In my future fiction project I talk about the "Usonian-American split", where people basically collectively start treating those we now call "Americans" as two separate nationalities: one nationality mainly found in Europe, and another mainly found in the USA, and these nationalities are mutually antagonistic to one another.

This aspect of the future timeline was not pulled out of my butt, believe it or not. It is not an attempt at "hopium" or "good drama", it comes from me imagining if every American in Europe came to feel the way I already feel right now, since my own sense of nationality is born out of specific conditions which will possibly or even likely become progressively more common as the colonial project falters.

And yes, how I feel right now is that I see these Usonian NATO ghouls and all I can say about them is, they are not me! What, why am I supposed to act like these people are "Americans in Norway, just like me"‽ What, are we supposed to be the same nationality on the basis of a shared first language, or what‽ Well, I will not pretend that we are the same! I refuse to pretend! They are not me! They do not have the same formative experiences, the same relationships to land, culture, and labor, nothing in common with me beyond the most absolutely superficial. So I want to boo and hiss at the Seppo ghouls and tell them to fuck off, and if someone threw rocks at them, I would not feel sorry for them. I am an immigrant's child, not some asshole getting a full VIP treatment for fixing up some machines of death "made in USA".

There is no honor or dignity in the Seppos' work. I want to live in peace, unity and solidarity with all the nations of the world, but God forbid these Seppos would let me! They could never allow that! All they know is occupation and death, and if I am confused for them, even subconsciously, then this is only to the benefit of the colonial project.

Down with the Great Satan and up with brotherhood and unity, freedom for the Oceti Sakowin and Anishinaabe and Sámi, Seppos fuck outta Norway and fuck outta Ryukyu, and free Palestine.

Unfathomably based holy shit

Edit: So a TL;DR is that this was NHK's Chinese-language broadcast, and this Chinese "outsourced employee" who'd been working for NHK radio for literally half his life since the early 2000s, he'd just finished reading a report on how somebody had spray-painted the word "toilet" at the entrance to a shrine honoring a bunch of war criminals and fascist goons — and he just decides right then and there to go off-script for about 20 seconds to state among other things that the Diaoyu Islands belong to China. Like I guess that was just the last straw for him or something.

I do not have a particularly strong opinion on the Diaoyu Islands dispute, I just think that any day is a good day to undermine the "territorial integrity" of Japan. Like the entire prefecture that Japan claims the Diaoyu Islands belong to shouldn't even be part of Japan to begin with.

Not to be confused with Deluge (Poland-Lithuania).

The Deluge of Elephants, also known as simply the Deluge, was the largest refugee crisis in human history. It resulted in a major economic crisis and health crisis in much of Europe as an estimated 72 million Usonians fleeing the Second US Civil War migrated to the region in the five-year period between 2037 and 2042, triggering multiple disease outbreaks that together killed approximately 4 million people. The name of the Deluge of Elephants is in reference to the "White Elephant Brigade", a derogatory term for the Usonian migrants, associated with European tabloids' assertion that the United States of America in the midst of its second civil war was also waging an economic war against Europe by sending refugees to the region as white elephants — "possessions which are difficult to dispose of, and whose cost of upkeep greatly outweighs their value".

Europeans' attitudes towards the Usonian refugees was at the beginning of the crisis known to be largely highly positive, even with the resulting material strain. However, attitudes towards the refugees soured as the crisis deepened, famously resulting in the trend of "Laser Troopers" who would assemble in large numbers to shine illicit laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes carrying Usonian refugees. On the other hand, though the term "oh-ro" today has more positive connotations, it was originally used to mock Europeans seen as overly sympathetic to the Usonian refugees. The term "oh-ro", or "to sing oh-ro", was specifically originally in reference to the Dublin "Deaf Ears" incident of 2038, where a flash mob performed the Irish folk song "Óró! 'Sé do bheatha 'bhaile" to welcome a group of Usonian refugees at Dublin Airport who had, unbeknownst to the mob, been deafened by an uncontrolled decompression incident mid-flight.

