Turkish guy who believes the Ottoman Empire was subverted and made to collapse by a literal Byzantine conspiracy and the world is now under EROG (Eastern Roman Occupied Government) is a type of guy I haven't seen before but makes so much sense that he would exist.
@CBSLA
America is beginning to look like Yugoslavia around 1991-2001. Just an endless cycle of race-based blood vendettas spiralling so far out of control that it's no longer clear which groups are supposed to be hating whom and why.
@still_oppressed
The most racist ones all seem to be from America. I know Iranians in Sweden, Denmark & UK and they're all pretty normal, chill people.
I guess the anti-Iranian bigotry got so bad after the Iranian hostage crisis, they felt they had to go mega-Hitlerite as a survival strategy.
@still_oppressed
The "Aryan" ideology is the most toxic European import to Iran by far. No one in Iran even knew what an an "Aryan race" even was until some French aristocrat named Arthur de Gobineau was stationed as a diplomat in the Qajar court.
@nise_yoshimi
Reformation-era pamphleteering culture was something else. If you asked Luther his thoughts on the Jews, Adolf himself would have thought it a bit much.
@Consortiumnews
Outrageous. As probably the most balanced and objective anti-war outlet out there, Consortium News provides an indispensable public service. What's the best way to help you guys stay afloat?
@shaun_vids
That Biden speech was shock-full of American exceptionalist rhetoric. Tbh, it's difficult to see how declaring yourself the "exceptional/indispensable nation" wouldn't inexorably lead to some version of fascism.
I used to be an opponent of an independent Kurdistan but after seeing how Persian ethnonationalists react to every single instance of someone saying the word "Kurd", I wholeheartedly support it.
@moghilemear13
I wish harm on the ruling class too but it's hard to deny that it in many cases is more of a restraining force than the American public itself.
Congress is most directly connected to the public and is consistently the most hawkish branch of government.
@Coscorrodrift
Like 30% of our language is American English now. It's rare to hear a single sentence in Swedish without a gratuitous English curse word, neologism or idiom, pronounced in the most obnoxiously studied Hollywood American accent imaginable. We are the most cucked people in history.
@mtracey
It's already happened with Meloni. As soon as she enthusiastically endorsed the continuation of the proxy war in Ukraine, MSM laid off the "far right fascist" charge.
@RnaudBertrand
I'd appreciate it if we could get a little more consistency in the propaganda narratives. The other day they were accusing China of forcing Uyghurs to eat. Now they're apparently starving. Pick a lane!
@evilvillain1231
The talking point doesn't even make sense. I'm pretty sure a species that has existed for 10 million years did just fine propagating itself before human contact.
I think it's jealousy. They think it's unfair that China has a monopoly on pandas.
@disclosetv
An ironic twist of fate that a tyrannical, neo-Ottomanist dictator should be the one to save the planet from impending nuclear catastrophe.
@dbessner
I haven't seen anyone argue that the US "caused" Nazi policies. What I have seen is that prominent Nazis admired American racial laws and eugenics initiatives, and were inspired by them to some extent
@WhatAre89137327
Why does literally every Western production about historical Japan need to insert gratuitous Westerners or non-Asians everywhere?
The Last Samurai, 47 Ronin, Blue Eyes Samurai, the upcoming Assassin's Creed, now this. The only exception to this rule is Ghost of Tsushima.
@TheGrouchHK
Seems like the propaganda is no longer working as it should. r/China is one of the most vehemently anti-China communities on the web, and even they can't fully dismiss what that guy said.
@AnchorStill
That's your answer? Seriously? A semi-mythical king whose deeds are mostly known through Greek sources?
Sad fact is that the only pre-Islamic Persians whose names we know are kings, generals and religious figures.
@Sturgeons_Law
This combination of far-right identitarian ultranationalism and uwu smol bean safe space Tumblrina politics dominating the media narrative about Ukraine is genuinely the most schizophrenic and nauseating political force in the world today. Nazbols got nothing on these people.
@RnaudBertrand
Despite disagreeing with them on China policy, I actually find guys like this and Mearsheimer refreshing in their brutal honesty. No insufferable preaching about "democracy, freedom & sovereignty". It's all supply chains, markets and trade routes. Very Kissingerian.
@sharghzadeh
For people who brag about "7000 years of history" and being "the oldest and greatest civilization", the cultural impact of the post-1979 diaspora is equivalent to that of Cambodia.
