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Proletics Serious Discussion - Nothing Changes Edition Bernd

07/18/2024 (Thu) 14:12 [Preview] No. 52219 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

Previous thread: >>36217

Found fun informational. It's dated, I think from 2019 but things seems to be the same. Not sure about that Paris Climate Agreement tho.

As in last post in prev thread stated today EU Parliament voted back Ursula von der Leyen as the president of the EU Commission (EU govt. basically).
719 deputy
707 votes
401 yes
284 no
15 abstained
7 invalid votes
She's so dumb, and the dumbest statements she makes. She's also a bit dated, she was first elected in 2019. But it shows how strong the leftlib is, they stay in power as expected, despite all the bleeting in the leftlib press about far-right danger.

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Bernd

04/03/2025 (Thu) 07:18 [Preview] No.54201 [X] del

Now. About the aforementioned corrupt politician.
Netanyahu arrived to Hungary for a lengthy visit, he stays till Sunday.
Weird tho. They said he's gonna arrive on Wednesday evening. And then the story is now that he arrived this morning. On the other hand the photo was done in dark. Did he arrive during the night? Before dawn?
The spicy thing is that the International Criminal Court has an arrest warrant against him, and despite Hungary participates in that our govt. denied to do such thing.
https://magyarnemzet.hu/kulfold/2025/04/netanjahu-budapesti-latogatasa

Anyway what is he doing here? He won't just talk to Orbán this much we know. I assume he'll meet various representatives of the local Jews and I expect some meetings with EU officials, I assume they'll come here too. Bibi hasn't been in the EU for quite a while, over ten year or so. Relations strained, all these nonsense about the Palestinians, you know.
Our news says nothing, they make big fuss about traffic restrictions, some roads will be barred.
https://dailynewshungary.com/israeli-pm-netanyahus-four-day-visit-to-budapest-huge-traffic-restrictions-icc-arrest-warrant/

Bernd

04/04/2025 (Fri) 07:06 [Preview] No.54204 [X] del

Trying to find the Orbán-Netanyahu press conference. There are quite a few long ones. Dl'd an over 3 hours long video and even that's cut.
And I'm not sure the language. Do they speak Hungarian and Hebrew? I found a 4 minute slice, Bibi talks in English.
I don't have the time now, but I'll try today.
I know from the news that we announced Hungary's exit from ICC. Does this mean Putin will visit too? Trump meets Putin on the Hungary would be a banger.

Bernd

04/10/2025 (Thu) 09:26 [Preview] No.54217 [X] del

It's kinda hard to assess what Netanyahu's visit was about.
He visited the shoes at the Danube ofc, Holocaust is always part of the ritual, and I assume he met the representatives of various Jewish/Israelite communities of the Hungary, I did found any mentions in the news about this, but it feels like a given.
Articles write about a phone call, between him, Orbán, and Trump, and they note he flew straight to Washington from here, to talk about the new tariffs of Trump.
But here he gave a speech at a university, talked to Orbán, and met with our foreign minister with his delegation.
What were the topics? Beyond our exit from the International Criminal Court.
Economy and security for sure. As Bibi said: Israel needed a strong economy and strong military to stay alive.
I heard/read mentions about car industry, Israeli companies on the Hungary and the thousands of jobs they offer, and tourism.
As for security, Szijjártó, our foreign minister, said that security is a technological challenge these days. No details. So here's couple of assumptions:
I assume our govt. buys more snoop tech from Israel and will use it against Hungarian population in the name of "rising anti-semitism in Europe cause by illegal migration". After all they were the ones who acquired and used a spyware Pegasus by NSO Group to wiretap journalists, businessmen and related persons.
Just recently, a month ago perhaps, bomb threats were sent to over 250 schools in email. Long drivel about Allah and such. I'm sure they want to read emails and check logins and whatever.
And ofc we have to remember the explosives beepers were assembled on the Hungary...
Lotsa stuff to cooperate about in the future. I'm sure these things will get more ridiculous by the day.

