They’re likely going to drag out her entire life story as a porn star to try to make her look bad.
It's gonna get cringey and gross. They'll ask how many men she's had sexual relationships with, how many of those were in exchange for money (conflating porn with prostitution), asking what she had to gain from speaking out, what she did with the hypothetical money, asking whether paid NDAs are illegal or even abnormal, etc. They're gonna try to harm her character and then distract from the actual crime which was that trump used campaign funds for this and didn't report it as such. She's gonna get dragged through the mud like Monica Lewinsky. She's brave for going through with this to make sure he faces some amount of accountability. It would be so easy for her to just give up rather than become targeted for speaking up. She's far from perfect, but we should all admire her tenacity.
That's just because of all the surgery Ivanka has had. She looked like him like 30 years ago. Barron looks like if you uploaded pictures of Melania and Donald to one of those programs that would tell you what your child together would look like. I have hope yet that Barron is capable of not being a piece of shit. He'll get no hate from me until he deserves it, and honestly with parents like his I feel like I can give him a few passes while he's maybe too young to know better than to just do what he's been taught. I want so badly for him to be decent against all odds.
Because they have been tricked into believing to their core that the other side is doing it already, so they have to do it too just to keep things "fair". And the influencers and media groups that are tricking them into believing these things will never be held accountable for the actions they are taking as a direct result of tricking them, so it will not stop and will likely continue to escalate. See also: January 6, 2021. Check out the Assault on America podcast on that which is just a few episodes by the same people who do Behind the Bastards.
Because I know my history. Nazi Germany expanded little by little. And we let Hitler do it several times, thinking he would stop after this one or after that one.
Good thing Russia stopped after Georgia... /s
Your economic hardship does not excuse a torrent of war crimes. I agree that there are war profiteers making out great right now, but it's silly to think that allowing Russia to do whatever they want and kill everyone in their path is somehow sticking it to the billionaire elite class and helping you somehow. And calling me a bot for pointing that out makes you seem even less credible.
You're asking so many questions that it's borderline gish gallop. I'll just focus on one:
If we are not willing to go all the way, what are we even doing in Ukraine?
This is likely why you're getting down votes. You're making two false assumptions with this question that seems to sorta sum up your whole point: first that Russia is willing to sacrifice everything and second that it would take us sacrificing everything in kind to push them back. Russia is running low on war machine fodder and is now resorting to tricking people into coming to Russia for economic opportunity only to be thrown to the frontlines. To my knowledge, no Americans are fighting in Ukraine. It's also worth noting that America is not the only country who should or is doing anything to help Ukraine; pretty much all of Western Europe is on board, and that's good news because it'd be pretty fucking dumb to ignore a raging fire next door when your house is mighty flammable; if Russia takes Ukraine, they won't just stop there.
At the end of the day, yeah I could see this escalating to a direct war with Russia, and I have very few concerns about that. I don't think that what we're doing is so little that we might as well do nothing and watch Ukraine fall. That's the most defeatist, futile, pointless exercise of a thought experiment I can imagine. That's like deciding to never eat again just because you didn't have time to eat breakfast this morning.
I'm okay with reducing my gas use and/or paying more for gas in order to keep Putin out of Ukraine. I know that not everybody has room to stretch their dollar, so I don't mean to come off as callous, but my minor inconvenience is easily worth stopping bombs from hitting civilians in Ukraine. We already know that appeasement doesn't work. Putin will not stop. Let's stop allowing money to decide for us whether we should let monsters thrive.
I get what you mean, but I really feel like the quality of original stuff is not up to the standard that they were putting out 30 years ago. I just rewatched Lion King the other day and I couldn't believe how well it holds up. Every performance ranges from great to fantastic, every song is really good, the score is fucking phenomenal, the animation truly pushed the boundaries for the time, and the story and dialogue are straight up Shakespeare. Encanto and Onward are good, but they're not Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast good.
At the end of the day, Disney is not in the business of making art this century; they're in the money making business. They make a product, not art. It's more profitable to make something that's just good enough to get people's money, and that's all they actually care about. Remember that with every culture war stance they take. They don't actually give a shit about LGBTQ rights or representation, they just know that they can get extra attention and sales from barely doing anything, and it's not far enough to alienate the Chinese market. Win-win. When they fight that dorky Florida meatball, understand that they're not on your side; they're on their side. If they could have it their way, they would own all media and distribution, and you'd never see another movie or TV show again without first forking over everything they can get out of you.
No, they're just doing what they're being paid to do by special interest groups aka big business. It's not a bug and it's not a feature; it's the point. Optimal profits this quarter. Every quarter is a new quasi generation of executives who want a good quarter before moving on after x quarters.
Has anybody jail broken these things yet? It can't be that hard to do, but I'm not tech savvy enough to know where to begin. There has to be a way to circumvent that lock and still be able to manually grab software updates that the user deems necessary (e.g. recalls). Would it be legal? Idk, if I buy a battery, I think I have the right to use the battery. If I buy a seat warmer, I think I have the right to use the seat warmer. If it's part of the car I bought, I don't see why I wouldn't be allowed to use it. Otherwise, what the fuck does ownership even mean?
The supply and demand of labor. Labor is a market and the market has decided that office work that can be done remotely but is being required to be done in person in an expensive city costs significantly more, either due to housing costs in the city or the cost of longer commutes. Don't like it? Move your office to a cheaper, less populated location.
I watched the first one and thought it was bad but not that bad. I really should've stopped there. It's actually kind of impressive that such shitty writing can get that level of funding. I know that it's for kids, but have a little respect for your kids' intelligence, people!
The answer is actually pretty simple. Musk is a man child who doesn't like criticism. He lives in a bubble. He fires people who disagree with him and listens to anybody who fawns over him. He appeals to the loudest ones he allows himself to hear. That's why he made that dumbass truck. There's not actually many people who want that hideous, broken monstrosity, but his worshippers shouted that they wanted a truck.
He's also scrambling to get money coming in. Twitter is falling apart. People are starting to wake up and realize that he's nothing more than a lucky nepo dipshit. To soften his losses, he's doing a shitload of layoffs and cutting corners wherever he can. Quality is dropping on his products that already had quality issues. Brand recognition and reputation will start to be a net negative factor as a result.
If he wants to turn Tesla around, musk needs to pivot to producing tech for other car companies and stop making cars themselves.
I don't really give a shit about gambling, but I wish it weren't like 20% of the ads I see and hear. Products and services that are advertised in America are fucking weird, and most of us don't really recognize that until we've spent time outside of the country. Pretty much all I've seen lately is gambling, medications, insurance, and political campaigning.
I didn't know that detail. It's a very relevant piece of context, so thanks.
Does anyone know what the general rules and expectations are for paying this fine to a NY court? It kinda feels to me like there should be a pretty quick due date on that, like a week or something. I get that not everybody will have a couple thousand liquid right away, so I don't expect "by the end of the business day" or anything, but at the same time it is a jailable offense.
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