I mean, if there’s bribing going on there’s no guarantee it’s Messi doing it. Given his long career and the fact he’s (as far as I hear; I don’t watch football) the only one not playing like a thug, I’d say it’s much more likely someone is bribing them for him.

That’s old news; Chinese workers now are actually decently well-paid AFAIK, while the low-paid export labor is mostly in Southeast Asia.

It’s a natural application of the law of universal gravitation; China is probably the country in the world with the most human mass.

Wow, didn’t expect to see Clevatess here.

Every now and then I wonder if Iran and crew made a mistake by having their trolls back Trump’s campaign, but then he and his stooges do shit like this.

As all of human history shows, countries can in fact be cancer.

Do you live in Southern/Southeastern Europe (or otherwise close to the Mediterranean coast) by any chance? If not then where was this? Humidity and house design are the real killers here; I know a guy from a literal desert where summers mean whole months of 40C°+ peaks who now studies in Germany. When talking about the recent heat wave, he said and I quote: “I drank nothing but water for two days straight because anything I ate would warm me up.” You can’t rely on the temperature alone for this.

Yeah that makes sense. Another way capitalism screws us over, I guess.

Which is really big because most of Europe has a housing crisis going on and home ownership rates are in the toilet.

Ah, yes, an ad by checks notes BBC.

Holy anti-Chinese cope.

PS: Nothing you said actually backs up your argument.

I mean it’s either that or tax the rich, and you can guess which option the rich prefer.

Never change, Germany.

This has been going in for ages.

Yes, because America has America has had strategic interests (read: reasons to do imperialism) in the Middle East for ages.

The lobby and Moussad are powerful.

Yes, because they’re allowed to be powerful. There’s a reason no other country gets to manipulate American domestic politics this openly, not even longtime American allies in NATO. If money and a good intelligence agency were all you needed to control the strongest military power in the world everybody would be doing it. The fact of the matter American elites need a reliable thug in the region to do their dirty work for them and Israel does that job well enough that American elites feel the need to protect it from popular backlash. Compare how mainstream media talked/talks about Trump getting bribes from the Gulf States to how Israel’s antics get reported on and you’ll see what I mean; if Israel wasn’t valuable to the people running the show they’d have tossed it overboard a long time ago.

Gotta love it when evil assholes sabotage themselves.

Thinking that Israel controls America is like thinking the knife controls the serial killer because he spends money on sharpening it.

Halal economic devastation.

No she just funded and intends to continue funding the famously non-rapist IDF.

I’d like y’all to direct some of that scrutiny at Janet Mills too.

Username checks out.