P. Golowatschew
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At first I thought Homelander was gonna actually save her for a second but then I remembered what show I'm watching
Why does he always think he is God?
Dïvïñë🇳🇬🇬🇧🇮🇪@Diviam_wiljon
Drop that ONE scene or line in The Boys that made you realize Homelander is actually a psychopath 😭 Just genuinely disturbing as a human being 💀
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@woke8yearold Doesn't surprise me.
Qing era scholars were confusing Russians with various ancient Asian tribes.
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The story of how a British guy stole tea from China is really funny. He spoke Chinese and hired a local guide, then got the right haircut and clothes. When he approached people he said he was from a distant province beyond the wall and they were like yeah seems legit
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@DrWatermeloniun @ProphetOfKek117 Most of the writers of the previous seasons were replaced.
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@ProphetOfKek117 Definitely. I don't understand what the hell happened in season 4 and specially in season 5
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The writers from season 1
Lorxel ×͜×@lorxell
If you could bring any of these the boys characters back, who would it be ?
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@shakirov2036 Bad advice
Either continue/escalate this strategic confrontation with everything that this entails (the SMO) or give up
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P.S.: Vasily Kashin believes Russia should focus on its strategic confrontation with the West instead of endlessly fighting for Malaya Tokmachka "in pursuit of imaginary goals"—a reference to a notorious battle over a small village that has been going on since 2023
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Vasily Kashin argues that Russia cannot achieve its original "special military operation" goals (he doesn't think it's a failure) & should make peace under conditions discussed in Alaska—the first such acknowledgement from a prominent Russian expert
globalaffairs.ru/articles/chugu…
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@AkkadSecretary Some relevant anecdotal evidence
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Spandrell@spandrell4
I asked her how many whores do it for money and how many for fun. She said 70% for money, 20% actually enjoy it, and 10% do it to punish their boyfriend or general mental illness. After that I make a point of finding the slutty ones and have had great times.
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Lets be real
If you solved poverty and made every woman upper class, some would still do prostitution.
Only fans is a perfect experiment
The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动@TGTM_Official
Zero poverty! Prostitution is illegal!” Yet millions of women sell sex in KTVs, massage parlors & hotels daily — because the “Chinese Dream” never reached them. They do it even online on foreign medias too! Banned on paper. Booming underground. Is this real victory over poverty… or just hidden desperation? Drop your thoughts. Have you seen it? 👇
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@GroovySciFi @FerdinandLejeu3 What is the point of radical republicanism if you already live in a crowned republic?
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@FerdinandLejeu3 True. Seems to be that the Anglo capacity for whiggishness is greater than their capacity for toryism. Abolitionism also originated in Britain. But this too is measured — no radical republicans since Cromwell, at least until recently.
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this is such a strange talking point. germans may be "autistic" in many ways but when it comes to *ideology* they are very flexible and pragmatic, which is how you end up with "conservative welfare state" or "national socialism".
ideology-maxxing is more of an anglo thing.
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@AkkadSecretary How do you explain the complete collapes in most Muslim countries including countries with very few womens rights?
UAE 1.2
Turkey and Saudi Arabia - massive, fast and dramatic falls - some of the fastest in the world.
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Some will blame anything for the fertility crisis just to avoid confronting the problem.
It's womens rights.
If you want high fertility you gotta abolish them, otherwise shut up.
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage
Very nice piece by @jburnmurdoch makes a case for smartphones being responsible for the fertility decline, through channels like • pure time displacement • changing (gendered) norms • decreased socialization
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@N0MoreParties @mmjukic The internet/smartphone demographic transition
"...most important thing ... about recent Western fertility collapse is that it is concentrated among the lower class, the unmarried, the young (below 30), the uneducated, and recent non-Western immigrants."
arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-five-sta…
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@mmjukic In Denmark, the highly educated women are having the most kids. They are taller and smarter than average, this is eugenics. The decline in fertility rate is only because >33% of women with primary school as highest educational achievement are childless now
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Skandinavian Researcher@N0MoreParties
In Denmark, the fertility rate has declined from 1.9 in 2008 to 1.5 in 2025. Largely because, as this graph shows, almost 33% of women with primary school as their highest educational attainment are childless nowadays. Highly educated women have a 1.9 fertility rate on average.
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@TheMindScourge "seeking stability in a world that seemed anything"
Common in the late 20th/early 21st century yet TFR remains historically low.
Status is the major factor.
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This is very interesting, but I’m skeptical that increased male status is the reason. A much better explanation (which is also debated) is WWII and this particular generation seeking stability in a world that seemed anything but (and which many assumed would be annihilated in a general nuclear exchange)
nfseverin@nfseverin1
The Baby Boom was caused by a unique period of high young male status compared to women, reflected in education and income levels.
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@Jfrdydtdht When people think of America, they usually think of the USA, not the geographical entity America which was named first.
You can redefine a term.
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How you can leave the continent? Why all EU flags are so dumb?