The first amclub was founded at Saint-Louis Middle School in Liège in 2041 in response to widespread bullying of Usonian/American students; this is considered to be the recognized beginning of the Usonian-American split. Even today, Americans are still commonly distinguished by their relationship to the Deluge of Elephants: Americans whose families have continuously lived in Europe since prior to the Deluge are today known as Old Dogs, and the descendants of the Deluge-era refugees are known as the New Litter.

The Deluge of Elephants, its origins, and its impact are of much interest to scholars. Consensus holds that the bourgeois factions of the Second US Civil War intended for the relocation of settlers to Europe among other regions to be a temporary measure, such that they could return to settler life postbellum. The ultimate failure of this plan is attributed to the state of class conflict in Europe and the USA at the time, and to contradictory interests and changing dynamics within the bourgeoisie of either region. The exact details of this analysis remain hotly debated, however.

Scholars take particular interest in how the crisis was presented by liberal political parties and media in Europe, who were criticized for xenophobic statements, scapegoating, and opportunistically co-opting and distorting the language and rhetoric of leftists during the crisis. Scholars also take particular interest in how the crisis was exacerbated by capitalism, including government policies criticized as irresponsible or as wealth transfers to the bourgeoisie; and scholars continue to debate what the exact motives of the European and Usonian bourgeoisie were during the crisis, including the degree to which the crisis was engineered versus accidental.

The Deluge of Elephants and the resulting Usonian-American split resulted in a high level of class consciousness among Americans. This is widely considered to be a major part of the prelude to both the Locotian Revolution and the Socialist Revolution in Europe.

If you're from a majority Anglophone region, you can still reply to this, provided that the things you're mentioning are not in the English language, or are at the very least bilingual.

Anyways for Norway I'm familiar with

• tjen-folket.no (bilingual)
• tronderrod.no (regional for Trøndelag)
• revolusjon.no
• marxisme.no
• sosialistiskframtid.wordpress.com

I read Tjen Folket the most often, personally.

I'm feeling like a little kid right now I tell you hwat

It's been three months since the last one, and both that one and the first one people managed to guess correctly right away without me needing to reveal the meanings of any words. Perhaps this will be the third time that happens, but if it isn't, then I should restate that the rule is that I can reveal the meanings of one word at a time, unless revealing a word would give away the meaning of the whole line.

At the bottom of this post you will find some other hints.

Please spoiler your answers so that others can make their own guesses.

Now, without further ado...

Miis, sjo e : tavfa, hay;
Nay rejjeske, sj' yecjoey : briiskiv kay—
Ya nga nnetavfatte cjay...
Feyvya nga soykey
Yontteyde dengskey u myeeskey—
Fe nga yeyde so yaradcey;
Ho, no e : siravya! No e : siravya!

Nay yaskottey, sj'ya : tuska la,
Kya nga sjahka, sj'ya : peska...

O-ge!
Yeroeve nga hay eyere!
Yesoevfe nga buhspinske su'e:
E nay yoyejjeske,
Denge su' eyere!
E nga o-ge!
Vure, sju'e na rrumruya;
Yekrungevfe nga mozjavya:
E nay yoyejjeske,
Denge su' eyere!

Xi yeyriguze he,
Hozjavya, sju' ebusjpette yukeyni;
Byanette, sju'eya : bzesovaruyeyni...
Si zjariv gva, fe he,
Yasjtra so yabluuma u yerunge
Nga s' yeklammoe, ekrungette—
Yefe he, e : kyertavsja! E : yakyertavsja!

No kyerte dum yurmgolleyya,
U mozjeve, sj'ya, va e, peska...

(refrain)

No kyerte dum yurmgolleyya,
U mozjeve, sj'ya, va e, peska...

(refrain)

This has traditionally been my favorite type of anime basically ever since I first got into anime, but lately I've just felt like I need it more. Chances are that most things that people would mention in this thread are things I've already seen or tried, or things I already plan on watching — but honestly, just mention them anyways, because they could be useful for someone else, and I'm not opposed to rewatching or prioritizing things.

Still, I might particularly like some more "hidden gem" type recommendations.

