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Miss Universe National Costume 2024, Part 2!

Splitting this off into a new post so I'm not clogging up everyone's dash quite as much.

Miss Malta is some sort of environmental protection Sailor Scout. I think the giant bow would look better on the back of the skirt but otherwise this is solid.

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I did watch the video, but the most complete version I could find is missing a bit at the beginning. So I can't tell you what the inspiration was for anything before Bolivia; on the bright side that's fewer shitty rhyming couplets I had to suffer through.

Let's begin with:

Miss Angola! Tone down the color palette a little, and this honestly could have worked for that year the Met Gala was Catholicism- themed.

Up next: Miss Cambodia! Who is wearing something vaguely historial and very gold. Love the level of detail but it's still voting Present a little bit.

Cyprus absolutely could have Maria von Trapp'd this out of some spare banquet tablecloths and no one would be the wiser.

I feel like if Miss Gibraltar so lacked confidence that anyone would understand her costume that she needed a giant prop banner depicting the thing her costume is about, she maybe should have picked a different costume? I'm not even getting into the actual clothing she's wearing, which is just lazy af.

(it's the pillars of Gibraltar btw. Her shield says HERCULES on it.)

Miss Ireland, they did you so dirty. I'm sorry.

Okay, I'm splitting the second half off into another post.

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Hey Germany, this is like the 15th ominous shitpost I see, this is starting to scare me! I don’t understand german or german politics. Can anyone tell me what’s going on? French newspaper are making it sound like a mild thing, like oh, the coalition isn’t working, let’s have early elections. But that’s NOT the vibe I’m getting from all the memes!!

uhfedsjs no thats basically it. chancellor fired the finance minister and wants to seek a vote of confidence in january to make way for elections by march. the 3-way coalition is unpopular and this whole breakdown isn't a huge surprise, but announcing it on the night after trump's re-election is just insane timing. besides, only 2 months ago the afd (far right party) became the first party of its kind to win a state election since the nazi era, and they're polling second nationally at the moment, so new elections sound more than a little scary right now

@the-bibrarian important context: the finance minister is a neoliberal asshole who for 3 years has done his best to sabotage the coalition and constantly refuses to compromise or cooperate. He wants tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and absolutely does not want money going to things like retirement benefits, healthcare, defense/support for Ukraine and so on. He's smug, arrogant and overall just insufferable. Seeing him being fired for the first time in his life was immensely satisfying (despite the likely consequences).

UPDATE:

It has been revealed that the FDP (neoliberal party) and in particular ex finance minister Christian Lindner have deliberately caused the government to fall apart. They've been planning this since September. The original plan was to wait until Friday (the firing happened on Wednesday), when chancellor Olaf Scholz would have been out of the country for an EU function. The FDP would then have withdrawn their ministers from the government and made it all fall apart; and because it would have been difficult for Scholz to react from out of the country, they would have gotten to control the narrative. Scholz apparently heard rumors about this and what happened on Wednesday was a last-second attempt at damage control; if the government had to fail, at least it would be on the chancellor's terms.

The FDP did this because the governing coalition is unpopular and detrimental to them in particular, to a point where they have to worry about not making it into the new parliament at all.

Should I remind you that, historically, extremist and antidemocratic actors are the ones benefitting most from political instabilitiy.

Christian Lindner plotted to overthrow the government and put our democracy in jeopardy because his party is doing bad in polls.

SOURCE: Zeit.de, unpaywalled article here

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Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!

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I've seen a few of this guy's videos and they're all so funny. This is probably my favorite one though.

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fucking australia’s trying to get everyone to link their government id to their social media accounts else you cant use them anymore, the actual fuck is wrong with this country

please, actually, get fucking mad over this, the entirety of australia basically just banned all social media for anyone who doesnt want to give up their privacy to the government, there was no vote on this, no nothing, they just went ahead and fucking passed this ridiculously privy law and barely anybody’s talking about it the actual fuck

okay so to actually explain what exactly is happening, it’s an age thing. theyve used ‘protect the children’ and ‘let kids be kids’ as a weapon again. anyone under 16 is banned from social media, but to enforce this they have openly admitted everyone will need to link their government id to their social media. this whole ‘protect the kids’ thing was a very obvious trojan horse for getting ppl to give up their privacy.

and yknow, that alone is a very shitty law even without the whole surrendering your private information to the government thing.

theyve made outside uninhabitable, there’s nowhere left to go. public areas have degenerated, theyve turned hanging out into a crime with loitering, streets feel unwalkable sometimes, parents are more wary of letting their kids walk around on their own than they used to be, and now theyre trying to ban one of the main ways kids manage to distract themselves inside the house.

when i was 15 i was depressed and lonely, unable to leave the house very far, no friends, nobody. the one place that helped me feel less alone was online communities. i wouldve killed myself if it werent for the support i recieved on there. and now theyre trying to ban that for future generations, in a world that hates them being both outside and inside.

and even still, this is still a fucking trojan horse to get you to give up your privacy.

some proper info on this bullshit

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