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One of North Korea's primary missile systems is called the No-Dong. Still makes me laugh.

For a country trying to look like badasses, I think they need to hire a brand manager.

I was riding a train several days ago along the Rhine river. One of the houses had a confederate flag out in front of it. I thought that a bit strange, but I've also noticed that many people around the world are taken with US culture. Even in the strict Muslim countries.

"I only went as far as getting my undergrad in physics."

And you graduated???

Physics is serious business. I'm not sure how you could be smart when it comes to science, yet be clueless on everything else.

"If the police kill you by kneeling on your neck for eight minutes and forty-six seconds for passing a counterfeit $20, will you die knowing you deserved it?"

Would he have really died had he not had COVID?

I'm in the military.

It wasn't until recently that it I realized many bases were named not only after Confederate officers, but very terrible confederate officers.

I don't care what side a soldier fought on, be they friend or foe. What matters is how they conducted themselves. And most of the Confederate soldiers who have bases named after them turned out to be terrible officers.

The US has no shortage of service members who died crushing it. Let's rename some ----!!!

I really liked it.

Dining in Europe can be frustrating at times. Some people want to spend three hours on a meal. Most of the time I just want to eat and move on.

Very convenient. I hope it takes hold.

"So, yeah, I do agree with you that there is a substantial portion of white people in the United States that really need to get more aware regarding their views of how the Constitution applies to everyone in the Country, not just themselves."

Yeah...probably.

But Clarence Thomas has always been very much a Black Nationalist. I suppose you could say his white wife needs to be lectured...but I think her husband would be better positioned to do that if he disagreed with what she was saying.

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I live in Germany.

Travel within Schengen countries is unrestricted. You don't need a passport.

Trump again???

Well, at least it's not Bernie.

So...there's that.

"You insist you are. So sure. You're wherever you want to pretend to be."

You know what's funny?

I went on vacation, but I come home and I feel like I'm more on vacation then when I was gone.

Where I live is amazing. Like no where I've ever lived. If I ever leave, I will spend my days pretending I'm here.

Where's Copenhagen? My kids always get it confused with Cologne...which is how non-Germans refer to Kln.

It's all so confusing.

"Doesn't change the fact Amsterdam is in the Netherlands, and you weren't actually there"

----.

Maybe I was in Denmark. You tell me, champ.

I'm in Germany right now. Or am I?

----.

"Trump has one goal. Cripple America. He's done Putin proud."

You give him too much credit. Trump answers to his own ego.

Honestly, if the left had been a little smarter, they would have had Bernie become his bestie, compliment him on his intelligence, looks, sexual prowess, whatever, and then whisper into his ear what great men like him would do. You'd likely have every left-leaning project that could make it through the courts.

That seems to be the technique that Putin and Erdogan used.

Ruh-roh.

Someone needs to get woke.

And how in the actual ---- do you not know that Denmark the the Netherlands are two different countries???

Really???

"It's a teepee......"

Or a pyramid.

And if he's not wearing a kippah, he's at least got to be good at parting seas.

Milley's a long tab????

Huh.

Oddly enough, Danni of all people was critical of the protests. Whoda thunk it.

"Or you going to continue there has been some political hypocrisy on this issue?"

Dude, you can't condemn the protests if you're on the left. They'll pull your card.

You stay the party line, or risk the wrath of those who do.

Just like in the good old days...before the Union fell.

"I say bomber is just making stuff up"

Fair enough.

I could give you links to pretty much everywhere I went. You can check it out for yourself. You can even buy some museum tickets if you really want to test the waters. But if you're still confused about which country is which, I wouldn't actually try and go there. You'll just wind up lost.

"Hotels are only partially open, large gatherings are prohibited and as a result danish businesses and schools are open to danish citizens, who followed the rules, didn't travel, and took good advice"

It would seem that you're not aware that the Netherlands and Denmark are two different countries.

You should get out of your trailer park more often.

"Interesting considering the Netherlands has very strict travel restrictions still in place"

Uhh...no they don't.

The only place I was required to wear a mask was on a ferry. Nowhere else.

I stayed at the Hilton Doubletree at Centraal Station. No masks (for guests-employees still wore masks). Bars and restaurants were open. The only thing that was closed was the executive lounge (I'm a Hilton Diamond member), but they made up for it by comping you at the bars and restaurants, which was actually a better deal for me.

"It's not an unaknowldged risk, nor are public health officials dampening their recommendations for safety during protests."

"To which Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, added: "Do I worry that mass protests will fuel more cases? Yes, I do. But a dam broke, and there's no stopping that."

Some public health scientists publicly waved off the conflicted feelings of their colleagues, saying the country now confronts a stark moral choice. The letter signed by more than 1,300 epidemiologists and health workers urged Americans to adopt a "consciously anti-racist" stance and framed the difference between the anti-lockdown demonstrators and the protesters in moral, ideological and racial terms.

Those who protested stay-at-home orders were "rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives," the letter stated.

By contrast, it said, those protesting systemic racism "must be supported."

"As public health advocates," they stated, "we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for Covid-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national public health."

"You must've missed the fact the protests are outside, social distancing is practiced when possible."

Like here?

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If you were an epidemiologist, especially a white epidemiologist, it wouldn't matter how much research you had put behind it. Stating that protests should be banned due to health concerns would very likely result in you no longer earning an income through epidemiology.

And everyone knows this. Even if they pretend not to.