Far-right parties are winning in Europe because the European Central Bank forces countries to adopt ‘austerity’ policies. These policies destroy jobs and reduce people’s quality of life. So people vote for whoever promises to fix this - either the left or the far-right. But the ECB can’t permit an anti-austerity government, so they crack down on the left. The far-right is tolerated as long as it only targets random Syrian refugees.

That’s the real reason. All the talk of drug smuggling is just a distraction.

What a terrible day to have eyes.

Ehe

If you lose enough money, you trigger an integer overflow and end up with a profit!

I think it’s a lot simpler than that. Venezuela has oil.

I don’t think the government will risk significant increases in fuel prices on the eve of the Bihar elections. On the other hand, it is quite possible that they agree to stop buying Russian oil from Russia as a compromise - it could be bounced off a third country so we can technically agree to the US demands.

Pretty sure he had them buried long before he died. (Well, that’s the story anyway. For all we know, it could have been completely made up by the Han to discredit the Qin.)

Because the real power of the US isn’t the ICC exemption or the UN SC veto, but their six thousand nukes and the biggest navy in the world.

I mentioned those too (‘any south Asian alphabet’). But it’s okay.

Gameplay? Xiangling (Genshin) - She does more damage.

Story? Focalors / Furina - peak character and peak storytelling

This silly meme tells you everything you need to know about Xiangling (apart from ‘every team becomes 10x better with XL in it’) and everything Furina wants you to know about her.

Nobel prizes cannot be given to the dead.

I already mentioned those?

Latin (Romaji)

Mobei. The Han replaced the Xiongnu as the major power of east Asia, and caused a westward migration of central Asian tribes that would result in the sack of Rome. I made a meme about this a year ago.

Asian

The Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic and Hebrew alphabets are more similar to each other than to any south / southeast Asian alphabet. Chinese and Korean are completely unrelated to this alphabet family (which is of Egyptian origin), or to each other. Japanese has four scripts. So you’ll need to be a little more precise than ‘Asian’.

To answer your original question, Cyrillic and Greek have upper case, Arabic and Hebrew have cursive which is not exactly the same, and neither Chinese nor south Asian scripts have upper case.

Exactly.

Ah, my eyes!

They are trying to get greater control over the US economy / resources / society. Such an oligarchy is inefficient, so the US will get outcompeted by China. But that is a price they are willing to pay, as long as they benefit personally.

Put another way, the cake will become smaller, but they’ll get a bigger slice of it.

because it historically has never done so

This is an extreme position. Yes, the cards are stacked, and yes, the thieves will fight tooth and nail to preserve their privileges, but there have definitely been examples of a certain election result making things better. My country got independence[1], and the British people got public healthcare, because they voted Labour in 1945. We kicked out a strongwoman in 1977, and reined in a strongman last year. These are just examples from my country.

[1] I’m aware that there were other causes as well, but Churchill would probably have tried to hold on even after the British position became logistically and economically unviable.