The cancer example is plausible, but I am not sure you would always win.

In that case you are asking for help for a specific reason. They “get to feel good about helping solve your problem”.

Your deception deprives them of their having done something good with their money - which is the tort.

In OP’s instance, he was saying that he had a birthday and you are giving him a gift.

Not the same - you can make the same argument, but it is even thinner gruel.

There is no mention of any consideration (a legal term meaning he didn’t promise them anything in return) provided by the “boyfriend”.

This would not be fraud under English common law.

This seemed a little clickbait-y

Remember when there was a natural disaster on the East Coast and when there were fires in California and Texans said it was God’s judgment?

I do.

She will get reelected by the citizens of northeast Georgia because they vote.

Do you?

(More of a comment to the average reader, not an attack on OP)

If your proscriptions were adopted, at least 4 billion people would starve and/or die from disease.

Kennedy doesn’t care.

This is what happens when you vilify the safest weed killer ever discovered because “chemicals are bad”.

Not to mention that the kind of anti-scientific hysteria around glyphosate led directly to Robert Kennedy Junior.

Sorry I’m an old. What is Tung tung tung tung

It is the lowest possible bar. If anyone can’t get over that, voters should at least know.

There is a new website tracking whether politicians will go on the record to be against bribery.

I wonder if they will note this?

https://www.broad-center.com/

Except for maybe these folks plus the people we don’t know about in El Salvador

Mahmoud Khalil • Syrian‑born Palestinian and legal U.S. permanent resident. • Detained by ICE on March 8, 2025 in New York—reportedly without a warrant—under a rarely used immigration law citing alleged national-security concerns tied to his activism. • Held at LaSalle Detention Center in Jena, Louisiana, for 104 days, separated from his family—including missing the birth of his son. • Released on June 20, 2025, after a federal judge deemed his detention unconstitutional, finding no flight risk or danger.

Mohsen Mahdawi • Palestinian U.S. green‑card holder and Columbia University student. • Arrested by ICE on April 14, 2025, at a citizenship interview in Vermont . • His detention prompted immediate habeas corpus filings; held in St. Albans, Vermont. • Released on April 30, 2025, after a federal judge determined his detention likely aimed to suppress free speech.

Plus this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance

But if you do, you’ll get cancelled.

An actual human did that to my dad

It is on brand

I disagree, they can close the straight because missles.

However 100% of Iranian oil goes through that straight so what they are doing is reminding us not to blow up Khargg island.

Whatever Putin says it is

Putin gets his drones from Iran

100%.

PLUS

Putin is hanging Krasnov out to dry on Ukraine.

Also, just guessing, there was a crappy role model or two.

You have an unconditional right to self defense against a dog.

And I loooooove dogs.