I am prepared to be downvoted for this, but I believe in Occam’s razor here: do not attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity
I think it is much more likely that nobody bothered to check their background until it was too late.
I am prepared to be downvoted for this, but I believe in Occam’s razor here: do not attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity
I think it is much more likely that nobody bothered to check their background until it was too late.
To be franc (or to be billion francs), France has enough money, guns, and United Nations Security Council seats to give Haiti the middle finger
If they nuke Ukraine into oblivion, they’re not spending a single kopeck building it back. They’ll engineer a second Holodomor to “get their money’s worth” before that.
Interestingly, this law also paid the newly freedmen $100 to fuck off to Haiti
It’s easy when you only pay workers five dollars a day, work them like mules for twelve hours a day, are building in the open desert, don’t need to do environmental impact surveys, and use cheap building materials and workmanship that starts to fall apart after ten years
The Yakuza in Japan in past decades are a great example of what happens when organised crime does hire lobbyists
It was the UK that did that. In the US, slavery was abolished through straight up “property confiscation” (from the perspective of slaveholders)
France doesn’t have “trillions”. There is nothing that can be done to force France to pay, so demanding too large of a sum, even if justified, is a good way to get them to say “fuck that” and you get nothing.
It’s a nuke threat. Again.
This comment is shockingly bad taste on a post about innocent civilians being bombed to death in a war zone.
China isn’t doing this for the money. They do it to keep those countries under their thumb. It’s more like, “Yeah, you owe us a billion dollars, but we’ll forgive half of it and give you a fifty-year extension on the rest because we’re just the best of pals!” And then your country is expected to vote with China in the UN for the next three decades. On top of that, it makes the Chinese government seem really rich and powerful, which is helpful for both its internal and external politics.
China is trying to buy its way to the top like the US did in the mid-twentieth century.
Those last three words of the headline are doing some heavy lifting here
I’m honestly quite concerned that his cronies might actually succeed in stealing the election this time around.
They learned from their mistakes.
If you can’t take the heat, get out of Ukraine.
At what point does the US start playing hardball with the blatant hostage-taking?
“Don’t go to Russia if you are a US citizen. We can provide no assistance if you are taken hostage by Putin’s goons. You will be steamrolled by Russia’s kangaroo courts and we will not trade ten Russian murderers for your release.”
The funny thing is that the Belt and Road initiative as a way of buying friends has utterly failed. For example, China built a billion-dollar bridge in the Maldives connecting Malé with its airport on another island but public opinion of China in the Maldives is still low. That’s despite the fact that the entrance to the bridge has “China-Maldives Friendship Bridge” written in large letters on an arch over the carriageway.
I have a script running that uses the Namecheap API to automatically get wildcard certs from Let’s Encrypt. I didn’t pay a dime for this. Did something change?
Nothing wrong with Boost Mobile, or any other discount telecom provider either. It’s not like the phone signals taste different lmao
It is a war crime to intentionally attack non-combatants.