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My Head cannon for the Clawthorne sisters: They're both talented even in their teens and both think the other is the genius teen prodigy. Hear me out:
Lilith is actually a prodigy in terms of academic level. She learned to do spells in the first few tries. We can see this talent when Luz teaches them glyphs. She impressed Luz with multiple ice sculptures while Eda could only make small ice balls. She thinks Eda is the genius teen prodigy because Eda has more raw power than her in magic as seen in their fight. Thus, Lilith focused on being "sharp and crafty" as she puts it.
Eda is the prodigy in the practical sense. We saw her raw power during her fight against Lilith. We saw her survive Terra's challenge when she was young. She taught herself wild magic too. Now here's the fun part: Deep down, She thinks that Lilith is the genius teen prodigy because she saw Lilith perform spells after learning once or twice which motivates Eda to learn more spells especially wild magic (Let's be honest: I'm sure the emperor's coven sigil still seals some form of magic to avoid them getting too powerful for Belos) until Eda believes that she's "better than Lilith". These needs of trying to be better than Lilith resurfaced again on the day Luz teaches them glyphs.
Sorry for the long head cannon. Have fun with this information
This is interesting. I've always thought that they're sort of "opposites" in a way. Like you said too, Eda has raw power, but lacks in the techical area. Meanwhile Lilith, while she isn't as strong as Eda, she has the technical skills. Also, Lilith has the EC military training so it makes sense for her to be like that. It's basically something like an experienced street fighter against a military trained fighter. I really like the idea that both of them think the other is a prodigy, when in reality it's both lmao
#ec is literally a militarised cult#so yeah#anyways eda learning wild magic herself and thriving with it is really cool ngl#i feel like i'm biased with lilith bc she's my favorite#but eda is Very Cool lmao#toh#the owl house#toh lilith#toh eda#eda clawthorne#lilith clawthorne#toh headcanon#the owl house headcanon#ask#anon
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The white knight universe really is something bc it has so many things I love like Robin Duke, red hood Jason with his own Robin, terry mcginnis, a cool as fuck art style and Bruce being questioned about if what he is doing is right plus holding himself accountable and then it's got things I absolutely hate like joker having children, cop dick grayson, the whole cops with batmobiles thing and Bruce and Harley quinn being a thing
#Dc#Batman white knight#It's a weird universe I'm still kinda obsessed with#Even tho it definitely has some copaganda in there#But also critism of over militarised police??#It's a very weird elseworld is what I'm trying to say#But yeah the weird joker Bruce Harley love thing is super weird#Like ngl it definitely is an actually very fun version of the joker#But it's still joker so
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i can’t stop thinking about that would you date irl bg3 origins poll and uh overthinking it
#fray.txt#realistically none of these characters would be good picks because u have to consider what u know of them#their background. families. what happens in their lives#how that would translate to a real life situation#karlach would be terminally ill. wyll would be a kid who grew up in the system and is homeless#shadowheart is in a cult. laezel is from a mandatory service heavily militarised country who worship their leader like a god… yknow#gale is a little harder but that could easily be was in love with a cult leader or a religious head who had power over him.#and hes terminally ill … like#NONE OF THIS IS GOOD I CANT STOP OVERTHINKING IT
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I don’t know why but the uniforms in tng make their necks look very exposed
#in tos they didn’t have a raised collar but it didn’t seem as noticeable then#maybe it’s like an uncanny valley thing because in tng they look like they’re wearing actual uniforms and not just like shirts#also I guess I’m importing my own views of what a military uniform is. st doesn’t really have a militarised aesthetic#or like not in the costume design anyway#Star Trek lb
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for my historical dead Frenchman magical girl au I was not brave enough to consider what if they were magical girls during the original napoleonic era and went for reincarnations
But. If I was brave enough to have them get magical girled during the original era. insert discord thonk face here
I should get back into drawing them and post the drawings I haven’t posted
#also I should get back to talking about my weird ideas here#and writing wall of texts nobody is interested in#I have thought about putting sentence fragments and thought words here but I’m lazy#who wants to learn about militarising dragons in napoleonic era armies but not in the temeraire way#cadmus rambles#cad rambles about dead Frenchmen on main
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"All political parties face a trade-off under a first-past-the-post electoral system. Governing depends on attracting a broad coalition of voters, inevitably involving compromises that leave a party’s base disgruntled.
So it is perhaps unsurprising that as we move closer to a general election, the discontent from the anti-Labour left who claim there is little to distinguish Keir Starmer from Rishi Sunak in the battle for the premiership is only getting noisier."
"The argument is threefold: there’s no meaningful difference between the Conservatives and Labour; Starmer supposedly can’t be trusted because he has dropped pledges he made in the 2020 leadership election to shift his party towards the centre; finally, the “Tories are toast” and Labour can’t lose, so disgruntled left voters can safely vote for other parties, such as the Greens.
With Labour so far ahead in the polls, the urge to debunk these sentiments may seem like an expression of paranoia. But all three aspects of this narrative are comprehensively wrong, including the reassurance that it is safe for anyone who would prefer a Labour government to vote for another party in Labour-Tory contests."
