Ships are very expensive and insuring one is expensive. Destroying one deliberately is out of the question for the operator.
I like the concept of “Zero Base Restruction”. Erase, demolish everything and start with a blank slate. Some institutions, structures, etc., are too far gone for remedial repairs. This is similar to a “totaled” auto wreck. Replacement is the only option. The equivalent in the marine world is “construction loss”. New ship only.
To do this properly, one must examine every assumption, axiom, principle, procedure, and method that the institution bases itself and its actions on. And finally, many bureaus can be merged and subsumed by others.
I fully support replacing most of the Navy with Ukrainian style sea-doo drones.
I think all the governments in the world are in denial of how most Navy ships are now just for show.
This is a Ukrainian sea-doo drone taking out a helicopter while at sea.
By doing so, the Europeans will also deepen the involvement of the United States in the Ukrainian story. They will make sure that the Trump Administration does not shift or even pursue the goal of shifting the further burden of maintaining Ukraine, including the issue of security guarantees, on to the Europeans.
I do not follow the logic of the authors quoted by Helmer here. Why should a blockade undertaken by the Europeans tempt Trump to change his policy re ‘Europeanizing’ Biden’s war? This administration has no intention of contributing to the cost of reconstruction and after Trump secures his $500B in “rare earth” to compensate America for aid provided to date, the US will be out of there. Trump’s wider policy toward European security was made explicit by Hegseth; the US has other priorities now. If the Euros really want to push it to the limit and test a US response to Article 5 through piracy in the Baltic, they could be in for a nasty surprise. I expect they have already been told as much off the record.
One of the reasons Trump might be around, I think
Getting rid of the co-ed military was suggested many years ago, but as we see with USAID, once the ticks are dug in, it takes some serious work to pry them out.
They can let Trump take the bad press of pushing the American Defense Department out of the day care business. They can pretend they are against it. But they probably won’t stop it.
The whole system needs an overhaul. Start by renaming it the War Department and act accordingly.
Just have a natural gas tanker smash into Copenhagen harbour (slight redundancy as the city name simply means Shopping Haven).
But anyway just rig up ships to be boarded with explosives. Take the boarding party with you as you slip off the ship the other side with your 15 man crew.
Board and Perish.
American Military is falling apart. Every week a military plane crashes. The U. S. Navy is failing in several categories. I saw this coming 20 years ago up close and on and in the scene.
Elon Musk sees the situation clearly and precisely:
Harry Truman Aircraft Carrier collides with a bulk carrier 3 hours ago.
This video scares the kim che out of the Russian and Chinese military:
To stop the Russian tanker, a NATO ship will have to get through the escorts; fire on the escorts and the submarine may put torpedoes in the water.
Why would they have to do that?
The Ukrainians have shown that modern ships can be sunk with cheap sea-doo drones.
They even took down a helicopter with one.
“A punch in the face is worth a thousand words. – Poupon Marx
If Americur attempts to physically impair Russian sea or air trade, they should give good warning. If that behavior isn’t modified, then a visit from Mister Kinzal to an American aircraft carrier should settle the issue.
A missile hit on the flight deck of the carrier WITHOUT explosive detonation, will penetrate into the next one or two decks. The AC will slink away to a Third World Class shipyard back home. The missile has a hardened nose, and will hit the deck at Mach 8. The kinetic force on such a small area is called pressure [Force/area].
Then V. V. P. can inform Trumpty Dumpty that Russia will be suppying Iran and the Houthi’s with batteries of hypersonic missiles. Some people just don’t know how to control themselves, or live in a glass bubble. Once that is shattered, fresh air can clear out the consciousness.
Yvonne De Carlo (Mrs. Moses and Mrs. Herman Munster) was a babe. Got to see if I can find that movie on YouTube.
Won’t things get really interesting if the Russians put their tankers in convoys and give them an escort of watships, possibly including a subarine or two? To stop the Russian tanker, a NATO ship will have to get through the escorts; fire on the escorts and the submarine may put torpedoes in the water.
The US needs to rid itself of these pesky Baltic chihuahuas before they do something stupid. And why would the Danes stop Russian ships–Russia isn’t proposing to take over Greenland?
Globohomo-style BS. Knowledge of English does not make any person a slave of the Empire and the rest of globohomo gang. Lots of perfectly normal people resisting globohomo speak English, some as the mother tongue, many more as the second language. What’s more, the English of Russian libtards, Ukrainian Nazis, and their ilk is in most cases pathetic.Yes, globohomo sites like FB, Twitter, or YouTube are based on English, but it is them that are crap, not the language they use.Replies: @Jazman
We need to implement Boko Haram, there is absolutely no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English.
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https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2013218776/1920-06-26/ed-1/seq-12/?fbclid=IwAR3rShQLa-HxL4_LRxIktGLylernlpOt1S_UWbbOXKWE7L9ciC4o5WQI0QQ
Interesting article about Poland from 1920
Cleveland definitely have money to hire the best musicians, and a lot foreigners, including in its initial formation: they benefited primarily from George Szell arriving in USA asa refugee.
But that Cleveland could afford and prioritize to hire the best musicians in the world, is the surprising (and surely a bit bizarre) thing.
So, for almost a century now, Cleveland had prioritized classical music more than London, Paris, Madrid, etc – or at least it will sound better to listen to a symphony in provincial Cleveland, in America’s flyover land – than in many of the greatest and most prestigious European capital cities.
In contrast, orchestras in Berlin (Staatsoper), Munich, and Wien are a lot more local.
Vienna looks like still majority teutonic family names, with then minority of other Central European nationalities.
Just there is a little multinationalism looking on their current orchestra. Pinchas (Uzbekistan), Doli (Albania), Bonelli (Italy), Kurylyak (Ukraine), Turriziani (Italy)
https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/orchestra/members
True.
You won’t understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke – as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel.
Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
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Yes, people saying “Cultural Marxism†– really a sign of willful idiocy, or the product of a failed education system.
Some months ago, there was a user on this forum “Thorfinnsen”, who was trying to argue with me about his belief in the existence of “cultural Marxism” – this was not a good representative of American educational success.
It’s like if people are saying “Platonic nominalism”, “Cartesian monism”, “Aristotelian realism”, “Humean rationalism”, “Satrean determinism”.
If one half of the conjunction contradicts the main theory of the philosopher on the other half, then what is the purpose of conjoining them?
The phrase can only be logically consistent, if you add a negation or disjunction.
E.g. “not-Marxist; culturalism”, “not-Platonic; nominalism”, “not-Cartesian; monism”, “not-Satrean; determinism”.
Or with a disjunction: “Marxism or culturalism”, “Platonism or nominalism”, “Satrean or determinist”, etc.
Touché!Replies: @another anon
BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
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BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
Touché!
Just call it its real name: CAPITALISM.
In Australia it happened in the 1980s when our leftist party, the Labor Party, became enthusiastically pro-capitalist. So it may be a thing across the Anglophone world. And the Labor Party here is very culturally Marxist. Mind you, the "conservative" LNP is every bit as culturally Marxist.BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it's better to use a different term.Replies: @Andy, @AnonFromTN
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
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BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
Touché!
Just call it its real name: CAPITALISM.
BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
Touché!
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In Australia it happened in the 1980s when our leftist party, the Labor Party, became enthusiastically pro-capitalist. So it may be a thing across the Anglophone world. And the Labor Party here is very culturally Marxist. Mind you, the "conservative" LNP is every bit as culturally Marxist.BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it's better to use a different term.Replies: @Andy, @AnonFromTN
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
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It’s mostly an anglophone world, correct, most of the leftist parties in the West so far aren’t in the pocket of capitalism as the democrats or Labor in the UK are in the pocket of high finance while professing cultural Marxism – perhaps Sweden’s Social Democrats are almost going in this road
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
In Australia it happened in the 1980s when our leftist party, the Labor Party, became enthusiastically pro-capitalist. So it may be a thing across the Anglophone world. And the Labor Party here is very culturally Marxist. Mind you, the “conservative” LNP is every bit as culturally Marxist.
BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
Touché!Replies: @another anon
BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it’s better to use a different term.
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I think more important than “banning English†would be banning Hollywood, etc, and focusing on creating your own national cultural content.
Yes, that should be the number one priority.
While I have some Finland-Swedish ancestors before they assimilated, I don't have any direct modern Swedish ancestry. Rather the reason I speak Swedish has to due with my father being employed there foe a long time.
May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It’s no dig; I’m asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it’s in great shape outside academia.
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While I have some Finland-Swedish ancestors before they assimilated, I don’t have any direct modern Swedish ancestry. Rather the reason I speak Swedish has to due with my father being employed there foe a long time.
Aha, I see.
I’m guessing, but I suspect many of the “English” loanwords you come across are really German and French loanwords that have also made it into English. We do have plenty of borrowings from English proper, but nearly all of them sit very well beside traditional Swedish words.
The most obvious English influence on grammar is the appearance of plurals ending in -s where traditional usage calls for -r. This is mostly confined to acronyms, though, and no great blemish. Another is heavier punctuation, and this one I do think fouls the language. English itself could do with using fewer commas.
Na, India fucked too. There’s above 75% reservation and even 100 for lower castes.
It’s quota regime,
Bureaucracy also hinders labor reform and land acquisition.
You can only build capital intensive industries like auto and pharmacy not mass manufacturing.
This then gets called casteism because reasons..
Also interesting
https://twitter.com/kryocken/status/1274993227616055296?s=20
It just occurred to me: banning English schooling in Russia would further diminish Russia’s place in something called Nature index. I know Karlin greatly cares about Nature index, so what’s he gonna choose?
It's nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.And the more educated subsection of people in Russia, have more basic knowledge of Marxism, than in America, and also more knowledge of British enlightenment. -Marxism by the way is partly derived from the British enlightenment, which Marx was studying every day in the British Museum reading room - there is not much opposition between the ideologies; Marxism is a part offshoot of the British enlightenment, and the best criticisms of him were also derived from this tradition. Marx's ideas are a lot of the time based in Adam Smith, Locke, Ricardo, etc, and Marx's writings cannot be understand by people who do not have a strong knowledge of those earlier authors. You won't understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke - as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel. Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
Russian is stupid
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You won’t understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke – as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel.
Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
True.
And that’s why Marxism today is just empty sloganizing.
The Derb-right likes to call this empty sloganizing Marxism, “Cultural Marxism” or “Cult-Marx”, but I’ve always thought that gives it too much credit. As if there were anything “cultural” about it. It’s really just the animalistic howling of video-slaves. Is there a better term? I just call it “Marxism”, in acceptance of the fact that Marx’s elaborate but defective ideology has collapsed in on itself and persists now only as mindless automaton of resentment.
I noticed this “anglophone autism” too. The native Anglo countries are, well, irreversibly fucked. I doubt even 3 generations of direct rule from Moscow, Beijing and Tehran will fix it
The exception seems to be India, probably because it’s of a wildly different culture and a slightly different race
The other exception is France – infamous for it’s staunch rejection of English, yet it’s one of the most “angloized” countries
The writer Minae Mizumura made the same point, though from a pessimistic perspective. I will quote excerpts from something she said, perhaps appropriately, in French:
English is not going to go away unless civilization collapses to the stone age conditions.
At this stage, fall of United States is not going to make any difference.
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http://mizumuraminae.com/pdf/MizumuraLesdeuxtemps.pdfReplies: @anonymous coward
"Il y a eu certainement d'autres langues internationales dans l'histoire de l'homme: le latin, le chinois, l'arabe – même le français. Mais aucune autre langue n'a jamais couvert le monde
entier comme l'a fait l'anglais. Aucune autre langue n'est jamais devenue si complètement et absolument dominante. En effet, récemment, le nombre de ceux qui communiquent en anglais en tant que langue étrangère a excédé le nombre de ceux pour qui la langue anglaise est la langue maternelle. De plus, le langage a sa propre loi de propagation, indépendamment de la puissance économique ou politique. Quelque soit l'avenir économique ou politique des Etats-Unis, l' hégémonie linguistique de l'anglais ne peut que s'accroître dans les années à venir.
[...]
Or, vous savez qu’il existe un lien historique entre le roman et la langue maternelle. La naissance du roman comme genre littéraire avait pour condition la naissance de la langue vulgaire comme écriture, c’est-à -dire, la naissance de la langue maternelle comme écriture. Depuis, le roman a évolué avec cette écriture, à la fois exploitant et élargissant toutes les possibilités spécifiques à elle. Le lien entre le roman et la langue maternelle ne représente pas un lien nécessaire, mais il représente un lien
très fort et très spécial – un lien même mystique chez certains écrivains, disons, mystifiés.
[...]
Pensez seulement à tous ces lecteurs qui peuvent lire leurs oeuvres, soit dans l'original, soit dans la traduction. Il y a déjà un grand nombre de
lecteurs anglophones. Mais il y a encore un plus grand nombre de lecteurs non-anglophones qui font vraiment circuler la langue anglaise dans le
monde entier. Ceux-ci représentent une population cruciale en tant que lectorat car ils représentent la crème de la société, que ce soit en Asie, en Afrique, ou en Europe, étant inévitablement les plus cultivés de leurs pays.
Il va de soi que le grand nombre de ces bilingues dans tous les coins de la terre a comme conséquence directe le grand nombre de traductions dans toutes sortes de langues d’oeuvres en anglais. La littérature écrite en anglais sera bientôt la Reine du monde.
Ecrire n'est pas un acte d'onanisme. Ecrire, c'est envoyer notre langage au-delà de notre monde immédiat, au-delà de ce qui nous entoure, ici et maintenant. C'est envoyer notre langage dans le futur inconnu et dans l'espace inconnu pour que notre langage atteigne ceux que nous ne
connaissons pas, mais qui sont nos véritables lecteurs, nos soeurs et frères spirituels. En effet, seule l'écriture surmonte si facilement et si
parfaitement toutes les barrières terrestres: le temps, l'espace, le sexe, la race, l'âge, la culture, la classe, etc. Et déjà la littérature de langue anglaise surmonte le plus souvent et en plus grand nombre ces barrières terrestres.
[...]
Pour comble de tout ceci, l'anglais n'appartient plus à personne. Il appartient maintenant à tout le monde. C'est une langue qui, à partir d'un
certain moment, a cessé d'être liée aux Etats particuliers, aux sangs de leurs
peuples, Ã leurs histoires.
[...]
Néanmoins, plus il y avait de ces populations diverses qui écrivaient en anglais, plus l'anglais devenait une langue qui n'appartenait à personne, qui appartenait à tout le monde. La notion de langue nationale est ébranlée à la base, de même que
la notion de littérature nationale.
Aujourd'hui, les écrivains qui écrivent en anglais ne sont plus les écrivains anglais, américains ou canadiens. Ils sont simplement et
tautologiquement des écrivains qui écrivent en anglais."
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Ecrire n’est pas un acte d’onanisme.
A hot take I definitely disagree with.
That leaves me with choices such as Sumerian, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc. These languages/scripts are dead and their islamized descendants are not interested enough in reconnecting with that “Jahiliyyah†part of their history to boost their civilizational revival.
Classical Nahuatl would be my choice. Dead enough to not have much of a connection to modern Mexico, living enough to be easily picked up by any modern eurolanguage speaker.
Anatoly is 100% correct and Im actually surprised Google, Facebook etc. aren’t already banned in Russia. Banning English is a good call as well, it’s the only language I speak but facts are facts. Globo-homo is obsessed with getting its perverted tentacles into Russia. Don’t give an inch!
Its not divide and conquer, rather than multipolarity and regionalism. Spheres of influence. Each with different laws, regulations, cultures and IT ecosystems.
The natural situation in the world before the US came into prominence.
I doubt that anything else has the perspective to replace the current US empire. So this is how things will be. In such a world, the US will be just one power among many, suffering a significant decline in its influence. According to US futurologists, whose work is used by the NSC, this will be the case after 2050.
