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Card_Zero t1_j9txy5o wrote

I don't think Brexit was awful, and I'm not certain history books will paint it as a disaster. Currently it's seen as awful because of economic impact and because of the desire to have a strong Europe to oppose Russia, along with the insinuation that Russia was trying to engineer the breakup of Europe. However, a United States of Europe would also have been a bad thing. Unions, federations, and so on are tricky because minimal collaboration between equals is ideal and maximal central government is what tends to emerge. I know it seems irrelevant in the current climate, post-covid and with Russia rampaging around, but Brexit had an overlooked role as a backlash against that.

(It's a valid role if you're troubled by giant octopus-like central governments, I mean. Not everybody is, and I know this is an unpopular opinion, as will now be redundantly demonstrated by downvotes. It is however an aspect of the picture.)

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jab116 t1_j9txp76 wrote

If that land was so important to the “Palestinians” maybe the 7 countries who invaded Israel 4 times to eradicate Jews should have fought a little harder?

You don’t get to lose a fight you started then cry for sympathy. You especially don’t get to do it 4 times. Palestinians are professional victims.

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TarHeel2682 t1_j9txdfb wrote

I’m thinking mostly useful idiot. She is so set on being contrarian to anything someone left of her would do that she ends up trying to destroy her own country. I don’t see how calling for secession is allowable. She should be removed from any committees at least and removed from congress. She took an oath to defend the constitution and calling for this is the exact opposite

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pressonacott t1_j9tv674 wrote

I'm in Vietnam.

Sanitary conditions aren't the best. But I love it here.

I just came back from Thailand, and it's just about the same in Phuket.

To be clear: these are street food places that I go to. It's common practice to take a napkin and wipe your chopsticks and spoons as well as cups and bowls before eating.

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AMeasuredBerserker t1_j9tv0jo wrote

I can quite literally google the word and find this:

>decimate
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>/ˈdɛsɪmeɪt/
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>Learn to pronounce
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>verb
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>past tense: decimated; past participle: decimated

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>kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
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>"the inhabitants of the country had been decimated"
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>2.
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>HISTORICAL
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>kill one in every ten of (a group of people, originally a mutinous Roman legion) as a punishment for the whole group.
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>"the man who is to determine whether it be necessary to decimate a large body of mutineers"

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/decimate

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimated

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/decimate

Im interested why you put the one source, Wikitionary, the tried and tested! as the only example above all others.

But as you so eloquently put it, because it doesn't validate your point, "Whatever" you will twist it any which way to make you right.

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