Somewhat unrelated, but it's pretty funny that you change your account every so often considering that your writing style makes you instantly identifiable
CTHlurker
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#Tradle #803 3/6
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https://oec.world/en/games/tradle
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Thought at first this was in Africa, since it's so heavily extraction based, but then saw the arrow point towards central asia, and guessed the non-oil based economies there,
I'm legit confused as to who Trump is even gonna pick at this point. He's made enemies with like half of the Republican governors over various petty things, and most of the senators/former senators are either people Trump would consider weak / pathetic and a lot of the "star power" reps would probably take too much attention away from him, and it's not like he needs to pick another evangelical, since he's got that vote locked up tighter than ever.
Latvia is too busy being racist against the Russian boomers who get stranded there during the fall of the USSR to care about other countries. Didn't Latvia also strip a lot of people of citizenship after they failed a language test (mostly the aforementioned russian boomers)
#Tradle #799 1/6
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https://games.oec.world/en/tradle
reasoning
knew from the size of the economy that this was a very small place, so unlikely to be sovereign. Also saw something about Vanilla, which I heard came from Tahiti. Couldn't guess Tahiti, so had to google what they were counted as, and Google gave me an answer that apparently was correct.
Wasn't she also one of the biggest Iraq War boosters? I remember her name floating around on the /r/Sino subreddit as one of the biggest warmongers at the NYT, which seems like a hell of a high bar to clear
Turns out that the weirdo professor who spent all of 2019 shitting on WeWork is actually a chud and also sort of dumb. Makes me feel a little bad
The fucking Danish State Broadcaster did a segment on that fucking shitty propagandafest and somehow noone questions that if your job is to be a journalist, being invited to a cordial dinner by the guy you're supposed to "hold accountable" isn't actually a sign that you're doing a good job. Not to mention, all the danish journalists reporting on the dinner were fawning over themselves to find enough positive terms for "Biden used humour on the journalists by being funny"
Not sure what color scare we are on currently, but Denmark also recently had a politician from the SocDems walk into Parliament and talk about how Denmark has a problem with "immigrants who are well educated, speaks the language, works a job and contributes by doing volunteer work in their local communities and nevertheless hate Western civilization and plots its downfall". I'm doing a rough translation of his words, because its hard to convey the nuance in his wording.
This specific SocDem has been condemned by a bunch of local politicians from the same party, but has received the backing of our incredibly racist prime minister.
#Tradle #785 4/6
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https://games.oec.world/en/tradle
reasoning
Thought this would be in the Caribbean at first, since I don't know other small economies that grow Tobacco at scale. Then saw it was far away and guessed east asia, which was also off. Then guessed two of the smallest countries I knew of in East Africa that weren't Rwanda, since I know that they have been industrializing rapidly over the last 20 years.
https://www.aclu.org/cases/al-aulaqi-v-panetta-constitutional-challenge-killing-three-us-citizens
The Awlaki family sued Leon Panetta for his involvement in the killing of both Anwar (the father suspected of being an Al-qaeda leader in Yemen) and Abdulrahman (the 17-year old American citizen and son of Anwar)
The judge more or less found that there is nothing in American constituional law that prevents the president from declaring people to be terorrist and then killing them, even if they're American citizens, minors, or located in a country that isn't at war with the US
If Drake's mother is jewish, doesn't that just make him Jewish? I thought pretty much every jewish tradition considers it inheritable through the mother rather than through both parents