#German Classes in India

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Hello beautiful people, Wie geht es dir?

Should I learn German online?  Has this ever crossed your mind?

Maybe it all started with a spark, perhaps a popular documentary about Berlin, a tempting job offer from a German company, or a friend planning to study in Munich. Suddenly, you found yourself asking: Should I learn German online?

You’re not alone. More and more Indian students, professionals, travelers, and language enthusiasts are choosing to learn German online from the comfort of their homes.

Whether you’re eyeing a job with a top German multinational, planning to pursue higher studies in Europe, or simply wanting to enhance your language skills, learning German can greatly enhance your career prospects and personal growth. Seize this opportunity, it could open doors to a whole new world!

Why should you learn German Online?

1. Flexibility that Matches Your Life

When you learn German online, you’re not bound by fixed classroom schedules. You can study at 7 AM before work, or at 11 PM after your kids sleep.

With recorded lessons, flexible modules, and mobile access, your course adapts to your life, not the other way around.

2. Access to Certified Native Trainers

Gone are the days when language learning was limited to what was locally available. When you learn German online,

You can study under native German speakers or certified international language coaches from anywhere in the world.

You get authentic pronunciation, cultural insights, and professional training all without leaving your city.

3. Cost-Effective Without Compromising Quality

Classroom-based courses often come with overhead costs, such as location, utilities, and printed materials, and you pay for them.

But when you learn German online, the structure is leaner and smarter.

Most online German language courses are more affordable than their offline counterparts. Plus, you save on commuting, printed books, and sometimes even exam fees.

4. Learn at Your Own Pace

Everyone learns differently. Some people grasp grammar quickly but struggle with speaking. Others pick up conversation easily but need more time with sentence structures.

Online platforms allow you to learn German online at a pace that suits you. You can pause, rewind, repeat, and revisit lessons as many times as needed, something a traditional classroom rarely offers. So what you need to do is? Look for platforms that offer lifetime access or downloadable materials so your learning doesn’t expire with the course.

5. Real-Life Applications & Multimedia Support

Learning online doesn’t mean staring at a textbook on a screen. Modern e-learning platforms make it interactive with:

Audio pronunciations

Video conversations

Quizzes & games

Role-play modules

Live speaking clubs

When you learn German online, you’re surrounded by resources that are closer to real life. You hear how Germans speak in everyday life, not just textbook dialogues.

6. Globally Recognized Certification

A major concern for learners is whether an online course is valid.

The good news? Many online German language institutes offer certification aligned with Goethe, TELC, or CEFR standards.

So, when you complete your course, you can proudly present your certificate while applying for jobs, universities, or visas.

7. Opens Doors to Career, Education, and Culture

Likewise, German universities offer tuition-free or low-cost education to international students, but proficiency in the language is often required.

Did you know?

Over 100 million people speak German as their first language, making it one of the most spoken native languages in Europe.

By choosing to learn German online, you take your first step toward:

Global job opportunities

Scholarships in Europe

Travel easily across Austria, Germany, and Switzerland

Enjoying German films, books, and music in their original form

Conclusion;

The world is more connected than ever. With reliable internet, smart platforms, and passionate trainers, there’s never been a better moment to learn German online. Begin to learn German online with Skill Orbit today. Test a free trial. Join a community of learners just like you.

Whether you’re 18 or 58, starting from scratch or revisiting what you once learned, online German courses are now tailored to you. You can learn from your phone, laptop, or tablet anytime, anywhere.

Your journey to fluency doesn’t begin in a classroom. It begins wherever you are, the moment you decide to learn German online.

[toptalentlinks]

How Online German Classes in India are Changing Language Learning

I'm considering learning German, but I don't have the time, travel arrangements, and structure in place for the class. This is the very reason why the demand for German courses in India through the internet has skyrocketed. Online learning benefits professionals, students, and companies as a whole, unlike anything else, thanks to the flexible schedules and personalized attention offered, along with world-recognized qualifications. Knowledge of the language is a prerequisite for many German jobs, academic opportunities, and work with German clients; nowadays, there is nothing optional about learning the language. Read more: https://medium.com/@toptalentlinks/how-online-german-classes-in-india-are-changing-language-learning-99c7bbd9542d

[valend]

Beatles bootcamp training schedule just got fucking leaked guys I’m screaming

12.00-14.00: wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast

14.00: first preludin

14.30-15.00: wig try outs

15.00-16.30: group circle jerk

16.30-17.00: John & Paul solo jerk off session, George does Maharishi meditation, Ringo practices peace signs in the mirror

17.00: second preludin + beer

18.00-18.30: John & Ringo boxing, Paul doe eyes exercises, George gets ignored by everyone

19.00: third preludin + estrogen shots

20.00-21.00: “nothing happened in India” x20 “we are not gay” x50 affirmations in the mirror

22.00-23.30: John & Paul homosexuality denial, George & Ringo play with marbles

23.30: fourth preludin, vodka

23.30-00.00: rest

00.00-05.00: singing in an underground German bar half naked

5.00-5.30: John & Paul silent frottage class while George sleeps, Ringo gets visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past

5.30-12.00: all sleep together grandparents from Willy Wonka style

Everyone please pray for Paul Mescal, Harris Dickinson, Joseph Quinn and Barry Keoghan 😢😢💔

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

I used to think who started a fight mattered then the war in Ukraine happens. I see anarchist and liberals defend Ukraine as if allying with America and the genocidal west didn't matter. That the genocide of the native Americas didn't matter. The British authorities in India didn't matter. That the French atrocities Haiti, Vietnam and Algeria didn't matter. OR the fact that German was part of NATO after all the shit the nazis did to the Jews and Slavs.

I see liberals, conservatives and anarchist parrot the same talking point and the absolute failure to understand that conservatives then there is an ulterior motive.

I littally had anarchist tell me the high quality of life the Chinese had didn't matter. The fact that food is affordable in China, and going to school and getting sick wont bankrupt you. Or that the soviets had a decent quality of life.

Anarchist, liberals and conservatives will go on and on about how the red terror was bad but then completely overlook the white terror before that. They ignore the fact that the terror the Haitians did was in response to the terror the French did. That the French revolution was top down unlike the Russian revolution and the Haitian revolution which was bottom-up revolutions. That the whites where 100% responsible for the red terror and the French where 100% responsible for the terror that happen during the Haitian revolution and these terrors would not happen if people gave up the delusion that they will ever be part of the ruling class. Because of the extreme power imbalance between the status qou and revolutionaries and the attrotices of the west there is no moral responsibilities on the Hattians and Russians.

Anarchism is controlled opposition just like how the democrats are. It just an attempt to prevent people with class conciseness form moving beyond a liberal farmwork. Anarchism weaponize white anxiety to demonize successful communist movements.

[sosuigeneris]

Socialite series: Manufacturing your Personality

So you want to get into high society. I can give you a guideline as to how you can do that. 

I was born in high society, in India. I know how these systems work. Even across cultures, they’re quite similar. I know some German, Asian, American high society people. Certain things are very similar across continents. 

