And that’s one of the greatest proofs that people across different cultures are more alike than different.

I suspect many wanted a kleptocracy but hoped to share in the plunder.

In a Christian state, kissing in public is also prohibited. People in the West have forgotten this because, here, countries are secular, even though Christianity is the dominant religion.

For example, in my country, Portugal, before the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974, which introduced secularism, kissing in public or even holding hands was prohibited. The penalty could range from a simple fine to imprisonment. There was even a crime of “vadiagem” if you were caught in public, say, in a park, doing nothing during standard weekly working hours.

The previous regime in Portugal, the Salazarist Estado Novo, is generally described by historians as a quasi-fascist, Christian-Nationalist regime.

Even North Korea doesn’t need to be that extreme, and they are currently the most mono-ethnic country on Earth. These guys just want to be cruel, the rest is just an excuse.

And then they are surprised to be called controlled opposition.

The Ineffectives give Maniacs the chance to stay in power and persist in their madness. I want neither.

We can start with the abolition of the stupid first-past-the-post system.

What are you talking about? They’re great at their job, they’re great at being the controlled opposition of the Epstein class.

Hegseth is a wicked and despicable drunkard, but let’s be honest, Mormons were never Christians, and if people started to consider them as such, they might as well consider Muslims and Jews as Christians too. I am more surprised that Jehovah’s Witnesses are considered Christians on that list.

She’s a grifter. If “Trump and Co.” were to give her another opportunity at MAGA today, she would gladly accept it without hesitation.

There was no change of heart in MTG, the boss fired her.

Even setting aside the moral aspect, this is also bad from a purely strategic point of view, considering that Ukraine has been struggling to get enough fighters and therefore cannot afford to let the remaining soldiers starve to death.

Trump would feel right at home then.

This won’t solve anything, it will only create a black market and the vape industry will gain new customers.

The UK is on a wave of embracing ideas that have already proven to be failures at other places and other times, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they instituted Prohibition.

But if he proclaimed the opposite, it would be worse.

Dr. Evil before he lost his hair.

Perhaps we shouldn’t send politicians burned by domestic corruption scandals to Brussels. 🤔

No one should fail upwards.

Because slavery is more profitable.

These types, in general, don’t really care about their own children.

Not even at Easter do MAGA abstain from the White House special flour.

So nothing would be sent to Rio de Janeiro because the infrastructure there was built through slavery, and the same could be said for Luanda.

I am Portuguese. My grandparents and the majority of the Portuguese population didn’t even have basic sanitation or education in the 1970s, despite the fact that our country’s elite were among the greatest, if not the biggest, traffickers in the transatlantic slave trade. The electricity grid only reached their neighborhood in the 80s, more than a decade after the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974. Perhaps, our family should receive reparations.

The elite should pay, and the exploited working class must not allow itself to be divided due to petty things like their country of origin. Engaging in any other way is simply falling into yet another “trap” of the universal rent-seeking exploiters, the bourgeoisie. In short, “não se confunda a árvore com a floresta”.

It shouldn’t be the average taxpayer in these countries who has to pay for reparations (especially when many were descendants of peasants who were also often exploited in other ways), while the wealthy families who benefited the most evade responsibility, smuggling their blood-earned fortunes to tax havens.