removing individual freedom is never good

I generally agree that prohibition doesn’t work, and is bad, but having an absolutist position like this is usually problematic. For example we have to restrict some people’s freedoms. Like some people want to harm or kill others, that should not be a freedom people have.

Most things in life have a lot of nuance, which means we can’t usually make blanket rule for things.

In saying all that… Prohibition usually doesn’t solve the issue, sometimes makes it worse, and often ends up hurting people who are already suffering (usually why they resort to harmful substances)

Don’t forget the last one in Qatar

The “best” part is that none of these end up taking into account the fact we’ll cook ourselves/the planet from excess heat waste long before climate change can finish the job

And this was before ai started to speed up the job

I don’t know if cloony said it before, but a bunch of actors said they’d “leave the country” if Trump got elected, then didn’t. So it’s nice to see someone follow through

Oh. I guess I needed the /s on the first part or there’s a misunderstanding, because we do agree

a way to say that he got to talk about whatever he wants

I can’t tell if your serious but he absolutely did not get to talk about what ever he wanted. Their jokes were limited and had to be vetted beforehand.

He actually got to talk about whatever he wanted in America. He just didn’t like people telling him his jokes were bad and he was being bigoted

The joke is “haha! see? I’m not funny! I’m just a soulless piece of shit grifter”?

What… That’s not funny. He’s using an ongoing tragedy to deflect from his blatant hypocrisy.

Freeer over the by the way, where they, checks notes, literally took his script and said what he could and couldn’t say.

Fuck that bigoted hypocrite

He was well before this. When he was in his local town hall complaining that they were making affordable housing near him and letting “the poors” get too close.

Mistakes as well as “mistakes”.

Yes it is flawed, but it was basically “give the 5 largest powers veto power, or they don’t participate”. If they don’t participate, it would be even more ornamental than it currently is.

Ideally they would have more power to stop shit like this, but the UN as it stands is better than nothing. They do bring countries together to talk things through that otherwise might not have and have successfully de-escilated issues in the past.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t expect, or push for, better, and I’m not saying this is your view point, but I do see the sentiment that they’re useless/do nothing quite often.

Walking out won’t ultimately achieve much… But it’s at least better than sitting their and letting him feel validated in his psychopathic plans.

Actually it has some factual basis. He’s wealthy, it would be bad for him, he thinks he’s the economy. He just has a big, selfish, ego.

The US government loooves to kill unarmed kids

Not just hours. Like 80 hour weeks to get to that rank.

It also died while he was live streaming nazi support to the AFD in Germany. So he was clearly not playing then

It feels so weird, and a little scary, to see people praising brave journalism when they’re basically just staying historical facts… It’s that not normal journalism? 😅

Can you imagine if he turns “full on maga”, sings trumps praises, claims woke mind virus made him do it. Trump Pardons him and invites him to the white house. He 2 for 1s Trump and musk

It also depends on its mortality rate. The, article says 50 died but over 900 infected.

Still incredibly high, but initially it seemed like it was much higher. If enough asymptomatic, or non deadly people catch it and pass it on, it’s still pandemicable, just less effective.

You’re confusing completely averting things, with mitigating how bad they are.

I live in NZ. At lockdown protests people had Trump flags and were saying we were violating their first amendment… So much stupidity