Ukraine wants EU membership. Trump doesn’t want to feel like the US is being left out, so Ukraine will pretend to negotiate to spare his feelings.

It doesn’t have to mean pulling away from the global community. It just means that the global community needs to build itself up to be more than three US corporations in a trenchcoat.

To be clear, I’m not doubting that therapy helps. Therapy is a great idea for everyone.

But I’m still dubious about the claim that access to artificial children, including AI porn, will cause pedophiles to offend (more than baseline), rather than provide an outlet for their urges. What makes this different than simulated violence in video games?

And finally, please take note of how unhelpful and condescending “do your own research” is, especially after starting your comment off with “this research is unavailable, but trust me, it exists”.

This feels a lot like the “violent video games cause violence” argument, but because it’s about child abuse, people don’t want to defend it.

Are there actually any studies supporting your comment? I briefly looked and couldn’t find anything.

If violent dictators can’t trust that you’re making a deal for peaceful resolution in good faith, then a lot of people are going to die to achieve that transition. If the only way out is death, they’re going to take as many people with them as possible. Is that worth it, just to kill one rich guy?

Peaceful transitions of power always involve compromises. Here, they agreed to spare his life in exchange for the future lives of countless citizens. If they didn’t want to agree to those conditions, they shouldn’t have made the deal. It just makes it harder for this situation to play out peacefully in the future.

when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.

I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don’t know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we’d know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.

It’s news because these two mean girls are in charge of the two largest nuclear weapon stockpiles in the world.

Every thread where you see “ceo of failing company gets $3M bonus” followed by “those workers could have used that” ignores the fact that there are so many employees that, divided evenly, it’s never more than $5, and frequently less than a dollar.

Yes, that’s technically better than nothing. And I agree the CEO doesn’t deserve a bonus if their company is failing. But focusing on this is missing the bigger picture of the lack of workers’ rights in America, and paints a target on the wrong people (CEOs instead of the government).

Since I wasn’t clear at all in my first comment: I’m referring to the fact that people can also get away with murder, as long as they’re driving a car at the time. Very rarely is it much more than a slap on the wrist, but it’s always significantly less than any other form of negligent homicide.

“Corporations are people driving cars”

Oh yeah, the person going around sexually assaulting people is going to respect a sign stating “do not enter”.

Is that a concession? I don’t think he actually wants to be president anymore.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s the correct “deal” to make - it’s the most overt declaration he can make to those who claim he wants to be dictator for life - I just think it’s probably a win/win for him.