You could make everything yourself, but only if you accept the enormous cost of doing so. Why? Because you don't have unlimited resources, labor, capital or infrastructure to make everything. Every dollar, worker and factory used to produce one thing cannot be used somewhere else.

Capitalist economics is based on production finding the best location to make things efficiently, given the resources, labor, infrastructure and supply chains available. That requires specialization and economies of scale. So if you want to move production to the US, you need to be selective about it. Find products that suit US resources, infrastructure and production chains, protect those industries where there is a genuine reason to do so, and attract investors to build the production capacity.

Take fishing rods or golf clubs from Canada. Even if producing them in Canada isn't much cheaper, the factories, workers, machinery and supply chains already exist. Moving that production to the US means spending a lot of money to recreate something that already exists. Investors need to know that the investment will actually make money and that the conditions will remain stable long enough for them to recover it. No serious investor is going to invest billions in production based on a policy that might disappear or change completely after the next election, or as soon as Trump drops dead.

And blanket tariffs can actually make American manufacturing more expensive,
because American manufacturers also depend on imported machinery, components
and raw materials.

So if you want to rebuild American manufacturing, do it strategically and give investors long-term certainty. If you impose blanket tariffs in this chaotic way, you're primarily making imports more expensive for Americans, while also making investment more uncertain. That's not the same thing as creating competitive American industry.

And ultimately, if your goal is an economy based on American production and American consumption, making American consumers poorer works against that goal. Higher prices reduce what Americans can afford to buy, which reduces domestic demand for American businesses. You are therefore raising the cost of producing goods in America while simultaneously weakening the American consumer who is supposed to buy them.
And if those higher consumer taxes are used to offset tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy, you are shifting purchasing power away from the majority of consumers, the very people your domestic economy depends on.

You want to teach me capitalist economics, when it is related to Mamdani, but you don't understand this: it doesn't matter how nice you are to the billionaires who make stuff
(in your vision), if you destroy the purchasing power of the people who BUY stuff.

On top with her tits on my face.

Anytime Christians are shouting "Persecution!", there is likely a story like this behind it.
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Are you kidding? Mayor Zohran Mamdani just took several concrete steps at long-term preparedness and remembrance.

• Made September 11 an official NYC “Day of Remembrance and Service” every year. This is a new citywide designation. It calls for a moment of silence honoring both people killed on 9/11 and people who later died from 9/11-related illnesses.
• Encouraged city agencies to hold memorial ceremonies and educational programs and work with NYC Service to promote volunteer opportunities on September 11. The idea is to connect remembrance with the spirit of service that New Yorkers showed immediately after the attacks.
• Expanded the focus beyond people killed on September 11 itself. His announcement explicitly recognizes first responders, survivors, city workers, families, recovery/construction workers, and people who became sick from toxic exposure in the years afterward.
• Updated NYC's emergency-continuity planning for the first time since 2007. He created a new interagency Continuity and Mission Assurance Team involving emergency management, technology, city services and budget officials, intended to make sure essential government services can continue during a catastrophe.

Your side always talk a good game, but it's mostly a political point to hate Muslims and go to war. Remembering people who died is cheap, but recognizing the health damage of first responders, survivors, city workers, families and recovery/construction workers costs money. If it wasn't for Jon Stewart shaming Congress, they would have completely ignored all the people who are suffering health issues from doing their important work.
That is sickening.

What is his definition of a woman? When I can put my cigar in the front?

Are you talking about cheating on your wife, with another woman?
If that's what you do with a woman, you've picked the right president.
I don't know how you tie that to transgenders though, because you can squirt your cum over the dress of a trans-woman too. And if they had the surgery, the cigar fits too.

In recent years, Clinton has aligned with modern LGBTQ+ advocacy platforms.
For example, during a 2023 Clinton Global Initiative University conference in Nashville,
Bill and Hillary Clinton spoke out directly against state-level legislative attacks targeting
the transgender community. He warned that weaponizing gender politics poses a significant threat to the country's future and explicitly validated the community by condemning efforts to marginalize them.

He doesn't focus on the theory of sex and gender, he just cares about people's rights
to figure that out for themselves. The government should stay out of your underwear.

