World politics

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And nearby…

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Read this shitty on this from the Financial Times blaming DEMOCRACY for this shit…

https://archive.md/OcObi

So we don’t give these fuckers any more clicks, here is the archived version…

Check out how they change his quote in the headline to make it seem like he’s advocating for an anti-democratic position… The actually quote is buried in the article:

At the rally preceding his death, Villavicencio had pledged to write “the history of the fight against corruption and the mafia” and said: “Here nothing is free. This democracy has cost us our lives. Defending the homeland has cost us our lives.”

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Also incompatible with EU regulations, though rumor has it they’re going to the ECJ court to fight about it. Our company had already stopped doing business there due to other Brexit regulations, so we won’t be impacted by this one.

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… one might wonder, “Why were U.S. troops in Chad and Niger in the first place?”

Some US troops set to depart Chad, at least temporarily

WASHINGTON, April 25 (Reuters) - The United States is planning to temporarily withdraw some of its troops from Chad, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move that comes just days after Washington was forced to agree to remove its troops from neighboring Niger.

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You know, I’m kind of just okay with our troops being told to leave, and they do.