So the world will move from Unipolarity – the US standard – to Multipolarity – regionalisation and different spheres of influence.
It’s not very surprising if you went through the public education system in the U.S. There is almost nothing about British history. The idea that the U.S. is in some sense descended from Britain is never emphasized. From my perspective, I wish British history were taught. Anything that could be a counter-narrative to the Ellis Island-centric we are all descendants of immigrants narrative would be welcome.
In many ways I feel that the peculiarities of British English and many of its dialects are at as much risk of being diluted by Globish/American English as many other languages are.
British English is probably more at risk.
If I take what you say and twist it, it sounds like you’re arguing the rest of the world should impose divide and conquer tactics on themselves, in the hopes that it will displace Anglo societies. Is that plausible? In particular, wouldn’t competition between China, India, Turkey, Iran, Latin America, Arab World, etc. make it more likely for your proposal to if anything strengthen the Anglo influence? It seems simpler for countries to focus on themselves. Especially so for large countries like Russia or China.
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
It is very profitable mixture.
Profitable, of course, for the people who matter. You and me are not one of them.
BTW, There is no such thing as “cultural Marxism”. This meme is retarded.
Just call the thing you want to call out its proper name:
CAPITALISM.
LOL. When was the last time you heard anyone in American politics call to expropriate the bourgeoisie?
The dominant American spirit is Bolshevik, not liberal.
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From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
It is very profitable mixture.
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
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In Australia it happened in the 1980s when our leftist party, the Labor Party, became enthusiastically pro-capitalist. So it may be a thing across the Anglophone world. And the Labor Party here is very culturally Marxist. Mind you, the "conservative" LNP is every bit as culturally Marxist.BTW, there is nothing remotely Marxist about cultural Marxism so it's better to use a different term.Replies: @Andy, @AnonFromTN
From the 1990s on, the US Democratic Party has become economically capitalist but culturally Marxist. It’s a very odd mixture, I doubt it is stable, but this is the dogma since around Bill Clinton became president.
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To deny English is to deny that there is an Anglo tradition of literature, philosophy, politics, that existed before all this woke garbage. Unfortunately with English, and especially English Media+politics, being so dominated by poz that is a bad first impression. But at the same time there exists plenty of information in the English language that people can learn that is completely contrary to the current opinions that are spread. For instance Lothrop Stoddard was an amazing and prescient writer, to deny yourself the ability to learn from him because the prevailing Anglo political culture is an absolute disgrace just means you lose out. There is a great deal to learn from English and in fact one can absolutely learn from Anglo mistakes, that is why, as you said, it is important to seek out and learn opposing ideas.
20% of human race speak English.
As recently as the 1960s, some 40 percent of scientific literature was published in French, German, or Russian.
More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent, according to data compiled by Scott Montgomery in his book Does Science Need a Global Language?.
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English is not going to go away unless civilization collapses to the stone age conditions.
At this stage, fall of United States is not going to make any difference.
The writer Minae Mizumura made the same point, though from a pessimistic perspective. I will quote excerpts from something she said, perhaps appropriately, in French:
“Il y a eu certainement d’autres langues internationales dans l’histoire de l’homme: le latin, le chinois, l’arabe – même le français. Mais aucune autre langue n’a jamais couvert le monde
entier comme l’a fait l’anglais. Aucune autre langue n’est jamais devenue si complètement et absolument dominante. En effet, récemment, le nombre de ceux qui communiquent en anglais en tant que langue étrangère a excédé le nombre de ceux pour qui la langue anglaise est la langue maternelle. De plus, le langage a sa propre loi de propagation, indépendamment de la puissance économique ou politique. Quelque soit l’avenir économique ou politique des Etats-Unis, l’ hégémonie linguistique de l’anglais ne peut que s’accroître dans les années à venir.[…]
Or, vous savez qu’il existe un lien historique entre le roman et la langue maternelle. La naissance du roman comme genre littéraire avait pour condition la naissance de la langue vulgaire comme écriture, c’est-à -dire, la naissance de la langue maternelle comme écriture. Depuis, le roman a évolué avec cette écriture, à la fois exploitant et élargissant toutes les possibilités spécifiques à elle. Le lien entre le roman et la langue maternelle ne représente pas un lien nécessaire, mais il représente un lien
très fort et très spécial – un lien même mystique chez certains écrivains, disons, mystifiés.[…]
Pensez seulement à tous ces lecteurs qui peuvent lire leurs oeuvres, soit dans l’original, soit dans la traduction. Il y a déjà un grand nombre de
lecteurs anglophones. Mais il y a encore un plus grand nombre de lecteurs non-anglophones qui font vraiment circuler la langue anglaise dans le
monde entier. Ceux-ci représentent une population cruciale en tant que lectorat car ils représentent la crème de la société, que ce soit en Asie, en Afrique, ou en Europe, étant inévitablement les plus cultivés de leurs pays.
Il va de soi que le grand nombre de ces bilingues dans tous les coins de la terre a comme conséquence directe le grand nombre de traductions dans toutes sortes de langues d’oeuvres en anglais. La littérature écrite en anglais sera bientôt la Reine du monde.Ecrire n’est pas un acte d’onanisme. Ecrire, c’est envoyer notre langage au-delà de notre monde immédiat, au-delà de ce qui nous entoure, ici et maintenant. C’est envoyer notre langage dans le futur inconnu et dans l’espace inconnu pour que notre langage atteigne ceux que nous ne
connaissons pas, mais qui sont nos véritables lecteurs, nos soeurs et frères spirituels. En effet, seule l’écriture surmonte si facilement et si
parfaitement toutes les barrières terrestres: le temps, l’espace, le sexe, la race, l’âge, la culture, la classe, etc. Et déjà la littérature de langue anglaise surmonte le plus souvent et en plus grand nombre ces barrières terrestres.[…]
Pour comble de tout ceci, l’anglais n’appartient plus à personne. Il appartient maintenant à tout le monde. C’est une langue qui, à partir d’un
certain moment, a cessé d’être liée aux Etats particuliers, aux sangs de leurs
peuples, Ã leurs histoires.[…]
Néanmoins, plus il y avait de ces populations diverses qui écrivaient en anglais, plus l’anglais devenait une langue qui n’appartenait à personne, qui appartenait à tout le monde. La notion de langue nationale est ébranlée à la base, de même que
la notion de littérature nationale.Aujourd’hui, les écrivains qui écrivent en anglais ne sont plus les écrivains anglais, américains ou canadiens. Ils sont simplement et
tautologiquement des écrivains qui écrivent en anglais.”
A hot take I definitely disagree with.
Ecrire n’est pas un acte d’onanisme.
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Swedish for example has borrowed a lot from German, French and English, due to previous and current rulers.
Quantity and quality.
May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It's no dig; I'm asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it's in great shape outside academia.Replies: @Hyperborean
When I read things in Scandinavian languages, it becomes very clear that the dominance of English is warping the languages.
Aside from all the English loanwords, especially for “modern†topics, there are times when even the grammar becomes distorted when it clashes with English – as I have noticed occur even in some Danish state media articles.
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May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It’s no dig; I’m asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it’s in great shape outside academia.
While I have some Finland-Swedish ancestors before they assimilated, I don’t have any direct modern Swedish ancestry. Rather the reason I speak Swedish has to due with my father being employed there foe a long time.
As for my language abilities, since I only had one year of proper instruction in Danish my ability is a level lower than my Swedish.
My Swedish is fine for technical and ordinary things, but for literary concerns I have been slipping. At least that is my evaluation based on the Swedish translation of Ernst Junger’s Storm of Steel. At least I avoided getting an accent from all the “bra Sverige”-speaking residents of my lovely neighbourhood.
Aha, I see.I'm guessing, but I suspect many of the "English" loanwords you come across are really German and French loanwords that have also made it into English. We do have plenty of borrowings from English proper, but nearly all of them sit very well beside traditional Swedish words.The most obvious English influence on grammar is the appearance of plurals ending in -s where traditional usage calls for -r. This is mostly confined to acronyms, though, and no great blemish. Another is heavier punctuation, and this one I do think fouls the language. English itself could do with using fewer commas.