I understand the difference; leadership is about the capacity to change people's minds on influence, inspiration, and shared goals, whereas ruling relies on forcing your desires onto others and demanding obedience.
Have you seen Trump at work? HE DEMANDS OBEDIENCE.

Socialism and communism are derived from the words social and commune for a reason; because their core theory is built on collective ownership and cooperation, NOT a ruling class.

Why do I even try to talk some sense into a person who believes fringe conspiracy theories, historical revisionism, and factually upside-down claims? You are explicitly contradicting history, as it is recognized by allies and enemies alike.

There is a massive paper trail showing exactly how the Nazis funded their own regime, mostly through plundering occupied Europe and stealing the wealth of Jewish citizens. FDR didn’t run Germany, nor did he order the Holocaust. The US government actually fought a total war to destroy the Third Reich. Blaming the country that helped liberate the camps for building them ignores the real perpetrators: Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Over 400,000 American soldiers died fighting across Europe and the
Pacific to destroy fascism. American troops were the ones who liberated concentration camps like Buchenwald and Dachau. To claim that the US government and FDR actually ran the Third Reich and sent people to gas chambers completely spits on the sacrifice of those American veterans.

I'm accused of hating America a lot, but what you just said is worse than ANYTHING I have ever said.

To the others on this forum who usually back him up: if you stay silent on this, you are showing a complete lack of principle and intellectual courage.

That's not the same as killing Jews. It's turning away refugees,
which is exactly what you want Trump to do. There are genocides and mass murders going on today too.

In Marxist theory, socialism is democratic worker control and ownership of the workplaces and means of production.
Communism is the ultimate, stateless, and classless society that emerges after socialism.
Democracy is any system of government where power is vested in the people and exercised by them either directly or through elected representatives.

Democracy under socialism is inherently different from capitalist democracy. Marxists argue that capitalist democracy is an illusion (bourgeois democracy) because wealth dictates political power. In contrast, democracy under socialism is envisioned as a radical, bottom-up system where the working-class majority rules society and democratically manages the economy.

In Marxist theory, a political state and its democratic systems (like voting, parliaments, or laws) only exist to manage conflict between different social classes. Because full communism is a classless society, the mechanisms of political rule become completely obsolete.Instead of a political democracy, society is organized through .the voluntary association of producers. Without a state or money, society relies on rotating administrative bodies to manage resources and plan production based directly on human need. Because automation and collective cooperation create an abundance of goods, survival is guaranteed. Individuals are completely free to pursue their creative potentials, erasing the distinction between the governors and the governed.

Personally, I think that communism is too complicated. I prefer socialism as
an end goal, but I would already be satisfied with a hybrid of capitalism and socialism, in which important public services are socialized, but luxury consumer goods would be produced and owned by private companies,
that are regulated and taxed enough to limit their power.

It's not JUST a number, your country pays interest on it.
The US government is now paying roughly $1.1–$1.2 trillion per year
in net interest on the federal debt.

"Humanity evolved from Africa, also the middle east which is in Asia."
I know, so what?

I can spit facts and evidence until hell freezes over.
It doesn't matter, because you will accuse me of lying anyway.
And then you just spit out nonsense without ANY facts or evidence.
You're either delusional or a troll.

Put some evidence towards those killed Jews.

"Leadership vs. Ruling is the same as Utpia vs. socialism."
That's just word salad. I guess, it must be delusional.

What is? Elon's trillion?

Yes, and so they should, because Trump and his cronies are traitors to the Constitution. They are exactly what the impeachment process is designed for.

The Dutch Socialist Party is one of the most democratic parties in my country. Only 2 other parties come close and they are both on the left.

The SP is highly democratic because political power is deliberately organized from the bottom up: members organize in local branches, directly control those branches, elect representatives to higher bodies, collectively control important national decisions, participate in choosing the leadership and retain mechanisms for holding both party officials and elected representatives accountable.

The Republican denied the existence of Project 2025, didn't give you any consistent program to vote on, but expected you to vote for them just because of partisanship. You had candidate Trump promising to fix every problem in the US directly in very short times, and as soon as he got elected not even trying to do any of it.

