Pointing out that 'well so many words in Yiddish are of Hebrew origin therefore it mush have been widely spoken' is a bit silly
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The point of the austronesian stuff was that having a diaspora that we know the origin of doesn't mean that a homeland should have been set up for that diaspora in their land of origin, the point of slavonic was to highlight that Hebrew isn't unique in its influence as a liturgical language
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You don't see why a liturgical and literary language would draw comparisons from other such languages? Seems like you're perfectly willing to hand wave away the significant differences between these communities when Zionism was developed, ffs German Jews saw Ostjuden as semi human before ww1
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So much of eastern slavic words are church slavonic words even though it's a south slavic language, that's not really evidence of people speaking church slavonic. And I very much do think that attitudes that were apparent when nationalism as an idea came around
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Ok but that applies to old church slavonic as well
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Due to the horrors that Germans saw in the Pale of Settlement during ww1 and died out completely during the Eichmann trial
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The common liturgical language is a somewhat solid counterpoint to what I said but I'd draw a comparison to orthodox slavs and how they're still quite different, and until very recently Eastern European Jews were seen as basically half civilised and worthy only of disgust, which only really changed
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No see the cool bit in it is where he links Brexit and Sunak to D-Day
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Dudes name is literally Bill Cash, he doesn't have to work, he owns his own home and he looks like he's about 2 years from dying, I don't think he really gives a shit what happens to the rest of the UK
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Zionist leaders of the 19th and 20th century presented it as when there were rather substantial disputes over what the national language should be or whether it should be a state in Palestine at all or whether it should be a state somewhere else
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Sure but the Jewish populations after the exodus became their own seperate people groups with their own languages and their own traditions, hell its even reflected in Israeli stereotypes about Ashkenazi and Mizhari Jews, I think it's hard to argue that that connection was as strong as
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Idk that concept of historical connection has always seemed iffy with me if that connection is based on something extremely ancient, like austronesian people from all over the world returning to Taiwan to set up an austronesian state
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Frankly neoconservativism was always doomed to die because of its internal contradictions, the republicans have never been a party of internationalists and Bush' unwillingness to listen to his allies concerns made it untenable as a global force
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Guy who believes in the infinite wisdom of chairman Kier but whos thinking of voting Lib Dem in a Lab LD marginal to make the Liberal Democrats the LOTO
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Yes but I want the Tories to have 0 seats
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The weird thing is that I believe that Ε vejk could be anyije from Eastern Europe, from an Estonian to a Bulgarian and that's why I liked reading 'Vahva sΓ΅dur Ε vejk' as a kid
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'Osudy dobrΓ©ho vojΓ‘ka Abishejka za svΔtovΓ© vΓ‘lky'
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He's great I love him already
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Mind giving the wee fella a few scritches and a a treat?
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Wish this app didn't think that I was Indonesian and give me Indonesians asking for followers in my discovery tab
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She's great will you give her scritches and treats on behalf of us when you meet her
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I've always found it to be a dilemma between making sure these guys have amazing lives but also how countries that do great with conservation like Botswana have trouble with dealing with elephants negatively impacting human habitation and agriculture due to their presence
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Motorists are more reckless if you wear a helmet that doesn't really apply to seatbelts
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So cool that Lindbergh types are a dime a dozen now
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The epilogue after 1:18:22 has some choice quotes, my favourite has to be 'To the victor belongs the spoils, that's what they say. Well what are the spoils? Only this:achance to build a free world, better than before. Maybe the last chance. Remember that.'
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There's a US propaganda film that covers the preparation for D-Day until V-E Day And one of the finishing quotes from one of the troops is 'no country could've done it alone. What does that mean? That anyone who wants to take a bow by himself is not only boasting, but nuts' youtu.be/9ifDqlRZh70?...
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Need to institute apartheid against Gamer-Americans pest They infect the Reta of the populace
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Ngl when I saw this response in my alerts I thought 'huh Bluesky gives you alerts for your own replies?' lmfao
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Basically the people who say shit like 'the Balts are all neo Nazis while the Germans are not' will also parrot the line about the EU and NATO being nazi organizations
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It's also a common line among the western Stalinists who wax lyrical about the Soviet Union and communism in Eastern Europe
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They were always like this because they never had a 1968 type reckoning and instead had to be told by the Soviets 'please don't invade Czechoslovakia again because of the optics'
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It's always cool seeing middle class people in well established democracies argue about how actually democracy doesn't matter to them at all when Eastern Europeans either are fighting for democracy now or remember their parents fighting for it
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I mean beyond that the threat of trade unions only makes sense in an environment where people lack jobs, now its just them being out of touch with the economy
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Also not a very serious threat with unemployment being low while wages have been stagnant for over 10 years
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Government, it was done in secret with the German military who had always hated the republican government and were looking for every way to undermine it plus they were incredibly reactionary and anti semitic, they created the stab in the back myth and were more than happy with the Nazis taking over
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What was worse than any of this was that they helped the fuckers bypass the Versailles treaty and helped them rearm and develop their doctrines in the Soviet Union in the 20s and 30s, and the excuse of 'well they weren't Nazis yet' sucks because the deal wasn't spearheaded by the German civilian
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I mean Stalingrad was important because of how important Caucasus oil was, how important the Caucasus and Astrakhan were for lend lease supplies from Iraq and Iran plus Stalingrads industrial capacity
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It requires a lot of work because Dems dropped the ball and basically conceded on immigration in 2016 when Trump won, it didn't use to be this bad at all, most Americans were in favour of amnesty in 2015, now nobody would dare propose it
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I mean if it's airborne the 6 feet stuff doesn't make much sense it's going to be a ventilation issue
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They are making the Conservative party a proscribed organization and that's all I need from em
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And exit is of course ausfahrt
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Collective security is fundamentally very much a leftist ideal and instrumental for preserving internationalism
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Twitter bans you if you say 'he should be executed for treason against the Republic' btw in case you were wondering whether it's a free speech bastion now
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Unironically coming around from being an ardent opponent of the death penalty to being a supporter of the death penalty for those in high office who have commuted treason
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Philippines flag is meant to be flown upside down during war time
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McDonald's is not a human right and it's good that it's not 2014 anymore and people don't have to go for the shittiest jobs around because the US economy is still recovering from the great recession
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