Chile 🇨🇱 is beginning to revel in having ousted Gabriel Boric from power. In a stunning operation, Trinidad Steinert, Chile's Minister of Security, reported that within 72 hours, three thousand fugitives were captured.
“This operation, carried out by Chilean investigative teams and the Carabineros (police), lasted three days: March 12, 13, and 14. It was a resounding success, a major blow because the total number of people with arrest warrants was three thousand. In addition, cars, drugs, and weapons were seized. We're not going to stop; we're going to continue after them all.”
Governments choose to be complicit in crime, this is why Boric never cared to catch these people.
Interesting to see The Onion being quite funny again.
It was pathetic during woke, because it believed in it. Meanwhile The Babylon Bee was funny during woke, but is cringe on Middle East because it’s so aggressively Zionist.
Ideally a satirical publication would skewer both.
@OurJeeBee@chasperlicious@ChrisMartzWX Unfortunately those export restrictions are only on new production coming online existing production is exempt. So we will have expensive gas in Australia for years still.
There's actually something Nietzschean about this (cf. his Untimely Meditation on "The Uses of History"). The past can be a paralysing burden for man in the present, and sometimes the only way to escape it may be to destroy it. The Chinese example, however, shows that these periodic conflagrations didn't inspire new greatness, only a hardening of the scleroticism that gripped each successive dynasty.
I sometimes think the West must forget large parts of its history if it is to be great again, so that Western man can cease trying to emulate or even recreate the glories of the past--which are obviously gone and aren't coming back--and create something spectacular and new instead.
This is why, for example, I hate the artistic vision of Atelier Missor: not only is it an appalling pastiche of classicism, executed half-heartedly and without real conviction, but it's also a distraction from the real task, which is to create a new living, breathing artistic culture to orient our mighty civilisation in the decades and centuries to come.
@LeoKearse Flat tax would be the best way to get everyone paying their “fair share”. But it would probably lead to an increase in the standard of living so he’d hate it.
@Babygravy9@kryptonardus The two likely African tracks I keep hearing about actually happening are Morocco and Cape Town. If it’s Morocco he’ll complain that Moroccans aren’t real Africans.
@BowTiedMara Surely countries like Chile and New Zealand could feed themselves. And I highly doubt France is producing more bananas and pineapples than it consumes unless they include overseas territories like New Caledonia.
102 years ago Today, Aidan de Brune completed his walk around Australia's perimeter, becoming the first person in recorded history to walk around the perimeter of Australia, unaccompanied and unassisted.
He left Sydney on September 20, 1921 and walked dor two and a half years, arriving back in Sydney on 4 March 1924 after a total of 16,190 kilometers (10,060 miles).
After his walk around Australia, Aidan de Brune settled in Sydney and began writing serialised mystery stories for newspapers.
@EarlofLeuven@Ainsworth7Jo@LBC The UK government website says you need to have been paying national insurance for a minimum of 10 years just to get the basic minimum pension. Majority of expats in UAE will have private pensions and private healthcare.
@Babygravy9 At my state school in Australia we had to do 2 45 minute swim classes every week for half the year. We got winter off. And you had to enter an event during the school swimming carnival. The only students exempt were the few Indians we had.
I don't want to speak for Morgoth but this captures it perfectly for me.
If you're here because you genuinely add value, or married in, or because of some solid connection say Hong Kong or Gurkhas or something. In sensible numbers I have no issue with that.
And yes, yes - that makes me a squishy liberal. But I do believe that deporting as few as 10-15 million people is enough. The last 5 odd million don't bother me much. And once we get out the people who hate us and add no value at all this issue will fade away.
@CreativeDeduct@Sargon_of_Akkad Albania has a big population of Catholics and orthodox Christians and nobody actually knows how many of each. Secular Muslims are probably the majority and like Bosnia seems to have a growing extremist problem.