You can permanently secure your position by two ways: marriage, or by becoming somebody. 

In Indian high society, there’s two kinds of people: those who have lineage, and those who are rich. 

Those who have lineage are those (mostly bankrupt) Maharajas, artists, singers, musicians, poets for generations - it’s an art form or royalty handed down to their children. They have ✨culture, a legacy✨ that can only be obtained by birth. They want to mingle with the business rich so that they get access to the opportunities they need for their livelihoods. 

The business rich can be new or old money. It doesn’t matter. Their businesses are family businesses. They have money, but may lack class. Don’t be mistaken that only new money can be “tacky” - I know plenty of influential, old money families who are equally classless and tacky. 

They want to mingle with the lineage crowd because they need that ✨culture✨ to be seen as someone. They want to be associated with them, to improve their reputations. By connecting to the artistic and musical world, it shows that they have class and persona. 

Both groups, as you see, need each other. You may ask - can’t there be families where there’s both?

Yes there can. But that is not common. 

Let’s say you take the route of dating someone who is of high society, and are hoping to convert that into marriage. I’ll be very honest with you - you have to seriously stand out for Asian and Middle Eastern high society families to accept you if you lack both lineage and money. 

You need to have a strong educational background - you need to go to a great college or masters, or whatever - otherwise this is really not going to happen. This is requirement number 1. If you don’t have this, don’t even bother reading the rest. 

And in Asian and ME families, remember one thing. Marriages are between families, NOT individuals. You have to impress the family, the family’s friends, their maids and barbers and god knows who else. 

And here are Cherry’s insider tips, just for you, to fit right in. If you fit in comfortably, it makes your life and everyone else’s life easier. 

Extrovert tendencies 

don’t be intimidated by people, don’t be shy or awkward 

It’s better to mix in being a combination of “social + slightly bored” like “it’s nice to meet you, but I wouldn’t die to be here.” 

Be open without jumping around like a Disney kid. Being “overexcited” or jumpy, smiling and laughing at just about everything comes across as weird in some cultures, IF that’s not how you genuinely are. That might work in the US, but not everywhere else. 

If I had to very simply define an extrovert - approach new people with ease, learn the art of small talk and be a good listener. 

Confident 

have a sense of self: career, hobbies, likes or dislikes, experiences

Be a multi faceted person. Do things that YOU like. If you like reading Japanese literature and collecting quartz, great! That’s your thing! 

Good communication skills

articulate, small talk abilities, good listener, curious, engaging

be able to tell little stories about yourself without giving everything away 

Well dressed 

do an image consultation for your colours, understand your body shape type and find a style that works for you

Create a capsule wardrobe that is timeless 

Remember - modesty is ALWAYS the best idea for any event. 

Posture - stand up straight, be able to walk in heels, sit without slouching

if you don’t know how to walk in heels, learn to. Practice it. 

Sit up straight, do some yoga or something for good posture 

Maintenance- good skin, hair, fit body, skin, nails, teeth; good hygiene; smell good 

hygiene comes first. Shower regularly, wash your hair as often as needed. 

Put on perfume. 

Find a make up style that works for you. Again, this takes practice. It took me years to figure out what kind of eyeliner works on my eyes and that bronzer doesn’t suit me at all. Crazy make up, unnatural hair colours, visible tattoos or piercings will not sit well in these societies. 

Etiquette 

dining etiquette- learn how to eat properly. This is not just for white culture but for other cultures as well. Understand broadly how popular cultures etiquettes work - Japanese eating etiquettes, European fork and knife etiquette, Korean drinking etiquette, Indian and Middle Eastern etiquette, etc. 

giving appropriate gifts to the host - bottle of wine or flowers 

Learn thank you etiquette- shoot a text message to the host thanking them for the event 

Intelligence

Show that you have some sort of a personality. 

Stay updated with current affairs

know your line of work and the relevant people (top companies, CEOs, etc), trends happening in your industry 

Be open to learning new things  

Put together

have a routine, show some form of discipline. 

This can be done by committing to something long term, such as healthy habits - exercise, reading, waking up early. 

Keep a watch on what you say 

people, especially women, who come across as bratty are seen as a big no no and can come across as exhausting and blood sucking. Zip it. 

Don’t talk about your failures, vulnerabilities, mistakes or mishaps. That’s confidential. 

Don’t complain or be snotty or a potty mouth. 

Do not put other people down in front of people who are not your absolute close friends. 

Poise (this is for your mental health and wellbeing)

Don’t be over eager. Being overly friendly can be seen as submissiveness. 

You’re overly friendly with someone because you want to be accepted by them. Acceptance only happens when you’re familiar with one another. When you become too familiar, it becomes a breeding ground for disrespect. Boundaries get crossed easily. 

Body language

practice practice and practice. 

Video yourself and have a fake conversation with someone. Or maybe FaceTime a friend and record yourself and see how you react to things. 

I used to watch those “try not to laugh/ get angry/ cry” videos to maintain a strong facial expression at all times. Not everyone deserves to see you vulnerable. 

Social media 

Take. Shit. Down. 

Go private if you don’t make money of social media. You’re perceived as more mysterious if you’re a private account. 

Remember, even if you’re private, it doesn’t mean that your pictures aren’t being shared. Someone’s taken a screenshot at some point for SURE or shown your account to someone else. Don’t give anyone anything to talk about. 

Don’t upload every second of every day. 

Don’t upload anything questionable- your break ups, your new boyfriend, girls nights, clubbing, your latest shopping spree etc etc. Keep things halal. Think of it this way - if your boss were to see those photos, how would you feel?

Overexposing yourself on social media comes across as desperate for attention. Limit that.

Cherry 🍒

[guiltygearconfessions]

Submitting my thoughts as an Indian and Pakistani fan of GG, but I'm kinda disappointed that a lot of analysts who cover Zepp don't seem all too concerned with looking closely at aspects of South Asian culture and history or anything outside of India when it comes to Zepp. Yes it is Indian but you can't discuss India and just magically divorce it from shared cultural ties with Pakistan (and by extension Bangladesh, however I am not Bengali and thus can't speak much on it.) For example Gabriel's blue uniform is so clearly based on a veshti combined with the female air force uniform for Pakistan, or that Zepp's symbol is based on the Garuda Commando Forces logo- even the uniforms of said force match much closer to Zepp's uniforms than any stated "inspiration" I've seen. Hell even the slavery system within Zepp is a reflection that our countries still struggle with caste and class based slavery on a much larger scale (it's affected my own lower class family). This isn't even to mention Potemkin who seems much more tied to how Indo-Pak militarism, nationalism, and facism can affect areas like Kashmir. People are quick to call "German and Russian" influences but the only ones I remotely even observe as a brown person are literally just Pot and Gabriel's names. I dunno. It's just vexing to me. Like it's a country made by dissatisfied Indians post-crusades, so the idea that the old government was somehow less south asian is like. Weird to me. Like there's nothing to indicate that other than people conflating out architectural styles with Russian ones too. Like a lot of Zepp seems to resemble Rajasthani and Punjabi (both sides) architecture in particular but I'm just saddened knowing nobody will look that far into it simply because they might not have that same cultural attachment to it.

