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The author wrote that they had bowed at Vienna’s Mexico Square to thank the Mexican people for protesting Austria’s 1938 Anschluss to Germany. They claimed Mexico was the only country to stand against Hitler’s annexation and said Austrians would remain grateful to and fond of the Mexican people. https://t.co/mWHSi2HrQh #GraciasMéxico #Austria #Historia #AT #MX #DE

Hablar de SNK en Big 2026 es muy reventado de mi parte. Pero como los haters están dispuestos a seguir llorandole 10 años, quería hacer una aclaración. "SNK se copió de Dune! Se copió de Code Geass!" Bla bla bla, cada puto matado de esta red social se inventa una cosa diferente para intentar quitarle valor al mejor de todos los tiempos, como si inspirarse de cosas fuese malo. Así que para que dejéis de larpear, estas son las 20 obras CONFIRMADAS que inspiraron a Isayama, según sus declaraciones en el SNK Outside: •MUV-LUV ALTERNATIVE: todo el concepto de la invasión de monstruos gigantes y la supervivencia de la humanidad viene de una visual novel+18 que le marcó de adolescente. •PELIS DE TARANTINO: gore y efectismo. •NAUSICÄA: gigantes y murales, sobre todo la estética del pasado distante •BERSERK: crueldad y dinámicas complejas entre protas y antagonistas •WATCHMEN: personajes grises que buscan cambiar el mundo (Isayama dice que el cómic fue la base para Levi y Erwin; yo añadiría que personajes como Ozymandias y el Dr.Manhattan moldearon a Eren en la recta final) •ZERO NO TSUKAIMA: Destacó a Louise como el pináculo de las tsunderes. Supongo que se ven trazos en Mikasa, Gabi o Annie, pero no sé xd •SALVAR AL SOLDADO RYAN: Guerra, tener que rescatar a un personaje, muertes de escuadrones enteros... •SAKA NO UE NO KUMO: Una novela que trata sobre cómo sobrevivir en un país acorralado durante una crisis •ARTES MARCIALES MIXTAS: El titán acorazado es literalmente Brock Lesnar. •PROJECT ARMS: es su manga favorito, el que le motivó a ser mangaka. •MOMOIRO CLOVER Z: un grupo musical que le daba energía xd •MEGA MAN LEGENDS: De aquí sacó el equipo de maniobras tridimensional. •GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE: Combates entre monstruos gigantes. •SANDA TAI GAIRA: Lo mismo, combates entre gigantes •POSEMANIACS: Poses para combates entre titanes •MONSTER HUNTER: las hojas sustituibles de las espadas para cortar a los titanes •NUBE, EL MAESTRO DEL INFIERNO: El terror del canibalismo. •JURASSIC PARK: Las escenas de depredación de los titanes se basan en las de los dinosaurios. •TOMOHIRO MACHIYAMA: un crítico de cine que le inspiró sobre cómo contar historias, "pasar del 0 al 1" •RHYMESTER: un programa de radio que también le influyó sobre cómo contar historias, "convertir el 1 en 100" (sí, yo también estoy flipando con que Isayama habla como Ego de Blue Lock) A estas inspiraciones hay que sumar otras reveladas en entrevistas posteriores como: •BREAKING BAD: Falco está basado en Jesse y la conclusión de Eren recuerda a la de Walter White ("lo hice por mí"/"no sabía porqué pero tenía que hacerlo") •JUEGO DE TRONOS: Política, guerra, muertes... Gabi está basada en Arya Stark y se nota una clara inspiración en el concepto del Cuervo de 3 ojos. •GUARDIANES DE LA GALAXIA: La Alianza contra Eren, un grupo de reventados unidos por una causa común. Y no podemos olvidar el libro "THE ETERNAL CHAMPION". Hay muchísimas similitudes, sobre todo en cuanto a nombres de personajes, pero como nunca ha dicho nada al respecto queda en el aire lo de si es sólo coincidencia o no. Igual sería raro admitir tantas inspiraciones y ocultar esa en concreto. En fin, ahora podéis seguir llorando, pero con un poquito más de conocimiento. #SNK #Anime #Inspiración

REPUBLIKA SRPSKA CANNOT BE THE FOUNDATION OF A EUROPEAN BOSNIA. The constitutional order created at Dayton stopped the war. That was necessary in 1995. But an armistice settlement must not become an eternal constitutional reward for the territorial consequences of ethnic https://t.co/TPkpM28swf #RepublikaSrpska #Bosnia #DaytonAccords #BA

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Ariana Grande heeft tijdens haar emotionele laatste show in de O2 Arena in Londen haar fans bedankt voor de buitengewone ervaring die haar Eternal Sunshine-tournee is geweest, voordat ze zich tijdelijk terugtrekt uit het openbare leven. #ArianaGrande #EternalSunshine #Dankbaarheid

🇪🇺🇺🇦 EX-RUSSIA IS COMING. For decades, Europe has treated the Russian Federation as if it were eternal. It is not. Empires collapse. Dictatorships crack. Artificial federations held together by repression can unravel far faster than diplomats expect. Estonia’s intelligence chief https://t.co/H5QQEuUQ6F #ExRussia #EuropeanSecurity #IntelligenceInsights #EU #UA #RU #EE

Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”

Japāņu avangarda māksliniece Jajoi Kusama, pazīstama kā punktu karaliene, mirusi 97 gadu vecumā, atstājot aiz sevis starptautiski atzītu mantojumu ar savu raksturīgo mākslu, kas ietver gleznas, skulptūras un performances, un vairāk nekā 900 darbiem no viņas lielākās sērijas My Eternal Soul. #JajoiKusama #avangarda #māksla

PAKISTAN IS NOT ETERNAL. #ExPakistan must become part of the international debate. Pakistan already broke apart once in 1971 when Bangladesh won independence. Today, deep national, ethnic and constitutional conflicts remain unresolved. I support the democratic right of the https://t.co/FTO4oqYZUH #ExPakistan #Pakistan #Democracy #PK #BD