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Comment · 5 years ago
> Well deserved. Apple Daily is not pro democrazy but pro-chaos. It routinely manufatures fake news and rumors that only matched by the mainstream fake news.

Whereas the chinese dictatorship is a bastion of transparency, honesty and democracy?

Comment · 5 years ago
Monarchies are the greatest scam ever perpetrated on modern republics. Spend a few hundred years invading, colonialising, conquering, raping, pillaging, committing genocide, destroying countless civilizations and enslaving many millions.

In the end, the taxpayers are forced to keep ensure you and your heirs remain billionaires without having to do more than wave your hand at a public appearances and attempt to stay out of the tabloids.

(I prefer using dollars because it has a more vague meaning of currency whereas the word “pound” has 30 meanings and uses on Wordnik. The English language sucks, but I digress.)

Comment · 5 years ago
English tax dollars pay for an unfathomably large amount of money preserving antiquity, much of which was flat out stolen from other nations or came on the backs of slaves.

The whole “give one inbred family billions of dollars per year to maintain their long-since-neutered monarchy” scam always impresses me. As if the Trump family convinced tax payers to give his family a couple of billion dollars every year for the hell of it.

Comment · 5 years ago
If it makes you feel better more and more of this gets outsourced to spy and mercenary companies like Palantir, Facebook, Google and Blackwater.
Comment · 5 years ago
The world now belongs to 2 entire generations who never read 1984.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is only partially true. There is no “policy” aim any city do do this.

What does happen is that charity groups like catholic churches or st vincent de paul will buy homeless and runaways one-way tickets, but only if they have a verifiable destination.

Comment · 5 years ago
Just the mere idea of visiting the USA gives me more stress than I care to experience. After 7 years away I don’t even have a desire to visit.

It takes a solid 5 years to get over what my friends call “that American Fight or Fight instinct”, and I don’t miss the amount of fear,distrust and readiness to fight that is always in the back of your mind being from the USA.

Also, remotely siphoning $$$ off of bay area tech companies while living in the third world helps with stress a lot.

Comment · 5 years ago
They’re begging to sell 5-7.5% of the compny for €8m?

Sounds like it is time for Qwant to give up.

Comment · 5 years ago
Slavery?

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