While I have some Finland-Swedish ancestors before they assimilated, I don’t have any direct modern Swedish ancestry. Rather the reason I speak Swedish has to due with my father being employed there foe a long time.
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There are many good arguments for abolishing English. It is racist, sexist, colonialist, homophobic and transphobic language that absolutely sucks.
What is the point of mixing pig Latin with savage Saxon screams? What is the point of two languages, one spoken and one written that have nothing in common?
Unfortunately, this ship sailed long ago.
75% to 90% of all scientific and technical papers are in English.
As recently as the 1960s, some 40 percent of scientific literature was published in French, German, or Russian.
More than three-quarters of scientific papers today are published in English—and in some fields it is more than 90 percent, according to data compiled by Scott Montgomery in his book Does Science Need a Global Language?.
20% of human race speak English.
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/how-many-people-speak-english-and-where-is-it-spoken
Anyone who aspires for something more than working on rice or potato field for life is learning English.
English is not going to go away unless civilization collapses to the stone age conditions.
At this stage, fall of United States is not going to make any difference.
Greek was the lingua franca of the ancient world, and fall of the Greek states did not changed it.
In the Roman Empire, Greek was still the majority language, the language of trade, the language of education and culture – and all Greek political ideas (democracy, autonomy, free speech etc…) were completely obliterated.
The writer Minae Mizumura made the same point, though from a pessimistic perspective. I will quote excerpts from something she said, perhaps appropriately, in French:
English is not going to go away unless civilization collapses to the stone age conditions.
At this stage, fall of United States is not going to make any difference.
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http://mizumuraminae.com/pdf/MizumuraLesdeuxtemps.pdfReplies: @anonymous coward
"Il y a eu certainement d'autres langues internationales dans l'histoire de l'homme: le latin, le chinois, l'arabe – même le français. Mais aucune autre langue n'a jamais couvert le monde
entier comme l'a fait l'anglais. Aucune autre langue n'est jamais devenue si complètement et absolument dominante. En effet, récemment, le nombre de ceux qui communiquent en anglais en tant que langue étrangère a excédé le nombre de ceux pour qui la langue anglaise est la langue maternelle. De plus, le langage a sa propre loi de propagation, indépendamment de la puissance économique ou politique. Quelque soit l'avenir économique ou politique des Etats-Unis, l' hégémonie linguistique de l'anglais ne peut que s'accroître dans les années à venir.
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Or, vous savez qu’il existe un lien historique entre le roman et la langue maternelle. La naissance du roman comme genre littéraire avait pour condition la naissance de la langue vulgaire comme écriture, c’est-à -dire, la naissance de la langue maternelle comme écriture. Depuis, le roman a évolué avec cette écriture, à la fois exploitant et élargissant toutes les possibilités spécifiques à elle. Le lien entre le roman et la langue maternelle ne représente pas un lien nécessaire, mais il représente un lien
très fort et très spécial – un lien même mystique chez certains écrivains, disons, mystifiés.
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Pensez seulement à tous ces lecteurs qui peuvent lire leurs oeuvres, soit dans l'original, soit dans la traduction. Il y a déjà un grand nombre de
lecteurs anglophones. Mais il y a encore un plus grand nombre de lecteurs non-anglophones qui font vraiment circuler la langue anglaise dans le
monde entier. Ceux-ci représentent une population cruciale en tant que lectorat car ils représentent la crème de la société, que ce soit en Asie, en Afrique, ou en Europe, étant inévitablement les plus cultivés de leurs pays.
Il va de soi que le grand nombre de ces bilingues dans tous les coins de la terre a comme conséquence directe le grand nombre de traductions dans toutes sortes de langues d’oeuvres en anglais. La littérature écrite en anglais sera bientôt la Reine du monde.
Ecrire n'est pas un acte d'onanisme. Ecrire, c'est envoyer notre langage au-delà de notre monde immédiat, au-delà de ce qui nous entoure, ici et maintenant. C'est envoyer notre langage dans le futur inconnu et dans l'espace inconnu pour que notre langage atteigne ceux que nous ne
connaissons pas, mais qui sont nos véritables lecteurs, nos soeurs et frères spirituels. En effet, seule l'écriture surmonte si facilement et si
parfaitement toutes les barrières terrestres: le temps, l'espace, le sexe, la race, l'âge, la culture, la classe, etc. Et déjà la littérature de langue anglaise surmonte le plus souvent et en plus grand nombre ces barrières terrestres.
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Pour comble de tout ceci, l'anglais n'appartient plus à personne. Il appartient maintenant à tout le monde. C'est une langue qui, à partir d'un
certain moment, a cessé d'être liée aux Etats particuliers, aux sangs de leurs
peuples, Ã leurs histoires.
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Néanmoins, plus il y avait de ces populations diverses qui écrivaient en anglais, plus l'anglais devenait une langue qui n'appartenait à personne, qui appartenait à tout le monde. La notion de langue nationale est ébranlée à la base, de même que
la notion de littérature nationale.
Aujourd'hui, les écrivains qui écrivent en anglais ne sont plus les écrivains anglais, américains ou canadiens. Ils sont simplement et
tautologiquement des écrivains qui écrivent en anglais."
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I imagine schools which can nurture an intellectual elite to be bilingual in a language like Classical Tibetan. Then perhaps you could introduce books from foreign countries, by approved writers, into a Tibetan translation – and create a buffer zone from external influences, through using such an exotic language, that only the local elite would know.
What would be the point of this? Why not just use a classical language that is closer in cultural-psychologically and that has an established corpus?
Any potentially subversive material is already likely to have been translated a long time ago and since it is a dead language outside the realm of our theoretical dictatorship new ideas are unlikely to originate from outside.
We need to implement Boko Haram, there is absolutely no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English.
I’ll restate here the argument I made elsewhere:
Rather than trying to insulate one’s country from the influence of the anglosphere by trying to hamper English language knowledge, a much better approach would be to develop a national English language education program, and staff it entirely with the most radical, absolutely nationalist people you can find. This has several benefits:
1. This gives nationalists and patriots a steady source of income and government positions, thereby growing their power and political influence
2. This stems the spread of the poz through English language knowledge by ensuring that the disseminators of that knowledge are slanted against it, and gives them an opportunity to filter out the corrosive aspects and educate their pupils to be hostile to the damaging parts of modern western culture
3. this allows full integration with the English language business world; furthermore, in order to interact with the nation, the English language business world will now have to go through the nationalist-educated middlemen or otherwise learn the local language themselves.
4. By ensuring that new anglophones are immersed in a nationalist atmosphere, it ensures that the interactions with the outside world will be coloured by their patriotic political orientation and ideals, thereby undercutting traitors and sellouts who seek to subvert the country in tandem with anglosphere based organizations by ensuring that the dominant image a country projects is one hostile to such subversion. This hampers interactions between anti-nationalist dissidents and their would-be supporters outside the country, by predisposing outsiders to be hostile towards the traitorous dissidents.
This change would be relatively easy to effect since most countries already have the English language in their curriculum in some form, and, even better, it would be difficult to reverse, as government programs and institutions are legendarily difficult to cut back.
For the record, China already has something like this and promotes English language learning quite a bit. This explains quite a bit of their success in outmaneuvering the USA recently.
Banning something makes it cool. Especially for potentially subversive and subvertible young elites such as university students. So I think banning English is a bad idea.
That said, Russia should certainly go on an offensive in this area, but it doesn’t do a good job at it. For example, I was looking for Russian baby clothes to take to US, shopping in Дочки и Сыночки, in SPB. I was able to find clothing made in Russia, but all the words and expressions were in English! In a large store, not a single Russian word. I ended up buying Russian made pajamas for 2 year old with sharks on them, and Polish made onesie for a newborn. (I may blame Poland for starting WW2, but they can draw adorable cats, which makes up for it for my kids). Sharks do not exactly scream ‘Russia’! Even though it is a good pajama, it makes no statement.
