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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Von der Leyen's EU?
I'd stay in Russia.
Good comrade, move to your blood soaked imperialist totalitarian utopia that is modern day Russia. No one is stopping you.
OH right, i forgot, Russia bad, US good... EU good too.
Thumps chest.
That's the right answer, right? No grey areas whatsoever, right? Dumbass.
Yes comrade, Russia good! Thumps chest.
I am plenty critical of the US regime and of Europe too. Unlike you I don't glorify the Russian dictatorship however, that is currently waging a bloody war of conquest, attempting the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine, while making the surveillance state in Russia worse by the day, with heavy censorship, persecuting any kind of independent protest, persecuting any organisation not approved by the regime and now making even consumption of non approved news sources a crime. Also attempting to push a state controlled super app to surveil every single step of every single person.
Is everything fine in the EU? Absolutely not but show me what is worse in terms if civil liberties, compared to Russia.
Talking to me about grey areas while telling me that VdL is worse than Putin.
Neither do i. Bye.
You did by claiming "VdL 's EU"is somehow worse than Russia. That is utterly absurd. It wrongly implies that the EU is somehow owned by VdL like Russia is owned by Putin. Unsurprisingly you did not even specify in which way exactly things are worse in the EU.