this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
130 points (100.0% liked)
the_dunk_tank
15920 readers
1 users here now
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
Rule 1: All posts must include links to the subject matter, and no identifying information should be redacted.
Rule 2: If your source is a reactionary website, please use archive.is instead of linking directly.
Rule 3: No sectarianism.
Rule 4: TERF/SWERFs Not Welcome
Rule 5: No ableism of any kind (that includes stuff like libt*rd)
Rule 6: Do not post fellow hexbears.
Rule 7: Do not individually target other instances' admins or moderators.
Rule 8: The subject of a post cannot be low hanging fruit, that is comments/posts made by a private person that have low amount of upvotes/likes/views. Comments/Posts made on other instances that are accessible from hexbear are an exception to this. Posts that do not meet this requirement can be posted to [email protected]
Rule 9: if you post ironic rage bait im going to make a personal visit to your house to make sure you never make this mistake again
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
What's surprising? Poland's national and foundational myths since 1990 are basically "le ontologically evil Ruzzians have oppressed my poor nation for all of human history and they're worse than the Nazis, thank god (literally) that we saved ourselves from thay by joining the liberal west".
So much so, that when walking with one aqueintance and stumbling upon a little free library to find a children's book for learning Russian I was shocked to my core.
Oh cute, that's pretty nice. Could use it, if it were in better condition.
"Why would you like to know the language of the enemy?"
I was stumped. What the fuck does one say in this situation?
That's fucking sad... But yeah, I can honestly imagine some relatives of mine having the same reaction if I wanted to learn Arabic (I'm Spanish). Our revisionist foundational myth of Reconquista is extremely deeply rooted in society and it's very islamophobic and eurocentrist
It's weird even if you buy into that propaganda, because learning the language of the enemy was always important.
That was my response then, I asked her "What, and German wasn't useful in 1942?"
I don't remember the conversation past that point. Must've dozed off after the initial shock.
Yeah Polish culture is like the forefront of NAFOism
Correct, except it goes back not 30 but 1000 years into the past (with some changes who is the big western brother usually).
I mean, I'd bet it wasn't the case (from the point of view of state propaganda) 50 years ago during communist Poland. Btw mate I see you around here plenty and I always appreciate your input, I hope you don't mind me saying things about Poland. I also wanted to ask you if you know the band Riverside, or the song by Coma called something like "zaprszepaszone sily vielkey army swietich znakow" or something like that, some of my favourite music ever
Yes, there was pause for socialism from that idiocy. Socialist PM Cyrankiewicz even said something like iirc "Poland was historically always hostile to Russia and dependent on Germany. And if socialism will be destroyed, soon after it will be back like this".
No, i don't know neither Riverside nor Coma