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I have no doubt that FIFA bribes everyone, including Trump. It's just in this particular instance that, if it was their intent to bribe Trump with a trophy, they would have created a second one with real gold instead of giving Chelsea a replica. It seems much more likely that Trump just stole it and FIFA didn't raise a stink about it in order to preserve relations.
26 points ·
It clearly doesn't make sense that the FIFA would spend a small fortune on creating a trophy, only to give the winner a replica. It is concerning to me that you still take Trump's word at face value, no matter how obvious and self-serving the lie.
1 points ·
If a government is fighting for survival while it has a bunch of horrible weapons lying around like I described, they are absolutely going to use them. No question about it. That's why you should ban the development and production of these things even in peacetime and that's why international treaties are so important.
11 points ·
The mod log is public: https://lemmy.world/modlog/2840
But that's assuming you actually want to know and aren't just posting this to create drama.
0 points ·
Your premise is that these countries have a binary choice between either using mines in a "responsible" way or be conquered by Russia which uses mines in a bad way.
This is a fallacy because there are in fact many other plausible outcomes:
3 points ·
Chemical warfare? Cluster munitions? Bombing of population centers?
The point of international law on warfare is that they apply to everyone regardless of circumstances. What you're suggesting is war crimes in self-defense.
0 points ·
That's clearly a false dichotomy.
9 points ·
OIP is just a branch of Elbit, so yes 100% of profits go to a company fueling genocide. I don't see you dispute that.
OIP doesn't even claim that these protestors destroyed equipment destined for Ukraine (nor is there any corroborating evidence), only that it was delayed.
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... according to Israeli genocide-supporting arms manufacturer.
15 points ·
By buying American aircraft?
8 points ·
It's saying the quiet part out loud. Surely anyone who sees this will be outraged?
4 points ·
Non-biased source: https://apnews.com/article/israel-iran-war-nuclear-trump-bomber-news-06-23-2025-9e78510c88ccc5e262341f41550609c5
21 points ·
It's an absolutely massive amount of money. And it's not temporary while there's a war in Ukraine, it's indefinitely. All because Trump pressured the rest of NATO and wants more money going to his buddies in the weapons industry.
Even without the US, European NATO countries already spend more than Russia and China (sources from 2024 and 2025). Just how much more should it get?
19 points ·
But even if you do buy on Amazon sometimes, why should that make you on board with surrendering your city to this billionaire? It's part of this toxic obsession of finding minor 'gotchas'/hypocrisies instead of debating substance. You MUST subscribe to every belief of team A and hate everything from team B.
298 points ·
“You’re telling me none of these people shop on Amazon?” said New Orleans native Jake Springer, who, along with his wife, was spending a weekend in Venice on a wine tour through Italy. “At least they are protesting peacefully. Americans could learn a thing or two from this.”
They found the dumbest possible American to give a comment.
9 points ·
Train ticket enforcement must *not exist*. Make it free, like Luxembourg. Saves a lot of administrative costs, turnstiles, queues and police interactions.
23 points ·
I'm so fucking tired of this argument
45 points ·
What will the cops do, shoot them all?
His security detail might. Shooting civilians is their specialty.
14 points ·
This 100%.
The US bullied the rest of the world into passing these anti-circumvention laws that make it illegal to modify the appliances you buy. Stick it to them and let us run our own firmware free of US cloud services.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/