They sure could if they want to.

I 100% agree!

I don’t believe the government intended to create a business from the migrant crisis though, it just happens to be where their choices brought them.

I sincerely hope that after Ukraine wins the war, the parties that now support Ukraine will go on and support the people in Russia and Belarus instead of going back to doing business with the likes of Putin and Lucashenko. The people there risking their lives deserve it.

Thanks, I continued looking further into it as well and found another article on it, which states:

Retailers reported a 93% increase in annual shoplifting incidents in 2023 compared to 2019.

So I believe you are right. Guess op proves that often you can have either interesting text with poorly supported numbers, or boring text with well supported facts. Too bad though, cause i did actually enjoy reading the article (so extra shout-out to op for sharing).

Shoplifting happens 93% more often now or is the statistic that the value of stolen goods increased by 93% in total? I feel like that matters a lot.

Edit: the article quite well written if you ask me, but lacks sources. There is a graph, but that doesn’t show the numbers mentioned. It shows losses of 31.1B in 2019 and an estimated 47.8B in 2025, which is a rise of ~54% not 93%. It presents itself as investigative journalism, but feels more like a op-ed instead.

This is how it should be in a just world, but we do not live in one

I agree, but if we as people do whatever the fuck we want the politicians won’t have a good example of how they’re supposed to treat people.

and the only reason we even have basic human rights at all is because they were violently protested for, and 99% of the violence came from the state.

We the people do have allies within the state, although there are plenty of places were those allies are kicked out as soon as they do some good, not all states are an enemy of the people. Again, i too believe we should uphold politicians to high standards and we should praise them without good reason, but the least we can do is treat them as decently as we’d like to be treated ourselves. But i guess if i was living in a place where national politics was a mess like the UK or US, i’d be less willing to defend the basterds that are breaking ‘my’ democracy too. Not judging anyone in that regard.

Though i’m against criminalizing protesters, i do think people who do bad things on their job also deserve a private life. If they break the law they should be brought to court obviously, but if they act within the bounds of the rule of law protest should be against the movement or the system that allows this bad individual that does the bad thing. I’ll get some downvotes for saying this, but i believe we should not only be decent to people who do things we like, but to literally everyone.

Even more unpopular opinion: British royals should hire Americans to relearn those unfashionable words lol

Sure it did, I’m saying it remained regular.

Unpopular opinion 1: the us should invite some Brits and learn to speak regular English again.

Unpopular opinion 2: the us should split up and adopt their local version of English as their official language.

Thanks for sharing, i’m still trying to form my opinion and the context is bery relevant for that.

because they weren’t happy with what the new owners choose to do with it.

I’m not sure, but as far as I understand the deal came with certain conditions and the new owner did actually break them.

You could have sold the house under the condition your neighbour has to agree to them cutting down the tree for example.

But i as far as i can judge this, the dutch government could have seen this coming and i understand why China doesn’t like what’s happening.

You can be a foreigner, no problem. You can be super-rich, that’s fine. But both? Unacceptable.

Expected it to be an error, i understood that the data came from MarketCapWatch obv

The source url links to the homepage, not to the graph or the data.

Would make it more livable too, without Moscow’s oppression.

Vraag me af of het gescript is, er zijn al drie ‘interviews’ hiervoor gepubliceerd en die politici gaan er juist heel serieus tegenin. Ook voor hun is het duidelijk dat er satire gemaakt wordt, maar zij blijven wel achter hun partijprogramma staan. Karremans daarentegen maakt wel een leuker filmpje, maar verdedigt de (standpunten) van de vvd verder niet. Snap wel dat we dit niet serieus moeten nemen, maar ik vind het echt wel opvallend hoe Karremans een andere aanpak heeft gekozen. Maar de zelfspot kan ik waarderen hoor, blijft leuk. Maar Partij tegen de burger is al snel leuk.

How do you manage all the hair growth??

People without ADHD may be less creative, my personal experience found