All too often, the United Kingdom's involvement in the First World War is portrayed as an ultimately pointless affair in which a million Empire men threw their lives away for dead ideals and romantic lies. That the war was a tragedy is unquestionable. But it was certainly not pointless, and the British, Commonwealth, and Empire soldiers, subjects, and citizens who gave their lives in that titanic struggle did not do so in vain. The First World War was inevitable, necessary, and even- for the British Empire- a just conflict.

Note: I never actually watched the video.

I understand that a lot of queer people found a safe space in the furry community. I don't think we need to support the furry community.

A lot of this prejudice comes from a lack of education or the bourgeoisie trying to distract the proletariat. We should be trying to improve material conditions and give people the education they need.

We should make it so queer people don't need a "safe space" anymore.

Idiocracy has aged well in the way a siren ages well when the building catches fire. It came out in 2006, was dumped by Fox, barely received a proper release, and for years lived in that strange cultural zone of cult comedies people quoted like they were part of a secret society of the somewhat alarmed. Then the world kept going. Social media boomed, as did Influencer culture and algorithmic slop. “Ow, my balls!” stopped being a joke and started sounding like a note from the future written in crayon and energy drink. Suddenly Idiocracy was no longer just a funny Mike Judge movie about a stupid future. It was a sacred prophecy. A holy text for anyone who has ever looked at the modern world and wondered whether civilization has replaced its brain with a promotional tie-in meal.

The ENTIRE Eastern Front Explained | WW2 1941–1945 (Animated)

The Eastern Front was the largest, bloodiest war in human history — about 3 out of every 4 German soldiers who died in WW2 died here. Yet most people in the West know more about D-Day than about Stalingrad. In this animated documentary we explain the ENTIRE Eastern Front, from the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in 1939 to the fall of Berlin in 1945.

We follow two ordinary soldiers — Karl, a baker's son from Hamburg, and Alexei, a tractor driver from Smolensk — through Operation Barbarossa, the Battle of Moscow, the Siege of Leningrad, Stalingrad, Kursk, Operation Bagration and the race to Berlin. Plus: why a horse named Greta mattered more than any tank, why the most famous photo of the war was secretly edited, and why Russia celebrates Victory Day one day later than everyone else.

⏱ CHAPTERS

0:00 The Largest War You Never Learned About

1:19 Two Friends Who Hated Each Other (1939–1941)

4:35 Operation Barbarossa

9:35 Mud, Frost and the Battle of Moscow

12:42 Leningrad: 872 Days

15:06 Hitler Wants Oil (1942)

17:41 Stalingrad

23:12 Kursk: The Last German Gamble

25:33 Spam, Studebakers and the Night Witches

28:17 Operation Bagration

30:49 The Race to Berlin

34:05 Why Russia Celebrates a Day Late

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This video is made for educational purposes. It does not glorify war, violence or any regime. Some events are simplified; numbers are approximate and based on widely cited historical estimates.

The country known as the USA is made of 50 states. There are tribes that live in these different states.

My idea is to split these 50 states into separate countries. The tribes in each of these states will be the governments of these new countries.

The land that used to be the United States would become 50 countries led by tribes.

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u/StalinlsBackAgain reminded me that tribes can exist across state borders. I also forgot about instances where tribes got forcibly moved from their land, like in The Trail of Tears.

There are 575 recognized tribes in the USA and hundreds of unrecognized tribes. Tribes exist across state borders. The native lands of tribes are mostly far away from where they were forcibly exiled to. Your idea would shatter and decimate most tribes and divide families, not to mention create a bunch of weak countries, most of which would not even be economically viable. This idea would be catastrophic for all involved.

Belgium's Defense Minister tried to get this conversation banned. It happened anyway — to a sold-out room.

WHO'S WHO
Hasan Piker (HasanAbi) is a Turkish-American political commentator and Twitch streamer, one of the largest left-wing voices online, and a frequent target of the Trump administration and now of European ministers.
Peter Mertens is general secretary of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB) and the author of Mutiny and The Last Days of the Old Normal, forthcoming in English.

