it in half, having different coalitions occupy the two halves, one for almost half a century, and only then finally letting off while still having both Germany and the UK arguably at the feet of the US would be for trans activists, but I'm sure it hasn't happened.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4d ago
There's a reason for that, once succinctly (if rudely) expressed by Winston Churchill -- "The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet". Live and let live, in general and with trans stuff in particular, has simply not worked -- every bit of tolerance has been used as a wedge to demand something more.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
5d ago
Both are valid targets in war, and legitimate to open a war with.
If you give Google the context, it finds Brown fine. Plessy it finds with a single-word search.
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