When you are an SP member, you are involved in writing the program.
Then the representatives will work tirelessly to get as much of it done.
If they don't do their best to do exactly that, they can be replaced with
someone who will, at the members demands. We don't need to wait
for the next primaries.

The difference; you are loyal to your party, my party is loyal to it's members.
I support them, because they represent me, not the other way around.

And my country is more democratic, because I can easily switch to any of the many others. You have only two damn awful and corrupt choices, that have been there for ever and collude together to keep out other parties. In 10 years, we gained 4 new national political parties that gained seats; FVD, Volt, BBB and BIJ1. The BBB was even in the last government coalition. It wasn't a success, but it is giving my people lots of democratic choices that you don't have.

Christian Nationalists aren't Christians either, they are a political movement abusing religion for power and submission. There is nothing Christian about that.

You keep accusing me of lying, but you keep failing to show it.

FDR was MUCH more "radical" than the majority of the current Democrats. Most of them are centrist corporatists. They are about as right-wing now as Reagan was, and you can see it in their policy proposals. You ignore more of my questions than I ignore yours. I would, if it was in good faith and worth answering. Mostly they are not.

Humanity evolved in groups, who worked together to thrive. We do that, because our young are the weakest of the whole animal kingdom. That's why it's our nature to care for each other. And because that's our nature, we became the dominant species on Earth. And you are now supporting to abandon our biggest strength. And the only reason you support that is the constant othering from your media and politicians, because that favors the wealthy. It's divide and conquer.

You are so confident that all illegals would surely vote for Democrats. Is that maybe because you understand that it takes decades of indoctrination to become stupid enough to vote for Republicans, and they didn't have that?

If the other side has anything that makes sense, then you could maybe convince me of something. This MAGA regime doesn't make sense on anything; it's just a cult worshiping a very flawed and selfish individual.
Your side has not just lost independent voters, you're even losing life-long conservatives.

Undocumented immigrants cannot vote. Only naturalized US citizens can vote in federal, state, and generally local elections.

I do agree that the Democrats haven't shown a lot of plans the last decades. They were just managing the country. That's still better than destroying everything that matters. For plans that improve people's lives, you need progressives. FDR was a progressive; your side would call him a Communist Marxist today. He was so popular that your side needed to introduce term-limits to get rid of him, because he was overwhelmingly popular. This is the time that most Americans want back now. They have seen the absolute failure of your side, they have seen that corporate centrist Democrats are useless, so now those progressives and democratic socialists are winning almost everywhere. There is a wave coming that you cannot stop, because most Americans a sick and tired of being sick and tired. They want a government that works for them, instead for the wealthy.

Sure, everything on the list below would be called socialism, communism, Marxism or radical left by your side, it it was introduced today:

• Social Security — Gave elderly Americans, disabled workers, and survivors a basic financial safety net.
• Medicare — Ensured virtually every American over 65 has access to health insurance.
• Medicaid — Expanded health coverage for low-income Americans, children, pregnant women, and people with disabilities.
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 — Outlawed racial discrimination in employment and public accommodations.
• Voting Rights Act of 1965 — Protected the right to vote against racial discrimination.
• Fair Housing Act — Outlawed discrimination in housing based on race and other protected characteristics.
• Desegregation — Used federal authority to dismantle government-enforced racial segregation.
• Equal Pay Act — Made paying workers differently solely because of sex unlawful.
• Americans with Disabilities Act — Protected Americans with disabilities from discrimination and required reasonable accessibility.
• Child-labor protections — Prevented children from being exploited in dangerous and abusive employment.
• Minimum wage — Established a nationwide wage floor for covered workers.
• Unemployment insurance — Provided temporary support to workers who lose their jobs.
• Workers’ compensation — Provided protection for workers injured on the job.
• Collective-bargaining rights — Protected workers’ ability to organize and negotiate with employers.
• GI Bill — Helped millions of veterans obtain education, homes, and economic opportunity.
• Rural electrification — Brought electricity to millions of rural Americans.
• New Deal infrastructure — Built roads, bridges, dams, schools, parks, and other infrastructure that served Americans for generations.
• FDIC — Protected Americans’ bank deposits and strengthened confidence in the banking system.
• Food and drug safety — Established stronger federal safeguards against dangerous food, medicines, and consumer products.
• Occupational safety standards — Established nationwide protections against dangerous workplace conditions.
• Clean Air Act — Dramatically reduced harmful air pollution.
• Clean Water Act — Established strong federal protections against water pollution.
• Environmental conservation — Preserved public lands, wildlife, forests, wetlands, and other natural resources.
• Superfund — Created a mechanism for cleaning up severely contaminated hazardous-waste sites.
• School nutrition programs — Helped ensure children receive nutritious meals regardless of family income.
• Head Start — Expanded early-childhood education and support for disadvantaged children.
• Veterans’ health care — Expanded federal medical services for American veterans.
• Consumer protection — Strengthened Americans’ protection against dangerous products and deceptive business practices.
• Nuclear arms control — Democratic administrations negotiated agreements that reduced the risk of nuclear conflict.
• Peace Corps — Created a long-running program of American volunteer service abroad.
• AmeriCorps — Created opportunities for Americans to serve their communities.
• Protection of interracial marriage — Federal constitutional protections ultimately eliminated state bans on interracial marriage.
• Protection of contraception access — Established constitutional protection for married couples’ access to contraception and later extended that protection.
• Marriage equality — Extended the legal right to marry to same-sex couples nationwide.

