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he’s getting so good at this guys!
Ways of fooling a room full of seasoned counterintelligence officers: just tell the truth!
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I prefer not to think about what my parents were doing on my conceptionday
ok I get that most PCs prefer to conceptualize abortion as "prevention of existence" instead of, you know, literally the killing of a human, but I still have to ask: what makes "prevention" any better than "extermination" ? I assume that few people would think it kind if you pressed a magic button to retroactively erase all current poor and disabled people from the planet, just as they would consider the killing of those same people cruel.
Right?
I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF
This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.
Then bring me luck
the day after I posted this last time I was notified that I was selected for a really cool mentorship gig and got an unrelated glowing review at work
Hey Potato, cure my -ing cold so I can have a good time while away.
Here's the potato. Make what use of it you will. :)
God I need this so bad for my Midterm so please let this work again for me.
I don't know which of my problems I'm expecting to be solved but whatever, POTATO OF LUCK
Some creatures from New Beginnings Resale in Michigan, the sock creature and the goose came home with us
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(this is not just about sports, the core is political and historical, please read through, this is NOT just about basketball)
If you follow this blog long enough, perhaps you know I am a big supporter of the Greek National Basketball team. I started watching basketball pretty much the last 10 years. I love our athletes. Greece is amongst the European countries that are famous for their basketball culture. But the latest generation of Greek players, while good and skilled athletes and very often champions in their sports clubs in European basketball, they were not lucky with the national team. Greece had not taken a medal for 16 years and every time this generation of players started a new tournament full of hope to contribute to the heavy legacy of the previous generations, their dreams and hopes were shattered. This became especially painful when the Greek NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo became a part of this team, 10 years now or something, because the hope grew bigger and yet it was still not enough. Giannis, known in the NBA for his ambition and winner mentality, took it personally that we could not make it to the final four, even.
This year everything started once more, in this Eurobasket. This time the coach was Greek basketball legend Vassilis Spanoulis. Giannis was once again here. What's more, some others of Greece's elite players like Kostas Sloukas and Kostas Papanikolaou have been growing old, and this will be potentially their last tournament. So, there was a lot of anxiety for achieving something good eventually. For some, it might be the last chance. Unfortunately, we did not have our best center in this team. We did not have our best point guard who was injured. A lot of positions had to be filled with role players and the bench. When our team started the tournament, all Greeks had waved off any chance for success. The team was doubted.
And yet Greece reached the semi-finals (the final four) with only one insignificant loss beforehand. In the semifinals the game was against Turkey, which has created the best team in its history this year, probably. Greece suffered a heavy loss from Turkey. The reasons for this were: a) Turkey has indeed an all around better team this year, b) Turkish players came in ready to play ferociously, c) Greek players lost their nerve and played their worst and most importantly d)the Turkish national coach works in a Greek sports club, which means he is the one who coaches most of these Greek players all year around and plays against the other half Greek players all year around. In other words the Turkish coach probably knew better the Greek players than the Greek national coach who only spends like a month and a half with them. So, the heavy loss was normal and this is why the Greek players lost their shit so easily. It was like their own coach playing against them, knowing all their weaknesses.
Greece would then play for bronze with Finland and Turkey would play for the cup with Germany. Greek players were sad, we fans were very sad, but the Turks had won fairly and many of us wished them good luck forward.
But here's what happened just after the game:
a) the Turkish coach proclaimed himself "the best coach of Europe" b) the official Turkish Basketball federation posted a picture of Giannis praying and behind him their own young star Alperen Sengun dunking during training, and labeled this "NO MERCY". Very tactful. The Greek basketball federation complained and the post was deleted while the Turkish coach claimed the one who posted it was fired. Of course nobody believes him but the acknowledgement of the mistake was something, I guess. c) said Turkish 23 year old NBA player Alperen Sengun said in the press conference that Giannis - the famous Milwaukee Bucks MVP you all probably know - "is not a good passer" d) the same player, Alperen Sengun, posted on his Instagram a photo of his team with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk seated in front of them, right after Greece's defeat. For context, Ataturk is considered Turkey's ethnarch, but he also happens to be the orchestrator of the Greek, the Armenian and the Assyrian genocides of 1922 - 1923. So, with which of the two qualities did Sengun post a photo of Ataturk? If I judge from the fact that he elected to post this only after the game with Greece in specific and none of the other countries they defeated, it's clear it was with his quality as a perpetrator of ethnic cleansing. e) the same player, Alperen Sengun, posted just after the game another post on Instagram, citing a romantic Turkish song with a lyric that roughly translates to "isn't the sea breeze always nice?". This might seem harmless to you but actually he used it as a reference to the favourite motto of the Turkish nationalists of "We threw the Greeks into the sea" or the "We taught the Greeks how to swim". This is a reference to the incident of the Great Fire of Smyrna, lasting from 13 to 22 September 1922, when Turks burned the Greek, Armenian and other Christian districts of the city of Smyrna ("Giaur Izmir" as they called it, meaning "infidel Smyrna") and those Greeks they did not manage to kill, burn or rape to death, they pushed them to the city's port and drowned them inside the sea. This is what the international NBA player of Turkey was referencing. To give credit where it's due, there were also Turkish fans warning Sengun that he was taking it too far, but Alperen did not delete any post and simply deactivated the comments.
