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TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

Which is how you got both Theresa May and the lettuce lady.

In between you had Johnson to lower the bar even further. Buy May was basically handed a flaming bag of shit when Cameron noped out of the mess he created, and she had no chance of ever making it work the way people wanted it anyway. Mind you, while I think she was generally competent, she definitely failed to see she was signing up as the fall guy for this whole debacle.

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How is it in Germany?

Even the German right wing is making much more out of immigration than it actually is.
There's some brown people on the street now, big deal.

It's fine in Germany. Streets are safe, crime is at an all-time low. There's more barber shops here now.
The only problem is the rise of our MAGA-equivalents.

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Wisconsin Man Was Found Hanging at Golf Course - His Family Wants Answers

Ok, here is a question I am wondering about: was this person even living in that compound? Was there even a reason why he would be, of all places, at a golf course in this compound?

But even then, this REEKS like a lynching anyway. It's splitting hairs a bit if the perpetrators dragged him into their compound or just took a black neighbour living there. In the end they show that this place is dangerous for POCs and that they should stay away. Which likely is what they intended in the first place.

I would also suspect the local police are into it as well, and they'll declare it a suicide after "watching" all the footage.

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What's a scientific fact that sounds made up but is 100% real?

Every single one of us is travelling through space on a tiny speck of dirt, circling a permanent explosion that doesn't know how to stop itself at 30km/s.
That explosion and multiple specks of dirt besides our own dance around the center of the galaxy in a complex ballet with 200 billion other permanently exploding balls of fire and plasma, many of which are sizeably larger than ours and also have collected pieces of dirt circling around them, at a speed of 200km/s. The center of this agglomeration of giant balls of fire and dirt is a... thing... that is in itself so massive it can't help eating everything that comes near including suns, light, and the concept of time.

And there, travelling around the center of the galaxy at 200km/s, spiraling around your sun at 30km/s, there is you. And somehow you have to work tomorrow.