@rankyttc @AKryptos1 @chi_urbanist Teutonic would probably also incide Yiddishql.
I think “Latin” is used as a synonym for Romance so Spanish and Portuguese can also be an influence
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@AKryptos1 @chi_urbanist Teutonic - German/Dutch
Scandinavian - Norwegian/Swedish/Danish
Latin - Italian
At least this is what I'm assuming
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New York City's foreign-born White parental language population in 1910
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@DrMichaelBonner Horror movie about a group of youths going to a remote villa for a week or rwo of otium only to encounter an bloodthirsty cult of cannibalistic Christians
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Possible themes or personages to explore:
1. King Arthur;
2. Attila the Hun;
3. The Justinianic Plague;
4. Future Pope Gregory the Great having a terrible time at Constantinople and feuding with the Patriarch;
5. A Persian eunuch at Byzantium;
6. Emperor Maurice and Khusro II;
7. The great Roman-Persian war as seen by holy man Theodore of Syceon;
8. A Dune-like treatment of the collapse of the old order and the rise of Islam with fantastical reminiscences of the deep past.
Aris Roussinos@arisroussinos
There should be more films— or at least some films— set in Late Rome, it’s such an underused aesthetic
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@eternallyRaq Imagine a serious Democrat politician making opposition to abortion their main political priority
Tbh I think he’s trying to just provide more outlets to preset diehard Zionist politics bc he lives in an delusional bubble that this is a suppressed view
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Actually, there’s probably never been a worse case of not reading the room than whatever Josh Shapiro thinks he’s doing.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
The Hill: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on his support for Israel: “For those who begin by suggesting Israel doesn’t have the right to exist as a Jewish state, I think that is a recipe for permanent war. I want to see peace in the region.” “I also do think it’s sort of interesting that you’ve got 46 nations around the world where the majority religion is Islam, 23 of them recognize Islam as the official state religion. One has the official state religion of Judaism, and that’s the one we keep talking about here.”
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@Ben_said_it @camkasky He could win Pennsylvania I guess. Leaning into your least popular position doesn’t sound very promising.
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Josh Shapiro has somehow found an even less resonant core campaign message than “here are my personal grievances against Kamala Harris”
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡@PollTracker2024
The Hill: Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) is leaning into his support for Israel as the war in Iran escalates and as speculation about a potential 2028 presidential run grows “Shapiro is betting that there’s still room in his party for a more nuanced approach and that Democratic voters — as the governor runs for reelection this year and tests the waters for a potential White House bid — have an appetite for a measured leader with a centrist view on Israel.” thehill.com/homenews/campa…
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@camkasky Cool so once he sinks maybe he’ll bring down whoever he endorses
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If American religion were 100 people:
23 Evangelicals
19 Catholics
11 Mainline Protestants
5 Black Prot.
3 Other Christians
2 LDS
2 Jews
2 Other Religion
1 Buddhist
1 Hindu
1 Muslim
19 Nothing in particular
6 Agnostics
5 Atheists
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@PushDemsLeft Democrats are rn the only people that believe progressive polices make you toxic amongst voters.
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Obama pretended to be progressive and won.
Hillary ran to the right and lost.
Biden pretended to be progressive and won.
Kamala ran to the right and lost.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Democrats have STILL not reckoned with how much people hate progressive ideology
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This is exactly how many race massacres occurred here in America. A Black person was accused of a crime they actually didn’t commit then white folks in that town or city would go on a rampage burning down Black Americans property and killing them.
Etan Nechin@Etanetan23
After ministers falsely claimed a settler died in a car terror attack — despite it being investigated as car accident — settlers are now burning Palestinian homes in Silat ad-Dhahr in the West Bank and attempting to burn families alive.
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@maiamindel @Zennistrad Whenever I scroll past this thumbnail my first thought is I had no idea there was a Mosley biopic with a young Matt Damon
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grandfather1: shill for global fascist movement
father: racecar driver with conentration camp fetish
son: shill for global fascist movement
it skips a generation i guess
Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸@jimstewartson
Of everyone in the UK that Peter Thiel could choose to run Palantir UK, he chose Louis Mosley, grandson of violent British fascist Oswald Mosley—who had his wedding at Goebbels house so Hitler could attend. Louis is rarely seen without a black shirt. Palantir is Nazi cancer.
