You’re giving them too much credit.

Trump is genuinely this stupid, and he’s also very insecure, which means he surrounds himself with people just as stupid as he is. Even when those people don’t agree with him, they keep it to themselves because Trump’s cult leader status allows him to completely destroy the standing of critics within his party with just a few words.

The result is monarchy; a leader deeply unfit for the role surrounded by sycophants who will nod in agreement to everything he says.

It’s a pleasant fantasy to think that there’s a plan. It would be nice if this was all by design. If America wasn’t being lead by some of the most stupid and incompetent people to have ever lived. Because what does that say about Americans, when their leadership are this pathetic?

But this is real and it’s happening. Trump is actually this moronic, and the people around him are stupid enough and craven enough to enable him. Those who aren’t, like half of the top generals at the Pentagon, get pushed out. The weak willed and the idiotic remain.

Completely correct.

Been using Seafile for years, it’s fantastic.

Good of the NYT to wake up to the problem they actively participated in creating.

Three years is the length of a bachelor’s degree at Oxford or Cambridge. Y’all are just bad at teaching or bad at learning if it takes you four to cover the same material.

Oh hell yes! Awesome update.

Why the fuck are we even talking about this? It’s juvenile bullshit, and the fact that it’s coming from the man in the oval office, while deeply embarrassing for American, really has no bearing at all on us here in Canada. I could not care less what the pedophile in chief wants to call a fucking lake.

I’m curious about what the client would be in this context. Does it require a desktop environment, or just an X server? Are you using an existing web browser, or are you rendering web content directly in the app?

You’re thinking of Venezuela.

Which also means that this won’t actually affect customer prices in the slightest. Those companies will just pocket the 25% discount on their input costs.

No surprise that it’s Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.

I don’t see this going anywhere. The companies bought the books, what they do with them after that is their business. Reprehensible, yes, but a massive stretch to consider this illegal.

There’s also a lot of ground between “Buying one copy of a book to scan” and “Destroying all copies of a book.” If they’re buying these in bulk it’s because there’s bulk to buy. Anything rare enough to be available in single digit numbers is selling at auction for six figures.

Look, I get it, this sucks, but there aren’t exactly a lot of legal remedies here. This is more of a “Capitalism fucking sucks and we need to dismantle it” kind of deal.

Yeah, like I said, this is just fanfiction. You’re not actually listening to or taking in, any new information. You’re just rattling off whatever story you just wrote in your head. Fascinating for you, I’m sure, but not really what I’m here for.

See, the problem here is that this is just circular reasoning. Like, this…

If mid terms had any importance to Trump, Trump the Brave would victory retreat in bravest tale ever.

Only works because you’re starting from the presumption that Trump can retreat, and then defining your conclusions from that presumption. Same with your arguments about Trump and Bibi. You’re just claiming that you’re right because you’re right.

So “anyone who wants to leave is a traitor who wants higher oil prices” but also the US wants higher oil prices, even though increased costs are fucking murdering the GOP in the polls?

I’m sorry but every part of this is so incoherent that I can’t even begin to follow your reasoning, such as it is.

You’re absolutely right that Israel wants to keep the war going, but seem to be entirely unaware of, for example, the stories that have come out from White House insiders about Trump screaming at Netanyahu on the phone for fucking up his peace process. Really not sure how that squares with your idea that Trump secretly wants the war to continue.

Not gonna lie, this kind of just reads like fan-fiction. It sits pretty firmly in the realms of “Well you can’t prove that it couldn’t happen”, but it’s not remotely clear to me what makes you think this is a likely outcome.

And it leaves your own question unanswered; “why not sooner than later?” If pulling out would be that easy, if the US could just bail, let China and the ME pick up the pieces, and somehow spin is as a victory, why haven’t they done it already?

The reason he can’t do that, as much as he would love to, is that Iran is under no obligation to back down just because the US does. They can, and will, continue to hold the strait hostage until the US comes to the table with a deal they like.

If TACO was an option, Trump would have done it months ago. It’s not, and that’s exactly why his reaction to this situation has been so wildly erratic. He has no idea how to deal with a situation where “just bail” isn’t an option.

I’ve been using it for years and this has never been an issue for me.

I literally addressed this exact argument in the comment you replied to, but you just skipped right past that part.

I disagree. I don’t think that’s the reasoning at all, because they don’t even think about it that deeply. It’s not about the idea that logically this course of action will somehow make the world better. It’s about the feeling that the world needs to conform to their twisted ideas of fairness, and that feeling overrides any reason or logic.

“He’s not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting.”