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  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldUnder Stalin
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    7 days ago

    A quick and drunk google:

    • In 1939 the Soviet Union had around 171m people. At the end of 1940 there were about 1.5m people in gulags - 0.87% of the population

    • In 2023 the USA had 664k prisoners and a population of 337m - 0.19%

    Over the course of 40 years, 14-18m people went through the gulags, and over 1.5m people died.





  • A 1999 comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has been fuelling these rumours. In a new edition released in 2021, she claimed the next big earthquake would strike on 5 July this year.

    It’s called “The Future I Saw”, with diary entries and is “based on a dream”. One of the covers had a big disaster happening in 2011. That’s the year Fukushima was hit with a tsunami.

    A lot of superstition has arisen around it, causing tourism to drop off recently. And flights from Hong Kong to Japan have been massively reduced, and one airline even halted their flights there as of a week ago.





  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHow indeed
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    9 days ago

    The masons and other specialized workers were paid, and there is a theory that many of the laborers living near Giza were paid, but no one actually knows if they were. What is known, is that slaves were used in that era, and thinking they weren’t at least used in transportation of materials is naive.





  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe real culprit
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    10 days ago

    It’s worth it if you can view it with the mindset that it’s intentionally silly/“camp”. For a very basic comparison: It’s in a similar style to shows like Buffy or Charmed, just more self-aware.

    Although it has to be said: It was technically a spinoff from Hercules, and there are crossover episodes. But that show is not nearly as good, for a multitude of reasons. And it got to the point where Kevin Sorbo(Hercules) is still salty about how a lot of the crew went over to Xena. He has even accused Lucy Lawless on social media of “stealing” crew from his show. To which she just laughs and mocks him, like she regularly does when he says stupid things.



  • Raltoid@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe real culprit
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    12 days ago

    People who talk like that have only seen pictures from the show, or they watched it a little bit when they were a child and don’t remember 99%.

    Because Xena and Gabrielle did pretty much everything except the physical deeds. And it was recently confirmed in a comic, where they kiss and say they love eachother.

    Hell, you could probably show them the old show with the parts set in modern times and they’d blow their gasket. Becase the reincarnations are the opposite genders for a while.