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Θα μείνουν για πάντα χαραγμένες στη μνήμη μας οι στιγμές που ζήσαμε μαζί, από την κατάκτηση του UEFA Youth League μέχρι τις μεγάλες επιτυχίες της πρώτης ομάδας. Μεγάλωσες ποδοσφαιρικά μέσα από την Ακαδημία μας, φόρεσες την ερυθρόλευκη φανέλα και έγραψες τη δική σου ιστορία με τον Ολυμπιακό. Θα είσαι πάντα μέλος της ερυθρόλευκης οικογένειας. Σε ευχαριστούμε για όλα και σου ευχόμαστε κάθε επιτυχία στο επόμενο βήμα της καριέρας σου! Καλή τύχη, Χρήστο! 🔴⚪ The moments we shared will forever remain etched in our memories, from winning the UEFA Youth League to the great successes of the first team. You developed as a footballer through our Academy, wore the “red-and-white” jersey and wrote your own chapter in Olympiacos’ history. You will always be a member of the “red-and-white” family. Thank you for everything, and we wish you every success in the next step of your career! Good luck, Christos! 🔴⚪ #Ολυμπιακός #ποδόσφαιρο #επιτυχία

Russia got a seat at the G20 table, but not a place in the family photo. Yet it can still use the room to its advantage. History shows that “taming” dictators through engagement rarely changes their goals—it gives them another platform to pursue them. #G20 #Russia #Dictatorship #RU

🩵🤍 Full statement by Lionel Messi: “I wrote these words on July 21, two days after the final… today, after what happened with my dad, I’m even more convinced of this decision than before”. “After all this time since the final, and after thinking about it a lot, I want to tell https://t.co/CraVI8AZnW #Messi #Football #Family #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

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I was wrong about Lindsay Clancy. Here's why I changed my mind. She was never diagnosed with postpartum depression or psychosis. She was not on 13 medications at once. She was not "hearing voices." She was not abandoned by her family. She was diagnosed with a mood disorder - never psychosis - and went to a variety of doctors who all prescribed different medications, which she took unreliably and not simultaneously. She only heard a voice one time - and that was right before she killed her kids. Extremely atypical for psychosis. She carefully planned her children's murders down to the minute. She researched the distance of a restaurant she'd ask Patrick to go to. Added on a last-minute errand before he left. Calmly answered his phone call in the middle of her crime. Brought her children down to the basement one by one, overpowering their resistance and killing them slowly. It does seem like she had support from her family. She may have still been overwhelmed, but it's not true that all of her cries for help went unanswered. I originally placed too much blame on the many SSRIs she was prescribed. Is it still possible these SSRIs had a negative effect? Absolutely. But the case that these drove her into a psychotic episode is weak. “According to U.S. HHS Child Maltreatment data, mothers account for roughly 70% of child maltreatment fatalities involving a single parent, compared with roughly 30% involving a father, when parent-plus-nonparent cases are included and cases involving both parents are excluded. And interestingly, the “70% mothers / 30% fathers” finding is remarkably persistent across the years, rather than being a phenomenon confined to one particular period” - ChatGPT Feminist Taxonomies of Lindsey Clancy If I am to be born as a woman, life should not be continued If I am to mature as a woman, I should not marry If I am to have sex as a woman, I should not be made pregnant If I am to be made pregnant as a woman, I should not give birth to my child If I am to give birth to my child as a woman, my child should not live

Every year the number of family farms in Ireland reduces. The government is making it harder for farmers to earn a living. https://t.co/VfGan7S3Uv #FamilyFarms #Ireland #FarmersRights #IE

