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Russia arrests US dual national over alleged $51 Ukrainian charity donation
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this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2024
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So much freedom
But have you seen the grocery store carts?
Dude lived in DC and never once grabbed a shopping cart from the local Aldi. I assume his private chef took care of all the shopping.
It doesn’t matter if he did or not, because for his audience no facts exist anyhow.
Just to clarify... does America not have shopping carts you unlock with coins?
Yes the US absolutely does have them at some chains. Also a lot of stores have tech where the wheels lock up if you try to leave the parking lot with the cart. There's various versions of them, including this one.
In the EU the coin lock carts are basically standard everywhere I've been.
Tucker's bullshit wasn't aimed at people that would know that. It was ridiculous propaganda for the sorts of dumb fucking Americans who never leave their bubble, yet spend all their time making wild assumptions about the outside world.
Yeah, Aldi and Lidl do. But it’s arguably a thing they brought over from Europe. Most other retailers and grocers don’t do it.
That said, Tucker has lived in towns with Aldi stores, but that guy is a sentient boat shoe. I can’t imagine he shops for himself at the local Aldi.
Citation needed for “sentient”. He could be remote controlled by Putin.
We do at aldi, and have indoor cart escalators too. Not everywhere, mind you.
And IMHO, that Russian one is the lame kind. The better ones have a separate track for carts. Target use those a lot, and they allow the people side to flow with less obstruction.
As someone mentioned, I've only seen em at Aldi. Some dollar stores keep the carts inside with a pole ro prevent them exiting the store. I've mostly lived up and down the east coast (plus some young years in St Vincent and the Grenadines), plus visited a few big cities like Chicago, LA, Vegas. Aside from Aldi, I haven't seen locked up shopping carts, even at places that have basically a second locked down section of the store for life necessary items like diapers, detergent, etc.
I'm only posting this to answer the question though, as the only thing I care about locked down carts is that I almost never carry quarters (mostly pay card, not cash, and for tolls I have a Peachpass).
In Europe many stores hand out coin-sized plastic tokens that unlock the cart. You still want to get your token back at the end of a shopping trip, though, and take the cart back to the cart queue (which I assume is the real purpose of the coin lock things).
No idea, they are very common where I live (not US)
The ones where I live have some sort of range signal where the wheels stop if you go too far away. If you leave the parking lot, all the wheels lock up. It’s probably simple to disable but I haven’t bothered to go there with a flipper zero and sort out how to steal them since I already own a pretty sweet wagon.
What would the US have done if an Iranian immigrant had donated money to the war effort of the insurgency during the Iraq and Afghan wars? Serious question. Would they get arrested? Is that some sort of crime? hmm...
I don't think bothsiding or cultural relativism applies here. Funding terrorism is illegal and unethical. This woman was funding the opposite.
They can buy a HIMARS with that $50 /s
Ahh yes, the insurgency, those horrible terrorists fighting against a military that fabricated evidence to invade their countries. Just like how Ukraine is controlled by Nazis.
Closed accounts, denied transactions and investigations – Muslims face banking bias like no other faith group in the US. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/4/4/banking-as-an-american-muslim-its-a-horror
Banks accused of closing accounts belonging to British Muslims https://iric.org/banks-accused-of-closing-accounts-belonging-to-british-muslims/
Nothing would have happened.
Nah, now that I have been reading for a while all sorts of things would happen. Tracking them and their entire family, coworkers, friends, etc. Stopping them from interfacing with financial institutions, incarceration without charges, etc.
lol, okay, source?
So far, largely reading leaked documents after searching for Terry Albury, who I came across from making a number of more general searches like "Is it illegal for US citizen to donate to enemy combatants", which it is. A number of different pieces of legislation makes it so in a multitude of ways. Things like US 18 4001a (2000), the trading with the enemies acts of 1917, The National Defense Act PL 112-18, and more that I haven't gotten to yet.
A link for more information : Terry J. Albury is an American former FBI agent convicted of leaking documents to news site The Intercept detailing secret guidelines for the FBI’s use of informants and the surveillance of journalists and religious and ethnic minority and immigrant communities.
Laws aren’t important unless they are enforced. So again I say, nothing will happen. Provide an answer example of a similar situation where a person gave $51 to the taliban or isis and went to jail with no other charges.
I’ll wait…
This is a valid question since the US government, congress and other US entities have done terrible things to its citizens: Witch hunts against left leaning people, muslims, ecologists, and many more.