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  • lmaoooo the other socialist party Vooruit just launched an Instagram post calling to vote for them instead of our marxist party because a vote for us IS A VOTE FOR PUTIN!!!!!!

    They are getting rightfully flamed for it

    • This is what happens when you have no real counter arguments and base everything off Putin bad against a party calling for no more NATO expansion

      • I don't get how they expect that to even work. If they're pushing a "Putin bad man" strategy, what separates them from the major parties who are doing that already? How do they expect to pull votes away from a major party with identical policy but far less political inertia?

    • They could have spend there time and energy to create a plan to work together for the benefit of the working class but instead decided to make a baseless claim

  • A Flemish nazi wanted to have a talk at a university and it sparked a lot of protest. The university wanted to let it happen because 'freeze peach'. Guy does the talk and now the university will press charges because surprise surprise the guy went on a racist white supremacist rant 🤯🤯🤯

    • Wait so let me get this correct. Nazi wants to talk... people get mad because Nazi wants to do Nazi things... University says Nazi can do Nazi things because "Freeze Peach" Nazi does Nazi thing, like everyone said the Nazi would do ... now the University is shocked and pressing charges... If there was only a large group of people who told them the Nazi was a Nazi who would do Nazi things...

  • Question to the comrades from China (or those who have been there recently):

    What car brands are popular in Chinese cities? Not just Tier 1 cities, but smaller ones?

    Asking because there's an ever increasing number of Chinese brands in Russia, yet I keep seeing claims that Chinese citizens themselves prefer German and Japanese brands (Audi, Toyota, etc). I understand that they're most likely made in China anyway, but it seems odd.

  • I'm an SE dude. We have to do a group project at my university. Sometimes I just wanna scream everytime a professor rejects a good project idea because it wouldn't be economically feasible. Also every competition here is just yet another shitty startup competition where they're more concerned about your business plan than on the utility of your idea.

    Ended up having to go with yet another AI idea. At least we don't have to do anything with LLMs (o.o)/

  • Belgian winter sucks ass. I have seen the sun for maybe three days in the past few months. Otherwise it's just gray or rainy. Great for your vitamin D levels.

    • Whenever it rains in winter I always think to myself "10 years ago this would have been snow"

      • Yup. It's been years since we had a proper winter with multiple days of snow I think. Just rain and 8 to 10 degrees.

  • I love not having any personal info in my Social Media accounts because you can tell when someone's frustrated they don't have a way to dox me or mock what I really believe in.

  • I'm learning Danish by watching the news from the public broadcaster, but can't handle their liberal propaganda. Their reporting of Palestine is even worse than that of the Dutch news. And don't get me started on their reporting on China and Russia. Every time I try to watch the news I get pissed off, while I'm just trying to learn a language... Maybe I need to find something else for listening practice.

  • Two more drones got intercepted over Dzerzjinsk. Which is pretty darn far from the Ukrainian border. So they've likely been launched locally.

    Lovely

  • The portrayal of Saracens as quasi‐Jewish killers of Christ enables Christians not only to glorify those who defeat them in battle but also to inspire new military campaigns. The Muslim chronicler Izz al‐Din Ibn al‐Athir provides a vivid example of such rhetoric when recounting what happened after Muslim forces retook Jerusalem in 1187.

    Ibn al‐Athir, perhaps drawing on firsthand knowledge, reports that the city’s patriarch aroused fellow Franks to avenge this loss by making a picture of Jesus that “portrayed Christ (peace be upon him) along with an Arab, depicted as beating him. They put blood on the portrait of Christ and said to the people, ‘This is Christ with Muhammad, the prophet of the Muslims, beating him. [Muhammad] has wounded and slain him.’”

    Ibn al‐Athir inserts the customary Islamic honorific for Jesus, whom Muslims revere as a messenger of God, but provides no further editorial commentary: he trusts that his Muslim audience will recognize the preposterous nature of the allegation that Muhammad killed Christ. Preposterous though it is, this propaganda builds on longstanding Frankish rhetoric associating Muslims with Christ’s persecutors, and it provides powerful religious motivation for Christian warriors to avenge the maltreatment of their God.

    Ibn al‐Athir credits this propaganda with raising “more men and money than there would be any way of counting” toward what academic historians call the Third Crusade; “even the women,” he emphasized, “answered the call in great numbers.” If Ibn al‐Athir is reliable, he provides valuable evidence regarding the broad impact of religious rhetoric designed to appeal to a specific subset of Christian society, namely fighting men.12

    (Source.)

  • main thing keeping me going right now is waiting for the Lana Del Rey country album in the fall tbh

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