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Autumn views in Berlin. 🍂
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Berlin 🍁
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russiawave
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“male loneliness epidemic” and “friendzoning” are similar concepts to me in that the conditions they describe are literally experienced by everyone at some point in their lives but when its men its some sort of profound injustice that needs to be rectified by checks notes giving them unfettered access to the public good that is Women
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my barber exists to confound any political analysts
he's a russian-speaking atheist ukrainian jew who practices buddhist mindfulness, thinks elections don't matter, thinks trump is funny and will be good for business because of lower taxes and tariffs; he thinks highly of our "institutions" and believes they'll weather trump but is worried about him damaging them; he wanted biden to pack the courts with democratic judges; he's pro-immigrant and upset at the anti-immigrant rhetoric, but thinks new immigrants (and young people in general) need to work harder. he also thinks everyone should learn to relax and take it easy. he's pro-abortion and hates vance but respects his grind and agrees young people need to have more kids; he's pro-lgbt. he's anti-political correctness and thinks woke ideology is a disease. speaking of disease, he thinks doctors are fake and medicine doesn't work, and ozempic will kill people. he thinks russia is brutal and russians are barbaric with zero contributions to culture (also a huge fan of tsvetaeva and hates the far right in ukraine), but he wants the war to end at any cost and thinks trump will do it; he has never been to israel and won't go but he is 100% standing with its right to defend itself; he's angry at the antisemitism on campus. in general, however, he believes politics doesn't matter, your vote doesn't matter, elections are for show, the ruling class is the same no matter what color is in government. he thinks people exaggerate trump's negative qualities. he strongly believes in the chinese century; he thinks bhutan is the ideal political, social, and cultural model.
he is a consistent, solid D voter, never voted R, and voted harris in this election
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Nadezhda (Hope)...
Sofia, Bulgaria (1973)/ Bogdan Dziworski
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what am i being advertised here exactly
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I’m tired of this complex queer goyim have where they think all lgbt people were persecuted by the Nazis as if there aren’t very famously queer Nazis and collaborators, and as if queer German Christians couldn’t get out of it by signing a fucking affidavit and/or getting lavender married, which was not a grace afforded to Jews or Roma
like man Charlotte von Mahlsdorf did a ton for the east Berlin queer community but she also very much did directly get her first ladies’ clothes and jewels by raiding (presumably largely cishet) Jews’ homes after they were deported.
guess who lived, not just past 1945, but to see the new millennium?
#Yes oh my fucking god all the fucking posts about Magnus Hirschfeld which act like he was persecuted specifically for doing trans research#The ifs definitely was also targeted because of its political goals#(which included advocacy for gay and trans people as well as abortion access prostitution legalisation and sexual liberty)#(and for the majority of its existence it was basically an STD clinic - it was not a hospital and they did not do surgery there)#but also sexual health - like psychology - was a very Jewish-dominated field because it was very new at the time#and therefore did not have the antisemitic structures as other fields did to keep Jews out of it#(e.g. church run hospitals#which made up a huge percentage of hospitals at the time not employing Jews)#and the persecution was also very much based on the fact that the ifs was majority Jewish doctors#If you look at the non-Jewish doctors doing trans research you will find that they did just fine under Nazism#In fact the doctor who did the first known successful vaginoplasty in history later experimented on prisoners in dachau concentration camp#and the doctor who did srs for lili elbe later performed involuntary sterilisations of disabled people#The Nazi persecution targeted men (or people seen as such) having sex with other men#(in fact the Nazis technically legalised Lesbian sex in Austria - it was illegal before the Anschluss#and it was discussed whether to ban it in the rest or to legalise it in Austria#and the very conscious decision was made to do the latter)#but that persecution very much targeted Jews and Roma more heavily than 'Aryans'
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Die Ereignisse von 1933 bis 1945 hätten spätestens 1928 bekämpft werden müssen. Später war es zu spät. Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. Die Lawine hält keiner mehr auf. Sie ruht erst, wenn sie alles unter sich begraben hat.
Das ist die Lehre, das ist das Fazit dessen, was uns 1933 widerfuhr. Das ist der Schluss, den wir aus unseren Erfahrungen ziehen müssen, und es ist der Schluss meiner Rede. Drohende Diktaturen lassen sich nur bekämpfen, ehe sie die Macht übernommen haben.
Erich Kästner: Über das Verbrennen von Büchern
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“On my desk there is a stone with the word “Amen” on it, a triangular fragment of stone from a Jewish graveyard destroyed many generations ago. The other fragments, hundreds upon hundreds, were scattered helter-skelter, and a great yearning, a longing without end, fills them all: first name in search of family name, date of death seeks dead man’s birthplace, son’s name wishes to locate name of father, date of birth seeks reunion with soul that wishes to rest in peace. And until they have found one another, they will not find a perfect rest. Only this stone lies calmly on my desk and says “Amen.” But now the fragments are gathered up in loving kindness by a sad good man. He cleanses them of every blemish, photographs them one by one, arranges them on the floor in the great hall, makes each gravestone whole again, one again: fragment to fragment, like the resurrection of the dead, a mosaic, a jigsaw puzzle. Child’s play.”
— Yehuda Amichai, “The Amen Stone” from The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (trans. Chana Bloch)