You'll want to avoid Iran and Utah then, quite the trying groups of people.

Metric expansion is incredibly weak over distances smaller than galaxy clusters, so you just don't see any local changes. Gravity can easily overwhelm metric expansion, although if metric expansion continues to accelerate indefinitely, you end up with a "Big Rip" scenario.

Long ago people threw their wooden shoes into the gears, in 2023 they smack their keyboards and produce hysteria + misinformation.

In both cases the new tech rolls over them.

I agree with you on that, but I don't agree with sending them to Rwanda. As I said, we need a coherent, workable, legal policy that can scale up as needed, and we need it soon. "Let them all in lol" and "Send them to Rwanda" are both dead ends.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!

They're a pack of shameless wastes of skin.

Kazakhstan has really found their independence from Russia over the last year, you just love to see it.

We don't ship criminals to Rwanda, so that's not really a good comparison either. We need a coherent policy, not Tory wank or Labour wank.

Oh yeah... waiting for evidence is sooo passé, everyone knows that just shouting into the void is the way to make things happen.

But yes, you are making useless comments.

The problem with this is that it pits Sunak and the Tories against the EU, and that is a VERY favorable position for the right wing here. They love to pretend that they're fighting for some vision of our sovereignty, rather than being bastards.

To be clear, something needs to be done about the current system of asylum, but unilateral and draconian measures designed for political theater don't help.

What part of:

> That doesn't mean that she's wrong about this, but without more information regarding the nature and context of the searches

Sounded to you like:

> The police would never abuse their power though

What a charming country that must be to live in.

Annie would say pretty much anything if she thought it would get rid of Macron and leave an opening for Mélenchon, she's as left as it gets. That doesn't mean that she's wrong about this, but without more information regarding the nature and context of the searches, this sounds a lot like her usual brand of politics, i.e. throwing bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Ernaux#Political_activism

If it isn't pushed back these young people will be paying for Boomer pensions, and by the time they need one, it won't exist.

No slippery slope fallacy required, unlike your "argument."

I didn't do that either, learn to read.

Ok, I'm better than that, you're not.

Is that what you prefer?

You can't tell people to harm themselves here, brigade them, harass them, and so on, without recourse.

You can do just that in China.

This is an article about Italy and Italian law, digressions by dafties aside.

I didn't call them failed states, learn to read.

Italy doesn't use common law, they use codified laws. 🙄

True, this is weaponised kidnapping, and in context a form of ethnic cleansing.

In the US and EU at least all court proceedings are matters of public record, with rare exceptions such as rape shield laws and national security.

You know what it's called when you borrow someone's child without their permission?

Kidnapping.

Promising to return the children you stole "when it's safe" sounds a lot like a threat to never return them. "Stop fighting our invasion and you might see your children again" is probably the real message.

Sick bastards

Laws are all matters of public record, what are you talking about?

No we don't, that's what failed states, Russia and China do, we're better than that. Even ignoring the moral dimension, it's the rule of law that makes the EU and North America such destinations for tourism and investment.