Now your turn; give me a list of things that Christian Nationalists, far-right conservatives or MAGA has done for America in order to make it a better country?

Just another silly thing to distract yourself from what is happening.
Decades of fearmongering about what Democrats would do,
and then your side does it ALL, and you don't want to see it; blinded by tribalism.

• “Jackbooted government thugs” — warned that federal agents would become an armed occupying force; then put militarized federal agents and troops into American cities.
• “The Second Amendment protects us from tyranny” — warned that an armed citizenry was the last defense against government tyranny; then a legally armed American was killed by federal agents, with his possession of the gun invoked to justify the shooting.
• “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny” — warned that federal power would become something ordinary Americans had to fear; then expanded armed federal enforcement against Americans resisting government action.
• “Don’t Tread on Me” — warned against government coercion of individual citizens; then used federal power to crush resistance and override local authority.
• “States’ rights” — warned that Washington would trample the states; then threatened states with loss of federal money unless they complied with federal demands.
• “Small government” — promised to shrink Washington; instead concentrated more power in the presidency.
• “Executive tyranny” — warned Democrats would govern by executive fiat; then made extraordinary use of executive orders and executive agencies.
• “Government censorship” — warned Democrats would silence conservatives; then pressured broadcasters, journalists and media organizations that challenged Trump.
• “Weaponized DOJ/FBI” — warned Democrats would use federal law enforcement against political enemies; then pursued Trump's political adversaries through federal investigations and prosecutions.
• “The Deep State” — warned of an unaccountable bureaucracy; then purged career officials and replaced institutional independence with political loyalty.
• “Political prisoners” / “two-tiered justice” — warned that political opponents would be selectively prosecuted; then used pardons and presidential power to protect allies while pursuing enemies.
• “Big Brother” — warned Democrats would build an all-seeing government; then expanded government access to Americans' personal databases and information.
• “The surveillance state” — warned that government would track ordinary Americans; then expanded the use of facial recognition, location data, license-plate surveillance and other tracking technologies.
• “Election interference” — warned Washington would manipulate elections; then used federal executive power to impose election requirements and interfere with state election administration.
• “Federal takeover” — warned Democrats would use Washington to control hostile states and cities; then sent federal forces into jurisdictions whose elected governments objected.
• “Law and order” — promised equal justice; then increasingly used extraordinary federal enforcement against political and ideological opponents.
• “Protect American jobs” — warned that foreigners would take Americans' jobs; then embraced rapid AI deployment while resisting regulation that could constrain AI-driven job displacement.
• “Globalist elites” — warned that ordinary Americans were being ruled by an insulated elite; then concentrated extraordinary political influence among billionaires, corporate interests and wealthy insiders.
• “Drain the swamp” — promised to destroy the Washington insider class; instead gave the swamp a new business model: billionaires, loyalists and insiders with direct access to presidential power.
• “Nobody is above the law” — promised to hold the powerful accountable; then made political loyalty and presidential protection increasingly consequential to who faces scrutiny.
• “Epstein's child-sex-trafficking cabal” — promised to expose the wealthy and powerful people supposedly protected by the system; then the administration and Republican leadership became embroiled in resistance to demands for fuller disclosure while powerful figures fought congressional subpoenas.
• “End the forever wars” — promised to stop endless foreign wars; then launched/expanded major military operations while American forces remained deeply engaged overseas.
• “America First” — promised to stop sacrificing Americans for foreign adventures; then asked Americans to absorb the human and financial costs of another major war.
• “Lower the deficit” — promised fiscal discipline and smaller government; instead the national debt passed $40 trillion.
• “Freedom” — warned that Democrats would use government to control Americans; then expanded federal control over speech, protest, immigration, elections, information and personal data.

