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Who's going to sanction who? This thread was talking about lying on a resume. You think a country will impose sanctions on another for something as menial and stupid as that? Countries don't use sanctions unless it's billions of dollars or many lives involved.

Rather contested, that notion is.

It's not a matter of being fair. You can't forcefully extract funds from an entity outside of your jurisdiction. Countries that have agreements on inter federal law enforcement will never persecute someone in their own borders for another country if the charges or suit would have no merit in their country.

Yeah, you can sue anyone and maybe even win in U.S. courts. But collecting wouldn't just have some hoops for a stupid lawsuit not recognized to have any merit by the country of the defendant - it would be entirely impossible.

Russians must be really stupid to believe that shit. Almost as stupid as Americans who believe Trump's shit.

New tech is almost always more expensive as it is being developed. It becomes more efficient over time as it scales up and as improvements are figured out. You only see the new tech becoming available at the retail level once it's cost has come down to around the same as that of existing solutions (unless there are non-market forces, like governmental policy at play). So the new stuff comes in at the same price, but then has the potential to get cheaper to produce. Of course, unlesss there is an abundance of supply, the retail user won't see a cost reduction (unless there are non-market forces, like governmental policy at play) because the business using the new tech will charge what the market will bear to maximize profits. And the market cost is already established with the old tech.

Or a dial up BBS menu with "press alt-h for an IQ test".

But then the universe would have popped out of existence and been replaced by a more complicated one.
Again.
So we got lucky there.

Link?

Interesting take. But there is some truth to the notion of 'human nature'. Humans do act certain ways; we retract from pain, we attempt to solve problems and communicate. Whether it is 'human nature' that dictatorship power corrupts people can only be inferred by the examples we have seen. If you can show that a dictatorship didn't lead to abuse of power in some significant number of cases, then it would be proven false. But there's the problem - and it's more of a logical one - no system can make everyone happy and so from at least some perspectives, any political system will be seen as corrupt by some. So we can never have a dictatorship that isn't considered corrupt. Just like we can't have a democracy / capitalist society that isn't considered corrupt by some. All we can do is look at observed general patterns and try to extrapolate. And there aren't enough examples to do a really convincing statistical analysis. So far it seems that humans in power always abuse that power, so it's reasonable to conclude that that is a natural human tendency, like continuing to breath when able.

Sorry but no. If you think abortion is murder and so vote GOP despite it supporting pedofiles, then you have chosen to support pedophiles. That's your choice. If you want to keep trans women out of women's public bathrooms and so vote GOP despite it supporting pedophiles, then you are supporting pedophiles. If you want all non-whites kicked out of the country so you vote GOP despite them supporting pedophiles, then you are supporting pedophiles. It's a choice. If you want to make poor people suffer more and give more money to billionaires and get rid of environmental protections so you vote GOP despite them supporting pedophiles, then you have chosen to support pedophiles. You can say you don't really like pedophiles but vote for other reasons, but however you slice it, you have made a choice to support pedophiles.

Is this Israel backers trying to distance themselves from Epsein's evils, or Epstein supporters trying to distance themselves from Israel's evils?