#(from Wikipedia)

[tanadrin]

Many political scientists argue that PR was adopted by parties on the right as a strategy to survive amid suffrage expansion, democratization and the rise of workers' parties. According to Stein Rokkan in a seminal 1970 study, parties on the right opted to adopt PR as a way to survive as competitive parties in situations when the parties on the right were not united enough to exist under majoritarian systems.[153] This argument was formalized and supported by Carles Boix in a 1999 study.[154] Amel Ahmed notes that prior to the adoption of PR, many electoral systems were based on majority or plurality rule, and that these systems risked eradicating parties on the right in areas where the working class was large in numbers. He therefore argues that parties on the right adopted PR as a way to ensure that they would survive as potent political forces amid suffrage expansion.[155] A 2021 study linked the adoption of PR to incumbent fears of revolutionary threats.

Huh.

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IMac G3 colour variations

[alcestas-sloboda]

Please tell me about Oleh and his stallion?

According to the legend, it was prophesied by the pagan priests that Oleh would take death from his stallion.

To defy the prophecies, Oleh sent the horse away. Many years later he asked where his horse was, and was told it had died. He asked to see the remains and was taken to the place where the bones lay. When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snake slithered from the skull and bit him. Oleh died, thus fulfilling the prophecy

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[rautavaara]

[victusinveritas]

HMS Prize (Q-ship, schooner) engaging U-93.

The captain of the HMS Prize, William Edward Sanders, was awarded the Victoria Cross for taking on a U-boat. He essentially played possum until the U-boat got close enough to see if the ship was really sinking. While the Prize was damaged, its guns worked just fine and it ended up damaging the conning tower severely. The captain of U-93 (the very Prussian-named Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim) and two other crewmen were picked up floating in the water and taken prisoner, while the U-93 limped back to Germany. Unfortunately for the Prize, ze Germans were now determined to sink the schooner that had the temerity to damage one of their U-boats. While patrolling with a British sub as a decoy for the Kriegsmarine to attack, the Prize was lost with all hands due to action, sunk by UB-48.

[willowmancer]

[artisplatters]

Well, prev, you see-

it's obviously the "come fuck me" sign

I’m sorry but gharials? They’re just existing like this. Why aren’t we all talking about it

[fly-chicken]

A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU

***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***

Blacked out part is my name.

I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too

AND

I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.

And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.

A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am

[bonelessteeth]

screaming at this

[hickeygender]

after literal years i finally got around to downloading a pdf of the wipers times, an unsancitioned satitical british trench magazine circulated among the troops in france from 1916-1918 after the fortuitous discovery of a printing press. i have approximately five million other things i need to read so idk when i'll be able to devote much time to it, and i gotta pick up a proper copy bc it's missing at least salient no 4 vol 2. that said? i'm genuinely laughing at what i've skimmed so far

[fiendfifofum]

Was anyone going to tell me that the Gävle goat is never supposed to burn and that that is, in fact, a crime that has been ritually perpetrated for over 40 years???

This was a Patreon Request!

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[miscellaneousrenaissant]

They will die together one day in one another's arms 😊🫂💞

[haunthouse]

todays wikipedia rabbit hole has gone some places

[theskepticalhulk]

In 1953, after death of Stalin, the decree banning Soviet citizens from marriage to a foreigner was abolished. Intourist began selling packages to foreigners in 1955. It was "charged with obtaining hard currency to be used for imports of machinery that would help make the Soviet Union independent of global markets." In 1956, the USSR received 56,000 tourists.