One thing have to be noted.
This political alignment of conservative populist leaders. A French news source pointed out that both Orbán and Bibi are looking for allies, since both are fairly isolated. And for sure the "right wingers, unite" tune is popular these days. Trump rounding up the Trio. We host a CPAC conference in each year now. And within the EU too, see the formation of the Patriots group the European Parliament. And all these "hardliner" "far-right" parties are very much anti-muslim, anti-immigrant, but pro-Israel types. But I don't see how the other arm of the horseshoe, the leftists and liberals are against Israel, beyond lukewarm sympathy towards the Palestinians. Not Sholz, nor Macron would arrest Bibi if he visited their country.

Bernd

04/15/2025 (Tue) 19:44 [Preview] No.54223 [X] del >>54224

Reading U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, enemies and empire (by David Sylvan and Stephen Majeski) these days, I already recommended it on various boards, and usually post picrel too. I really should write up a series posts about it, but so many ways to approach this, seems like a complex task, and I'm not the most active these days.
We'll see. It could be a good to really engrave it into the brain.

Bernd

04/17/2025 (Thu) 12:57 [Preview] No.54224 [X] del

>>54223
The book has a companion website which features "intervention" cases, basically examples of US foreign policy actions. The book itself features others. These examples demonstrate how US acts and what policies it has.
https://www.us-foreign-policy-perspective.org/

So.
Since the Spanish-American War of 1898 the United States started to build her client empire. The book was published in 2008, but the list of clients they give is dated to 2005. Since then 20 years passed and I'm sure some changes happened, like the failure and withdrawal in Afghanistan, or that Hungary got on the list too.
Picrels show four points in time how this client empire grew.
Here's the list:
Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia. It's not a lot, but most countries there are clients of US clients', such as France. This is a multi-level clientèle.
The Americas and related islands: all but Cuba. I wonder how they'd rank Venezuela these days.
Europe: Austria, B&H, BeNeLux, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK. Long list of non clients, I assume that list got shorter.
Middle East and North Africa: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates. Noteworthy: Lebanon was on the list for a while back.
Caucasus, Central and South Asia: Afghanistan, Pakistan. The first one is not anymore obviously.
Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, New Zealand, Palau, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand.

Syria Thread - Iranian Backed Edition Bernd

02/22/2024 (Thu) 21:33 [Preview] No. 51681 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

Previous: >>50296

Nothing much going on in Syria anymore. Bit of ISIS I see on the map, and the SAA bombarding rebels on the north east. Beside that Israel is constantly attacking into Syria, targeting Iranian backed terrorists, and Iranian backed militias, and apparently Iranian militias themselves.
In Israel, the IDF still wrestling with some Iranian backed, dirty, barefeet, stone throwing kids since October... Where Yom Kippur and Six-Day Wars disappeared? Anyway. In Gaza they bombing Iranian backed Hamas, in Lebanon the Iranian backed Hezbollah. Sometimes they have a cease fire to release hostages as the Iranian backed Qatar negotiates it.
From Yemen, the Iranian backed Houthis raiding the shipping lanes with drones and whatnot.
In Ukraine the Iranian backed RAF/RuAf is on the attack. The initiative is theirs, AFU tries holding their trenches, forts, and foxholes. I heard couple of interesting things today, but would need some drawing and look up possible sources.

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Bernd

04/06/2025 (Sun) 19:40 [Preview] No.54208 [X] del

Shame assad didn't get the gadhaffi treatment, he richly deserves it.

