“Dumbfounded by the cruelty” the cruelty is the point. It is infuriating to watch these people run over their own toes over and over, then ask without any sense of curiosity or desire to understand “why can’t I walk anymore?” I don’t think they want to know. I think it’s easier to pretend that this is all too difficult and complex for them to understand than it is to come to grips with the reality that, to borrow industry lingo, “shit’s fucked”.

An 80 year old woman was abandoned on a hiking trail and fell off the trail to her death. What the fuck is wrong with you

This article doesn’t even say why Spain isn’t committing to the 5% target. The article OP crossposted says why in the first few sentences:

But Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said at the time that he would not commit to the 5 per cent target, calling it “incompatible with our welfare state and our world vision”.

Not sure how the Politico article is better in this case since it seems less informative.

Does the article have any problems you’d like to point out, or are we just being weird and racist for the fun of it? The Straights Times is Singaporean, not Chinese. The only link I can find between The Straights Times and the government of China is from a few months ago when the CEO met with several Chinese state-run news agencies to discuss collaborating to “tell the story of the two countries’ development and people-to-people friendship.” That’s the only link I can find. The Singaporean news outlet is most definitely not “a state owned newspaper by the Chinese government.”

Edit: The Straights Times is republishing this article by Reuters. Any complaints you have would be directed there, not at The Straights Times. You’re being weird.