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Wed Jul 1, 2020 12:13 AM
Chinese government is now explicitly saying if Chinese nationals or expats offend the Chinese Communist Party while in a foreign land, they will prosecute and seek to extradite. They kidnap people in foreign countries if they don’t get extradition approved.
Anyone deemed to endanger China’s national securitywhether or not their actions are committed on Chinese soilrisk getting swept up under Hong Kong’s new law.
Wed Jul 1, 2020 02:14 PM
Happy Canada Day!
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Most of the country understands that when it comes to government, you pay for what you get.
Wed Jul 1, 2020 02:55 PM
Beautiful tapestries.
Wed Jul 1, 2020 04:50 PM
From @[100000595164758:2048:Mi Robin] “That was true in like 1910, but then after World War II Democratic presidents like Truman and Johnson started supporting civil rights laws and that led to a mass exodus of racists from the Democratic Party,” Trevor Noah mocked the claim in 2016. “Just because something used to be something doesn’t mean it still is. What matters more is what it is now.” “Every time I go onto Facebook I see these things: ‘Did you know the Democrats are the real racist party and did you know the Republicans freed the slaves?’” Noah joked. “A lot of people like to skip over the fact that when it comes to race relations, historically, Republicans and Democrats switched positions.” “We rate the claim that the Democratic Party started the Civil War to preserve slavery and founded the KKK as FALSE because it is not supported by our research.” More from yesterday’s fact-check: Princeton University Edwards Professor of American History Tera Hunter told USA TODAY this trope is a fallback argument used to discredit current Democratic Party policies. “At the core of the effort to discredit the current Democratic Party is the refusal to accept the realignment of the party structure in the mid-20th century,” Hunt said. In September 2019, NPR host Shereen Marisol Maraji called the claim, “one of the most well-worn clapbacks in modern American politics.” Southern states, primarily led by Democrats, initiated secession proceedings and launched the Civil War. However, historians say the party is not to blame. “The short answer is that the Democratic Party did not start the Civil War,” Hunter said. “The war was initiated by Southern slaveholding states seceding from the United States.” Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History Curator of Political and Military History, Jon Grinspan agreed with Hunter. “A splinter of a splinter of a Democratic Party really contributed to the secession and the coming of the war,” he told USA TODAY. “It would be wrong to say the Democratic Party started the Civil War. Although the KKK did serve the Democratic Party’s interests, Grinspan stressed that not all Democrats supported the KKK. Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism Senior Fellow Mark Pitcavage told the Associated Press that many KKK members were Democrats because the Whig Party had died off and Southerners disliked Republicans after the Civil War. Despite KKK members’ primary political affiliation, Pitcavage said it is wrong to say the Democratic Party started the KKK. After Reconstruction and as the Jim Crow period set in during the 1870s, the Klan became obsolete. Through violence, intimidation and systematic oppression, the KKK had served its purpose to help whites retake Southern governments. According to Grinspan, the Republican Party was much more concerned with protecting African Americans and their voting rights from its founding through the early 20th century. In the mid-20th century, both parties’ stances on racial equity began to switch. “It starts with FDR and the New Deal, but the actions with Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s with the Voting Rights Act and civil rights legislation really kind of seals the deal,” Grinspan said. As the Democrats introduced policies to support voting rights, it became the favored party for most Black voters and has remained so since. With that realignment, many racist voters who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 left the Democratic Party to become Republicans. “That was 150 years ago and the parties are totally different today,” Grinspan said. “It’s like a dinosaur to a modern-day bird. So much evolution has happened. These really aren’t the same groups anymore.”
Wed Jul 1, 2020 05:15 PM
This is why I think public transport needs to be able to transport micro cars (taking up no more than 3 square meters space). But I did the calculations and the fare ride would cost $10 to $20.
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