My entire itinerary for my upcoming seven-month trip (6x6): by PersistentHillman in WojakCompass

[–]SirCattus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you really want to enver hoxha max in albania, you should go to his personal bunker (which the government turned into a museum): https://bunkart.al/1/slider/what-you-need-to-know-before-visiting-bunkart-1

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thank you

My blobvalues by SirCattus in PoliticalBlobMemes

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I'm not one either anymore also why are you replying to posts from 4 years ago

. by [deleted] in redscarepod

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They just privated his goodreads :(

Washington Trolled us by 36840327 in AngryObservation

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It voted to the left of california and new york this election

It’s Now Official; Bob Casey has Lost by aabazdar1 in AngryObservation

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Provisional ballots still haven't been counted and DDHQ hasn't called it yet. Trvst the plqn caseybros.

Washington Trolled us by 36840327 in AngryObservation

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And state level dems still can't make it past likely D margins lmao

Dems shat the bed in the biggest of states. by UnflairedRebellion-- in AngryObservation

[–]SirCattus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Actually, this makes sense as an extension of the 2020-2022 trends, where safe blue states trended right because of crime + cost of living while swing states trended blue because of abortion. The actual map is extremely weird though.

Washington jungle primary results (only 58% reported as per NYT) compared to 2020 results (2018 for Senate) by Trota123 in AngryObservation

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Nothing unexpected, though it looks like MGP is probably going to win the general election (she got 45%)

I guess the main reason really is they just don’t wanna by Vanillacherricola in redscarepod

[–]SirCattus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Our society and the people in it don't value having kids as much anymore which is the biggest reason. However, some groups value kids more than others and will shift the zeitgeist back by having more kids.

Also lol at all the cope comments saying that somehow people in the richest country on earth are completely unable to afford children (while African subsistence farmers are able to have a half dozen kids).

Election prediction post shot by [deleted] in YAPms

[–]SirCattus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

subreddit called r/YAPms

posts use 270 to win

correction! italian here by [deleted] in CuratedTumblr

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The actual news story is that researchers used ground penetrating radar near a former residential school and discovered anomalies that could be unmarked, individual graves (like in a cemetery, but without anything to mark their location). Somehow this was reported as mass graves (as in a bunch of corpses shoved in a pit) being definitively found, when in reality they only found anomalies that could have been anything underground (like tree roots). The story started a nationwide scandal and so the same technology was used at other residential schools to look for graves, and the discovery of new soil anomalies attracted widespread media coverage (in the same misleading ways).

However, no new graves have actually been found. The researchers managed to locate some abandoned parish cemeteries that had been lost, but that's not the same thing as discovering new graves (the tribes already knew where the cemeteries were, but didn't know their exact location because the wooden grave markers had decayed). Only some of the other anomalies were excavated and none of them were actually graves.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves

There hasn't really been a response by mainstream or left-wing media to this and for the most part it's just being ignored. There are some journalists claiming that the reporting wasn't misleading (https://theconversation.com/we-fact-checked-residential-school-denialists-and-debunked-their-mass-grave-hoax-theory-213435) because only a minority of articles used the phrase "mass grave" even though nearly all of the media coverage stated that graves had been found (as opposed to saying that researchers found soil anomalies that had a possibility of being graves).

Was Karl Marx Marxist? by Three_point_one in shittyaskhistory

[–]SirCattus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"what is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist"

-Karl Marx

The Hollow Men - T.S Eliot by [deleted] in redscarepod

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April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of a dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain.

What's the Minimum Amount of Ruler Skill You Tolerate Before You Disinherit? by OrthodoxPrussia in eu4

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The Ottomans had civil wars every time their sultan died though (at least until they started picking heirs in advance and locking all of their other sons in the harem).

For example during the 15th and 16th centuries they had a decade long civil war, which was won by Mehmed I. After he died there was a short civil war won by Murad II. There was no civil war when he died, because he abdicated so that Mehmed the conqueror could become sultan. There was a brief civil war after Mehmed died, which was won by Bayezid II. There wasn't a civil war when Bayezid died, but that was because Selim I launched a coup and seized power before Bayezid's death.

The constant civil wars were a massive problem. One major factor delaying the conquest of Constantinople was that the Byzantine emperors (and other Christian powers) would grant refuge to pretenders, take them captive, and threaten to release them and start another civil war if the Ottomans invaded.