dan

@iunno.bsky.social

49 Followers 42 Following

Ray Bocelli and Kate Strauch Sullivan, who chose Mangione to represent 120,000 residents of Northern Baltimore County, deliberate with the Central Committee's nonvoting member, Jay Brown. (Rona Kobell/The Banner)
A fan at a CMLL show with big feelings and a little Kemonito plush.
A quote from Richard J Evans' Coming of the Third Reich, reading: "the power to rule by decree was only intended for exceptional emergencies. But Ebert, as the Republic's first President, made very extensive use of this power, employing it on no fewer than 136 separate occasions. He deposed legitimately elected governments in Saxon and Thuringia when they threatened, in his view, to foment disorder. Even more dangerously, during the 1920 civil war in the Ruhr he issued a backdated decree applying the death penalty to public order offenses and retrospectively legitimizing many of the summary executions that had already been carried out on member of the Red Army by units of the Free Corps and the regular army. It was significant that on both occasions these powers were used to suppress perceived threats to the Republic from the left, whereas they went virtually unused against what many saw as the far greater threat to it posed by the right."
The Rizzler giving a thousand-yard stare into the distance while sitting down, holding a giant championship belt, and looking very tired.
"I hope that after this explicit disclaimer I shall no longer be taxed with embracing a system of mythology which I look upon not merely as false but as preposterous and absurd. But I am too familiar with the hydra of error to expect that by popping off one of the monster's heads I can prevent another, or even the same, from sprouting again. I can only trust to the candor and intelligence of my readers to rectify this serious misconception of my views by a comparison with my own express delcaration." J.G. FRAZER
A highlighted quote reading "How far the facts points to an early influence of an African population on Italy, or even to the existence of an African population in Southern Europe, I do not presume to say. The pre-historic historic relations between the two continents are still obscure and still under investigation." from the 1922 preface to Frazer's The Golden Bough