So, if the President was single and started going out with a woman who wasn’t the President or Prime Minister of a foreign nation, would that still be an abuse of power if the woman consented? What if she was a billionaire heiress? What if she was an actress half his age?

The issue that people seem to have is that 1.…

If the mere criteria of a potential abuse of power is the mere chance or fear of retaliation from one party towards another, then literally every single relationship is one where power is abused.

If a guy I like turns me down, and I’m friends with him on Facebook or follow him on Instagram, I could easily retaliate by…

Actually, what you described is a managemrny-led leveraged buyout. You can’t blame Bain.

The problem is see that many men will have is with your last statement “take a hint”.

The power dynamic thing is a bit of a stretch in this specific case.

Similar to the fact that lynching a black person and calling a black person the n-word are both not okay, but one is obviously worse than the other.

Hell, I’ll go further and say Black Panther wasn’t even the best comic-book movie released this year.

Infinity War knocked it out of the park, and was, structurally, a much better movie.

Also, T’Challa as a character was boring, poorly written, and was constantly in positions where he was reacting to the world around…

I think the fundamental difference is money.

None of those other religions liturgically require you to spend vast sums of money to access the knowledge that you’re ostensibly required to know in order to properly follow the various tenets of the religion.

Even in the case of a tithe, it’s not required. It would be akin…

You don’t understand the concept of “zero-sum”.

It’s zero-sum if the unsupported party is made worse off. A two person game with one winner is zero-sum as the loser is worse off than they were at the beginning of the game.

If I purchase a John Grisham novel, Stephen King isn’t made worse off. If there’s the possibility…

But, here’s the thing.

Depends on your definition.

It would be hard to prove that someone was specifically tanking, and if I’m not mistaken, unless there’s a financial reason behind it (such as gambling), the ATP/WTA can’t do much. You can be given a code violation, and a small fine, but those are usually overturned on appeal.

However, they have taken steps in the case…

Occasionally, it can. Granted, this is rare, but I’ve read stories of it happening.

Let’s imagine that you’re playing in a lower-level tournament with not a lot of prize money, however, if you go far, you’d end up missing a follow-up tourney (perhaps a Master’s level or Grand Slam) that would earn you considerably more…

Played since the 13th, just did Heroic MOTHERLODE!! and Freehold today, and I agree, way too much trash. It actually seems to be a problem with a lot of the outdoor/pseudo-outdoor dungeons.

I’d pull my hair out doing M+ on either of these, especially since they’ve killed secondary stats into the ground and now fights…

I get your points. Hell, I’m going through superhero movie fatigue myself.

I just think that, when rating movies, we sometimes have to take a step back and put certain biases that have no significance in the film to rest. With Wonder Woman, she’s great and all-powerful, but that isn’t something unique because she’s a…

Hot take here: Black Panther, while good, wasn’t even the best MCU film released in the year.

There’s also the fact that the plot is very formulaic, and the CGI was absolutely awful in many scenes (particularly the fight scenes).

Granted, this has been a rather down year for Oscar-bait movies, so in that respect I could…

White people won’t be the minority race in the country for a very long time.

What will far sooner happen, which I think you misunderstand, is that they will no longer be the majority race, meaning over 50% of the total population. They’ll fall under that percentage, but will still be 20+% larger than the next…

While it’s doubtful they could be tried for treason, it wouldn’t surprise me if they did violate the Espionage Act.

Put it this way: if Trump or any of his time revealed classified information to the Russians during any of their meetings, or by a proxy (perhaps as a means to sweeten the pot and convince Russia to…

It really is astounding that they’re fighting the battle, semantically, concerning the word “collusion”.

The thing is is that collusion, in almost all forms, is rendered illegal based upon what the collusion concerns. Business who collude to stymie innovation, artificially keep prices high, or to prevent new entrants…

He’s much, much worse in the book, but it’s also clearer that he’s suffering a mental breakdown and none of what he’s been saying has really happened.

So, our dear friend NSC patterned himself off of a guy born into wealth who is suffering from a serious amalgam of mental health issues.