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GreyjoyBastard posted:in one of his essays, Ben Franklin goes off on a whole rant about the unintegrated swarthy Germans There was genuine fear that Germans were immigrating in such high numbers that whole towns were popping up of them, that in a generation we'd all be speaking German.
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RagnarokAngel posted:There was genuine fear that Germans were immigrating in such high numbers that whole towns were popping up of them, that in a generation we'd all be speaking German. We eat peanuts in steak houses because the former snack, hard pretzels, became too foreign and enemy between 1917 and 1945
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My great-grandfather was drafted into the US Army in World War 1 and he wasn't allowed to speak German which he was fluent in. Nor could any of his relatives or Neighbors in the Iowa farm town hebcame from because it was now illegal.
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RagnarokAngel posted:There was genuine fear that Germans were immigrating in such high numbers that whole towns were popping up of them, that in a generation we'd all be speaking German. German was the second most widely spoken language in the US for several generations, up until WWI propaganda made people act really lovely towards German-speaking Americans.
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Aug 8, 2020 00:31
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totalnewbie posted:Chinese uses unique characters for each word (and Japanese uses some of these characters). I think average educated Chinese people typically know somewhere around 10-20k characters (I could be wrong but it's thousands). Traditional is still used in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Singapore transitioned in the 70s.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:German was the second most widely spoken language in the US for several generations, up until WWI propaganda made people act really lovely towards German-speaking Americans. Texas hill country up to people born in the 1920s was mostly German speaking ESL with their own dialect of German, the creatively named Texas German. It is now considered a dying language with very few native speakers left.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:German was the second most widely spoken language in the US for several generations, up until WWI propaganda made people act really lovely towards German-speaking Americans.  Yeah there's a reason for the vast german swathe and it's not just white people desperately wanting to be foreign
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Aug 8, 2020 01:07
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Dameius posted:Texas hill country up to people born in the 1920s was mostly German speaking ESL with their own dialect of German, the creatively named Texas German. It is now considered a dying language with very few native speakers left. One of my ancestors (according to my grandfather) was a Lutheran pastor who came from Germany in the late 1800s to central Texas to minister to a church in a town I don't remember. According to family lore, he got off the train in town, and found a mule waiting to carry him to the family who was hosting him, but no guide or directions. When he asked how to get where he was going, he was told "Das Maultier kennt den Weg." "The mule knows the way." (Relying on Google Translate for the German, I only remember my grandfather's translation.)
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
The concentration of people of "American" ancestry is rather telling too.
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Taerkar posted:The concentration of people of "American" ancestry is rather telling too. A lot of that is a weird result of people not having any more knowledge of their origins than a few generations. They're all Appalachia which is a weird blend of English and Scots-Irish, plus just about every other kind of pasty European, but most of the families have been dirt poor from the beginning and while they have really strong familial ties they also don't have any conception of their origins beyond that. "American" is as good an origin as any when you're basically a mutt Also yeah lots of racism but :welp:
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Aug 8, 2020 02:37
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Ugh, the other day my mom posted an article (well, a bad screenshot of an article) on Facebook about how Fauci was lying because this old study on a different drug on a different virus in primate cells and not even living things showed promise. Today it was an article about how European experts said masks do nothing for COVID-19. And my brother liked it. Both of them just got a silent fake news report from me since I just don’t want to deal with it. It triggered this moment of, “has my family ALWAYS been this stupid, or did they just get brain poisoned by Fox News?” I swear, if they still lived in New York and hadn’t moved to Wyoming years ago, they probably would have all caught it by now.
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Aug 8, 2020 05:45
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Fox News and right wing media definitely causes cognitive decline, to the point that even people who are resisting it and hate-watching it sometimes get infected with dumb ideas they have to keep rooting out of their psyche It's a plague on humanity at this point 
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Granted Fauci has been really irresponsible. Throwing out the first pitch for the MLB season was a bizzarely stupid move and undermines peoples confidence in believing him. That said its less about him and more about believing what is most convenient for them.
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Aug 8, 2020 15:53
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RagnarokAngel posted:Granted Fauci has been really irresponsible. Throwing out the first pitch for the MLB season was a bizzarely stupid move and undermines peoples confidence in believing him. yeah. part of it is, in a sane admin, we wouldnt even be hearing much from him because the president would be giving some generic unity speech and let the scientists do their thing. its a mix of fauci being the sane one in the room and the chuds and the new age fuckers making him out to be the great Satan.