Side note I'm also not a fan of how Daisuke refuses to give names to Zeppian characters that match with their ethnic background. For every Leon Mining, Gabriel, and Potemkin, we could've gotten like... actual references to our rock and metal scene. Even "Zepp" as the country name dissatisfies me. Creators and fandoms have such a bad habit at making something or acknowledging something as "South Asian" and then refuse to elaborate on it beyond a few visuals. It feels gauche.

Something something the prevalence of ki not being touched upon for any of South Asia / Zepp by extension within GG is also a major annoyance when we share a lot of faith based aspects with regions like China and Japan.

This has been kinda long winded but holy shit fighting games really just annoy me sometimes with how they treat South Asia as a whole. I just feel it very strongly with GG in particular since Daisuke was very close to peak. So close. I will say he clearly put in a lot of effort that non-south asians probably wouldn't recognize at a first glance, but the smaller details surrounding Zepp and some of the assumptions made about Zepp fandom wise combine into a "nobody will get it like I do" situation.

It's genuinely very cool to see someone's perspective and analysis on it who has more experience and understanding than most western gamers. I appreciate you sharing!

[naxalbari1967]

Brahmanism: The Oldest White Supremacy

Brahmanism was never about gods. It was about hierarchy. About keeping a priestly, landowning minority on top by any means necessary. The gods were just tools, and the Vedas were just the rulebook. Hinduism as we know it today is a rebranding, a PR campaign, to make the caste system and Brahmanical supremacy look spiritual instead of genocidal. And at the rotten, beating heart of it all is the worship of purity, of blood, of birthright. That is white supremacy in its purest indigenous form. That is the one true god of Hinduism.

You think I’m exaggerating? Go read the Manusmriti. Go look at the Rigveda. These aren’t metaphors. These are explicit blueprints for a society where one group, the so-called Aryans, must dominate all others. Brahmins on top. Shudras at the bottom. Dalits and Adivasis below even that. Women exist to serve. Labor is dirty. Learning is reserved for the “twice born.” That isn’t spirituality. That’s a fascist ethnostate in holy robes. And it mirrors white supremacy down to the bone.

Brahmanism is obsessed with bloodlines. With keeping them pure. Intercaste marriage? Punishable by death in ancient texts. Even now, people are beaten, exiled, or murdered for it. Just like white supremacists panic about “race mixing,” Hindutva goes ballistic over intercaste or interfaith love. There’s a reason “love jihad” became a national hysteria in India. The fear isn’t religious. It’s racial. It’s about preserving the imagined purity of Aryan blood.

The word “Aryan” itself isn’t just historical. It’s ideological. The Nazis didn’t invent it. They borrowed it from Brahmanical myth. German fascism saw in Indian caste society a model for their own racial state. And the Hindu Right RSS BJP VHP adore the comparison. They call Muslims “invaders” Christians “foreigners” and Dalits “lazy.” Just like white supremacists scream about “replacement” and “degeneracy” Hindutva screams about “population jihad” and “urban Naxals.” The enemy is always the same: the poor, the dark skinned, the working class, the nonconformist.

You want to know how deeply this goes? Look at how Brahmanism teaches you to see labor. In white supremacy, Blackness is associated with servitude. In Brahmanism, Shudras and Dalits are permanently assigned to labor roles. Cleaning, sweeping, tanning leather, carrying shit on their heads. For centuries. And the justification? Not economics. Not necessity. Divine will. Karma. That’s how they make oppression sacred. That’s how they keep 1.4 billion people in a prison without bars.

Every institution in India enforces this. The temples. The schools. The courts. The cops. Brahmins still dominate the judiciary, the civil services, the media. They don’t need to lynch people personally. They’ve got a system that does it for them. Just like white supremacists rigged housing, jobs, and policing in the US, Brahmanical supremacists rigged reservation policies, land ownership, and language. You don’t need to burn a cross when you can deny someone land, school, and safety for generations.

And don’t be fooled by modern “Hinduism.” That’s just Brahmanism in yoga pants. It’s why Westerners are so obsessed with chakras, gurus, Sanskrit tattoos, but never talk about caste. Because the export version of Hinduism is designed to hide the violence, just like the liberal version of the US hides slavery behind “freedom.” You don’t get Modi without centuries of Brahmanical propaganda. You don’t get RSS mobs without millions of minds groomed to see Muslims and Dalits as impure. You don’t get bulldozers on mosques unless the system has already sanctified murder.

This is why Marxists, Ambedkarites, and Naxalites are attacked so brutally in India. Because they see the root of it. They name the monster. They say the landlord and the priest are the same enemy. They say caste is not just social, it is economic, military, and spiritual control. They say the only way to destroy Brahmanical supremacy is to destroy the material base that feeds it. Land. Labor. Capital. And the state knows it. That’s why it kills them.

And let’s be real. Liberals won’t help. They want to “reform” Hinduism. They want a “progressive” caste system. That’s like trying to make slavery more compassionate. Brahmanism doesn’t need tweaks. It needs demolition. You cannot decolonize something that was born to colonize others. You cannot save a religion whose core function was to justify genocide for 3000 years.

If there’s a god in this system, it’s not Vishnu or Shiva. It’s purity. It’s birth. It’s control. And every mosque burned, every Dalit girl raped, every activist hanged is an offering to it.

So yeah. White supremacy isn’t just a Western invention. Brahmanism perfected it long before Europe. And now, under Hindutva, it’s gone global.

[talonabraxas]

Solar Diety

A solar deity (also sun god(dess)) is a deity who represents the sun, or an aspect of it, usually by its perceived power and strength. Solar deities and sun worship can be found throughout most of recorded history in various forms. Hence, many beliefs have formed around this worship, such as the "missing sun" found in many cultures.

Solar deities throughout cultures

In different religions solarised supreme deities carry different names and are associated with different aspects of the cultural universe of the society, but for the most part its raw image remains identical.

The Neolithic concept of a solar barge, the sun as traversing the sky in a boat, is found in the later myths of ancient Egypt, with Ra and Horus. Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son (bull). Proto-Indo-European religion has a solar chariot, the sun as traversing the sky in a chariot.

During the Roman Empire, a festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun (or Dies Natalis Solis Invicti) was celebrated on the winter solstice — the "rebirth" of the sun. In Germanic mythology this is Sol, in Vedic Surya, and in Greek Helios (occasionally referred to as Titan) and (sometimes) as Apollo. Mesopotamian Shamash plays an important role during the Bronze Age, and "my Sun" is eventually used as an address to royalty. Similarly, South American cultures have emphatic Sun worship, see Inti.