Bernd

04/08/2025 (Tue) 20:09 [Preview] No.54212 [X] del >>54213

Why Europeon countries doesn't learn from the war?
The war shows that mass produced cheap weapons are the most effective. Drones, barreled artillery, multiple rocket launchers, FABs. Even Javelins and Stingers and other manpads. Su-24 is an age old plane model great for delivering the stupid bombs, and the most modern tanks' life expectancy can be just as short as any Ruski T-series tank. Bradleys are great too.
Sure AA platforms cannot be called cheap and has major role like other not so easily produced stuff such as EW.
Still over 9001 generation airplanes and tanks, sophisticated bluetooth delivered rocket artillery, whatever. Expense go up, issue number down. I mean it's good to use them to reach that 2% target spending (5% by now???) but it won't help out Ukraine, or build up that force some EU bureaucrats like to blab about.
I'm guessing they don't really want to help Ukraine or have that Grand Europeon Army.
Another possibility that came to mind: what if they the governments of these countries are shitscared of getting couped.
I also wonder what advice the US gives to her clients about this.

Bernd

04/08/2025 (Tue) 20:19 [Preview] No.54213 [X] del

>>54212
cont.
And then there can be long term considerations, all investments could be useless. Chances for an actual war for NATO countries against a similar adversary is pretty slim. Nuclear deterrence is specifically there to avoid such things. Their future enemies still are the bearded towelheads in robes and flipflops with AKs.

Bernd

04/12/2025 (Sat) 20:30 [Preview] No.54219 [X] del >>54220

Another not so fresh news: how that 100K shells/month by 2025 thing stands. In 2024 October.
So at 2022 Feb US made 14,400 shells per month.
They planned to up that to 100K.
By 2022 sept, they were producing 28K
By 2024 October that was 40K.
And they aimed 55K by the end of the year... ie. by 2025

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2024/10/14/army-races-to-widen-the-bottlenecks-of-artillery-shell-production/

Bernd

04/12/2025 (Sat) 20:37 [Preview] No.54220 [X] del

>>54219
And have to remember: all the shells the West ("West" like Czechia) provided are either were from weapon depots, or purchased third parties's weapon depots. Not nearly enough production.
Russia too got stock shells from Best Korea, but they make 250K a month now.

Websites Bernd

04/30/2018 (Mon) 16:12 [Preview] No. 16201 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

Let's share great websites. I'll start:
http://spidr.today/?c=de for news

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Bernd

01/26/2024 (Fri) 02:08 [Preview] No.51575 [X] del

>>51545
It's still good. T.Hanks for the link

Bernd

01/26/2024 (Fri) 02:09 [Preview] No.51576 [X] del >>51577 >>51579

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Speaking of websites, let's talk about our board.

We have old banners from years ago. With one linking to an old domain. Will mods update the info on the banners and/or add new banners? Time will tell

Bernd

01/26/2024 (Fri) 07:26 [Preview] No.51577 [X] del

>>51576
You are right. I'll look into it sometimes.

Bernd

01/27/2024 (Sat) 13:48 [Preview] No.51579 [X] del >>51585

>>51576
I could replace banners if someone makes new ones.

Bernd

01/28/2024 (Sun) 10:43 [Preview] No.51585 [X] del

Perhaps this should go into the tech thread. But it is a great ChatGPT website:
https://chat-jai-pete.fr/

>>51579
Thank you for your service.
I'll see what can be done about it.

Homeschooling in Germany Bernd

04/08/2025 (Tue) 15:36 [Preview] No. 54209 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

>inb4 illegal
no shit Sherlock

I am looking for practical ways to not get my kids ruined by the school system.
Ideally in or between Sauerland and Pfalz.
More precisely I want to get in contact with people who have similar ideas or are doing it allready. Moving to other parts of Germany is possible if necessary.
All I found on the web so far, are people to far away from me or overprized skype calls.

Bernd

04/08/2025 (Tue) 19:09 [Preview] No.54210 [X] del >>54211

Is it illegal?
Consult with local laws.
>not get my kids ruined by the school system.
You want to ruin your kids yourself. A bit of DIY. You know not having your kids socializing with other kids can fuck them up pretty well.
>I want to get in contact with people who have similar ideas or are doing it allready.
/kc/ is bad place for it. You can get contact only with me here. Noone else is here.
>picrel comfy home
It comfy only on the pic. It's called poverty otherwise. There is a reason why Slavic serfs wanted to hang their liege lords all the time.
Also
>säge
Why?

