???? The Amnesty International report that exposed the cobalt mine conditions is now a CIA conspiracy to destroy democracy?
Nice straw-man attempt, that's clearly not what I said.
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36I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
A nuanced look at the world shows there is such a thing as "soft power" and economic clout.
I think that's a lie that the democracy-interfering CIA peddle to you (they all work in major TV news now if you didn't notice). Of course they want you to believe that they don't interfere with democratic elections in the US or other countries, but we know they do. The morally bankrupt can sleep easier by believing the lie that its "soft power".
I completely agree that consumers (and by extension governments) have great power to influence change. If one supplier is guilty of abuses, and this becomes known through watchdog organizations, the pressure is on that supplier to change or lose business to a competitor who is willing to conform to norms.
Empty words. For some things there are not multiple suppliers - the economics demand the cheapest, not the most ethically sourced, and the supply is inherently dangerous to those involved. The choice consumers get to make is which system their dollars go to support.
Of course they are given misinformation, there's $$$ on the line.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
Again to assume the President is making these decisions is to assume a nationalization of the oil industry.
I might not set the timetable or chose the color of the seats, but if I stop a railway line being built I am in control of the railway.
If the cost to transport goods goes up because I stopped infrastructure being built, wouldn't it be my fault?
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
Presently the US has oil sanctions on Iran, Venezuela and Russia. These are on this short list precisely because they are dictatorships with bad human rights records.
Meaningless shell game. It's like someone not wanting to spend money on groceries, and agreeing to pay the mortgage instead as long as their partner pays for the groceries.
The same groceries are still bought. The same money is still spent. It even comes out of the same accounts but is just split up differently. The net spending is still exactly the same.
Europe buys someone else's oil and the US buys the oil they might have otherwise. It's probably all handled at the spreadsheet level by notionally changing who owns what.
But it's a decent con for the easily fooled to make them feel better that they are "doing something", just like campaigning for human rights while purchasing products that perpetuate slavery and misery.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
If the supply chain of lithium or cobalt presently involves human rights abuses, get involved in human rights defense. Support organizations that seek change and expose abuses. These efforts do make a difference.
The biggest power most people have is as a consumer. Don't buy, and it doesn't happen. Anything else is just something to soothe a bad conscience.
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Minions - new Smurfs?
by Festus ina friend of mine told me that her witness relative from west coast had reacted to minions (child animation) in a same way that some jdubs reacted to smurfs.. aka she claimed that minions are "from satan".. has anyone else heard this?.
well i guess harry potter, lotr etc has received similar recption....nothing new in that sense..
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It's just someone effectively wanting to wave a flag and shout "look everyone, behold how righteous I am!!"
Also, they like to shit on anything that gives kids any small amount of joy in their lives, because everyone needs to be as miserable as they are.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
At this point you can pretty much take anything CNN, The Washington Post and NYT says as lies and propaganda. The truth is more likely to be the exact opposite of whatever dem propaganda they are pushing that day.
Like Hunter Biden's laptop - don't forget that was all about Ukraine and making sure there was 10% for the big guy.
Daddy Biden is as corrupt as he is racist and incompetent. They sow chaos and war because it's profitable.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
So Biden was the direct cause of both the invasion of Ukraine and the price of gas rising besides all the other idiotic things he did (the extension of COVID, the variants since, economic depression etc)
Biden was involved in Russia taking Crimea under Obama. Then nothing happened while Trump was in power. As soon as Biden is elected the world goes to shit again and Russia invades Ukraine.
These things are not coincidences. They are planned. War in Ukraine was being built up and then had to be put on hold after Trumps win. Does anyone think that it's coincidence that the Ukraine has one of the highest rates of corruption in Europe and also, so many kids of top Democrats mysteriously work for Ukraine companies despite having no relevant experience ... besides their proximity to power and being a convenient conduit to channel money?
All you clowns that spent years chanting "Russia Russia Russia" and claiming Trump had links to Ukraine then suddenly go blind to what is happening.
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Let's all bask in the reflected glory of actor Sean Penn ...
by LoveUniHateExams in"i'll smelt my oscars if the academy awards doesn't let zelensky speak!".
wow, his virtue is so good i can't look at it directly, because it would blind me, lol.. yep, it's this year's oscar's ceremony.. prepare for next-level celebrity virtue signalling .... https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/27/sean-penn-oscars-zelenskiy-ukraine .
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No one should listen to these people. Most are uneducated - they either dropped out of school or only did drama, and does anyone remember who did drama class at school? Never the bright kids ...
Hopefully the Oscars continues to hemorrhage viewers as they drop further into irrelevance in people's lives.
I'd rather hear from the democratically elected leader of Ukraine than the Democrat's CIA puppet with a green-screen.
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I got robbed this morning!
by Iamallcool infirst of all… i am ok. i was robbed at the gas station this morning.
after my hands stopped trembling, i managed to call the police.
they were quick to respond and calmed me down, but all my money is gone.
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Simon
It was about profits for the Candian oil company TC energy Corp vs. the legitimate concerns of US citizens.
I find it amazing how people don't understand commerce. Guess who profits from selling anything? The seller! They get the money - it's how trade works!
What do you expect happens when you order something from Amazon? You get to keep the money and get the product you wanted? Of course not, the seller profits from selling the goods and you get the product you wanted. Even Homer Simpson understood that "money can be exchanged for goods and services".
It's the same with oil and gas - the US wants it because the US needs it because the US uses it. That isn't changing anytime soon. The only question is who do you buy it from, and instead of buying ethically sourced oil from the closest ally, Biden ensured that the US instead has to buy it from dictators and has to compete with other idiots who also made themselves dependent on them. So the price goes up.