Pelicanen

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're either an apologist for totalitarian dictatorships who falls for propaganda as easily as MAGA cultists or you're just straight-up trolling. The racism accusation was really the cherry on top.

I have never even visited the US, nor do I have any intention to.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (10 children)

First: No I cannot, the people of China do not enjoy freedom of press or freedom of expression, so finding out the actual statistics can be very difficult.

Second: What is your point? Two governments can be bad simultaneously, and even more than just two. Just because I oppose Israel's genocide doesn't mean I suddenly support Iran's totalitarian leadership.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Considering that the driver managed to stop without colliding with a sudden obstacle, I'm not quite as sure that they were going too fast. Other driver caused a major danger by not respecting right of way.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (13 children)

The enemies have never been the Chinese proletariat who toil and slave for scraps to feed the demands of a capitalist, consumerist society and always the greedy, totalitarian faux-socialists with a love for concentration camps that form the ruling party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This was literally my second sentence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Voter turnout was roughly 64.1% and out of those, 49.8% voted for Trump, bringing the total to about 32% of eligible voters. While one can absolutely make the argument that abstaining from voting implicitly supported Trump as Republicans typically fare better in low-turnout elections, it's not exactly factual to say that the majority of citizens voted for him

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Non-joke answer: Indian Pale Ale, a style of beer popular with a lot of homebrewers and beer enthusiasts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sweden, long known for being neutral (up until joining NATO last year) and peaceful, can by law compel every single swedish citizen between the ages of 16 and 70 to serve during wartime.

Exactly as you state, almost every sovereign country on the planet likely has some version of this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Per capita means it's adjusted for the population. Both China and India are large polluters but they are the two most populated countries in the world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Starts with green card holders, then it progresses to those who weren't born in the US via denaturalization (as the administration has already started with), and finally it gets to all citizens. The people cheering for this are the ones who don't realize that the leopards will eat their faces sooner or later as well.

I don't know if it's related to the culture of American exceptionalism, that people are so used to the idea that they're special and that they won't be affected, that they never even stop to consider the possibility.

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