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04-16-2019 , 08:12 PM
Lol, you're not being objective.

All those places have stuff that come to mind equally as ****ty as Murica
04-16-2019 , 08:15 PM
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Trump vetoed the resolution to end support to Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war, what an ever-loving piece of ****.
If they're not paying him a **** ton of money I'd be shocked a long time ago at this point with everything else he's defended Saudis on so...
04-16-2019 , 08:51 PM
It still seems like a big deal that Barr wrote his own summary instead of using the Mueller team summaries that were created for public release.

I hope these summaries are considered part of the report and will be released unredacted on Thursday. If they're not, I hope one of Mueller's hard-core angry Democrats leaks them immediately.
04-16-2019 , 08:55 PM
Lol @ including Greece on that list FFS.
04-16-2019 , 08:58 PM

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04-16-2019 , 08:59 PM
the country is stuffed with bernie supporters
04-16-2019 , 09:02 PM
can't stuff russian trolls in townhall meetings either
04-16-2019 , 09:12 PM

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04-16-2019 , 09:15 PM
hahaha shook
04-16-2019 , 09:16 PM
I really don’t think telling rust belt voters they are rich when they are dead ****ing broke is a winning strategy, but racism is a helluva drug.
04-16-2019 , 09:25 PM

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04-16-2019 , 09:29 PM
and double their secret service details
04-16-2019 , 09:34 PM
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It will never stop amazing me that Americans who spend their time in soulless suburban and exurban strip malls and chain restaurants speak dismissively of objectively superior countries like Greece, France, Japan, Spain, etc.
Greek pizza sucks.
04-16-2019 , 09:39 PM
Greek Octupus is a delicacy.
04-16-2019 , 09:41 PM
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This is an exceptionally special tweet coming from the guy who is doing everything in his power to keep his taxes from being examined.
04-16-2019 , 09:49 PM
Bernie and Joe should not agree to any debates on 5th Ave, imo.
04-16-2019 , 09:58 PM
Wtf at the morons stanning for US over Euro culture the last 20 posts or so. Clearly you have never left the US or maybe this hemisphere. No one who has been to any of those places thinks your average us stop exceeds the Euro equivalent right?
04-16-2019 , 10:07 PM
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Wtf at the morons stanning for US over Euro culture the last 20 posts or so. Clearly you have never left the US or maybe this hemisphere. No one who has been to any of those places thinks your average us stop exceeds the Euro equivalent right?
I was born in Europe. Go away with this derpy crap.

France has Le Pen and a ton of people who wanna shackle Muslims.
Greece has Golden Dawn and were having fabulous street fights not long ago.
Spain really has some ****ed up **** that has gone on forever with the Basque. Catalonias want to gtfo for whatever reason.

In general Europe has a lot of bad nationalist bull**** going on atm that people gloss over with rose-goggled glasses.
04-16-2019 , 10:10 PM
They aren’t in charge and caging babies
04-16-2019 , 10:13 PM
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They aren’t in charge and caging babies
History probably isn't your thing but you may want to google "Japan" and "stuff they did during World War II" before picking this hill to die on.
04-16-2019 , 10:18 PM
And there's video of someone protesting who got his hand blown off by the ones in charge and other videos of the French authorities maiming protesters.

A year or two ago there was video of the Muslim refugee camp burning. I have no clue what the actual story was behind that. But I imagine it ain't peachy keen being a Muslim in parts of France.

You guys are the nut low with the dunderheaded takes. The world is ****ed. It's not just the US.
04-16-2019 , 10:23 PM
May God Rest Their Soul? Wtf is that hot garbage?
04-16-2019 , 10:39 PM
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May god rest their soul? What? Is Trump going to kill the one who wins?

Also, LOL, he is def shook over how Sanders went over on that town hall.
04-16-2019 , 10:42 PM
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May god rest their soul? What? Is Trump going to kill the one who wins?
yep
04-16-2019 , 11:15 PM
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I was born in Europe. Go away with this derpy crap.

France has Le Pen and a ton of people who wanna shackle Muslims.
Greece has Golden Dawn and were having fabulous street fights not long ago.
Spain really has some ****ed up **** that has gone on forever with the Basque. Catalonias want to gtfo for whatever reason.

In general Europe has a lot of bad nationalist bull**** going on atm that people gloss over with rose-goggled glasses.
Nah it's not bad in Spain. I lived there for 3 years. Catalonian independence stuff flares up once a year and ETA is no longer a thing. Not to say that there is no racism. There is. But they aren't locking people in cages and separating families.

Greece is ****ty for a whole lot of reasons. When I visited Athens, the government was looking to lay off a bunch of firefighters and there was a major protest about it. I mean when you're basically saying, "We're so low on money that we'd rather let our buildings go down in flames, you're ****ed." The street I stayed on in Athens had a couple of heroin junkies who hung around the area and went to the city park at night to shoot up. The refugee crisis was a thing when I was in Crete and a few residents who I chatted with there were bitching about it. Pretty much frustrated about their country having enough problems already and now they have to deal with refugees who are only there because of America.

My time spent in France was with a French-Moroccan and French-Algerian couple. They were totally awesome and my interactions with them and their friends was totally different from your typical French person. I definitely noticed a share of casual racism though. This was likely amped up by the fact that I had arrived the day of the attack at Orly Airport. When I first got to Paris, I had to wait for my AirBnB hosts to show up at a cafe across the street from them. I had a conversation of broken French/broken English with a table of Frenchmen and they jokingly claimed that I was a member of ISIS due to the enormous beard I had at the time. They made sure to refer to the group by its derogatory name, Daesh. I knew it was in jest but I'm sure that people making those jokes likely share anti-Islam sentiment.

The places where racism and nationalism were most clear were in Central and Eastern Europe. At least it was subtle in the west. It was looks, an off-color joke and the like. On the opposite side of the Iron Curtain, the people I interacted with in Poland and Hungary were pretty loud and clear and weren't the joking kind. Hearing about the **** my AirBnB host in Warsaw had to deal with as a gay man was pretty depressing. There is a significant correlation between high degrees of racism and a low percentage of foreign-born population in a country.

Here's a link to maps related to racism in Europe

https://www.boredpanda.com/racism-in...ap-bezzleford/ (Source - Discrimination in the EU in 2015)

The most racist countries out of that group (Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Bulgaria) have foreign-born population percentages of 4%, 3.3%, and 1.2% respectively as of 2015. The least racist (Sweden, Luxembourg, The Netherlands) have foreign-born population percentages of 18.5%, 43.3%, and 11.1%.

You can't really say that those countries aren't as bad as America because they don't cage immigrants and separate their children from their families. They don't have the means to effectively do it. The question is would they do it if they could. I have no doubts that a lot of people in Central and Eastern Europe would have no issue with caging refugees and separating them from their parents.

      
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