Fair enough.

The US diplomatic corps normally view tickets and such as local taxes that they are not subject to.

The US owes the equivalent of cancer treatment for 240 patients in our National Health Service. Either laws are to be complied with (and the moral high ground can be claimed) or they're not.

Why are any diplomats above the law?

You're right - CCTV is exactly the same as jamming your finger in someone's cunt.

Who gives a shit?

According to a link someone else posted, the UK diplomatic mission in New York had a grand total of zero dollars owed in unpaid parking restrictions.

7.2 million pounds is not 'mundane'. It's a congestion charge which everyone has to pay if they drive in central London, and which American diplomats believe themselves to be above paying. 7.2 million pounds is a significant figure. What do you think would happen to a British person who refused to pay the…

According to that link, the UK diplomatic presence in the US has no violations. Conversely, the US presence in the UK owes 7.2 million pounds, by far the largest amount owed by a single state.

Coming from an international diplomatic background myself, I can attest that governments tend not to distinguish between consular and diplomatic staff in their treatment and privileges. I can guarantee that in India, until this happened, there was no differentiation in treatment between consular and diplomatic staff.…

Interesting fact: US diplomats owe the most in unpaid congestion charges in London! 7.2 million pounds in unpaid charges! And they claim diplomatic immunity exempts them from paying the charge.

See how US diplomatic staff accumulate (unpaid) parking tickets like they're a form of currency on the streets of London for the very definition of 'unfair'.

American diplomats are accorded privileges which ordinary Indians do not enjoy. The US violated the Vienna Convention when it decided to strip search a member of the Indian diplomat corps. I would be very, very worried if I was a US diplomat based in India right now.

I'm sorry, I can't get past "57-year-old". WHAT? I thought she was maaaaaybe 40. Girl looks good.

For real. I grew up/live in Miami and our version of cholas are "chongas." A lot of white/jewish girls in high school dressed like the Hispanic girls we spent our time with and no one got all up in arms. In fact everyone bonded over it.

Yup. It's the most infuriating meme for all of those reasons: the reduction of entire races and cultures to their most extreme and fetishized elements, the idea that cultural exchange is somehow bad (asserted as if this is obvious and beyond debate), the bullshit motives of the people who use it. Why is "cultural…

Dear god THANK you. Every time I read more of this "cultural appropriation" bullshit I think, here's one more person who is so hung up on racial issues that they can't see the people that make up the culture. For all of human history, culture is exchange - that's how it changes and grows, and how people learn about…

To be fair, there are often white people who live in latino areas, and who participate in the culture that you call latino culture. I used to know a white lebanese girl who lived in an area like that, and she talked like a boriquan and had that makeup and eyebrow thing going on. I think this website fails to…

To be fair, I think it's weird that anyone listens to Carrie Underwood.

Oh, for fuck's sake. He literally said that he COPED BY EATING PIE.