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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thousands of years you say? That sounds Mexican to the ICEstapo.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (7 children)

As I always said, the US never cared about the defense expenditure of European countries except as a way to bolster US exports.

It was always about extortion and never about defense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Nothing and everything. That's the point.

One key part of having a sustainable dictatorship is applying rules arbitrarily, so most people aren't affected until they are.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

*illegal immigrants, according to the ICE

That's the "trick" Trump regime is trying to go for. Claim only American citizens have right to due process, and then they will be able to remove anyone they want because no one will have the right to prove they are not immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The Trump administration got a human trafficker in Romanian custody free for some vacations in the US. That's the only thing I have to say about the US and people in foreign custody.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If it's a Lower Decks continuation then having a similar tone to Orville season 2 and 3 could split the difference.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Contraceptive effectiveness is usually not measured by number of times sex happened, it's measured by comparing how many pregnancies happen in comparison with the normally expected in a given time period.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

The US interferes with foreign custody regularly, both through legal and illegal channels. The judge will only accept the excuse if he's dumb.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

As a native Portuguese speaker I found it very useful when I started to learn English. And even nowadays having some form of "visual map" between English and Portuguese at least for more erudite words - which tend to be the ones that are shared between more languages - helps me write English better.

The similarities between English and German also ended up helping me learn German.

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

Going by how ortography changes have gone in other languages, I doubt it.

Besides English, if English fix its ortography it's going to become much harder to learn for speakers of other European languages - as confusing the pronunciation rules and exceptions are, they are caused by writing things similarly to other European languages while mangling the original pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You forgot domestic abuser. Among other things that I'm probably also forgetting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Revolutions need organization. Organization needs third spaces were people can meet, discuss, and organize. Most of the US has basically no third spaces outside of churches, and this is very much by design.

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