There was no commentary from any Greek player.
Two days later. Today. Greece came out and played a good game against the also strong and civilized Finnish team. Greece won the bronze with an emphatically good game from most players, above all Giannis of course. With humility, all Greek players including famous NBA MVP Giannis, celebrated the victory. Giannis even said that this, the bronze, was perhaps his greatest achievemen, because it was something he wanted for so long, and it was for country and for the family.
Once our job was done and the bronze was won, coach Spanoulis and best player Giannis addressed firmly but still way more elegantly the bullcrap coming out of Sengun's mouth in the press conference. Spanoulis said that Sengun was too young to have any opinion on Giannis.
Then it was the game of Turkey against Germany. Turkey was one small step ahead for most of the game. But you know what, German players are very experienced and they were not ready to give up their title as European champions. In the last minutes of the game, it was the Turkish star Alperen Sengun who lost the three pointer shot that would define the game. Sengun, the arrogant genocide apologist kiddo star, after all his work and fanatism to get them there, lost them the championship.
Sengun boy, too much sea can make one seasick.
Giannis Antetokounmpo as one of the top 5 players of the tournament watched the final game to be awarded later, next to the pouty Sengun who thought Giannis "is not a good passer". Giannis congratulated Germany, hugged the leader of the German team and all celebrated together, while leaving the sour Sengun and most of the Turkish team in the side, with even the Germans barely interacting with them. Famous Giannis, humble and happy for the bronze, and the young arsehole proud of mass murders who celebrated a bit too early and then was the very reason his country lost the championship on the side, like he was denied his ice cream.
And because a picture is a thousand words:
You know, I mean what I say XD
And I am really not exaggerating in any of this…
Giannis refused to shake hands with Sengun but Sengun was downright unpleasant to everybody anyway. He could barely stand shaking the hand of Germany’s MVP Dennis Schröder. Look how he looks at their handshake…
I am hearing Turkish media are already dragging Sengun. Their coach Ataman had at least the decency to honestly say in the press conference that he was too angry and disappointed to talk about Sengun's lost 3-pointer and that he "perhaps had spoken too much too early and should stop speaking now".
So, if anyone is wondering why I write so much about this, again, this is not about basketball. This is to show you, that even now, even 100 years later, the Greek genocide of Asia Minor and Pontus is not a thing of the past. Some still get fanatical about it, in FAVOUR of it. And some of them happen to be NBA stars... earning millions...
You need to know and understand this, especially this night, September 14th, because today was the Day of Remembrance of the Greek genocide of Asia Minor and East Thrace.
This is not about basketball, but even silly basketball can feel like some tiny comfort, when you are so proud of the quality and ethos of your players that the bronze turns gold in their hands, and when the genocide apologist becomes the culprit of a lost championship he wanted THAT bad. Well done to our Greek team, you deserved this a long time now. Well done to Germany, two time champions back to back. Well done to the other players of Turkey too, they are a great team. Sengun, eat that, boy, you were the star and you lost the match, and I hope soon enough everyone you work with realises what you are. So much arrogance and trashtalk, and Greece still has two championships and 6 medals, while Turkey has been patting their shoulders so much just for their second ever medal... Whatever, enough talk for them.
Remember the September 14th and the Greek Genocide of Asia Minor.
Such a misleading post to make people angry and stroke your ego.
1- Alperen did not say Giannis is not a good passer, he said he was "an amazing player, but not a great passer" and he also said Giannis was one of the best players in the world. You can watch the whole clip from here, the clip is in full English so there is no translating mistake. Alperen was not disrespectful, he gave credit where credit was due, and Turkish team really gave most of their focus to defending from Giannis, and I have not seen a single comment from Turkish team disrespecting him or saying anything bad.
