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[submareena]

Suicide Squad (2021) AU where everything is the same, but during the bar scene they go overboard with the drinks and by the time the Thnker arrives the whole team is absolutely hammered. Wacky shenanigans ensue.

[thethnker]

New post up on The Thnker! Aloneliness... Because one day, alone turns into lonely, and aloneliness comes after that.

[trcsureplanets]

the Devil

UPRIGHT: excess, materialism, playfulness REVERSED: freedom, release, restoring control

Name: Perseus Castor Hawkins

Birthday: July 15th (currently 17)

Parents: Wally and Jim Hawkins

Occupation: Student

Sexuality: Homosexual

Siblings: Josh, Circe, Allison, and Andi

Details:

Percy is the youngest of too many children in his humble opinion. He liked to joke that it took his parents too many tries to make perfection. The truth was he was pretty sure he was an accident but hey, whatever, he was here. Percy had always been dramatic. He cried for no reason and he begged for things he didn’t want. He had no idea why he did these things but his father wasn’t one to let him away with anything unlike his Papa. 

Percy wasn’t dumb but he was an idiot. He did great at school and he led a pretty balanced life but when it came to romance, he was laughable. He’d fallen for Caspian very early on and had hounded the boy and begged him to love him but that’s not how love worked, huh? He was set on Caspian and it took him a very long time to realize that life was more than just being in love.

And yet, it was hard to kick the habit. His heart still fluttered when Caspian smiled at him but he’d let the pirate slid back into the ocean. He had stars to look for. Something to find. He needed meaning. He also needed to pass math. 

+ brave, romantic, charming

- dramatic, self-absorbed, over-thnker

Abilities:

his good looks. Just kidding he’s a literal wishing star. He grants wishes but can’t grant his own.

Connections:

josh, circe, allison, and andi: the older siblings. they’re okay.

damned caspian swann-mcqueen: the pirate thief/ 

mcqueen kiddos: childhood friends

fc: thomas doherty

[likeabhumi]

A holy Light Fullapproach wrapping my head around 🙏🏿 தமிழ் ஈழம் 🕊🦚🐅🦒🐲🦔🦦🦨 from Sagittarius ♐️ perspectives (hier: Forward Thnkers) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEBrnXAKB61/?igshid=1h5ymvoh22skz

[morganbelarus]

Beach towels and Brexit: how Germans really see the Brits

Exhibition at Bonns House of History documents unrequited love of all things British

The strategy that Germanys diplomatic corps proposed to keep Britain in the European community was unconventional and bold.

In November 1974, the then German chancellor Helmut Schmidt was desperately searching for the right words to convince British Eurosceptics to vote to remain a member of the European Economic Community.

Schmidt had been offered a generous slot of 10 to 15 minutes at the Labour party conference, but a number of leftwing MPs had already announced they would walk out on his speech if he tried to lecture them.

Katharina Focke, the German federal minister for youth, family and health, had some ingenious advice to offer after an informative meeting with her British counterpart Barbara Castle: The only way to keep Britain in the European Community, she wrote to Schmidt, is not to remind it that it is already in.

Fockes diplomatic cable is on display in the first room of a new exhibition at Bonns House of History, entitled Very British: A German Point of View right next to a digital watch counting down the seconds until Britain is due to depart from the bloc of nations on 31 October.

A programme for a British royal state visit in 1965. Photograph: House of History / Axel Thnker

But the show, which has already attracted 60,000 visitors since opening in July, not only tells the story of Britains effort to first join and then pull out of the European Union, but paints a mournful picture of what Sddeutsche Zeitung newspaper called an unrequited love.

The Germans love the Brits and everything that is British, House of Historys president Hans Walter Htter told the regional newspaper Rheinische Post. In exchange, we have mainly got British reserve.

Britain was not one of the signatories of the 1957 Treaty of Rome that created the European Economic Community, the first major milestone on the road to European integration. But the Bonn exhibition casts the effort to get Britain to join the European communities as one supported by Germany against the resistance of the more or less hysterical French, as the first postwar chancellor Konrad Adenauer put it.

Cartoon by Fritz Behrendt showing British prime minister Harold Wilson trying to climb Mount Gaulle. Photograph: House of History/Axel Thnker

A framed German cartoon from 1967 depicts the UKs journey into Europe as an arduous climb, with the chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and other European leaders pulling prime minister Harold Wilson up the steep face of Charles de Gaulles upturned nose.

Germanys Anglophilia is shown to be not only political. Seven themed rooms showcase a postwar infatuation with Britains royal family, sport, fashion, music and sense of humour on both sides of the iron curtain.