❗️Μερικές φορές σταματάς για ένα σκυλί… και τελικά συναντάς ανθρώπους. ❤️🐾 ❗️Την είδα ξαπλωμένη ήσυχα σ’ ένα μικρό στενάκι, κάτω από ένα υπόστεγο. Ηλικιωμένη πια, κουρασμένη, με τα αρθριτικά της… ❗️Σταμάτησα και άρχισα να τραβάω. ❗️Και τότε, εντελώς τυχαία, πέρασε μια κυρία. Σταμάτησε, την πλησίασε, τη χάιδεψε και τη φώναξε με το όνομά της. ❗️Τη ρώτησα αν τη φροντίζει. ❗️«Ναι», μου είπε. «Η οικογένειά μου. Οι γονείς μου μένουν από πάνω και τη φροντίζουμε». ❗️Ξεκίνησαν κάποτε με μια μικρή κουβερτούλα. Και σιγά σιγά αυτό το σημείο έγινε το σπίτι της. Εκεί μένει χειμώνα–καλοκαίρι. Εκεί νιώθει ασφαλής. Εκεί υπάρχουν άνθρωποι που τη γνωρίζουν, τη φροντίζουν και τη χαϊδεύουν. ❗️Και απέναντι; Απέναντι μένει ένα άλλο, μαύρο σκυλάκι. Ο φίλος της. ❤️ ❗️Μέσα σε λίγα δευτερόλεπτα, αυτό που έμοιαζε με μια θλιμμένη εικόνα έγινε μια μικρή ιστορία ανθρωπιάς. ❗️Δεν χρειάζονται πάντα μεγάλα πράγματα. Μια κουβέρτα. Ένα πιάτο φαγητό. Λίγο νερό. Ένα χάδι. Ένας άνθρωπος που νοιάζεται. Κι ένας φίλος απέναντι… ❗️Μπράβο σ’ αυτή την οικογένεια. Μπράβο στους ανθρώπους που δεν προσπερνούν. ❗️Γιατί ο τρόπος που φερόμαστε στα πιο αδύναμα πλάσματα γύρω μας λέει πολλά για την κοινωνία που θέλουμε να είμαστε. ❗️Αν πιστεύετε ότι τέτοιες μικρές πράξεις ανθρωπιάς αξίζει να ακούγονται, μοιραστείτε αυτή την ιστορία. ❤️🐾 ❗️Sometimes you stop because of a dog… and end up discovering the kindness of people. ❤️🐾 ❗️I saw her lying quietly in a small passageway, sheltered beneath a roof. She is old now, tired, and suffering from arthritis… ❗️I stopped and started filming. ❗️And then, completely by chance, a woman walked by. She stopped, approached her, stroked her gently and called her by her name. ❗️I asked if she was the one taking care of her. ❗️“Yes,” she told me. “My family does. My parents live upstairs and we take care of her.” ❗️It all started with a small blanket. Little by little, this place became her home. She stays there winter and summer. It is where she feels safe, surrounded by people who know her, care for her and give her affection. ❗️And across the way? Another black dog lives there. Her friend. ❤️ ❗️Within a few seconds, what at first looked like a sad scene turned into a beautiful little story of humanity. ❗️It doesn’t always take something extraordinary. A blanket. A bowl of food. Some water. A gentle touch. Someone who cares. And a friend across the way… ❗️Well done to this family. And to every person who chooses not to simply walk past. ❗️Because the way we treat the most vulnerable creatures around us says a great deal about the kind of society we want to be. ❗️If you believe these small acts of kindness deserve to be seen, share this story. ❤️🐾 #AnimalLove #KindnessMatters #RespectAnimals #Dogs #Φιλοζωία #Φιλοζωία #Ανθρωπιά #Σκύλοι

Trump and his family have accumulated billions of dollars in office. Other democracies have reclaimed plundered wealth from fallen autocrats. Some lessons for Americans from Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines to claw back wealth from toppled autocrats https://t.co/dxaYDT8fCW #WealthInequality #PoliticalCorruption #Accountability #NG #PE #PH

🇮🇸❤️🇪🇺 ICELAND IN THE EU 2028 Europe is not only a market. Europe is a family. Iceland already shares so much with us: democracy, freedom, peace, prosperity, Schengen, the Single Market and a deep commitment to the European way of life. Now it is time for Iceland to take its https://t.co/WOnzAhEddb #IcelandInEU #EuropeanFamily #UnityInDiversity #IS #EU

