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.
1hr ago
Gotta love that passive voice "has drawn scrutiny".
My father had a copy of Mein Kampf also. I tried to read it at one point, found it unreadable, didn't get very far. But how could you not mention the headline calling him an "An Apparent Neo-Nazi"?
Fortunately for Herrera, I'd guess approximately zero of his potential voters read "Rolling Stone".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
4hr ago
"Unconditional surrender" means exactly that; you surrender, and what the enemy does to you is up to them. If you've been watching Trump at all, you know that a demand for "unconditional surrender" by him just means "make me an offer".
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
I'm still so fucking mad about the mRNA vaccines
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
17hr ago
Yeah, the near-unanimity. Or apparent near-unanimity, anyway. Everywhere I look the story is that the US cannot win this war, in fact is losing as we speak, and has hit nothing but civilian infrastructure, schools, and world heritage sites. That Iran's launch capability cannot be stopped, that their nuclear materials are being recovered as we speak, and that the US can do nothing about their nuclear program. That Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed indefinitely and there's nothing the US can do about it, that the IRGC will remain in control and remain defiant, and that the question is not whether the Iranian regime can survive this war but whether the American one can.
Or maybe it's just CNN, X, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Reuters, AP, and The Wall Street Journal.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
Also if the place was still called "Persia", we likely wouldn't be having this issue.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
21hr ago
An American joining a chant of "Death to America" probably isn't treason (but if the American knew the chant was organized by the hostile state, I could see it), but it's pretty bad nevertheless. This is getting pretty close to the line, assuming any of those people are actually American citizens. "Solidarity with Iran" is pretty bad in terms of "adhering to their enemies".
(Why can I find no mention of this in US media... including Fox? Maybe nobody at any of those agencies speaks Farsi)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
If the USA can't even shit on the middle east like it used to
Uh, the US is totally shitting on the Middle East right now.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
Every P&I Club pulled their policies effective Thursday.
Yeah, they're the only friend Iran has.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
22hr ago
That's OK, they did arrest the REAL perpetrator, Ian McGinnis of the right-wing "The Surge", who used pepper spray on some antifa who took violent exception to his filming them. They also confiscated his footage (you'd think he'd know to record live to a remote server by now)
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Not co-operation. Subordination. Because when you're supposed to ask what you can do for your community and not what your community can do for you, you're just a slave.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
His vision was awful. He only cared about the non-existent afterlife.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Even in the west, with people sympathetic to wokeness, the amount of in your face symbolism would go down by 10x, if it wasn't artificially propped up, simply because people have better shit to do.
In fact, this already happened, between when the Floydening ended and the "Kamala is for they/them" ad hit home.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Essentially none of these "influencers" have a solid community, wife and family.
Survivalship bias.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
The usual excuse for "we will bury you" is that Khruschev mean the Communist system was so great that the Soviet Union would move ahead by leaps and bounds. That's a plausible interpretation of the English also, especially preceded with "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side."
It's still bombastic and hostile, but not a threat of nuclear attack.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
(Again, to be fair, I heard "chickens coming home to roost" from Anericans.)
Noem Chomsky would be the type specimen there. There's a substantial group of people, mostly intellectuals or those who would think of themselves as intellectual, who dislike America and consider it always in the wrong.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Who said anything about someone else's vision? If your vision isn't shared, then it's not going to happen.
It will never actually be shared. The leaders might be able to fool you into thinking it is, but it won't be.
You'd really rather have the future look like... nothing you're a part of than have someone else call the shots?
As I said, I'll never be able to show it to you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
What's wrong with living, working, and existing for the benefit of someone else's vision? If you don't see it, I'll never be able to show it to you.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
Nothing, if you're the leader. Otherwise, you're just a tool.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
It's damnation both ways. Hold to individualism and forfeit the field to nothing. Discard it and forfeit it to whoever the leaders are. Only actual winning move is to become the leader, and there's precious few slots available.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
1d ago
There's no methodology on that map, and it comes from a completely different part of the Department of Labor (the Women's Bureau) than the official LFPR.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
But without proper planning or strategy. Trump apparently didn't consider that Iran might close the straits of Hormuz
Iran didn't. Lloyds did. Dynacom (Greek shipping company) has been sending tankers through... not sure if self-insured or what.
now is there bleating about insuring vessels
Which, given that the problem is insurance, makes perfect sense.
THAAD getting wrecked by Iran's missile and drone arsenal is also pretty alarming. THAAD is what's supposed to defend Guam and other US bases necessary for this war.
One AN/TPY-2 radar was hit. I don't know about Trump, but I'm sure everyone below him in the DoD and military knows the enemy does sometimes take out your stuff. This does not take out all of THAAD. As for Guam, Iran has nothing that can reach it anyway.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
There's a lot of shipping that isn't oil shipping, and a lot of oil shipping that doesn't go through Hormuz; the biggest impact on shipping as a whole is probably fuel costs.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
Before we can go any further, there are two things we need to get out of the way. The first is that approximately 900,000 prime-age men are currently incarcerated, accounting for about 1/8 of the total.
The denominator of the labor force participation rate is "Civilian noninstitutional population", which excludes the incarcerated. So these have no effect.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
2d ago
You can live in the NYC metro area, just not Short Hills or Essex Fells or Alpine or whatever other hyper-expensive example you can find.
So far we've seen no attempt at any action against the regime. I think the IRGC has successfully neutered all the opposition; there's no armed rival to take control. And the hard-line regime may be deep enough that you simply can't kill enough of them to find anyone willing to make a deal; if you keep killing you may just reduce the nation to ungoverned chaos.
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