Tryenjer

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The Moroccan government weaponized its own population's hope for a better future against Spain, likely due to territorial disputes between the two countries and Pedro Sanchez's recent diplomatic visit to Algeria.

The scale of this operation, combined with the online campaign and the fact that it coincided with a Moroccan national holiday, seems to point to a covert attempt at hybrid warfare by the state, rather than a case of human trafficking networks.

And instead of showing solidarity, certain European leaders (especially in Italy, but also in Denmark and elsewhere) decided to exploit the situation for political campaigning. Quite sad.

Nothing but opportunists all across Europe (and especially in Italy). Instead of uniting against what is obviously an act of aggression by Morocco against Spain, they attack the Spanish government and exaggerate the situation with the aim of benefiting their respective parties at home (The Schengen area is not at stake, for those who don't know geography, Ceuta is in Africa, it's isolated. Heck! It isn't even part of the Schengen area in the first place).

There are many things for which it is fair to criticize Sanchez, but this is not one of them.

I am in favour of banning the burqa, but I think it's particularly funny that the guys who are supposedly all about individual freedom (iniciativa liberal, despite the name they are much closer to libertarians) at least in their propaganda voted in favour of banning face-covering in public (which is what the law actually refers to, because in Portugal, for the time being, it is unconstitutional to ban a specific religious item).

As I state right at the beginning: it depends on the context. Most of the time that’s not the case, sure, but it’s still gross.

Pee against a tree is unhygienic and it can damage the tree's bark, just ask my Japanese maples. Some people can be such pigs, they come across a beautiful, unfenced garden by the roadside, and some incontinent types immediately think about going there to take a leak.