There’s examples but they aren’t proportional. Oh, a company with 3 billion in revenue poisoned the water supply for a whole county? Let’s fine them $10 million.

That definitely teaches them a lesson about consequences, except the lesson is that they don’t matter.

I call those people cultural Christians. Nothing they do is related to the religion. It’s a weird social club.

I mean, at least the Christian conception of God includes the idea that humans will understand what good is by watching other people do evil. In that sense Trump is doing a pretty good job of demonstrating what evil is and why it’s bad.

Mueller specifically did not recommend charges and Smith never finished his homework. There’s certainly enough in both cases to reach the conclusion you did but that’s not technically what happened in either case.

Democrats aren’t progressive. That’s a big part of the problem actually.

And just like literally falling on a sword, no one but the wielder will be hurt by it.

This kind of thing is an interesting topic. Obviously Zuck is a shit bag but that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m not one to say that men are being repressed or that masculinity is under attack, although I do think elements of both of those things are true if the statements are interpreted in a generous fashion. I’ve found that people will accept the general statement that men have problems but talking about men’s issues in any detail is usually met with scorn. You can say “men have problems like everybody else” and that’s generally tolerated but if you say “X Y or Z is a problem for men” then all of a sudden you’re misogynistic or otherwise associating yourself with team white male privilege. I see this happen essentially every time the topic comes up. The vibe seems to be “we’re dealing with everyone else’s problems so we don’t have time to listen to your complaints”.

People like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate have made a career out of listening to those problems. They offer shitty solutions and horrible explanations but they’re paying attention and in return they get views from people who don’t feel like anyone else is. There are a lot of guys out there doing their best to be good people who need to feel like their problems matter to society. You don’t have to abandon the things that are important to you to listen to them. Just commiserate a bit and a lot of them will be happy to listen to your problems in return. That’s how empathy is supposed to work.

Cool story bro

The warning bell rang decades ago and we’re still ignoring it. There is no escaping or planning around what is to come. It doesn’t matter if you move somewhere less impacted by climate change. Those places can’t support anywhere close to the amount of people that will need to live there. We’ll ruin those places fighting over what scraps remain until there’s nowhere left to go.

Nevermind the fact that the whole “you can’t prosecute a sitting president” thing is entirely based on a fucking post-it note written by some aide trying to protect another criminal Republican president from prosecution. The fact that anyone has taken that seriously shows you how desperate they are to find any reason to keep themselves above reproach. The simple truth underpinning all of this bullshit is that they have no intention of holding the rich and powerful to account under any circumstances.

If I assume that everyone gets at least three years after they commit a felony before legal proceedings begin (not including the time in which he was president the first time) then you might have a point. However, they don’t and that’s a pretty fucking important detail. If Garland and the rest of the legal system didn’t drag their feet for so damn long then this could have been wrapped up well before the election cycle even started. Instead they waited long enough to give themselves a semi-plausible, but still utterly ridiculous, reason for doing nothing. I have a hard time believing that’s not what they wanted the whole time.

Merchan suggested that Trump would have received a stiffer sentence had he been a private citizen – but that the “extraordinary legal protections” provided by the office of the presidency left him no other options.

If only there had been a significant period of time in which he was a private citizen.

What a fucking farce. I hate these people. The hand wringing from these intentionally ineffectual taint lickers is worse than Trump’s actions imo. The social contract is dead and so is justice.

Being released wouldn’t change anything. Mueller’s report was released and nothing meaningful happened. We’re significantly farther down the fascist path now too. I expect even less will happen when Smith’s report is eventually released.

We shouldn’t have to subsidize someone else’s shitty wages. People who rely on tips need to unionize and put that nonsense to bed for good.

Do you honestly believe that there is anything that could be written in that report that would make a difference? I don’t even mean something plausible. I mean literally anything. Because I don’t. It could say that Trump invented time travel and used it exclusively to help Hitler kill more Jews and nothing meaningful would happen. That has been proven over and over again and yet we’re still constantly hearing “yeah but this time it will be taken seriously”.

I saw the Mueller report and I would call that a waste of money as well. As the poster above said, if there are no consequences then it’s all just theater. There is no shortage of publicly available information about how much of a shit bag Donald Trump is. The posterity argument is as hollow as this sham of an investigation was.

Is he wearing chainmail?

I understand the joke just fine but I don’t think you understood mine. That’s OK though, it wasn’t a very good one.

Shakespeare predicted social media? He truly was a visionary.

I don’t think that’s true, at least not to the degree that he expected to win outright. I watched his speech on the night of the election and he seemed legitimately shocked that he won. I think those people were put in place for the court cases he was planning for after he lost.