There is the communicated purpose and the ACTUAL purpose.
I'll tell you a secret.... They are LYING.

I told you while they were doing it that everything they reported was untrue.
You could have used a search engine to confirm everything I said.

You wanted to believe the lies of a billionaire, who you hated before, until he bough Twitter and started filling it with bullshit and memes that your side likes.
Then he got access to your government to cut appropriations for anything that he doesn't like, and to steal the information that the government has on its people.
Then he got everything he wanted for SpaceX from your president. Billions and billions of your TAX DOLLARS to fill Earth's orbit with his satellites.
[Until they start colliding, destroying all the satellites in a chain reaction and making space impassable for decades, destroying actual important functions that we rely on, like weather forecasting.]
It made him the first trillionaire. He sells you bullshit about data centers in space
and going to Mars, but it's just a scam to steal tax-dollars, investments from dumb Americans and 401(k) holders. And there is nothing I can tell you to make you see it.

He DID cut off non US projects. He also cut food for American children
and poor old people. He cut cancer research. Then Trump cut money
that kept people's health insurance on the edge of affordable (now it's not).

He cut a lot of things that people relied on.
And do you see that in your deficit? Obviously not.

You think there should be a lot of free money that he didn't cut yet,
because you see no change. Right?

Wrong! He is taking everything that he cut, and then he gives it FOR FREE
to the wealthy and shady companies that his sons are starting up.
I guess that they needed it more.

Good people doing their best for an elephant, even when it's a dirty job like this,
always raises my hope for the world. I very much need that, so thanks.

Joe Biden cheated in the election? TRUMP was in charge!
The whole world saw Trump goof off, Americans didn't like it either,
all the polls showed that he was going to lose the election, and then he did.

A year of investigations and NOTHING to show for it.
You have NOTHING but lies and bullshit.

Meanwhile, Republicans are already trying to steal the election in Texas,
in a brazen way, like they ALWAYS do.

1. Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering
Redrawing congressional districts before the normal redistricting cycle to lock in more Republican seats.

2. Restricting Mail Voting
Making absentee voting harder through tighter eligibility and identification requirements.

3. Imposing Proof-of-Citizenship Barriers
Requiring documentary proof of citizenship that could prevent otherwise eligible voters from registering.

4. Aggressive Voter-Roll Purges
Using voter-roll reviews and removals that critics say risk sweeping up eligible voters.
Important qualification: Texas's 1.2 million “suspense voters” have not actually been disenfranchised; they can generally still vote after confirming their address.

5. Closing Polling Places
Eliminating dozens of Election Day polling sites, potentially increasing travel and wait times.

6. Restricting Where and When Texans Vote
Moving toward precinct-based, single-day voting and limiting flexible voting options.

7. Encouraging Voter Challenges
Supporting efforts to challenge voters' eligibility, potentially intimidating or deterring legitimate voters.

8. Tightening Election Administration
Adding stricter ID, registration, ballot and voter-verification requirements.

9. Weaponizing “Election Integrity” Investigations
Using allegations of voter fraud and noncitizen voting to justify investigations and tighter voting restrictions.

10. Closing Republican Primaries
Trying to restrict Republican primaries to formally registered Republicans, changing who can influence GOP nominees.

