redchert

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[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Humans and earth's biosphere are valuable simply by existing. Since complex life is very very very very rare. Alien xenobiologists and evolutionary scientists would have an great interest in studying and observing earth.

It is a fundamentally flawed approach to project human thought patterns onto aliens (human reality itself is limited by its own methods of observation), biological reality shapes ideology. BUT it can still be deducted that any alien species advanced enough for interstellar travel is curious and pro-science and so would find xeno-ecospheres valuable.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

The collaborators didnt see the soviets as their fellow countrymen, but as "primitive" lazy dullards, in their minds they would be plantation lords post-nazi victory.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

They had massive support from the rest of europe. The soviet didnt just fight the germans, they fought a pan-european army of reaction. The Nazis stood on the back of a hundred million collaborators, they only got to destroy so much because others wanted them to.

After the war it was strategically sound for the rest of europe to section off fascism into something only limited to a nebulous cultural inkling inherent in germans, and local nationalist forces were totally against. Even today you see that take, of british and american patriotism claiming that those nation's ideology were fundamentally different from german nazism. I remember even an british anarchist telling me that the British Empire was the good guy in WW1 (despite him being born in northern ireland and being pro-reunification)

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Local people speak it of course, its not as politicized as Ukrainian for example, but its losing ground to French which is spoken by more people. So, the culture war types usually want to enforce it as the sole national language, as the large Portuguese and francophone population refuses to learn it. Similar to how flemish speakers in belgium usally know french better than francophones do dutch/flemish.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Luxembourgish is basically the dialect they speak in trier but with more french loanwords mixed in - it was constructed post-ww2 for obvious reasons. French is more popular due to the large Portuguese, french and belgian diaspora/commuters, so luxembourgish is only prioritized by like the local right-wing culture war people.

Fun fact its also spoken in Arlon in belgium but is practically extinct there.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Marxist arent not symbolist but actionist. CPUSA calls themselves communist too but most western leftist know that they are lying lol.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 days ago

A tax haven full of french speaking germans. The left-wing movement died once the steel industry went kaput.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Holocaust deniers also claim that most victims died due to diseases. The destruction and enslavement of natives did in fact cause their high mortality due to diseases.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There were also white towns that made money selling alcoholic beverages and drugs to native reservations. Usually long periods of starvation cause high rates of diabetes (amongst other symptoms) in a populace - today the lakota people have one of the highest percentage of diabetes per capita in the world.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 days ago

The reservation were designed with the eventually extinction of native americans in mind, yes. Its just much slower and more deniable "social murder"

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 4 days ago

Ancient Judea & Israel were also not ethnostates.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 days ago

They did not control everything. New Spain claimed a territory from Anchorage to the Philippines to Georgia.

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