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As a cat owner… house cats are definitely terrorists but I love 'em.
As a cat owner… house cats are definitely terrorists but I love 'em.
Is the fine more than a hundred billion? If not it’s fucking chump change to Apple.
Not all militaries are equal. Iran != Canada - don’t fall into both-sidesism.
That’s some exceptional watering down of the word terrorist you’re participating in there. Keep going and your both-sides-ing will make it so the IDF’s actions don’t seem abnormal at all!
I am sure the bizarrely numerous Greek billionaires are completely unrelated to their economy being fucked and not a clear sign of how deeply inequal and stratified the Greek economy is! Lots of hyper wealthy and destitute citizens means that everything is working, right?
To be fair, it’s a needlessly permanent and scary sounding term for a regular part of the functioning of a parliamentary democracy.
Most parliamentary systems also allow snap elections - there is usually a maximum length allowed before the next election but the PM can always call one earlier.
This has happened pretty frequently up here in Canada and Trudeau will time elections after good news if the LPC polling particularly strongly.
I think this is an overall good thing, it means that as long as a party is delivering success about once every four years it can remain in power - while allowing it to do the unpopular but necessary things in the interim. A hated party can’t survive in power, but a party that invests in the long term can thrive… it does have a dark side though. The party in power may engage in frivolous bullshit before the election (like unproductive handouts) to try and sway public opinion. It’s up to the public to see through short term bullshit and judge a party more long-term.
Shock therapy produces a twitch in the economy. Whether we’re reviving the dead or whether this is just an on-paper improvement has yet to be seen.
I celebrate the performance, but the BJP is still the plurality party. Unless a left wing coalition can form a majority (and I’m not nearly familiar enough with any parties outside the BJP and INC) Modi will still be the prime minister just with vastly reduced power.
I’d qualify this less as “fighting” and more “stopping the bleeding.”
In its current form, I agree, but national borders only exist to cause inequality.
Yup, it fucking sucks. Now, imagine how bad it will get if Putin starts embedding FSD agents into the migrants to intentionally attack officers or set off small explosives in the crowds.
The people who will end up the most screwed are the migrants themselves as they’re used as cover.
Please keep in mind, we all know they’re fucking price gouging and we know that they previously formed a cartel to fix bread prices. Galen Weston is a fucking asshole.
Yeah, I have some Salvadoran friends and I am well aware of how bad it was getting. Something definitely needed to change.
Eh… I mean, he has cracked down hard on gang violence, but it’s been brutal and also swept up a lot of innocent people, too. Was El Salvador close to becoming a failed state like Haiti? yes - does that justify such a militant crackdown? I can’t tell and it will take at least a decade for us to get a sense of how accurate or excessive the crackdown was and how many innocent people were apprehended.
Obviously unfortunate especially with his excessive jailing… but given the other crazy right wing authoritarians crypto-bro isn’t at the top of my “the world is ending” list.
Hey no worries, as someone with ADHD you’d be amazed how often I accidentally imply exactly the opposite of what I state… and my communication isn’t always the clearest.
Absolutely, and that’s awful and wrong.
My point was that wealth and standard of living increases don’t require colonization. They could have progressed without needing to oppress native peoples.
Trains, bitches - and WFH for people who have no business being in an office.
Is prefer to phrase that differently. Most rich nations had the ability to build robust economies with steady growth without exploiting the global south… they just exploited the global south to get even richer.
It’s not required that someone else suffer for a nation to get richer - and that’s what makes it even more disappointing that that exploitation went forward.
That’s more a comment on how die-hard committed the political class is to perpetual war than anything else.
Also, while I don’t appreciate Trump being elected… the DNC seems committed to running some of the worst candidates they can find - the fact that there was information that damaging to Clinton that didn’t come out in the primaries is the part we should be mad at.