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i'm getting slammed by the covid vaxx i got yesterday, my brain was basically nonfunctional until i put 2 cups of coffee in

weird side effect: i'm really horny. everything hurts and my libido is like

Efforts to make "straight pride" happen have continuously failed as they've popped up across the United States. In 2019, a "straight pride" event in Dallas infamously only attracted three attendees

okay. SHAW-nah

the little nazi that made this video can't even pronounce his heroic deutsche ubermenner's names correctly, he's like those pathetic Klansmen in the wolfenstein games getting corrected by the real nazis

first 'alternatehistoryhub' youtube video i've ever watched: "the only way germany could've won wwii"

most childish shit i've ever seen. i won't even link it for giving the shithead views.

the only finesse is in the first act 'isn't sealion silly?' characterizing the alternative as an utterly unimaginable scenario. but 'alternatehistoryhub's case is no less unreasonable. the BEF being captured by the absurd miracle of the sky being clear when the nazis were trying to bomb them? this is literally the POD. no magic german sea superiority. no magic german ground offensive. literally just the planes not faffing about in clouds. how this results in the BEF being german captives is quickly swept aside, when neither the strategic incentive to evacuate, nor the capability for the british to evacuate them is compromised

then the british, still led by churchill, somehow agree to a peace with the nazis for what the OP characterizes as 'light terms' that are utterly crippling the the british empire (no gibraltar, are you fr?). point one: why, even facing complete and utter defeat on the continent would britain submit? their strength was never their ground forces. a 100 years ago this same bloody thing happened and they didn't tap out. now they rule india and half of africa. actually fucking defend a member of that war cabinet going for capitulation when Clement Attlee, somehow the most humanitarian person involved, was utterly committed to continuing hostilities.

the germans managing an amphibious landing in essex is literally more likely than the fucking UK parliament thinking that an addition 100k dead/captured peons were worth peace. they had millions in britain and as colonial subjects. completely uncalibrated to think they'd sacrifice all financial stake on the continent and in the medditerrean for even 10 million poor folk. this is fucking britain we're talking about, ridiculous.

also 365 days of the clearest weather ever witnessed by humanity would not make have made the royal navy incapable of repelling the fucking kriegsmarine. sealion is and remains the most unrealistic fantasy in all of military history

i'd downvote you for this not linking to fettes vette were it possible

just travel, not real living, i'm yanqui. it's a particular interest springing from explaining racism in the american context. you have to talk about the irish, moriscos, and catholic heresies to situate US properly.

e: Uncommon Dominion by Sally Mckee is my perennial recommendation for connecting the dots of racism, religion, and ethnicity in europe

i'm currently allotting a portion of my budget and time to inconvenient shit. we can do the cheap jank shit once we're tight, i'll take a long ass bus ride for first time hang

if you've ever been to southern france, spain, or italy, a lot of signs have the regional dialects/languages on them now. sometimes these are accompanied by an actual nationalist movement basque/catalan/sicilian, but it exists in places with no real independence/autonomy movements too. wtf is Venetia gonna do with sovereignty? the contrast is that these developments are at the same time as the national states are unleashing terrible oppression and controls on immigrants and minorities from beyond their borders. there is a palpable white supremacy in a place that lets the geezers that speak/write venetien (but have no trouble with the italiano nationale) have their street signs, yet there is no such accommodation for immigrants from africa and the middle east.

i actually don't know much about the linguistic situation in South Africa, i've just seen a lot of apartheid signage that did english & afrikaans. my vibe is that afrikaans was more the language of the oppressor and english the lingua franca from the colonial period, but i do not speak with any authority.@aaaaaaadjsf.hexbear.net can speak to this much better than i could

states can be multilingual and maintain systems of oppression. there's something there in that language is such an essential characteristic that it is rarely a place a nationalist project allows leeway, but it isn't unheard of. South Africa had afrikaans and english, the euroromance countries slowly expanding regional language recognition even as they are turning harder on immigration is also an example. i'm not well versed on Belgium's colonial language policy but flemish was certainly used by some portion of the colonizers

an analog exists in religious policy. religion was actually the kernel from which europeans first articulated racial difference, it's absolutely fundamental to understanding how people went from thinking skin colore was a quirk of geographical circumstance to something that made groups of people lesser and superior. but the US, the white supremacist state par excellence---is multiconfessional. this isn't a contradiction, just an evolution of the racialist ideology. but it demonstrates how the criteria are eminently modifiable and constructed. English people made the irish the 'other' by their being catholic, yankees have made catholics, protestants, and beyond 'other' through constantly moving the goalposts from religion to skin color, to economic status, to immigration status

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