Search results

  • Users: gral
  • Order by date
  1. gral

    The Americas 🇧🇷 Federative Republic of Brazil Discussion Megathread

    They look so enamoured with each other...
  2. gral

    Fitness General: Diet, Motivation, Body Positivity, and Memes

    Not quite. What the Gracies did, AIUI, was overemphasize the so-called "ground" part of jujutsu(jiu-jitsu is a Brazilian mispronunciation of the original Japanese word) - locks, immobilizations and so on - while de-emphasizing the kicks and punches. They did so because Carlos and Hélio Gracie...
  3. gral

    The Americas Chaos In Haiti

    They already did that. It didn't work. I wonder if the only way it would work is if they go full genocide on the Haitians, which would not be allowed for various obvious reasons(... at least, for now).
  4. gral

    Immigration and multiculturalism news

    Yeah, I noticed that, too.
  5. gral

    Oceans apart no longer.Or, ASB ISOTs the UK minus Ireland to the western hemisphere.

    Disagree here. Blockade of Germany has become an impossibility, so if the French stop attacking, Germany gangs up on Russia, turning back on the French after the Russians are taken out from the War. Even if the French stop the Germans, the German situation is much better with Russia subdued...
  6. gral

    Finland's and Sweden's NATO accession following thread.

    That's part of the reason the heat was on Orban
  7. gral

    What if Buddhism was "a bust" in East Asia?

    I do wonder what would Shinto be like if it had had been influenced by Taoism instead of Buddhism...
  8. gral

    Finland's and Sweden's NATO accession following thread.

    Orban's opposition to Sweden was always an extortion racket, just like Erdogan's had been. It's just that by now, the pressure on him by now was so strong that he had to take what he could right now and stop the racket.
  9. gral

    Five minutes of hate news

    His heir, BTW is MUCH worse.
  10. gral

    Alternate History Vivat Stilicho!

    The Egyptians are fucked yes, and this may alleviate some of the pressure on the Holy Land in the future. Also, yes, Ethiopia and the Horn becoming a bastion of Orthodox Islam is a possibility. On other matters, looks like the British did Agincourt some four centuries in advance.
  11. gral

    German News - Old News Today

    They elected Seinfeld as Miss Germany
  12. gral

    The Americas 🇧🇷 Federative Republic of Brazil Discussion Megathread

    I expect that to bite them in the butt in the future, in the whole world. I don't see good times for them in the next 50 years.
  13. gral

    Artwork Messing around with AI, A Art thread.

    Doesn't surprise me. At all.
  14. gral

    The Americas 🇧🇷 Federative Republic of Brazil Discussion Megathread

    This was Lula trying to play Israeli partisan politics(trying to shake Netanyahu so he'll fall), like Biden is doing. He wouldn't have said anything near that had the Israeli PM been a leftist. For what is worth, I don't even think he has managed to break ties with the Jewish diaspora in...
  15. gral

    Very well, then

    Very well, then
  16. gral

    Russia(gate/bot) Russia-Ukraine War Politics Thread Mk. 2

    Also, the average Russian seems to be for it(they just don't want to be in the frontlines). Amusingly enough, this is one of those times an authoritarian government does something that its popular(another recent example is Burma expelling the Rohingya).
  17. gral

    History Western Civilization, Rome and Cyclical History

    Yes, I understand him. I don't think it is the most probable result, but the chance of it happening is big enough to worry.
  18. gral

    But I'm Brazilian... As for the avatar: I'm too lazy to choose one and put it on my profile.

    But I'm Brazilian... As for the avatar: I'm too lazy to choose one and put it on my profile.
  19. gral

    History Western Civilization, Rome and Cyclical History

    That was the tune of his latest videos, yes, but on this one, he's talking about all-out societal collapse. Reading about the Mouse Utopia(not Disneyland) scared him on a fundamental level, I think.
  20. gral

    What if both East and West Rome fell at the same time?

    Would Muhammad even rise, with the 175 years before the Hegira being so different? I think that even if an Islam-analogue rises, there will be substantial differences to OTL Islam.
Top