Sadly not much has changed, still institutional racism endemic. Add in a police force that are "trained" to believe that everyone is trying to kill them, guns freely available and encouraged, then put a dictator in charge and bingo
Vietnam breathed this crap more than anything.
Yeah it was always there but you always need a trigger to escalate and so it came to be basically since.
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
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Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 26 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
And Commando.
Jim Crow is alive and well in the minds of many.
comment by super phoenix rangers - Banana Lawyer (U14864)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If it does continue at this scale and Trump puts soldiers on the streets it’ll really get ramped up. I doubt that’ll happen and really hope it doesn’t.
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 54 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nah, but brute taking the angle of Antigua being an organized terrorist organization. Taking the high moral ground like every good Christian should
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
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They are
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Banana Lawyer (U14864)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If it does continue at this scale and Trump puts soldiers on the streets it’ll really get ramped up. I doubt that’ll happen and really hope it doesn’t.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no actual knowledge and only an opinion, I'd say that if he deploys troops, then many will either not take part or the Donald meets with an accident.
America was built on the genocide of 80 million Native Americans and the firearm. Far from being the land of the free, it's turned into Orwell's nightmare.
Idiocracy.
comment by Zico - 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 (U21900)
posted 44 minutes ago
America was built on the genocide of 80 million Native Americans and the firearm. Far from being the land of the free, it's turned into Orwell's nightmare.
Idiocracy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Convenient soundbite but what does it mean?
Britain and others left many of the countries they attempted to colonize in a bit of a mess.
The US is not the only country founded on the genocide of the indigenous people. Australia is a good example. They don't all have the same issues that the US has. That suggests that there are other issues at play.
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis. Germany is the fastest growing country in the world for gun ownership. Nobody seems concerned about that.
As for the Orwellian nightmare. Agreed but that not exclusive to America either. Arguably it's worse here. The western democracies are now using technology to impose the same controls on their citizens that the totalitarianism regimes have done through force for decades.
As for idiocracy....the American people elected a guy you don't like. Too bad. It's not that long ago that the same people elected Obama for two terms.
'The television crew were 50 yards from a phalanx of riot police, standing by their van with a camera rolling and the sound man holding a boom when they came under fire. As you can see, no protesters near us, Michael George a CBS correspondent said.
Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer struck in the face with a rubber bullet said she had lost her sight in one eye. We put our hands up and yelled 'We're media said a correspondent for MSNBC, a cable television channel, describing an encounter with the police in Minneapolis. He said they had been fired on before and assumed it was an accident.
But this time they responded 'We don't care and they opened fire a second time'
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Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yass
comment by An s&m Lauders (U9757)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yass
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Knew it
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I read a twitter thread yesterday that I thought was fairly prescient on this subject.
The pro-gun lobby always argue that the rationale for having assault rifles is to protect the populace against a tyrannical government and gives the people the chance to 'fight back' against authoritarianism and fascism.
You would think in this current situation - and with the aggressive actions of the Trump government - that the pro-gun lobby would be actively encouraging the protesters to take arms against their government. Yet they're oddly silent.
It suggests that their rationale for owning assault rifles is, in fact, a load of pash.
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1268064143980015616
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I read a twitter thread yesterday that I thought was fairly prescient on this subject.
The pro-gun lobby always argue that the rationale for having assault rifles is to protect the populace against a tyrannical government and gives the people the chance to 'fight back' against authoritarianism and fascism.
You would think in this current situation - and with the aggressive actions of the Trump government - that the pro-gun lobby would be actively encouraging the protesters to take arms against their government. Yet they're oddly silent.
It suggests that their rationale for owning assault rifles is, in fact, a load of pash.
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Who would have thought that
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posted on 2/6/20
Sadly not much has changed, still institutional racism endemic. Add in a police force that are "trained" to believe that everyone is trying to kill them, guns freely available and encouraged, then put a dictator in charge and bingo
posted on 2/6/20
Vietnam breathed this crap more than anything.
Yeah it was always there but you always need a trigger to escalate and so it came to be basically since.
posted on 2/6/20
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
posted on 2/6/20
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
posted on 2/6/20
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
posted on 2/6/20
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 26 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
And Commando.
posted on 2/6/20
Jim Crow is alive and well in the minds of many.
posted on 2/6/20
comment by super phoenix rangers - Banana Lawyer (U14864)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If it does continue at this scale and Trump puts soldiers on the streets it’ll really get ramped up. I doubt that’ll happen and really hope it doesn’t.
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 54 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nah, but brute taking the angle of Antigua being an organized terrorist organization. Taking the high moral ground like every good Christian should
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
I imagine Fox are painting the Donald as an understanding Ghandi /mother Theresa (but white) hybrid, who’s only preaching peace, ignoring his tweets and idiocy completely.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They are
posted on 3/6/20
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 29 minutes ago
comment by super phoenix rangers - Banana Lawyer (U14864)
posted 53 minutes ago
comment by rats juice ra gig f@cked (U6393)
posted 24 minutes ago
Institutional and social racism
Underfunded education system
Jails trying to run a profit
Huge drugs problem
Nothing has changed and it’ll no doubt fizzle out, but this is just going to keep happening, as will mass shootings.