2- Ataturk was not involved in anything regarding the Armenian genocide/displacement. It happened in 1915, the persone who gave the order was Talat Pasha. At the time Ataturk was literally in the WW1, around the northwest of modern Turkey, and would get involved in Gallipoli War later on in the year.
The same thing for Assyrians, i will admit i'm not as acknowledgable about this but again, it was during the WW1, again years 1914-1915, and again Talat Pasha. Nothing involving Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
For greek cleansing, it again started during the balkan wars and ww1 with deportations since greek was going to side with the allies and ottoman empire would side with entente. Later on during the turkish war of independence, greek forces invaded izmir and nearby regions and advanced as far as polatlı in ankara. Here is a small map that shows the greek advancement during the war.
Here is another map, showing the treaty of sevres and how it divided the land between nations. Pink is Greek administration, green is italian, and yellow is ottoman/turkish. The pink part matches with the gray part, but as you see greece occupied far more than given, and took lands far into the ottoman territory. Of course sevres was annulled later on as it was both illegal under diplomacy but also turks started a war of independence an took the lands back.
During the war, throughout their occupation it is reported that greek troops either burned down muslim villages or forced the muslim locals to migrate to elsewhere. Here is an article talking about the greek occupation with comparisons between ottoman, greek, british and american archives.
https://ctad.hacettepe.edu.tr/19_39/07.pdf
It is from a turkish person so here is another small excerpt from an english source, again it is short:
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From these sources you can see that both american and british sources(albeit in a very mild way) actually reported unnecessary and extra invasion methods such as burning down muslim villages, raping women and children, hanging turkish local fighters etc. It was also reported that during treating back most villages were burned by the greek troops to ensure locals couldnt join the army in pursuing them. One of the most famous ones was in Yalova were greek troops burned down 27 villages. Their retreat was famously even worse than the invasion itself. All of Manisa Salihli was destroyed and around 4000 muslims were destroyed according to Marjorie Housepian. Historian Justin McCarthy estimates around 1.2 million muslims fleeding or dying during the greek occupation.
The burning of smyrna and the following forced displacements are tragic events for both sides as Izmir is a beautiful multicultural city that saw greek, muslim and jewish people live in harmony for years and years. The displacement part is especially ruesome because, again, it was not just greek people having to leave anatolia, but also turks and muslims who lived in balkan areas being forced to leave their homes because they were threatened with genocides. As you also know, the population exchange that had to happen after the war was tragic for both sides.
So what's the point of this? Am i trying to say "no you started it!"? No. It was war. Both sides lost so many people and entire multicultural areas were burned, destroyed, tens of people were raped, hanged, forced to cooperate with the other side. I'm just sick of you guys pretending it was one sided. The only reason turkish troops were able to take back western part of turkey was because the local gangs fought tooth and nail until turkey actually had an army and could actually fought proper wars with greece.
Also about alperen. Yes he was a sore loser to both giannis and schröder and everyone in that top 5 spot. We have not gotten into finals or anything close to finals in 10+ years, it was probably our only chance and yes, alperen made mistakes the last minute. Of course he's going to be sad and of course he's going to be sour, Schröder was the one who did the last three pointers in the match. He was a sore loser and that's it.
Ataturk is the symbol of many different things in Turkey, but before everything else, Ataturk is the symbol of modern Turkey and its main principles. I already explained that he was not involved with the eastern part of turkey, and for the western part he was seen as the savior and hero. Making a post about the sea was tacky at best and very unsportsmanlike from Şengün, but his posts about Ataturk are honoring the fact that without the foundation Ataturk established, he, as a boy from black sea region of turkey with fucked up shoes and no connections.
It was Ataturk's ideals and his belief in a social state where any child from any part of Turkey could become a great sportsman, a great musician, a great scientist. The Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar who comes from a big and very poor family from a village in Mardin, the southeast of Turkey, is also a great supporter of Ataturk because again, Ataturk was the one who established programs that funded gifted kid's education, who opened village institutes to increase education, who initiated the participation of Turkey in olympics. Alperen's post was not about greeks or any other nation but about his own nation, and the person who literally made it what it is today.
