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[–] [S] 137 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Context: on September 11 1973, the democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende was overthrown by Pinochet.

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  • [+] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For once, no, actually. The CIA tried to overthrow him a few years earlier and failed. Pinochet's coup caught the CIA by surprise, as Pinochet had... very effectively given the impression of being 'nonpolitical' and loyal to the government, to the point where Allende himself was shocked to hear of his involvement.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Also context: spoilers for a certain character in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Madoka for short), a highly recommended magical girl anime and must watch classic.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Can you tell the spoiler? I wont watch that anime, but it would be interesting to know the full background of the meme.

    The other 2 characters on the top image are Pim and Charlie from Smiling Friends

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Magical girl who's power is to go back in time. Keeps going back in time to try and save one of her friends but each time reversal results in them being less close as friends. In the main timeline of the show they've basically become strangers.

    Being meguca is suffering.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Time travel sucks. No accurate time travel story ends happily, even if the resolution overall is good. Looper is a great example of a good one. I think Primer too, but I still have trouble with it, even with all the aids and charts. Oh, and 12 Monkeys, an easier one to follow.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    who's power is to go back in time

    Also stopping time. And hammerspace. Like, for storing whole aircraft carriers, if she felt like it. Also teleportation. Also creating projectiles out of thin air (but I think that goes for most magical girls in the series). Possibly also flight, or just jumping very high, but again that probably goes for all of them.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] [S] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Like everyone who uses european calendar system except americans? Who would have guessed!

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    Yeah, Europeans trying to dunk on Americans for their date formatting is pretty funny when they're both absolute shit compared to ISO

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shittiness is relative, not absolute. The American system is shitty compared to the European one, and the latter is shitty compared to ISO.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It really is no less shitty, you're just used to it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, it is in a logical order. I call that less shitty.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Being in a logical order doesn't make it less shitty. When else do numbers get ordered from small to large? Putting the numbers in alphabetical order is logical, too, but in an equally "less shitty" way.

    The only ordering without a downside is large to small. Preferring "1st of June" to "June 1st" is all familiarity and that's fine. There's ways the American method is "better," too, but we'd be arguing about who stepped in less shit. So let us rid ourselves of these dirty shoes and bask in the perfection of the ISO 8601 date standard!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eh, not everyone. The Japanese go year-month-day.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So in everyday life they would say month-day?

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