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@emrazz You've asked what I think about "all of this." Some years ago one incident (among others) altered the way I "think." This type of behavior drives all the violence that occurs to women. I know this for a fact. That this is acceptable at ALL is wrong. I'll leave it at that.

@Edu__ard__o @konstructivizm No, that's ego. America does the same. Regularly. Ego has no political boundaries. And at the top of any government the players are all the same

@konstructivizm That's comunism.

The greatest sacrifice of a cosmonaut who knew he would never return home. In the history of space exploration, there are heroes who conquered new frontiers, and there are martyrs who paid the price of political ambition. Vladimir Komarov is perhaps the most tragic of them all. It was 1967. The Soviet Union was preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Leader Leonid Brezhnev called for a resounding success in space: the launch of the Soyuz-1 spacecraft. The engineers knew the ship wasn't ready. Preliminary tests revealed 203 structural defects. The technicians' report clearly stated that the craft was unsafe for flight. But no one had the courage to implement Brezhnev's report. Who would dare disrupt the Party's party? The flight received the green light. This is where the human drama begins. Vladimir Komarov is named the leading pilot. His backup was none other than Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, a national hero, and Komarov's best friend. Komarov knew Soyuz 1 was a flying coffin. Friends asked him why he didn't abandon the mission, incurring a sudden illness. Komarov's answer has gone down in history and reveals the quality of his character: "If I don't go, they'll send Yuri (Gagarin). And he'll die. We must protect him." So Vladimir climbed onto the Rocket on April 23, 1967, knowing he was signing a death warrant to save Gagarin. As soon as he entered space, disaster struck. The solar panel failed to turn on, leaving the ship without sufficient power. The navigation systems were disabled. The ship began spinning uncontrollably. For 24 hours, Komarov struggled superhumanly against manual controls, trying to stabilize the ship for return. On the ground, in the command center, the atmosphere was funereal. Yuri Gagarin attempted to take over the radio discussion, visibly suffering. It is said that Komarov's wife was brought to the radio station to say goodbye. Komarov achieved the impossible and manually oriented the spacecraft and reentered the atmosphere. But fate was cruel to the end. At an altitude of 7 kilometers, the main parachute failed to open. The reserve parachute was also folded. The Soyuz 1 capsule crashed into the Orenburg steppe with the speed of a meteorite, instantly deflated, and burst into flames. Vladimir Komarov demanded that his coffin be opened at the funeral so that Soviet leaders could see what they had done. The image of his charred remains is one of the most shocking photographs of the 20th century. He was the first person to die in a space mission, but his sacrifice saved Gagarin's life and prompted a complete rethinking of the safety of the Soyuz spacecraft, which are still in use today.

Anonymous: At the ages of 13-17, my grandmother would get drunk and lock me outside.. she gave no fcks if it’s 80 degrees or 8. I spent many nights wandering my apartment complex or breaking into the laundry room to have some type of shelter. I’m 47 now and it still affects me.. I shared this to say I’m officially a homeowner. She never owned a home, nor did my mother. Here’s to breaking generational curses one act at a time.

Who agrees with Bernie Sanders that the Epstein files should be read during the filibuster for the “Save Act”?

@PolymathLevel8 @TheEconomist #facts

@TheEconomist youtu.be/86YAa0VOgeg

Having spent many years thundering about the Iranian threat, Binyamin Netanyahu has found in Donald Trump an American president willing to go all the way with him. That, at least, was the first impression econ.st/4s3lHjp Photo: Israel Defence Forces

@Justicicle_ @TheEconomist You actually believe this? No sir, this has zero to do with nukes, missiles ir navies. This has to do with oil, gold and Jeffrey Epstein.

@TheEconomist Israel does not run the United State. The United States is actively eliminating a nuclear threat that many countries benefit from.

@JulieDaoust4 @FaceTheNation Huh?! Do you simply just say words?! The defense department is funded and no, she broke multiple laws including conspiracy to commit murder at the top

@FaceTheNation Anyone put in that position will not satisfy the Dems. They do not want any deportation. Those people are their votes. Kristi Noem did a fabulous job. Holman is doing a great job. Dems need to fund the defense dept. esp. now.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) says he made a “big mistake” in voting for outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem during her confirmation. “She wasn't calling the shots. Stephen Miller is calling the shots. As long as he's calling the shots, without reforms, this is going to continue to be a very, very rogue renegade department,” he says. He adds that Democrats fear President Trump’s decision to pick Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin to succeed Noem will be a continuation of current policies.

