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@jacolinterna It's not as ridiculous as the 'only 250,000 died' line. That figure is below the Nazis' own internal estimate (Korherr Report) of how many Jews had died.

My favorite genre of holocaust revisionism is David Irving’s “it did happen and it was 6 million but Hitler didn’t know and would have opposed it if he did”.

@FrenlyOfficer He was also deeply boring, despite being somewhat intelligent. He used to play games such as World of Warcraft for hours just for the 'scenery'.

Hot take: Elliott Rodger was handsome, he was an incel because he was a vulnerable narcissist and weird af

@B0xingTony @Aris_Utensil George Washington wouldn't approve of your antisemitism. He was pretty philosemitic. A Jewish banker, Haym Salomon, was a key financier of the American rebels.

@Aris_Utensil No it isn’t. The founding fathers literally made naturalization impossible for non-whites you Jew

The comments can cope and seethe all they want but Vivek is ultimately correct. The American Constitution is the embodiment of civic nationalism. Now you can say it wasnt supposed to be, but a system is what it does. If what Americans want is an ethnic anchor, then the American Revolution was ultimately a failure..

@Anglokinist The alternative is worse. 'Muslim' obscures the racial nature of these crimes. The perpetrators weren't reciting Koranic verses when they carried out their crimes. They claimed they were the superior race and called their victims 'white sluts'.

@uncle_deluge They probably had contact with Malay pirates and escaped convicts from the Andamans in the 19th century as well. The Sentinelese are angry because nobody brings them coconuts anymore.

It's weird North Sentinel Island is touted as "the last uncontacted tribe" when there were regular visits to the island by anthropologists until like 1997

@eagleeye2805 Delusional nonsense. The Kaiser was a blundering spastic and Germany was the first to utilise gas and the widespread strategic bombing of civilians. Neither Germany or America have good visions for Europe.

Dude with low IQ, listen carefully: If the USA don't get involved, first with your banks then with your military, Germany rightfully wins WW1 and creates an economic, scientific, cultural and social European superstate based on scientific progress, social traditional values, meritocracy and discipline, plus acts as fair partner, broker and diplomat in the rest of world. Our elites were driven primarily by honor and decorum and the notion of greater societal good, and not mercantile greed like the British in the past and the US afterwards. So please stop your narcissistic, whiny gaslighting and crying. Europe isn't one single entity and there is ZERO REASON why any German or Austrian patriot should ultimately ever be grateful to the US. For what? For destroying 1,500 years of tradition and continuity? GTFO

@bizlet7 Swedes have an arrogant streak in them (like other Scandinavians). The Japanese don't have that.

They are more like Swedes. - autists - big on public social conformity - good at tech - were a regional military empire but wound it down after a big loss to a world power - reserved, being loud and self promoting seen as low class

@upstatefederlst Not interested. Only American lefties or chancers who had failed in America would come. We don't need either in Europe.

Reminder that Italy, England, Ireland, and other European countries could solve their entire perceived population decline problem by telling American Millennials who can't afford houses in the US that it's time to come home. They don't actually need third-world Africans.

@xMarcoComp @StevenEdginton Yes, the distinction should be made. The main problem with Islam is its followers, who are mostly barbarous swarthoids. A British eccentric who converts to Islam, such as Tim Winter, isn't the problem.

@Neotribonian @StevenEdginton You guys are importing tons of brown Muslims, which results in a spiking crime. And you think it’s important to distinguish whether Brown or Muslim is the problem?

The NYT reports British officials were "left stunned" by the State Dept when they raised concerns about free-speech and migrant crime. British diplomats' "jaws dropped" when confronted on these issues.

@gen_enhazed Central Asians and Tartars are better than North Africans and Pakistanis, but the basic problem is still there. The Russian government, like its Western European counterparts, is more interested in Ukraine than the demographics of its own capital.

the "ethnic situation in moscow" is that the overwhelming majority (>75%, possibly around 80% depending on how you parse the stats) of the city is ethnically russian, ukrainian, belarusian, and other universally-accepted white ethnicities. if you include ethnicities that would be classified as white in literally any other country on the fucking planet (e.g. armenians, georgian, tatars), this number goes up even higher. it is literally one of the top 5 whitest large cities on the planet. now, let's talk about the "immigration" in question. most of it is are extremely boring uzbeks, kazakhs, and kyrgyz with their little delivery scooters who keep to the rules because if not the criminal justice system in russia will fuck them. hard. you simply cannot compare it to the situation in europe where you have maghrebins, indians, and africans milling, stealing, throwing garbage in the streets, and raping everything that moves, often with very few or even no consequences (and they are almost always allowed to stay in the country despite repeated criminal offenses!). when you tell westerners that "ZOMGZ RUSSIA IS ALSO OVERRUN WITH THIRD-WORLDERS THERE ARE NO MORE RUSSIANS IN RUSSIA", this is the image they concoct in their heads, which is INACCURATE.