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DarkHorse posted:Fox News and right wing media definitely causes cognitive decline, to the point that even people who are resisting it and hate-watching it sometimes get infected with dumb ideas they have to keep rooting out of their psyche Yeah, my parents I can understand - dad was a cop and racist in that quiet Northeastern way and mom forwarded me every fake virus alert email until I started reply all-ing with Snopes links. My brother though... He's in his late 30s, and he was always kind of an rear end in a top hat, but to people he had a personal beef with. He followed them out to Wyoming after a career crisis that just made him worse, got real into guns and hunting and posting forwards from 2nd amendment groups, and spent most of his time drinking and being belligerent enough that he was scaring his wife and kid and she had to kick him out of the house and serve him with divorce papers. Though his wife is a teacher, and when they came to visit she started complaining about how the Native Americans in the area will send people to the local public schools when they have perfectly good schools on the reservation, and when my wife said something about reservations not being known for having a lot of resources she just kept going. Maybe living in a deep red state just messes you up too.
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Cop: *shoots a toddler* Clearly the parents are to blame.
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Right-wing propaganda has demonized entitlements, blaming them for the budget deficit, in order to turn people against social security and Medicare It worked, boomers now hate "entitlement spending" but they like social security and Medicare. But because they are stupid, instead of realizing entitlements are stuff they like and therefore entitlement spending is good, they just decided stuff they like can't be entitlements
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VitalSigns posted:Right-wing propaganda has demonized entitlements, blaming them for the budget deficit, in order to turn people against social security and Medicare Yup. Entitlements are things that we're entitled to because we paid into them, but propaganda has changed the meaning to "something bad entitled people force us to do" Entitle
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Boomers think "entitlements" are federal laws that say if you have a job lazy people are entitled to your money. My social security and Medicare can't be entitlements then because I earned it!
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Also 1099 workers, very common back in the 60s and 70s.
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Yeah, it's that disconnect where they don't like the word Entitlements, because that's a bad word for lazy millennials. But, then they'll turn around and talk about how much they love their Social Security and whatnot. Same thing with socialism. If you show someone an itemized list of things the socialists want, they'll be all "Hey yeah, that's great!", but as soon as you say the "S" word, they freak out.
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the_steve posted:Yeah, it's that disconnect where they don't like the word Entitlements, because that's a bad word for lazy millennials. But, then they'll turn around and talk about how much they love their Social Security and whatnot. Eh they don't usually like the itemized lists either. "Free at point of access healthcare" means that people who don't "deserve" it or didn't "earn" it are getting medical care.
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saw this on my feed - sorry, can't find a non-facebook source for the video https://www.facebook.com/thehodgetwins/posts/3252132371534535 major points:
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jivjov posted:Eh they don't usually like the itemized lists either. "Free at point of access healthcare" means that people who don't "deserve" it or didn't "earn" it are getting medical care. Yeah this is one of those instances where their malice overcomes their ignorance. That's why it's kinda lose-lose with Republicans on socialist policies. They either don't know what they are or they sort of know and don't like them anyway.
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Sounds good. Democrats will be cured and Trumpers will have to deal with the side effects of their quack vaccine.
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God, the stupid-rear end discourse surrounding HQC is so depressing. I wasn't expecting "Trump reveals one weird trick to cure COVID! Doctors hate him!" to play such a major role in our country's collective mind, but, well, here we are. Apparently a third of us think "Well a doctor gave it to some people and they got better, and then got in front of microphones to tell us!" is rigorous science.
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Suddenly a lot of white people in my timelines have learned who Terrence Williams, The Hode Twins, Candace Owens ,and Joel Patrick are. I wonder why that is. 
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:Suddenly a lot of white people in my timelines have learned who Terrence Williams, The Hode Twins, Candace Owens ,and Joel Patrick are. Yup my dad shares every one of their videos. "See these black people say it's okay to hate BLM!"
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Aug 9, 2020 20:43
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Ruzihm posted:BLM is anti-god because the nuclear family is created by god Like for most of human existence the extended family or clan was the natural grouping in many cultures, and the American nuclear family only really came about with industrialization and principally remained stable only with a poo poo ton of state support. This is one of those "white Jesus invented the perpetual 50s in black and white which is what the world was from its creation 5780 years ago by (also white) God until the Civil Rights Act invented feminism and marijuana" things, isn't it?
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Guavanaut posted:Where did that come from in the first place? probably the 1950s age of fighting back against "godless" communism and fighting against integration/miscegenation and divorce and poo poo. the dude who is screaming that sounds legit mentally ill but thats just me.
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Them dumb motherfuckers don’t even realize those “Obama Phones” have been around for decades.
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Invalid Validation posted:Them dumb motherfuckers don’t even realize those “Obama Phones” have been around for decades. Seriously. That poo poo started with Reagan under the rationale that it would be a lot easier for people to get a job if there was a way for employers to contact them.
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the_steve posted:Seriously. That poo poo started with Reagan under the rationale that it would be a lot easier for people to get a job if there was a way for employers to contact them. I'm gonna guess there was something insidious woven into the lining of this because offering a lifeline that's not a bootstrap seems awful out of character
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Brawnfire posted:I'm gonna guess there was something insidious woven into the lining of this because offering a lifeline that's not a bootstrap seems awful out of character Probably, but I wasn't even alive during his first term, so I'd be lying if I offered any details.
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