Octavian 🇪🇺@posta_octavian
@KuyavianR4p1st I like this Outdated because Russia is trying to leave Europe but otherwise I think this is good
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@wahrerosten @Stern_66 Nowgorod, eine Stadt, die von Nahrungsmittelimporten aus dem Süden abhängig war, hätte sich nicht durchsetzen können.
Dazu war es in einer zu schwachen Position.
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@Stern_66 Kann mir vorstellen dass der russische Volkscharakter sich deutlich anders entwickelt hätte, wenn Nowgorod und nicht Moskau sich durchgesetzt hätte. So lange unter der mongolischen Knute sein, macht etwas mit einem
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Mein Rhodesien ist lowkey die Republik Nowgorod
Eine mittelalterliche Handelrepublik, die sich von der Ostsee bis zum Ural erstreckte und als Brücke zwischen der Hanse und dem russischen Binnenland diente. Durch ihre Position blieb Nowgorod auch der Mongolensturm erspart
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@E_Boeminghaus Ziehen sie dem mehr Schulabgänger mit einem Abschluss, der noch abgewerteter ist als jetzt, vor?
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@eugyppius1 Would have worked one or two decades ago.
Probably too late at this point.
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Merz's two most successful cabinet ministers – Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt and Economics Minister Katherina Reiche – provide some insight into what a German political correction might look like.
Dobrindt keeps the lowest profile possible, he works to limit migration at the margins and gives the crazed leftoid SPD little to work with. Reiche pays lipservice to climatism while relentlessly publishing data that undermines the success of the energy transition and working to build out gas power generation in the background.
The leftist programme has always had parareligious elements, by which I mean that it appeals to religious instincts while not explicitly putting itself forth as a religion. Correcting this insanity, at least in the early to intermediate stages, will depend a lot on allowing culturally dominant leftoids to maintain their nostrums publicly, while doing what is necessary behind the scenes to keep the economy and society minimally functional. The hope is that the leftist programme is promoted finally to an ethereal, almost supernatural amalgam of religious doctrines, which are necessarily detached from real-world imperatives. Green voters may practice self-abnegation, pilot their cargo bicycles across their cities, profess every Sunday in church that refugees are welcome, while quietly accepting the social and economic returns of more sensible policies engineered by other people. They get the space to do this while their political leaders are allowed to save face and nobody has to admit they were wrong anytime soon.
It's not satisfying but it's probably the way forward for now.
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@RomeInTheEast The early modern age was the time between the fall of the Empire of the Rhomaioi and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire.
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The Middle Ages was the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the fall of the Roman Empire.
Medievalists.net@Medievalists
Was there a single year that launched the medieval period—and another that closed it? medievalists.net/2026/01/when-m… #medieval
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Immer wieder gerne genommen: Die historische Chance auf Ostpreußen, die es 1990 angeblich gab und die damals doch nur ein Giftpfeil gewesen ist, um den kleinstdeutschen Vereinigungsprozess zu sabotieren.
Irmhild Boßdorf@IrmhildBoss
Ich kann mich gut darin erinnern, wie der sowjetische Emissär - aus Verzweiflung über fehlendes Interesse in der Bundesregierung - selbst bei Mitgliedern des "Deutschlandrats" anfragte, ob denn wirklich niemand Nordostpreußen wieder haben wollen. Diese historische Chance wurde tragischerweise vertan.
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@IrmhildBoss Es gab keine historische Chance, da es niemanden gab, der das hätte durchsetzen können.
Oder ist keinem Deutschen bekannt, das die Japaner trotz Wunsch nach Revision und Verhandlungen, auch kein Gebiet bekommen haben?
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Ich kann mich gut darin erinnern, wie der sowjetische Emissär - aus Verzweiflung über fehlendes Interesse in der Bundesregierung - selbst bei Mitgliedern des "Deutschlandrats" anfragte, ob denn wirklich niemand Nordostpreußen wieder haben wollen. Diese historische Chance wurde tragischerweise vertan.
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@FidibusRex @Stern_66 @EnterichsBubble Ein Wirtschaftswunder braucht Arbeitskräfte und die wären bei einem anderen, weniger großzügigen System im Osten noch mehr interessiert daran gewesen wegzuziehen.
Was die Wiedervereinigung unvermeindlich machte, schränkte auch die politischen Optionen stark ein.
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@Alt1987er @Stern_66 @EnterichsBubble Vielleicht war genau Das gerade polnisch opportun. Aber sachlich hat man dem Osten damit die Chancen genommen sich mit einem Wirtschaftswunder zu entwickeln.
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@FidibusRex @Stern_66 @EnterichsBubble Wie hätte es man verkaufen sollen der ehemaligen DDR den Sozialstaat der BRD vorzuenthalten?
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@Stern_66 @EnterichsBubble Ein wesentlicher Fehler der Wiedervereinigung war, dass man den kompletten Regel- und Sozialstaat der BRD dort übergestülpt hat. In Bezug auf Königsberg hätte man eine Sonderwirtschaftszone einführen müssen. Quasi "wilder Osten". Ansonsten wäre es wie du sagst, teuer auf Dauer.
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