Bernd

04/08/2025 (Tue) 19:34 [Preview] No.54211 [X] del >>54214

>>54210
>You know not having your kids socializing with other kids can fuck them up pretty well.
>>I want to get in contact with people who have similar ideas or are doing it allready.
Didnt you realize anything writing this right next to each other?

>Is it illegal?
to my knowlege there is no legal way in Germany. I also would have assumed that there are only Germans on Krautchan end you would know Schulfplicht. At this point I wonder, wieso wir nicht deutsch sprechen...
>You can get contact only with me here. Noone else is here.
You are talking to yourself on this board?

Bernd

04/09/2025 (Wed) 06:20 [Preview] No.54214 [X] del >>54215

>>54211
>only Germans on Krautchan
Are you:
- retarded?
- this new?
When you show up on an imageboard, and specifically on a board you don't know, do you ever lurk? Do you ever make an effort to get to know it?

Bernd

04/09/2025 (Wed) 07:26 [Preview] No.54215 [X] del >>54216

>>54214
I have assumed that "krautchan" is the same as the original.
But it appears that I am wrong and this thread is missplaced.

But as I am here allready, I might aswell elaborate on why school sucks.

>every kid is individual
in school everyone gets the same curiculum
>learning works best if the kid is motivated
motivation comes from the kid, its not given to him like schools pretend
>oversocialization
there are WAY to many kids in school

Bernd

04/10/2025 (Thu) 08:36 [Preview] No.54216 [X] del

>>54215
You had never been on Krautchan, you don't have kids, and you aren't German.

15th of November - Republic Day Bernd

11/16/2018 (Fri) 01:56 [Preview] No. 20613 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

Today we celebrate and glorify Pedro II's overthrow in a military coup 129 years ago, marking our transformation into a banana republic. The strongman who led the coup is even in every 25 cent coin.
As typical, Temer spoke about the virtues and strength of liberal democracy even though the Braganza were more liberally democratic than the following regimes.

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Bernd

09/08/2022 (Thu) 12:30 [Preview] No.48696 [X] del >>48701

>>48694
That 8 wheeler looks badass.
Are they... symbolic? Any meaning they want to express?

Bernd

09/08/2022 (Thu) 21:45 [Preview] No.48701 [X] del

>>48696
They are what they are, tractors represent agriculture. The parades happen everywhere and are both civilian and military in content, back in middle school I remember marching past the town hall with my class. But this is the first time tractors partake in the capital's parade. The subtext is Bolsonaro's alliance with agribusiness.

Bernd

03/29/2025 (Sat) 19:58 [Preview] No.54196 [X] del >>54205

>>35592
Found something for this.
Specifically for the USian role of the coup against Goulart. So directly connected to these posts: >>36702 >>36703

Book:
U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire by Davud Sylvan and Stephen Majeski, Routledge, 2008
Chapter 5: Client maintenance by interventions
Section: Military opposed: coups d'état: Node 16, pages 168-170
I upload the whole fugging book coz why not.
Essentially supports what has been said.
The US had a cold-warm relationship with Goulart, starting from a "clever opportunist" whom they can work well with and arriving to a dangerous communist who can turn Brazil into China. They get info from their local contacts and wrote reports for Washington, to State, Treasury, and DoD. They encouraged the coupists to do what they want and organized support. The book doesn't say what the rebels actually got or not.
What have to be know about the book and that chapter: it's about how US created, increases, and maintains it's client empire. The client allows US to gather information about the country, and the US as patron gives advice and suggestions to the regime. The US helps it to stay in power, in return some perks (for US military or companies, etc). When leaders don't listen the US might pressure them. If the leaders themselves became nuisance the US will start contemplating to swap them with someone else. There are a number of possibilities depending on the circumstances. This specific one with in Brazil, the military (or at least sufficient part of it) opposed the leader, so a coup could be encouraged, green lighted, supported, and after the events: legitimized.
Note: their first choice is always nudging the client's military to coup - since most of the time the US has excellent relations with these armies, usually they organize, equip, train, advise, or even pay them. But sometimes the military is too cozy with the unwanted leader. Not in case of Brazil.
The part of the book cites lots of quotes. The source are the official documents, published in the series of Foreign Relations of the United States, two volumes, specifically:
- 1961-1963, Volume XII, American Republics
- 1964–1968, Volume XXXI, South and Central America; Mexico
Both can be read and downloaded here:

