No response from Biden yet, but I assume that's because it's prepping its diss track.Never thought I'd say this but... trigger warning.
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And of course it's LIV Golf, Saudi Arabia's desperate attempt to make everyone forget its human rights abuses.
Oh look, another rich criminal who legitimately can't understand that his actions have consequences.
No man, Biden is like the old people in a Will Smith music video - too stunned and abhorred by the freshness.
They truly do not understand how taxes are used to improve society huh?
And yet I bet they're all for tax breaks for big new stadiums for sports teams.
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Anyone else remember Rishi Sunak trying to tap the barcode reader with his card when the guy in the garage was trying to scan a can of Coke with it?
Sound Of Freedom director feels need to defend his movie
Alejandro Monteverde wrote the movie long before QAnon became a thing and has distanced himself from the politics of his star
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This guy suddenly cares now to do it.Sound Of Freedom director feels need to defend his movie
Alejandro Monteverde wrote the movie long before QAnon became a thing and has distanced himself from the politics of his star
As usual, Georgia Meloni was lying.France can get fucked.
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Edit: France in a nutshell
Fact-checking Giorgia Meloni's claim about France - BBC News
A video of an Italian politician claiming that France exploits African countries has been widely shared. Is she right?
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Recall also that Meloni's government refused to allow a migrant rescue ship to dock, endangering the lives of those aboard. She cares not one iota for the suffering of Africans, and she brought this up solely to deflect responsibility and justify hardline immigration restrictions.
It's definitely worth evaluating France's ongoing negative impact in the region-- in Mali and Niger as well as Burkina Faso. But Georgia Meloni is a lying proto-fascist shitbag.
As usual, Georgia Meloni was lying.
Fact-checking Giorgia Meloni's claim about France - BBC News
A video of an Italian politician claiming that France exploits African countries has been widely shared. Is she right?
Recall also that Meloni's government refused to allow a migrant rescue ship to dock, endangering the lives of those aboard. She cares not one iota for the suffering of Africans, and she brought this up solely to deflect responsibility and justify hardline immigration restrictions.
It's definitely worth evaluating France's ongoing negative impact in the region-- in Mali and Niger as well as Burkina Faso. But Georgia Meloni is a lying proto-fascist shitbag.
Critics of the CFA currency arrangement have called it a relic of colonialism, saying it has impeded economic development for the 14 African countries that are part of it.
They also argue that they have no say in deciding monetary policies agreed to by European nations in the Eurozone.
An article for the US-based Brookings Institute last year said that while countries using the CFA franc had generally seen lower inflation, the CFA franc arrangement limits their policy options, particularly in dealing with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Other economists have pointed out that annual average GDP growth - the increase in the value of all goods and services produced - of CFA countries and other African economies has been fairly comparable over time.
The reason you want to control your currency is the precise reason France doesn't want them to control their currency; to make your exports more desirable, also .75% interest is nothing, US treasury bills give more than this, it's literal French robbery. You want to at the beginning inflate your currency to make your exports cheaper than increase it as you go into higher-value goods. You also need to control your foreign policy in order to play China, the EU, and the US against each other to get the best deal. Also, somethings you need to inflate your currency because your economy needs a stimulus in order to make up for shortfalls in welfare, and taxes.
France stops all of this in order to fuel their delusional colonial empiredom, and make more people speak French for cultural reasons. And for the EU to get cheap Niger import commodities.
I could also care less if Niger Gold went into the Swiss vs the French, they are both allies and Niger uranium does go into France.
Edit: I also don't like Italy's immigration policy, and I despise the five-star movement, and the fascists in Italy, but broken clocks sometimes work.
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Lulz at any self-serving bullshit from Western European leaders blaming other European countries for exploiting Africa.
OK, but none of this is acknowledging that Meloni's claim was entirely, 100% wrong. There is no 'broken clock' moment here; she didn't just say French influence in the region was damaging (which is true)-- she made a series of specific claims, and was lying. There is no requirement for 50% of export revenue to go to France. They are storing a portion of reserve currency with a French institution (voluntarily and gaining interest), and have access to any/all of it at any time. It's also untrue to say they do not control their own monetary policy because they use the Franc-- sure, the stability of the currency is affected by the vagaries of the wider bloc of countries that use it (as with the eurozone), but that's not the same thing.
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Hey! We're as far west as Europe gets and we've mostly just exploited ourselves!
Lulz at any self-serving bullshit from Western European leaders blaming other European countries for exploiting Africa.
Fair point, although not yourselves - given Ireland's unusually business-friendly tax laws, it's mostly exploiting the rest of Europe.
Fox News host states "crime would go away" if women just disappeared for a week:
It's all them wimmins, sappin' God's favorite hormone, testosterone! If they just let us deal with crime like real men, we'd never have crime again- like the Romans, because we all know there were never women in Rome!
It's all them wimmins, sappin' God's favorite hormone, testosterone! If they just let us deal with crime like real men, we'd never have crime again- like the Romans, because we all know there were never women in Rome!