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Moonies BTFO by spike in Thai parallel gay marriage

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Do it, Donnie! Put the 100% tariffs on BRICS countries and Spain.

The tradition of anti-intellectualism goes back a long way. Certainly to Nixon and to Goldwater as a candidate, probably even further than that.

It’s not a bug in America, it’s a feature.

If you can post this everywhere, and end up getting Trump to see it, you might be able to drive a wedge between Trump and Elon… sooner than would otherwise happen.

National Assembly says “We oppose trying to turn the country into an outright dictatorship, that was bad… but we’re not going to punish you for it.”

He’ll do it again when he’s more prepared. Trump team is taking notes too.

Employers hiring for 40 hours a week (empty line)

Employers hiring for 35.9 hours a week (crowded queue)

Source: The clouds.

You’re thinking of bigotry. White people don’t experience systematically unfavorable outcomes from the perception of their skin color.

The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Russia after Yeltsin

Russia during Yeltsin rolled in the tanks on its own parliament. The absence of foreign invasions was not for lack of malice, but for lack of capability.

The reason why ex-Warsaw Pact countries are flocking to NATO is because when the communists left power, the reactionaries resurged. And naturally the reactionaries in power wanted to be part of a right-wing alliance. But no matter what revanchists might tell you, living standards across Eastern Europe were better in the 1980s than they were in the 2000s.

since joining the EU

I hope you understand how this is an incredibly cherry-picked range. It’s like saying “look how steadily the American economy grew from the period of 1930 to 1940”.

Many Eastern European countries in the EU are still being hollowed out and suffering massive brain drain. The model of “tributary state” accurately applies here.