If you look at this situation from an older mindset, i am above thirty, you would definitely tell them in a very direct and short conversation. Maybe even be playful about making them feel guilty, that’s what most people with more life experience would do.

Doesn’t she realize that to an authoritarian government, the senate having the ability to break his power is the most threatening thing ever : the more you wait the more you need to be fearful because your life will be shortened. Right now, it is in Trump’s best interest to disappear congress and the supreme court. And the supreme court is mostly dealt with by now because proven powerless. He has two years two deal with Democrats and way more time to deal with whoever he believes a problem, but the senate is an everyday threat to his power.

Isn’t that the strategy? Real estate goon style! Bully everyone that you consider week with a tsunami of unpredictable problems, get a deal with one of them to show its possible and offer crumbs for each to settle. You then wait for all to grow tired of the storm and offer worst conditions as time passes. This strategy will involve chaos, one negative example and one positive example.

This guy gets it. 100% agree.

Then second step : shared responsibility for theft like if someone buy a car in your name you aren’t stuck with 100% of the problem because the dealership is 50% liable. Third step : Insurances need to be available for the residual risk but with 50-50 liability everyone will be on their best behaviour.

What’s the next chapter in this story? Some hackers leak the personal info of all ICE grunts and they gets involved in all kind of accidents? In the last century, in Germany, moderates got declared undesirable anyway so now that they have a chance to organize beforehand. Some states ban ICE altogether and becomes safe havens? It’s easy being mesmerized and keep on with “but that’s illegal” , do something else happen? A few millions angry Americans can’t all fit in a 40000 person prison.

Well, they can only loose my vote once and it already happened a looooooonnnnng ago!

This is too chaotic to read, it says more about the state of your mind than the content you tried to express with this word salad. Don’t let the anxiety spiral, it’s not worth it. Let’s assess if damage was done :

It’s very simple : did you or did you not respect the sexual and emotional exclusivity with your boyfriend from the date you discussed being exclusive? Outside of this you are free to have conversations with anyone, just let your boyfriend know emotional stuff before anyone else. Also if people you had sex before are still in your life somehow, he should learn this from you and the sooner the better.

Relationships are diverse but the one thing that transcend any diversity is : you should feel like a team with your partner. Do anything to cultivate trust and if trust was broken you can only wait to see if he can overcome the issue and trust you anyway. Sometime it’s gone forever and you can only learn how to behave better in the future : no blurred lines in regard to sexual and emotional intimacy. You don’t only want to be factually exclusive but also to avoid appearance of infidelity whenever possible.

No consensus about the question but if i had a FWB, the sex with the FWB would stop when date number two is planned : keep things calm in my own head if it works, go back to FWB if it doesn’t.

A) Be honest, at what point did you expected to receive money and not give access to chatting or picture exchange? You where selling something, it was meant to be personal, unless you are okay with the whole concept it was very flawed from the start. Shocked Pikachu face meme and everything. I am surprised he was onboard with the concept : it seems that both you and him are uncomfortable living through this process. Maybe rationally he thought he was okay with it but emotionally can’t handle it. Like je changed his mind.

B) Your boyfriend will have seen this as a lapse of judgment. Before you can convince him your judgment won’t ever fail like that again you need to figure out if you are uncomfortable from the behaviour itself or from your boyfriend reaction to it. He can’t ask you this in a respectful manner but you need to destroy in a permanent way all social media account involved in this process. Then talk to him honestly what changed in between the original discussion of a sugar daddy and the recent rejection of it. He was just as naive as you? Open communication.

If I was in your boyfriend shoes and in love in my twenties i would have tried to make it work… in my thirties i would most probably have left but wouldn’t have accepted any form of online sugar daddy to begin with . I know this whole comment is pretty harsh but i believe in telling the truth. None of this means you can’t be a descent person outside of this naively managed situation.

Then what if the process doesn’t stop? Bonds interest keep on rising until June-July. The not independent anymore central bank intervene and the USD devaluation gets spectacular!

I wonder… if your buddies went long on stock this week, do you push it just a bit higher before the next storm, so they exit?

It would be hilarious for the Truth Social early warning to be true-true-false. At some point he will do the opposite and only the closest insiders will profit.

I split this evolving situation according to different scenarios and try to weight their relative probability. What’s the motive, where’s the gain?

A) 80% Some variation of pure incompetence where they tried some shit with whatever aim and weren’t prepared for the hard pushback they got served quickly and decisively. Current events are capitulation, at least for a moment.

B) 15% We are in a Russia-like scenario where this administration needs to govern from fear : population fear deportation and can’t elect another government and fear from the companies that he can crash anything at will without remorse : pay regularly to avoid the destruction of your business model. Mafia protection tax will be lucrative for the few people at the very top.

C) 5% Wider destruction of society with genocide and a new flavour of slavery. Luckily this one is difficult and stoping at a mid point, pivoting to B, is easier. Achieving stability in a “network city” scenario doesn’t seems plausible to me : one small example: try to manufacture stuff to give your ruler class quality healthcare without any scale because war killed so much people… modern stuff is outrageously complicated.

How can we price the stock correctly if we don’t know how much of the profit margin needs to be cut to account for bribes? If Apple shouldered the bribe on its own is this a disadvantage when their competitors gets tariff relief for free? Do they pay every 3 months or every year? Maybe we learn the bribe price on the quarterly conference call? Apple has some kind of leverage against the US government and this isn’t an expense?

I have more questions than a three years old!

Attributing all the merit to Carney in a time of election seems a bit… optimistic? No doubt he was an insider on this brilliant strategy but giving him the unshared paternity is a bit of a stretch.

Whoever came up with this first isn’t ultimately important : I will gladly vote for someone smart enough to understand the strategy and with the connections to push it and see it implemented. No other PM candidate can have me sleep at night with the trust that we try to protect our interest with the best strategy available for our limited ressources.

Also the “if the US won’t lead the world, we will” comment gave such a hopeful vibe, it reminded me of Obama or Jack Layton campaign style.