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He’s been saying that he’d entertain buying COMAC for a while. I’m not surprised, in party just because of Airbus and Boeing’s backlog.

That might be true of you, but that likely isn’t true for a lot of people. I can see a lot of people blanking out over the chemical that have everyone cancer in that movie.

They mentioned her because people probably remember what the chemical did and major settlement from the pollution as to why this chemical release is so important.

The Soviet Union absolutely did imperialism.

Trump blatantly lied all the time as part of his career in real estate. Why would we expect anything different now?

I mentioned increased density as a reason why landowners may choose vacation rental over housing. The total habitable building supply can’t increase and it becomes more profitable to be a hotel than an apartment building.

I feel a problem for Europe is that most of their tourism centers are centered in old cultural centers. For instance, Amsterdam became a major party city in its historic downtown. In contrast, American cities like Miami and Las Vegas were built from scratch to serve that function.

Out of curiosity, are holiday rentals the major issue?

They can be, especially in Europe where a lot of the hotspots for tourism are in our near the historic cores of cities. It gets made worse as historic ordinances limit construction of taller buildings which could accommodate increased tourism or there is rent control for housing but no equivalent limit for hotel stays.

Overtourism is a documented problem which can drastically change the character of a place.

Given that Hamas is an elected government, it seems like a change in government should go through an elected process. Maybe Israel should withdraw and allow for the election of a new government since it appears that Hamas can’t really fight back.

This is more of a case where capitalism decays into fascism.

Capitalism relies on a decent legal framework to function. It doesn’t have to be equal, but it has to be consistent. It is usually why a lot of nations defined by capitalism are generally not dictatorships; monied interests are given ways to influence policy.

Fascism concentrates power and frees that power from restraint in order to benefit a part of society. The ability for a person to imprison anyone without legal checks is an extraordinary power.

Yep. Just a couple more steps than pushing people out of planes over the ocean.

capitalism found it cheaper to outsource US gulags to poor countries

It is more of a way to sidestep the judicial process. The executive branch can act faster than the judicial branch in removing someone from the country before appeals. Once the person is in a foreign country, they are no longer in custody of someone under the control of American judges.

It isn’t a cost saving measure, it is a legal loophole.

I found Brotato to be fun.

If you like 80’s action movies, there is Broforce.

Duck Game is good as a platform shooter.

Love in a Dangerous Space Time is a great co-op game that is actually cooperative.

It would be to be per year to match Denmark’s contribution and I don’t believe anyone would trust to pay his debts.

My guess is that Japan and East Asia are treating this a lot different compared to Europe and North America.

For East Asian allies, the USA is pivoting from the full world to focus more on the Pacific Ocean, so a post Trump USA would still be involved in the region. Also, unlike Europe, East Asian allied countries can’t outspend their strategic rival by themselves.

So, they’ll spend a little to keep Trump happy in order to keep the USA involved in East Asia while they wait out Trump.

It is likely that the EU is dropping bourbon taxes because US barrels are very important to wineries and distilleries in the EU.

Also, many wine regions in the USA are in liberal states, so this could be the EU trying to target their tarrifs.

She isn’t banned from running because she is fascist, but because she is corrupt.

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The program was started because of the Korean War.

The problem is that right wing populists vote in all elections.