"But what this underplays is the number of Labour-Tory marginals where a relatively small vote for other left candidates could cost Labour a win. James Kanagasooriam, of the polling company Focaldata, has written about the “sandcastle” nature of Labour’s likely majority; his forecast is that there will be many more marginal seats in the 2024 parliament compared with 2019. If more than predicted numbers of those who voted Green in the locals decide they can afford to do so in the general election because Labour is so far ahead in national polls, that will boost the Conservatives.
Next up is the idea that Starmer’s dropping of some of his leadership pledges makes him dangerously untrustworthy. But this is the product of a system in which the tiny unrepresentative slice of the electorate that is a party membership pick their leader before voters choose their prime minister. Anyone hoping to be PM would have to shift position between a leadership selection and a general election: a Labour leader’s most important job is to connect with potential voters, not to coddle members with the comfort blanket of a policy platform such as the “free broadband for all” 2019 pledge that was roundly rejected.
Liz Truss provides a cautionary tale of what happens when a party leader seeks to impose a membership-endorsed platform on the country without a general election. For Starmer to have stuck to his 2020 leadership election pledges, instead of spending the past four years understanding voters, would have been fundamentally anti-democratic.
The most egregious aspect of the anti-Labour left argument is there isn’t much to choose between Starmer and Sunak. Yes, Labour’s “Ming vase” election strategy has seen it take a much more cautious fiscal approach than many of us would like: it has effectively adopted the Tory macroeconomic worldview and with it a set of spending constraints that no one sensible thinks either party could stick to in the wake of the election.
That is frustrating for anyone hoping this election campaign may illuminate some of the tough trade-offs facing Britain; but it would have been incredibly risky for one side to go it alone on this. The alternative is Labour walking into the trap and handing the Conservatives a “Labour tax bombshell” election campaign.
From a commitment to scrap the Rwanda plan to making clear that in an ideal world Labour would discard the two-child benefit cap, there are plenty of reasons that it is preposterous to think that a Starmer government would make the same trade-offs as successive Conservative governments that have financed billions of pounds worth of tax cuts for more affluent families by cutting tax credits and benefits for low-income parents. The six pledges Starmer launched two weeks ago may be incremental, but Labour needs voters to believe they are deliverable, and they are indicative of a very different set of priorities than those that animate Sunak."
"Starmer is not without weaknesses, as shown by the days he took to clarify an interview last October in which he gave the impression he thought Israel had the right to withhold power and food from Gaza. But there is no doubt whatsoever he would make a vastly more compassionate and competent prime minister than Sunak. To encourage people to put that outcome at risk by casting a protest vote against a Labour government that does not yet exist is perhaps the ultimate form of luxury belief campaigning."
#i dont particularly like starmer either#and labour have dropped a lot of policies i love and picked up some that I'm highly sceptical of#but those battles can be fought once theyre in power. right now all you lot are doing is doing the tories work for them#uk politics#labour winning is not a guarantee. WE DO NOT HAVE PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION#if the left vote is split. the tories WILL benefit#let's vote tactically now. for whatever party has the best chance of getting the Tories out in your constituency#be that lib dems. labour or greens. and once we've done that. we can all write to our mps and make our feelings known#i for one would love to finally have an mp that actually fucking listens to their constituents and makes themselves avaliable#my tory mp barely ever even bothers to vote#that's not democracy is it#I'll be voting for a lib dem mp as she's the only one with a chance of beating the huge majority my current tory mp has#and then I'll be sending her a shit Ton of letters asking her to stand up for Palestine and trans rights and disabled people#and stand against child poverty and landlords and over policing and over militarisation IN PARLIAMENT#as someone in a tory safe seat this is my only chance to maybe have my voice in parliament heard and it drives me up the wall#that you are all telling ppl to throw that kind of chance away
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An Israeli drone company is proselytizing to American police departments about an autonomous drone system that can automatically launch police drones to fly to the sites of suspected crimes. One sheriff’s department in Louisiana has repeatedly tested the system, called Orion, which is already in use by the Israeli national police and, since October 7, many Israeli settlements, according to the company’s founder. Created by the Israeli company High Lander, Orion allows users to direct hundreds of drones at once by automating them to navigate and perform actions without user input. The software system turns drones into “next-generation security guards,” according to an Orion brochure. In February, High Lander held a demo event in Baton Rouge to showcase the “drone-in-a-box solution,” which the East Baton Rouge Sherrif’s Office first tested out last June. “The system will be a game changer for the fight against crime in Baton Rouge,” High Lander wrote in a LinkedIn post about the event, which was attended by officers from around the country. The company has used its pilot program in Louisiana to encourage other police agencies to check out Orion, and its February event in Louisiana was just one part of a tour that included stops in San Diego, Phoenix, and Miami, according to LinkedIn posts. Orion’s capabilities are startling. A police force could have drones automatically launch from charging stations when triggered by “events like gunshots, burglaries, and car accidents.” Once they deploy, the drones can perform pre-set tasks: releasing cargo; relaying live video feeds; identifying and searching for people, objects, or vehicles using AI and thermal sensors; and making announcements over loudspeaker. If the system gets multiple calls, Orion can automatically choose which to prioritize. A High Lander blog post about the project adds “new capabilities are being discovered all the time.” The East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office held “mock scenario testing” with High Lander’s system “approximately 5 times,” Casey Hicks, the department’s public information director, told The Intercept. Hicks added that the demos were conducted at the sheriff’s range facility and that they “are not aware of any use out in the community at any time.” High Lander did not respond to a request for comment.
