"Hey Kamiko why do you hate the PJO gods so much?"
Because they'd be the litteral scum of the earth if you'd make them mortal.
Litteraly.
Just take away the "godly" and you are left with what is basically a single aristocratic family rulling as a monarchy with Zeus as the matron of the family and king.
Said monarchy has made and upheld a system in which they exploit a lower class for their own gain. There is basically no social mobility, rendering the lower clasess basically condemed to serve the rich upper crust ignoring them if they do not activley want something from them.
As if that wasn't enough they have also been shown to be completly aware of and okay with the fact that the practice mentioned above leads to the lower class generally not living beyond the age of twenty.
There is no concept of democracy or free-speech. The lower class has basically no human rights as the monarchy is allowed to pretty much just do whatever they want with them with no fear of punishment- that also included killing them or inflicting them with fates worse than death.
Ontop of all that the monarchy has also proven itself untrustworthy on multible occasions, as they have broken promises on multible occasion and show no reason to be trusted whatsoever.
The most famous of a similar irl situation ended with the french monarchy's heads in baskets.
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the mental gymnastics argentines are doing to try and explain how a chant that basically denies french players of their nationality because they're black (aka they don't look "french") is not racist would be funny if it weren't infurating.
and worst is they say "its actually a chant against french colonialism" yeah, because i cannot think of a better way to fight colonialism than by mocking the descendants of it who everyday have it hard in france.
and actually, whats even worst is that argentines proud themselves of being descendants of spaniards and italians but i supossed in their case, there's no need to question nobody's nationality and loyalty to their land, I WONDER WHY
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WHERE ARE MY RANA LOVERS AT ??? I NEED MORE PEOPLE TO APPRECIATE HER !!!
IF WE'RE AT IT ALREADY . HERE ARE MY FAVORITE RANA SONGS !!!!!
"[Rana / Utatane Piko] Creative [Remix]" – Ghost and Pals
"Watashitachi no Katte" – Awa Dobuno
"Ah Hontou Kudaranai" – Awa Dobuno
"Kanjou wa Zaikogire" – Awa Dobuno
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Arthur: There's nobody quite like you, my love.
François: Aww, mon cher...
Arthur: That's why they're naming your condition after you.
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This is extremely off topic but I have to do it on here for reasons:
If we're interpreting Land Back the way Zionists / Professor Flowers do, who TF gets the Great Lakes?
I know they don't actually care BUT this keeps me up at night.
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thinking about an AU where javert does quit the police force after montreuil-sur-mer and ends up working with sheep and a sheepdog. (he mentions thinking about labouring in the fields--- most likely, this is as a harvester or agricultural worker, but let me!!!)
not relevant to anything, i just need to picture javert out in the country with dogs and sheep. and yes, i know, this is so implausible because it would necessitate JVJ having dealt with champmathieu entirely differently.
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i'm seeing so much discourse on whether or not what israel is doing can be called a "genocide" and it's transporting me right back to my 11th grade history class. we learned about rwanda and read the un definition of genocide and discussed how reluctant the international community can be to call something a genocide while it's occurring and how the us refused to call the rwanda situation a genocide essentially until it was over and how the un was basically useless and the world did almost nothing to intervene. the situations are different but disturbingly similar and it just goes to show how useless the un and the un genocide convention are.
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There’s one thing that really separates Portugal from the rest of the “main colonizer countries” (UK, France and Spain. I know there are others) in my mind is that, contrary to certain people in his own government, he just feels such like… Immense crushing guilt and shame about his past all the time. Things that happened during the period in which he was dead (estado novo) such as the wars of Independence of lusophone African countries are things he can sort of abstract as not being his fault, but everything that came before it… But honestly, it’s still a twisted kind of guilt, in a way. Portugal doesn’t necessarily feel bad for the colonization itself - because well, he was just following the country he represents, wasn’t he? he didn’t do anything bad out of his own volition! -, he feels bad about his lack of closeness to his former colonial possessions, for having never been there for them. Whenever he’s with the other Lusophone countries, there’s just such an distance between everyone and Portugal, which is something that personally hurts him.
But he knows that he’s never said anything in the past, knows he never made the effort to be there or to make the situation better for them, so these bridges are pretty much broken beyond repair. Portugal desires a weird sense of fatherhood to them, something he knows he can never have because, well… He’s just never having a colony again. He’s never going to have the “opportunity” to get what he really wants - a deep familial connection. He just can’t be a father to them, time has passed, and really, none of them want it either.
Sometimes he wished he could go back in time, do things differently, perhaps even give Iberian Union the type of attention they never received from him or Spain, but he just can’t. It’s impossible. Time’s arrow only goes forward, and he already messed up irreparably.
In principle, Portugal knows that it’s the colonization itself that was bad, but in his mind… The almost selfish desire to be a father is what matters the most.
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People who get up in arms when you point out that naan bread is redundant make me wonder why they're so insistent on calling it that despite never using the phrase "baguette bread." Almost like there is something different in the origins of those loan words. Maybe, just maybe, there is a reason why certain people feel the need to specify that certain words are "other" while they're more than comfortable including certain loan words to their language because they're just "normal" words. Right. Okay. Definitely nothing more. Totally.
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“you can’t talk about argentina sheltering nazis when there were nazis in france” yeah idk how to tell you that being forcibly invaded and having to try and play nice with the invaders who are also going around genociding everything within sight throughout europe is not remotely the same as hitler’s friends being allowed to stay at their vacation resorts and live long happy lives with the full acceptance of the local government
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