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Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 10:07 am
by In2ition
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:14 pm
by Indy
From the "article":
A convoy of 50,000 trucks, stretching over 40 miles long, has arrived in the Canadian capital, Ottawa
Just doing some 3rd grade math here:
40mi x 5280ft/mi = 211,200 feet
211,200 feet / 50,000 trucks = 4.2 feet/truck
So these 50,000 big rigs, lined up bumper to bumper with literally no space between them even to fit a sheet of paper, would take up 40 miles if each truck were 4.2 feet long. Hmm.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:22 pm
by Superbone
Love the "up to" qualifier. Why not say up to 100,000. Up to a million! They are all true but unlikely. And what are you doing bringing facts into the equation, Indy?!
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:26 pm
by In2ition
Maybe it's the Russians that are doing it.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:31 pm
by Superbone
Damn Russkies!
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:35 pm
by Indy
always good to post "reporters" that have known credibility issues and supports far-right extremists like the Proud Boys.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 1:39 pm
by In2ition
I always love inane comments from posters.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:04 pm
by Indy
You keep posting things from known liars like this is truth or a refutation of what plain basic math will tell you. It is so odd.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 3:20 pm
by In2ition
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:04 pm
by Indy
Did you even bother to read what he said? Or even listen to the interview? The Public Safety Minister did not say anything like what you "LastRefuge2" said he said. You are just posting propaganda now.
By the way, how ironic of a user name is LastRefuge2? Like, the first last refuge wasn't really the last refuge?
Re: World Politics
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2022 8:25 am
by Mori Chu
Do we have any better sense of how many trucks and people are showing up to this protest yet? I read that they were being rowdy, taking food intended for homeless people from a shelter, and defiling a monument or something. But how many were there?
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:05 pm
by Mori Chu
This is amazing.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:08 pm
by In2ition

Hilarious.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:12 pm
by In2ition
World
U.S. states, other nations back Mexico's lawsuit against gun makers
By Nate Raymond
January 31, 2022
5:42 PM MST
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-states ... ium=Social
BOSTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Thirteen U.S. states and two Latin America and Caribbean nations on Monday threw their support behind a lawsuit from Mexico that accuses several major U.S. gun makers of facilitating the trafficking of weapons to drug cartels, leading to thousands of deaths.
The states and the countries of Antigua and Barbuda and Belize filed separate briefs urging a federal judge in Boston to not dismiss Mexico's $10 billion lawsuit against companies including Smith & Wesson (SWBI.O) and Sturm, Ruger & Co (RGR.N).
The companies have argued Mexico has failed to establish its harms were attributable to them and that a U.S. law, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, protected gun makers from lawsuits over their products' misuse. read more
Mexico's lawyers in a filing on Monday countered that the law only precludes lawsuits over injuries that occur in the United States and would not shield the companies from allegations over the trafficking of guns to Mexican criminals.
Democratic attorneys general from 13 states including Massachusetts, California and New York along with the District of Columbia agreed, saying even if that law applied extraterritorially, the statute would not bar Mexico's claims.
Representatives for the companies did not respond to requests for comment. Other defendants include Beretta USA, Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Colt's Manufacturing Co and Glock Inc.
In a lawsuit filed in August, Mexico claimed the companies undermined its strict gun laws by designing, marketing and distributing military-style assault weapons in ways they knew would arm drug cartels, fueling murders, extortions and kidnappings.
Mexico's lawsuit said over 500,000 guns are trafficked annually from the United States into Mexico, of which more than 68% are made by the manufacturers it sued.
Lawyers for Antigua and Barbuda and Belize argued countries in their region had likewise faced violent gun crimes and that U.S. gun manufacturers "must not be permitted to hold hostage the law-abiding citizens of an entire region of the world."
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 12:23 pm
by In2ition
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 1:30 pm
by Superbone

Wow.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 4:36 pm
by Mori Chu
LOL.
Re: World Politics
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 11:07 am
by In2ition
Re: World Politics
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:00 pm
by Mori Chu
Who?
Re: World Politics
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:10 pm
by In2ition
Some tool?