@MorgothsReview The animosity does exist. But it's publicly limited to the British left and most of them are deeply unserious people. There are also the Powellites. But they're generally reserved. Most MAGA types wouldn't notice them.

This idea that the British walk about seething about Americans or carrying some sort of cultural animosity simply isn’t true, it just isn’t a thing and wasn’t a thing until MAGA invented it about 6 months ago. The French have it to a degree, also the Belgians. But the British don’t, it’s a product of MAGA influencers and nothing else, it’s pure fiction.

@RonaldCHRIST12 Hitler's Anglophilia was shallow. The war probably could have been avoided if he had properly understood Britain (like the French did in the 1890s) and hadn't appointed the unlikeable Ribbentrop as ambassador.

"Hitler is the most terrible result of German Anglophilia." Carl Schmitt, Glossarium

Hot take? Pope Leo is a bigger threat to Europe than "Islam." There is no Islamic empire at our borders, threatening to conquer us. But bunch of weak and failed states whose refuse is actively helped to settle on our continent by people like him. Third-gen Ahmed and his whole "Sharia no-go zone" neighborhood could be sent back to Morocco with a snap of the fingers—if not for the Leos of this world currently running European nations.

@TeaconomistT @kunley_drukpa They weren't as isolated as you think, especially when compared to Red Indians. And it's debatable whether Aboriginals have been there 50,000 years. Negritos might have been there first. But we'll probably never know given the nonsense that goes on in Australian archaeology.

It's not that they're archaic it's just that their bodies and physiognomy is hyperspecialized for the Australian climate and terrain. They've spent more time adapting to life on that isolated continent (50,000 years) than Homo Sapiens have spent in Europe (approx 40,000 years). Maybe land should be set aside for them within their traditional homelands, but leave the help there. Leave them with their own land and let them figure it out as they did for so long. Things start going wrong when a government steps in and tries to play God with all of these different subsidies. Leave them alone and let natural selection do the rest of the work. They stand out and look weird in Australian society because its not theirs in the same way. And they're out of their element in modern society. They, and indeed more of us the world over, need to go back to the traditional ways. But the govt or some NGOs will keep on trying to "help" them and cast them as victims because there's money in it. In the form of spending programs, infrastructure development, schooling etc

BUYING ALCOHOL FOR ABORIGINALS 🇦🇺 Aboriginals really striking in appearance in person when you meet them for the first time. Very distinctive physiognomies, don’t want to call their look archaic but that is closest descriptor I can think of One thing about having these kinds of facial features is that they make the people look much older than they actually are. Was in Alice Springs in Australia, this is ‘major’ outback town in the Northern Territory. They have a lot of ‘abbos’ milling around in groups here, you walk around and they’re all sprawled out on the grass together. Lots of them aren’t really employed and many get some kind of government grant. Very hard not to stare because if you’ve never seen full-blooded aboriginals in real life before (like I hadn’t up until that point) like I say they’re quite distinctive looking Walking around the town, there’s a group of abbos milling in a park. One of the women comes up to me: [In a very strong bogan Australian accent while repeatedly scratching her face] “Ah yeah hey mate how’s it going mate you alright mate hey I couldn’t trouble you for sam help could I?” Was one of first times and I had spoken to an aboriginal before “What do you need?” “Ah yeah mate well see it’s my birthday mate yah know and ah I was just wondering if you could go in the bottle-o for me and grab us a few stubbies yah know” [scratches face again] Because of her very distinctive facial features was finding it difficult to focus on what she was saying, was looking directly into her eyes, couldn’t really take much in… “Why can’t you go in and buy some drinks for yourself?” “Ah yeah naw well we’re not allowed yah see they don’t let us buy alcohol yah see because they think we’re a right load of miscreants ah yeah but you look like a nice bloke could ya go and do it for me?” “They don’t let you buy alcohol” “Yeah they reckon we’ll start causing all kinds of trouble. Nah it’s not right” [scratches her face again] “If you’re not allowed I don’t want to get in trouble myself buying it for you” “Ah come on mate come on please it’s my birthday ah I just want one little drinkie on my birthday mate” “I don’t know…” “Ah come on mate go on come on mate” [jittering] “I’m not sure” “Mate we’re just chilling out a bit at the park on my birthday just want to unwind it’s no harm mate come on help us out mate” [scratches her face again] “It’s really your birthday?” “Yeahhh” “How old are you? You must be 40 or so right?” Thing is here in my head I thought I was really lowballing it - as I say the facial features they have make them look really old. Genuinely could not tell, had no mental model for it. Thought in reality though she must have been anywhere up to about 60. The weathered skin, the nasolabial folds, the brow ridge… “I’m 18 mate” she replies

@TheStalwart That was Charles Berlitz's childhood. It probably didn't do him that much good given he ended up writing paranormal books.

