#wilders

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My ocs relationship sheet

Lightburst

Wilders:

Heroes:

Echino:

Wilders:

Heroes:

Talia

Heroes:

Wilders:

(I'll do more when I finish the redesigns)

And here's the sheet for anyone who wants to use it:

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Valentine's Day late drawing

I thought about uploading it on Valentine's Day, but I wasn't convinced and redrew it xd

The spiky guy is an OC I planned to make but never finished; his name is Echino (And no, he and LightBurst are not dating)

(Now that I see it, LightBurst is missing her tail, but I don't plan to add it.)

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Dutch municipalities call fraudulent election claims ‘a threat to the rule of law’

The Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) called “recent statements” criticizing the election process “a threat to the democratic rule o

The Association of Dutch Municipalities (VNG) called “recent statements” criticizing the election process “a threat to the democratic rule of law,” the organization said in a brief statement. The VNG described the allegations as biased and unfounded. They “lack any form of evidence and therefore pose a direct threat to the democratic rule of law,” the organization said. Earlier this week, PVV leader Geert Wilders took to social media to claim that the national elections were not legitimate. Wilders shared screenshots of several messages he said his party received, though he provided no source for the material. VNG chair Sharon Dijksma did not explicitly state that the organization’s declaration was a response to Wilders’ posts or actions.

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[iliiuan]

Wilder As A Perjorative: A Broader Perspective

(post may or may not live up to the pompous title)

Wilder is a word thrown around readily by Aes Sedai, usually as a pejorative, or perhaps a slur. The person calling names is trying to undermine the recipient by implying that she is not as good as a woman who learned from scratch at the White Tower. It's a phenomenon that we, the readers, experience in a sort of backwards order, though, and it colors our views of the women who so freely throw the word around.

In the prologue to The Path of Daggers, we learn from Verin that wilders' tricks almost always fall into two categories: listening to other people, or a way of making people do what they want. Moiraine herself has a listening trick, perhaps indicating that she did not dabble in Compulsion (though I have my doubts).

Here we have a basis for the prejudice against wilders: They have done something considered reprehensible, something illegal, something taboo, and yet they are welcomed into the White Tower as students and given the chance to learn alongside everyone else. It makes sense for them to carry a bit of social stench.

But we the readers don't learn this until deep into the series.

Nynaeve is the first wilder we meet. She has been channeling for years when she meets Moiraine and becomes aware of her ability. When she arrives at the Tower, she receives a lot of scorn from her fellow trainees, only some of which is due to her never being a novice. Her strength in the Power and her status as wilder make her an easy target. The people harassing her don't know that her "trick" was to Heal people; they assume that she is like every other wilder and has been compelling the people around her for years. The prejudice has a foundation, but is not being justly applied to her.

Of course, the most ridiculous use of wilder as a pejorative is when Liandrin uses it. She is a wilder herself, who developed and remembered a crude Compulsion, but who nonetheless looks down her nose at even Egwene, who is not by any reasonable definition a wilder.

The most frustrating wilder accusations occur when Aes Sedai begin throwing them at women from other cultures, all of whom entered training earlier and with more supervision than most Aes Sedai do. They have taken a somewhat reasonable prejudice and twisted it beyond meaning or relevance. It's another example of their extreme hubris blinding them to what other cultures can accomplish.

Overall, wilder as an insult has reason, but its use has expanded beyond the original meaning, and people do not take the time to assess whether a recipient is worthy of insult or not. For this reason, wilder is at best a pejorative, at worst a slur.

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Women’s groups press discrimination complaint against Geert Wilders over X posts

Bureau Clara Wichmann (BCW) and WOMEN Inc. have filed a complaint against PVV leader Geert Wilders over a tweet he posted on August 4. The t

Bureau Clara Wichmann (BCW) and WOMEN Inc. have filed a complaint against PVV leader Geert Wilders over a tweet he posted on August 4. The tweet featured an image of two half-faces: on the left, a young blonde woman with the letters “PVV,” and on the right, an older woman wearing a headscarf with an angry expression and the letters “PvdA.” Wilders captioned the image: “The choice is yours on 29/10,” referring to the upcoming elections. PvdA is a reference to the Labour Party in the Netherlands, which has merged with green party GroenLinks to form one left-wing bloc ahead of the election. BCW and WOMEN Inc. say the image amounts to incitement to hatred, discrimination, and group insult. They argue it discriminates against women on the basis of gender, religion, ethnicity or race, age, and political affiliation. The organizations filed the complaint to represent the collective interests of women in the Netherlands.

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[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

The Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof has said he is stepping down. His announcement comes hours after far-right leader Geert Wilders pulled his PVV ‘Party for Freedom’ out of the ruling coalition government due to a dispute over migration policy. After a surprise victory in the Netherlands' November 2023 parliamentary elections, Wilders’ party formed a governing - but shaky - coalition with conservatives, centrists and populists.

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KABINET IS GEVALLEN LETSGOOOO LINKS VERENIGT U MET EEN SOLIDAIRE BEWEGING ZORGEN WE ERVOOR DAT WILDERS NIET WEER AAN DE MACHT KOMT