@_night_brain__ Unironically think Ohrid is going to become more popular. Probably never huge, but more popular as a vacation spot surely
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The Balkan tourism gentrification frontier advances. By 2035 in Skopje my friends
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
'Croatia, but cheaper': The quirky holiday spots on trend for 2026 bbc.in/4vzw9l7
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@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog Yeah, his friend has a wider range of examples, throwing Habermas, Husserl, and Levi-Strauss in. And certainly poststructuralism is a kind of nebulous and oversimplified category in the same way Continental Phil is. I just wasn't sure of a better term
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@bobmontcee @Benthamsbulldog It feels more directed at poststructuralism (whatever that is) though his appeal to authority from his PhD student mate mentions Habermas as a 'great' of CP
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@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog Particularly the list of "key thinkers" being "Deleuze, Foucault, Baudrillard, Derrida, Lacan, Heidegger" with Heidegger thrown on the end got me lol
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@anti_socialform @Benthamsbulldog These are the main problems in this piece. Interestingly, he doesn't even mention Habermas besides the quote. The examples he engages with are very poststructuralist-heavy, perhaps on purpose. It reads more like he is attempting to critique poststructuralism
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@wolfpacmk @thantmyintu Students in military academies, mostly. And some academic articles. "Crooked Lessons from the Indian Wars; Simons, Anna" is a good example. It is publically avaliable
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@wolfpacmk @thantmyintu The closest I can find to something comprehensive on this is "Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire" by Stefan Aune. I've never read it. Back when I researched it briefly for a paper I mostly ran across theses and dissertations from students
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It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that underlying everything is an ingrained inability (in Washington, at least since Vietnam) to imagine non-Western (non-white) counties as complex societies, with their own set of stories, inhabited by people capable of the full spectrum of human emotion and rational thought (seemingly these days more rational thought).
Max Blumenthal@MaxBlumenthal
WaPo: the mood inside the Pentagon is "intense and paranoid" Pentagon leaders worry the US will expend its air defense stockpiles, and the conflict will "spiral out of control" This is precisely what Pentagon Joint Chiefs Chair Dan Caine warned of last week
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@GeorgeHategan @mattduss This is correct. He has a section (I believe at the end) where he says that, while he is primarily concerned with critiquing communism, the grass isn't completely green on the other side and the capitalist West promotes conformity and passivity through other means
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Remarkable how Carney deployed a classic anti-communist work against the lies and pretenses of the liberal West.
Scott Robertson@sarobertsonca
Prime Minister Carney on Václav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless" and the current world order.
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@nikicaga Incredible how people refuse to know anything before speaking or engage with any nuance ever
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@cheirinhodepao @Marhelius @dieworkwear I totally agree. I’m from the US, and Cologne is miles ahead of most places there. Compared to other European cities though, it can be a little rough
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interesting how this is trending on conservative twitter but every photo shows dense urban planning, high walkability, and a low number of cars. basically a 15 min city
The Culturist@the_culturist_
The world's most beautiful towns and cities at Christmas - a thread 🧵 1. Dresden, Germany 🇩🇪
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@Marhelius @dieworkwear Both of those cities feel very walkable comparatively for sure
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@Alexisization A lot of that history is glossed over, sure, but at minimum there is talk of the Plains Wars and events like Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears. The corn thing (while true) is literally elementary school, this person’s ears turned off at 10 yrs old
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american leftist teens sleep during their history classes and think all the parts they missed are covered up by the government
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@lefttwick To really comprehend it you have to follow the daily news there. It’s no exaggeration to say that they wipe out a whole town of people nearly every day, and usually do it in the most disgusting and disturbing way possible. It’s really hard to understand a group so evil is real
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@SomePole1 @DylanBurns1776 And, to add to that, even if Ukrainian culture and identity were fairly new, it wouldn’t really matter. Identity and culture are fluid, and to claim “newer” cultures lack autonomy because of historical claims is absurd
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@DylanBurns1776 Cultures pre-date nationalism and Ukrainian culture has certainly existed for as long as any other still living culture today in Europe.
Nationalism may be a 'larp' for many, yet the point of that nationalism differs from state to state. For a lot of states under formal imperial
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what a pointless statement
All nations where not real, or "fake", until human beings conceptualized and made them. Using this standard all nation are fake. Did France "larp" itself into existence in the 18th century? What about Germany in the 19th?
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry@pegobry_en
Ukraine may be in some sense "fake" historically, but it's also possible for a nation to LARP itself into reality, and this seems to be what Ukraine has done.
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@vanillaopinions And as everyone has suggested, this guy seems to be a reaction to most “alt-country” guys (Tyler Childers, Jason Isbell) being left of center. Childers recently released a music video with gay coal miners that seemed to spark this. Check them out
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@vanillaopinions youtu.be/yKc6RKUW8fE
Try this guy out. Bit more of a yodeling sound, but really good pointed political songs, though most of his stuff isn’t this political it’s all really good
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does anyone know where i can find music that sounds exactly like this but not right wing
Oliver Anthony Music@AintGottaDollar
Rich Men North of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will show up there in a few days. Im still in a state of shock at the outpouring of love I've seen in the comments, messages and emails. I'm working to respond to everyone as quickly as possible.
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@nikicaga The FDP has, at best, the economic policies of the 2012 Republican Party and is considered to be “centrist” in many German publications. Don’t see where this guy is coming from
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These people's minds would break if they ever met a far right German
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