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The Dutch absolutely should NOT follow suit. You guys stole our (Romanian) golden helmet when we sent it to a museum in the Netherlands[1] because you don't have any armed guards at museums.

Maybe send your gold to a country that actually protects priceless things, like the UK.

[1]: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-thieves-blew-u...


The UK under Gordon Brown foolishly sold off most of its gold reserves. If they had kept thrm, they would be worth £40B more today, or 10 times what it was sold for.

> They just murdered a guy who was not obstructing them.

They shouldn't have shot him since he was not being violent. But he did obstruct: he was standing in middle of the street, acting like a traffic cop. When border patrol tried to arrest a woman, he got between them and the woman. That is obstruction!

After that they shot him without any reason.


Yes. You can see him here climb with ropes: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/24/world/video/alex-honnold-...

It would be insanely reckless to free solo without practicing first.


In the rain! Here's another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtXTBenYlc

> it's not illegal for journalists to have classified documents, so it does not qualify as probable cause

It's amazing how many people offer free internet advice off of ideological groupthink rather than actual laws.

This raid was authorized by a warrant. Do you really think a judge doesn't know the law, but you do?

If a crime happens in your neighborhood, and you have a camera, the cops could get a warrant to search your footage. It doesn't mean you committed a crime, it just means you can be compelled to provide information pertaining to an investigation.


Yes, but to continue the comparison, it would be weird/aggressive/intimidating if the cops raided the neighbor's home and took the device and all hard drives on the premises to get the footage instead of the normal methods of compelling someone to provide the footage.

Especially, if as is the case here, the criminal was already behind bars.


Why do people go out of their way to criticize Trump like this?

Attacking other countries without declaring war is a staple of pretty much every US president since WW2, republican or democrat. Carter is the only one who stands out (ironically, despite the fact that he had a good cause to invade Iran).


Sorry, which presidents did Obama and Biden kidnap again?


I mean they bombed Libya enough to get Muammar Gaddafi killed is that close enough?


I'm buying it. Look up the number of people prosecuted in China for internet speech versus the UK (not even EU). The UK prosecutes more even though it has a much smaller population.


That's not true.


source?


> That's punishing all of Italy's users including those whose job it is to call truth to power

Cloudflare is a business. If the fines for operating are several times the money it can get from Italian users, why should it stay in Italy at all?

It's like when Wikipedia went dark for a day. It punished all users, but the point is to show that politicians are forcing it to do so.


And the answer to that is to point out the hypocrisy (what you're doing), not to take the opposite view, that censorship is important (what so many others are doing when Trump takes a position on anything).


Yes! That is it!


How is Arab conquest of Palestine "resistance"? Palestine was at the time controlled by the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerus...


Yarmuk 636 is one of the most depressing events in history.

Whenever I read about that or the disasters that ensued in the following centuries I always spend a day depressed.

Grim.


No land was stolen. All land was purchased before the war. All land taken after wars was taken after wars started by the Arabs.

That's always been the case with nations who lost wars. Germany lost the war and lost land because of it. Should Germany take back land that was "brutally taken from them"?

Or should they maybe just accept that they shouldn't have started the war? The Germans certainly have accepted that.


If a war has finished, should the victor still be able to keep taking land off the loser? What’s the duration of that right?


> If a war has finished, should the victor still be able to keep taking land off the loser? What’s the duration of that right?

Practically? In 2026? As long as you can keep it. We're back to deciding borders through force versus treaty. Which, based on the rhetoric around Gaza, is ambiguously worse.


Largely yes. That is a risk of starting a war.

If an aggressor is defeated, the victor gets to make demands and set terms for ending hostilities.


And after that? How long can they keep taking?


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