Similar with shoes. I bought Ralf Ringer winter boots. Their old name was Squirrel Trading House. Squirrels are adorable and highly memeable and marketable. You can make awesome viral marketing campaign with squirrels. Ralf Ringer does not sound Russian, i guess it sounds more upscale, but people who go upscale with shoes usually buy Italian or something. For mass hipster appeal i would stick with Russian squirrels.
Anyway, despite my best efforts to obtain subversive KGB coded messages so that my spawn could mind control the American public, i failed, on the account of Russia not speaking Russian. Which is a shame because all the media hysteria made normies naturally curious, and outside of the liberal elite circus, Russia could score some soft power points. Opinion of Russia may not be high, but opinion of media is not great either, so it can be done.
Swedish for example has borrowed a lot from German, French and English, due to previous and current rulers.
Quantity and quality.
Swedish for example has borrowed a lot from German, French and English, due to previous and current rulers.
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I’ve seen Chicago and Metropolitan (NY) orchestras up close from the first row during operas. My estimate is that no more than a third of those musicians are children of American-born parents. In contrast, orchestras in Berlin (Staatsoper), Munich, and Wien are a lot more local. So, my answer is “moneyâ€.
Vienna looks like still majority teutonic family names, with then minority of other Central European nationalities. Just there is a little multinationalism looking on their current orchestra. Pinchas (Uzbekistan), Doli (Albania), Bonelli (Italy), Kurylyak (Ukraine), Turriziani (Italy)
In contrast, orchestras in Berlin (Staatsoper), Munich, and Wien are a lot more local.
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Specifically it’s American English that is the global lingua franca, there are many British English words and expressions that would be lost on most foreigners who know only American English/Globish.
In many ways I feel that the peculiarities of British English and many of its dialects are at as much risk of being diluted by Globish/American English as many other languages are.
British English is probably more at risk.
In many ways I feel that the peculiarities of British English and many of its dialects are at as much risk of being diluted by Globish/American English as many other languages are.
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Only a person knowing that there are things s/he does not know struggles. Most Americans don’t struggle. Only in the US you can hear something like “if English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for meâ€.Replies: @Dmitry
It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony, I think a lot would struggle to tell you what country the English language originates from.
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Although America sometimes benefits from swinging to the opposite extreme, and what can perhaps be described as an “overcompensation” by its elite, for their feelings of embarrassment about lack of European cultural heritage in the country.
Otherwise – if not from some great compensation in funding for European high culture – how does Cleveland have a usually much better orchestra than exists in London, Madrid or Paris (and this was throughout the 20th century)? Similarly both Chicago and Los Angeles have had (often) better symphony orchestras than exists in London, Madrid and Paris for the last century. But it’s especially amazing that a minor provincial American city like Cleveland, has one of the best symphony orchestras in the world.
The dominant American spirit is Bolshevik, not liberal.
LOL. When was the last time you heard anyone in American politics call to expropriate the bourgeoisie?
https://twitter.com/goldmansachs/status/879408187828555776
The dominant American spirit is capitalist, and always had been.
People who don't learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language - as Goethe said. So assuming that we were dictators, and don't want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) - what language would be the best one to teach in school?Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.Replies: @The Big Red Scary, @Hyperborean, @Mary Marianne
no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English
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As a dictator, I would not want Japanese to replace English as the world’s lingua franca, though. Japan is, after all, still a living culture; and, just as I don’t want the Anglosphere to influence my country, I also don’t want the Japanese to be able to do that.
Dead languages such as Latin and ancient Greece still have too powerful a connection to their living descendants. I would therefore not opt to choose those either, as it invites a way for Greece or the Vatican City to covertly assert their influence in my country.
That leaves me with choices such as Sumerian, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc. These languages/scripts are dead and their islamized descendants are not interested enough in reconnecting with that “Jahiliyyah” part of their history to boost their civilizational revival.
Classical Nahuatl would be my choice. Dead enough to not have much of a connection to modern Mexico, living enough to be easily picked up by any modern eurolanguage speaker.
That leaves me with choices such as Sumerian, Egyptian hieroglyphs, etc. These languages/scripts are dead and their islamized descendants are not interested enough in reconnecting with that “Jahiliyyah†part of their history to boost their civilizational revival.
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I totally agree btw and it goes in the direction of my first message .
The answer is to be a polyglot.
Soviet censorship of Western culture and Western influence was far more stronger and more efficient that Putin’s RF or future Karlin Empire is ever going to be.
And in the end, it did not mattered at all.
Defensive strategy is always doomed to be failure. Go for offense. Keep subverting and undermining the West until it falls to pieces and is no longer attractive role model to anyone.
Remember, few Russian facebook ads made Trump president. What could full scale offensive do?
It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony….
Your awkward use of the pronoun ‘it’ begs the question of whether you are referring to America as a former colony of Great Britain, or if you refer to Britain as a former colony of America. Given that the latter case still holds true, one might safely assume you indeed intended the former, in which case the answer to your query is simply that the American overlords don’t really need to know diddly-squat about their vassal-states, as long as the vassals continue their fealty.
Powerful comment.Replies: @Dmitry
People who don’t learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language – as Goethe said.
So assuming that we were dictators, and don’t want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) – what language would be the best one to teach in school?
Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.
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A danger of mono-lingual people, is to overestimate how objective their ideas are, and underestimate how easily their minds have been programmed by sometimes historically arbitrary associations of phrases and sentences.
Much of our ideas just come from the typical associations of words in our language; and the more languages you learn, the more you start to perceive that – as a large part of language learning is just remembering which words connect to each other in each language. This is kind of thing Goethe was talking about.
Although some languages have more space for expressing different associations of ideas, than others.
English is a quite flexible language, as there is often both a Latin and a Germanic way to express your idea – and this is should allow for more choices in what ideas to associate together, compared to e.g. Spanish or Italian (there is mostly only a single way to say something in the purely Latin languages).
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Of course, for the rulers, it’s easier to control a mono-lingual race; while for creating the most original and interesting people, you would want to both shield and pollinate your culture with some alternative languages. A most difficult thing for the enlightened dictator would be in the choosing a language which does not leave his population too vulnerable to competing ideologies.
I imagine schools which can nurture an intellectual elite to be bilingual in a language like Classical Tibetan. Then perhaps you could introduce books from foreign countries, by approved writers, into a Tibetan translation – and create a buffer zone from external influences, through using such an exotic language, that only the local elite would know.
What would be the point of this? Why not just use a classical language that is closer in cultural-psychologically and that has an established corpus?
I imagine schools which can nurture an intellectual elite to be bilingual in a language like Classical Tibetan. Then perhaps you could introduce books from foreign countries, by approved writers, into a Tibetan translation – and create a buffer zone from external influences, through using such an exotic language, that only the local elite would know.
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It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony, I think a lot would struggle to tell you what country the English language originates from.
Only a person knowing that there are things s/he does not know struggles. Most Americans don’t struggle. Only in the US you can hear something like “if English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for meâ€.
I would argue that English being the global “lingua franca” does the native English no favours at all, in fact it weakens our position. A large percentage of identity is language and because our language is the world language the end result is we are seen as having less of a unique culture and identity than most other groups.
I’ve noticed many websites, especially non-British websites, use a US flag or even a UN flag to represent the English language. What other major language has to suffer an indignity like that?
When I read things in Scandinavian languages, it becomes very clear that the dominance of English is warping the languages.
Aside from all the English loanwords, especially for “modern†topics, there are times when even the grammar becomes distorted when it clashes with English – as I have noticed occur even in some Danish state media articles.
May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It’s no dig; I’m asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it’s in great shape outside academia.
While I have some Finland-Swedish ancestors before they assimilated, I don't have any direct modern Swedish ancestry. Rather the reason I speak Swedish has to due with my father being employed there foe a long time.
May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It’s no dig; I’m asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it’s in great shape outside academia.
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On this issue I entirely agree with Karlin. I’ve been banned on Twitter and Reddit way too many times.
The key to do this is to empower multipolarity – that is – the more other countries are important, the more their languages will be important too. And their information networks and industries. Which will in turn marginalise or significantly weaken the anglo ones.