11. Undermining Confidence in Election Results
Promoting fraud narratives and election challenges that can create grounds to dispute unfavorable results

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Texas GOP — Election priorities/platform
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Brennan Center — Texas: Legal Protections from Election Subversion and Voter Suppression
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Brennan Center — Texas: Limits on Voter Eligibility Challenges
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Brennan Center — Texas: Protections Against Intimidation of Voters and Election Workers
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Brennan Center — States Requiring Proof of Citizenship
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Associated Press — Texas “suspense voters” and the 1.2 million claim
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Associated Press — Tarrant County polling-place cuts
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Houston Chronicle — Tarrant County polling-place closures
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Associated Press — Noncitizen voting claims and efforts to change election rules
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Reuters — Federal effort to restrict mail voting
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CHEATING!!! And no investigations needed, because it's on their OWN platforms.

You are a complete numbskull and unable to make a decent point, ever.
The topic was "the economy is only bad because of the MESS that Sleepy Joe left".
He had nothing but a claim and you had nothing either. Only bullshit.
You couldn't even bring yourself to say: "But the DOW...". NOTHING!!!
Do I need to make your points FOR YOU?! IT'S EMBARRASSING!!

This guy was fined by an AI red light camera in a different state,
so he went to a local city meeting to address the issue:
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He's definitely NOT a liberal, and he is addressing issues that Republicans
(used to) care about.

C'mon, this is an awesome campaign ad.
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Find me one from a Republican, that is fun, without being hateful.

I think the issue is that they try to solve everything with repression,
instead of treating people with dignity and providing them a decent chance
of a worthwhile life. If you treat people like animals, they become animals
and the only thing you can do is put them in a cage.

Is that supposed to be applicable to this topic?
You're only showing that you have no valid arguments.

This is just a joke of course, but renaming a lake that you share with your neighbors, shows that Trump has no shame. It disrespects 400 years of history and the history of the indigenous people who named it. Anyway, the next president will undo everything your repugnant president did, to restore some credibility and alliances around the world.

Because I remember arguing that the US was #1 on this site.
That's how long I have been doing this. Down right crazy actually.

Explain what mess Biden left, and why Trump hasn't been able to fix it yet,
while he controls the House, the Senate and the Supreme Court.

Trump left Joe with a pandemic; ~400,000 US deaths and people distrusting the solution, 6.4% unemployment, a $3.13 trillion Federal deficit, a ~100% of GDP Federal debt held
by the public and a major recession (−3.5% of GDP).

Don't you find this a bit embarrassing?

Yep, but these are 2023 numbers. The US was the world's #1 from around the 1990s until at least 2018. El Salvador's rate recently surged dramatically, during President Nayib Bukele's anti-gang crackdown. It might even go up, because the Trump regime started sending people to El Salvador in 2025.

Importantly, the U.S. prison/detention landscape is complicated by the fact that immigration detention is generally not counted as part of the conventional "prison population" rate.

The current World Prison Brief leaderboard makes Cuba look like a very current #2,
but that's misleading. Its data are six years old. The data for Turkmenistan is from 2021,
as Turkmenistan is an exceptionally closed country. However, it has made no meaningful progress on its already atrocious human-rights record since then.

This is fictional. "There are no known official police files or news reports regarding a Dutch-Turkish criminal named "Dogan Y.""

The Belgian and Dutch media frequently write about the large-scale drug mafia surrounding the Y. clan. This concerns a substantial Turkish-Assyrian crime family.
In March 2026, 91 defendants in this case were sentenced to prison terms of up to 13 years for smuggling tons of cocaine through the Port of Antwerp, corruption, and money laundering. The key figures within this family bear names such as Bayram Y. and Marsin Y., but a 'Dogan Y.' is not a prime suspect in this case.

And we all know that name, because it's so rare in my country.
There are probably 30 like him in your country, but in the US you have global cartel/faction leaders, who people like Ridouan Taghi take orders from. In the US you have cartels that even the police fears to take on. They act in the open and corrupt the police.
In my country, they act in the shadows, until the police has acquired enough evidence
to shut them down. You are fighting wars because of your drugs problem, in the fight against drugs cartels, which are propped up by hundreds of billions of dollars from American drugs addicts.

If your healthcare system wouldn't suck so much and Americans still had hope
for the future, they would use a lot less drugs.

