Maybe he can join Kristi Noem and get banned from native lands… then get caught flaunting the ban. That shit would be hilarious.

Ah, thanks. I missed that. I guess I need to update my “all these brands are really all owned by XYZ” chart again.

I don’t usually want to open LinkedIn at all. I wonder if they paid MS for the shortcut?

I keep telling myself “I want an x-box” and the news keeps telling me “no you fucking don’t”.

The Russians have killed fewer civilians

This is not the flex you think it is.

Last things first, pardon me for holding one of your sources at arms’ length and my nose with the other. They don’t sound impartial or unbiased, especially with their explicitly-stated anti-Western bias. BadEmpanada just looks like a Che wannabe and I’m not sure how much I time I should waste considering what a leftist Aussie living in BA has to say but it’s probably already too much. Buenos Aires is a beautiful city though and if you’ve never been, you should give it a go.

Going back to the top of your comment, which countries support or condemn China for their internment camps means very little to me. Many of the countries in your graphic have abysmally shitty records themselves and/or are belt-and-road clients and/or have other reasons to disagree with the US. Pardon me while I laugh heartily at anyone who takes Russia’s or Venezuela’s or Saudi Arabia’s opinions on human rights seriously. That, and your graphic is from 2019 and outdated. The list changed remarkably in 2020 and the countries of Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Kuwait, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Serbia, Somalia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Zambia revoked their defense of the CCP’s treatment of Uighurs. It’s left as an exercise to the reader which of those are majority-Muslim.

Aside from all that, the fact that you refer to those camps with the CCP-friendly term “vocational facilities and re-education centers” means we’re just not going to agree on this because that’s certainly not what they sound like.

Don’t spend all fifty cents in one place.

Does your comment count as “moving the goalposts” (changing the subject from CCP to USA) or an “Appeal to Emotion” (dead civilians) or a strawman argument (USA ‘sponsors’ collective punishment)? I got a bingo card to fill out.

Does that include the Xinjiang internment camps, and are you really trusting the CCP’s official statistics on anything knowing how badly they lied during the first year of COVID?

Half of me wants to leave. The other half will be damned if I give up my state. I’m staying and I’m voting.

Right now it should be authoritarian. There has to be a single decision maker. Democracy can wait until the shooting stops.

There was a fight for them and they’re still British. There was a referendum and the islanders overwhelmingly want to stay British.

“not equals”. It’s a matter of taste. Some people prefer != instead. But you get the point. Sympathy for the plight of the Palestinians does not equate to support for Hamas.

Pro-Palestinians <> pro-Hamas

This sounds a lot like “the civil war was about states’ rights” but I’ll bite. If the blindingly obvious religious lines are wrong and this is about that land… why?

It’s about that land, which has a number of religious sites on it and ownership was granted by God. It is impossible to separate this dispute from religion.

I’m in SoFla. I’m glad to see that slight curve to the north, and that it’s so far away still. I’m not too worried about this one (yet)

“Good”? I hope your radio plays Margaritaville like it’s groundhog day until you become a better person.

At least they are all (except for the orange blob) headed away from the US.

I disagree with your assessments - Russia is experiencing negative impact on a national level (they just grew NATO!) and on the personal level. Sanctions could be working better but are still effective, nonviolent methods to effect change. Add other measures to them, sure, but don’t take them away as some sanctions (including older legislation like the Magnitsky act) target the exact people being dicks.

US GDP: $76339 per capita. x1.8% = 1374.102
UK GDP $45850 per capita x 0.4% = 183.4
RUS GDP $15607 per capita x 1.5% = 234.11

RU can expect growth, but their GDP is still shit. 1.5% growth puts the UK economy at just under 3x the Russian one. I know which currency I’d trust more and where (all other things being equal, which they’re not) I’d invest.