Well, depending on how they’re elected - these sorts of systems can be democratic and effective, but they have to be designed well
Doing something like the staggered terms used in the US senate is a pretty good way of reducing that sort of effect
Idk what you’re saying about the “Lemmy version” given that you’re entirely free to do so - in fact, you just did do so
And, likewise, the UN stating that serious human rights violations occurred is not the same as them all saying they aren’t committing genocide
Covid bereaved - people who lost loved ones to COVID
angered by - the previous noun is angry because of the following part of the sentence
Badenoch’s - a person, possessive
‘insulting’ - you know this one
Partygate remarks - comments she made about Boris Johnson’s government’s behaviour during lockdown, the scandal known informally as “partygate”
Day 1, babyyyyy
Is this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?
You mean something like the UN Human Rights Office report that concluded “China responsible for ‘serious human rights violations’ in Xinjiang province”?
Parents of kids with peanut allergies freaking out rn
I think BAC is supposed to be defined as a right-angle, so that AB²+AC²=CB²
=> AB+1²=0²
=> AB = √-1
=> AB = i
There was a somewhat understandable reason initially; when the embargo was first started, it was because Cuba allowed the UUSR to use it as a forward base for missiles so they could reach the mainland US, which, understandably, the US wasn’t very happy about
But ever since the fall of the USSR it’s been absurd
There’s only really one big building society in the UK, which is Nationwide, but they’re awesome
“Everything is politics” - Thomas Mann
The content of the article
Almost certainly a multiple of 2 minus one
Presumably they don’t especially care, as long as they’re able to take their land
But I expect a lot of the refugees will go to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye, probably a handful to Egypt but from what I’ve heard the Egyptian border is pretty much closed
Clearly.
“they should have killed all the Israelis, and simultaneously are bastards for using exclusively tear gas against people actively throwing petrol bombs at them, and trying to burn down the building with them inside”
What a reasonable take
Absolutely wild accusations to throw out with no sources
You can’t possibly think that a monitoring mission for the UN is armed with chemical weapons lmfao
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