@ProfessorVesper Yes

Good human toys are always ready to suffer for the pleasure of their owner 😈

@ProfessorVesper I agree with what you say about submission. Surrender. Devotion. Please allow me into your orbit Please ❤️✨

I don’t chaise - I attract. It’s up to you to decide if you want to be on my orbit 😏

@ProfessorVesper Perfectly said

If money isn’t power - you are you so reluctant to give it away? 😏 #capitalistfemdom #femdompsychology #moneyispower #ladyvesper #femaleauthority

@InvislbleHand @PeterDClack @TheFarm99410868 @BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews Wow. No words

Yet more inconvenient truths for the #NetZero lunatics and their promoters in the anti-science media. The failed @BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews etc. are nothing but political activists and propagandists for globalist marxism. The eco derangement is their fig leaf, the thin layer of green lipstick on the rotting carcass of socialism they worship.

Part 1: We should rename our planet 'Ocean' - because we live in a world entirely dominated by water. The Earth's great oceanic currents have carried warm waters up from the tropics to Northern Europe for hundreds of millions of years. This round trip takes 1,000 years for a single parcel of water. The eternal flow of warm waters to the world's north has prevented most of northern Europe being entombed under glaciers, just like Greenland. The world's oceanic waterways cover 71% of the global surface area to an average depth of 2.3 miles. They hold 96.5% of all water and contain 91-93% of the world's retained heat energy. Water is 1,000 times denser and heavier than the air. Water vapour dominates the entire atmosphere, reaching 4% in atmospheric volume over most of the world's temperate and tropical regions. Water vapour is responsible for up to 75 percent of all atmospheric warming and is overwhelmingly responsible for earth's cloud cover, storms, rain, humidity and snowfall. However, without CO₂ or other non-condensing gases, the water vapor would actually precipitate out and the planet would most likely freeze.

Being gentle is your strength, not your weakness. coachsimona.com/blog/become-mo… via @AskCoachSimona

@BillWilber1954 @POLITICOEurope The Venezuela "event" is illegal from start to finish by US law, let alone international law, ICE and the entire administration is acting under color of law. 100s of judges, appointed by all presidents from Reagan to Trump, from all circuits, aren't wrong. Stop the ad hominem.

@POLITICOEurope TDS

Only a few days ago, EU diplomats and officials were whispering furtively about the idea they might one day need to think about how to push back against Donald Trump. They’re not whispering anymore. 🔗 politico.eu/article/donald…

130 schools said no. He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway. Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami. He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed. So did FIU. So did FAU. So did everyone else. At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs. Not one FBS offer. His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path. Everyone told him to be “realistic.” “Know your place.” “Be grateful.” He didn’t listen. Because Mendoza understood something most people miss: The worst outcome isn’t failing. It’s never getting the chance to try. Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang. Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools. He took it. He arrived as the third-string quarterback. Spent a year on the scout team. Lost his first four starts. Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line. Still got up. Every time. Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him. So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes. He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history. People laughed. “Career suicide.” “Graveyard program.” “Nobody wins there.” One coach told him something different: “I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.” That was enough. Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football. His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years. Before every snap, he thought of her. “My mother is my why.” Indiana went 16–0. Beat six Top-10 teams. Won their first Big Ten title since 1945. Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns. Won the Heisman—first in school history. First Cuban-American to ever do it. Then came the title game. Miami. Near his hometown. Fourth-and-4. Season on the line. Quarterback draw. The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone. Game over. Indiana—national champions. The losingest program became the best team in America. All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end. Rankings don’t decide your ceiling. Gatekeepers don’t write your ending. Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point. Sometimes all you need is one shot… and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will. Don’t quit. Credit: Barclay Mullins

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Show us you’re a genius 😁😁

@TDwightGeer @PDChina So should Anerica

@PDChina China needs to stay in its own hemisphere.

China again urged the US to immediately cease its blockade, sanctions and coercion in any form against Cuba, and to do more to contribute to regional peace and stability, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Monday, noting China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security.

