Wudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoTIL that in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has admitted 6,066 South Africans, 3 Afghans and nobody elsewww.rpc.state.govexternal-linkmessage-square26linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL that in fiscal year 2026, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program has admitted 6,066 South Africans, 3 Afghans and nobody elsewww.rpc.state.govWudi@feddit.uk to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square26linkfedilink
minus-squareZüri@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoThat’s wrong. Switzerland would not have been a democracy withiout Napoleon forcing us to implement it. https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/en/home/research/research-tips/topics/die-moderne-schweiz/epoche-des-wandels--die-schweiz-zwischen-1798-und-1848.html
minus-squareKingGimpicus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoBecause clearly democratic Switzerland did nothing wrong. No raubgold here. Nope. They just happened to find it all at a yard sale. Well, 6 million “yard sales” or so.
minus-squareZüri@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoAnd what does the french have to do with that? Moving goal posts?
That’s wrong.
Switzerland would not have been a democracy withiout Napoleon forcing us to implement it.
https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/en/home/research/research-tips/topics/die-moderne-schweiz/epoche-des-wandels--die-schweiz-zwischen-1798-und-1848.html
Because clearly democratic Switzerland did nothing wrong. No raubgold here. Nope. They just happened to find it all at a yard sale. Well, 6 million “yard sales” or so.
And what does the french have to do with that? Moving goal posts?