During the later periods of Roman history, sun worship gained in importance and ultimately led to what has been called a “solar monotheism.” Nearly all the gods of the period were possessed of solar qualities, and both Christ and Mithra acquired the traits of solar deities. The feast of Sol Invictus (Unconquered Sun) on December 25 was celebrated with great joy, and eventually this date was taken over by the Christians as Christmas, the birthday of Christ.[1]

Hinduism

The Ādityas are one of the principal deities of the Vedic classical Hinduism belonging to Solar class. In the Vedas, numerous hymns are dedicated to Mitra, Varuna and Savitr.

Even the Gayatri mantra, which is regarded as one of the most sacred of the Vedic hymns is dedicated to Savitr, one of the principal Ādityas. The Adityas are a group of solar deities, from the Brahmana period numbering twelve. The ritual of sandhyavandanam, performed by Hindus, is an elaborate set of hand gestures and body movements, designed to greet and revere the sun.

The sun god in Hinduism is an ancient and revered deity. In later Hindu usage, all the Vedic Ādityas lost identity and metamorphosed into one composite deity, Surya, the sun. The attributes of all other Ādityas merged into that of Surya and the names of all other Ādityas became synonymous with or epithets of Surya.

The Ramayana has Lord Rama as a descendant of the Surya, thus belonging to the Surya Vansh or the clan of the Sun. The Mahabharata describes one of its warrior heroes Karna as being the son of the Pandava mother Kunti and Surya.

The sun god is said to married to the goddess Ranaadeh, also known as Sanjnya. She is depicted in dual form, being both sunlight and shadow, personified. The goddess is revered in Gujarat and Rajasthan.

The charioteer of Surya is Aruna, who is also personified as the redness that accompanies the sunlight in dawn and dusk. The Sun God is driven by a seven-horsed Chariot depicting the seven days of the week.

In India, at Konark, in the state of Orissa, a temple is dedicated to Surya. The Konark temple has also been declared a UNESCO world heritage site. Surya is the most prominent of the navagrahas or nine celestial objects of the Hindus. Navagrahas can be found in almost all Hindu temples. There are further temples dedicated to Surya, one in Arasavilli, Srikakulam District in AndhraPradesh, one in Gujarat and another in Rajasthan. The temple at Arasavilli was constructed in such a way that on the day of Radhasaptami, the sun's rays directly fall on the feet of the Sri Suryanarayana Swami, the deity at the temple.

Chhath (Hindi: छठ, also called Dala Chhath) is an ancient Hindu festival dedicated to Surya, the chief solar deity, unique to Bihar, Jharkhand and the Terai. This major festival is also celebrated in the northeast region of India, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and parts of Chhattisgarh.Hymns praying to the sun can be found in the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism. Practiced in different parts of India, the worship of the sun has been described in the Rigveda.

Ancient Egypt

Sun worship was exceptionally prevalent in ancient Egyptian religion. The earliest deities associated with the sun are Wadjet, Sekhmet, Hathor, Nut, Bastet, Bat, and Menhit. First Hathor, and then Isis, give birth to and nurse Horus and Ra. Hathor the horned-cow is one of the twelve daughters of Ra, gifted with joy and is a wet-nurse to Horus.

The sun's movement across the sky represents a struggle between the Pharaoh's soul and an avatar of Osiris. Ra travels across the sky in his solar-boat; at dawn he drives away the demon apep of darkness. The "solarisation" of several local gods (Hnum-Re, Min-Re, Amon-Re) reaches its peak in the period of the fifth dynasty.

In the eighteenth dynasty, Akhenaten changed the polytheistic religion of Egypt to a monotheistic one, Atenism of the solar-disk and is the first recorded state monotheism. All other deities were replaced by the Aten, including, Amun-Ra, the reigning sun god of Akhenaten's own region. Unlike other deities, the Aten did not have multiple forms. His only image was a disk—a symbol of the sun.

Soon after Akhenaten's death, worship of the traditional deities was reestablished by the religious leaders (Ay the High-Priest of Amen-Ra, mentor of Tutankhaten/Tutankhamen) who had adopted the Aten during the reign of Akhenaten.

Chinese mythology

In Chinese mythological cosmology, there were originally ten suns in the sky, who were all brothers. They were supposed to emerge one at a time as commanded by the Jade Emperor. They were all very young and loved to fool around. Once they decided to all go into the sky to play, all at once. This made the world too hot and nothing grew. A hero named Hou Yi shot down nine of them with a bow and arrow to save the people of the earth. He is still honored to this day. In another myth, the solar eclipse was caused by the magical dog of heaven biting off a piece of the sun. The referenced event is said to have occurred around 2,160BCE. There was a tradition in China to make lots of loud celebratory sounds during a solar eclipse to scare the sacred "dog" away. The Deity of the Sun in Chinese mythology is Ri Gong Tai Yang Xing Jun (Tai Yang Gong / Grandfather Sun) or Star Lord of the Solar Palace, Lord of the Sun. In some mythologies, Tai Yang Xing Jun is believed to be Hou Yi. Tai Yang Xing Jun is usually decipted with the Star Lord of the Lunar Palace, Lord of the Moon, Yue Gong Tai Yin Xing Jun (Tai Yin Niang Niang / Lady Tai Yin).

Buddhism

In Buddhist cosmology, the bodhisattva of the sun is known as Ri Gong Ri Guang Pu Sa (The Bright Solar Boddhisattva of the Solar Palace) / Ri Gong Ri Guang Tian Zi (The Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace) / Ri Gong Ri Guang Zun Tian Pu Sa (The Greatly Revered Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace / one of the 20 or 24 guardian devas). In Sanskrit, He is known as Suryaprabha. He is usually decipted with Yue Gong Yue Guang Pu Sa (The Bright Lunar Boddhisattva of the Lunar Palace) / Yue Gong Yue Guang Tian Zi ( The Bright Lunar Prince of the Lunar Palace) / Yue Gong Yue Guang Zun Tian Pu Sa (The Greatly Revered Bright Lunar Prince of the Lunar Palace / one of the 20 or 24 guardian devas) or known as Candraprabha in Sanskrit. With Yao Shi Fo / Bhaisajyaguru Buddha (Medicine Buddha), these two boddhisattvas create the Dong Fang San Sheng or the Three Holy Sages of the East.

Africa

The Munshi tribe considers the sun to be the son of the supreme being Awondo and the moon is Awondo's daughter. The Barotse tribe believes that the Sun is inhabited by the sky god Nyambi and the Moon is his wife. Even where the sun god is equated with the supreme being, in some African mythologies he or she does not have any special functions or privileges as compared to other deities.

Aztec mythology

In Aztec mythology, Tonatiuh (Nahuatl:Ollin Tonatiuh "Movement of the Sun") was the sun god. The Aztec people considered him the leader of Tollan, heaven. He was also known as the fifth sun, because the Aztecs believed that he was the sun that took over when the fourth sun was expelled from the sky. According to their cosmology, each sun was a god with its own cosmic era. According to the Aztecs, they were still in Tonatiuh's era. According to the Aztec creation myth, the god demanded human sacrifice as tribute and without it would refuse to move through the sky. It is said that 20,000 people were sacrificed each year to Tonatiuh and other gods, though this number is thought to be inflated either by the Aztecs, who wanted to inspire fear in their enemies, or the Spaniards, who wanted to vilify the Aztecs. The Aztecs were fascinated by the sun and carefully observed it, and had a solar calendar second only in accuracy to the Mayan's. Many of today's remaining Aztec monuments have structures aligned with the sun.