@uncle_deluge
It literally means nothing that a theory about extraterrestrial life comes from a sci-fi novel. All theories about extraterrestrial life are inherently speculative. It's impossible to have a "genuine scientific theory" about aliens.
@RnaudBertrand
The flippancy with which this utterly calamitous policy of endless NATO expansion was pursued is as strong an indictment of our decrepit political class as any.
@Kolas_Yotaka
I'll believe Taiwanese are not Chinese once they stop speaking Chinese languages, practicing Chinese customs, celebrating Chinese holidays and finally replace most of their population with foreigners from non-Chinese ethnic backgrounds. Replace Mandarin with English/Japanese!
@nypost
Sounds like something the Cryptoland people would be interested in. The island should then be sealed off and quarantined from any further contact with the outside world.
@JakeQuadinaros
Non-corporeal spirits taking on a variety of anthropomorhic forms is a universal mythological motif that can be traced back many millennia. I fail to see what this has to do with modern gender politics.
@TrueAnonPod
This is recent right? I've seen earlier clips where she speaks English much more fluently. She's definitely doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger.
@Halalcoholism
Guarantee that Zelenskyy would react faster to someone calling for "Vladimir" than "Volodymyr". It's likely the spelling used on his birth certificate. He also hardly spoke any Ukrainian before 2019.
@orikron
Is there even a good argument for the USSR not being a kind of golden age in Russian history? It was the only time in the country's history its vast natural resources and human capital were oriented towards a ecumenical, universalist, emancipationist future for all of mankind.
@BriocheWindows
@goofxist
Anti-Chinese slurs aside, it's incredible how the orientalist convention of treating "Asia" as a single "continent" persists. If we were judging the landmass called "Asia" on the same criteria that qualifies Europe as a separate continent, it would be like 4 or 5 continents.
@witte_sergei
Zeihan is actually extremely useful. Whenever he makes a prediction, if you assume the opposite will happen, you will be right nearly 100% of the time.
@Sturgeons_Law
Tolkien actually thought deeply about this stuff. In LOTR's case, English-sounding names were meant to be a translation convention for the fictional Westron language.
@DanielDumbrill
@TGTM_Official
@IQfy_
These desperate attempts to portray China as this virulently anti-black country seem like psyops meant to discourage Africa from doing business with China. They lied about the Chinese Dune poster. Now they blame China for something a white guy did. But Africans aren't buying it.
@NathanJRobinson
@conor64
Very sneaky thing you did there, implying the kinds of fields people are calling for more viewpoint diversity in are on the same level of epistemological rigor as physics. Economics and sociology might use real data, but their conclusions are very rarely incontestable.
@RnaudBertrand
Can someone who understands economics explain how it's even logically possible for China to be the second largest economy, grow at around 5% and yet contributing zero to global growth in 2022-2023 like the article claims?
@Sturgeons_Law
Cameron is neither some based anti-colonialist paragon of pure virtue nor is he a white saviour imperialist scumbag. He has some good instincts but he's ultimately just a liberal who cares about the environment.
@Logo_Daedalus
To this day, a single family owns like 30% of Sweden's wealth. I unironically think the Wallenbergs are more of an engine of world history than the Rothschilds. Even their family motto, "esse, non videri" (to act, not to seem to be) is sinister AF.
@NobleQAli
I just find it very funny how liberals momentarily turn into third world Maoists whenever China has trade relationships. They suddenly start believing trade deals = neocolonialism once China is involved.
@RnaudBertrand
Well, we have about 4/5ths of this century left to go, but this is definitely one of the most impressive diplomatic accomplishments in the past 100 years.
@AeonTars
@TrueAnonPod
The opposite. After decades living in the US he was beginning to lose his Austrian accent. But his manager (realizing how big of a role his accent played in his punlic image) intervened and gave him an accent coach to help him maintain it.
@ElonMusgraves
That has far more to do with the fact that Vietnam is not nearly well-known enough by westerners for them to know anything about it other than that they fought a war there once.
@china_takes
Remember how this guy's co-host said China is mass-murdering Muslims in "Shenzhen", removing their organs and selling them to wealthy Gulf Arabs because Muslim organs are not "kosher" (???), with no pushback? That's the average level of China knowledge among Pim Tool listeners.
