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Do I really have to explain to you how evidence works? You don't get do-overs after you've outed yourself. Unless you can travel backwards in time, you're toast.

Russia is a superpower? It has an economy smaller than Canada's and is heavily weighted towards the production of raw materials. Materials which other countries add lots of value to. What Russia has is nuclear weapons. The rest of its armed forces are clearly a travesty. If being able to destroy civilization makes post-Soviet Russia a superpower, then it has been one for its entire existence.

Does this sentence look familiar? Stay at home and make a video call then sweetie I don't recall you using the term "sweetie" for any male figures in the news.

And they could all have watched each other.

Really? Including this? https://twitter.com/i/status/1615418010558144512

What looks the same? People physically gathered in one place to protest look the same as someone speaking via video to other people watching via video? Really? Maybe you're watching the news on a repurposed Pong screen?

Actually, it's probably the case that China's population has already been shrinking: Leaked Data Show China’s Population Is Shrinking Fast Because China has always massaged its demographic figures and cracked down on anyone who challenges the official line, there are endless debates about the true size and growth trajectory of the country's population. But a recent, large-scale data breach offers some sorely needed clarity. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/chinese-population-smaller-than-stated-and-shrinking-fast-by-yi-fuxian-2022-07

The point of these meetings is to draw wider attention to problems. Video conferences don't make for compelling viewing.

Pretty silly actually, You seem to forget that the EU actually plays a very small role in the internal affairs of EU countries. Every member state of the EU has it's own elected government the budgets of which far outweigh whatever contributions they make make to the EU. And the each pursue policies that can vary greatly. To ascribe economic problems of those nations to membership in the EU betrays an inability to come to grips with basic arithmetic. And not just with arithmetic.

How does nearly everyone watching this event on their screens differ from any newsworthy event?

It's about impact and publicity. And, I daresay, if all Thunberg did was stay at home and communicate electronically, then she would be castigated for asking other people to make sacrifices that she wouldn't make herself.

More B.S. Under Bill Clinton, taxes were raised enough to have a balanced budget in his final year in office. When George Bush came into office, the Republicans slashed taxes on the wealthy and budget deficits once again became the rule.

But the Republicans want to repeal increased investment in the IRS. A large portion of which will be targeting the tax evading ways of the wealthy.

And why is that significant?

Maybe you could help by traveling in your time machine to the future and bringing back pollution-free technology to the present, Until then, you can't get there from here without using the technology that's available now.

First off, what don't you understand about the fact that whether the documents were classified or not is irrelevant. In both cases, apparently, Trump and Biden violated the rules. And I've got some exciting news for you and similarly qualified legal scholars: Biden was authorized to declassify documents thanks to an executive order from Obama. It's irrelevant, but it is a fact. Fact check: Biden did have the authority to declassify documents as vice president Legal experts told USA TODAY that Biden had the authority to declassify documents as vice president as the result of a 2009 executive order signed by President Barack Obama. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/01/17/fact-check-biden-had-authority-declassify-vice-president/11065345002/ Here's a link to the executive order: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-classified-national-security-information#:~:text=This order prescribes a uniform,the activities of their Government

What don't you understand about the fact that he's a public official?

You mean like packed up in boxes and stored somewhere. What you don't seem to understand is that you have to prove intent to violate the rules in order to be held criminally responsible. Possession is not enough. That's a very high bar to clear. Very occasionally, there's someone who's mentally defective and gives the government an abundance of the evidence it needs. Someone recently has done just that.

Are you claiming that if it hadn't been for the possiblity of financial gain, he wouldn't have done it? I'm assuming you have some proof of that. Otherwise it would just be another typical case of ascribing ignoble motives without providing any proof.

Can you name any public figure discussed in this forum who cares about the opinions of its members? Why do you think this is relevant?

Yes. But given the facts of the case so far, there seems very little likelihood that anything criminal will be unearthed.

Don't you understand that there's something endearingly cozy and Dickensian about UK corruption?

And the evidence you have produced about the concerns of citizens of the EU over the consequences of the EU war, actually proves the opposite of what you think they do. Despite the fact that there have been negative consequences for them, their approval of membership in the EU has actually risen.

Really" It's "Vice Presidents" who have money in suitcases? As far as I'm aware, only one vice President has been implicated. But if you can link to some decent source that shows there is more than one currently implicated, please do share it with us. It should also be noted that there are 14 vice-Presidents in the EU, and most of them, including the one imiplicated, exercise very little power.

No, I meant "import" as used to mean "significance". Look it up. Well, if a little bit of corruption is about as acceptable to you as a little bit of racism, I think you're pretty much out of luck in finding any government to be legitimate. Those of us who take a more rational view of the way the world works would differ from you in that regard.