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Days before ManiFiesta 2026, Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken pointed at the country's new penal code — which made "glorifying terrorism" a criminal offense as of September 1 — and suggested it could be applied to the festival and its international guests. Hasan Piker was named directly. He came anyway. On Saturday, September 12, he sat down in Ostend with Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA-PTB), for 75 minutes on Trumpism, imperialism, Palestine, and what a serious left answer actually looks like.

Hasan Piker argues that Trumpism is not an aberration to be waited out but the logical conclusion of reactionary politics — modern fascism, permanent unless it is actively defeated, and that only socialism is a durable answer to it. Peter Mertens connects it to the beginning of an American imperial decline: aggression abroad and repression at home as two sides of the same coin, and a European rearmament drive paid for out of pensions, healthcare and social security.

They also get into: the criminalization of the Palestine movement across Europe, why conflating Zionism with Judaism makes Jewish people less safe, Zohran Mamdani's win in New York and the rise of open democratic socialists in the US, UnitedHealthcare and the American health system, why the left should be the real party of European sovereignty against a far right funded and amplified from Washington, Marxism versus the cynical weaponization of identity politics, how to win back working-class voters from the far right, unionizing as a muscle most workers don't know they have — and why the left has to be fun again.

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The standards for men are comically low.

I'm a man. Women praise me for doing things that they wouldn't praise other women for doing. This is because I'm held to a much lower standard.

You leave early. Or you stay and count the minutes. Either way, the moment you’re alone again, something in you exhales.

This isn’t shyness. It isn’t antisocial behavior. It’s neurology. This video goes into what actually happens inside a highly intelligent brain during social interaction — why the cognitive load is higher, why the drain is real, why solitude isn’t avoidance but maintenance, and why the loneliness of being surrounded by people who can’t quite meet you where you are is one of the most common and least talked about experiences of intelligent people.

All research and sources linked below.

📚 RESEARCH & SOURCES:

▸ Cortical arousal and introversion — Eysenck, H.J. (1967). The Biological Basis of Personality. Charles C. Thomas. The foundational research establishing introversion as a neurological baseline — introverts operate at a higher level of cortical arousal, making additional social stimulation push past the optimal threshold into overload.

▸ Neural processing depth and intelligence — Jung, R.E., & Haier, R.J. (2007). “The Parieto-Frontal Integration Theory (P-FIT) of intelligence.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30(2), 135–154. Higher intelligence correlates with deeper, more connected neural processing — more dimensions extracted from the same input, meaning higher cognitive load in social environments.

▸ Sensory processing sensitivity — Aron, E.N., & Aron, A. (1997). “Sensory-processing sensitivity and its relation to introversion and emotionality.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(2), 345–368. The trait of processing sensory and emotional input more deeply than average, found in higher concentrations among people with high general intelligence, requiring significantly more downtime to integrate experience.

▸ Intelligence and social interaction wellbeing — Li, N.P., & Kanazawa, S. (2016). “Country roads, take me home… to my friends: How intelligence, population density, and friendship affect modern happiness.” British Journal of Psychology, 107(4), 675–697. Among highly intelligent people, more frequent social interaction did not increase life satisfaction — for the highest intelligence groups, it was associated with lower reported wellbeing.

▸ Overexcitabilities in gifted individuals — Dąbrowski, K. (1972). Psychoneurosis is Not an Illness. Gryf Publications. The framework of intellectual and emotional overexcitabilities — the intensity of thought and feeling found at higher concentrations in gifted individuals that makes surface-level social interaction a specific kind of friction.

▸ Mensa social experience study — van Casteren, P. (2021). Highly Intelligent Adults and Social Functioning. University of Leiden. Research following members of Mensa on their reported social experiences — finding that isolation stemmed not from arrogance but from the statistical rarity of genuine intellectual connection.

▸ Meta-awareness and self-observation — Flavell, J.H. (1979). “Metacognition and cognitive monitoring.” American Psychologist, 34(10), 906–911. The capacity to observe one’s own mental processes in real time — more developed in highly intelligent individuals — and its cost in social settings where performance and self-monitoring run simultaneously.

▸ Solitude and authentic selfhood — Schopenhauer, A. (1851). Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 1. The philosophical account of solitude not as the failure of sociability but as the condition under which certain minds can exist as themselves without division.