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System Metternich posted:I readily admit that being a practicing Catholic makes me kinda biased in that regard, but afaik there’s no evidence that a) the number of child molesters is higher among Catholic clergy than in other comparable groups and b) that celibacy makes people more likely to abuse children. The specifically Catholic facet of child molestation was/is the total unwillingness of the hierarchy to acknowledge the problem and the systematic cover-up that went with that. It’s a bit like police and their „blue line“ in that regard, I guess. Turns out the police isn't the largest gang.
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I found this twitter thread appropriate for the topic: https://twitter.com/jameslsutter/status/975550946884268032
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Ras Het posted:EU28: Countries by head of government's European Parliament grouping in March 2018. This maps to political allegiance of the member governments surprisingly well. Lotsa consevatives in Europe  (Italy's not red anymore either)
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System Metternich posted:I readily admit that being a practicing Catholic makes me kinda biased in that regard, but afaik there’s no evidence that a) the number of child molesters is higher among Catholic clergy than in other comparable groups and b) that celibacy makes people more likely to abuse children. The specifically Catholic facet of child molestation was/is the total unwillingness of the hierarchy to acknowledge the problem and the systematic cover-up that went with that. It’s a bit like police and their „blue line“ in that regard, I guess. Why the gently caress are you writing in the past tense 
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why the gently caress are you writing in the past tense System Metternich posted:was/is But you can put it all in the present tense if you want, it probably wouldn’t be wrong 
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System Metternich posted:But you can put it all in the present tense if you want, it probably wouldn’t be wrong I mean, it definitely isn't. Your church continues to shield child rapists from justice today.
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Orange Devil posted:I mean, it definitely isn't. Your church continues to shield child rapists from justice today. Well, all churches and religions do. That's literally what they were created for. But they're the biggest one.
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A modest proposal.
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FreeKillB posted:I found this twitter thread appropriate for the topic: scifi/fantasy worldbuilding culture is boring sperg poo poo and the real world is 10x more interesting, news at 11
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well, all churches and religions do. That's literally what they were created for. But they're the biggest one. You should take that to r/atheism, they'll love it.
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That map is telling me there are CIA black sites in Iran and Zimbabwe, but not Iraq or Israel? That seems... unlikely. Edit: Oh, the map is not of black sites, but has a much broader status including countries that allowed the CIA to use their airports. Map should definitely have different colors, although I guess there is not a lot of reliable info. More detail on https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.9e08d8d269c9 Even after reading that, the omission of Iraq is odd, and Hong Kong seems dubious as well since it's not like it controls its own foreign policy. Makes you wonder about the methodology (although obviously that's kind of nit picking and missing the forest for the trees). Saladman fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Mar 20, 2018 11:41
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 Some Redditor got this in their inbox. 
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I’m the babylonian rabbis who compiled the torah to hide their exile child sex ring
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Grevling posted:Looks like it can be any name a country has, so easy mode. To get back to this, the Greek name Ἑλλάς was originally applied to a small part of the region of Thessaly in central Greece, which neighboured Phthia, where Achilles was said to be from. We know very little about how their name came to be applied to all Greeks; by the time Homer was writing we confusingly already have the terms Hellenes and Panhellenes, the former referring to the inhabitants of the original region of Hellas and the latter all Greek speakers. Almost nothing reliable is recorded in later sources about this group. The Roman term for Hellas is Graecia, which is derived from the name of a tribe called Γραί or Γραικοί about which we equally know almost nothing; by the time history was being written they had also disappeared. It's logical that they were a Greek tribe located somewhere in proximity to Rome, but, through assimilation with the term Hellenes, later authors asserted that they were in fact from Thessaly. The name for Hellas in eastern countries derives from Ionia, since the Ionians were famously the Greeks longest subject to Persian rule, and thus the Persians referred to all Greeks as Yaunas, and most countries in the region of what was originally the Achaemenid Persian empire derived their name for the Greeks from the Persian name. So basically all three main naming conventions used to refer to Greece don't actually mean much when broken down. MeinPanzer fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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True lovers of Homer call them Danaans, thank you very much.
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 Map of Cleveland if every Subway Restaurant was a subway station.
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The aqua line and brown line should be combined, and said combined line should run all the way to Downtown, concurrent with the salmon line. In fact, track capacity allowing, the red and purple lines should also run concurrent with the gold line to Downtown. In other words, we would end up with a central Downtown hub, a coastal Gold Line, an outer Blue Line, and five lines radiating out from Downtown to the Blue Line. It would also mean Downtown<->Airport is direct. Also, typo "Cape Western". All in all: 2/5 stars.
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I'm the thought process that led to the declaration of a Czarist Republic.
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I'm Green Ukraine.  I think something like that shows up in Kaiserreich, and sometimes triggers a war between Russia and Japan because they both lay claim to it.
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The Free Territory and The North Caucasian Emirate have some pro tier flags
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Kuban People's Republic is reppin' the rare purple flag.
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Green Ukraine being in a union with actual Ukraine makes the East/West Pakistan situation seem sane in comparison.
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I'm the Fortress-Builders of Naissaar who presumably demanded equal representation under threat of leaving the Soldiers dangerously unfortified.
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"Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders" is insanely cool.
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Pakled posted:"Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders" is insanely cool. 
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He loooooves death!
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"Death to Bougies"
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"under the leadership of Stepan Petrichenko. The Russian sailors, numbering about 80–90 men, formed a government and levied taxes on the local population." "Sailors of the Petropavlovsk in Helsinki, before the Finnish Civil War (Summer 1917); Flag calls for 'death to the bourgeoisie'."
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Forgot to mention this in the post with the map but I'm the Lemko republic that wants to join the Russians and the Lemko republic that wants to join the Ukrainians
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I wish all sorts of Karelians had gotten their own land so as not to emigrate to Finland Proper.
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I'm the ethnic minority in Finland who demanded autonomy over a football field and got deported to loving "central asia"
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I would love to put that map on a wall
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No Lit-Byel, the most awkward and pathetic of all Soviet puppets.
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This is probably the greatest map this thread had ever seen. Half of these sound like RPG factions...
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It's amazing to me that the Bolsheviks managed to reunite Russia+ so completely.
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What a great map. Thanks for sharing it mate!
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Tree Bucket posted:This is probably the greatest map this thread had ever seen. Half of these sound like RPG factions... It's like someone's game of EUIV going tits up
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Is there a place I can get a print of that? Google wasn't exactly helpful.
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