That was the point, though, I think. It’s a commentary on how society treats violence and mental health as individual, isolated character flaws rather than as systemic problems. Having a female & feminine character be the violent/troubled one was a brilliant choice imo because it goes against our stereotypes and further highlights this. That uncomfortable feeling you have would probably be less so if it was a character you expected to have issues like that
Summary
BARCELONA, April 17 (Reuters) - Spain’s Pedro Sanchez and Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will spearhead gatherings of the global left in Barcelona on Friday and Saturday, in a bid to defend multilateralism and mobilise left-wing movements against the far right. The meetings, organised by Spain and left-wing political networks, come as U.S. President Donald Trump’s swift cuts to humanitarian aid, military interventions and threats to abandon NATO have shaken the status quo of international relations and prompted a rethink of global allegiances.
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Borne out of a wake-up call for European socialists after the far-right surge in EU elections in 2024, the aim of the so-called “Global Progressive Mobilisation” starting on Friday is to mobilise advocates of left-wing ideas, culminating in a declaration of common actions on goals from defending democracy to the green transition, organisers said. A second gathering on Saturday - entitled “In defence of democracy” - is organised by the Spanish government and is the fourth instalment of a summit launched by Lula and Sanchez in 2024.
‘SHOW THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE’
Both leaders are vocal critics of the Trump administration - with Sanchez having been particularly outspoken over the Iran war - and both face growing far-right challenges in upcoming election races.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has also clashed with Trump, will attend, as will Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum, marking the first visit to Spain by a Mexican president since 2018 after years of tension over the legacy of Spanish colonial rule.
“I think it’s important that progressive parties and governments unite to convey to the public, especially in Spain, that we belong to something that goes beyond domestic politics,” Sanchez said of the gatherings, speaking in Beijing during a visit to China where he and President Xi Jinping pledged closer ties.
Europe’s far right lost one of its biggest champions with the defeat of Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orban in Sunday’s election. Sanchez has hailed that, saying “the wave can be stopped, and Hungary proves it”.
In the other event, 3,000 people including current and former heads of state, around 400 mayors, unions, activists, and political parties will gather for two days hosted by Spain’s Socialist Party. Sanchez and Lula will close the event. “Radical forces are at play in our countries to sponsor extreme right-wing movements … we have to show there is an alternative,” said Giacomo Filibeck, Secretary-General of the Party of European Socialists, whose membership spans 33 parties across Europe.
Reporting by Victoria Waldersee, Paolo Laudani and Joan Faus; Editing by Alison Williams
Hard to pick one, here are a few:
Triangle of Sadness
Challengers
Conclave
The Wrestler
The Drama
Cheddar cheese biscuits (a la red lobster) come to mind - butter, baking powder & soda, salt, garlic powder, sugar, milk would be basically all you need.
Have that with eggs served however you want. Bonus points for eggs benedict if you can get a lemon too and some more eggs to make a hollandaise.
$4 for flour and cheese, probably $1.50 of butter, $1 of various pantry things, ~$0.50 for a lemon, ~$0.50 of milk, $3 for a dozen eggs. ~$10.50 total. 4 servings. ~$2.13 each
Wait French Guiana is an advanced economy?
Eh. You posted one study that was inconclusive that is not representative of the state of the literature as a whole.
Note: I was obviously incorrect and irresponsible. The thing I said, as written, was misinfo and so I corrected it (you are correct to have called that out and I will be more careful in the future). Tbh I didn’t initially realize this was the Health comm, due to the post topic. But yes - you are correct that I should be careful about phrasing health related things - like not claiming the link is causative. There has been a link demonstrated, though - that part was not misinfo.
In actuality, it causes has been linked to alzheimers… curious…
Edit: okay, I should’ve sourced it, and no it isn’t proven causative. But don’t act like it’s settled. I have been following the literature on this for quite some time as I have increased genetic risk of alzheimers. There have been links found to cognitive decline and alzheimers specifically.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5405737/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12828987/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1567576924008154
You have to disengage once you know they’re actually doing it. Same with any manipulative behavior. But if you’re really not sure, I’ve had luck pressing them on why what they’ve said doesn’t make logical sense. If they can’t support it, I can dismiss it and disengage.
The funny thing is when people say “you’re gaslighting me”, but actually you’re the one being gaslit.
Really the problem with things like this is just when they’re used in bad faith to gain rhetorical advantage. It’s fine to say something to the effect of:
“I believe you’re gaslighting me. Here’s what I remember happening, and here’s some supporting evidence. What you’re saying is that it didn’t happen that way. If your intention is not to intentionally try to mislead me about how things occurred, can you explain?”
But just saying “You’re gaslighting me” when really what’s happened is that the way things actually happened is inconvenient to their argument - that’s the issue. It all comes down to their motivation
Yeah Thomas has done about as much harm to black people as anybody living. He’s incompetent and undeserving of his appointment.
May have been “hurtful”, but they were also correct and extremely obvious.
Although “failing to grasp” and “out of touch with” the “real world effects” of his judicial actions would imply that he is not aware he is causing mass suffering and contravening not only the constitution he is sworn to uphold, but also the hundreds of millions of American citizens and resident aliens he is fucking over by degrading the rule of law. I don’t think that’s true: he knows and is doing it on purpose.
All it takes to be a Democratic elected official is to run as a party member and get elected. He did those things. He’s a Democrat. The Democratic party is just a lot more right wing at its extremes (and overall) than folks like to admit.
Oooh new vocab, thanks.
精神分裂症
Jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng
Schizophrenia
精神 - mind/mental state
分裂 - split/divided
症 - illness
謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症）
Xièxiè (bù, wŏ mĕi yòu jīngshéng fēnliè zhèng)
Thanks (no, I don’t have schizophrenia)
“Italy condemns the slander of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, by the US administration. His Holiness is NOT soft on crime. He is extremely hard on crime, just like Jesus was. The hardest on crime. No forgiveness for criminals - not ever, not His Holiness, no way. He personally asked me if he could participate in the firing squad executions of Italian soccer hooligans. Of course I obliged him, but parliament has, unfortunately, been slow to ratify this most pious and just request.”
Too many hitlers these days smh
Extra stupid because, even if he doesn’t care about the retail price of gasoline for normal people, gas prices drive inflation by increasing the cost to produce basically everything.
You have a lovely bbq restaurant mr altman
37.802339,-122.417043
说的太对了。很大的美国人传统。
我是皮猪人。我一直吃人肉。很可口的。
Maybe she can call Kendall up and see if she can give Trump a pepsi