!bookworms let's read this one for the book club, literal bugman is very relevant to our times
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Bookclub special - The Metamorphosis 
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Very fitting for the month of Samsa Claus !carlos
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!bookworms this joke demands more upmarseys the carlos ppl didn't get it so i'm begging you!!!!
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we readin Metamorphoses
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So, verminmaxxing kafkacels, I remember reading that Kafka was inspired to write the bug's life book because of how his family reacted to him becoming a writer, can I get a fact check?
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Kafka had a terrible relationship with his father. He was fond of his sisters and his mother, however his mother would always side the father. Eventually he wrote a letter to his father venting, dozens of pages long. His mother concealed the letter and never showed it to her husband.
He was definitely
his daddy issues on The Metamorphosis (see how the father on the book immediately beats up Gregor, he's also more concerned about Gregor being unable to work and therefore to provide rather than his wellbeing).
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Kafka claimed Dostoyevsky was his real father because he was so moved by his books
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The Metamorphosis is basically how I felt having to live at home for a bit after college. Even if your parents are being nice, you still feel kinda like a big bug. Especially when they spot you playing vidya instead of working on job applications.
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"This story about a working guy being turned into a giant insect and desperately hoping to get back to normal so he doesn't fail his family is totally like that time i moved back in with my parents and was a loser instead of meeting my responsibilities."
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I had to read this in high school and hated it. I thought that all Kafka was bad until I read The Trial.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/eu-executive-chief-jets-finalise-eu-mercosur-trade-deal-2024-12-05/
Wtf, I love Frau von der Leyen now
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That's not even a joke, headline is real. LMAO FRANCE LITERALLY SEETHING
Unironically, give me some South American beef
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!burgers Watch the German cheer as it offshores its food production capacity, having learned nothing from the disastrous energy deals with Russia
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!germs will eat picanha and bife de chorizo and they'll love it
!latinx
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Chorizo has been semi hyped in recent years. You can easily get them in German supermarkets, especially during grilling season
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Bife de chorizo is a steak cut (beef) not wurst
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ℜ𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖉𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓. They're just Volk ohne Raum seeking space abroad to meet their need for resources.
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Yeah, those EU member states are totally sovereign and definitely not part of a federal system. !burgers
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https://www.infobae.com/america/america-latinx/2024/12/06/en-vivo-la-cumbre-de-presidentes-del-mercosur-busca-aprobar-el-acuerco-comercial-con-la-union-europea/
!germs !latinx it is done!
Now it will go to ratification
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Seethe was always a normal word which meant immense anger. In fact it was a kind of "thesaurus" word youd use in serious publications to sound smarter
So its always funny seeing it mentioned anywhere in normal context after it became an internet slang/meme
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You're now officially my concubine
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Agreed but only if you will be the bottom
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I am the bottom of the barrel and I will squeak the ever fricking living out of you
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Do they need unanimity to seal the deal or can they just ignore the frogs and the poles?
Nevermind, God I hope the frogs get fricked
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But for real, eurochads should deal more with south america. Good stuff, and having the bigger dong we can have decent health regulations too
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If this deal gets nuked it will unironically cause a clusterfrick.
Milei is looking for an excuse to leave the Mercosur in the hope of getting a separate trade deal for Argentina with the United States (as if Orange Man has any minimum interest in free trade
), if von der Leyen signs the deal then the Mercosur would have finally achieve it's big purpose of large scale trade, so Argentina will have no reason to risk leaving.
Macron is being shortsighted, South America is a great market for the EU and to cut overelayance on the US and China. He's willing to blow 20 years of negotiations because farmers will take their tractors to block the boulevards in Paris or something.
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Interesting. Yeah Europe has old industries that still want to stay afloat by cucking new development. Germany had this shit in the 60's with the old coal miners. The sooner you move on its better for everyone. Because the longer you artificially help inefficient industries the bigger the impeding fallout will happen. Not sure about agriculture but heavy industry had and still have these problems. Agriculture may sway around for other shit like biofuels or whatever.
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Macron tried to convince Brazil (the biggest pusher for the deal) that it wouldn't benefit Brazilian industries. The thing is the type of high goods the EU can provide have no parallel in Brazil. Brazilian carmakers (Volkswagen, Fiat, Citroen etc lol) produce and sell mostly popular" models. The imported BMWs and German Volkswagens will be bought by more higher income costumers. Meanwhile the entire Mercosur has always been a commodity producer and exporter (beef, grains, iron ore, gold, lithium, oil, wood).
I'm unironically concerned about Milei's FoPo. His domestic policy is good but his main problem is that he likes and trusts American rightoids waay too much. Not even his teary pretty blue eyes will get a favorable deal from Trump, it is no secret that he and and a huge swath of his MAGAtard cabinet sees us as nothing more than wetbacks living in shithole countries, ripping the Mercosur apart along 30 years of South American integration is not worth it. I imagine MAGAcel euros are the same.
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Its the first time I heard about it today, but it kinda sounds like britain quitting the eurozone with its trading consequences. Sure, Argentina wasn't intertwined yet but I personally would rather having the american south as our trading partners than china for example
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That's not the sound a frog makes as it's getting fricked you r-slur, that's the sound it makes:
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Mfw when Brazil invades Portugal and we're importing 90% of the potassium in form of
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