In the Aztec calendar, Tonatiuh is the lord of the thirteen days from 1 Death to 13 Flint. The preceding thirteen days are ruled over by Chalchiuhtlicue, and the following thirteen by Tlaloc.

Indonesian mythology

The same swapping process is seen in Indonesia. The solar gods have a stronger presence in Indonesia's religious life and myth. In some cases the sun is revered as a "father" or "founder" of the tribe. This may apply for the whole tribe or only for the royal and ruling families. This practise is more common in Australia and on the island of Timor, where the tribal leaders are seen as direct heirs to the sun god.

Some of the initiation rites include the second reincarnation of the rite's subject as a "son of the sun", through a symbolic death and a rebirth in the form of a sun. These rituals hint that the Sun may have an important role in the sphere of funerary beliefs. Watching the un's path has given birth to the idea in some societies that the deity of the Sun descends in to the underworld without dying and is capable of returning afterward. This is the reason for the Sun being associated with functions such as guide of the deceased tribe members to the underworld, as well as with revival of perished. The sun is a mediator between the planes of the living and the dead.

Theosophy The primary local deity in Theosophy is the Solar Logos, i.e., the consciousness of the sun.

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hi! SUPER interesting excerpt on ants and empire; adding it to my reading list. have you ever read "mosquito empires," by john mcneill?

Yea, I've read it. (Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914, basically about influence of environment and specifically insect-borne disease on colonial/imperial projects. Kinda brings to mind Centering Animals in Latin American History [Few and Tortorici, 2013] and the exploration of the centrality of ecology/plants to colonialism in Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World [Schiebinger, 2007].)

If you're interested: So, in the article we're discussing, Rohan Deb Roy shows how Victorian/Edwardian British scientists, naturalists, academics, administrators, etc., used language/rhetoric to reinforce colonialism while characterizing insects, especially termites in India and elsewhere in the tropics, as "Goths"; "arch scourge of humanity"; "blight of learning"; "destroying hordes"; and "the foe of civilization". [Rohan Deb Roy. “White ants, empire, and entomo-politics in South Asia.” The Historical Journal. October 2019.] He explores how academic and pop-sci literature in the US and Britain participated in racist dehumanization of non-European people by characterizing them as "uncivilized", as insects/animals. (This sort of stuff is summarized by Neel Ahuja, describing interplay of race, gender, class, imperialism, disease/health, anthropomorphism. See Ahuja's “Postcolonial Critique in a Multispecies World.”)

In a different 2018 article on "decolonizing science," Deb Roy also moves closer to the issue of mosquitoes, disease, hygiene, etc. explored in Mosquito Empires. Deb Roy writes: 'Sir Ronald Ross had just returned from an expedition to Sierra Leone. The British doctor had been leading efforts to tackle the malaria that so often killed English colonists in the country, and in December 1899 he gave a lecture to the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce [...]. [H]e argued that "in the coming century, the success of imperialism will depend largely upon success with the microscope."''

Deb Roy also writes elsewhere about "nonhuman empire" and how Empire/colonialism brutalizes, conscripts, employs, narrates other-than-human creatures. See his book Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820-1909 (published 2017).

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Like Rohan Deb Roy, Jonathan Saha is another scholar with a similar focus (relationship of other-than-human creatures with British Empire's projects in Asia). Among his articles: "Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 2022. /// “Colonizing elephants: animal agency, undead capital and imperial science in British Burma.” BJHS Themes. British Society for the History of Science. 2017. /// "Among the Beasts of Burma: Animals and the Politics of Colonial Sensibilities, c. 1840-1940." Journal of Social History. 2015. /// And his book Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (published 2021).

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Related spirit/focus. If you liked the termite/India excerpt, you might enjoy checking out this similar exploration of political/imperial imagery of bugs a bit later in the twentieth century: Fahim Amir. “Cloudy Swords” e-flux Journal Issue #115. February 2021.

Amir explores not only insect imagery, specifically caricatures of termites in discourse about civilization (like the Deb Roy article about termites in India), but Amir also explores the mosquito/disease aspect invoked by your message (Mosquito Empires) by discussing racially segregated city planning and anti-mosquito architecture in British West Africa and Belgian Congo, as well as anti-mosquito campaigns of fascist Italy and the ascendant US empire. German cities began experiencing a non-native termite infestation problem shortly after German forces participated in violent suppression of resistance in colonial Africa. Meanwhile, during anti-mosquito campaigns in the Panama Canal zone, US authorities imposed forced medical testing of women suspected of carrying disease. Article features interesting statements like: 'The history of the struggle against the [...] mosquito reads like the history of capitalism in the twentieth century: after imperial, colonial, and nationalistic periods of combatting mosquitoes, we are now in the NGO phase, characterized by shrinking [...] health care budgets, privatization [...].' I've shared/posted excerpts before, which I introduce with my added summary of some of the insect-related imagery: “Thousands of tiny Bakunins”. Insects "colonize the colonizers". The German Empire fights bugs. Fascist ants, communist termites, and the “collectivism of shit-eating”. Insects speak, scream, and “go on rampage”.

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In that Deb Roy article, there is a section where we see that some Victorian writers pontificated on how "ants have colonies and they're quite hard workers, just like us!" or "bugs have their own imperium/domain, like us!" So that bugs can be both reviled and also admired. On a similar note, in the popular imagination, about anthropomorphism of Victorian bugs, and the "celebrated" "industriousness" and "cleverness" of spiders, there is: Claire Charlotte McKechnie. “Spiders, Horror, and Animal Others in Late Victorian Empire Fiction.” Journal of Victorian Culture. December 2012. She also addresses how Victorian literature uses natural science and science fiction to process anxiety about imperialism. This British/Victorian excitement at encountering "exotic" creatures of Empire, and popular discourse which engaged in anthropormorphism, is explored by Eileen Crist's Images of Animals: Anthropomorphism and Animal Mind and O'Connor's The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856.

Related anthologies include a look at other-than-humans in literature and popular discourse: Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out (Heholt and Edmunson, 2020). There are a few studies/scholars which look specifically at "monstrous plants" in the Victorian imagination. Anxiety about gender and imperialism produced caricatures of woman as exotic anthropomorphic plants, as in: “Murderous plants: Victorian Gothic, Darwin and modern insights into vegetable carnivory" (Chase et al., Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2009). Special mention for the work of Anna Boswell, which explores the British anxiety about imperialism reflected in their relationships with and perceptions of "strange" creatures and "alien" ecosystems, especially in Aotearoa. (Check out her “Anamorphic Ecology, or the Return of the Possum.” Transformations. 2018.)