Anyways delete this if you want but all these misinformation and lack of objectivity just to paint Alperen in a bad light is funny. He is not the villain you want him to be
"A misleading post" okay...First of all, for everything I wrote, I provided visual evidence. If I had added videos, I would have made it even clearer. You try to redeem Sengun and yet you admit that a) he was a bad sport, b) he was a sore loser, c) he was sour to everyone, d) he made an unsportsmanlike and tacky comment about "the sea" (so you clearly understand what he meant by it and you agree with me). So in what way exactly you defend him? You say, Ataturk means many things to Turks and I said no different, I said he is viewed as the ethnarch in Turkey.
Maybe the most inaccurate thing in my post is in the picture which says he was the "architect" of the genocides, because like you (sort of) admitted all genocides had started earlier, yet he is indeed the one who organized and led to their crescendo, if none else then certainly the Greek one.
I am sorry but I cannot help but laugh that you try to turn this into a melodramatic narrative of Sengun making the Kemal post because he was poor and had bad shoes and Kemal promoted sports support in the Turkish state... (BTW according to Wikipedia his father was a former point guard playing basketball in the first division in the ‘80s, so what’s all that about him being a poor boy with no connections?) I ask once more. Why did he elect to remember to show gratitude to Kemal ONLY a couple of hours after defeating Greece? Why after Greece in specific? Why did this post come only minutes before the "unsportsmanlike" sea post? Is it all some diabolic coincidence? And also, something I did not mention in the original post, during the very game, if you noticed, Sengun was loudly chanting the whatever sports or national anthem you have (I don't know which of the two it was) in the face of the Greek players. There is a very specific camera shot also during the game, showing him shouting the anthem in Kostas Antetokounmpo's ear. And you try to tell me that all these together don't make up a villain but a misunderstood guy with a Cinderella story. No, he visibly hates Greeks. It is unmistakable in fact. He screamed it in any way that would not get him disqualified by FIBA. As for what he said about Giannis, I agree that it was not something all that serious (he obviously tried to be diplomatic for the cameras), although it still was a sign of arrogance, since he is too young to criticise what a top player in the world is "not great at" in press conferences and to journalists after a won game against him. It doesn't show class, the very least. But I think the reason Giannis and Spanoulis took it poorly was because they obviously knew what this guy was also posting in his social media. If we all knew, then they knew too. Spanoulis spoke in a way that made it clear that the whole situation had also offended his sentiment as a Greek, beyond the game situation.
And now let's go to the historical argument. The eternal Turkish argument of "we're even". We have never been even. We have never been even since the very beginning. And yet, one difference between the Greek and the Turkish narrative is that the Greek side does practice self-judgement here and there. The Greek army invasion is viewed by us as a dark page in our history and, to be perfectly honest, it is not only because of the damage it caused to Turks but also due to the damage it retaliated back to the Greeks, but still, even in books and researches about the Greek genocide, there is admission and acknowledgement of the Greek side of atrocities as well. Furthermore, do you know what we did with those six who orchestrated the Greek invasion? We led them to a trial that is known as the "Trial of the Six" and we sentenced them to death. We certainly did not turn them into national heroes and our basketball players don't make posts about them. It should be stressed that Venizelos had nothing to do with the invasion beyond what was agreed in the Treaty of Sevres.
In your rush to defend the Turkish side though, you fell in a trap. You admitted that the hostilities against Greeks, Armenians and Assyrians had started earlier. Let me make this more precise: the Greek army invaded in May 1919. The "official" beginning of the Greek genocide is in 1914, although in fact Greeks have been suffering oppression, forceful conversion to Islam, forced assimilation, pogroms, slavery trade and ethnic cleansings on local scales for centuries. You try to even everything out, oh it was the Balkan Wars, oh it was the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, as if it not perfectly natural to want to get rid of an occupational force with a different - much stricter - religion and a different language from your indigenous lands. Literally ALL subject nations tried to gain independence from the Turks, even the Muslim ones! And yes all those conflicts have been very violent and at times Greeks have been violent, but it all starts from the simple fact that they did not want to be ruled by Turks. Neither did the Armenians. And for every attempt at revolt and liberation of the Balkan Greeks that Turks failed to repress, they unleashed vengeance to the Anatolian Greeks, the civilians of your own state, the people who had been living in those lands for 3,000 years. When the Greek Army invaded, they viewed Turks as the oppressors, the destructors of their people both in Balkans and Anatolia and they unleashed pent up hatred, unfortunately even against innocent people. This however did not initiate Turkish brutality against Greeks. It only made it even worse. Besides, the Kemalists and the young Turks did not really harm the Greek army all that much. The army got back. The generals came back. They killed the local Greek population, again, the non-fighting inhabitants of your OWN state, not ours.