Like that shocked your country. Murders like that don't even reach the national news in the US anymore. Only mass murders with children involved still get some national outrage. From the libs though, your side just says "Thoughts and prayers" and moves on, because your side thinks that is acceptable, when you want to protect second amendment rights.

Your own video debunks your own argument, by showing how Dutch people put massive piles of flowers on the murder site. This has been on the news for years now and shaped our country permanently. When this happens in your country, it's gets an internet post,
it reaches the news once or twice for a few minutes, and then you forget, because that's normal in the US.

NOT TRUE!! The number comes from $16,834 (thousands not billions)
in administrative cooperative spending that shows up in the foreign‑aid
accounting system. The US contributed to an international program or NGO based in the Netherlands, that is providing aid in other countries, not in the Netherlands.

See for yourself:
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Actually my country sent Ђ19,110,218 to the United States in 2024,
for Emergency Response. Look it up:
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I wasn’t pretending to be a Christian, I quoted Matthew as a cultural reference you’d recognize. The verse you used only applies if I had claimed faith, which I didn’t.

By quoting Matthew 15:8, you’re the one positioning yourself as a believer.
And if that’s the case, then Matthew 7:1–5 should matter to you, regardless
of my atheism.

Used the Gibberish Translator? Funny! A bit childish though.

There is no little secret there; we all know about the killing of Derk Wiersum.
It has been all over the news many times, including when the police has uncovered lots of facts about it, through very praiseworthy inspector work.

That was the first time ever that a lawyer has ever been killed in my country.
In the US, there has been at least several dozen documented cases of lawyers getting murdered from 2016–2026, there is no precise number.

Did I ever say that my country doesn't have ANY problems?
Of course not, but we solve problems a lot better than your country.

No perfect isn't the same as not better.

This the crime rate index of all countries in the world.
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My country is one of the green ones, yours is orange.

Matthew 7:1–5 — King James Version
1. Judge not, that ye be not judged.
2. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
3. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
4. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5. Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

The Soviet Union does not appear to have had anything remotely comparable to the U.S. fentanyl/opioid crisis in terms of the scale of illicit-drug addiction or overdose mortality.

Except if you include alcohol, but you don't consider that, right?
I never hear you talking about banning alcohol. Phart yes, not you.

Also, the Soviet Union never had anything close to communism.
They had authoritarian state-capitalism, which is about the opposite
of what Marx called capitalism.

Jeff German, 69 — murdered September 2022
Joshua Jalovick, 27 — murdered July 2019
David Price's informant murders — Chicago, 2010s
Mercersburg, Pennsylvania — three murders of which one victim was a federal witness
Andre Briscoe — Baltimore, 2015 murder prosecuted in 2020–23
Maurice Woodson — St. Louis, 2021
Ryan Wedding organization — U.S./Canada, 2025–26

Drug overdose deaths: U.S. ≈ 10–12Ч higher
Drug-related police offenses: U.S. ≈ 6Ч per capita
Drug arrests/offenses: U.S. ≈ 3Ч, with major caveats
Opioid mortality: In 2019, the U.S. had an estimated 223 opioid-related deaths per million people, compared with an OECD average of 30 per million; ≈3.7Ч per capita

True, but it was mostly opium though. however, slavery and slave-produced commodities were probably much more economically significant to the Dutch economy than opium was during the Golden Age, especially in the 18th century.
Capitalism!

Did you listen to the part that explained how banning it resulted in the birth of
the black market drugs trade as we know it today?

There is some truth to that, but it is nowhere near the problem you have in the US.
The problem is actually that the production of weed is illegal in my country.
I'm very much annoyed that the US legalized weed production before us.
Of course in Texas they haven't learned from it, and they are reversing it.

No, that's your 'smug superiority' speaking.
We don't get a cent of foreign aid from you or anyone.

You had a 'but sniffer'? I raise you a 'shoe licker'.

Shoe licker strikes in IJsselstein and Nieuwegein: 'Report it'
Google translate this one:
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You assumed that I could hear this, right?
I didn't, but nice try!

And this falls squarely within the most common frequency range for tinnitus.
Don't stand too close to the speakers at music festivals, kids.