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Isn’t he the guy being medicated for asthma, allergies, and ADHD… For which the medication just coincidentally happens to be performance-enhancing? Yeah forgive me if I have no sympathy for the guy.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) says U.S. agency USADA broke the global code by letting several athletes it had caught between 2011 and 2014 violating drugs rules go undercover and keep on competing without prosecution in exchange for information on other violators.

US gold medals, 2000 to 2016:

2000 - 37 (300 events)

2004 - 36 (301 events)

2008 - 36 (302 events)

2012 - 48 (302 events)

2016 - 46 (306 events)

On one hand, we have clear US overperformance in gold medals from the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. On the other hand, we have proof that athletes CAUGHT DOPING between 2011 and 2014 were allowed to continue competing for years afterwards.

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck?

Genocide is ok because it happened in the past? Glad to know how much you respect the rule of law and whatever.

Canada’s military was responsible for the subjugation and genocide of many First Nations group, including against the Metis, Cree, and Assiniboine peoples, as well as deployed abroad to subjugate the Boers in South Africa in support of the British Empire. The Canadian Army was also deployed in Afghanistan, where Western powers fought for two decades to replace the Taliban with the Taliban and caused untold amounts of suffering in the process.

Now do Iran.

Considering Canada declared Iran’s army as a terrorist entity…

Car infrastructure has always been funded out of public coffers. The personal automobile is not inherently a profitable enterprise to a country. It serves primarily as a way of improving personal mobility and thus second- and third- order economic productivity.

Subways and trains are vastly more efficient systems, but unfortunately they don’t have the same military logistics benefits.

In terms of actual companies, we’re seeing a bit of a renaissance with EVs because EVs are inherently simple, easy to commoditize, and don’t require as significant amounts of government support. China has basically cut government backing out of their EV industry, which has led to some consolidation but somehow has not ended the price war.

That’s $1 million per loitering munition? Meanwhile the Lancet is $20000, the Chinese equivalent is even less, and the Israeli-made IAI Harpy (sold to China, India, etc.) is about $70000.

I’d love to be a US defence contractor.

The one where… Tank man blocked a convoy of tanks by standing there?

The one where he was pulled away by his friends afterwards?

It’s sort of challenging to hide a crushed body, and yet no journalists who were there the night of or the morning after reported anything. No photographic evidence is available.

I’ve given up trying to convince people here otherwise. lemmy.ml at least gives sane discussion on this issue.

Chinese, Russian, and Turkish vessels: what’s up?

https://archive.is/c4KSA

Based on this, Russia has lost at least 5% of their armed forces in Ukraine - a startling number.

I supposed Australia is no stranger to genocide…

China also isn’t literally blockading Taiwan (which, in case you forgot, is an act of war).

Just as Ethiopia joins BRICS, the IMF and World Bank comes a-knocking with new demands.

It’s absolutely disgusting how the IMF and World Bank (which, nominally, are institutions designed to help uplift developing countries) refuse to join China in taking haircuts on debt and instead keep countries seeking perpetually more debt.

Tell me more about how these airstrikes stabilized the region.

If a country fails to perform the obligations incumbent upon it under a judgment, the only remaining recourse is to turn to the Security Council, which can vote on a resolution, per the UN Charter. This happened in a case brought by Nicaragua against the United States in 1984, demanding reparations for the US support for Contra rebels.

The ICJ ruled in Nicaragua’s favour, but the US refused to accept the finding. Nicaragua then took the matter to the Security Council, where a relevant resolution was vetoed by the United States.

inb4 some idiot comments on how it’s Xinhua and thus propaganda, when the news is literally China announcing sanctions and Xinhua is literally about as primary a source as you can find

Lai is a fucking dumbass. There’s a reason that the KMT and TPP collectively hold a majority of the votes, but the stupid FPTP system means that the DPP is likely to win anyway.