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we cannot let far right extremist parties get an even bigger stronghold there than they already do. sadly, there are very significant threats of exactly that happening from many countries.

My God, English has so many words to describe physical intimacy, I'm in love

"No I'm a good person" why? Because you've gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don't think we're all so different from the bad people. We're all just people.

Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.

If you convince yourself that you're just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.

There was a petition of doctors who wanted Trump's cognitive function tested during his physical exam, and everybody involved on the republican side said no, and then Trump himself actually insisted he did take one in a fit of ego. He was, as far as i can tell, the first president to ever take one while in office.

At his request for the cognitive testing, Trump's doctor administered the Montreal Cognitive Assessment which is like 5 questions and has not been proven to be an accurate test of much at all. It's a lot like when you hit your head and they ask you the date and your name and stuff -- answering correctly in no way means you don't have a head injury or concussion or whatever, it's just a couple of first step questions. Then Trump said a lot of lies and bullshit about his "cognitive test"

Now republicans and right leaning publications are spreading shit like this. Biden didn't "refuse" a cognitive test, his aides confirmed that, as usual, a cognitive test is not included during the president's doctor visit.

again, i think our choices are shit this election, i don't like how old Biden is, and i think the way our first-past-the-poll voting system automatically results in an extremist two party system fronting candidates that the majority of the country doesn't like is some fucked up bullshit

but our house is on fire and one candidate is a bucket of water that won't help much and the other is a bucket of gasoline, and, y'know, angry as i am about it all i am still going to vote for the bucket of water while we look for other solutions

as photomatt deletes everything, me and a few others are trying our best to compile screenshots to spread the word of the situation. most of the screenshots in the dropbox feature a comment by one of our helpers containing context. if you have any screenshots you'd like to add, please dm me. there is a high chance this account will get banned, so please save this dropbox and the screenshots included and continue to spread the word.

thank you!!

For real ?? ??? ?????

I’m pretty sure I’d be stuck in middle school if I didn’t know this technique. This might be the biggest cultural shock in last 5 years

I supposed that at least fellow East Asians are doing this but there’s no info besides the ones introducing stuffs from my country

I thought this could be useful for somebody, but a person told me they don’t sell the sheet there. So just listen

Also if you’ve used the technique in the school please tell me where are you from.

So you prepare your notebooks. The point is to write the stuff you want to memorize in orange

And you prepare a red, transparent sheet. I haven’t got one with me so I’m editing the image but you know what I mean by the picture. Imagine the sheet is on the notebook.

And then you hide the orange letters with the sheet. And go “hmm what was the Czech word for even though?”

You slide the sheet down to check the answer. And continue. “Now what was the Czech word for even though/even if?”

“Oh it’s i když”. Then continue. If you want to, draw an ! next to the word you can’t memorize. Or something like that.

You want to memorize something printed?

Then highlight the word with a dark green pen

And the sheet. Now who was the dude who held the Slavic Congress of 1848?

Oh it’s Palacký (btw yes, they teach you about him if you’re in an advanced class)

I suppose this is especially handy in our education system where kids are forced to memorize tons of facts

You may not be able to adopt this style even if you find useful because it seems like they don’t sell the seat overseas. I’m aware of it.

Also speaking of redsheetified maps can you take a look at a creation by 18yo me. It’s Colonial Africa