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by padjo 9mo ago
I think you have a very poor understanding of European politics. Not even Meloni and Farage will get behind this sort of behaviour from the US.
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by padjo 9mo ago
Venezuela has been an issue for all administrations since Bush. Greenland has never been an issue because there is absolutely no rationale for it. The US can put as many troops there as it likes and is welcome to try to profitably extract m
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by padjo 9mo ago
They’re due to rule on his tariffs soon. If they find he exceeded his power then a real showdown starts.
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by padjo 9mo ago
The EU/Mercosur deal looks like it’s going to pass too. This move will only make it more likely. America first will become America alone pretty quickly.
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by padjo 9mo ago
I don’t buy this at all. Russia is a relatively small economy with a tiny fraction of the EU population. The US is not going to launch a shooting war with Europe. Europe is not going to back down here. This Greenland thing is deeply unpopul
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by padjo 9mo ago
Also from the EU and I think the EU cannot back down here. The only way the US gets Greenland is if they seize it or the population votes for it. A tariff is just not going to make a difference and underlines to the EU how craven the US has
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by padjo 9mo ago
If I had a hammer…
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by padjo 9mo ago
Apparently some people on this site think there’s such a thing as unbiased information.
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by padjo 9mo ago
Have you ever taken a media class? It really isn’t.
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by padjo 9mo ago
Yes because people are famously good a judging their own work accurately
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by padjo 9mo ago
Trying to lose weight through exercise is a fool’s errand. It’s fine for maintaining but if you want to lose weight au natural then you’re better off spending your mental energy on learning how to deal with being hungry all the time.
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by padjo 9mo ago
We could stop companies spending billions shoving the heroin down people’s throats with advertising. But I guess selling them more drugs is a better solution.
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by padjo 9mo ago
Or they weren’t actually that nice and people were being polite.
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by padjo 9mo ago
> stop its bureaucracy and cleanup its act What does that mean? Do you have any idea what the EU is?
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by padjo 9mo ago
That is exactly the problem. The first past the post single representative systems all have this feature. It seems almost inevitable that they will just because of that. Some sort of representative system will reduce this disconnect between
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by padjo 9mo ago
Should be possible to give a good estimate if you know the camera configuration. Clearly the car didn’t hit him very hard if he’s still holding a phone in one hand afterwards. To me this video confirms that the story from the administration
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by padjo 9mo ago
It doesn’t have to be a good idea for it to be their rationale. They have stated it publicly to the media a few hours ago and you refuse to believe, how utterly bizarre.
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by padjo 9mo ago
So Trump has now explicitly said that US companies are going to take over the Venezuelan oil industry. So much for not credible.
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by padjo 9mo ago
I disagree but that’s hardly the salient point now is it.
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by padjo 9mo ago
You seem intent on not understanding my point. Absolutely none of the details matter, the broad strokes of arresting someone in a foreign jurisdiction and taking them by force to your country to face trial sets about the worst precedent ima
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by padjo 9mo ago
By that definition no foreign intervention could ever be unilateral because you can always find some local group to support you. By that logic the English conquest of Ireland was locally supported because the Earl of Desmond supported them.
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by padjo 9mo ago
“The concern about whether or not it's right or wrong for the US to go and arrest Maduro depends largely on how one views the recent Venezuelan election results” Again, no it doesn’t. It’s the unilateral extraterritorial interventionis
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by padjo 9mo ago
It shouldn’t be difficult to see this as bad, but I guess the future will tell. I hope for the sake of the Venezuelan population things go better than the last time the US decided to initiate regime change.
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by padjo 9mo ago
No it doesn’t. If he was a fruit vendor in Caracas it would still be outrageous to spirit him out of the country by force.
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by padjo 9mo ago
So capturing a citizen of another country, who happens to be their leader, and spiriting him out of the country is cool with you?
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by padjo 9mo ago
An awful lot.
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by padjo 9mo ago
I’m far from an AI booster but this sounds like a perfect job for an AI classifier to act as a gate keeper. If you can convince the AI that your bug report is sufficiently detailed to be actionable and issue gets created. Should reduce the
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by padjo 9mo ago
In your mind what does a “Russian claim over Europe” mean. Do you really imagine a country with one third the population of the EU is going to dominate the EU + UK?
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by padjo 9mo ago
Russia has an immense capacity to endure suffering and sacrifice lives. It’s basically their secret weapon.
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by padjo 10mo ago
I’ve been hearing about the rise of the Chinese car industry for 20 years, judging by the number of BYDs I’m now seeing it has finally happened.

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