In contrast with liberal "democracies" we can see how they treat referendums as this random thing done with a year or two of preparation, and that whatever is the outcome is the will of ~~God~~the people, which is immutable and can only be tested once in a generation, so long as they benefit the ruling class. Brexit got voted for, therefore it must happen no matter what, but the indyref didn't get the 50% so better wait until all Scots die of old age. And when the result of the referendum goes overwhelmingly against the ruling class interest, like in Donetsk/Luhansk or even in Catalunya, then it must've been stuffed ballots, and it was illegal, and no we won't redo the referendum to test that hypothesis.
I'll prove it to you, that you don't know what you're talking about right now: Source?
Their "greatest honour" is no longer having to worry (too much) about getting nabbed by ICE. That's for special people only, the best of the best!
Yeah, but thankfully most I've seen were more about showing it off on a higher level and having a bigger event than having a "winner" and a "loser." Once they start handing out precious metal medals, trophies and belts though, they've already forgotten why the art was developed in the first place and have become the coloniser. Apparently there's even going to be a "world championship" in Curitiba of all places. (For the foreigners, the South is skin cancer crackerland in Brazil, with some of them even wanting to separate from the country)
I wouldn't say "best" because it depends a lot on what kind of fight you're interested in. Say striking (karate), or grappling (judo), and even weapons (kendo). Though Capoeira both looks super cool and also teaches you some downright brutal moves that don't rely too much on upper body strength, and people in Brazil (specially on the regions it's practised more) are generally on the shorter side. It also comes with a more culture and community focused approach, whereas most martial arts clubs (in my experience) focus mostly on beating the shit out of sandbags and doing tournaments. It also has less gymbros and weebs.
But lots of good martial arts were developed with shorter people in mind, if not by actual short people. Funakoshi, the developer of Shotokan Karate, is believed to have been around 1.55m tall, and Maeda from BJJ was also around 1.65. I'm very amateurish on this but if you're short you might want to avoid striking martial arts that rely too much on throwing punches.
That's genuinely awful, hope your plan works out. I've also stumbled into some dystopian websites that literally list people's addresses and contact information they can crawl through public legal documents (including basic stuff like renting contract breaches) on basis of "public unofficial background check", so be careful out there.
sometimes I forget that that's how reactionaries think of historical events. "Country stronk! Like that big cat from the Savannah I've seen once in the zoo!"
Even back in the days of low broadband internet access in like 2008 they already had El Paquete making the rounds and proving that they're more tech-literate (and literally literate) than most Yankees. They even have one huge dedicated computer science university, their own linux distro, and they even accept foreigners. Did I mention it's free?
This one of the most pathetic fakes about Cuba I've ever seen. About a fifth of Yankees actually speak Spanish so they have no excuse for falling for this shit.
This is further complicated by the fact that coup supporters have been waving Russian flags and burning French flags; Putin meanwhile held a summit in St.Petersburg for strengthening economic ties with the African continent— forgiving $23 billion in debt owed by African states.
NATO keeps forcing Putin to actually do good things, then look around in awe as his international support grows. Sometimes I wonder if they're that incompetent in geopolitics or they just really hate themselves really hard. Whoever convinced NATO officials to change course in adding Russia to it might've been a time-travelling comrade in disguise.
That's incredibly terrifying. Dumb questions, but what happens in the US if you don't pay them? Or emigrate away? That's the price of a large home in some places out there.
Additionally a lot of otherwise completely academically uninterested people are being forced into getting university degrees they have no need for, only to get jobs they could be trained for in 1 or 2 years after secondary school. Capitalism is literally coercing people into being academics to pay rent, and it shows with the never-ending increase in shoddy and pointless research.
Wait, is that car price accurate? I was always told that for some random reason cars in the USA were the only thing they had cheap. Might as well import a Geely or Lada at that point... oh wait.