GABA ghoul posted:

I love how oblivious those attempts to conflate language and nationality are. They just don't get that most of the world is not on board with pan-slavism or similar ideas. Like, how is this supposed to appeal to anyone in Europe? Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg speak German. Italy, Romania and France have German speaking minorities. Does that give Germany the moral right to interfere in internal French, Italian or Swiss affairs? Are they making an argument that it should have that right? And Europe is all like that. Belgium speaks French and Dutch. Finland has a Swedish speaking minority. The Balkan has their whole serbo-croatian thing going on, etc.

And it's even worse outside of Europe. Brazil speaks Portuguese and the rest of SA speaks Spanish. The US and Canada speak English. The Middle East has Arabic. Huge parts of Africa speak either French or English. Australia speaks English. etc. Almost nobody is gonna be very receptive to those ideas.

e: Ok, I guess it does appeal to Hungary since they do have some pan-hungarianism going on. Also Serbia. But none of the cool countries do.

GABA ghoul posted:

The US and Canada speak English.

Rust Martialis posted:

Rust Martialis posted:

swing la bacaisse dans l'fond de la boîte à bois

GABA ghoul posted:

Belgium speaks French and Dutch.

Nice Van My Man posted:

I've been looking up these language laws and... looks like the rest of Canada might have to invade?

spankmeister posted:

They have a German-speaking minority too! Like 80 thousand people lol. I think even the Belgians themselves sometimes forget they exist

GABA ghoul posted:

Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg speak German.

bunnyofdoom posted:

Tabernac calise ostie

The_Franz posted:

The Swiss French and Italian speakers would like a word with you, as would the French speakers in Luxembourg .

Blistex posted:

Hanglaphone

Mr Teatime posted:

Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring

Ronwayne posted:

I remember my dad explaining the existence and differences between Fleming and Walloon and he implied confusing the two while in Belgium might result in escalation to violence but he was there in the '60s so I assume it was a leaded gas making people (or just him) deranged.

zone posted:

https://twitter.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1764544229978558860

spankmeister posted:

The 60's were tumultuous times in Belgium because it used to be that Wallonia was the richer and more powerful part due to the coal mines and heavy industry there. But during that time the mines were being shut down which resulted in social unrest. Flanders was becoming more economically important and things were shifting. Some large national political parties split into French- and Dutch-speaking factions. Traditionally Dutch-speaking areas had a lot of French-speaking people moving there, shifting the political balance. (Brussels being a big one)
Perhaps in those times, especially in economically hard hit Wallonian mining towns, or some of the more mixed border areas, things could get violent?

(I'm way oversimplifying and glossing over a lot of things here, please forgive me Belgians).

Eventually, Belgium federalized and things calmed down but the way they federalized left a lot of things unaddressed.

Nowadays I don't think there's any violence and the Walloons and Flemish mostly get along in daily life, there are nationalist and separatist movements on both sides but for the most part Belgians identify as Belgian and not French or Dutch, and if not that most of them still want the country to keep existing. However, the questions left open by the federalization are still an issue to this day. The country is incredibly hard to govern, often in complete deadlock. When there's been elections it can take famously long to form a coalition. Everybody agrees that reforms are desperately needed but the question of what to do with Brussels is still unanswered for example.

Again, apologies to Belgians if I got any of this incorrect! And sorry for the derail.

GABA ghoul posted:

"Was the potato famine justified? A reexamining of NATO-nazi-irishist nationalist aggression against the noble English people in the 19th century" by A. Tankie

Alan Smithee posted:

"hey bardender gimme a Chernobyl"

"I am Ukrainian cyka! How would you like if I ordered 3 Mile Island?"

Rust Martialis posted:

swing la bacaisse dans l'fond de la boîte à bois

Alan Smithee posted:

"hey bardender gimme a Chernobyl"

"I am Ukrainian cyka! How would you like if I ordered 3 Mile Island?"

CSM posted:

B-B-But the tankies said Russia wasn't trying to annex Ukraine!

poor waif posted:

If you look carefully, they've left a rump state around Kyiv an handed over all of western Ukraine to Poland, all according to praxis.

CSM posted:

B-B-But the tankies said Russia wasn't trying to annex Ukraine!

wit posted:

Serious question, what is the definition of tankie these days? Putin sycophants? Tacit supporters of pulling support for ukraine under the guise of X country first?

Vampire Panties posted:

Russia also can't lose anytime soon. They've built the largest minefields ever created, and Ukraine doesnt have the material to breakout. He can drag this out for decades, although dude is 71 so there's a very finite amount of time he personally can invest in this.

Vampire Panties posted:

As to what his plan is specifically, It seems like he's willing to wait out Western support and grind the entire country into rubble. This says Russia is building 100 tanks a month, and losing 12 a week Will it work? IMO probably not, but it won't be decided anytime soon.

Dapper_Swindler posted:

I mean how much of a working air force does russia have, like didnt they lose ALOT of planes from strikes on airbases and such? the bigger issue is artillary and russia has alot of dumb artillary.

LashLightning posted:

Supporting a perceived socialist/communist (or socialist/communist-some-time-in-the-past) state's colonial or otherwise expansionist aggression, due to the idea "well, they're socialist/communist, so what they're doing must be good".

CSM posted:

B-B-But the tankies said Russia wasn't trying to annex Ukraine!

wit posted:

Yeah thats the jump I didn't get. Russia is an oligarch empire that's loved by the right, its not even vaguely commie. Tankie was always used for soviets-can-do-no-wrong babble.

Sedgr posted:

In tankie news how is the T-14 Armata doing today?

https://defence-blog.com/russia-abandons-armata-tank-due-to-its-high-cost/


Putin is a real piece of poo poo. Just like the T-14 Armata

CSM posted:

B-B-But the tankies said Russia wasn't trying to annex Ukraine!

ZogrimAteMyHamster posted:

The """reasons""" they give for this just become more and more deranged and deluded.

Edit 1:

loving what.

That is someMasaokis-tier cuisine.

Edit 2:
What the actual gently caress I'm watching him attempting to make a grilled cheese sandwich -- a 25 minute video, some-loving-how -- and he calls fresh bread 'raw'.