🎦 Neue Informationen zur bevorstehenden öffentlichen Gedenkkundgebung am 19. September 2026 ab 14 Uhr auf dem Römerberg in Frankfurt am Main. An diesem Tag wollen wir uns von Mensch zu Mensch begegnen, mit Respekt, Mitgefühl und Menschlichkeit. Alles, was trennt, soll keinen Platz haben. Im Mittelpunkt stehen das gemeinsame Erinnern, die Anteilnahme und ein würdevolles Miteinander. 🖤 🟠 Du möchtest die Trauerwache Deutschland @trauerwache_deu in Frankfurt unterstützen? Wir suchen weiterhin engagierte Ordnerinnen und Ordner sowie Aufbauhelferinnen und Aufbauhelfer, die uns vor Ort tatkräftig zur Seite stehen. ➡️ https://t.co/YRZWQE9YOE Auch eine finanzielle Unterstützung ist möglich, anonym über unseren Sammeltopf oder bequem per PayPal. ➡️ https://t.co/uGS9pXxGMT ➡️ https://t.co/FAZtH8pQlA… (Bitte als Family & Friends mit dem Verwendungszweck: Schenkung für TwD) In den kommenden Tagen veröffentlichen wir weitere wichtige Informationen zur Gedenkkundgebung in Frankfurt. Bleibt bitte aufmerksam, weitere Einzelheiten folgen in Kürze. 🖤 #trauerwachedeutschland #frankfurt #ffm #Trauerwache #Frankfurt #Gedenken

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The Fracture That Kills the Family The West’s deepest divide may not be left versus right, but whether young men and women still share a vision of the good life. The nuclear family is society’s foundation, yet households struggle to form when the sexes view each other as opponents. Many women see marriage as patriarchal; many men see women as manipulative or exploitative. Relationships shift from mutual union to zero-sum power struggles. Christianity framed marriage as union—two people becoming one. Nietzsche warned the death of God would remove a shared moral foundation, leaving society vulnerable to nihilism and fragmentation. We are living that fragmentation. Young men often retreat into pornography, gaming, and prolonged adolescence. Young women increasingly frame sexual liberation as empowerment. Both chase proximate pleasures while losing ultimate purposes: family, responsibility, continuity, and creating life. Dating data reflects the fracture: among unmarried Americans aged 22–35, only 26% of women and 36% of men are actively dating. Ideology filters matches too—Gen Z and young millennials cite political compatibility far more than Boomers. Research also finds a mismatch: only 0.6 single liberal men per single liberal woman, and only 0.5 single conservative women per conservative man. Cross-ideological pairing has risen from 6% in the 1970s to 22% today. The consequences extend beyond dating: fertility has fallen below replacement across much of the West, and 42% of American adults were unpartnered in 2023. Policy responses—tax incentives, parental leave, baby bonuses—miss the deeper cultural and spiritual problem: you can debate taxes, but it’s hard to build a family when you disagree on masculinity, whether marriage is oppressive, or whether family is worth sacrificing for. The values gap is the disease. The political divide is the symptom. The household is the casualty—and when it cracks, everything built above it loses stability. The question is whether a civilization can survive when the two people it most needs to unite can no longer agree why they should.

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Orwell’s Five Warnings About the Psychology of Totalitarianism Orwell understood totalitarianism’s psychology: unlike dictators who seek wealth and status, totalitarians aim to reshape humanity. They often claim to act “for our own good,” with conscience on their side. After reading Orwell, five lessons stand out: 1. Political correctness can become mind control “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Words frame reality and limit solutions. 2. Doublethink is the hallmark of propaganda “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” When contradictions become acceptable, rational thought collapses. 3. Control the past and you control the future “Who controls the past controls the future.” Rewriting history turns gratitude into guilt and inheritance into theft. 4. You cannot fight for freedom with a shackled mind “Until they become conscious they will never rebel.” Team loyalties replace judgment; challenging the narrative grants permission to ask questions. 5. True power is the power to shape perception “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes…” The goal isn’t mere obedience, but surrendering the ability to distinguish truth from what authority declares true. Orwell’s warning: don’t let it happen—resist arbitrary power by holding to truth, conscience, family, community, faith, and the people you love.

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The Pathology of Masculinity and Femininity Without Cultural Restraint Both sexes have evolutionary roles: men developed strength for protection, provision, and competition; women developed beauty and selectiveness for pair-bonding and survival. Culture channels these drives—family structure, dating norms, fatherhood, shame, religion—guiding strength toward building and beauty toward commitment. Remove the norms and the drives seek new avenues. For men, the open channel becomes force: aggression and risk can detach from responsibility, yielding robbery, assault, gang violence, and predation. The shadow side of masculinity is strength used to take rather than protect. For women, the channel shifts to extraction through simulated intimacy: monetized desire via platforms and influencer economies can turn closeness into leverage, often without the pair-bonding or family life it was built to support. The masculine ideal is protector and disciplined provider; its pathology is thug or criminal. The feminine ideal is nurturer and guardian of commitment; its pathology is the seller of simulated intimacy and extractor of attention. Both are corruptions of genuine virtues. Three accelerants intensified these patterns: stigma’s collapse, technology’s scalability of desire, and weakened communities and absent fathers. The root cause is the breakdown of family norms. Men are less destructive when bonded and mentored; women are less exploitative when raised to value enduring commitment. Consequences mirror each other: unchecked male pathology produces violence; unchecked female pathology produces mistrust, loneliness, and demographic decline. Both arise when culture denies that masculine and feminine virtues must be shaped and channeled rather than suppressed.

