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[Dinner]

So the USA have lots of settlements in all parts of Mexico, where Mexicans are not allowed and that the USA enlarge at will (and disown any mexicans that are in possession of the land to which the settlement expand). Settlements that sit on the most precious parts of Mexico due to access to fertile soil and fresh water (with US settlements in Mexico having access to 80% of all mexican fresh water resources and the mexicans themselves only access to the remainign 20%)

Also there are several highways in Mexico into which (non US citizen) mexicans are not allowed to drive and which often separate several mexican villages from each other, so that mexicans who want to travelk to another mexican village have to pass fortified checkpoints (to tunnels under the Highways), and wait several hours due to diligent controls (or, on several days may not even pass at all, because many of the checkpoints are not permanently manned)

Because, if you replace US with Israel and Mexico/Mexicans with Westbank/Palestinians that is the situation in the Westbank.

There is a lot of untrue nonsense in that post. Pleaseprovide any evidence that Americans control 80% of the water in Mexico. Also, my not very well informed friend, Mexican citizens can indeed use toll roads such as Highway 1 in Baja they just typically choose not to do so as they do not want to pay a toll every mile and because they know alternate routes which do not charge tolls. Thus mostly tourists use the toll roads. Also, yes, there are indeed check points by the Federales (not the military, learn the difference) a various places but it is not because of the evil Americans, as you wrongly claimed, but part of Mexico's law enforcement campaign against cartels and organized crime.

Is Mexico a ****ed up place? Undoubtedly, but certainly not because of the reasons you are claiming. Mostly it has to do with Mexico having the lowest tax rates in the western hemisphere and the government mostly being funded by a nationalized oil company which is extremely poorly run. In short, the government simply chooses to not fund basic services such as roads or quality schools or quality health care or even much in the way of effective government at any level.

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Trump administration has stopped responding to UN investigators

The State Department has not responded to an official complaint from United Nations human rights investigators since May 7, 2018, leaving at least 13 formal requests unanswered, The Guardian reports.
The big picture: The UN's network of global watchdogs has recently called for probes into the Trump administration's policies at the U.S.-Mexico border, including the separation of children from their families and the conditions that may have led to the death of two migrant children in U.S. custody last month. An ACLU official tells The Guardian that the U.S. is "sending a very dangerous message to other countries: that if you don’t cooperate with UN experts they will just go away."

https://www.axios.com/trump-administration-stopped-responding-un-human-rights-investigators-91920a35-d1c9-4ed7-82a4-b9b451a78889.html

Remember the time when we used a country's alleged failure to fully cooperate with UN inspectors as a pretext for invasion? I guess we don't have to follow the rules we impose on others by force.

[Dauphin]

A roasting? In a comments section full of lefties, after someone says something bad about a leftist champion? I’m shocked I tell you.

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https://youtu.be/6w0FgGqO7ik

Remember, this is a far left source, she face planted completely, and she is just and ignorant piece of garbage on the issue of Israel and the Simon Wezonthal Center rightly called her out for both her ignorance and anti-Semitism. She just has a very limited depth of knowledge on most subjects, she tends to babble idiocy, and she is just not very bright or knowledgeable.

The guy you linked to is getting roasted in the comments.

[Dauphin]

Meaningless unless Putin is claiming a massive increase in spy production*. Otherwise fungibility kicks in and the US sells to ex Russian soy bean buyers.

*Phone mistype, but I like it so not corrected it.

[pchang]

Normal people collect all the evidence first, and then decide whether or not to charge with a crime.

[pchang]

Congress specifically made a strike by TSA illegal.

[Proteus_MST]

Donnie is a good servant to his master:

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would supply soy beans and poultry meat to China and that the United States had effectively given up on that market.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-meat-china-putin/putin-says-russia-will-supply-soy-beans-poultry-meat-to-china-idUSKCN1NX1C4

I guess US-Farmers now can say goodbye to their soy bean exports to China, even for the time after the trade war has ended

[Proteus_MST]

Because it's idiot talk, like saying that the US is occupying part of Mexico.

So the USA have lots of settlements in all parts of Mexico, where Mexicans are not allowed and that the USA enlarge at will (and disown any mexicans that are in possession of the land to which the settlement expand). Settlements that sit on the most precious parts of Mexico due to access to fertile soil and fresh water (with US settlements in Mexico having access to 80% of all mexican fresh water resources and the mexicans themselves only access to the remainign 20%)

Also there are several highways in Mexico into which (non US citizen) mexicans are not allowed to drive and which often separate several mexican villages from each other, so that mexicans who want to travelk to another mexican village have to pass fortified checkpoints (to tunnels under the Highways), and wait several hours due to diligent controls (or, on several days may not even pass at all, because many of the checkpoints are not permanently manned)

Because, if you replace US with Israel and Mexico/Mexicans with Westbank/Palestinians that is the situation in the Westbank.

[Dauphin]

I should note that that’s also true of a lot of politicians though.

[Dauphin]

I don’t agree with Oerdin, but the few times I’ve seen her interviewed she seemed pretty empty and naive. She has talking points and performs ‘well’ with a friendly host that doesn’t probe, but can’t seem to cope with follow up questions.

[Dinner]

https://youtu.be/6w0FgGqO7ik

Remember, this is a far left source, she face planted completely, and she is just and ignorant piece of garbage on the issue of Israel and the Simon Wezonthal Center rightly called her out for both her ignorance and anti-Semitism. She just has a very limited depth of knowledge on most subjects, she tends to babble idiocy, and she is just not very bright or knowledgeable.

[Dinner]

I looked it up an apparently she said Israel is occupying Palestine, and acknowledged that she is not an expert on geopolitics. Of course in the US a politician isn't allowed to acknowledge that they do not know everything or that Israel is occupying the West Bank.

Wow, you are a ****ing imbecil. She even got called out on it by the Young Turks of all people, no friends of Israel, she simply babbled a whole lot of garbage about evil Jews and good Mohammadans and then **** the bed with her own stupidity.

[Proteus_MST]

I looked it up an apparently she said Israel is occupying Palestine, and acknowledged that she is not an expert on geopolitics. Of course in the US a politician isn't allowed to acknowledge that they do not know everything or that Israel is occupying the West Bank.

Here's an article about how she outrageously and foolishly said something that would be uncontroversial outside of the USA. What an airhead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a8450781.html

Wow ... what an antisemite she must be,
to say something that even most hardcore members of the israeli settler movement accept as a fact (i.e. that Israel occupies the Westbank)
and then even dare to support something that seems to be the only logical solution (i.e. a two state solution) (at least if you don't want to put all palestinian into death camps and gas them, or drive them all (men, women, children) out of the Westbank and then claim the Westbank (now free from Palestinians) as the new Eretz Israel)

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Here's an article about how she outrageously and foolishly said something that would be uncontroversial outside of the USA. What an airhead.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alexandria-ocasiocortez-israel-palestine-occupation-us-west-bank-outrage-us-a8450781.html