Words I have to resist typing every time I’m called-upon to defend a one-off comment I’m un-pleasently-surprised I can remember making, but all-too-often, not the why.

I really should charge more for attempting to channel me-from-twelve-hours-ago. Oh, and polishing that ass-hole’s non-sense into something I’ll be even more confused-about tomorrow. I want to say “Stop asking me to iterate, it only gets worse”, but then I see the gibberish posing as a counter-point and realize, yes, we can make eachother worse.

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Ex-pats paid-up on their taxes are entitled to all of the protections any other citizen is entitled-to, else what are they paying those taxes for?

Your argument falls doubly-flat when the US isn’t even bothering to assist the tourists, so I’m not getting where you feel this thread is the place to remind everyone that you believe expats to be the scum-of-the-earth because …

… because what? They realized US Citizenship is worth more than US residence? Or rather, it was, until now. Oh, and this state of things is magically their fault too.

Must be why Republicans are pushing so hard to disenfranchise them, and even/espescially their children, because when one thinks scum-of-the-earth, we can’t neglect to despise those born in foreign lands without the good sense to return to the land of their parents birth. Hard pass, miss me with that non-sense.

You seem confused in thinking I see “ex-pat” as a desirable, enviable, or admirable status. On the contrary, while I don’t believe one should have to give up citizenship in one country to live in another, I don’t see for a second why money earned in one country should be taxed anywhere else - taxes should be paid to the country where that money is earned.

Even said country charging ex-pats more than its own citizens would make more sense, but every penny in taxes paid to the US from Ex-pats is money that would otherwise go to their local economy - arguably money being extracted from it. Nothing more or less than a tool of Empire.

Uncle Sam’s not going to care about that if they have to make money where they are to find their way home. “We won’t turn our overseas tourists into stranded expats who owe us taxes for the privilege of affording to come home” is the implicit promise being broken.

Expats are supposed to be able rely on the US government to help them get home in a pinch as-well, else they might as well ALL renounce their citizenship.

EDIT: highlighted, not added, the words “turn” and “into”, for those convinced any and all American tourists left to their own devices can make it home before January without a dime more than they’ve brought with them, from countries whose transportation and monetary infrastructure are and are going-to-be subject to repeated and un-predictable disruption for the forseeable future, to say nothing of the availability and affordability of room and board.

Cool. Stop trying to tax their foreign income then. Helping your citizens escape a warzone you created is near bare-minimum standard for “country” status, let-alone “first-world superpower”.

Maxwell was implicated directly in witness/victim testimonies, and her being brought to trial/sued contributed to the collecting of the files themselves.

She was publically-embroiled to the point I had thought she was actually arrested first, until your comment led me to look-into it again.

TL;DR: Ghislaine doesn’t count.

… now all we need is the save-file for the PS3 Minecraft tutorial world.

I’m guessing they mean mostly un-currated/un-modderated? … “features” I don’t desire in such a site anyways.

How are you still even bothering to reply? I figured would end-up blocking you before you would shut-up, but this is just sad. I’m not flexing for your skinny or obese ass, whatever the case may be, but in-person, I’m certain you would have run-away or been carried off on a stretcher by now, and probably taken-down by a by-stander before I had to take your threats seriously or bother hitting back, at that.

Do Aussies not have Friday’s or something?

Look in the mirror. Asshole≠Wrong

You took personally a statement addressed to anyone who happened to read it, a statement parents the world-over make when told by a stranger, or “society”, others could do their job better, their priorities are wrong, whatever.

Whether it was meant to provoke you personally or not, whether I could tell you would or not, you made the leap to running with it, and I cannot fix that for you, and it does take you solidly from “I don’t know you, stay away from my kids” to; No really, I now know more about you than I ever would have asked for and I was more spot-on in the first place than I realized, stay away from my kids.

That’s how you took being told to stay away from my kids and the statement that they are already creeped out by people like you? People who can’t handle being told their parenting advice/perscriptiveness and proclivity for labelling strangers as un-fit/inexperienced/ignorant parents is un-wanted?

An apology for a statement of my personal stance and a fact about my kids’ demeanors isn’t going to happen. Stop using strangers’ statements of trust/distrust as an evaluation of your own overall trustworthiness, for starters. I don’t trust myself around anyone’s kids more than their parents trust me, so why should I apologize for not seeing you as an exception to that? The fact you would apparently expect such is the instigator of my misgivings.

Overall trust isn’t something to expect or request, and versus the children of another person or “children in general” that goes infinitely more-so.

You would have to buy me one to do that, but fair enough. Good day, m’lady

Fair enough. I picked up on the idea “something’s not right here” and aggressively proded you rather than de-escalate or use my people skills really. Showing weakness on the internet usually gets others going for my throat, so I find its easier to make that happen intentionally in the hopes the other party realizes “wait a minute, why did I let this stranger get me going like this?”

… more often, I end up having to block people, but you didn’t quite give me enough reason, even if I did tell myself that was coming next a few times. See you around.

Now who is confused about who they are replying to? “Just Install Linux” wasn’t my comment.

You made that very clear from the start

This, I’ve gotta hear. Do you even have anything to say or any idea how far down an off-topic and de-railed thread you’ve chosen to step in?

If you’re so certain you’re up to the task, then by all means, correct me, pickled-sensei. I like a good chuckle as much as anyone.

… Yeah, no. Nothing I’ve said to you was meant for anyone else, and I doubt you’re a day older than I, almost as much as I doubt any child who has escaped your clutches ever talked to you again.

Wait, are you still on that non-sense where calling it your article means calling you the author? If you struck me as someone capable of feeling shame rather than hoarding personal affronts not entirely for you like little treasures, I guess I could have called it “your source”, but let’s be real, that was never going to help you back to the support group you’ve stumbled out-of.

First three words of it were the location, by the way. Imagine thinking the average mid-town Los Angeles family has such a nice yard…

Obviously you’re not the author, or your stanning of this non-sense shouldn’t have dipped into such weak-sauce semantics. Pretending that’s what I said was an amusing conceit though.

What of it? My nipples get cold too!

Nothing I’ve said was any less warrented than your “fuck you” bullshit. I know when I’m diving into the mud, unlike you.

Also, now who didn’t read the article from the OP? Somehow, it doesn’t surprise me that looking up the locations of places mentioned in an article you’ve repeatedly attacked others for “not reading” is a step far beyond your wheel-house.