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Pressure wash

This one (bath thermometer) goes to 111°F

EU have a freedom of expression law and multiple countries also have constitutional freedom of speech, including right to film police

Germany is also rather unique in having laws with opaque interpretations

https://digit.site36.net/2023/01/31/police-violence-in-germany-misuse-of-wiretapping-paragraph/

That meeting should’ve been an email anyway.

… Or, uh…

Not with those diets

Make Nazis Ballasts

A board of peace - after telling the Norwegian prime minister that he’s not committed to peace anymore because he didn’t get the peace price (and no, the PM doesn’t control the peace price)

At least the host country agreed to those

There’s real things to criticize, why pick something stupid?

You can move to a dictatorship if you want to be relieved of the option to vote wrong

If you can not understand a difference in scale then your school years was a cataclysmic disaster

That argument works when the difference is small.

That argument doesn’t work when one option is a cataclysmic disaster

But most importantly - when you look at what policies that Trump voters said they voted for, you could divide that into a fraction of voters voting for evil (plain stupid racists), and a large fraction voting for something positive which they had been told Trump would deliver - yet which he was objectively worse at. Most people voted Trump for the economy while told he was a great businessman, or for healthcare while told he’d make health insurance more affordable (but now he made it less), etc…

Almost every positive impact in the last decades that his voters attributed to him was delivered by his opposition.

This wasn’t an election lost to attrition. Your quote explains nothing about what happened.

There was more votes than ever. It was lost to propaganda and people being idiots, not seeing through the fraud. Trump’s policies lost every poll when names were taken off. Everything he wanted to do kept being rejected. But the propaganda machine made people distrust the people who delivered all the things they said they were grateful for, and to trust the liar instead.

Encouraging more democratic leaning voters would’ve made a difference however, you don’t have to assume linear proportional effect

FIFA peace price in shambles

Won’t melt like that, it’s absolutely going to fall over if not perfectly symmetrical

https://bsky.app/profile/sky.skymarchini.net/post/3mbiywglthk2f

Seems not worth it because it still needs more infrastructure

But it gets better (worse, actually) - they have low quality oil with the lowest demand and expensive refining

If a majority of the Taiwanese wanted to be ruled by CCP then it would already have happened

Congratulations you’re Mongolian (or Roman or British)

Do you have any idea how many countries do the same thing yet are considered different countries? Russia insists Ukraine is part of them (for incoherent historical reasons), you have the European east block, plenty of countries named East X versus West X.

You even mentioned Korea yourself where both insists they’re one country but the whole world understands there’s 2 separate countries claiming the same territory but each with control of separate subsets of that territory, and they de facto operate as separate countries. Considering the opposing government as illegitimate doesn’t negate its existence.

Your worldview is incoherent.

Hong Kong oppression against dissidents…

CCP didn’t take it when the current Taiwan gov moved there, they only took the mainland.

That’s literally the definition of how countries split in two

Oppressed minorities tend to avoid authoritarian states