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#us#israel#israeli drone company#us pds#police militarisation#human rights abuses#israeli apartheid#capitalism
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Hoe mensen in Rusland denken, waarom Poetin daar populair is en waar het allemaal om draait
Historicus Serhiy Medvedev analyseert wat er in de hoofden van de Russen en Rusland gebeurt. De rationaliteit van Vladimir Poetin en de Russische invasie van Oekraïne De wereld is sinds de Russische invasie van Oekraïne op 24 februari 2022 ingrijpend veranderd. Wat aanvankelijk leek op een kortdurende militaire operatie, is inmiddels uitgegroeid tot een langdurig en verwoestend conflict. Veel…
#autoritarisme#geopolitiek#invasie#militarisering#Oligarchen#propaganda#Ruslands oorlog tegen Oekraïne#Russische identiteit
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looked at the global peace index to better read through the whole document, and honestly just laughing my ass off at the usa being 132/163
#then being 161/163 on militarisation lmfao#my apologies as always to canada who is ranked 11#y'all really got the worst neighbor
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Shell is by far the largest foreign stakeholder in the Nigerian economy, owning 47 percent of the oil industry. Its joint venture partner in the petroleum business during Nigeria's most draconian years was the Abacha regime. Yet Shell representatives have repeatedly declared that they exercise no influence over Nigeria's rulers; Europe's largest oil corporation has thereby ducked behind the brutalities of its militaristic financial partners. Such an arrangement means that Shell and other foreign oil corporations can maintain their desired technological presence while, under cover of deference for national sovereignty, they continue to act as ethical absentees.
This arrangement has also enabled Shell to ignore appeals by the Ogoni, the Ijaw, the Ikwerre and other neighboring micro-minorities for a share of oil revenues, a measure of environmental self-determination, and economic redress for their devastated environment. For Shell, Chevron, and the other oil majors operating in the delta, these are internal, Nigerian matters that belong to a sovereign realm inaccessible to corporate influence. But the record suggests otherwise: Chevron, for example, has acknowledged transporting Nigerian forces to quell uprisings in the oil camps of Rivers State. Shell has imported arms for the Nigerian police, paid retainers to Nigerian military personnel, and made boats and helicopters available to them in assaults against protestors. This is all integral to what one former Shell scientist has dubbed "the militarization of commerce" - an apt designation, if ever there was one, of resource extraction procedures under neoliberalism across the global South.
slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor, rob nixon
#climate change#currently reading#the militarisation of commerce is a really useful phrase for something i hadnt had a specific name for before!!#quotes#ecology#environmental science
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Anti-facism, anti-captialism, community action and class solidarity IN MY FAIRY TAIL?!Surprisingly much more likely than you think or remembered!
#this is about the Edolas Arc. it’s not without us very glaring flaws. but you can absolutely take these themes from it#or at least interpret as such#I must stress I might be looking too deep into this but you can take some of the reading from it#although said reading DOES get ruined by excessive fanservice :/#other aspects fall flat on their face like the exceed but like. it does feature a king#who monopolises magic to his own kingdom only - has a militarised police state#crushes any opposition or criticism by other wizards#fairy tail on edolas is labelled as a ‘dark guild’ just for resisting authority#guildposting#shallow rambles#again it’s probably not that deep but I find it fun to reframe or interpret aspects of media I like#I should stress this is all technically very surface level like representation of class solidarity community action etc. but#it’s not anti-monarchy because the humble prince takes over#fairy tail spoilers
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Recrue militaire allemande au rapport devant un sergent – Berlin – Allemagne – 19 octobre 1936
©Bundesarchiv - Bild 183-S21437
#avant-guerre#pre-war#armée allemande#german army#wehrmacht#militarisation de l'Allemagne#militarization of germany#recrutement militaire#military recruitment#berlin#allemagne#germany#19/10/1936#10/1936#1936
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why is the mobile game team giving them guns? i don’t think they should have guns i don’t trust them with guns- okay maybe i trust iwa with a gun w/e that says about me sue me if you wanna — but i really don’t trust suna with a sniper rifle (his aim is too good) and i EXTRA don’t trust hoshiumi with anyyyy kind of weapon wtf were they thinking?????
#why are they doing this#i do not support the militarisation of the hq boys#stop it#they alr got daichi the pig don’t take iwa too#haikyuu#iwaizumi hajime#suna rintarou#hoshiumi kourai
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good to know that cops across the pond are also as evil /s
#police brutality tw#the way the bbc is framing this is evil#acab means acab no matter where you are#the militarisation of police is evil#re cops going on “strike” cus theyre scared of legal reaction to them literally KILLING unarmed black people#“what about their mental health” WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU KILLED?????????? THE FAMILIES OF THOSE PEOPLE?????
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