By your rationale, any story about any city anywhere is a local thing.

Wow, that’s a really bad excuse to murder 20 people. Not that there is really a good excuse for murdering 20 people, but this one is especially weak.

You can’t bake a cake without breaking a few thousand eggs

I’m going to need some help understanding what rationale there is for jailing people for not going to work.

You’re being downvoted because you’re doing the “I’m 13 and this is deep.” If you are equating putting millions of people into furnaces with the stated cause to eradicate them, to supplying arms to a country that is bombing a country without care for who dies with the stated cause of rescuing their hostages (bullshit) and avenging an attack on their soil (true), then you have no idea the scope of WW2.

You are also saying that since we did something bad now that our actions 85 years ago are now invalid. I can’t even begin to describe how stupid that makes you sound. Again, I agree with saying that the US is the villain right now and doing awful, horrific things. But A) you really have no concept how bad WW2 was, and B) nobody has any idea how bad it would have gotten if the US hadn’t stepped in during WW2. The whole world should be fighting Israel and the US on what is going on right now. But that doesn’t suddenly make what we did 85 years ago an evil action. It’s such a mind-bogglingly stupid take.

If you think our bad actions now mean all of our previous actions are bad, then that means you think us supporting Ukraine is also bad. Do you think the US should stop supporting Ukraine?

So let me get this straight… you think it would have been better or roughly the same to let Hitler continue killing millions of Jewish people, gay people, black people, and Roma people because the US has allowed Israel to kill a couple hundred thousand Palestinians?

Don’t get me wrong, I am very much against the genocide happening in Gaza and no longer want to live in the US based on how the rest of the country is acting now. And I get how much damage we have caused over the last 50 years. But holy shit what an unbelievably stupid take to think letting the Nazis been would have been equivalent… just wow.

Attacking late was one reason, but also not having any land borders with any enemies during WW2 was probably just as big if not a bigger reason. Japan was the closest enemy, and they had to fly hours and hours just to attack the closest military base. Germany couldn’t just dump tanks and troops onto US soil or send resupplies to boats/planes attacking the US.

When I saw this story last week, I had the same thought process. Like, why wouldn’t they? It’s such a short gap and could be huge for normal people.

Then I read why.

You used single quotes when double quotes was the correct usage. You also put your comma outside of the quotation mark instead of inside.

It’s a good thing we aren’t in school where they (are supposed to) teach you the exactly correct thing.

They also teach you in school that you don’t capitalize the first letter after an ellipsis, but you just did. It’s almost like, and I’m just spitballing here, it’s OK and generally acceptable in unofficial writing to make minor mistakes that are common enough.

They also teach you in school that you only use single quotes if your quote is inside of another quote. So why did you use single quotes twice in your unquoted sentence?

As for your statement that you either have one standard or none at all. Have you heard of the Oxford Comma? Have you read the rules for whether you put an apostrophe s after a singular possessive noun that ends in s? Even within a single country we can’t agree on common rules for a language.

And the correct abbreviation of miles per hour is mi/h, but nearly everyone writes mph. Speedometers use mph and km/h, but I’ve seen kph a bunch.

And nothing will be done.

This is about DROC, not ROC.

From the source: “The partnership will reportedly cost the Democratic Republic of Congo 44m euros ($50m; £38m), although the club has not disclosed the figure it will receive.”

Wow, that’s an incredibly bad look for Barcelona.

30,000 child soldiers still active.

Normalized and accepted violence against women. Known as the “rape capital of the world.”

Illegal to be LGBT.

Institutionalized corruption. Ranks 163 out of 180 in Corruption Index and 156 out of 167 in Democracy Index.

Is wearing hi vis clothing sensible on country roads with no sidewalks? Yes.

Should it be mandatory just to go out on a walk? No. How about we lower speed limits on those roads or create safer roads. Walking is a basic human right (or moving about in whatever way you need to if your body doesn’t allow you to walk). Driving a car is not.

Yeah, how dare they accept the help of the world’s largest military after they were invaded by a hostile neighbor!! Who do they think they are?

Do you have any idea how insanely corrupt and nonsensical FIFA is?

I have no idea on the first question, but the second question was answered in the story. The French police are being paid by the UK government to stop the immigrant boats.

Ultra-orthodox anything is going to be filled with nutjobs like this. They feel anything that slightly inconveniences their chosen brand of religion is an attack on religion itself. They want to have their stupidly large families but don’t want to pay for it themselves, either through work to wash dishes or through the tiny tax on their plastic forks. Same shit happens with Christians here in the US.

I grew up in the suburbs of a midwestern city, where we could run into the woods to play army or ride bikes in a closed neighborhood (not gated, just no through traffic) or walk from yard to yard with no fences except for houses with pools or walk to the next neighborhood over. We were free to explore as long as we didn’t cross certain streets and came home by dark. We walked to the bus stop to go to school.

Contrast that to where I live now in a major metropolitan city where kids never see “the woods”, can’t safely ride bikes anywhere but bike paths, have tall privacy fences blocking both socializing but also blocking multi-yard sports areas, have no “neighborhoods,” and have to be driven by parents in a car directly to school (where they have to wait in a line of 100 cars to pick up kids everyday). How can kids ever become self sufficient? They have to be parented every minute of their lives until they are 16. It’s wild.

But that is in the US. When I visit Europe there are kids by themselves on the subway going wherever a 10 year old needs to go.