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Bernd

04/05/2025 (Sat) 11:18 [Preview] No.54205 [X] del >>54206

>>54196
The authors mischaracterize Goulart's March 13th rally ("in which he called for constitutional amendments, among them the legalization of the communist party"), his speech never mentioned the Communist Party - but indeed, banners calling for its legalization are prominent in famous photographs of the event. I was more intrigued by their mention of "the right-wing forces from whom the U.S. was already distancing itself or from the major industrialists or landowners whom the U.S. had already been willing to sell out". History proves Americans can abandon their allies, but Marxist analysis would absolutely rule out abandoning industrialists tied to American capital. In fact, this strand of thought would place economic interests far above geopolitical concerns, ultimately dismissing all talk of communism as a smokescreen for upper class interests harmed by potential social democratic reforms. I'd say early attempts at a constructive American relationship with Goulart do suggest a tolerance for moderate reforms if coupled with a pro-Western foreign policy.

On the inverse topic, that of Eastern Bloc support for Goulart's camp, two intelligence documents from the JFK files have made the news, one covering the 1961 crisis and another written after the coup. Actually it seems both were released years ago and this year's versions just have slightly less redacted sections.

The file I'm sharing reinforces what was already known to historians on Cuban projection of soft power and training of guerrilla operatives. The insignificant scale of the latter was made evident during and after the coup, when no insurgent cell made any attack of note against the military and the left was by and large caught unarmed and unprepared. Leftist insurgents only picked up in number after 1968.

Bernd

04/05/2025 (Sat) 17:55 [Preview] No.54206 [X] del

>>54205
>his speech never mentioned the Communist Party
Perhaps it was one of the constitutional amendments, he just did not mentioned it specifically in the speech itself.
>I was more intrigued by their mention of "the right-wing forces from whom the U.S. was already distancing itself or from the major industrialists or landowners whom the U.S. had already been willing to sell out"
>History proves Americans can abandon their allies, but Marxist analysis would absolutely rule out abandoning industrialists tied to American capital.
The chapter itself is about client maintenance by intervention. By default the US maintains the client regimes by giving them various assistance (like advice, helping them to get loans from the IMF or World Bank, transfers arms, etc.) but occasionally the US have to intervene actively to save the ass of the regime.
It can happen however that the US finds the regime fine, except the leader who starts steer away from them. The first things the bureaucrats including army officers and CIA agents think: we should coup his ass. Then they check what is the settis in the country:
1. the military supports the leader, but they are weak - coup is not possible, but the US military can do the necessary changes
2. the military supports the leader, and strong enough - coup is not possible, too much cost for the US army, so they just sit back and apply pressure on the regime, like denying weapon supplies, or preventing them to get loans (from IMF, World Bank), tariff them, etc. eg.: Venezuela since Chavez
3. Military neutral - coup is possible by changing the military's mind, US creates a proxy force as to intervene, prepares a US invasion to put pressure on, and encourages the military to do a coup, basically they dupe the military to think: if they don't eject the leader the US will crush them.
4. Military opposes the leader - coups is possible since they want to do it, US just gives the green light, then legitimizes the new leadership.
Remember these are all clients of the US already, "friendly" countries. In case of Brazil it seemed it will fall into category #2 due they perceived the army support Goulart enough, and the country is too big both territory and population to do something about it themselves. So they prepared to distance themselves so they can hamper and sabotage the country where they can with diplomatic and economic tools Brazil could had went the Venezuela way. But the army signaled to the US that they are ready to remove Goulart, this meant option #4. The US let Brazil itself to take care of the leader whom the US perceived as a problem.