To bring down the anglo info dominance, everyone else must be empowered. China, India, Turkey, Iran, Latin America, Arab World, etc.
That should be done in international organisations too.
The end point is to have chinese, indian, hispanic, brazilian, arab, russian based and owned etc. youtubes, twitters, googles, facebooks and regional/national internets to displace the dominant anglo ones today.
To do that within the EU Russia can support the french and possibly germans too, to back initiatives for elevating french and german within the EU.
Multipolarity and regionalisation is the way to beat this. Along with measures to empower the quality of local education systems. Media cooperation between like minded countries (it already exists between Russia and China), etc.
I agree 100% that multipolarity is the way forward, but you (and our host) are wrong to focus on the English tongue. With billions of non-native English speakers, hundreds of millions of whom speak it better than natives (where it counts), the traditional English-speaking world will soon lose primacy. Indeed, there’s every sign this process is well under way already.
This is a fact for both historic, modern and present information.
The historic part is not true. The modern and present part is.
Before WW1 & WW2 happened, a lot of information — whether news, scientific papers or otherwise — was still being produced in local languages such as German, French, Russian, etc. It was only after the USA became the most dominant economic power after WW2 (with about 50% of the world’s GDP in their hands) that English truly began to dominate everything on the international stage and this was only exacerbated by the rise of the internet in conjunction with the fall of the Soviet Union, which left the USA as the sole world hegemon from the 1990s onwards.
The rest of us have simply become lazy. If we want to cut out the cancerous anglosphere, then we need to start producing our own information in our own languages again. It’s probably already too late for my country though; 99% of our population knows English and even the dumbest bricks here speak it adequately.
For many of the foreigners in Germany, the English language is the common communication skill they bring to the table from day one: Why struggle to learn yet another language, despite it being the language of the host nation, when you can go straight to work with the English skills you already have in varying degrees?
The problem isn’t English speakers per se, rather it is Ausländers in general who use English for convenience who are the problem; the Brits and Americans, particularly those in Germany, are for once in recent history not the foreigners of whom Germans should be most wary.
It's nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.And the more educated subsection of people in Russia, have more basic knowledge of Marxism, than in America, and also more knowledge of British enlightenment. -Marxism by the way is partly derived from the British enlightenment, which Marx was studying every day in the British Museum reading room - there is not much opposition between the ideologies; Marxism is a part offshoot of the British enlightenment, and the best criticisms of him were also derived from this tradition. Marx's ideas are a lot of the time based in Adam Smith, Locke, Ricardo, etc, and Marx's writings cannot be understand by people who do not have a strong knowledge of those earlier authors. You won't understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke - as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel. Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
Russian is stupid
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It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony, I think a lot would struggle to tell you what country the English language originates from.
Only a person knowing that there are things s/he does not know struggles. Most Americans don’t struggle. Only in the US you can hear something like “if English was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for meâ€.Replies: @Dmitry
It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony, I think a lot would struggle to tell you what country the English language originates from.
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Your awkward use of the pronoun 'it' begs the question of whether you are referring to America as a former colony of Great Britain, or if you refer to Britain as a former colony of America. Given that the latter case still holds true, one might safely assume you indeed intended the former, in which case the answer to your query is simply that the American overlords don't really need to know diddly-squat about their vassal-states, as long as the vassals continue their fealty.
It often surprises me how clueless Americans are about Britain considering it is an English-speaking former colony....
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The Realms of Man need to quarantine it off like a plague zone, contacts limited to strictly business or scientific (not cultural) exchanges
Dugin said exactly the same thing some twenty years ago.
It's nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.And the more educated subsection of people in Russia, have more basic knowledge of Marxism, than in America, and also more knowledge of British enlightenment. -Marxism by the way is partly derived from the British enlightenment, which Marx was studying every day in the British Museum reading room - there is not much opposition between the ideologies; Marxism is a part offshoot of the British enlightenment, and the best criticisms of him were also derived from this tradition. Marx's ideas are a lot of the time based in Adam Smith, Locke, Ricardo, etc, and Marx's writings cannot be understand by people who do not have a strong knowledge of those earlier authors. You won't understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke - as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel. Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
Russian is stupid
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It’s nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.
Considering how ignorant an average American is, this, indeed, is nothing to boast about.
We need to implement Boko Haram, there is absolutely no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English.
Globohomo-style BS. Knowledge of English does not make any person a slave of the Empire and the rest of globohomo gang. Lots of perfectly normal people resisting globohomo speak English, some as the mother tongue, many more as the second language. What’s more, the English of Russian libtards, Ukrainian Nazis, and their ilk is in most cases pathetic.
Yes, globohomo sites like FB, Twitter, or YouTube are based on English, but it is them that are crap, not the language they use.
When I read things in Scandinavian languages, it becomes very clear that the dominance of English is warping the languages.
Aside from all the English loanwords, especially for “modern” topics, there are times when even the grammar becomes distorted when it clashes with English – as I have noticed occur even in some Danish state media articles.
May I ask how well you speak Danish (or Swedish — I seem to remember your being half-Swedish). It's no dig; I'm asking mostly because working to keep Swedish vigorous and folksily Germanic is among the few things all Swedes agree on — far-leftists no less than far-rightists. To my ears, it's in great shape outside academia.Replies: @Hyperborean
When I read things in Scandinavian languages, it becomes very clear that the dominance of English is warping the languages.
Aside from all the English loanwords, especially for “modern†topics, there are times when even the grammar becomes distorted when it clashes with English – as I have noticed occur even in some Danish state media articles.
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Russian is stupid
It’s nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.
And the more educated subsection of people in Russia, have more basic knowledge of Marxism, than in America, and also more knowledge of British enlightenment.
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Marxism by the way is partly derived from the British enlightenment, which Marx was studying every day in the British Museum reading room – there is not much opposition between the ideologies; Marxism is a part offshoot of the British enlightenment, and the best criticisms of him were also derived from this tradition.
Marx’s ideas are a lot of the time based in Adam Smith, Locke, Ricardo, etc, and Marx’s writings cannot be understand by people who do not have a strong knowledge of those earlier authors.
You won’t understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke – as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel.
Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
(Just as you won’t understand anything of Nietzsche, if you did not study first Schopenhauer. And you will not understand anything of Schopenhauer, without a bit of knowledge of Kant. And for Kant, it’s useful to know some of David Hume, etc).
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There is an amusing semi-literacy in Russia that we have the politicians who use the most neoliberal (i.e. Scottish Enlightenment originated) vocabulary of any politicians in the world, but usually in “creative” ways which show a lack of understanding of theories the terminology was invented to fit into.
So heads of Russian (government funded) space industries, were whiny about SpaceX for “dumping”. (But heads of a government funded agencies, which is trying to compete with private companies in America, for American government contracts- are itself a kind of dumping).
If you look at today – Putin is saying voting on the constitutional amendments, will increase the country’s stability to (external) shocks.
So Putin use pure vocabulary from classical economics, but such neoliberal vocabulary in used in “creative” new context of resetting his terms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(economics)
Ideas originating from neoclassical economic theory, are used for giving “objectivity” to his political preferences.
Considering how ignorant an average American is, this, indeed, is nothing to boast about.
It’s nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.
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True.
You won’t understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke – as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel.
Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
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Btw, on the issue of multipolarity, the latest IMF GDP growth estimates are up.
Biggest winner due to corona in relative terms is China. (NATO already warned about that).
Biggest loser is the US and Western Europe.
Non-western world gains in relative terms. Russia gains too vis a vis US and Western Europe.
That is compared to the old before corona estimates from the end of 2019.
People who don't learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language - as Goethe said. So assuming that we were dictators, and don't want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) - what language would be the best one to teach in school?Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.Replies: @The Big Red Scary, @Hyperborean, @Mary Marianne
no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English
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People who don’t learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language – as Goethe said.
So assuming that we were dictators, and don’t want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) – what language would be the best one to teach in school?
Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.
Powerful comment.
I think more important than “banning English†would be banning Hollywood, etc, and focusing on creating your own national cultural content. Yes at first it will suck, but with time and practice it gets better.