Poster campaigns and a 1970 industrial fair in London bear witness to socialist East Germanys longing to achieve diplomatic recognition from the UK, all the while as its regime agitated against British cultural influence in public.

Skin of Ringo Starrs bass drum from the 1960s, when Germany fell in love with the Beatles and British culture. Photograph: House of History/Axel Thnker

Do we really have to copy all the rubbish that comes from the west?, asked East German leader Walter Ulbricht in 1965, after a Rolling Stones concert at Berlins Waldbhne ended in hours of rioting. But the exhibition shows that the Stones and the Beatles found fond imitators not just in Germanys west where groups called the Lords or the Butlers suddenly spring up everywhere but also in the east, where the band Music-Stromers wore uniform jackets reminiscent of those on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

In secret, many East Germans wrote anonymous dispatches to the BBC, many of them emotional and heartbreaking, which are read out on its German-language service every Friday evening from the early 1950s.

In return, what did Germany get from Britain? Admiration for German manufacturing is visually represented here by John Hegartys mould-breaking series of Vorsprung durch Technik Audi ads. There are moving symbols of postwar reconciliation, such as the cross made of nails collected from the rubble of Coventry cathedral, gifted to the parish of St Nikolai in Kiel as early as 1947.

Curator Christian Peters told the Guardian that the object he was most proud of obtaining on loan for the show was a liturgical robe depicting scenes from the destruction of Coventry and Dresden, worn by the Bishop of Coventry on Ash Wednesday.

Liturgical robe commemorating the common history of the blanket-bombed cities Dresden and Coventry. Photograph: House of History/Axel Thnker

The show could have added chapters on exploring Britains enthusiasm for all things Germanic in the 18th, 19th and 21st century, from Wordsworth and Coleridges interest in German Romantic poetry to the import of Christmas tree customs, and from Kraftwerk tribute bands to the sanctification of Liverpool coach Jrgen Klopp.

As it stands, it finds the British view of Germany in the 20th century to be dominated by reenactments of the second world war by peaceful means, from Escape from Colditz board games to the beach towel war made fun of in countless newspaper headlines, cartoons and advertising campaigns.

When Germany moves towards reunification after the fall of the Berlin wall, Margaret Thatcher is the most vocal sceptic in the west, the British press conjures up images of revitalised German soldiers in spiked helmets, and leaked minutes from a meeting with historians at Chequers list Germanys supposed national characteristics as egocentric, arrogant and aggressive.

A coldness between the two countries is sometimes just as notable, however.

When president Theodor Heuss makes the first official postwar visit of a German politician to the UK in 1958, he is photographed facing a group of standoffish Oxford students with their hands in their pockets and spends the next weeks assuring the German public that this was not so much a sign of disrespect as a pose fashionable with the British youth of today.

At the exhibitions exit, visitors are met by a plastic merchandise figurine of Queen Elizabeth II, who waves them an unenthusiastic goodbye with a polite smile and a mechanical tilt of the wrist.

Original Article : HERE ;

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[deanlawrencekowalski]

Fixing Income Inequality | American Thnker There is a solution to income inequality, but it is not income redistribution. Sorry, Bernie. In a recent op-ed in Barron's (April 18, 2019), Professor Michael Pettis of Peking University points out the dangers of income inequality, comparing our situation today with that of the late 1920s.

[a1detective]

"...It isn't a coup...Because we then think it's about Mr. Trump... It isn't...." - IT'S ABOUT YOU.

“…It isn’t a coup…Because we then think it’s about Mr. Trump… It isn’t….” – IT’S ABOUT YOU.

THIS ARTICLE BY PHIL D’AGOSTINO APPEARED FIRST IN AMERICANTHINKER.COM

EXCERPT:

Tyrants, dictators, and their minions are very clever when it comes to using the rules you agree to play with against those playing by the rules.

This is war.

When Trump leaves office, the war shall continue.

—AMERICANTHINKER.COM

Original ARTICLE, As Written: It’s not a coup. It’s a civil war.

Lately, it’s been…

[thereal-svetlana]

Little man assessing what’s going on .. “THE THNKER “ ..... . . . . . . . #shotoniphone #thinker #photography #picoftheday #instapic #toddlerlife #landscaping #landscapephotography #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephoto #amaturephotography

[thethnker]

The Pattern

New post up on The Thnker! The Pattern feat. Gaslighting. https://thethnker.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/the-pattern/  

[thethnker]

Up on The Thnker on Thursday!

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New post up tomorrow on The Thnker!

[thethnker]

New Post up on The Thnker! https://thethnker.wordpress.com/2020/02/27/part-one-what-now/