I really recommend the book, it gives quite a perspective on how to view USian relations. There should be a website for the book. I'm not sure if it is still up.

Sports Bernd

11/07/2021 (Sun) 19:28 [Preview] No. 45473 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

Does Bernd go to gym? Maybe Bernd does other sports?
If not, you should start!

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Bernd

08/11/2024 (Sun) 16:41 [Preview] No.52310 [X] del >>52312

Japan shot above us and they are now on 20 Gold Medals(and Australia is still stuck on 18). Japan did really well in wrestling and they also got a gold medal in women's Javelin and women's Breakdancing.
Our women's breakdancer became a meme... She wasn't very good.

Both China and the USA are on 40 gold Medals now and I am going to bed. The Olympics will be over when I get up and I hope that China will push ahead of the USA and manage to win. That would be something.

>>52305
>>52307
I would guess that you regret calling New Zealand a non-country, given that you are below even more of a non-country now. But New Zealand is doing really well, they have 10 gold medals at the moment. New Zealand is doing even better than Australia is per capita.

Bernd

08/11/2024 (Sun) 17:43 [Preview] No.52312 [X] del

>>52310
>you regret calling New Zealand a non-country,
Will never regret such thing.
>you regret calling New Zealand a non-country,
Yeah, pesky Canada is now between NZ and us with Uzbekistan.

Bernd

08/12/2024 (Mon) 08:21 [Preview] No.52314 [X] del

Olympics came to their end. The sporting drama ended - they seem to be proud of such bs.
The final ranking established, both US and China won 40 gold medals, but the US medal harvest in volume was greater. Much greater by 35 medals. Many countries would be glad just with the half of that.
This table is chiefly weighs the gold as the metrics to establish the rankings. Purely if we count all the medals won, the order would change a bit. Not by much, but Brazil - with her low gold count - would jump a lot.
As for Hungary, the expected medal count was around 20, which "target" our competitors accomplished. Basically on the level of previous olympic achievements. Surprisingly no medals in water polo, which we are traditionally strong in.
If we take a look at the sports and the medal distribution - athletics, canoe, fencing, swimming, pentathlon, shooting, taekwondo - we can declare we "specialize" in canoe, swimming, and fencing pentathlon also include swimming, fencing, and shooting. Taekwondo is a fluke. It would be nice if our athletes could diversify, and bring results in other sports.
We'll see in four years how they fare. If we live that long.

Bernd

03/21/2025 (Fri) 09:36 [Preview] No.54189 [X] del

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This season of Nations League our team isn't doing good. During regular group matches we only managed to beat Bosnia once, got 2 big suits from Germany and Netherlands I assume the both teams learnt from our last years results against the big teams, England, Germany, and Italy, and they went all in, the rest were thin draws. This was only enough for not get relegated from Group A straight away, we can fight to stay in.
We got Turkey as opponents. Yesterday we lost 3-1. I listened the short interview with Szoboszlai, his initial assessment of the team was that they sucked. Oh well. I know they are capable of more, they have 2 days rest and then they have to beat Turkey bad, but now on home turf.

Bernd

04/03/2025 (Thu) 08:27 [Preview] No.54202 [X] del

Dang we got our ass whopped big time.

Bernd

11/17/2019 (Sun) 20:06 [Preview] No. 32381 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

I just realised something... something spooky as fuck.

