Different people will approach those social situations differently. Work, play, drinking, hanging out, flirting … everyone has their own ideas of what they enjoy or find inappropriate or don’t know how to engage with in various settings. The same individual is often wildly inconsistent across different settings.

Personal adaptability and the willingness to apologise or double-down according to what the other party expects are the only ways to avoid getting one’s feelings hurt and/or hurting others across a broad-range of experiences and individuals.

Of course, social isolation and intentionally keeping a small circle and/or routines are also valid options.

I downvoted at-first, but I just explained this to my son yesterday. Over 90% of us are sheep, and over half of that are just sheep who are concerned primarilly with the social-status and evident power/autority of anyone who tries to give them directions, no matter how correct or absurdly-wrong the directions. They actively despise the notion of thinking for themselves.

So you’re saying they responded to multiple parties with multiple resonses and one party with one statement?

Like I said, transliterated. Words/characters and phrases each translated individually, and the result run through the most basic of gramar-checkers, but things like gendered nouns are gonna yield results like so.

Of course, a lot of my fellow USians will confuse it for “woke”, and I think there’s more of this stuff getting them riled-up than anything.

Meanwhile, the Republican-lite Party(DNC) has actual catch-phrases and new-speak in-play that those same USians can’t tell from “book learning”. Some of it is genuinely funny until its constantly repeated in every media format, petition and campaign-donation request to the point of meaninglessness. My problem with that is its use as a distraction to keep real progress from taking place.

Normally, you would throw a “she” after “whilst” and maybe pepper other such words through-out, but I’m inclined to think this article was transliterated moreso than translated, so you’re almost-certainly right.

You think the boundaries weren’t spelled out? I mean, we all know “international law” is a joke 1st world countries ignore versus their own actions and the rest of the world, but versus eachother? “Don’t fuck with us and we won’t fuck with you” is stupidly over-defined.

The same for the financial enmeshment that sees this threat well-inside the realm of potential reality. Europe never promised not to sell these debts. The fact the US can’t complain about it if they do is part of what makes it a good threat. Are you not familiar with “soft power”, like, at all?

You might have begun to be onto something if this was the only threat in Europes hand, but let’s be real for a moment: the deck is stacked so badly in Europe’s favor towards a half-dozen or so Royal Flushes that come with a free(if unwanted) blow-job, and dozens of other relatively-painless-to-Europe-but-enough-to-Fuck-up-a-US-election-cycle-or-three options, its absurd, so saying “maybe they could, but should they?” is insincere and enabling at best.

Pretend this is a Zoo; The signs say such things as “Please Don’t Feed Pedo-Hitler”, and “Break Glass For Free Dart-Gun in Case of Escaped Pedo-Hitler” … you’re the person hemming and hawing about someone else maybe breaking the glass while escaped Pedo-Hitler stalks a pre-school class. Could you at least get out of the way of the other adults, or are you cool with it being assumed you are happy to see Pedo-Hitler on the wrong side of the barriers?

The people living there in 20 years STILL won’t control their own lands, you mean. If I’m wrong, I might then consider your implication that those people won’t count as Europeans, but to that I would only say “GOOD FOR THEM THEN!”

Trump didn’t specify how we would remove Maduro in the same way its pointless for Europe to specify exactly how they could or would retaliate. Its more than enough for there to be multiple options to make them all valid when it comes time to say “we warned you”.

Please don’t confuse my enthusiasm for one option that’s been shown to be possible and devestating, for me saying this is the only option Europe should consider. On the contrary, I’m just wishing they would pick an option that matters and run with it already. All they’ve done is show their belly like a submissive dog.

They don’t even appear to care about plausible deniability any more. Arresting Gaza protestors is just such a good, strong-arm look for going against Trump. Fear of Europe must be why so many churches in my area are flying Israeli flags at the moment.

As for how you contradicted yourself, you said “if the threat isn’t listened to then they act on it”, then went on to claim a threat that has to be followed-through on is worthless. On the contrary, a threat that has been known all-along is rendered moot when you spell it out long after the time for it is past.

Its the threat you have to verbalize that’s worthless. Holding a knife to someone’s throat to threaten another person is not the act of someone with any control over their present situation, and its a threat made-up on the spot that’s easilly invalidated in so, so many ways. That scenario is not applicable to Europe versus the US at all.

No one is proposing they rattle their saber. The scale of the threat has long been too great to bother speaking aloud, and putting it into words instead of action would just be laugable.

Again, the “listened to” or no phase is past the horizon, around the curve and honestly several hills and valleys back in the rear-view mirror. A threat that isn’t followed-through on or is spoken only after you’ll obviously never act isn’t even a threat any more; Its a mark of submission.

Nice job contradicting yourself in that second paragraph though. Let me ask you this: Did Trump bother saying we were going to, could, or “should” abduct Maduro in advance?

I held my nose and voted for her. None of my neighbors did. Your sympathy is misplaced.

You’re funny. You think the US isn’t full of people who wouldn’t notice if things got worse on the whole because of how bad they have it already?

The only one proposing its somehow worse that me and my well-to-do neighbors join them and maybe end-up remembering such a basic concept as Class Solidarity is you.

Why is your browser out-of-date?

I mean, I don’t like the site per se, but Firefox isn’t complaining for me, so I am legit wondering what browser you are using that does complain. Are you planning on giving that site your personal information?

Facts ≠ Opinions, although I am going by the title where it says “Can”, rather than “should”. I stated my opinion though.

Maybe Europe would act, if enough former colonies call them cowards.

… the time to do this shit has long been upon us. Who gives a fuck what they can do, until they do it? As an American, I’m begging you, put up or shut-up.

I didn’t vote for the baby in office, and I would gladly suffer to see his toys taken away by the adults.

So … almost sure-fire way to hit 40+ in a dead-end office job?

Nothing forces guns to hold their value like tighter gun laws. I know collectors that get excited about it.

“Chilling” … to who? Does he even seem to be enjoying life these days? His handlers would probably rather prop-up JD Vance as well, so …

Oh, and its Iran. The word you were looking for was “Comical”.

Who confuses baby-trapping for humor?

He wishes he could say it was new.

Tell that to all the text that comprises most content in every board. Calling it more of an imageboard than sites that devote almost-all of every page to images is backwards. 4chan is a forum or BBS-minus-dial-in with delusions of grandeur.

I love it for what its for, but “imageboard” really ain’t it, and has never been what it was known for. Might as well preach the glory/legitimacy of Pepe NFTs as that narrative.