@Tzar_the_II If we actually try to annex Herzegovina I'm joining an islamic bosnian paramilitary organisation
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@Tzar_the_II NGL this trend has surprised me in how many people have irredentist fantasies, to be fair mostly latent and not actively advocating for them.
I'm open to unifications/federations, but outright annexing bordering regions is mostly insane, especially for Croatia
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me when i have to annex areas that have like 2% italians
Cadix@Quebecnational
My ideal Europe map. Coal or Gem ?
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@Inq7x4h @JabidiohB @gamergate2077 I'm far more familiar with the balkans/EE, but I'd guess they, rising racism aside, at least do have a somewhat multi-racial/ethnic society. They have conservative "posh" Indians and integrated black people
Former colonial powers will probably always be a bit more polyethnic
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I recognize that cretinous and violent anti-immigrant politics is the future of the entire world without exception but I refuse to learn to accept it.
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@gamergate2077 @JabidiohB Just casually hearing "the great replacement" relatively often nowadays is so fucking depressing, both from the "standard" Croatian catholic right wingers and general european fascist.
It didn't used to be like this!
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@gamergate2077 @JabidiohB They get blamed for working food delivery jobs and living in 10+ person apartments, taking up jobs that Croats are "supposed" to be doing, driving down wages etc.
And the far right exploits this because they obviously blame the long ruling "centre"-right party for this
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@JabidiohB @gamergate2077 Incoming right wing goverments might fall if they prove to be especially incompetent/corrupt/cartoonishly cruel etc. but I genuinely can't imagine a pro-immigrant backlash happening in european states, ourside of maybe the wokest 10% of the population
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@JabidiohB @gamergate2077 US seem to be capable of resisting outright explitic racial/national rehtoric in a way I don't think european nation-states are.
Like I'm genuinely pessimistic about this, I just don't see immigrant populations being fully iriversebly accepted as a part of the nation here
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@Tzar_the_II I do kinda think that the Lavader guy is basically correct, if a yugoslav national identity actually emerged in the 19th/early 20th century, we would all be better off. At least less wars and stupid provincial bickering
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@Tzar_the_II This is case nine billion of foreigners not understanding there were significant differences between the first and second Yugoslavia (not to mention Milošević's Yugoslavia)
To them it's just one happy chungus entety that killed itself for no reason
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Serbian nationalists love to use their campism to mislead western leftists
Luke♦️@Tzar_the_II
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@CroatianMapping @marketsoyist There are people who dress nicer, but it depends on which locale you go to.
I definitely get teased occasionally ("where are you going after this") for casually wearing button down/up shirts and non jeans pants , but it's generally fine
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@CroatianMapping @marketsoyist Men here generally consider jeans a "formal" material. Like if they need to "dress up" to go to a club or something they'll wear jeans, and they don't seem to understand that while long jeans can look smart it doesn't generally carry over to shorts.
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Honestly, Croatian men especially from Dalmatia don’t know how to dress, their bodies and attire are made for picigin, beer and drunk driving in an old mercedes or bmw. Go in any direction north of here and the fits get way better
nazzo@nazzobetweeting
unlike the ultra fashionable europeans
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@MundaneDesolate Fake, im from Croatia and basically everyone and everywhere has AC. Literally can't remember the last time I've been indoors someplace that didn't have AC.
We don't crack it up as much as Americans and in personal homes it's overwhelmingly 1-2 individual units
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@stolperson @RotIdeologist Yeah that's what is often mentioned here as a fun fact or an example of how "advanced" Scandinavians are, at least by like lib-left parents.
But leavings the stroller outside of your eyesight is still considered insane, even by the most scandi-boo parents (like mine lol)
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@EpiggMoment @RotIdeologist The most extreme reactions to it were against ever letting your baby sleep in cold weather. Leaving the stroller outside when eating lunch in a restaurant is fairly normal though.
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This is the one thing I really can't comprehend about other cultures, how people in some countries don't really go on walks, that along with eating and so is the oldest activity know to humans
Bienchen :: ─ ۫ʚɞ ⋆.𐙚 ̊.@B1ench3n_
I never realized how much we Germans love walking til I talked to non Germans, like we make every situation into a waking situation, after you ate? Yeah do a digestion walk, u wanna pre game? Sure let’s get on a walk with our walking drink, first date? Sure let’s go on a walk
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@stolperson @RotIdeologist Wait did I misunderstood this? I thought the scandianvian thing was like leaving a baby stroller outside to sleep, unsupervised, in whatever temperature?
I think everyone brings their babies outside for walks and stuff like that, and lets them sleep supervised
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@RotIdeologist No but like, everyone in Sweden is constantly outside during parental leave. Letting our babies sleep outside is just common sense. Probably a result of walking culture + long parental leaves.
But apparently most of the world finds this extremely weird, bordering on abusive?
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@RotIdeologist @stolperson And maybe, speculating here, the police called on you. It's just not something we do.
Other things you mentioned are perfectly normal and I assume are so in the rest of the Balkans and Germanic influenced Europe, if not broader
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@RotIdeologist @stolperson Thr baby thing is often mentioned as a Scandinavian parenting thing, implying "you would think this is abusive (especially in their cold climate) but advanced Scandinavians do it so it is actually ok to do". An unsupervised baby stroller would still get really bad looks here
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@gakamsky @TheOrangeEleven Ok but aren't the jedi vindicated after the fall of Palpatine? Wouldn't people consider them foolish at worst and not actively evil since it should be obvious Palpatine just used them as scapegoats.
Ignoring how in universe people act as if the Republic was ancient history
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@TheOrangeEleven >declares the jedi are corrupt and that the republic is evil and people should leave it
>valiantly dies in battle trying to sever the head of the snake
>all of his dire warnings come true as the republic becomes the evil galactic empire, the jedi fail and a reign of terror begins
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You joke but I have to imagine Dooku revisionism is as a popular hobby among some Alliance people. Despite everything else very easy for his fans to say, “See, the Republic DID become a hyper authoritarian dictatorship ruled from the Deep Core. He was right!”
Leonid@politbureaucrat
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@emlyn_123 I had this discussion once with an American guy, the US has an estimated 40-50 distinct native accents in a 3.79 million square mile area. The UK has an estimated 50-60 distinct native accents in a 94,000 square mile area. That's 10-20 more accents packed in a 40x smaller space
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There’s 7 recorded languages in the uk, three countries, 12 primary regions, 188 inhabited islands in the uk.
I agree regional accents are a thing but thats not what being discussed really.
shay@minjiluvr67
every country has regional accents can we pls stop pretending it’s a british thing
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@JosephKBennett @lilyluvrr Don't understand why Brits are being so obtuse about this. You keep comparing density of UK dialects to Australia/US/Canada etc. Ofc you would have more density than literal settler colonies!
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@JosephKBennett @lilyluvrr Most places that aren't settler collonies and haven't eradicated their dialects before the 21st century, so a lot of places I assume. Croatia has it and we aren't all that densely populated
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well actually (using this moment to flex my linguistics degree) 🥸 the uk has the most regional accents in comparison to any other place in the world ! also, the average person can’t tell the difference between someone from Melbourne and Perth, but can do for London & Manchester
shay@minjiluvr67
every country has regional accents can we pls stop pretending it’s a british thing
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