Interesting. Must be newish because that wasn’t a requirement when I signed up a few years back.

I’m sorry you had alcohol problems that led to such difficulty, that really is awful and I’m glad you got better and changed your life. You’re barking up the wrong tree though, the only thing I’ve been close to being addicted to is Adderall in my party days, and as soon as I felt like I wanted to skip work and have fun instead, I stopped using it. That was 15 years ago. I drink socially and always have, maybe a drink every three weeks or so.

And I have a vibrant offline life, thank you.

Are you claiming mattress girl didn’t happen? Because that’s a pretty wild take considering all the court transcripts available, documenting everything. Not sure how you call that not-history. It happened. All of it is documented. False accusations happen. That’s the point of what I’m saying.

You’re asking why I don’t just fall in with the masses claiming someone is guilty without evidence? It’s not about who, it’s about why. I don’t care if someone is an asshole it’s not a reason to condemn them for something if they didn’t do it.

But do go on with your bad self.

It sucks that sort of thing happens, but as long as its not happening again and that it didn’t happen while in office I’m good with that. We all make mistakes. Im glad his DUI didn’t lead to a death

What sort of crime jams? It really depends on the type. For example, I voted in the guy who has felonies on his record, but laws were changed in order to make those charges felonies specifically to charge him, and there was no victim. So, it’s a situational thing for me.

I have a hard time with the death penalty. I don’t think it should be used unless 100% certain guilt, like DNA evidence. But even then, stuff can be planted. And I used to say video evidence, but even that can be faked now with the rise of AI.

So I lean more towards not having a death penalty, and using multiple life imprisonments instead.

Everyone who disagrees with you isn’t a troll.

I hope we do, very much so, but only because I think everything should be transparent in government.

Both Dems and Rinos hate him so much he’d be gone if he actually did what he’s accused of. Innocent until proven guilty and there’s no evidence of guilt.

Have what? He’s “credibly accused” too, isn’t he? His niece wrote about him in her journals.

Lol. Good for you, getting back up on your feet.

I’m using mattress girl as an example of how simply believing accusations can go very, very, very wrong. Not all women lie about sexual assault, but the very fact that some do means we cannot condemn someone merely for the accusations. As a 41 year old, you should understand that concept.

But isn’t that interesting, that your response is to just forget that it ever happened because it didn’t happen last week. How very simple that would be, if we just forgot past lessons. Hey, in that spirit, we should just forget Hitler, he happened much further back than mattress girl did, so he should just be that much more forgotten then, shouldn’t he?

It’s wild that your argument is “forget history,” but I’ve been thoroughly entertained, thank you.

He’s been accused, but that’s it. Accusations don’t make someone guilty.

So, if it comes out that he did actually do it, fine. But the evidence actually points to it being a political hit job.

Not Joe Biden though?

So why were these FBI agents charged and sentenced then?

Edit: read the article, I didn’t see any hard evidence. just accusations. See: mattress girl for why accusations aren’t sentences

Can someone explain to me why this is pushed so hard? I read up on the issue, and it was a friend of his who was trafficing girls. Then an FBI sting tried to coerce his father by offering a ton of money to get him to say his son was in on it. Local FBI set his dad up with a wire and they actually arrested/charged/sentenced the FBI agent who tried to go after him.

Like, this is easily findable information.

Wow, Bernie is willing to work with actual Hitler?? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Barcelona was nice to see, but I probably will never go back. The tourism is so heavy that even when there on the off season and being incredibly nice and respectful, the locals don’t like you. Worth it to see the more famous sites, but when I go back to Spain, I won’t be going there.

Agreed. Get the heck away from Denspar and don’t even step foot in Kuta Beach, it’s not worth it.

Bali was amazing.

Depends on when you visit. I went during September and it was beautiful and not at all crowded. Didn’t smell, either.

Agreed. It’s for people who don’t like to sink deep into a culture. They want the short touch so they can pull back and leave asap.

I could never go on a cruise, the time constraints would drive me crazy.

I guess it depends on the type of philosophic thinking.