And then bridging the Victorian anthropomorphism of bugs with twentieth-century hygiene campaigns, exploring "domestic sanitation" there is: David Hollingshead. “Women, insects, modernity: American domestic ecologies in the late nineteenth century.” Feminist Modernist Studies. August 2020. (About the cultural/social pressure to protect "the home" from bugs, disease, and "invasion".)

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In fields like geography, history of science, etc., much has been said/written about how botany was the key imperial science/field, and there is the classic quintessential tale of the British pursuit of cinchona from Latin America, to treat mosquito-borne disease among its colonial administrators in Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In other words: Colonialism, insects, plants in the West Indies shaped and influenced Empire and ecosystems in the East Indies, and vice versa. One overview of this issue from Early Modern era through the Edwardian era, focused on Britain and cinchona: Zaheer Baber. "The Plants of Empire: Botanic Gardens, Colonial Power and Botanical Knowledge." May 2016. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and other scholars of the Caribbean, "the postcolonial," revolutionary Black Atlantic, etc. have written about how plantation slavery in the Caribbean provided a sort of bounded laboratory space. (See Britt Rusert's "Plantation Ecologies: The Experiential Plantation [...].") The argument is that plantations were already of course a sort of botanical laboratory for naturalizing and cultivating valuable commodity plants, but they were also laboratories to observe disease spread and to practice containment/surveillance of slaves and laborers. See also Chakrabarti's Bacteriology in British India: laboratory medicine and the tropics (2012). Sharae Deckard looks at natural history in imperial/colonial imagination and discourse (especially involving the Caribbean, plantations, the sea, and the tropics) looking at "the ecogothic/eco-Gothic", Edenic "nature", monstrous creatures, exoticism, etc. Kinda like Grove's discussion of "tropical Edens" in the colonial imagination of Green Imperialism.

Dante Furioso's article "Sanitary Imperialism" (from e-flux's Sick Architecture series) provides a summary of US entomology and anti-mosquito campaigns in the Caribbean, and how "US imperial concepts about the tropics" and racist pathologization helped influence anti-mosquito campaigns that imposed racial segregation in the midst of hard labor, gendered violence, and surveillance in the Panama Canal zone. A similar look at manipulation of mosquito-borne disease in building empire: Gregg Mitman. “Forgotten Paths of Empire: Ecology, Disease, and Commerce in the Making of Liberia’s Plantation Economy.” Environmental History. 2017. (Basically, some prominent medical schools/departments evolved directly out of US military occupation and industrial plantations of fruit/rubber/sugar corporations; faculty were employed sometimes simultaneously by fruit companies, the military, and academic institutions.) This issue is also addressed by Pratik Chakrabarti in Medicine and Empire, 1600-1960 (2014).

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Meanwhile, there are some other studies that use non-human creatures (like a mosquito) to frame imperialism. Some other stuff that comes to mind about multispecies relationships to empire:

Lawrence H. Kessler. “Entomology and Empire: Settler Colonial Science and the Campaign for Hawaiian Annexation.” Arcadia (Spring 2017)

No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic (Keith Pluymers)

Archie Davies. "The racial division of nature: Making land in Recife". Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Volume 46, Issue 2, pp. 270-283. November 2020.

Yellow Fever, Race, and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century New Orleans (Urmi Engineer Willoughby, 2017)

Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology and Politics in France, Its Colonies, and the World (Aro Velmet, 2022)

Tom Brooking and Eric Pawson. “Silences of Grass: Retrieving the Role of Pasture Plants in the Development of New Zealand and the British Empire.” The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. August 2007.

Under Osman's Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and Environmental History (Alan Mikhail)

The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Rebecca J.H. Woods, 2017)

Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Kristen Hussey, 2021)

Red Coats and Wild Birds: How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire (Kirsten Greer, 2020)

Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Saheed Aderinto, 2022)

Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (Timothy P. Barnard, 2019)

Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 (Jeannie N. Shinozuka)

[sunny-reacts-to-stuff]

okay here we go tma 117 "testament"

gun violence, explosive violence, spiders, body horror, death and dying, assisted suicide

well. at least the explosive violence means they were able to explode the thing?

oh this is their last wishes and words. fuck.

are martin and melanie staying behind to kill elias

since when do we care about what elias wants

"i wish humanity dies to spite elias" wow

back up girlfriend and main dps girlfriend :>

"the sort of thing i've mostly done alone" aw :(

MHM NO MORE PARANOIA

i will hold you on to that

he trusts them T___T (except elias, obviously)

melanie you will be avenged i swear

WAIT HE LISTENED TO BASIRA AND MELANIE TALK ABOUT MARTIN'S CRUSH ON HIM?

AWWW LOOK AT HIM BEING ALL GIDDY AND FLUSTERED

also so sorry you had to hear your coworkers talking about your dating history and whether you and georgie had sex or not

"heh, digging"

oh right jurgen is the german version of george and he did leitner too close to the pipe i mean the sun so makes sense

jurgen leitner motherfucking jurgen leitner

basira <3

:(

"it's amazing how much you can ignore when you keep your head in a book." is this a commentary on mass distruction by entertaiment and stuff? panem and circem?

"and martin." says woman who doesn't care (valid)

"difficult but solid" is such an euphemism for "serial killer"

yeah im not so confident on any of them but you tbh basira

MY GIRL :(

if they're not killing elias i wish they could go have a nice cozy waiting-for-apocalypsis night on martin's apartment

yes kill him

also be careful i dont want you to become hunt-coded

I GET YOU SO MUCH MY GIRL

EVERYTHING IS A FIGHT WHEN YOU ARE A LOW MIDDLE CLASS GIRL AND ASPIRING YOUTUBER

she is JUST like me

SO TRUE

THE SAME OLD BUILDSHIT IN A CREEPY NEW PACKAGE

YES KILL HIM

i fear she is already hunt coded

omg india statement

OH WAIT SHE'S SLAUGHTER CODED

i struggle a bit to tell the difference with the slaughter the hunt and the flesh

"i didn’t do it so you could stroke your chin and call it fascinating." TELL HIM

i get her

MARTIN :>

it's okay to be scared

NOOO MY BABY

NO IT ISN'T

this feels like they didn't know rusty quill was gonna give them 2 more seasons

"I NEED HIM TO BE OKAY" WHAT IF I KILLED MYSELF

I'M ALWAYS RUNNING FROM SOMETHING I PUSH IT BACK BUT IT KEEPS ON COMING AND BEING CLEVER NEVER GOT ME REALLY FAR

"i hope jon isn't listening" hate to be the bringer of bad news

is this why there's so much web!martin content

is he just accidentally spider coded

ah, yeah. my favorite trope: guy that had a terribly traumatic experience at the age of 8 when he witnessed a sentient giant humanoid spider devour a mindcontrolled tween x guy who thinks spiders are just chill and kinda cute when they've the little fur

BURN THE STUFF YEAH

"just don't die, jon. OR EVERYONE ELSE." cutie

"daisy, ig" lmao he didnt even try

what are these two up to

hello tim im a lesbian and im listening bc of clervalstein crumbs

i hate myself too you're not special

yeah pretty much

honestly

i dont want you to die

but if you die avenging your brother it seems like you are gonna be fine with it so. you go !

some cool building

"she was ruthless" but ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves

yeah let's all be sacrificed by jon

yeah i don't expect you to either

YOU WAITED A WHOLE MONTH TO EUTHANIZE GERRY?

yeah the whole thing about killing yourself is that you stop existing my guy

YOU BURNT YOURSELF AGAIN YOU DUMMY??

tf does he own you

[kuhciao]

A random essay that I wrote about nico for school that i thought i’d share, it’s below the cut!!

