Not as a title, but if i recall correctly, the first first article of the old constitution states that the Syrian Arab Republic is a Democracy. Also for what it’s worth, the Baath party was also officially “socialist”.

The lack of a monarchy isn’t enough to qualify as a republic, the people need to also hold some sort of power.

and Baathist Syria was totally a democratic republic

there is no way this is not an attempt at subverting the term

The original article is about global numbers, not just the USA.

I’ve never seen a more Lebanese picture in my life

The other reason there won’t be an electronic edition is that unlike bunnie, I’m a Chinese national. My offering an app or download specifically for English-speaking hardware engineers to install on their phones would be… iffy. If at some point “I” do offer you such a thing, I’d suggest you not use it.

Damn, them lines are so far apart, if you can’t read between them, you’re probably legally blind

I’m guessing this “quote” is from this article.

If that’s the case, here is the actual paragraph:

The prisoner would be bent over a desk with his hands placed in front of him, handcuffed.

The female soldier, standing behind him, would insert her fingers and other objects into his rectum.

When he reacted or moved back, the soldier standing in front of him would hit him in the head and force him to bend again.

And further down in the article

“Nothing was more humiliating than when they made me take off my clothes, or when they inserted this object into my butt, or when a young female soldier kept [touching my penis].”

English is not my first language, but this does not sound like cavity search

That’s not what a thin client, that’s just a mini PC. A thin client is a computer that connects to remote sessions, and since that’s their main function, they’re they don’t need more computing power than you need to connect to a report desktop environment.

I speak a slightly different dialect, but it sounds authentic to me. Still, you never know these days.

He says more stuff, but can’t make the rest out.