One big change in East Asia, culturally, in recent decades is the near-complete collapse of any tolerance for social chaos or disorder
This is very unusual from a historical perspective.
For the uninitiated, one hit of the wax he crowned this obscene amount of weed with would send a normal person to Pluto for the next eight hours.
Weed will eventually be illegal again, and it'll be because of degenerates like this.
@sparafucile_@FiorellaIsabelM The city was not named after a name, it was named after a specific real-life person. The Spanish didn't name things consciously thinking to themselves "We are Spanish therefore we Spanishly use our Spanish language.".
It is unambiguously true that the international perception of the UK being particularly broken or in decline compared to the rest of Europe is almost exclusively down to countries like France or Germany cunningly disguising their insanity by writing the news in French or German
I'm getting sick and tired of these Putin apologists acting like the war in Ukraine is some kind of natural disaster that Putin just found himself in and that Ukraine wants to perpetuate.
Putin started the war. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ukraine wants to be free.
How is this difficult?
One of Bismarck’s trademark habits was to openly weep and wail and threaten to resign, harm or kill himself when he was not getting his way with the Kaiser. He would genuinely throw tantrums and cry and on one such occasion walked up to an open window and threatened to jump.
@NotPotBol When Step 1 is: find a tiny dwarf who also happens to be a master chess player, yeah, they used to put a lot more effort into the grift instead of just going "step 1, already be rich so this SOMEHOW gives you unassailable credibility instead of taking all credibility away".
People have the misconception that the "No Kings" protests somehow prevented Americans from protesting like people are in France, but the truth is more insidious. These folks would never riot or demand systemic change because it's against their core values.
I know this is nitpicking, but this France news has taught me that people don't know who Napoleon was. Case in point, this is a scene where Napoleon is, on behalf of radical leftists, executing conservatives, monarchists, nobles, and religious people.
The British aristocracy is institutionally so funny because British “posh folk” are probably the only upper class that has ever conceptualized itself as the jocks in a jock vs. nerd debate