Word count : 1975

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Nico Hulkenberg, born on August 19th, 1987 in Emmerich, Germany, is a high performing athlete who partakes in the FIA formula1 world championship. Nico holds the record for the most Grand Prix’s started with no podium, currently at 226 as of October 2024. But this does not define Nico’s racing career and I hope to show you why Nico Hulkenberg is still insanely talented, despite his lack of titles and podiums.

In 1997, at ten years old, Nico began his racing career by entering several German karting leagues and championships. He won the German Junior Karting championship in 2002 and won several more in the following years. Nico continued karting for another year until he moved to motor racing to start his journey to Formula one. Though this was a successful move, speaking as Nico would’ve been the German BMW champion until he was deemed of cheating by the Stewards and demoted to a third place finish in the championship in 2005. He moved to formula three after his failure to finish first in the BMW championship, but chose the less competitive German series rather than the European, where he finished fifth after one win. He entered A1 grand prix in 2006-07, where he won 9 races, leading his team from 15th to the champions. He moved back to formula3 in 2007, where he won a few impressive races and overall finished third in the championship with four wins. He followed with another year of formula3, becoming champion while also working as a test driver for the formula1 team Williams. He moved to GP2.

During the off season, Nico scored several poles in the Asian GP2 races, causing an impression on formula1 teams watching the young driver. These pole positions he scored may have been the reason Williams chose him as the first to test the newly modeled FW30. Nico won three consecutive races with ART in the main GP2 series, bringing him to the championship battle with Grosjean, who graduated to F1, leaving Nico to be the first rookie to win the championship since Lewis Hamilton in 2006.

This then led Nico to his debut in formula1 as a full time racer for the Williams team. Nico’s rookie season consisted of him constantly chasing points and performing well, though he was outperformed by his veteran teammate, Rubens Barrichelo, and finished 14th by the end of the season. His best moment of the season was his pole position in Interlagos, which was a complete surprise to everyone, though it did not lead to a win nor a podium.

Nico left Williams after his rookie year and spent one year away from an official seat in 2011, now working as a reserve driver for Force India and usually racing FP1 for the team, then followed by taking a full time seat for the team in 2012. Nico had nearly earned himself several more wins and podiums in his time with Force India, but seemed to always lose them when he was so close to reaching them. Nico finished the 2012 season with eleventh place in the standings before announcing his departure from the team after an earlier signing with Sauber. Nico raced there for the entirety of the 2013 season but had no outstanding moments and finished with a dull season before returning to his previous team, Force India, once again for 2014. The car had benefits from the Mercedes high-classed power unit, and Nico often took it into points but did not get a podium. He finished the season in 9th with 96 points, finishing above his teammate, Sergio Perez, even though the Mexican had stood on the podium that season.

In 2015, Nico continued another season with Force India, where he faced many problems with his car and his own doings. He finished the season in 10th behind Perez, his best finish being 6th in Austria. Nico still failed to receive a podium, but instead won the 24 hours of le mans in a Porsche 919, being the first active formula1 driver to do so in 24 years. 2016 was a similar season where a podium did not come to him, yet again to teammate Perez. Nico finished 10th in the standings, and soon decided to move to a manufacturing team, Renault.

His first season with Renualt was another of the same, followed by constant Q3 qualifying results, trios of sixth place finishes, and DNFs when he was so close to a podium. He finished the season in 10th and scored a total of 43 points. He was a promising contender to help the new Renault team to be a competitive team once again. Nico’s next season with Renault was promising, taking 7th and 6th several times throughout the season, though the pressure from Sainz continued to grow throughout the season. Nico finished the season in an impressive 7th, proving to be the best of the midfielders, finishing just behind both Ferraris, Mercedes and Red Bulls. Nico still was unable to gain a podium, but was beyond ready. For the 2019 season, Nico was no longer racing with Sainz, yet now Ricciardo, who took the higher results for most of the races, where Nico faced pressure from both his teammate and the aggressive McLaren drivers, the rookie Lando Norris and his previous teammate Carlos Sainz, Nico finished the season in an overall 14th with 37 points. A month after Nico had a rough crash, Renault confirmed his departure for the team and their decision to replace him with Esteban Ocon.

For 2020, Nico failed to find an official seat to race with, and everyone had deemed this as his retirement. He returned as a reserve and test driver for Racing Point in this year, and replaced Perez twice after the Racing Point driver tested positive for Covid19. One race was unsuccessful after an issue with the car, and the next he finished 7th. Nico did not race in a formula1 car again, other than occasional testing and reserve, until 2023.

He returned to the sport with Haas, racing alongside Kevin Magnussen. This was a complete shock to everyone both in the sport and watching. He replaced 7 time world champion Micheal Schumacher’s son, Mick Schumacher, who did not receive a seat for 2023. Nico finished the uneventful season in an overall of 16th, his highest finish being 7th. Most of his races resulted in no points, but he outperformed his Danish teammate who finished the season with a mere 6 points compared to Nico’s 9.

The 2024 season, which is not finished by the writing of this document, Nico is tenth in the standings, right behind both Mclarens, Redbulls, Mercedes, Ferraris and one Aston Martin. Nico has had a swell season, constantly making it into the points and having 31 points for the season. He has finished all races, minus Monaco where he DNF’d due to a battle between Kevin Magnussen and Sergio Perez, where the spinning car of Sergio took Nico out with it.

Now that I’ve given you a full recap of Nico’s career and its lack of wins and even podiums, I’m going to explain why he is a talented driver, if his results didn’t do it for you. Nico was described as “the best driver that never was” by Frederic Vasseur, the team principle of Scuderia Ferrari, which is a lot coming from a person who owns a team with 16 world championships to a driver without a single podium. Haas has been around since 2016, having 6 drivers, and Nico has been the most consistent driver out of all of them, finishing constantly around 10th-5th, which I personally believe is beyond impressive. Even though Nico has just recently stepped up to be a constant Q3 contender, he has always been known as a threat to everyone else in the mid-pack. I also believe it is a matter of the car Nico is driving. Though he has managed to bring all of his midfield cars to their best results, he lacks the powerful car to challenge the Redbulls, Mercedes, Ferraris and no McLarens. It was later revealed that in 2014, if Mercedes hadn’t signed Lewis Hamilton, they would have taken Nico. I think this would have absolutely made Nico a champion. The multi time junior champion was thought to be the next world champion, and could’ve done so just with a faster, more powerful car. Nico has an adaptable and quick driving style, adjusting to anything thrown at him. I mean, it takes a pretty adaptable driver to have driven for 7 teams, right? His driving style in early GP2 days and rookie year was so aggressive and he drove the car to its limits to keep it in its grip limits, but modern tires required smoothness that his driving style did not fit. Nico is an early breaker and is insanely talented when it comes to managing the pedals, though his style changed from aggressive to smooth to be kinder for the tires, he is great at qualifying for his quick one-laps, where he’s constantly on the grip limit.