You know how sumo is derived from some ancient rituals? How it was performed in shrines, to appease the kami, to ensure prosperity? It was only later professionalised, and is now performed on a national level by salaried wrestlers, but there are still many religious elements, from how the ring is consecrated by a priest before each tournament, yokozuna entering the ring with that big white rope around his belt, to wrestlers actually throwing salt into the ring before each bout as a means of consecration. It is a deeply religious ritual, somehow performed to appease the kami for the entire nation of Japan. Kinda like how the ancient Olympic Games were performed on temple grounds, and were a form of vitalist worship of Greek gods.

You know when's the last time sumo wasn't performed as scheduled? March 2011. The March of the earthquake and tsunami that rekt Japan. But guess what? The tournament was cancelled a month before. Because of some match-fixing scandal. Yep, that's right. And the earthquake happened 2 days before the tournament was scheduled.

The earthquake happened because the sumo ritual wasn't performed. Because the kami weren't appeased. They were pissed and caused the earthquake as a warning.

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Bernd

03/09/2025 (Sun) 12:24 [Preview] No.54162 [X] del

Slov, if you read this you better be: I have sauce for the videos from plvideo.

Bernd

03/09/2025 (Sun) 20:50 [Preview] No.54167 [X] del

Was a good opening day. No Takayasu did not choke. In case Slov reads, I don't write more spoilers.

Bernd

03/22/2025 (Sat) 14:36 [Preview] No.54190 [X] del

Penultimate day of Haru Basho. Exciting tournament so far, not without surprises. The fate of all the lower division championships are decided already, but makuuchi will keep us suspense till the last day.
In juryo another new Isegahama lad, Kusano cut through the ranks for the title. He seems to be also from amateur sumo, so he started in makushita, but his results at this point weren't too impressive: 6-1, 5-2, 5-2, 4-3, 4-3. Now he is making a splash. Up till yesterday he had only one losses. We'll see if he can bag the last to points.

In makuuchi good, old, hairy Takayas' is leading the list, with 11-2. Onosato follows by one less point. Then half a dozen 9-4s, their ranks will be cut in half today, odds favour Takerufuji and Daieisho. If Takayasu fails on both days of the weekend, a 9-4 also could grab the yusho. In theory, since Onosato will have a major say in this.
Takayasu had been runner up for 8 times for the yusho already. He was an ozeki too, he'd really deserve to hold that cup finally.

Kotozakura saved his ozeki title, getting a kachi-koshi. However from a holder of that title everyone expects better performances.
Sadly yokozuna Hoshoryu had to go kyujo due to an arm injury. Hopefully he can recover. Terunofuji had to retire due to the massive amount of injuries his body suffered, hopefully Hoshoryu won't forced to follow and leave so early in his career. Well actually I'm quite positive he won't.

Bernd

03/23/2025 (Sun) 22:05 [Preview] No.54191 [X] del

Very good basho. Last day was full of great matches. Like how Aonishiki beat Oho or Wakamotoharu pushed Takerufuji out. But the top was the Onosato vs Takayasu rassle!
Takayas' and Onosato entered the last day both with 11-3 and both of them beat their opponents so they had to meet in the playoffs! In the end Onosato could held the cup in the air.
Trying to upload the full match, with the ceremony beforehand.
I'm sad for Takayasu, it's his 9th time he is runner up for the yusho, and apparently the 3rd time he loses in the playoffs. He had a good career, reaching the title of ozeki too, but never won a tournament. He would have deserved it. He is getting old, who knows how many times he can repeat a feat like what he did now.
Congrats Onosato, he might be a yokozuna soon.

Have to mention Kusano, down in juryo, finishing with 14 victories! Excellent job.

Bernd

03/23/2025 (Sun) 22:06 [Preview] No.54192 [X] del

20rh August State Foundation Day Bernd

08/20/2018 (Mon) 06:19 [Preview] No. 18586 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

A year passed and again this day commemorates the foundation of Hungary, this is 1018th birthday. We celebrate this national holiday with listening to politicians mixing irrelevant daily politics into historical events in the morning and watching fireworks in the evening. Budapesterners can witness the procession of state founder Saint Stephen's Holy Dexter. Also all the local communities have their own little celebrations.
This is the third time I make this thread, and I won't post much, maybe I'll post something about what happened today - if anything interesting - later.

