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  • Cults tend to charge for immaterial things, and if you complain they say it's your fault it didn't work, and to fix it you need to give more.

    This is different.

    These are capitalist grifts where the victims anticipate a tangible exchange of goods.

    It's a lot harder to say a shitty watch is worth it when it can be appraised and assigned real world value.

    It's not going to be a huge loss of support, but like I said, this is just chipping away at the most feverant supporters, which historically is the best way to fight fascism. And Trump's doing it to himself because he's greedy

  • Conservatives do t understand consequences till they are effected...

    All these grifts do, is slowly chip away at his most loyal supporters, because they're the only ones even attempting to buy this shit.

  • Lol, the one positive review mentions how it's designed for "a very small wrist"...

    I wonder if this is just because it was made cheaply in Asia and not designed for the average heft of a trumpet, or if they used Trump's baby hands for sizing?

  • Yeah. I grew up on country and remember her first CMT music videos during my formative years.

    Waaaay before she was famous, and all the teen drama songs were appropriate.

    But she's had a death grip on that genre so long, her current competitors weren't even born when she released her first album. Legitimately, her first song released 19 years ago at 18, I checked.

    That's like people say all the "versions" are just a cash grab, but it's more nefarious, for over a decade when a young female artists releases a big album for that demo, Taylor drops a new version to steal sales away from younger artists.

    She's got a pure boomer mentality about it. She'll never try to bring the next generation on, she intentionally and consistently puts them down so she can maintain her position at the top of the pile.

    There's zero indication she can grow as an artist, and more and more people are considering that sad.

    Shes gonna go from the world's biggest start to a joke very fast, but it'll still take years to really start.

  • I'm convinced shit like paper straws is just to turn people against saving the planet.

    The fucking straws aren't great, but the real problem has always been the oligarchs and corporations.

    So they come up with stuff that won't help, but will get people pissed at climate activists.

    Shit's so obvious but no one ever talks about it. It's the same principle as means testing, divide and conquer

  • Apparently she made an incredibly juvenile song about how big his dick is?

    Like, not just a song about his dick and that is juvenile. But a song about him that sounds like a 7th grader wrote it.

    A bad attempt at Sabrina Carpenter's whole deal.

    So yeah, maybe you'll like at least one song on it...

  • It's crazy it took this long for people to get tired of a 40 year old billionaire singing teen love songs...

    Every "good" album was after she broke up with a bf, because that the only relatable experience she has to her fans. Lots of people called that getting engaged/married would be the end of her career.

    She simply has nothing in common with her fans anymore. But she's been a horrible person for decades, especially towards female singers who are younger than her. And now their fans are starting to realize who the problem always was.

  • It's insane how many people think if all the rational people left the government...

    That will somehow fight Trump's plan to make the government ineffective.

    Fucking toddler logic, and it's widely up voted.

    No wonder shit's so fucked.

  • She does have a point that it's weird we make teens change clothes, get naked, and shower as a group.

    Like, it would be less weird if they did it as children. But waiting until some kids start going thru puberty and then making everyone strip together while an inevitably creepy gym teacher watches with too much interest....

    The whole thing is fucking weird.

    Like, why can't shower stalls include a changing stall?

    Everyone's happy, and nobody's looking or being looked at

    Seems like a ridiculously easy problem to solve.

  • I'd think the clear analogy would be multiple dogs in the room...

    But it's clear no progress is getting made here, have a good one

  • If two people make a deal in private it doesn’t set a precedent for another private deal

    It does...

    That's literally what the word "precedent" means.

    If you give your dog a treat at 3pm every day, it sets that precedent. You and your dog in private have reached a deal which results in further expectations.

    There is no legal system in place there.

    But if you give the treat early, you set another precedent that early is an option and the timeline is negotiable, so your dog will ask early

    Like, "precedent" is a psychological concept ...

    Does that make sense now?

    Was the only time you've heard that word in the context of "legal precedence"? That would explain all of this.

  • Settlements are not part of a legal preceding

    Yes ...

    So when talking about "precedent" why are you insisting that there's an understood "legal" and what was meant was "legal precedent"?

    Which we both agree doesn't apply to a settlement.

    Instead of thinking I meant "precedent" as a common term which is literally what was said?

    I dunno, I'm over explaining it. I'm just fascinated with why you all aren't able to understand.

    Quick edit:

    Are you thinking of it like there's "precedent" of which there are "legal precedent" or "illegal precedent"?

    Is the issue that people don't understand it's two distinct and separate things and not just the same thing but one has an adjective?

    It's gonna bug the shit out of me until I figure out where the disconnect is.

  • Every reference to precedent in that definition relies on a court ruling to create it

    In the definition for "legal precedent"...

    Because that's the specific legal term in the legal system...

    The settlement wasn't a "legal precedent" because it was a settlement.

    But, it was literally a precedent and why he's pushing this now

    You cave to a fascist/bully once, it sets the precedent that you will cave and they will press you again.

    I legitimately don't understand why people aren't getting the distinction....

  • Precedent: something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/precedent

    Legal precedent: In the modern legal system, the term precedent refers to a rule, or principle of law, that has been established by a previous ruling by a court of higher authority, such as an appeals court, or a supreme court. Courts in the U.S. legal system place a high value on making judgments based on consistent rules in similar cases. In such a system, cases based on similar facts have a fair and predictable outcome. To explore this concept, consider the following precedent definition.

    https://legaldictionary.net/precedent/

    I'm sorry if you're still confused about how the legal system has their own definitions, but there's no way to explain this anymore without coming off incredibly condescending

  • It's 1000% sets a precedent, maybe not a "legal precedent" but words have meaning and you're using them wrong or don't know what they mean.

  • Asked for comment, the White House did not cite a specific law Mr. Trump believed was being violated, but a White House official pointed to settlements that media companies, including ABC, have agreed to pay after Mr. Trump’s legal team filed lawsuits against them, and suggested Mr. Trump was attempting to rein in “extreme left-wing bias in television.”

    If you try to appease a fascist, you only embolden them...

  • Weird...

    According to the Bible no man, no angel, not even Jesus Christ himself knows when the rapture will be...

    Huge fan of whoever convinced them to blame it on trump not releasing the Epstein files tho.

  • This is why you don't acquiesce to facsist threats...

    If you fold, they win for free, and can claim that it's a coincidence you do what they wanted.

    This morherfucker was posting memes on social media laughing about how it worked and had been intentionally planned. Now he wants to act like it was just an offhand comment.

    You have to fight every fucking battle, no matter how pedantic, how pointless, or how much plausible deniability they have.

    Don't give them a fucking inch for free, because if it's easy they'll keep doing it. If every inch is a battle, it runs down the clock and makes them want to just fuck off and go golfing instead.

  • 47 hours and 21 minutes before he was shot....

    Sounds like they got the intensity off a little tho:

    I want to make it clear, I’m not calling on dark forces to cause him harm. I just want him to wake up every morning with an inexplicable zit. I want his podcast microphone to malfunction every time he hits record. I want his blue blazers to suddenly all be one size too small. I want one of his socks to always be sliding down his foot. I want his thumb to grow too big to tweet. To ruin his day with the collective feminist power of the Etsy coven would be my life’s greatest joy.

    Maybe they forgot Venus was in retrograde?