I am not gonna play the source game for one simple reason. Anyone can look up everything I said and they can find a few hundreds of books about it and a few thousands of links. Of course there are also documentations of the Greek atrocities. It's just that the documentatios of Turkish atrocities are always somehow more. (Interesting that this one source claims a Turkish death toll that exactly matches the Greek genocide death toll down to the last digit... hmmm - if Greeks really had killed that many, Turks would have eradicated us from the entire globe, still, I am not saying there were not numerous casualties) Also, remember, you will find every narrative supported in every language. Take Israel and Palestine or Russia and Ukraine for example. You will find sources supporting arguments in favour of each one in every country, even though in your heart you may feel strongly who's right or wrong. It's the large scheme of things in the end that shows the truth. For example, you say Greeks have harmed Turks as much as Turks have, because it was "just war". What I see is that Turkey has become a massive country of 80 million, Greece is a small country whose once vast historical and cultural diasporas are dying. I see that in the beginning of the 20th century Constantinople was the biggest hotspot of Greek population in the world (not Athens or Thessaloniki) and nowadays the Istanbul of the 15 million inhabitants has like 3,500 Greeks. You're doing fine, honestly. A bit of ethnic cleansing, a bit of macho expansive threats nonstop, a bit of ultra-nationalist politicians, a bit of centuries-long assimilation and school brainwashing, it all works wonders. This has never been even and no, the fault is not 50 - 50.
It is delusional to expect from a Greek - any Greek of any convictions - to delete a post about the Greek genocide.
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characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough
characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone
getting violently ill btw
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Went bird watching, saw this by the overlook
My dad got stuck on the word "pending" for some reason?
Me: Well the point of the sign isn't to tell you WHEN the failure occurs
My dad: the point of the sign is to avoid liability
OMYGOD IT'S HAPPENING
being the last one to send a message before the chat falls into sudden silence always feels like u just made the worst faux pas of your life and you go sorry guys was that weird and they're all like no sorry I was just looking at a leaf on tbe ground leaf.jpg like oh ok
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"No one else wanted them" and "we rescued them" - you STOLE them from a country under foreign occupation 🙄
@alatismeni-theitsa, @margaretkart
Someone let them know that when you buy someone else's stuff from a third party but the original owner doesn't consent, that's theft.
Also no the Turks weren't grinding up the Parthenon to make concrete. They were using the building. As a mosque at some point, too.
Better yet, the Turks themselves rejected the British argument that Elgin had permission from the Ottomans to take the Marbles away.
I know the Turkish authorities aren't reliable (i.e. rejecting the Greek and Armenian genocides) and they also appropriated Greek properties (they see themselves as "heirs" of the Byzantine Empire, the Hagia Sophia etc). But when you reject a claim made by one of your "biggest friends" throughout history (see Brits siding with the Turks in Cyprus), that claim adds even more weight against the British claiming the Marbles as "their own":
“Turkey is the country that would have the archived document pertaining to things that were sold legally at that time. Historians have for years searched the Ottoman archives and have not been able to find a ‘firman’ proving that the sale was legal, as it is being claimed,” Boz told the Associated Press. Boz, who also spoke to Greece’s state broadcaster, ERT, said the only evidence that had been found was an edict written in Italian but that it neither contained the sultan’s signature nor seal, which would have confirmed it had come from the Imperial court.
This article was first published by The Guardian. Greece has won an unlikely ally in its campaign to retrieve the Parthenon marbles from the
The computer used to do something very basic & helpful and now it doesn't. I'm gonna complain
The computer used to do something very basic & helpful and now it doesn't. I'm gonna complain.
THE COMPUTER USED TO DO SOMETHING VERY BASIC & HELPFUL AND NOW IT DOESN'T. I'M GONNA COMPLAIN.
people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW
Για κάθε ξένο παιδί που μαθαίνει ελληνική μυθολογία από το Πέρσι Τζάκσον ένα άγαλμα της θεάς Νίκης χάνει τα φτερά της
Found a shirt at Goodwill from the universe where, instead of Brexit, they had Brimilation (Britain becomes the EU).
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the curse of summer is buying and eating an inadvisable amount of fruit in single sittings.
yall i still have 3/4 of a container of feta cheese
i think its time to buy
WATERMELON
#wait is watermelon good with feta cheese?#this warrants further study#(me eating watermelon w feta cheese when i get home maybe)
oh look up karpouzi me feta, it's a salad recipe and its REALLY good
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