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My brain has been completely fried by the American racialization of people because my first reaction to reading that title was "well, calling them a racial slur is not very nice"

Li told journalists China wants closer economic cooperation with Germany but avoided any mention of Russia or Ukraine.

Europe must start to ween itself off from China, now its the time. We shouldn't repeat the same bs we did with Russia.
There are other better trade partners out there.

In an apparent reaction to those plans, Li warned that "deglobalization flares up again."
He said, "We should maintain the tradition of mutually beneficial cooperation and uphold the multilateral trading system and industry and supply chain stability."

No, we shouldn't Mr. Li.

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Ahhh, on the topic of Roscosmos.

Dmitry Rogozin - Director General of Roscosmos from 2018 to 2022, deputy prime minister in charge of the defense industry from 2011 to 2018, and Russia's ambassador to NATO from 2008 to 2011, was (and is) a nazi.
The party he formed, Rodina, was campaigning to ban jewish minorities and jewish organizations.

Here's Rogozin with a banner behind him that reads "Jewish fascism - there's nothing scarier today"
Also here was one of his party's ads Let's clean Moscow of "garbage"
Rogozin also participated at a myriad of neo-nazi meetings and protests(money shot in the last few seconds of the video, translation not necessary)

These are the kind of people that are appointed in positions of power. Can we imagine even for a split second the sheer scandal that would ensue if NASA's director had that kind of history?

Don't let the Italians know that our version of their dishes is better, they'll start throwing hands in 2 seconds flat.

As a Romanian I want to tell everyone "you're welcome, world".

What. The. Fuck.

Didn't they say that they wouldn't never do something like this when they were talking about "muh brexit benefits" and that it was all "project fear", or am I misremembering?

This whole scenario is insane.

It shouldn't be. Folks need to keep in mind that these kind of corporatist scum will quite literally kill however many people they need as long as they'd get away with it, all in the name of profit.
The reason they don't do that is because they're afraid of getting caught.

if the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor

Spot on.

Forgot to include it. There's also the Four Corners episode from ABC related to this article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la8Au_c4HEE

ping @Akasazh and @Johnnypneumoniac in case you guys wanna watch it

Btw the reason most of these news companies use quotation marks for things like "traitor", "sexual assault" is not to show that they disagree with a particular stance.
They do it to show that they themselves aren't calling someone a traitor, instead they are quoting someone else who calls that person a traitor. So that way they are not implicating themselves in case problems arise.

Otherwise they can have legal consequences if the things that they say about a certain person lead to that person suing them. This way they can easily say "hold on, we didn't call you a traitor, it was those people, we were just quoting them"

Or at least that's how it is to my knowledge. (aka covering my ass in case I'm wrong :)) )

Holy shit! Had no idea! Thanks, mate.
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