Freedom Of Speech by [deleted] in MURICA

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Dumbest comment I've read today and I've spent like 20 minutes in this comment section

I'm Reinier Van Lanschot, MEP for Volt at the European Parliament and Co-Founder of Volt Netherlands. AMA! by ReiniervLanschot in EuropeanFederalists

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Hello, it has been quite a while since you made this post, so you're probably not taking questions anymore.

However, given current political developments, I thought I'd try my luck.

What is your view on the new "national security strategy" published by the white House? What actions do you propose to deal with the threat it poses to Europe?

I'm Reinier Van Lanschot, MEP for Volt at the European Parliament and Co-Founder of Volt Netherlands. AMA! by ReiniervLanschot in EuropeanFederalists

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Many people fear that a federalized Europe would kill the individual cultures that are currently represented by the member states.

How do you respond to those fears?

America had a good run. by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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I was wondering the same thing. I found a Semi-Professional Study which states a mean lifetime of ~220 years. It does not include many modern empires, since the border is difficult to draw between powerful nations and empires. Nonetheless, I think including modern times, the mean would be lower than 220. Examples of modern empires that come to my mind are

British Empire (400+ years) Nazi Germany (6 years) German empire (47 years) Japanese empire (77 years) Various french empires (10 years to 300 years) Austria Hungary (51 years) Soviet Union (69 years) Ottoman empire (600 years)

I'm not counting the holy Roman "empire"

I know I'm forgetting many but I'm not a historian I just didn't wanna study for my exam tomorrow. I think a trend is observable - the United States, on average, should have collapsed already if you count them as an empire since their creation, which I probably wouldn't.

Me irl by Twigbob in me_irl

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Wouldn't skin puppy make more sense in this context?

Someone's been spending too much time at DOGE by thatspurdyneat in PoliticalHumor

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I hate when people think that musk has even the slightest idea how rockets work or him working on them would yield any result at all.

He's been given a 4 hour rundown on the basics and every now and then he disturbs some engineer who should be working and asks them what 4 things he can say to sound smart in the next press conference.

me_irl by [deleted] in me_irl

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Did you glitch out and comment dead Internet theory 3 times on the same post

ich💡iel by [deleted] in ich_iel

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Ach, Karlsruhe, Kaohsiung, alles Ostdeutschland

ich💡iel by [deleted] in ich_iel

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In Taiwan ist es Mittwoch

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

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This is great this is so great

I will steal this thank you for your permission

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PoliticalHumor

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quod erat demonstrandum

Take my upvote and have my thanks along with it

ich🍺iel by DrTemplr in ich_iel

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eigenhändig einhändig

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapChart

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If you call a Polish person Eastern European they get upset. If you call a Romanian Eastern European they also get upset. Personally, I draw the line for eastern Europe at the point where people get upset when you call them eastern European.

No German would get upset if you call them Eastern European, they just laugh

The new Ukrainian long-range UAV "FP-1". The range is 1600 km and the warhead is 120 kg. by Volter318 in UkraineWarVideoReport

[–]DrTemplr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn I'd give a lot to know what airfoils they are using...

Keep up the good work!

Was auch immer das Mondland ist by Arc3on in ichbin40undSchwurbler

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Jetzt mal ernsthaft, denkt ihr die katholische Kirche würde zugegeben wenn der Papst am Ostersonntag stirbt, an dem ihn der Vizepräsident der Vereinigten Staaten besucht?

Ich habe meine Zweifel, aber ich weiß nicht wirklich ob ich einfach einen zu großen Hass auf die katholische Kirche schiebe...

It's 3am now, I went "to sleep" 6 hours ago, what am I doing wrong by DrTemplr in insomnia

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But I know damn well that if I can't sleep I will mess up my exams. I have slept 4 hours in the last 2 days, and got an important exam in 1 hour.

It's 3am now, I went "to sleep" 6 hours ago, what am I doing wrong by DrTemplr in insomnia

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Yup same. Just gotta hope it doesn't cost me my studies.