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CathFawr: If the war doesn't worry you, you need to stop thinking in terms of "russia is bogged down in Ukraine, so we're fine" and start seeing the current war as the battle of Britain. In that sense, if Russia wins here, Operation Sealion is enabled- russia will believe they can push further West to settle their perceived scores from soviet times; China will be emboldened to try for Taiwan, North Korea to South Korea, and Iran to Israel, and potentially other neighbors. In the most basic sense, all these other autocratic dictators are waiting to see if Putin ends up like Hitler and Mussolini, or if their hateful expansionist ambitions will be permitted to bear fruit by an apathetic and self absorbed world. Wake The Fuck Up Or war will be at your door. Your sons and daughters will die in foreign (or domestic!) fields. Or the west can send a united message that international law is to be upheld, and dictators made to wither and scatter to the wind like chaff from the grain. It's your call, I'm already bleeding for our collective freedom.

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so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

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Heroes at Home (2020)

written by Zeb Wells art by Gurihiru

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THURSDAY HERO: Selahattin Ulkumen

For much of history, Turks and Jews have gotten along well. During the Holocaust, Turkey did more to save Jewish lives than the United States or Great Britain. One of these heroic Turks was Selahattin Ülkümen, a diplomat serving on the Greek island of Rhodes.

Previously controlled by Italy, Rhodes was occupied by the German army in 1943. Approximately 2000 Jews lived on the island, many of them from Turkey, Greece and Italy. In 1944, the Gestapo ordered all the Jews of Rhodes to report for “temporary relocation” – in fact, they were headed for Auschwitz. Upon hearing the news, Selahattin immediately rushed to the German commanding officer, and informed him that since Turkey was officially neutral, the Jews who were Turkish citizens must be released.

The Nazi officer refused, insisting that under Nazi law all Jews were Jews and had to be sent to concentration camps. Selahattin retorted that under Turkish law, all citizens were equal and Jews were not treated differently than Christians or Muslims. Selahattin threatened the German officer that if he didn’t release the Jewish Turks, and their extended families, Turkey would cause an international incident. After much tension, 50 Jewish Turks were finally released. Despite continuing harassment from the Nazi authorities, all 50 of them survived the war, due entirely to the bold efforts of Selahattin.

Selahattin paid a high price for his bravery. In retaliation for his refusal to cooperate with the Nazi authorities, the Germans bombed the Turkish consulate on Rhodes. Selahattin’s pregnant wife Mihrinissa was killed in the blast, along with two other consular employees.

After the war, Selahattin returned to Turkey. In 1989, he was honored as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Israeli Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem, and in 1990 Israel issued a postage stamp in his honor. Selahattin died in Istanbul in 2003, at age 89.

For risking his life to save endangered Jews, and paying a tremendous personal price, we honor Selahattin Ülkümen as this week’s Thursday Hero.

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the icc is a fucking joke

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Could i have a source (for the UN part), please?

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The first step that is necessary for solving a problem is admitting that you have a problem.

Germany is currently, very belatedly, at step 1 of tackling muslim antisemitism.

Stop shitting on berlin's police chief, she is getting enough flak for being honest. You are promoting censorship

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Evidently, Germany hasn’t had enough opportunity to learn about the dangers of allowing racist bigots to take over their society?

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Source

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where i’m at girls

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I don't get why people praise toxic femininity, wasn't this whole thing about not putting down either gender??

That isn't feminism that's radical feminism/toxic femininity and I'm tired of men presuming the two are the same. Our gender fought decades for equal rights and you go and undo that by saying it's really a fight to reverse the roles.

It does not help. Maybe it's a joke to you but the internet is vast and accessible even by kids who unfortunately see influencers as role models. We need to educate kids to respect and appreciate both genders not hate each other and put them down.

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Was that Saavik in that crowd 😍?

Im fairly certain that you don’t do fandom news but after 57 years, Spirk, the ship thst created slashfiction, is canon?? I guess? Its an 8 minute short film with one line but they hold hands and stare off into the sunset together as aged old men and WHAT????

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Heroines of our time.

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Oh no, my wonder is not "childlike." My whimsy is old. My frivolity is steeped in ancient wisdom.

My silliness is battle worn. My awe at the world has been long forged through trial & tribulation.

I have earned this wonderment. I have protected it for decades against a society that tells me constantly that it should not belong to me.

I was born with wonder, and I have carried it, against all odds, with me through adulthood.

It is not "childlike" by now it is Older than me.

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Ich hab so die Schnauze voll von Leuten die zum Thema Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine nur mit "Wir brauchen Frieden keine Waffen" antworten.

Diese Antwort ist so unendlich arrogant und menschenverachtend.

Putin könnte dieses Massaker jeden Tag beenden, aber jeden Tag entscheidet er sich dagegen.

Die Ukraine kämpft um ihr Überleben, mit einem Rücken auf dem Rücken durch die ständigen Einschränkungen der Verbündeten wie und wann sie denn bitte die ihr zur Verfügung gestellten Waffen benutzen darf.

"Man brauch Diplomatie". Diplomatie wurde ewig versucht, sogar meiner Meinung nach noch viel zu lange nachdem Russland schon die Krim annektiert hatte. Bis kurz vor dem Angriffskrieg haben alle Politiker darauf geschworen, dass Russia nichts machen würde.

Russland hat jedes mal Abkommen nicht eingehalten und wird es in Zukunft auch nicht tun.

Diese Absolute Naivität macht mich so fertig weil sie in vielen Teilen an dieses Überlegenheitsdenken gegenüber Osteuropa gekoppelt ist. Besonders frustrierend sind hier Stimmen aus der Linken Ecke die Russland und andere Diktaturen seit Jahrzehnten verteidigen. Sie sprechen allen Ländern die unter Russland malträtiert wurden ab selbständig Entscheidungen zu treffen mit Aussagen wie "Die wurden von den USA in die NATO gezwungen". So ein kranker Mist einfach, der ignoriert wie die Länder jahrzehntelang unter Russischer Besatzung gelitten haben, ihre Sprache fast ausgelöscht wurde, ganze Familien derportiert und vernichtet wurden.

"Wenn die Ukraine jetzt aufgibt, sterben weniger Menschen".

Wir bräuchten da mehr Linke die nicht die gleiche Position einnehmen wie die fucking AfD.

Wenistens fahren die Grünen hier nicht die Pazifismusschiene.

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The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau for the year 1021 ends “My brother Werner was born on November 1.“ 

1021 was not an uneventful year. The emperor began a campaign into Italy. Illustrious abbots died. There was an earthquake. But Herbert took the time to note, at the end of the year, that his brother was born. 

Of such acts of tenderness is history made.