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I know- but circumcision predates Islam. The Spanish assumed initially it must’ve been brought by Muslims to the Philippines (especially since the Manila Bay area already had Islamic missionaries present and pork had fallen out of favor) but missionaries would discover it present in places with no Islamic presence and natives who universally insisted it was an ancient rite not introduced by Islam.
The Spanish tried to discourage it but at some point gave up and were satisfied with simply removing or at least greatly reducing the pagan spirituality around the indigenous rites. Even elite mestizo families who were otherwise highly hispanicized nigh universally continued the practice unlike in Mesoamerica.
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@memecucker @stooobless Madagascar and the philippines both had islamic influences
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nonreligious routine neonatal circumcision is under discussed as one of the weirder american habits. literally nobody else in the world does it outside of religious reasons! it’s bizarre!
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
Circumcision is on the decline in the US. For the first time in decades, less than 50% of American newborn boys are circumcised. You might think this is due to demographic shifts. Latinos have very low circumcision rates, and are a larger and increasing share of total births. And this is part of it. But what's also interesting is the decline amongst white Americans. They declined by 5.3pts, from 65.3% to 60.0%. And it's not just a wealth or insurance thing either. The wealthiest Americans, the top income decile, experienced one of the largest declines. In 2022, only 51.4% of them were circumcised, nearly 10pts lower than 2012.
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@TwinkRedGuard I have a Japanese-American friend that’s lived in Japan continuously for nearly 15 years, works at a predominantly Japanese company, scored an N1 w the JLPT, and still regularly has staff at restaurants or stores reply to his Japanese with their broken English
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People who say that Mongolian is a hard language have never had to use it IRL
Unlike the Japanese, who will stare at you with empty eyes if you try to use their language, you can ignore the grammar and just say a string of words and people will get it, especially if it's a place
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@SAMOYEDCORE Tweets thatll gonna come back and bite you when enter the Democratic primary
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@100YearsAgoLive I remember reading how there were some extremely anti-clerical/state atheist (as in “liquidate the lamas”) communists in Central Asia whom the Soviets set aside in favor of playing realpolitik w/ traditional groups to counter the Whites. Idr if this was in Tuva however
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The Tuvan People’s Republic, a Soviet puppet state in Central Asia, adopts its first official flag and changes the name of its capital from “Khem-Beldyr” to “Kyzyl,” meaning “Red” in Tuvan.
Prime Minister Donduk Kuular, who is a former lama monk, also establishes Buddhism as the state religion, much to the irritation of Joseph Stalin.
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Ahmad critiquing Said’s use of Dante as an example of ‘Orientalist’ discourse
Also it’s always been a big pet peeve of mine when people use Dante as a standard-bearer for’Western/European/Christian’ thought. The man had Pope Boniface VIII who decreed Unum Sanctum -and was still alive- sent to the 8th Circle of Hell. He was critical of his society!
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@DrMichaelBonner I really like Aijaz Ahmad’s analysis, especially since elsewhere he does take account of how plenty of other ‘critiques’ of Said come from more bad-faith defensiveness of ‘the West’ rather than actually examining the role the concept plays
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Go and read many other orientalists, especially Germans, and you will see that whatever Said was on about is irrelevant. P.S. Said's opening diatribe about Aeschylus is a pathetically absurd example of what the youth today call 'cherry picking' and has always bothered me.
کیوان@kayvanseyedin
You clearly didn’t read the book or understand its argument. The point was never about the Orientalist’s intellectual caliber but the production of a very particular knowledge about “the Orient.” Go read some of Browne’s works and you’ll see that Edward Said was spot on.
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Are the hymns of Keralite Christians mostly in Latin? I thought their litturgical language is Syriac. Or does it depend on sect?
South Asian Christians@S_AsianXtians
Te Joseph Celebrent. A beautiful Gregorian hymn in honor of Saint Joseph, reverently sung by a young high school student from Kochi, Kerala 🌴🇮🇳
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There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
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