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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
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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
#from Wikipedia#but yeah#i remember it from my middle school history lessons#like I can forget a lot of things but this and Olha is forever in my brain
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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.
#wwi#royal navy#age of sail#tall ships#q-ships#schooner#victoria cross#ze germans#naval warfare#from wikipedia
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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
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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
#us politics#donald trump#election 2024#aclu#a promise to myself#how is this comforting you May ask#bc we are not fighting alone or uninformed#we have good and strong groups in our corners defending what we believe in#it’s not over yet#we have to try and pushback#added Alt image descriptions since this is leaving containment#happy to see many engaging with this to either donate time or money or both#really warms the cold heart of mine#wow this broke containment#overall it’s been pretty nice seeing people engaging with it ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work#they did the travel ban right at the beginning of the previous presidency too#also every major civil battle in the last century#brown V board of education- the one that desegregated schools#loving V Virginia- legalized interracial marriage#roe V wade- legalized abortion#United States V Nixon- watergate scandal WHICH LIMITED US PRESIDENTAL POWER#Edwards v. Aguillard- helped allow schools to teach evolution#Planned Parenthood v. Casey- another abortion case#ACLU v. NSA- to stop the NSA spying on wikipedia users#Ingersoll v. Arlene's Flowers- fought to stop LGBTQ discrimination from businesses#Obergefell v. Hodges- case that legalized gay marriage#literally WAY MORE GUYS#so don’t fall into dispair! these are literally one of the good ones!
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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
#this is like THE page everyone likes it seems but it's SO good#also the flammenwerfer one i found on wikipedia is gold. that's the only reason i know no 4 vol 2 is missing from the pdf after skimming#and 'DEAD COW FARM' CINEMA. is great#the wipers times is SO fascinating to me as a glimpse of life into the trenches without any signifigant censorship of the bitterness that's#couched in satire. it's hilarious satire but there's still bitterness there sometimes! and gallows humor! this was adored by the men on the#front but it's amazing it happened at all. SO glad it did. it's a marvel#len speaks#ww1#world war 1#world war one#the great war#1917#<- figured you guys might find this interesting considering it would be circulating during canon#history
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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!
#from wikipedia#gavlebocken#gavle goat#christmas#arson#i thought we were all doing a cool ritual like skt. Hans or something#i
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They will die together one day in one another's arms 😊🫂💞
#TABBY x JAMMER 4EVER#how did Tabby get a body? haha#mind your business ❤️#the first pic is a panel edit from homestuck#and the second is a shitpost but also arguably#art#misfits and magic#misfits and magic spoilers#misfits and magic 2#misfits and magic 2 spoilers#mismag 2#mismag 2 spoilers#whitney jammer#tabby the tablet#there are like five different colors called electric blue on wikipedia :')#schrodinger's electric blue until you try to color with it#flashing images#eyestrain
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todays wikipedia rabbit hole has gone some places
#kaylee.txt#was reading from here to eternity and decided to google one of the death scholars mentioned and. i love this#favorite wikipedia section heading for sure
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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.
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