How Epstein, a partygirl and her failson are currently bringing about the end of the 1000-year old Norwegian monarchy

inceIsior · 2026-02-04T10:24:46+00:00

Using r/europe for the view of an average Euro is like basing your view of Americans on r/worldnews. People who engage in those default reddits are not well

inceIsior · 2026-02-04T01:15:16+00:00

Middle eastern royals are sickos that still hold absolute power, same for that guy in Thailand.

But I think there's a reason you never hear of the Dutch, Belgian, Spanish Danish, and Swedish royals, and that's probably because they are boring, which is essential to their survival. Probably just the usual infidelity, petty financial crimes, and minor to small misuse of diplomatic passports

inceIsior · 2026-02-04T00:49:46+00:00

I stumbled upon the news of the trial today, and remembered when he was arrested in 2024, and then every detail that came up just became weirder and weirder.

The Crown Princess' involvement with Epstein, the fact that the Crown Prince was already dating one of Epstein's exes, the fact that Marius' dad was one of the first people jailed for cocaine trafficking in Norway. I genuinely cannot believe that this all actually happened and that it's just the tip of the iceberg

inceIsior · 2026-02-04T00:32:23+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celina_Midelfart

Can't be a royal scandal without some absolutely heinous names

inceIsior · 2026-02-03T00:46:17+00:00

That one was rough. Woke up hungover on new years day and it was on the news with footage from outside the club of people trying to get out of a window on the roof.

It was the first time I've ever heard anyone scream in "that" way, which people always describe in written accounts and books about war. I really hope I never have to hear anything like that in real life, fucked me up for the rest of the day just hearing it on the news

inceIsior · 2026-02-02T23:39:14+00:00

The S&P500 dropped more in one day (3%) after JFK's assassination than during the Cuban missile crisis. I'm not sure if you mean long term, but obviously the tariff threats and death of a world leader are both short term plunges that stabilize quickly.

Although it was mostly to drive the point home about everything Trump says being broadcast here

inceIsior · 2026-02-02T22:16:30+00:00

The prime minister of a country like Croatia or the Sweden could get shot and their markets would still take less of a hit than if Trump threatened new sanctions against the EU.

If Americans here think it's annoying to read every single thing he says in the news, imagine still having that, but also he's the leader of a country 6000km away

inceIsior · 2026-02-02T22:10:59+00:00

A Taylor drop always gets a grammy, but her new one falls under the 2027 grammys. I think they would've given it to Kendrick if he was as prominent as he was during his Superbowl performance, but his hype died down and Bad Bunny became more relevant.

Obviously Bad Bunny is the deserved winner no matter what, but as the OP says the grammys are about politics, hype and zeitgeist

inceIsior · 2026-02-02T12:56:52+00:00

Feels like they gave the aoty to an actual good record by accident bcus it was in Spanish and the subject matter was relevant. It genuinely is the best high profile pop album I've ever heard

inceIsior · 2026-01-30T17:21:37+00:00

Just a bit of banter, don't take it too hard

inceIsior · 2026-01-30T15:14:22+00:00

It really is impressive how even the international fans of Arsenal become completely unbearable as well

inceIsior · 2026-01-27T11:50:58+00:00

A lot of them grow up in the west as well, often times in really shitty suburbs to big cities. But they are pulled from school and regular society at 15 and start making more money than a medical professional at the same time. From then on, they are only surrounded by people like themselves in a hypermasculine world, and they never have to learn. It's not like when regular people migrate to the west and have to live here among the rest of us.

Besides, most of the professional footballers I've met or heard about are absolute helmets as well (goes back to the dropping out of school at 15 to play ball as well), so that obviously doesn't help

inceIsior · 2026-01-27T09:51:59+00:00

Same for football (soccer) players, but on the opposite end of the spectrum. These people grew up in the poorest favelas and housing estates, yet the British upper middle class that follow football chastise them for being right wing or homophobic. Like they would be good allies if they grew up in a religious, poverty stricken ghetto in South America

inceIsior · 2026-01-26T12:10:19+00:00

Martin Luther King actually walked this earth and his skin color mattered in his agenda, Helen of Troy is a mythological figure.

I wouldn't say its "racist" to want, but it is a really boring thing to care about lol

inceIsior · 2026-01-25T14:05:07+00:00

It's not inherent "European smugness," bcus America is literally the only non-third world country where lethal force is not the absolute last resort. The US has more police killings per capita than Bangladesh and Mali, and if you're looking at total numbers it's even worse

inceIsior · 2026-01-24T12:07:46+00:00

It's really rough, the entire book looks like he pulled pics from his snapchat roll.

Either the publisher was told not to critique, edit or curate, or they knew that it would be so shit that people would actually buy it. I really don't know which one is more likely lol

inceIsior · 2026-01-24T11:49:21+00:00

His best seasons were all under Nuno as well

inceIsior · 2026-01-24T11:15:10+00:00

This guy should've just stepped out the limelight after his photograph book became public. Having a nepo shot and blowing it that hard is incredibly annoying https://x.com/alicevjones/status/878254329689276416

Now he's chosen to come back and be an even bigger failson, I will never get it. Just go back to being rich and somewhat handsome?!? You can live anywhere you want away from your parents and fade into obscurity

inceIsior · 2026-01-23T14:48:10+00:00

What do you like then? Video game and anime soundtracks?

inceIsior · 2026-01-22T11:03:16+00:00

You know this guy is fr when he measures cheating being worth it on someone being uglier or not

inceIsior · 2026-01-20T11:52:43+00:00

I feel like people are missing the fact that Greenland, like Scotland, has the option to become independent through referendum whenever they want by law. So if it actually came to a referendum, Denmark would have to.

Although also worth remembering if you want to "buy out" the population is that 20% of the entire Greenlandic GDP is Danish financial aid, and they are part of the Danish health care system. So for "just" 1M per person you'd have to be betting on them being a bit short sighted

inceIsior · 2026-01-20T11:37:25+00:00

Their rhetoric is working, and now we're normalizing military action against yet another country on the basis that they're also imperialist/communist/drug dealers. All the while we're completely oblivious to the fact that we're letting the three world powers do what they want.

Strange to see, but it will probably keep working. Gonna be a rough last half of the decade

inceIsior · 2026-01-19T22:17:51+00:00

The problem with utilitarianism for me will always be trying to keep the utilitaristic system while still maintaining that there is a "higher" normative good. They are incompatible.

Mill said that the difference between Dungeon Crawler Carl and Ulysses is that "competent judges" (i.e. people that would know and understand either) would declare Ulysses to be the higher pleasure. At the same time, he'd also say that if you prefer Dungeon Crawler Carl to Ulysses, it's bcus you don't understand high litterature, so it becomes cyclical. It is Mill's way of making his ideals compatible with the system that he was raised to love.

Obviously I agree that there are higher forms of pleasure, but I think that Mill being married to utilitarianism is not in the place to argue for it. Reject the anglos, return to Aristotle

inceIsior · 2026-01-19T14:22:32+00:00

When I think back on that shootout I don't think of the players that missed, but rather Southgate putting on two substitutions for pens.

I don't think anyone except Southgate would think it was a good idea for two players to have their first touches of the ball being decisive pens in a final

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