The difference between Nico and his teammates, Magnussen in specific, is the fact that Nico breaks earlier than the Dane, leaving him with less speed on the turns and giving him a better exit than Magnussen, where he then accelerates faster by a quicker ability to full throttle. Even through the chicane, he can hold out a faster speed through all parts, including the quick turns, which gives him an overall faster time compared to his teammate. He keeps a higher minimum because of this. He decelerates way harder and gets a huge advantage on the turns.

As Nico is a veteran driver on the grid, third oldest behind Alonso and Hamiltom, he is experienced, more so than some of the younger drivers. Nico doesn’t rely on dangerous and harmful driving, yet his smooth and level headed mannerism and his very important adaptability that draws teams in to consider the German as a contender for a seat. If anything changes in the race or doesn’t go how Nico had wanted it to, he is quick to adapt and continue out the race with the challenges or changes that were thrown at him.

While most drivers are described to be all bark, no bite–like Norris, who talks himself up then ;proceeds not to perform in the way he said he would–Nico is quite the opposite, all bite no bark. This goes in the sense that the veteran driver is insanely humble and quiet, doesn’t speak up and is not very boastful. This also goes on the track. Nico is speedy and there’s no telling that he’s behind you until he’s pressuring and takes a late break overtake.

Nico Hulkenberg is seen as a champion in waiting and the career he deserved never came to him. He spent years being crowned champion, winner, podium sitter, then entered the sport he’s been waiting his entire life to be in, to never stand on even the lowest step of the podium ever again. Nico had won Le Mans, and sometimes I start to wonder if his career was fit for WEC instead, and how it would’ve changed if he stays. June 14th, 2015, was the last time Nico had ever sat on a podium, and it wasn’t even for the career he loved most. Nico never succeeded, and his talent was left to waste and rot and never seen for what it truly was. Nico truly was the greatest driver that never was.

[communist-manifesto-daily]

Manifesto of the Communist Party

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A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

I. Bourgeois and Proletarians*

* By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour. By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live. [Engels, 1888 English edition]

The history of all hitherto existing society† is the history of class struggles.

† That is, all written history. In 1847, the pre-history of society, the social organisation existing previous to recorded history, all but unknown. Since then, August von Haxthausen (1792-1866) discovered common ownership of land in Russia, Georg Ludwig von Maurer proved it to be the social foundation from which all Teutonic races started in history, and, by and by, village communities were found to be, or to have been, the primitive form of society everywhere from India to Ireland. The inner organisation of this primitive communistic society was laid bare, in its typical form, by Lewis Henry Morgan's (1818-1861) crowning discovery of the true nature of the gens and its relation to the tribe. With the dissolution of the primeval communities, society begins to be differentiated into separate and finally antagonistic classes. I have attempted to retrace this dissolution in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, second edition, Stuttgart, 1886. [Engels, 1888 English Edition and 1890 German Edition (with the last sentence omitted)]

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master‡ and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

‡ Guild-master, that is, a full member of a guild, a master within, not a head of a guild. [Engels, 1888 English Edition]

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinct feature: it has simplified class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other – Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The Communist Manifesto - Part 1

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[tahmasseuse]

SOCDEMS lol

The welfare state, or prussian socialism, was made in Germany. The ideology isn’t a formal one or even a differential one from capitalism but was developed under the nationalist unification of Germany, and along with it, the radical and newly founded, Marxist, thought within the nation.

Unrest and political chaos amongst the workers would’ve been a given, and had been, as they had poor welfare and poor worker rights that had generally damaged and hurt the workers.

As a ‘fix’, there were acquiescence, mainly in the form of ‘protections’ for the workers, unions, and the beginning of what is essentially social democracy.

If you keep a ‘manageable’ strain of socialism under the guidance of capitalism, you can keep the workers from becoming too far left. As long as progress is made, people forget and forgive.

This is how it worked for the longest and still does.

However at the time, WW1 shattered this illusion; the imperial and capital powers gave no ounce of care when it came to the regards of the people. They thrusted them into the meat grinders for what?

‘Respect?’ because a monarch was killed?

Now, this ‘socialism’ lasted this long and I need to explain how it did so. It did so off the backs of not only the workers but also, importantly, its burgeoning colonial exploitation.

France had done the same thing earlier with Napoleon; Britain with India. Germany’s colonies were now invaded and were gone, the wealth they extracted depleted and the Germans turned inwards; there workers collapsed in on themselves, begun to revolt in 1917, and the war turned south. The Rulers had to restore order and crackdowns began.

when it collapsed people got mad at the imperialism turning inwards as the state, inherently funded by capitalism and imperialism tried to hold on. It failed.

The Bolsheviks makes it worse for everyone (as in, I mean, nations. Not people) as revolutionary socialist and communist rhetoric sky rocket. The imperial powers try to retain control, and either successfully or unsuccessfully do so.

This is where the New Deal, the French in 1936, and the nordic model began. As the state feared far left ideology existing, the state propped up fake socialist parties (the SDP, SDAPO) and tried to mend the schism that was socialism. These are ‘moderate’ approaches to capitalism.

This however, had already failed. The Nazis saw this. The KDP saw it. Both grew cause of it.

Social democracy is a construct of capitalist liberalism; appease the working class enough not to threaten the profit, but do not do anything that could change the norm.

The only reason France can fund its welfare state and social changes is through its exploitation of and works in Africa. Nazi Germany is in this trap too (and many other imperial pitfalls.) where they relied on the economy of conquest.

The USSR, despite its ambitions upon other nations, didn’t. There was no widespread exploitation under the USSR. There were internal contradictions and its own issues, but for the most part, there was no large scale subjugation of other nations resources.

Fascism is a false, unequal, ‘fix’ to an inherently broken system. It solved it through MORE imperialism rather than focusing on the ruling class who subjugated those to its whim.

Fascism turns its imperial subjugation in on itself, and inevitably that’s what all capitalism relegates itself to. Either you get corporate (as in nazism and fascism) or you get socialist (or rarely, basically never) communist.

After capitalism it poses this: Yes, we took care of (in some way) the upper class, but what are we?; socialism and communism is liberation; the fascist answer is ‘Better, superior and uninhibited by external factors.’. All liberalism will decay into this, as liberalism is based in idealism and romanticism.