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The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

How Icelandic students view America. I take exception to that. Americans are not all obese, gun-totin...what's that? This just in....

As I reported on @ESPN100 just now… the shooting at Guaranteed Rate Field during a #WhiteSox game was indeed an accidental discharge by one of the women “grazed” by the bullet. She reportedly snuck the gun in past metal detectors hiding it in the folds of her belly fat.
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Checks all the boxes.
 
In most developed countries, people are terrified of coming to the US because of gun violence.

They think of us the way we think of Colombia and El Salvador.

As to the rest...

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Kepler said:
Azerbaijan's itsy bitsy, teeny weeny genocide of the Armeni.
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This situation is completely bonkers and will not improve in our lifetimes.

Turkey - NATO member and US "ally", denies the Armenian Genocide. In fact, they claim it was the other way around. Turkey just hates Armenia for reasons not worth getting into here, mostly related to religion and Islam vs. Christianity.

Azerbaijan, primarily muslim, and Armenia have fought over this small region for literally centuries.

Turkey has helped Azerbaijan just to be jerks to Armenia. The US, not wanting to piss off our "allies" in Turkey, has only offered token public support to Armenia (again, there's more to it, as Armenia has a long and positive history with Russia and the USSR). Russia has been supporting Armenia these last 25+ years, but that came to a screaming halt with the Ukrainian invasion.

The end result is that Armenia is getting its teeth kicked in, and it's incredibly sad. This is the down side to international politics. Armenia should be an ally to the US, but they can't be because Turkey. But we can't really oust Turkey from NATO, as the decision to include them was really "better to keep them in our 'sphere' than let them go to the Russians". Which, I guess, I understand. But the result is even more Armenian death.
 
Everybody in the Caucuses sucks except maybe the Georgians, and you get the distinct impression the second Georgia feels secure they will immediately start acting like repressive jerks like the Poles did.

There are replaces that just aren't getting democracy this side of the year 3000. The Levant, Central Africa, Central Asia, the Caucuses, the American South. The population just isn't up to it.
 
The Lima Wall of Shame between rich and poor neighborhoods is being torn down after 40 years.

It will presumably be relocated to a red state.

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Kepler said:
When China gets built up as the Next Big Bad to keep that contractor money flowing, remember this.
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Jesus. One precision bunker buster on a military target could end up being a war crime.

I always assumed it was bad, but chalked (like their concrete) that up to my preconceived biases.
 
Modi sucks, and I'm sure this is meant in an aggressive and nationalistic way, but... I mean... they're not wrong.

The nation of more than 1.4 billion people is officially known by two names, India and Bharat, but the former is most commonly used, both domestically and internationally. Hindustan is another word for the nation and is often used in literature and other forms of popular culture.

Bharat is an ancient Sanskrit word that many historians believe dates back to early Hindu texts. The word is also used as a Hindi option for India.

Officials of Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) back the change in nomenclature. They argue that the name India was introduced by British colonials and is a “symbol of slavery”. The British ruled India for about 200 years until the country gained independence in 1947.
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As opposed to:

Congress legislator Shashi Tharoor said Indians should “continue to use both words rather than relinquish our claim to a name redolent of history, a name that is recognised around the world”.

“While there is no constitutional objection to calling India ‘Bharat’, which is one of the country’s two official names, I hope the government will not be so foolish as to completely dispense with ‘India’, which has incalculable brand value built up over centuries,” he posted on X.
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