Or better: put forward a modern Hays Code. No way Hollywood would dare flout that if China and Russia got in on the act. (Better still: chances are it would spur creativity.)
Scottish Enlightenment/Founding Father/etc. liberalism isn’t any part of our culture anymore. True.
But nor are Adorno or Althusser or [insert any Jewish commie]—whom not even the top .1% of our literal Marxists read.
Adorno, Marcuse, and their countless co-ethnic imports from NS Germany and the Russian Empire were Jewish Bolsheviks and US sensibilities today reflect their coming to power, first in finance (they funded Woodrow Wilson who in turn signed the very Jewish Federal Reserve into law), the entertainment industry, the press, and higher education. You don’t really need to pin down to a single ideology. They completely displaced British-derived classical liberalism that made the US great.
For comparison’s sake, there was a bloody civil war and the losing side (the south) was able to build monuments honoring its leaders and even keep Negroes from infecting the body politics of the south, or mixing with whites.
Today’s environment is more repressive than the bloody aftermath of a civil war, let that sink in.
I must say that learning english was the most important thing to have ever happened in my life, and one of the most important things one can do right now in this day and age.
This is always true of learning any reasonably distant language.
Agree with most of your post, though. Knowing English well also means being better fit to seek out the truth behind whatever “global news” your local media tries to shove down your throat.
Relevant Mr. Scientism thread from November:
Once you understand that the America-led ‘free’ internet represents an all-out attack on global sovereignty – the apotheosis of US imperialism – the hysteria around Chinese technology makes much more sense. China supplies the only real alternative.
The importance of network hardware is that control over hardware would give the US control over local laws. That is, if there was no alternative, the US (and allies) could have used restrictions on hardware exports to coerce other countries into adopting the ’right’ regulations.
The fact that you can get your hardware from China means that the US can no longer use tech to coerce countries to adopt its favored laws and regulations. Without the Chinese alternative, the US could’ve told anyone without a ‘free’ internet that they can’t have modern telecoms. With the Chinese alternative available, the US has little recourse against ‘cybersovereignty’, data localization laws, etc.
Even if countries still use equipment from the US and its allies, they can threaten to use Chinese equipment if US demands become to onerous. If states can freely implement laws and regulations over the internet without the US interference that US control over hardware would allow, then they can privilege local services over US-based services (Google, Facebook, etc) or demand greater control over US-based services.
The ‘free’ internet is a classic power asymmetry play. The US knows most states cannot provide real alternatives to US services, so it demands a ‘level playing field’ for its giant corporations to mercilessly crush tiny local enterprises. States seek to privilege local players.
The internet threatens sovereignty in a way that print and broadcast media never did, because it‘s capable of completely undermining state-level gatekeeping unless it’s regulated. The vision of a ‘free’ internet the US pushes is just an internet without any NATIONAL gatekeepers.
The ’free’ internet would be dominated primarily by US companies and content (and generally by its developed world allies), promoting liberal values. Other nations wouldn’t be allowed any legal recourse against this onslaught. Control over hardware would’ve ensured this.
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America and Russia Must Cooperate to Block Globalist Subversion Networks
SJW Islamic Globalism is also a problem in the U.S. These anti-Infidel social networks are grinding away at Christian President Trump. (1)
President Trump’s full tweet says:
“There will never be an “Autonomous Zone†in Washington, D.C., as long as I’m your President. If they try they will be met with serious force!â€
Anyone who attempts to view the tweet through Twitter will see it hidden behind a notice from the far-left Silicon Valley company, informing them that the tweet has somehow violated the platform’s rules.
The Black Muslim Lives Matter, Infidel Lives Do Not movement is the favored cause of SJW social media largely driven from Berlin and Brussels. Christian Americans and Christian Russians need to work together to turn back the Islamic infiltration of social media.
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In the end, people will learn the language that’s the most useful for their prospects. So that turns it into a simple horserace between how quickly American culture can metastasise around the world and how quickly America falls and English becomes a less useful/universal language compared to, say, Mandarin. Things will probably descend into multipolar regional spheres of linguistic/cultural power — people in the CIS countries and maybe CEE will probably find Russian the most useful second language, whereas people in Africa might find use in learning the language of their new Chinese overlords.
With their brand of mindless consumerism, America really did discover the first workable recipe for a single global culture. If their empire wasn’t on the decline, I think it could have actually worked, and they could have eventually attained cultural hegemony. But they screwed it up, thank God. I do get a kick out of Europeans being so desperate to mimic the depraved schizophrenic spasms of a dying society.
“Liberals” in English means “people who obey the TV (or internet equivalent, e.g. Twitter).”
Scottish Enlightenment/Founding Father/etc. liberalism isn’t any part of our culture anymore. True.
But nor are Adorno or Althusser or [insert any Jewish commie]—whom not even the top .1% of our literal Marxists read.
We are way too stupid for any of that.
The average Russian is stupid in a better way and should probably be protected from our influence.
Adorno, Marcuse, and their countless co-ethnic imports from NS Germany and the Russian Empire were Jewish Bolsheviks and US sensibilities today reflect their coming to power, first in finance (they funded Woodrow Wilson who in turn signed the very Jewish Federal Reserve into law), the entertainment industry, the press, and higher education. You don't really need to pin down to a single ideology. They completely displaced British-derived classical liberalism that made the US great.For comparison's sake, there was a bloody civil war and the losing side (the south) was able to build monuments honoring its leaders and even keep Negroes from infecting the body politics of the south, or mixing with whites.Today's environment is more repressive than the bloody aftermath of a civil war, let that sink in.
Scottish Enlightenment/Founding Father/etc. liberalism isn’t any part of our culture anymore. True.But nor are Adorno or Althusser or [insert any Jewish commie]—whom not even the top .1% of our literal Marxists read.
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It's nothing to boast about, but average Russian people have a higher educational level, than average Americans.And the more educated subsection of people in Russia, have more basic knowledge of Marxism, than in America, and also more knowledge of British enlightenment. -Marxism by the way is partly derived from the British enlightenment, which Marx was studying every day in the British Museum reading room - there is not much opposition between the ideologies; Marxism is a part offshoot of the British enlightenment, and the best criticisms of him were also derived from this tradition. Marx's ideas are a lot of the time based in Adam Smith, Locke, Ricardo, etc, and Marx's writings cannot be understand by people who do not have a strong knowledge of those earlier authors. You won't understand a sentence of Marx, if you have not read carefully Adam Smith, Locke - as well as, of course and most importantly, Hegel. Without a background of knowledge of those writers, then Marxism is just empty sloganizing.
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Nobody is saying learning English isn’t useful or educational. There are just bigger, population-wide effects when a) everyone does it and b) the Anglophone media is saturated with cultural virions. That widespread English knowledge is an avenue for crazy political cancer is just inarguable: sure it brings some good as a lingua franca, but also lot of bad. If you cultivate a non-English culture, a great part of the apparent disadvantages will be ameliorated. (In some cases with the development of secondary, alternative regional linguae francae.) Yes, here as well the media runs articles that are basically straight translations from the NYT. The market for that stuff is people who are already up to their ears in the Anglophone world. There is also a segment of our media that is more domestic, not about the American democratic party, and the bigger that gets, the less we have to read about transphobia in the Süddeutsche Zeitung every day (trans being a particularly pronounced symptom of Anglo media influence).
I think the reason why Facebook google and twitter are not blocked in Russia is because the Russian authorities fear that if Yandex and VK find themselves in a position of monopoly they will stop innovating. Compétition is a useful thing in IT. I think a better thing to do would be for the Russian government to subsidize its local it companies and help them to conquer market shares at home and abroad.
The key to do this is to empower multipolarity – that is – the more other countries are important, the more their languages will be important too. And their information networks and industries. Which will in turn marginalise or significantly weaken the anglo ones.
To bring down the anglo info dominance, everyone else must be empowered. China, India, Turkey, Iran, Latin America, Arab World, etc.
That should be done in international organisations too.
The end point is to have chinese, indian, hispanic, brazilian, arab, russian based and owned etc. youtubes, twitters, googles, facebooks and regional/national internets to displace the dominant anglo ones today.
