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  1. Sep 2024
  2. Oct 2023
  3. Jun 2022
    1. to forfeit more than $12.6 billion to the United States government

      Are they just going to keep all that money? Didn't the Mexican government help with this? The men capturing him were the ones putting the lives in danger. They could still pay with their lives...

    1. Never again will he pour poison into our country, or make millions as innocent lives are lost.

      Ah yes, you were the only country he harmed... or the one he harmed the most.

    1. Reich, Krause and Paabo all dispute this, saying they couldn’t think of any examples in which co-authors were given such a short time to review a manuscript.

      How "top tier" journal publishers are blind to the reality of other marginalised scientists.

  4. May 2022
    1. we must ask ourselves if the training designed to safeguard us against killers in our schools is the training that is working

      Of course that's the only question you can end with if your world is in sea of guns you have to be trained to navigate.

  5. Apr 2022
  6. Mar 2022
    1. reckless enough to provoke NATO

      "provocation" is a very risky word: provocation by words or actually committing heinous things that they "feel they need to step in"?

  7. Feb 2022
    1. to quote Thucydides, “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”

      oh, fuck you. the man has the authority... for now. he's not "the strong" in contrast to "the weak." you're ignoring the other nation's "strength" (and togetherness).

  8. Jan 2022
    1. government locked down Xi’an’s 13 million residents in response to a relatively small outbreak of the Delta variant

      This means the virus came from outside. If everything around you is burning, you might get some fire at some point.