It isn’t a US-only thing. Conservatism in the Western world in general is closely linked to sexism and misoginy. If the guy were being an asshole in a politically neutral way, like taking up too much space in an airplane or getting drunk and talking too loudly, people wouldn’t bring politics into it. But he was being an asshole in a political way.

The current CEO of Microsoft.

That actually makes sense. I wouldn’t hop on one foot, though. That increases the odds of falling flat.

Keeping your feet close together makes zero difference, as what matters is the actual contact surface between you and the ground and not the area defined between your feet. Ideally you should reduce that to zero, but humans are not generally known for their ability ro hover in midair.

None of the choices here are good, but clearly bending over and letting Trump fuck everyone is worse than the alternatives. China is also not going to take this lying down and they have a lot of potential for damaging Trump because so much of the USA’s manufacturing is outsourced there and they can more easily compensate with other partners than Canada can. If Canada, China and Mexico stick to their guns, together, long enough for the American people to do something about this idiot, then things can still work out.

If a threat from an unelected foreign Nazi is all it takes to keep you from doing your job, you’re not fit to hold public office.

Correct. When there isn’t enough bread to go around, it doesn’t really matter if everyone has money.

Rule 1 clearly says “posts have the following requirements”.

These are all valid points but they don’t preclude the existence of an open-source alternative to MBFC, which is what the commenter you replied to was asking.

Apart from Australia and New Zealand, the Southern hemisphere houses pretty much just the poorest countries. Poverty also correlates strongly with average temperature, so it increases as you approach the Equator from either side (oil-rich Sultanates included, since the countries are rich but the people are still poor).

For what it’s worth, many people here in Brazil use the phrase “global south” as a better alternative to “third world”, an expression which no longer makes sense since the fall of the USSR, and I haven’t ever seen anyone on the Left here be offended or bothered by it.

Untrue. Most don’t engage in actual philantropy at all, but donate only to causes that will directly benefit their bottom line, such as sectors that depend on their products, or for scholarships in fields where their companies hire heavily. That isn’t actually donating. It’s just tax-exempt investing. In this sense, Gates is a cut above other billionaires.

His actions merit a freshly sharpened blade on his guillotine. Musk can have the rusty one that we’ll need to drop thrice to get the job done.

That’s a separate point. As long as the result benefits people, the motivation doesn’t matter. Gates’s problem isn’t that he helps fight disease for the wrong reasons. His problem is that he hoards more wealth than anyone could ever need and only helps with a small fraction of the resources he could help with if he really wanted to. But if his tax evasion saves people from painful death by disease, I say it’s a good thing. Most billionaires evade taxes without saving anyone else from anything.

Gates deserves a guillotine with a freshly sharpened and well lubricated blade. Musk deserves a rusty blade that will need to be dropped thrice to get the job done.

Money would also attract grifters who want to create fake scandals for the payoff. I agree with you that there is absolutely some reprehensible shit going down behind closed doors at Xitter, and at Meta too for that matter, but if Gates or anyone else offered a financial incentive to come forward, finding something that actually happened amid all the reports they received would be like finding a needle in a haystack blindfolded and without a magnet. Especially now that everybody has access to several LLMs to write the fake scandal reports for them. Yes, most would be easy to identify as fake, but someone would still have to take the time to read them. So-called AI detectors aren’t worth anything.

It’s like this with any controversial issue: most people adopt a manicheist stance, regardless of which side they’re on. This is why I think it’s important to always remember that if these issues weren’t nuanced, they wouldn’t be so controversial among so many different sectors of society.

We can agree on that (that this is the legislators’ reasoning). Whether it’s good or even valid reasoning remains to be seen. For one thing, the alternative to an adoption is one more parentless orphan - which is often also the alternative to an abortion. Oversimplifying the issue helps nobody. I’m not accusing you specifically of oversimplifying, as you made it clear that you were pointing out an oversimplification made by others.

That depends on how you define a human, and there’s the entirely separate issue of whether it being human or not should be the deciding factor. For example, a braindead human is still human but killing them is quite different from killing a healthy human. Oversimplifying the issue helps nobody.

That slash you used implies that the things before and after it are somehow equivalent when they absolutely aren’t.

Yes because tariffs that make legal imports more expensive are very effective at suppressing illegal imports, which don’t pay tariffs at all, for reasons. Clearly this is the motivation behind them.

More like going into a church and complaining that there are too many pedophiles.

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