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@potatothLad @HaileyFlemx yeah that would be my logic because that would make sense. kiplings texts could only have been written by a man raised in the empire
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The author being Irish due to the “technicality” of being born and raised in Ireland
eva@_glorianas
@witchesflight there's just SO many to choose from, dracula is only on the technicality that stoker was born in dublin
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@fosandair But that “Turks” parents and grandparents were also born in Athens, and were part Greek themselves.
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Imagine a Turk who was born in Athens during the centuries of Ottoman occupation and writes exclusively in Turkish about mostly Turkish topics.
Carljob 🇵🇸 🇮🇪@bornposting
People sincerely arguing that Stoker doesn’t count as an Irish writer bc Ireland was under British rule at the time. Very cool to say we can’t claim one of our most famous writers because Ireland was colonised by the British at the time!
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@hvsperus @HaileyFlemx No because Kipling’s parents weren’t born in India, and they weren’t of partial Indian descent lmaooo. Also under your logic most of Kipling’s early works would be Indian as he conceived them, drafted them while living there as a young adult.
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@HaileyFlemx does that make the book irish? it was entirely conceived of in england, drafted in london, by a man born in the same country as britain now is. are rudyard kiplings books indian? roald dahls norwegian?
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@fosandair @ExBusinessman Both his parents were born in Ireland and were of mixed Anglo-Irish descent. Saying he’s Irish is not inaccurate at all
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@ExBusinessman Obviously not true. He was born a foreigner and went back home.
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It's a British novel and Stoker was a Brit. What is there to debate?
NyarlathoSteph 🇨🇦𓅓@NyarlathoSteph
Debate erupts over whether Dracula counts as an Irish novel x.com/i/trending/205…
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@pendefig @TabbyTeamster Irish are Celticized Bell Beakers not really Celt Celts. They descend from the same NW European stock as Anglo-Saxons, Frisians, Danes, etc. This is why when you G25 distance Anglo Saxon skeletons, Irish is usually the second or third closest population.
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Irish mytho-history: the Spanish are family.
Autosomal DNA analysis: the Dutch and englush are family actually.
Kriqlation@kriqlation
Heatmap for Irish people. Distances with modern populations.
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@vrilliumlive Or it’s because Irish and Anglos aren’t really meaningfully culturally different at all. What “Irishness” was beaten out of them? Being rowdy in pubs lol? You could argue language but if we’re strictly considering culture here then idk
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The difference that exists between ‘Irish-Americans’ and the Irish shows that cultural nationalism is possible while Italian Americans affirm it through foreignness.
Irish Americans are hardly any different from Anglo Americans in 2026 meanwhile their Ireland counterparts are a completely foreign group. This is because we used to beat the Irish out of them when they arrived.
The Italians came after we adopted a more liberal social attitude towards culture and weren’t forced to assimilate, today an American Italian and an Italian are indistinguishable.
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@LordMoreton @gaersstapa @angloid0 From continuous contact with France from the early Middle Ages to Early Modern period. But in some areas that IA French reaches like 35 percent, makes it hard to believe it was just from immigration in the last 1200 years or so.
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@gaersstapa @angloid0 Also, 60-70% ‘Celt’ is false. This only exists in the west. Germanic reaches 50% in eastern England. Much variation and clear east/west split. The rest (<40%) is Iron Age French, but when it arrived in the early Middle Ages (with Franks and others) was never culturally ‘Celtic’.
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@LordMoreton @gaersstapa @angloid0 The Iron Age French is still considered Continental Celt tbf, but I agree it’s a bit misleading combining Insular and Cont. Although iirc there’s still debate about when that IA French entered the Isles, some argue it was pre-Anglo-Saxon with Gauls and others argue 700-1700
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@foster_type Yeah he’s not anywhere on Gandolfini, Cranston, or McShane’s level, he was just perfect for Draper.
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Jon Hamm is a perfectly adequate actor who was cast in the perfect part. As a result he's kind of been overrated. He was pretty charming in the FLETCH movie, average in most other things, and downright bad in RICHARD JEWELL. Eastwood famously only gives actors 1-2 takes and boy was Hamm exposed.
Zak@zakfilm
The four greatest performances in television
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@JamesRaxz “Diverse” and it was just Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants who were incredibly genetically and culturally similar to the founding Anglo-Scotch
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You mean you're the regressive nativist who died pointlessly and forgotten while the diverse immigrant peoples he deeply resented flourished and turned New York City into the center of the world?
Because that's what happened to Bill the Butcher in the film.
Meghan McCain@MeghanMcCain
Me and everyone I know after this weekend.
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@Uniting_ps BF1 probably had some of the best maps in the franchise. I will say movement and gunplay are inferior to BF3 and 4
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Here we go again "ww1 setting" "cinematic" "atmosphere" No mention of gunplay, maps, movement, vehicle play. No BF1 post ever talks about or shows actual gameplay. The game was made to look at and not play, which worked perfect for the casuals.
Battlefield Intel@BattlefieldInte
Battlefield 1 just got voted the BEST Battlefield ever 🏆 (15,000+ votes) WW1 setting, cinematic chaos, Operations mode, unmatched atmosphere… it still hits the same in 2026. Honestly nothing else feels like it. Agree or nah? 👇
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@HarrisonWarming @C_skalt Rogue and Syndicate were the only non Ubi Montreal studios here. Montreal just used to be different like that
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@C_skalt These were not the same studio, Ubisoft had like, 3 or 4 different studios making these games and rotating them
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@Assassins_M He’s fine. He like simultaneously gets too much glaze and too much hate. The story around him is what makes AC3 great and one the best AC stories honestly, albeit occasionally being sorta Forrest Gumpy.
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Connor is one of the greatest Assassin's Creed protagonists. I like him more than Ezio. And I love Ezio. I said what I said.
cory barlog fan 🇵🇸 🇱🇧@squared_nation
CONNOR NATION RISE UP
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@squared_nation Also idk legally what the deal would be with reusing Kristen Bell’s likeness as Lucy, as it would technically be a “new game” and she left the AC franchise on sorta bad terms
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If AC1 is getting a remake and they remove modern day sections from that then best believe my ass is not touching that shit
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@squared_nation I mean they definitely would keep them in because they’re essential to that story. For Black Flag… not really. I would love for them to remake AC1 but I kinda doubt they would spend time doing it, the whole BF remake was really just so they could reuse S &B assets.
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@English_B1306 @leeam_dubwest @Globalstats11 Edward Longshanks was a frog who didn’t speak English. Cope.
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@leeam_dubwest @Globalstats11 North Ireland is British. Cope.
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@_mathisart_ @vrilliumlive Also the most Yamnaya Indo-European DNA. The defining genetic component of whiteness. It’s not a social construct based on “what they contributed” it’s a biological fact. Irish, Norwegians, Icelanders, Scots, whitest blokes on earth.
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