I feel like profile pictures like hers and other similar posts could be accurately described as either yearnbait or lovebait. We’re just not widely using those descriptors

I never got the rage. If women are scared of men then that’s how it is. The question always seemed to me to be more illustrative than literal but either way you’re not going to change the answer so why spend time arguing about it?

Same here but we both know we’re in the minority of gun owners, at least as far as public discourse is concerned.

Let’s get it boys and girls. I’m ready

You’re assuming that I don’t. Failing to distinguish between an argument that will land with some people vs one that will land with most people is exactly the problem people are pointing out to you and you’re still doing it here.

The point is that isn’t how the world works. You can complain about that all you like but it won’t change anything. Accept that reality is what it is and respond accordingly. In this case that means using whatever opening you have to press for change. Telling racists they should care about brown people is obviously not going to work, even if it is true. Pointing out that their policies are killing white people might. This is the basic concept of politics.

Maybe that means something different to you than it does to them but that is definitely not true from their perspective or mine. I hear Democrats talk about gun control in various forms on a regular basis.

The article is about users deleting the app. You said they could tell who did that by counting how many accounts were deleted. You can’t because those are different things

I don’t think it’s that. This administration has had no problem telling Democrats to go fuck themselves at every turn. I think they realized that they went too far for a significant portion of the conservative allied 2A absolutists who they cannot afford to alienate in an election year.

Many of those people are not nearly as conservative as most tend to believe. They just categorically refuse to vote for Democrats because they have correctly deduced that Democrats want to take their gun rights away. There’s tons of discussion to be had about that topic but it would be a wise strategy for Democrats to stop talking about gun law reform until they have the votes to make it happen. It’s a non-starter for too many people in states they absolutely need to win a Presidential election by a wide enough margin to accomplish anything legislatively. A progressive, pro-2A politician running on a Sanders style populist platform would do well in large parts of the country, especially if a significant portion of gun owners start to doubt the GOP’s commitment to the 2A.

But deleting your account is not the same as deleting the app. You can do either without the other

Also true

The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with an average voter.

That’s exactly the kind of question all of us should be asking but don’t until it is immediately relevant. Much like finding out after a flood that your home insurance doesn’t cover flood damage. People assume things work a certain way and only critically important circumstances will cause them to question those assumptions.

That’s cool but is also a rather useless description of the situation. If you add up the contributions from the top 15 military spenders in NATO (excluding the US) you get about half of what the US spends. The US dominates military spending in Europe no matter how you slice it.

If you want to reduce military reliance on the US, which you unequivocally should do, it will require either significant investments in defense or the acceptance of a significant reduction in military assets and preparedness for the EU as a whole.

Europe is welcome to try. In fact, I don’t think it is controversial to say it is preferable that they work towards that goal. However, that doesn’t mean he and Trump are incorrect about the EU’s reliance on the US military for defense. It was a decent plan for a long time but now we’re seeing the pitfalls of allowing a single foreign entity to handle most of the continents security. The fact that Trump is a huge piece of shit doesn’t change how much the EU has historically invested in defense.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is held to the highest professional standard,” the spokesperson said. “The ICE Office of Professional Responsibility will conduct a thorough investigation.”

He did add the standard propaganda as well though.

I agree with what you’re saying I just think it’s odd, even by GOP standards, to try and give Trump a pass on something he did by appealing to something he has only talked about doing.

The first two things on that list are crazy in their own uniquely Republican way but the credit card thing is just bizarre. Both in comparison to the others and at face value. You want to give him a pass because he proposed something that hasn’t happened?

I’ll readily admit that I both don’t understand a lot of kinks and I didn’t read all of this post. However, I think I read enough to understand what is happening.

That being said, the fact that sub exists makes no sense to me. How can you hold both the idea that “Nazis are pieces of shit” and the idea “I want to fuck a Nazi” in your head at the same time? Lots of kinks I’ve heard about and just thought that’s not for me, but this sounds more like a delusion than a kink. Am I missing something?

Again, what you just described sounds exactly like what they did to both Renee and Alex. I don’t see how some fake database changes that strategy at all.