re: #23 jamesfirecat

That’s like blaming people taking hostages on the fact that the police have shown they’ll exchange them for Pizza…

If the hostage takers are armed with squirt guns (obviously bluffing and unwilling to commit political suicide), and the police still roll over and give them not only pizza but a private jet to take them around the world and then offer a heartfelt ‘thank you’ for working together, then yes, it’s just like that.