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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Colombia too, and so far Petro is doing a pretty good job . The peso is stronger and the economy is doing well, he's negotiated and end to the flighting with some armed groups and he's serious about social justice and land reform. I have my fingers crossed.. we need some left of center success stories in Latin America to counter the narrative that all socialist policies lead to Venezuela style collapse.

Having said that I understand fully why Argentines would elect this guy .. they've had a bunch of corrupt and incompetent idiots for far too long.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My parents were from the UK and although I never lived there I was surrounded by the culture growing up. My Mom used to make fish and chips with mushy peas, steak and kidney pie (sometimes she had problems finding beef kidney .. people asked her if she had a cat). We went back to England a few times as a child, always at Christmas, and I remember the wonderful atmosphere. They played Christmas carols everywhere, even on the bus. The metro (Tube to Londoners) tunnels were filled with buskers .. it was so nice to walk round a corner and find someone playing Jingle Bells or Silent Night. And the food .. Christmas pudding with brandy butter, pork pies, mince pies (actually dried fruit pies).

Now my folks are gone. I miss them all the time but I miss them most at Christmas.. it's just not the same here and without them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've had some great ones .. those where the end touches the water before it's finished leaving your asshole.

But one time I entered a public toilet in Mexico City and saw the biggest turd I've seen in my life. Obviously it was not capable of being flushed .. it seemed to fill the entire bowl. I was just in awe at how that could have possibly fitted inside a person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Agree fully with your first statement.

Do you have any links to support your second statement?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, yes and yes. Christianity in the middle ages was responsible for all manner of brutality. No argument there. It doesn't change my assertion.

By the way, instead of saying "in this minute of history" you can just say "now" .. it sounds less pompous.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's only Islamists that beat girls to death for not wearing the right headgear, or stone people to death for committing adultery, or execute people for being gay, or strap bombs to themselves and try and kill as many innocent people as possible. Yes .. all religions are stupid and most are regressive and have crazy rules. But one religion is objectively far worse than all the rest put together (and I include the vile christian conservatives in that group).

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And God help you of you ever try to browse the site using an older, low resolution monitor. It borders on being unusable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Cue the outrage. Meanwhile no-one questions why people feel compelled to sell their own organs in order to survive. This is just a logical and expected outcome of a system where some give their own blood so that others can live better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great strawman but no, this is not free speech, this is illegal content and laws exist to prosecute those who disseminate it. Free speech allows you to offend others .. it doesn't give you a pass to break the law.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

The majority of sexual abuse is by people known to the victim and much of it goes unreported.

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