Instant pivot from ‘its a discussion board’ to whining and insulting tells me you are yes.

Scared potter?

Block away. I can do this all day. Dude you can’t even spell correctly, are you from a ghetto or do you just wanna sound like it?

Also don’t try and worm out: you said it’s for discussion. So discuss. Actually I’m bored now.

Hope you feel better sausage x

It’s a place for discussion as you said. If you can’t handle it without getting angry and whining maybe go back to Reddit.

English is my first language. I was a US citizen. I gave it up for tax reasons when I left.

Ooh babys getting angry.

Actually that is a different comment chain. A different comment in this particular board.

You don’t know what thread means do you?

I thought discussion is what we’re here for? You seem to be getting upset.

Yes I am sure. You suggested my rejection of your idea and comparison is why the US is like it is now. Hence the joke.

Okay fine. They’re both bad. Which would you rather have won in 2024 now?

I think you’ve fallen for a classic ‘if left/centre not perfect might as well burn the house down’ fallacy personally but we’ll agree to disagree.

Ah now it makes sense. So which part of the discussion was you frantically searching my comment history for some kind of win?

Sad.

Bitch please. Who’d want to be a US citizen. The others are locked in there with tools like you.

Meanwhile in free roaming European: were laughing at you morons for electing a king.

And what makes you think you need to be an inmate to talk about the joint?

Interesting. I didn’t know I had a say in US politics being 5000 miles away and not a citizen. I’ll be sure to smarten my ideas up. Send marine force 2 or whatever to pick me up and I’ll sort that shit show out for you once I kick trump in the balls/face.

Also there’s literally only one other option so yea of course it’s compared to the opposition. That’s how the system is setup.

Nonsense. Disappointed this gets upvotes.

How the hell are the democrats the party of enriching the wealthy when compared to the fucking R’s?? I mean fucking hell have any of you ever read a book or even glanced at historic and current R policy?

You’ve got to step back a little to understand.

The key thing is that it is not possible (excluding inheritance) to become a billionaire without being a scheming psychopathic cut-throat selfish person and having a determined drive to have power over others.

The second key is it’s not possible to keep your billions without being a psychopath. This because you could never possibly spend that money in your lifetime and the only way to have accumulated it is through exploitation of labour.

So it’s a thing you don’t need that you got via abusing others. They want power and they don’t care how they get it. They have no plan beyond that. Personally I think it’s mental health issues and the fact that we allow this in our flawed system.

It’s a tale as old as time. They don’t see themselves as the ‘bad’ gays or Jews or whatever that their leaders and other Republicans/Torys/Religions etc hate. They think they’ll be spared because they’re special. All the way to the camps they believe this.

You were doing so well before the last line which comes over as haughty and suggests you’ve not actually got any solid arguments. “It’s like this because”.

Anyway I disagree, it was a nothing burger and I object to your nonsensical conflation of that with a seig heil. I’d call that a Reddit moment but this place has a different name.

That’ll do me for this conversation, we disagree and that’s fine. Have a nice day.

Yea he obviously doesn’t know much about parenting. Also probably doesn’t have much empathy or mental space he’s willing to commit.

However that is pretty damn normal. I see hundreds of parents and kids each year. The ones who doit properly are few and far between.

The point is why the hell are we talking about it? He’s literally orchestrating a fascist takeover and indirectly killing thousands, why are we wasting our energy on outrage at a minor shitty behaviour than most parents are guilty of?

I’m all for the hate musk train but that one was manufactured bullshit and actually opened my eyes at how manipulated I had allowed myself to become.

In the whole clip he comes back for little X and it’s a total nothing burger. Obviously he’s a psycho and that kid is fucked but leaving him to navigate some stairs for 2 seconds is irrelevant. I guess maybe Americans are more helicopter and precious about kids but in the rest of the world we let them get on with it and that is totally fine.

PM of Poland.

I guess many Americans haven’t heard of him, which is odd given Poland is the first bastion against Russia and a very strong US ally. Well was anyway.

Fair point but they talk about Trump the same way and…well let’s just say they’re cut from the same cloth.

Absolutely agree with you. I’ve been all over tech and engineering industry, in the arts too.

I now work in a publicly funded university and it’s not happening here. If not here where the hell is it?

We are encouraged to not dismiss people based on race, sex etc by our diversity training but anyone with half a brain doesn’t need that and the others would ignore it as ‘woke’ or some other cop out.

I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:

It’s obviously true that certain groups don’t have the advantages of others: the primary indicator of financial success is social-economic background. As such this is a long term vs short term decision. If we (an institution) want the best performance now we should hire in a meritocratic manner. If we want to raise our performance in the future we should apply DEI principles. This will inspire underrepresented groups into the field and this increase our pool of great minds. Given time this can be one of many tools to raise the maximum number of our potential workforce to their highest performance. However we want best performance now so we disregard that stuff in favour of performance now.

But I don’t think it’s as black and white as that.

You haven’t made a case.

Why not? There’s a long future for Ukraine, their politics will be marked by anti russian revenge sentiments for the next century. If I was a politician there I’d bang that drum. Russia will collapse, not if but when.

They can wait out Russia.