If you start shit and then pussy out and let the enemy start pushing you around and you demand no one respond, you were better off not starting shit.
Because now you just look like an ineffectual pussy who will talk a big game and then fold when facing resistance. And China notices.
It's bizarre and inappropriate the that president of the United States is taking calls from multiple journalists in the middle of ongoing strikes - thinking out loud about US/allied diplomatic and military responses, and telling reporters what he's going to tell allies before he tells those allies.
No criticism of the reporters -- they're doing their jobs. But insane that POTUS receives -- and often answers --a wave of calls from journalists as events unfold in the middle of his wartime decisionmaking (and, yes, it's a war).
And it's even more disturbing coming as it does from a leader featured in a morning broadcast interview that demonstrates in such striking fashion how detached he is from day-to-day reality.
This is unhinged. If a family member behaved this way, you'd worry about them. If a CEO behaved like this, the board would meet. He's living in an alternate reality and furious when a person won't indulge his fantasies.
@buffalopaddy@bendreyfuss Lastly, Fifa sells blocks of tickets to third party vendors as a hedge against the uncertainty and for greater reach. Fifa gets the certainty of selling a block of seats to seat geek and maybe receiving an additional percentage of the sale. Nothing nefarious in this.
@buffalopaddy@bendreyfuss If demand is lower than expected forcing fifa to lower prices of seats in comparable seats of which I purchased, then that does not mean I get a refund from fifa for the price drop. Why? Because at the time I paid, I made the decision to do so to guarantee I had a ticket.
@buffalopaddy@bendreyfuss Generally speaking, an organization setting dynamic pricing on luxury goods (which Fifa tickets are a luxury, not a necessity) to an amount you dislike, does not make it fraudulent or shameful. They may have overestimated a bit, but they can adjust pricing based on demand.
@buffalopaddy@bendreyfuss I don’t think it’s that big of a mess. We’re already seeing FIFA respond to market demand and so prices have started dropping precipitously. The market will work these things out without any intervention.
I literally cannot understand why every trans woman doesn’t automatically get that normal women find it incredibly insulting to be referred to by their reproductive capability.
Being called “Gestating person” by law? It’s degrading.
Did y’all just miss all female socialization? Do you just never talk to women outside the leftist extreme? I cannot tell you how many DM’s I even get from progressive democratic voters that are like, “Thank you I absolutely hate this.”