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The Elite Origins of Marxist Revolution Bertrand Russell, a socialist who visited Moscow in 1920, observed that the Bolsheviks resembled religious fanatics more than political theorists. Lenin quoted Marx and Engels as a pastor recites Scripture. In his *History of Western Philosophy*, Russell described the parallels: dialectical materialism replaces God, the Communist Party becomes the church, communist revolution the Second Coming, punishment for capitalists hell, and the communist commonwealth heaven. The *Communist Manifesto* declares that its aims can be achieved only through “the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.” Marx sought to destroy the existing world and assumed that an undefined utopia would rise. If Marxism claims to speak for the oppressed, why has it so often been adopted by elites? Marx came from an upper-middle-class family that owned vineyards and employed servants. Friedrich Engels, his chief supporter and financier, inherited wealth from his family’s textile business. Lenin’s family owned property and employed servants, while Mao Zedong’s family was considerably wealthier than ordinary Chinese peasants. Fidel Castro’s family owned a large estate, Che Guevara came from an affluent background, and Pol Pot’s family had connections to Cambodia’s royal court. Pol Pot encountered Marxism while studying in Paris. These men went on to create, support, or lead revolutions that killed millions of the people they claimed to represent. This was no accident. The *Communist Manifesto* states that “a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat,” especially those who understand “the historical movement as a whole.” Marx therefore incorporated an explanation for his own class position into the movement’s founding text. Lenin expanded this idea, arguing that workers left to themselves could achieve only “trade-union consciousness.” Socialist theory, he believed, had to be brought to them by educated elites—the revolutionary vanguard. Although Marxism and communism are commonly portrayed as movements created for the poor, the men who developed and led them were, almost without exception, members of the elite.

I am deeply saddened by the passing of His Majesty King Harald V. On behalf of the people of Slovenia, I extend my heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family and to the people of Norway at this time of profound sorrow. My thoughts and warmest wishes are with His Majesty King https://t.co/4CLGtQEoKO #KingHaraldV #Norway #Condolences #SI #NO

Deeply saddened by the passing of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway. My thoughts are with His Majesty King Haakon, Queen Sonja, the Royal Family and the people of Norway in this moment of profound grief. His Majesty’s decades of dedicated service to Norway and his steadfast #KingHaraldV #Norway #RoyalFamily #NO

Our heartfelt condolences to Queen Sonja, the Royal Family and the people of Norway on the passing of King Harald V. His life reminds us of what binds Europe together: trust, openness and the conviction that we are stronger when we work together. At @esa we are proud to share https://t.co/iNOlVEugH4 #KingHaraldV #Norway #RoyalFamily #NO #EU

It is with profound sorrow that I have learned of the passing of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway. At this time of deep mourning, my thoughts and prayers are with the Royal Family and the people of Norway, to whom I extend my deepest condolences. #KingHaraldV #Norway #Condolences #NO

Deeply saddened by the passing of King Harald V of Norway. A monarch who endured wartime exile as a child and stood for 35 years as an enduring symbol of stability and unity. A distinguished figure in European history. My heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family and the people #KingHaraldV #Norway #RoyalFamily #NO

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King Harald V of Norway has passed away at the age of 89, causing the royal house to face a crisis amid scandals and health issues within the royal family. (translated)

Harald V, een maatschappelijk betrokken staatshoofd, laat het Noorse koningshuis achter in crisis

I am saddened to hear of the passing of His Majesty King Harald V of Norway. His family and the people of Norway have my deepest condolences. King Harald V will be remembered for his long-standing and devoted service as Head of State, his ability to unite Norwegians from all #KingHaraldV #Norway #Condolences #NO