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Bernd

03/15/2025 (Sat) 15:48 [Preview] No.54181 [X] del >>54182

>>54180
cont.
#17 The start of the revolution in Vienna
Very romantic notion, the ladies tying ribbons on the arms of the gentlemen sending them to their mission for Freedom.
#18 Viennese mob attacks Archduke Albrecht
This is more liek it.
#19 Austrian soldiers fire at the revolutionaries at Hoher Markt on March 14
I think this event was inititated by the aforementioned Archduke Albrecht, who give the order to fire in the mass of people.
#20 Adolf Fischhof
Jewish-Hungarian citizen of Pest, physician in Vienna. He gained popularity with his public speeches, got into politics, a notable figure in the Viennese revolution. Today Orbán mentioned him in his speech.

Bernd

03/15/2025 (Sat) 15:49 [Preview] No.54182 [X] del >>54183

>>54181
cont.
Goddamit lots pics.
#21 Welcoming of the Hungarian delegation in Vienna
#22 Release of political prisoners in Vienna
#23 The fall of Metternich, cartoon
He takes censorship with himself as he leaves the country.
#24 Metternich as a street entertainer in Siberia, cartoon

Bernd

03/15/2025 (Sat) 16:02 [Preview] No.54183 [X] del >>54184

>>54182
cont.
Last round with some pics from 1848 March 15
#25 We wow that we won't be slaves anymore!
A line from a revolutionary poem of Petőfi. He recited this poem to the mass during the initial protests at Pest. The drawing is a romanticized depiction of the event, by Zichy Mihály.
#26 Liberté, égalité, fraternité
Same artist.
#27 A more realistic depiction of the recitiation of said poem.
The event happened at the Hungarian National Museum. Gonna post a pic in of it in the next post.
#28 A memorial of the revolution.

Bernd

03/15/2025 (Sat) 16:03 [Preview] No.54184 [X] del

>>54183
That's it for today. Lots of material in the book I linked. Some are quite fun.

Bernd

03/19/2025 (Wed) 16:37 [Preview] No.54188 [X] del

>>54177
>1898
How much did they have to worry about censorship?

Bernd

12/12/2020 (Sat) 14:00 [Preview] No. 41511 [Reply] [X] [Last 50 Posts]

I'm looking for a car but I don't know much about them. I am thinking of a car like a Fiat 500 or a VolksWagon Beetle. What other cars are there like this, cars that are small so they are easy to park and don't use much fuel but that also look interesting and nice.

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Dutch bernd Bernd

11/12/2024 (Tue) 02:25 [Preview] No.52569 [X] del >>52572

>>52413
t.hanks

Back to posting here after taking a lil vacation break for a few weeks. What I miss?

Bernd

11/12/2024 (Tue) 07:51 [Preview] No.52572 [X] del >>52624

>>52569
Not much, it's just me blogging, and sometimes I skip days now.

Bernd

12/04/2024 (Wed) 03:50 [Preview] No.52624 [X] del

>>52572
Well ur posts are always good, so things must have been great then. :DD

I'm not really doing much winter season. I'm just staying inside. No enthusiasms to do anything lately. That happen to other bernds during winters?

Bernd

03/11/2025 (Tue) 01:25 [Preview] No.54170 [X] del >>54176

I have come to partially disregard what people say when they're angry. Even if it's an accurate portrayal of their emotions, I've found it's not an accurate prediction of their actions. Time and time again this person promises they'll get rid of X during a fit of rage, time goes on and X is still around.

Bernd

03/15/2025 (Sat) 10:07 [Preview] No.54176 [X] del

>>54170
That's normal. Heightened emotions - not just anger - makes people say things they don't actually mean. This is why they say that time heals, as time passes tempers cool.
Rare are those people who can bide their time, and get their revenge served cold.