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Kemi Badenoch has said she does not see herself as Nigerian and no longer has a passport for the country she grew up in. ... But home is where my now family is, and my now family is my children, it's my husband and my brother and his children, in-laws.

Eh, embracing the country where you live instead of the one you were born into for whatever reason is legit. Especially if you found your "true home" at a relatively young age.

He treated the situation as a civil war rather than a criminal matter. What do you do in war? You go after all enemy combatants, you don't try to determine if one specific soldier killed any of yours. Anyone in enemy uniform is a legitimate target unless they surrender.

El Salvador gangs do have specific ways of visually distinguishing themselves even if those are not traditional uniforms. Of course there are people wearing the same clothes and tattoos just because they think it's cool, but that is unfortunately a darwin award case.

In this context the captured are not in prison but in a POW camp. What he's missing is an exit strategy. Eventually you have to establish a permanent peace and release the POWs under some conditions. Not to mention obey the Geneva Convention which enumerates some rights. That's why he's always framing it as being tough on criminals.

Of course.

If you've ever seen any interview with Bukele it becomes immediately apparent he's just another dictator wannabe who was very lucky to accidentally do something good immediately after being elected for the first time. Now he's riding that wave until he re-ruins the country again.

He doesn't even understand why his policy worked. He just repeats the "tough on crime" bullshit.

I remember talking with some Americans a few years ago, they worked in the tech industry, so definitely on the upper side of the income range. And even they said they were feeling the crunch around 2022-2023. I can only imagine how it felt for the regular people.

Quite the contrast with the official numbers which claimed the American economy is growing. Let's just say that the election outcome was not surprising.

Hear me out - a crab shaped anteater

11.8 inches is about 30 cm or size 47 in the european system. Which is big but not unheard of. I personally know 2 people wearing similar shoe sizes. Very possible it's just one guy who kept losing shoes.

Absolute best - G
Most practical as a common standard - F

I wish referring to GDP and GDP per capita becomes a career-ending mistake in statistics.
Numbers going up is completely meaningless if everyone's quality of life is going down. And the average person's purchasing power in Spain has gone down in the last few years.

This was very surprising after having seen a few Western movies from the 1940s. They were already making movies about the period which was in living memory for a lot of people.

Famously Americans did the splitting thing once before with Standard Oil and it was immensely beneficial to the economy in general. Just checked the wiki and it was more than 100 years ago. Unlikely the same laws are still on the books.

There are several companies currently active that deserve the same treatment.

Yes sometimes controversial posts get removed and I find it annoying