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following the US election as a European is mind blowing btw bc what do you mean the racist, misogynistic, convicted felon is winning over a woman

A french speaking coworker of mine just sent me a screenshot of the US election results and said "on est fucked"

Guys let's stop the holier than thou attitude, we have far-right politicians now in pretty much every European countries and they win elections as well? They're just as bad as Trump and in bed with him. Stop with this attitude we're surrounded by the same kind of fascist scum that our progressive friends in the US are, they all share the same fake news and watch the same fucking news sources.

And I never said my country's politicians are better hun. I literally admitted in a follow up how idiotic my own government is. Right wing parties won major in our most recent election unfortunately, but at least our politicians have a pact not to work with the most far right party, bc last time that happened it had disastrous consequences.

This may be a tough pill to swallow but in my country not a single convicted felon has ever been able to run for election let alone win it. And win it with MAJORITY vote. It's absurd!

We're not saying this to look down on the US either, we're saying this with utter sympathy and disbelief. On est fucked means "people are fucked", meaning the world, bc the US is a major global power. This election decides all of our fates whether you realize that or not.

So no, this isn't a holier than thou. I'm just absolutely baffled and i feel a lot of sympathy for specifically the women, because their reproductive health is at stake. Also Palestine is basically screwed now.

It's a sad, sad day in history.

following the US election as a European is mind blowing btw bc what do you mean the racist, misogynistic, convicted felon is winning over a woman

A french speaking coworker of mine just sent me a screenshot of the US election results and said "on est fucked"

following the US election as a European is mind blowing btw bc what do you mean the racist, misogynistic, convicted felon is winning over a woman

to add context: i live in Belgium and our government/election system isn't good by any means. There's a lot of small parties, especially on the left, which means it's hard to get a majority over the right wing parties. Then there's the fact that we always need to elect 7 different governments.

You have flanders, wallonia, brussels, then the flemish community, the french community, the german community, and then you have federal. All of those have separate tasks to rule over, but the most important stuff is usually the federal government. I am from Flanders, which meant I had to vote federal, then for flanders, then for the flemish community. Then last month there were the local elections for city council etc.

The problem with this system is that a left party can win in wallonia while right wing will most likely win in flanders (unfortunately), and then those parties have to form a government together federally. This is the reason we hold the record of country going the longest without an officially elected government (like seriously, over two years i think the record is).

But the advantage is that human rights are much, MUCH harder to threaten. The extreme right party wanted to either ban abortion or really diminish the legal term to get abortions, while the left wing wanted to extend the legal term for abortions. Getting rid of abortion won't be possible unless all parties agree, which they don't. So my reproductive rights are basically solid, which is why even though the right had a majority in my area, I'm not terrified of what's gonna happen. I'm more concerned for what the right has in store for our immigrants, they'll probably be taking away a lot of the budget to try and deport them, which i do not agree with.

Then we also have the european government to deal with but that's a whole 'nother story

Percy Jackson and Avatar Aang hanging out on the regular is something that can be so personal

they're my cousins your honor

bro does a converter from apple lightning earbuds to 3.5mm aux exist?? i want to find one bc i have only one set of wired apple earbuds and they're a lightning port, but i'm going on a long flight to cambodia in november and i'd want to use my own earbuds instead of those shitty ones they give you on the plane and the apple shape fits my ears the best, so i need a way to get my lightning port earbuds to work w the plane's aux jack and i literally can't seem to find them?? like do they only exist w usbc but not with lightning ports?

I don't think so but you could just buy one of the older apple earbuds (pre iPhone 7)

if need be i'll probably do that i just hope they don't cost 30 bucks anymore like they used to

We all saw the post about how insane the boiling rock episodes are from Hakoda's perspective but what about Chit Sang

Like imagine you're a notorious fire nation criminal, you've been in prison for it for about a decade. You like provoking guards, even though it ends with you in a cooler most of the time. You've spent a few years trying to come up with an escape plan but everything you can come up with ends with you falling into a boiling lake so you kind of give up.

Then after having spent the night in a cooler again you walk across the main hall and hear this young man wearing a guard uniform talking about using that same fucking cooler as a boat to go across the boiling lake. Of course you force them to let you join. The plan fails miserably and you end up getting caught. You don't tell the warden anything. You find the teenaged guard again, and now another adult has finally joined, turns out that's the kid's dad. Whomever this kid's dad is must have done something real bad to end up in this prison, and looks like the apple doesn't fall far from the tree seeing his kid is impersonating a guard to free them all, but you don't really have time to figure it all out. You get a new plan, you capture the warden and make it to the gondola. This kid has some serious balls. Halfway there though the gondola gets stopped and the princess of the fire nation runs up to you guys. These kids pissed off the royal family and you're really reconsidering joining these guys because who the fuck pisses off the royal family and lives? Great, you think, that's it, but no those three fucking teenagers you're escaping with all climb the gondola in order to fight her. Absolutely insane. Miraculously you make it off, and escape on the princess's very own war balloon. Again, these kids have some balls.

Then finally you fly away from the prison you spent a decade in, having your first taste of freedom. You ask these kids where we're going and the one in the guard uniform mentions they're flying to the western airtemple ruins to join his friends. Alright fair enough, you don't really get why teenagers would be spending their times in those ruins. In the meantime you've realized the scarred kid is the banished prince of the fire nation, no wonder his sister came chasing after your group. After a few hours you land and you finally set your feet on free ground for the first time in years. You get ready for introductions and the first person to walk up to you is a twelve year old bald kid with tattoos who introduces himself as the fucking Avatar. You accidentally joined team Avatar as they're trying to end the war.

Y'know what this might not even be the funniest part, bc the funniest part is that in the end he left his girlfriend and best friend in prison while he got to escape and hang w the Avatar. Truly an icon i fear