The Black Death was not merely a plague; it was an apocalypse. Arriving in Europe in the late 1340s, it tore through a world that had no conception of bacteria, no defenses against contagion, and no vocabulary for disaster on such a scale. In barely seven years, it killed perhaps 200 million people—a staggering proportion of humanity at a time when the global population was only a fraction of what it is today. Villages vanished. Cities fell silent. The ordinary order of life collapsed under the weight of death. And when fear reaches that pitch, it looks for a face. In Basel, a prosperous town on the Rhine, a small Jewish community had lived for generations. They were traders, physicians, craftsmen—familiar, visible, and already suspect in a world steeped in inherited prejudice of the “other.” Long before the plague, antisemitism had been woven into European life, sanctified by custom and occasionally by law. When the Black Death began its march across the continent, rumor rushed ahead of it. Jews, it was said, were poisoning wells. Jews were conspiring to destroy Christendom. Jews were to blame. It did not matter that the plague had not yet reached Basel. In December 1348, the city’s Jewish cemetery was destroyed—a warning masquerading as vandalism. Some Jews fled. Most stayed, trusting in their neighbors, in the city, in reason. They had reason to hope. Pope Clement VI had issued a formal bull declaring that Jews were not responsible for the plague, pointing out the obvious: Jews were dying too. But papal reason carried little weight against popular terror. On January 9, 1349, the terror took form. A mob gathered in Basel. The Jews were easily identified; since the early thirteenth century, decrees had required them to wear distinguishing badges. That mark—later infamous in another age—was already centuries old. The children were grabbed and forcibly baptized. The adults—around seventy men and women—were marched to a wooden structure hastily built on an island in the Rhine. It was sealed and set on fire. The massacre in Basel was not an aberration. It was part of a wider frenzy that swept across Europe as the plague advanced. A month later, in Strasbourg, several hundred Jews were burned alive in another public execution of fear. Again and again, communities chose murder over uncertainty, scapegoats over humility. The plague would pass. The dead would be buried. Life would resume. But the lesson would linger, written in ash and silence: when societies abandon reason in favor of collective panic, they do not merely lose their moral bearings—they turn their neighbors into enemies, and fear into fire. #archaeohistories

When you start to develop your powers of empathy & #imagination the whole world opens up to you. ~Susan Sarandon via PardueSuzanne

@ZKachok @Microinteracti1 Oh? We fought a revolution to free ourselves from being "British". We were not geographically attached. Greenland is part of the Danish kingdom. Please show me the difference.

@Microinteracti1 Greenland is not in Europe.

For the past twelve months, we have been forced to live inside a bizarre new normal: the President of the United States repeatedly talking about taking Greenland. He keeps returning to it, again and again, until the world is expected to treat it like just another policy proposal. That is the context. A year of repetition. A year of normalization. A year of watching an idea that should have stayed in the realm of satire get slowly dragged into the realm of “serious discussion”. So let’s talk about what this actually means. Because if you follow the logic to its conclusion, you do not end up in a negotiation. You end up on a road that points straight into a historic rupture. Greenland is not unclaimed territory. It is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Denmark is a sovereign state. Denmark is also a member of NATO. NATO is not a vague friendship pact. It is a military alliance built around a single foundation: collective defense. If a member is attacked, the alliance treats it as an attack on all. That is the entire point. It is the mechanism designed to prevent exactly this kind of power play. Now connect the dots. If the United States were to take Greenland by force, it would be attacking Danish territory. That is an attack on a NATO member. At that point, the situation stops being “America versus Denmark” and becomes “America versus NATO.” That is thirty one countries. It means the US would be in a direct confrontation with France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and the rest of the alliance. Countries the US has trained with, fought alongside, shared intelligence with, and built military planning around for decades. And this is where the absurdity becomes almost unbearable: the United States would be detonating the postwar security architecture that it itself helped create and lead. The alliance system that has defined Western security for generations would be shattered from the inside, not by an external enemy, but by the country that has been its central pillar. The cultural and human dimension is just sickening. Millions of Americans trace their roots directly back to Europe. Under this trajectory, Americans would be pushed toward a world where they are asked to treat ancestral homelands as enemies, not because those countries attacked the US, but because the US chose to attack them. Yes, it is absurd. But absurdity does not make it harmless. That is the trap. When something is ridiculous, people laugh, delay, minimize, and cope. Meanwhile, power keeps moving. A year of this talk has brought us here: to the point where it is no longer enough to roll our eyes. We have to describe the endpoint clearly, because the endpoint is catastrophic. And if you want a simple summary of what it means, it is this: taking Greenland by force would not be “a strong move.” It would be the US declaring war on its own alliance system, and setting fire to the rules that kept the West together in the first place. And yes! Europe got plenty of nukes. So does the USA. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

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@milleniusz @Microinteracti1 Excellent suggestion! Not a single mention of this from one European nation - they know precisely what thu is, they tried pulling it on Putin in the Paris treaty talks on Ukraine. Think about that for a sec ...

@Microinteracti1 europe needs „tripwire” forces on the island