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Nothing else hits like a good old-fashioned European museum jewelry heist.

I didn’t express any emotion, just asked where you heard that.

So you’re just making an assumption, or an educated guess?

Where did you hear that?

This is as close as I can get to respecting one of these guys.

Not real respect, but an appreciation that some of them still feel a sense shame.

Maybe it isn’t exactly promising, but it is a glimmering turd in a sea of shit.

Not hard to find, but hard to properly leverage.

This is the result of a multi-year effort by China to insulate themselves from very specific retaliatory measures i.e. leverage the USA had over them, but not any longer.

She just feels strongly that there isn’t enough water sports in the curriculum.

He literally makes an analogous comparison in the first sentence to cigarettes and social media.

So I say again, why were you ignoring the obvious comparisons that I was referencing with my reply?

And for the record, I completely disagree with your apples vs oranges dismissal.

They are not apples and oranges, as both cigarettes and social media use are directly linked to statistically significant poor health outcomes in people who use them.

But, if you really have a problem with that comparison, you should have replied to the person who introduced that lengthy line of conversation and not just people quickly responding to it.

Why are you ignoring the comment that I was responding to?

It’s not me who made the comparison.

Social media is way worse, and it’s not even close.

I would imagine that for a country that imports so much food, protecting domestic food production is also a serious national security concern.

Garland did as much as he was meant to, which was basically nothing.

The government has been in various stages of collapse ever since the leftist won big and Macron allied with the right to prevent them from taking power.

This is just yet one more item of fallout.

Sweden has a fairly active and violent gang scene.

Would be surprised if this wasn’t gang related.

Edit: if that headline was in America, I would assume it was a school shooting.

Given that it was Sweden, I assumed differently and early reports do infact confirm gang involvement of some kind.

Article is light on details, but it sounds like shooter was gang affiliated, but unclear if any of the targets were actual gang members, or just unlucky victims of mistaken identity/wrong place, wrong time.

https://swedenherald.com/article/police-increase-presence-in-gavle-after-weekend-shooting

Would your comment make sense if I had read the article…?

Another win for New Labour.

Keep it up boys!

That’s an incredibly myopic take that confuses correlation with causation.

These moves may benefit Putin, but Russia isn’t the only county to benefit. Infact, Russia is in a historically weak position to fill gaps left by a receding American empire.

I’d wager that China is likely to see much more geopolitical gains because they have the resources and capacity to take advantage of the situation.

I’m not saying Putin won’t benefit, just pointing out how limiting it is to view Trump through a singular lens.

I don’t understand the naysayers here.

This is hilarious. Trump wants to simultaneously expand the American empire, while he dismantles the tools of it that he’s too stupid to understand the importance of.

No matter their mission statement, or any tangible benefits they might have provided, both USAID and VOA, were tools of empire. These aren’t mutually exclusive concepts.