I can’t wrap my head around how people can ignore all those red flags
They use threats and urgency to pressure people into paying faster that they realise it’s a scam.
I can’t wrap my head around how people can ignore all those red flags
They use threats and urgency to pressure people into paying faster that they realise it’s a scam.
The cynical “Don’t idolize your politicians” line doesn’t teach people to read the tea leaves and pick better leadership. It just teaches them to throw up your hands and assume everyone is the same.
Saying all politicians are the same just rewards the worst politicians because it means they face no electoral penalty for their failings, and the better ones gain no electoral advantage from not stooping to those lows.
Does STAR have the problem of score voting that not giving every candidate either the maximum or minimum score (effectively approval voting) is effectively throwing half your vote away?
(also it looks like there’s a glitch because your comment appeared four times)
Heard an interview a while ago with a founder of Just Stop Oil who clearly said he doesn’t care whether they even stop climate change (around 40:00-43:00).
What does Vincent van Gogh have to do with the current state of the petrol industry?
It’s famous, so attacking it gets attention.
They’re both problems.
Never heard of it. It’s difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.
That’s more complicated than it sounds. An export strengthening the currency is a significant part of Dutch Disease.
Don’t all countries have this problem?
It’s in the last line of their comment:
But I also get worried that sometimes communies attack their closest allies for being imperfect harder than enemies actively working against their interests.
I bet no one remembers even a quarter of this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
The heedless shitposting for those who don’t remember: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
Guy made a couple of lucky investments and convinced himself he’s a superior being.
Yes, that is exactly what I was saying.
Vague memory, but on looking it up, it’s even worse
The only one of these that is remotely acceptable, to me, is Tilda Swindon, because they explicitly detached themselves from the character to avoid getting shat on by the CCP for casting a Tibetan and from Americans for casting a Chinese person.
That makes it worse tbh
Yeah. Two civilians dead for every one militant is fairly typical for asymmetric warfare.
Musk has objected to legal orders to remove some posts and accounts in Brazil and Australia, claiming he was a champion of free speech, although he has been less vocal about removing content in countries such as Turkey and India.
What a coincidence he doesn’t have a problem following countries with leaders infamous for oppressing minorities.
This says 37 dead, of whom Hezbollah have stated 31 were their fighters.
The submarine dock was in Sevastopol, which is Russian-occupied Ukraine rather than Russia.