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mysharona1987 · 1 year
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reality-detective · 3 months
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When you hear people about saving our democracy, remember this. 🤔
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bigglesworld · 3 months
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Deanie Parish. WASP pilot. In front of her Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. 1940′s
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nocternalrandomness · 2 months
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"Nellie"
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theauspolchronicles · 5 months
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I went from being indifferent about and not understanding what a republic would mean for Australia to a passionate and fervent supporter who hates that we still have a monarchy.
Indifference and lack of understanding is a massive setback for referendums. Why bother changing something? What is the point? The current system is familiar and without any motivation to move past it they'll just vote no by default.
But learning and caring takes time. That's why we should start now sewing the seeds of republican sentiment. Mention it to people whenever you can that the monarchy is outdated, that it doesn't represent us, and we need to ditch a medieval system of one wealthy family inheriting the head of state position of over a dozen foreign nations and become a modern independent republic like most countries.
It's time to move on. Let's not repeat the same mistake of 1999.
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hoth-and-cold · 11 months
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And its terminal
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Loango people from Brazzaville, modern-day Republic of the Congo
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wgm-beautiful-world · 15 days
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KIZHI ISLAND - RUSSIA
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Capitulo 1:ヨーロッパの雰囲気が漂う五稜郭/Goryokaku a hallmark with European airs. - Sean bienvenidos a una nueva entrega de cultura e historia japonesa, en este caso vamos a hablar sobre Goryokaku, localizado en Hakodate en la prefectura de Hokkaido al norte de la isla de Honshu. - Toponimia de Hokkaido en, el siglo XIX se llamaba Ezo, último reducto del shogunato contra el nuevo orden creando una república (1868-1869). Hay que destacar que Japón estubo cerrado al mundo durante 260 (1603-1868), este periodo se le conoce como periodo Edo, bajo el régimen militar Tokugawa. - En 1854 finalizaron los tratados de amistad con Estados Unidos, Gran Bretaña, Rusia. Hakodate se convirtió en una ciudad portuaria abierta al mundo exterior y en 1858, concluyendo el tratado comercial y al año siguiente se convirtió en puerto comercial. Hisaburo Takeda, estudio en Europa y se formó en fortalezas tipo estrelladas de traza italiana, en 1864 se completaron las contribuciones de la fortaleza. - Espero que os guste y nos vemos em próximas publicaciones. - Welcome to a new installment of Japanese culture and history, in this case we are going to talk about Goryokaku, located in Hakodate in the Hokkaido prefecture north of the island of Honshu. - Toponymy of Hokkaido in the 19th century was called Ezo, the last stronghold of the shogunate against the new order creating a republic (1868-1869). It should be noted that Japan was closed to the world for 260 years (1603-1868), this period is known as the Edo period, under the Tokugawa military regime. - In 1854 the friendship treaties with the United States, Great Britain, and Russia ended. Hakodate became a port city open to the outside world and in 1858, concluding the commercial treaty and the following year it became a commercial port. Hisaburo Takeda, studied in Europe and trained in Italian star-type fortresses, in 1864 the contributions of the fortress were completed. - 日本の文化と歴史の新しい記事へようこそ。今回は、本州の北、北海道の函館にある五稜郭について話します。 - 19 世紀の北海道の地名は蝦夷と呼ばれ、共和制を樹立する新秩序(1868~1869 年)に対抗する幕府の最後の拠点でした。 日本は 260 年間 (1603 年から 1868 年まで) 鎖国していたことに注意してください。この期間は、徳川軍事政権下の江戸時代として知られています。 - 1854 年にアメリカ、イギリス、ロシアとの友好条約が終了しました。 函館は対外に開かれた港湾都市となり、1858年に通商条約を締結し、翌年には商業港となりました。 武田久三郎はヨーロッパに留学し、イタリアの星型要塞で訓練を受け、1864 年に要塞の建設を完了しました。 source/ソース:photos internet/写真インターネット
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waytoobiased · 26 days
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MOTHER NOTICED ME
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67romeo · 2 months
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prepare4trouble · 11 months
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anakin skywalker's relationship with the jedi order begins and ends with his mother.
the first time he meets a jedi, he's slave, and his first reaction is him saying, “no one can kill a jedi." and that means so much! because he is a slave, and even at age nine, he very explicitly knows that he nor his mother have no control over their own life or their own death. in the next breath, he asks, "have you come to free us [the slaves]?" for nine-year-old anakin, who lives and dies by his master's will and whim (and knows that very, very well), a jedi's power is intrinsically intertwined with a mastery over life and death which he has never had.
and qui-gon says no. and anakin asks him, "why else would you be here?" and that's never, ever answered to anakin's satisfaction. there must be a higher power and a higher goal, here, because up until qui-gon dispels this notion, the jedi have been the highest power anakin can conceive of. ultimately, anakin's freedom does not come from the jedi––he wins his freedom after having it gambled as valuable property—and his entrance into the jedi order comes with leaving his mother behind, his mother behind in slavery, in real and present and explicit danger. but the jedi did have the power to free his mother: anakin knows this, anakin asks this, and anakin is never answered—why didn't the jedi free the slaves?
anakin's most pivotal, most consequential meeting with the jedi order is his first meeting, and he's very much completely rejected by them, for things he can't control: his mother, his age. he is nine years old, has been freed from a lifetime of slavery maybe forty-eight hours before, and taken half-way across the galaxy with people he barely knows to meet an order he thought was myth with powers and rules he does not understand and have not been explained to him. when he is told he is afraid––of course he is.