The “forbidden experiment” — raising a child with no language exposure — is forbidden for very good reasons. But has anyone studied the opposite, what happens to children in extreme polyglot households? Like where they’re hearing 8 languages with equal regularity from birth?

As not only a Frenchman, but also a descendent of French settlers in Algeria, I think it's fine that he did that. We did kill a lot of Algerians during the war after all and it was a pretty nasty war to be honest. What annoys me is when people keep whining about it today and talk as if that somehow explained the totally incompetent way in which their country has been managed by the FLN elite since independence. The Algerians fought for their independence and earned it. Frankly I wish we had never colonized them in the first place. But what's done is done and they need to get over it. We also killed a lot of Vietnamese and you don't hear them constantly piss and moan about it.

@interbellica Serbia. They were too impatient. If the Serbs had waited a few decades, Russia could have given them everything. Without the world wars and Soviets, Russia would have become an America-like leviathan.

If you had to blame one nation for WWI, who would it be and why?

@MorgothsReview A Trumpian 'liberation' would probably result in us getting Daniel Hannan or even Boris again as PM.

Your country yesterday.

@kunley_drukpa I've wondered about 'Yookayphilia' and whether it really exists. An article in the Economist implied it does exist. But I've only ever seen one possible example of Yookayphilia (in Poland - a busker had a vague Jafaican accent).

MEETING A BRAZILIAN ‘YOOKAYABOO’ 🇧🇷 One of nice things about being somewhere like Latin America if you’re British is that there is a significant lag between British culture as it is today and British culture as it is perceived by locals. If you say you are British your culture is normally understood as Harry Potter, Ed Sheeran, The Beatles, maybe Jane Austen etc - all big soft power so-called assets nostalgically harkening back to a slightly more ‘British’ Britain. Have written before that haven’t really met anyone hugely aware of ‘Yookay’ culture - there are a few people aware of mass migration to be sure but not met anyone who ‘stans’ the new country as such… Recent experience probably first time have ever encountered a real bonafide ‘Yookayaboo’. This woman was what Yookayians would call a ‘lightskin’ - you know (as they conceive it) one of these ‘classy’ mixed types who maybe went to school in the Home Counties and who can also ‘code-switch’ as a situation calls for. In a Brazilian sense while she wasn’t from the favela herself she was very effusive about favela-adjacent culture, samba and funk and so on, hated Bolsonaro and loved Lula. Held to the idea that that culture is the real expression of the authentic lusotropical volk, more real than Brazil’s lusophone imperialist implant culture so-called. Made multiple disparaging comments about European colonisation and to scene-set some more at one point showed me some pictures of her friends and they all had tattoos and nose rings etc. For balance though she was otherwise quite a sweet and pleasant person One of first things she said to me when she found out I was British was “I’m a huge fan of British culture, I really love it. Actually that’s partially why I matched with you” Because she looked a bit alt was thinking ok not a straight-laced ‘Teaaboo’ but this is Bowie, Oasis, Pink Floyd etc this is going to be easy to riff off “Let me show you, I have this huge playlist of UK rap. I really love British rap. Central Cee, Dave, Skepta… these guys are so cool” Did a mental double-take. “You like Central Cee?” “Yeah I love him his sound is so good, so authentic” “You like grime and drill then?” “Yeah I listen to it a lot. I think it’s becoming more popular in Brazil too” Didn’t seem to me that it was ‘becoming popular’ with the more European Brazilians but thought about it and maybe I could believe it was becoming more well known among other types of Brazilians Told her that Britain had a big immigrant population now and a lot of this music was mostly being produced by these people. Asked her if she knew about these changes. She said she did and that actually what was happening in Britain was ‘so cool’ and that it was really nice the country was transforming like that. She said she wanted to move there too if she could, London was her ‘dream city’ Didn’t really know what to say. “Yeah Britain is really diverse these days, it’s changing a lot. Actually the change is really polarising a lot of people, I think it’s the main issue in British politics at the moment” “Yes I heard about Brexit, it was sad. And you have, I think his name is Nigel Farage? He’s like the British Bolsonaro” “In a way” “In Brazil luckily we got rid of Bolsonaro but it was a crazy period” “We have this meme in Britain, it’s called ‘Yookay’. Have you ever heard of it?” She obviously hadn’t. Decided to show her the Yookay Aesthetics (@MythoYookay) page to see how she would react. Didn’t tell her I ran it obviously. She thought it looked cool. “I like it looks so unique and interesting” Anyway, didn’t keep pushing it Got in her car later and she put the UK Rap playlist on for us. Strange to hear it in a Brazilian environment. She did genuinely know all the rappers too and I know because I’ve ended up learning them all For better or worse probably there’s a certain kind of constituency for Yookay soft power even if it doesn’t always overlap with the constituency for British soft power…