At this point the Trump admin is just trying to find the best way to back down without looking weak. They don’t really have a plan to do so, they’re just hoping some other shit storm takes center stage.

In the case of Australia, our government decided that it’s not worth trying to secure a deal for a number of reasons:

• the whole world is in the same situation, and our tariffs are less than others, so others can do the heavy lifting
• we’re not really adversely effected. We don’t sell heaps of things to the US and they need to keep buying the stuff that we do sell.
• you can’t really make a deal with someone who will discard the deal as soon as it becomes beneficial to do so.
• whatever concessions we might offer are better used in other negotiations.
• China is presently wooing us and we’re more desirable since we’ve curtailed our long standing romance with the US.

The rubric is going to be similar for other countries.

If nobody bends over for Trump he will end up fucking himself.

IKR. This was the obvious answer 24 hours ago but here we are discussing wear patterns and contrast.

Why is no one else talking about this.

There’s no debate. It’s at the top of the stairs.

You sure as shit can’t vote for anything anymore. Well done.

I’m in my mid 40’s.

It’s not particularly uncommon for people in regional Australia to own their own house with no mortgage by my age.

It’s pretty tough to find a family home that costs less than 10x average wage.

So, as a kind of line in the sand I’d say maybe a third of 45 year olds living in regional Australia could “survive” for 10 years with no income.

Yes it is. Trump campaigned on genocide and got elected.

How are things going in Gaza and the middle east now?

Do you think the Trump presidency is going well for Gazans?

This analogy is wearing really thin.

The candidates were not promising the same thing.

Trump is rolling out the policies he campaigned on. Tariffs, being mean to poor people, and owning the libs.

He did not promise ice cream.

Thats not a viable choice though.

The viable choices were ice cream or cliff. Choosing vegan ice cream is functionally equivalent to not voting.

He’s completely unable to read the room. Understandable really, he doesn’t exist in the same world as the rest of us really.

So… the rest of us aren’t perfect but IDK if id say “humanity” has failed. America certainly seems that way.

Eugenics in America predates the third Reich.

The consensus throughout this post is that its the brand of TP.

OP had a problem about cleaning, asked a question, received an answer, and know knows the solution which will enable them to clean their toilet.

You’re here trying to shame someone for asking a question about cleaning.

Yeah the genocide angle is just “both sides” with sprinkles. It’s a really effective misdirection.

Trump is attacking everything and everyone is either helping him or ignoring him.

I’ve never seen this.

Fuck off.

I knew this would be here.

Q: “How do I clean my bathroom?”

A: “I clean my bathroom you dirty pleb”

The bum gun does take some practice.

You pretty much shuffle forward a little, position the BG behind the disaffected area, at an obtuse angle to your sphincter, ease on, I mean really ease on the gas until you can confirm that all splash is going down into the bowl, finally you can really pucker up and hit it.

The thing is… you still need some TP to dry off after.

I don’t really know anything about the situation you cited.

For any community hosted by a corporation like reddit, the answer has to be pretty much: no discussion of self harm in the first person will be tolerated.

For communities hosted in the fediverse it’s more complex. If I were an admin, I wouldn’t allow a community to discuss self harm in the first person on my instance for a variety of reasons but most of them boil down to: Mods just don’t have the skills, experience, and resources to discern between what is an appropriate or inappropriate discussion or comment.

While a safe place for this type of discussion could potentially be therapeutic in some way, the potential for harm is just too high.

Additionally, overt patriotism is usually nationalism.

Looking at this meme in the first panel, pride in who you are eventually becomes pride in who you aren’t if you feel it strongly enough.