krashmo

Putin could not possibly have any dirt on Trump that is worse than the publicly available knowledge we have of his personality and activities. If he's working with Russia it's because he wants to, not because he's being coerced.

Obviously it's Fox

Ok, fine, but is making the president put up collateral going to achieve that outcome? It seems more likely to encourage bribing the president to give wealthy criminals a pardon while ignoring those who can't pay the toll.

I don't think money is the solution. The pardon exists to correct errors in the justice system. It is inadequate and insufficient to solve all those errors on its own but it can be useful in certain contexts. I think we should be pardoning more people in a thoughtful way, not less.

Clearly the issue here has more to do with Trump being a piece of shit than it does with the existence of a system for granting clemency. You could make the argument that a review board or some other form of independent review would be a good thing to add to the process but you could also make the argument that the best solution is simply to not make a self-serving piece of shit the President.

Never seen someone give up on the last sentence they were writing like that

What is looking like more of an idiot than he already does going to accomplish? He's the most idiotic politician in living memory, by far, and there are some absolutely colossal morons on that list. The people who haven't figured that out are never going to. They will be praising him until the day they die.

Good for him. I'm staying here. Not because I have to. In fact, there are several relatively easy paths available to me if I wanted to leave. I'm staying because I refuse to let these fascist fucks have my country. Leaving is the easy personal solution but it doesn't help anybody else.

The person you're taking to online has a vested interest in defending the position they put forth. Someone reading your response who initially agrees with the person you're talking to does not have a defensive attitude to the same degree. Your arguments will be much more successful with the observer than with the other participant. You will probably never know if you had an impact on the observer. That's what you should be aiming for though.

You don't see how a comment about military service being generally unappealing relates to your comment about something making military service less appealing to women specifically?

Military service is already pretty unappealing to any empathetic human being imo

I hope you don't genuinely expect that to happen

If it's Putin's fault then no one in the US can solve the problem. If that isn't the case then there's no plausible way to avoid accepting that this is our problem to solve internally. Some people aren't ready to face that reality so they choose the comfortable oversimplification instead.