Scott_of_the_Arctic

Oh I am in no way excusing statutory rape. Dirty little fuckers need some jail time for what they did. All I'm saying is that rich people in the 80s and 90s where waaaaay more likely to get away with it because the people enforcing didn't really care. So they were more likely to actually do it.

The age of consent was seen as nothing more than a technicality until relatively recently. I'd be shocked if the list didn't include a large number of prominent democrats as well as the usual suspects from the republican party. Also most wealthy donors to both parties. The Epstein files are going to be full of rich people, because the rich think they're untouchable and always embrace their worst impulses if given the opportunity. Political affiliation is irrelevant.

The point was never to increase efficiency, it was to give musk access to confidential data.

Yeah, my parents actually met when they were stationed in northern Ireland in the 70s.

As someone who lives next door to Russia, fuck that with a rusty fork! open borders are great between Britain and Ireland or between Schengen countries because there's a level of shared values and goals and no aspirations to expand. But if Estonia for example opened it's border to Russia, the entire country would be annexed within the year. And they'd all be shitting in buckets too.

There's a fairly secure high standard of living throughout Europe, which is largely because Russia isn't part of it. Yeah geography Russia is parry of Europe, but no-one considers them to be. Similarly we don't necessarily need china sending a few million people into Mongolia or open borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

It's a lovely sentiment, but grow up.

Yeah, but skatteetaten is just a plausible cover for what they're actually doing there. All the skatteetaten jobs have been automated for years.

Mo I Rana doesn't exist. It's a fasade put up to hide the government facilities from people on the train. I only knew one dude from Mo i Rana and he was definitely a robot.

Of course numbers per capita make more sense. That's been my point the whole time. I'm not trying to gaslight anyone. And you know sometimes the USA needs to be reminded that they aren't "all that", because apparently American exceptionalism extends to arguing about protest turn out with random people online.

You realise that Donald kiddie fiddler Trump isn't the president of Scotland right? He's objectively your fucking problem. You ought to be grateful for any foreign countries who want to help out. I never said there were proportionally more people protesting in Scotland.

If you look back at the comments, I've only ever argued with your position that any country that doesn't field 5M protesters isn't outperforming the states. Which, by the way, is still some grade A stupidity. I've no fucking idea how many people showed up, but as previously mentioned trump is definitely more of a problem for the USA than anyone else so I genuinely wouldn't expect that many to show up.

However if the first minister of Scotland did even half the shit trump's done, Edinburgh would fucking burn with the riots.

Yeah people within a country will talk raw numbers, but it's a fucking stupid way to compare mobilisation between countries. 100000 in the Scottish media looks a lot more impressive than 5m on an American news station. At this point I'm not sure wether your trolling or huffing solvents.

Protests are measured in raw numbers because if you said 1.4% of the population of the usa gave enough of a fuck to turn up, it would show just how little you people care about What's happening in your country. And if you compare that to the protests Georgians had about the Russification of their government, they had raw numbers of around 169000 at the low end, but that's over 4% of their population. So yeah if you want your passive population to seem politically engaged, by all means use the raw numbers, but nobody's impressed when the survival of your country is on the line and only 1.4% can be bothered showing up.

Yes Scotland has a population of approx 5.5M so in order to have a higher percentage of the population protesting they'd need to have 80K people take to the streets just like Greenland would need 760 people to outperform the states.