"afraid to lose her?" yoda asks of shmi, and that line right there echoes off the great chasm that stands between anakin and the jedi order for his entire life. anakin, at such a tender age, is intimately aware that shmi is in clear and present immediate physical danger at all times. yoda is speaking hypothetically, existentially. anakin is not. anakin's fears are grounded deep in reality, of lifelong slavery, and yoda is one of the many standing before him who have the power to help and free his mother. so why not?
anakin's entire career as a jedi is founded on shmi, who told him, "don't look back," who anakin left behind as a slave, so in turn anakin tells his mother, "i'll come back and free you." but ten years later and shmi is still not free—as far as anakin knows.
it hangs over the narrative of aotc until anakin is holding his dead mother's body in his arms. by then, anakin is too late to free his mother, and it morphs: “I will learn to stop people from dying.”
it’s not a rational plan, or a reasonable goal, but it’s an understandable reaction that traces its origin directly back to anakin always having been very acutely aware that he has no control over life or death, especially since he was born as a slave. and no doubt! anakin’s skills drastically increase in the three years between aotc and rots. he goes from unceremoniously having an arm cut off by dooku to being able to relatively easily best him in a duel.
but from shmi’s death onward, every potential death of a loved one is now, in anakin’s mind, the same death played over and over. if he is running through every potential situation as a chance to re-do shmi’s death, he is the only unknown variable. as much as padmé’s death is complicated by their child’s fate hanging in the balance, it is, once again, shmi’s death.
there’s no wonder that anakin turns towards palpatine—who has manipulated and groomed him since age nine, from right when he left his mother—because yoda unknowingly recites the same lines in the script anakin has been feverishly relieving for years. yoda says: the jedi cannot help. his response was the same to padmé that is was to shmi: make peace with this, there is nothing to be done. but why? why not? why didn’t the jedi free the slaves, all those years ago? why can’t they save padmé?
the irony, of course, being that for all of the hellfire and fury anakin brings down on the order, he’s left with exactly the same as where he started. there are slaves. there is death—pointless, pointless death. shmi’s dead, padmé’s dead, his child’s dead. the republic rots away into the empire, because the empire had long before calcified in the bones of what had been a republic.
later, much later, palpatine demands the same thing from vader: i will torture your son, you will watch, and you cannot do anything—make your peace. and finally, finally, anakin shatters the cycle he and the galaxy are trapped in. he saves luke, leia lives, as anakin’s greatest triumphs, because it is the end of the old and beginning of something new. no more slaves. no more death.
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bigglesworld · 5 months
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Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Warming up
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nocternalrandomness · 6 months
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F-105D - Hill AFB - December 5, 1981
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theauspolchronicles · 8 months
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Remember when people were all “you can’t discuss becoming a republic - the Queen just died! Show some respect”? When’s a convenient time for people to discuss the political system that they’re under? There’s a difference between personally attacking the Queen and her family and a discussion of the need for a republic and “now’s not the time” was an attempt to silence the conversation during the rare time it gets centre stage. Save your concerns about the very fundamentals of the political system you live in until the royals aren’t in the limelight! Save it until there’s plenty of other news items to distract away from the conversation!
The change from one royal to another is the PERFECT time to discuss it! It highlights exactly how fucked the entire idea of a monarchy is! It’s hereditary! Imagine if Elizabeth II had died when she was younger and Charles III became King when he was 10. That could have happened. We’d have a 10 year old as King! “Oh, don’t talk about being a republic - the poor boy’s mother has just died!” Yeah! That would very much suck for Charles and my deepest sympathies to him as a child in this hypothetical scenario BUT ALSO LITERAL CHILDREN CAN BECOME THE HEAD OF STATE OF THE REMNANTS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST COLONIAL EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY!
Perhaps it’d be better - for the royals included - if we abolished the Monarchy. For the world: democracy. For the royals: they no longer get literal BILLIONS of people watching them like specimens under a microscope when their parents/grandparents die. If I had wealth I’d give it away if that meant privacy during moments of grief (I’d also give it away to help others - but using that for illustrative purposes).
How young does an heir need to be before it becomes weird/inconvenient? 21? 18? Is it chill if the King dies and their heir is 17.5 because “eh, close enough”? Are we to really keep a system bound together by the idea that the Monarch of 15 different countries only needs to stay alive long enough for their firstborn to be an adult?
And then what? If they’re a shitty person we just... wait until they die? They have access to untold billions and elite dedicated medical staff. It’s not unreasonable to think Charles might live another 20 years. William could live to he’s 100 - his great grandmother lived to 101.
There’s no bad time to talk about becoming a republic. You just need to adjust the tone and method to be appropriate to how people are feeling.
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