It's incredibly unnerving how "dissident" Chinese ethnicize and racialize everything.
People who oppose their governments in other countries blame the ruling class and political system, but for Chinese "dissidents" it's their own ethnic group that's inherently bad and inferior.
In 2022, she criticized China for its COVID policies, and felt fortunate to have left China.
“'The wisest decision I made in my life was to leave that saline-alkali land filled with masochists 15 years ago. The disaster of this ethnic group will never end.”
@realsteelmuslim
Can I just ask why the Chinese comments are saying this proves how all Han people are cowards? I don't know what they expect you to do when unarmed and threatened with a knife. This looks like a typical hostage situation to me.
@lionel_trolling
@kthalps
If you asked a cartoonist to draw a caricature of an American Jew, that drawing would look 1000 times closer to a Bernie Sanders than a Ben Shapiro.
@moghilemear13
"Zuo yue zi" lol. They went with Pinyin and didn't even bother with Wade-Giles, which might have fooled some westerners into thinking they transliterate two different languages. They can't even obfuscate properly.
@Sturgeons_Law
Interesting that the tendency to perceive exaggerated displays of feminity as emblematic of queerness being so widespread. Male characters who are equally camp but in a masculine direction (compare Dante from DMC with Bayonetta) typically aren't perceived as "queer icons".
@Sturgeons_Law
Game looks shit but it's frustrating that the main reason people are bashing it is because of some silly culture war grievance. A setting as underexplored as this one deserves better. This is why studios get away with rehashing the same tired Viking fantasy stuff over and over.
@still_oppressed
Not even a real Kurdish proverb at that (though many Kurds don't know it). It was apparently invented by a French journalist and can't be traced further back to any Kurdish source.
@8EyedEel
BAP is the type of guy who thinks South Chinese are the master race of China because of "Austronesian genes" and seafaring heritage. Took the Duginist thalassocracy vs tellurocracy framework and inverted it. The ultimate Atlanticist!
@hasanthehun
I was with you at first but in the last few days it's become undeniable that Russia intends on annexing a part of Ukraine's territory. They literally just recognized the Russian separatist puppet government in Donbass as "independent". Sometimes you just have to take the L.
@RnaudBertrand
It's so funny how the West decided to demote the Tibet issue to "repressive policies" and upgrade the Xinjiang issue to "genocide". In the 90s everyone was all "Tibet genocide this Tibet genocide that" and would have thought the word Uyghur referred to a fermented dairy product.
@RnaudBertrand
Has anyone else noticed that they almost always say "China did this, China did that", and rarely mention the country's leader by name? But with Russia, the hatred is much more personalized. They almost always blame "Putin" rather than "Russia".
@nise_yoshimi
And Dugin himself is just a bland Russian gen Xer. His "we have our own Russian truth" ramblings is just a variation on "nothing matters, dude".
@still_oppressed
Schrödinger's Persians: We are proud to say Hitler loved us. Also we are the best friends of the Jews. It is us who gave them human rights.
@SecondRingSZN
These people seem insecure and in-denial about their own societal problems.
They keep bashing East Asia for colorism when there's not a single SEA country (except the desperately poor ones) where skin bleaching products don't sell like hot cakes.
@lefttwick
The one positive to calling India "Bharat" and Indians "Bharatis" is that there would be no ambiguity about what group the word "Indian" refers to. Apparently, a lot of North American indigenous peoples actually prefer it to the more modern umbrella term.
@focusfronting
The thing is that the Fremen will later go on a religious crusade that leads to galactic genocide. They're not simply heroic "freedom fighters".
@BoltzmannBooty
This type of guy loves saying "Han" rather than just "Chinese" for some reason. I guess this makes them feel sophisticated.
"I'm a high-IQ racist! I know the difference between Asians who make my favorite cartoons (master race) and Asians who make everything I own (subhuman)".
@waffleclamp
@still_oppressed
Get real bro. Words etymologically linked to "Aryan" (Eranshahr) were at best place names whose origin and meaning wasn't clear to anyone in Iran. No one had called themselves "Aryan" for more than a thousand years before European philologists brought the concept there.
@SecondRingSZN
It's fascinating how Taiwanese ethnonarcissists do the Latin American-style "I'm descended from Castilian encomenderos and conquistadors" as well as the North American "my ancestors were Cherokee princesses" things both at once. Do these people ever show their DNA results?