Screencap

Stage 1: "What, the characters are drinking A&W Root Beer at an A&W restaurant? Honestly, I have seen hundreds of hours of anime and not once before have I seen any type of root beer anywhere, nor any other indication that A&W is a thing in Japan. Root beer is near-impossible to get in Norway, so how come A&W is apparently enough of a thing in Japan for the animators to displace the logo and expect it to be recognized? And if root beer is a thing in Japan, why have I never seen it in anime until now?"

Stage 2: "So the only A&W restaurants in Japan are in Okinawa Prefecture? Why only Okinawa of all places? Not too many people live there, you'd think if anywhere that the A&W restaurants would be in the bigger cities like Tokyo or whatever."

Stage 3: "The A&W restaurants in Okinawa initially targeted US service personnel, but gradually became popular among the locals? Honestly, how many American soldiers had to be on that island for how long for A&W to become established there? There's American soldiers in Norway too, but we don't have A&W."

Stage 4: "OK, so, very many American soldiers for a very long time. Like, literally a quarter of Okinawa is just American military bases still today, and Okinawa accounts for some 70% of all the US military presence in Japan. What do the locals of Okinawa think of that arrangement? Like, surely they must think that a quarter of the island being military bases is a bit excessive, right? Like there's so much you can do with that land that isn't so, you know, bellicose, right? It's just strange, isn't it?"

Stage 5: [was going to make a root beer float but just can't help but blankly stare at the A&W can and think about the American military bases in Okinawa]

Stage 6: "YANKS GET THE FUCK OUTTA UCHINAA!!! FREE RYUKYU FROM THE FOREIGN YOKE!!!"

Not to be confused with Legacy Americans. For other uses, see American (disambiguation).

Americans (singular: American, IPA: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.kən/) are a heterogeneous ethnic group most heavily concentrated in Europe. They descend from the historical Usonian diaspora. Americans first started to be commonly distinguished from Usonians during the Deluge of Elephants in the time of the Second US Civil War; this distinction, often called the Usonian-American split, was solidified by the formation of the American representative organization Amicon and the publication of its manifesto Amdec in the year 2049.

Americans commonly speak English, Spanish, and French, or derived languages, often freely blending these with each other and with the local languages of areas where they live; many Americans are denaskuloj as well. Deaf Americans most often have European American Sign Language (EASL, IPA: /ˈi.zəl/) as their first language, a divergent and variable form of American Sign Language with partial intelligibility with Locotian American Sign Language (LASL, IPA: /ˈleɪ.zəl/). EASL is designated as one of the three federal working languages of the European Federation alongside Esperanto and Interslavic.

Prior to the Usonian-American split, "American" was a historical name of Usonians. The word comes from "America", the colonial name of Abya Yala, which had come to be used totum pro parte to refer to the United States of America. Modern Americans chose to use the name "American" for themselves in part as an attempt to skunk the term in reference to Abya Yala and the USA. Following the decolonization of Abya Yala, however, a name debate has ignited among Americans on the appropriateness of continuing to use a colonial name referencing Amerigo Vespucci. No replacement name has caught on, however.

The American flag is based on the Usonian flag. It depicts nine horizontal stripes of red and white, with a sky blue canton bearing a large red star. The nine stripes reference the nine regional amicons of Europe whose representatives drafted and signed Amdec; while the red star represents the "new lodestar" of socialism. In its original context, as the Usonian flag's white stars represented a "new constellation" of the constituent states of the United States of America, the American flag's replacement of these white stars with a single red star was intended to symbolize Amdec's assertion that Americans "[did] not belong to any state of the USA", and that the USA was an illegitimate and illegal occupation regime. A common practice among Americans known as "scrifting" the flag symbolizes that American identity is based in interpersonal connections rather than claims to land.

In the modern day, the red star is often said to symbolize the role that Americans played in the Locotian Revolution and in the Socialist Revolution in Europe.

Americans are generally divided into the "Old Dogs" and the "New Litter" according to their relationship to the Deluge of Elephants. Other terms or phrases often used by Americans include "retour", "oh-ro", "ami", "see single" and "em and en?".