It’s just standard fare for the USA. Their system is so ingrained with all the above it’ll never change.
The only thing that’s really different at the mo is having that reptile in charge fanning the flames.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Which is why I don't think it will fizzle out this time.
He attacked a peaceful protest outside a church with tear gas and rubber bullets, the crowd actually included clergy from the church.
All so he could do a photo holding a Bible.
If a leader was behaving like him in a small South American, middle Eastern or African country there would be talk of millatry intervention
----------------------------------------------------------------------
If it does continue at this scale and Trump puts soldiers on the streets it’ll really get ramped up. I doubt that’ll happen and really hope it doesn’t.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
With no actual knowledge and only an opinion, I'd say that if he deploys troops, then many will either not take part or the Donald meets with an accident.
posted on 3/6/20
America was built on the genocide of 80 million Native Americans and the firearm. Far from being the land of the free, it's turned into Orwell's nightmare.
Idiocracy.
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Zico - 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 (U21900)
posted 44 minutes ago
America was built on the genocide of 80 million Native Americans and the firearm. Far from being the land of the free, it's turned into Orwell's nightmare.
Idiocracy.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Convenient soundbite but what does it mean?
Britain and others left many of the countries they attempted to colonize in a bit of a mess.
The US is not the only country founded on the genocide of the indigenous people. Australia is a good example. They don't all have the same issues that the US has. That suggests that there are other issues at play.
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis. Germany is the fastest growing country in the world for gun ownership. Nobody seems concerned about that.
As for the Orwellian nightmare. Agreed but that not exclusive to America either. Arguably it's worse here. The western democracies are now using technology to impose the same controls on their citizens that the totalitarianism regimes have done through force for decades.
As for idiocracy....the American people elected a guy you don't like. Too bad. It's not that long ago that the same people elected Obama for two terms.
posted on 3/6/20
'The television crew were 50 yards from a phalanx of riot police, standing by their van with a camera rolling and the sound man holding a boom when they came under fire. As you can see, no protesters near us, Michael George a CBS correspondent said.
Linda Tirado, a freelance photographer struck in the face with a rubber bullet said she had lost her sight in one eye. We put our hands up and yelled 'We're media said a correspondent for MSNBC, a cable television channel, describing an encounter with the police in Minneapolis. He said they had been fired on before and assumed it was an accident.
But this time they responded 'We don't care and they opened fire a second time'
posted on 3/6/20
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 3/6/20
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
posted on 3/6/20
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
posted on 3/6/20
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yass
posted on 3/6/20
comment by An s&m Lauders (U9757)
posted 25 seconds ago
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Ghod#18 (U9390)
posted 30 minutes ago
Trump seems to be playing on all this though with the election coming up in November
they say that when you're elected over there the first thing you do is try and win over the people who never voted for you
Trump ran a campaign there similar to the one the tories ran here by dipping in to the white American/Britain privilege, close the borders, these people are taking our jobs etc and it's working because thats the way a lot of countries are going just now
the more these people make a mess of the country they run the more people seem to want to vote for them
we live in a completely effed up world at the moment
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We do and I expect that many of those who voted for Trump will approve of his handling of the situation
Many lovers of the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes share similar unfortunate characteristics.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yass
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Knew it
posted on 3/6/20
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I read a twitter thread yesterday that I thought was fairly prescient on this subject.
The pro-gun lobby always argue that the rationale for having assault rifles is to protect the populace against a tyrannical government and gives the people the chance to 'fight back' against authoritarianism and fascism.
You would think in this current situation - and with the aggressive actions of the Trump government - that the pro-gun lobby would be actively encouraging the protesters to take arms against their government. Yet they're oddly silent.
It suggests that their rationale for owning assault rifles is, in fact, a load of pash.
posted on 3/6/20
Comment deleted by Site Moderator
posted on 3/6/20
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1268064143980015616
posted on 3/6/20
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Magnum. No more Mr Nice Guy. (U22391)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by IvanGolacIsMagic (U5291)
posted 1 minute ago
As for gun ownership, no doubt that's an issue but there were no guns used in this current crisis.
___________________________________
All it took was a knee to put it front and centre.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Don't get me wrong, i'd ban all guns everywhere and, of course, they are part of the problem. But this is a complex issue and doesn't get solved in sound bites.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I read a twitter thread yesterday that I thought was fairly prescient on this subject.
The pro-gun lobby always argue that the rationale for having assault rifles is to protect the populace against a tyrannical government and gives the people the chance to 'fight back' against authoritarianism and fascism.
You would think in this current situation - and with the aggressive actions of the Trump government - that the pro-gun lobby would be actively encouraging the protesters to take arms against their government. Yet they're oddly silent.
It suggests that their rationale for owning assault rifles is, in fact, a load of pash.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Who would have thought that
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