FuglyDuck

yes… it’s improved dramatically.

which is why 18,000 waters got ordered instead of 8 (or whatever.)

congratulations on showing your ignorance. keep being insulting. keep making that assumption.

ask yourself why Will Smith was never actually charged. If you’re right, and that’s how our criminal justice system works, we know Will slapped him. We know it wasn’t some consensual thing. solid evidence there. So why wasn’t Will charged?

Was it because, hey, no crime was committed?

no. there were no charges because the expenditure of resources (aka wasting everybody’s time for a trial that everyone knows will fail to get a conviction.) You were right. the DA has prosecutorial discretion. meaning they’re the ones who make the decision. but that power also includes deciding when not to prosecute.

Once again, because it’s pretty clear you don’t read my comments: I’m not defending Will. You can stop adding things to my comment anytime now. You can stop explaining something incredibly obvious, which I have never argued.

Also you need to stop watching TV and movies, police and the DA have the ultimate authority to press charges in the US and they do it all the time. The law isn’t not-broken cause one party didn’t press charges. That’s honestly kinda adorable

They’re not going to prosecute a crime where the victim doesn’t want to testify or wants it dropped.

Because those become very hard to win, and they’ve got their win/loss ratio to worry about. It isn’t about whether the crime was committed or not. It’s about if they can win in court.

Tons of crimes go unprosecuted because one reason or another makes them difficult to win This was a relatively minor, one-off incident where the victim doesn’t want to press charges and the perpetrator has stellar legal representation.

Ya’ll tell on yourselves too much when you say things like “most.”

Seems like you understand it quite well.

You’ll notice there’s a difference between understanding a motivation or impulse and acting on it, or indeed, condoning the act.

And we can also quite happily describe what Will did as wrong, just as we can be critical of Chris for making the joke in the first place.

That you seem think Will’s action invalidates any inappropriateness in Chris’s actions is itself pretty telling.

IMO they both suck. And we can say what the Oscar’s should have done with Will. I don’t really care. Cops aren’t going to press charges if the person assaulted doesn’t call for it regardless of where it happened. But also Oscar’s should have vetted that speech and been like “maybe don’t make fun of a person’s medical condition.” Which likely would have headed the whole matter off. Details.

I didn’t say it did, don’t put words in my mouth.

I did say I understood the impulse.

As for slapping instead of punching? Me.i would.

Broken hands are not fun; and once you’re there, you’re gonna want your hand working afterwards.

Chris rock.

He made a joke about Jada’s Alocopeia (the hair condition thing, if I spelled that right.) and also some jokes about their open relationship.

So, most of us can understand the impulse, I imagine. And most of us have enough sense not to make fun of medical conditions on a stage that large. To their face.

I’d love it, if we decided to test some kind of ICCBM missile with a “tactical kinetic warhead” (like a small rods from god type situation here,) and then we’re just, like, “ooops sorry for dropping that giant murican dick on your kremlin. There was a guidance error and it reverted back to its original computer. So sorry.”

If we’re lucky he’d even be home, but the asshole is probably somewhere in hiding. Wouldn’t want the drones to find them.

Wanna bet the romantic relationship was compromising in some way? Like banging the board’s chairman’s daughter?

Or someone inside the company? (I’m imagining something beyond simply dating someone. Maybe something with “favors”)

or themselves, apparently

I will never understand how it’s not universal condemnation.

It’s been pretty obvious what they were about inside of a week after oct. 7th.

he looks like a deranged oompaloompa who fell into a vat of hair bleach, too.

so, out of curiosity, how many of those GBU-whoseiwhatsits designed to penetrate back doors… does trump have left?

Bet by next monday… that number goes down again.

Yeah.

So, total societal collapse is rather unlikely. But a storm or earthquake or fire knocking out power, internet, etc for a week or two is…. Extremely likely.

So while the semi full of ammunition would’ve been more helpful in the latter scenario, it’s not so helpful in the far, far more likely scenario.

For the record, you should all have a go bag. Not like doomsday prepper go bags with a dozen cross bows and a semi truck full of ammunition and shit, but some clothes, some food. Medication and basic first aid, etc. copies of all your important documents.

Especially in the US with how FEMA is going. Have a plan. Have supplies for the plan.

But… eh…. Prepping for this ? Naw.

You’re not wrong, but like. Imagine, if you will, Hegseth needing to be sober to speak into a microphone or tweet something out. Or otherwise be a SecDef.

Seriously.

Somebody should put a breathalyzer interlock device in that guys mic. And his devices for posting.

It’s missing “idiotic” in the description, somewhere, though.

c’mon, incidental explosions are what make life exciting!

Its really not even all that shocking a thing. Like. Seriously. Anyone whose paying attention can see that AIPAC has congress by the short and curlies.