Also, the thing they’re agreeing with is just antisemitism. Maybe the racial supremacist isn’t saying it for that reason, but it sure sounds like PP is.

And Zionism is a cultural movement separate from both. This fucked up shit is fucked up because Zionism is fucked up, not because Judaism or Jewish people are unusually bad.

There are multiple ways to balance a budget, but the conservatives only ever want to cut services, because that’s the outcome preferred by the rich. And regardless, a minority government really shouldn’t be trying to fundamentally reshape government structure. If you want to have that level of change, win an election.

And this after the most recent election saw the left take the largest share of the votes because the neoliberals’ rule lead to gains by fascists. Elections be damned, failed governments be damned, just keep trying more neoliberalism.

Enjoy the bonus down vote for your asinine second edit proving you’re not just a stickler-for-legalism reply-guy and entirely missed the point. Is this one of those examples of conservatives approaching the world differently because they just fundamentally don’t understand the concept of empathy?

I dunno, we also just get bored and angry when our national cock is publicly embarrassed for a long time. We didn’t sour on Afghanistan because of too many deaths, we soured because it should have been over already and nothing we were doing seemed to be actually progressing toward a incontrovertible win. It was an ongoing demonstration of our limitations.

I agree, but it actually kind of makes a worse case for them. Sometimes investments don’t work out. Sometimes loans are defaulted on too, but we have a much greater expectation that loans should be repaid.

If these people “invested” in 2023 expecting a certain level of growth and now we’re in 2025 and the growth wasn’t maintained, that’s their fault for making a bad prediction with their “investment”.

“Have to” assumes the consequences of not doing it are worse than doing it. Sometimes it’s better to just walk away from a loan and accept the consequences. Yeah, maybe Ukraine will be screwed in the process, but that doesn’t get them their billions back.

“Which is why I have decided to reduce the amount of time I dedicate to sinking it.”

The NYPost is a crappy conservative tabloid. I don’t know why people keep posting stories from it.

They will if China threatens to punish them for it. Making it the other country’s own interest to not fuck with them is the whole point of the warning.

From another story about the event, it wasn’t even like odd jobs for a host, it was small job remote work for people in Germany and Asia. Stuff they would be doing at home and just kept doing during downtime on a long vacation.

Don’t reply to any business emails while lounging by the pool, you need a work visa for that!

You really are shockingly naive. Yes, CBP officers are assholes dispositionally eager to treat non-Americans harshly and changes in administration do change policy, both explicitly and implicitly. Like their comrades in ICE, they’ve been itching to “get tough” the whole time.

Do you seriously think German teenagers were regularly getting strip searched for muddled responses to whether they would do any work and it was just for some reason not reported on prior to a couple months ago?

I’ve never once heard about German teenagers being strip searched because they had a bad answer about whether they would do any work during their vacation.

It being based on Spam is pretty accurate to the name. We love spam and use it all over the place. One of the most iconic local snacks is the spam musubi.

As a resident of Hawaii, I have no idea what Toast Hawaii is.

What an amazing coincidence that since the change in administrations there have been multiple horror stories about CBP detaining tourists at the slightest suspicion they might do housework or some undetermined gig work during a 3 week stay. Trying to pretend this is just how it always worked is naive in the extreme.

I think we’re pretty well past giving the gestapo the benefit of the doubt.

“They contained sentences we didn’t actually say,” Pohl said of interrogation transcripts they were sent home with.

“They twisted it to make it seem as if we admitted that we wanted to work illegally in the US,” she told the German outlet Ostee Zeitung.

They were teenagers who had spent the last 5 weeks traveling the world. They probably just didn’t think keeping up with developments in the US was important. That plus a healthy dose of white privilege (and probably a wealthy background given that they were teenagers on a world tour) telling them oppression was something that happens to other people.

Who knows why he didn’t ok it, but this sure demonstrates how claims that the United States can’t stop Israel from committing war crimes are lies.