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  • China: Woman human rights defender Yang Li arbitrarily detained by police on her way to seek critical medical treatment

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  • Normally, you would throw a "she" after "whilst" and maybe pepper other such words through-out, but I'm inclined to think this article was transliterated moreso than translated, so you're almost-certainly right.

  • ‘People are mad’: First-ever parking fees at San Diego’s Balboa Park draw anger

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  • Nah. Sell residents a year-round pass at a steep discount, but half-measures are more easilly defeated.

    The people who can make things happen at all or stop them want to see progress before they get bored. They'll fund campaigns and such if there's nothing to show for the fees, or you'll hear nothing more about the backlash than an enthusiastic community member getting arrested at an open meeting.

    There are of course always people getting arrested like so, but when you don't want your side to look crazy, you make sure its "the protesters who obviously did nothing wrong" getting arrested that makes the news, or not-at-all.

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • You think the boundaries weren't spelled out? I mean, we all know "international law" is a joke 1st world countries ignore versus their own actions and the rest of the world, but versus eachother? "Don't fuck with us and we won't fuck with you" is stupidly over-defined.

    The same for the financial enmeshment that sees this threat well-inside the realm of potential reality. Europe never promised not to sell these debts. The fact the US can't complain about it if they do is part of what makes it a good threat. Are you not familiar with "soft power", like, at all?

    You might have begun to be onto something if this was the only threat in Europes hand, but let's be real for a moment: the deck is stacked so badly in Europe's favor towards a half-dozen or so Royal Flushes that come with a free(if unwanted) blow-job, and dozens of other relatively-painless-to-Europe-but-enough-to-Fuck-up-a-US-election-cycle-or-three options, its absurd, so saying "maybe they could, but should they?" is insincere and enabling at best.

    Pretend this is a Zoo; The signs say such things as "Please Don't Feed Pedo-Hitler", and "Break Glass For Free Dart-Gun in Case of Escaped Pedo-Hitler" ... you're the person hemming and hawing about someone else maybe breaking the glass while escaped Pedo-Hitler stalks a pre-school class. Could you at least get out of the way of the other adults, or are you cool with it being assumed you are happy to see Pedo-Hitler on the wrong side of the barriers?

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • The people living there in 20 years STILL won't control their own lands, you mean. If I'm wrong, I might then consider your implication that those people won't count as Europeans, but to that I would only say "GOOD FOR THEM THEN!"

  • Anger as suspect in $100M jewelry heist said to be biggest in US history avoids standing trial – because ICE deported him

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  • ... now do one where the only building on-fire is a bank.

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • Trump didn't specify how we would remove Maduro in the same way its pointless for Europe to specify exactly how they could or would retaliate. Its more than enough for there to be multiple options to make them all valid when it comes time to say "we warned you".

    Please don't confuse my enthusiasm for one option that's been shown to be possible and devestating, for me saying this is the only option Europe should consider. On the contrary, I'm just wishing they would pick an option that matters and run with it already. All they've done is show their belly like a submissive dog.

    They don't even appear to care about plausible deniability any more. Arresting Gaza protestors is just such a good, strong-arm look for going against Trump. Fear of Europe must be why so many churches in my area are flying Israeli flags at the moment.

    As for how you contradicted yourself, you said "if the threat isn't listened to then they act on it", then went on to claim a threat that has to be followed-through on is worthless. On the contrary, a threat that has been known all-along is rendered moot when you spell it out long after the time for it is past.

    Its the threat you have to verbalize that's worthless. Holding a knife to someone's throat to threaten another person is not the act of someone with any control over their present situation, and its a threat made-up on the spot that's easilly invalidated in so, so many ways. That scenario is not applicable to Europe versus the US at all.

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • No one is proposing they rattle their saber. The scale of the threat has long been too great to bother speaking aloud, and putting it into words instead of action would just be laugable.

    Again, the "listened to" or no phase is past the horizon, around the curve and honestly several hills and valleys back in the rear-view mirror. A threat that isn't followed-through on or is spoken only after you'll obviously never act isn't even a threat any more; Its a mark of submission.

    Nice job contradicting yourself in that second paragraph though. Let me ask you this: Did Trump bother saying we were going to, could, or "should" abduct Maduro in advance?

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • I held my nose and voted for her. None of my neighbors did. Your sympathy is misplaced.

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • You're funny. You think the US isn't full of people who wouldn't notice if things got worse on the whole because of how bad they have it already?

    The only one proposing its somehow worse that me and my well-to-do neighbors join them and maybe end-up remembering such a basic concept as Class Solidarity is you.

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • Why is your browser out-of-date?

    I mean, I don't like the site per se, but Firefox isn't complaining for me, so I am legit wondering what browser you are using that does complain. Are you planning on giving that site your personal information?

  • YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet.

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  • Facts ≠ Opinions, although I am going by the title where it says "Can", rather than "should". I stated my opinion though.

    Maybe Europe would act, if enough former colonies call them cowards.

  • In The War On Protein, We Have Been Humiliatingly Defeated By Protein

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  • Complaining about Protein. Fails to realize "Fuzzy Navel" is a doubled-up Fruit-pun that works as a double-entendre, and not the other way around. Peak Not-The-Onion fodder.

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  • ... the time to do this shit has long been upon us. Who gives a fuck what they can do, until they do it? As an American, I'm begging you, put up or shut-up.

    I didn't vote for the baby in office, and I would gladly suffer to see his toys taken away by the adults.

  • "Smoking Behind the Supermarket With You" New Teaser Visual and PV, July Debut

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  • So .... almost sure-fire way to hit 40+ in a dead-end office job?

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  • Nothing forces guns to hold their value like tighter gun laws. I know collectors that get excited about it.

  • This time bullet won't miss: Iranian TV airs chilling assassination threat to Trump

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  • "Chilling" ... to who? Does he even seem to be enjoying life these days? His handlers would probably rather prop-up JD Vance as well, so ...

    Oh, and its Iran. The word you were looking for was "Comical".

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  • Who confuses baby-trapping for humor?

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  • He wishes he could say it was new.

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  • Exactly. All you need is a woman whose only fear is getting knocked-up, then you just stop using condoms the moment she says, and all is well. EDIT: /s ... for at least 7 others here. How you need that spelled out versus the absurdity of the paragraph is beyond me.

    Congratulations on reducing the OP to a maybe-vaguely-appropriate-but-more-so-random set of four words though.

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