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[Culise]

Shelley and her husband were in Byron's circle.  I'd be more surprised if it wasn't either that or opium.

((That said, I don't think it was necessarily drunken; it was basically a writing challenge since they were all stuck indoors due to rain.))

[WealthyRadish]

My impression was that everyone else was drunk and didn't go through with it, and Shelley was the nerd who took the bet seriously.

[scriver]

Iirc she was inspired by how some scientist had just recently made a corpse/carcass (probably carcass) move or spasm through electric stimuli.

So definitely mad science.

[Mr. Strange]

Other nations are denoted with widely used ethnic slurs (an American is a Pindos, for example).

Out of curiosity, what are finnish called? Or swedish or other european countries?

[SirQuiamus]

Other nations are denoted with widely used ethnic slurs (an American is a Pindos, for example).

Out of curiosity, what are finnish called?

Чухо́нцы.

[Mr. Strange]

Other nations are denoted with widely used ethnic slurs (an American is a Pindos, for example).

Out of curiosity, what are finnish called?

Чухо́нцы.

So that's where tsuhna comes from! Learn something new everyday...

[Baffler]

Other nations are denoted with widely used ethnic slurs (an American is a Pindos, for example).

Out of curiosity, what are finnish called?

Чухо́нцы.

In the 2002 Russian Census, 15 persons described themselves as "Chukhontsy".

Top lel.

[SirQuiamus]

Hey, look! The чухо́нцы are celebrating their independence from barbaric Tsarist oppression. Isn't it cute!

No, that's totally not an angry mob with torches and pitchforks, and yes, we are a civilized European nation and you Ruskis have no right to laugh at us!

[Sheb]

In other news, the French far-right got a big victory in the French local elections, with about 30% of the national vote. It is ahead in 6 of the 13 regions, and unless they got a beating in the second turn, they will end up running many of them (since the first party gets an extra 25% of the seats).

[Erkki]

Hey, look! The чухо́нцы are celebrating their independence from barbaric Tsarist oppression. Isn't it cute!

No, that's totally not an angry mob with torches and pitchforks, and yes, we are a civilized European nation and you Ruskis have no right to laugh at us!

To be fair there were only a hundred of them and the whole event was badly organized, by angry idiots. The invitation was public and the police were basically just waiting for them at the meeting point in riot gear and with some mounted officers, and held most of them there before putting them into buses. The so called "far right" held their 300-odd person march to the cemetery legally and in order, and there were zero issues. While the counterprotesters(anarchists for freedom, against violence, racism and "fascism") wearing robes and masks and black flags holding flares, were there again illegally and were themselves the usual violent angry mob they are throwing stuff at the police, the peaceful protesters and breaking stuff. For the first time since several decades in Finland, the police used force and hit someone in the eye with an FN riot air gun. 

[scriver]

I am fairly certain to assume Quiamus was talking about the demonstrants with the "torch mob" comment, not the "anti-fascist" fascists.

[martinuzz]

Some paintings that were stolen in 2005 from a Dutch museum in Hoorn, have turned up in the posession of an ultranationalistic Ukraine militia, with connections to the Ukraine intelligence and Ukraine political elite.

The thieves put up the paintings for sale on an Ukrainian website, where they were spotted by the museum's investigator. They obviously are clueless about the real price of the paintings, since the price they are asking is 10 times their value. (The paintings are worth about half a million, the thieves ask 5 million).

The museum's director said: "our collection is in posession of deeply corrupt figures, from the elite of the Ukraine government."

[Erkki]

I am fairly certain to assume Quiamus was talking about the demonstrants with the "torch mob" comment, not the "anti-fascist" fascists.

Ahh yeah, probably true. The peaceful ones were the ones with(legal) torches, while the police took away flares from the angry mob. Putintrolls havent yet decided who are theirs and who are the nazis or pro-nato-agitators.

[SirQuiamus]

Hey, look! The чухо́нцы are celebrating their independence from barbaric Tsarist oppression. Isn't it cute!

No, that's totally not an angry mob with torches and pitchforks, and yes, we are a civilized European nation and you Ruskis have no right to laugh at us!

To be fair there were only a hundred of them and the whole event was badly organized, by angry idiots. The invitation was public and the police were basically just waiting for them at the meeting point in riot gear and with some mounted officers, and held most of them there before putting them into buses. The so called "far right" held their 300-odd person march to the cemetery legally and in order, and there were zero issues. While the counterprotesters(anarchists for freedom, against violence, racism and "fascism") wearing robes and masks and black flags holding flares, were there again illegally and were themselves the usual violent angry mob they are throwing stuff at the police, the peaceful protesters and breaking stuff. For the first time since several decades in Finland, the police used force and hit someone in the eye with an FN riot air gun. 

Right-wing mob: "Our stated goal is to overthrow the government, establish a totalitarian dictatorship, and purge all the ethnic minorities, but we are willing to pay lip-service to laws and democracy and freeze peach and all that hypocritical bullshit."

Left-wing mob: "Our stated goal is to oppose the right-wing mob for obvious reasons, and we are not willing to pay lip-service to laws and democracy and freeze peach and all that hypocritical bullshit."

Can you spot the difference?

EDIT:

Putintrolls havent yet decided who are theirs and who are the nazis or pro-nato-agitators.

Putintrolls love flammable things like demonstrations, torches, and reception centres.

[Erkki]

The difference is that only one side promoted and used violence. Good luck for them if they wish to gain public support that way.

The very people who claim to fight for freedom, against totalitarism and racism, are, as demonstrated, willing to use illegal means and violence to stop peaceful means of demonstration if they are against their view of world(whether those include racism or not).

What are these "tolerant, leftist anarchists", but totalitarians themselves?

On the line from MV-magazine/Homma-forum to socioanarchists, I dont familiarize myself with either end. But I like to keep racial questions and immigration/refugees, illegal or not, separate.