To do that within the EU Russia can support the french and possibly germans too, to back initiatives for elevating french and german within the EU.
Multipolarity and regionalisation is the way to beat this. Along with measures to empower the quality of local education systems. Media cooperation between like minded countries (it already exists between Russia and China), etc.
I agree 100% that multipolarity is the way forward, but you (and our host) are wrong to focus on the English tongue. With billions of non-native English speakers, hundreds of millions of whom speak it better than natives (where it counts), the traditional English-speaking world will soon lose primacy. Indeed, there's every sign this process is well under way already.
The key to do this is to empower multipolarity – that is – the more other countries are important, the more their languages will be important too. And their information networks and industries. Which will in turn marginalise or significantly weaken the anglo ones.To bring down the anglo info dominance, everyone else must be empowered. China, India, Turkey, Iran, Latin America, Arab World, etc.That should be done in international organisations too.The end point is to have chinese, indian, hispanic, brazilian, arab, russian based and owned etc. youtubes, twitters, googles, facebooks and regional/national internets to displace the dominant anglo ones today.To do that within the EU Russia can support the french and possibly germans too, to back initiatives for elevating french and german within the EU.Multipolarity and regionalisation is the way to beat this. Along with measures to empower the quality of local education systems. Media cooperation between like minded countries (it already exists between Russia and China), etc.
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I like to drive home the point that there are no liberals in the US anymore.
Modern US liberals have more in common with Marxist theoreticians from the Frankfurt School (e.g. Critical Theory as the framework for socio-cultural analysis) and assorted Jewish Bolshevik ideologues/activists than they have with classical British liberals of yore.
The dominant American spirit is Bolshevik, not liberal.
LOL. When was the last time you heard anyone in American politics call to expropriate the bourgeoisie?
The dominant American spirit is Bolshevik, not liberal.
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Singapore is not a bastion of fail and pozz because the political elite there are a bunch of illiberal Chinese boomers, and pozzing it up doesn’t benefit the PAP’s grip on power. Talk to a typical Singaporean student at one of the national universities and they have the same views as your typical liberal university student stateside or anywhere else in the Anglosphere.
People who don't learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language - as Goethe said. So assuming that we were dictators, and don't want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) - what language would be the best one to teach in school?Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.Replies: @The Big Red Scary, @Hyperborean, @Mary Marianne
no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English
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Since almost everyone is an idiot anyways, and no one ever learned a language as a consequence of having been required to study it, you are proposing a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist.
I think normies are normies because they are normies, i.e., it’s what they are, not because they know or don’t know English. They would still be normies if they spoke only Esperanto.
“Normies don’t wake up by definition, they believe what’s normal and what’s normal is what the TV says.” (aeoli)
I think learning new languages, even if rudimentary, is good, it actually liberates you and makes you find more information, not less.
That said, the ideas circulating in the Anglosphere are the worst today, and they arrive first where the majority of people speak English. That’s why Anglo countries are the most screwed-up.
I think more important than “banning English” would be banning Hollywood, etc, and focusing on creating your own national cultural content. Yes at first it will suck, but with time and practice it gets better.
Or better: put forward a modern Hays Code. No way Hollywood would dare flout that if China and Russia got in on the act. (Better still: chances are it would spur creativity.)
I think more important than “banning English†would be banning Hollywood, etc, and focusing on creating your own national cultural content. Yes at first it will suck, but with time and practice it gets better.
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Yes, that should be the number one priority.
I think more important than “banning English†would be banning Hollywood, etc, and focusing on creating your own national cultural content.
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We need to implement Boko Haram, there is absolutely no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English.
Yeah, sort of. English is a problem, but, on the other hand, English has become today’s Latin. I mean for academic papers, there’s no other language that does it.
Also for cultural products, things made in English have a broader reach. Hell, AK writes in English and not in Russian for a reason!
I don’t know what’s the solution. It’s true that countries where less people know English, appear less pozzed. Someone mentioned Germany, and, I don’t know if it’s because of communism or because less people speak English, but the East of Germany is slightly less pozzed than the rest of the country. But seeing from rap-loving, BLM-loving, LGBT-loving German young people today, not for very long.
I can say with certainty that, if I hadn’t learned english I would be just another retard mobster following the media’s maze of lies and petty political theatres.
I would probably be very far to the left, because that’s the only stuff you have available for consuming normally, even though I’ve always had a tendency for a right wing angle on the social matters, I’ve flerted with Libertarianism social position (allowed exactly because it’s bad), and had always thought that Smith and Ricardo, Mises and Freedman were right wing economists of right wing economic schools – which is also wrong.
I thought Capitalism was the default state of the human beings, I had no knowledge about the evils of Communism, that politics mattered, that science was always right and academia a realm of knowledge.
All of these misconceptions that were planted in me by the media and the educational system were dysmantled because I knew how to read in english, and the antidote to those viruses only existed in english.
I must say that learning english was the most important thing to have ever happened in my life, and one of the most important things one can do right now in this day and age.
This is always true of learning any reasonably distant language.
I must say that learning english was the most important thing to have ever happened in my life, and one of the most important things one can do right now in this day and age.
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Agree with most of this post except the banning of English part.
Singapore is an english speaking country but hardly a bastion of western liberalism.
An order of magnitude more Russians speak English today than in 1992 but a much greater percentage support conservative right of centre policies than in 1992.
Infact the more Russians and others speak English the more the top 2-5% people who can actually think for themselves will be able to appreciate the Russian POV.
The rest are sheep anyway and their opinions hardly count for anything.
no need for 90-95% of the population (i.e. normies) to know English
People who don’t learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language – as Goethe said.
So assuming that we were dictators, and don’t want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) – what language would be the best one to teach in school?
Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.
Powerful comment.Replies: @Dmitry
People who don’t learn more than 1-2 additional languages, are idiots though, even in their own language – as Goethe said.
So assuming that we were dictators, and don’t want the population to be idiots (although to be honest as rulers we would probably want them to be idiots) – what language would be the best one to teach in school?
Maybe Ancient Greek and Japanese.
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The media coordinates its articles in english as well, so there’s no use if, for instance, everyone in Latin America unlearns english, the media will import and translate it to the masses.
It’s even worse now, because the people will have nowhere to escape the propaganda.
Also, defending not learning english is really complicated, as a non native speaker myself can attest: if you don’t know this language, you have basically no access to any information, be it good or bad, correctc or incorrect. Knowledge is extremely limited in any other language because it’s mainly produced in english, and almost never translated after that. This is a fact for both historic, modern and present information.
But I agree with the analogous internet services and companies as a shield because that’s guaranteeing the sovereignty of information – and that’s what should be done in the first place regarding the media and academia.
The historic part is not true. The modern and present part is.Before WW1 & WW2 happened, a lot of information — whether news, scientific papers or otherwise — was still being produced in local languages such as German, French, Russian, etc. It was only after the USA became the most dominant economic power after WW2 (with about 50% of the world's GDP in their hands) that English truly began to dominate everything on the international stage and this was only exacerbated by the rise of the internet in conjunction with the fall of the Soviet Union, which left the USA as the sole world hegemon from the 1990s onwards.The rest of us have simply become lazy. If we want to cut out the cancerous anglosphere, then we need to start producing our own information in our own languages again. It's probably already too late for my country though; 99% of our population knows English and even the dumbest bricks here speak it adequately.
This is a fact for both historic, modern and present information.
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I have been making this point about the toxicity of the Anglophone sphere for years. You only see it when you get out. On the small scale it’s clearest of all: I think the broad geopolitical view is complicated by a lot of other forces. Here (Germany) the big cities with their Anglophone student populations had Floyd protests, even some half-hearted troublemaking as in Stuttgart (migrants posturing on social media). Biggest protests in foreigner-heavy Berlin obviously. Get out to the countryside where the English world is far more distant, and most don’t consume any English-language media, and they‘re even more dismissive of this crap than I am. It’s also true on a person-to-person basis, colleagues with the worst English are by far the most sensible about all these questions. There‘s no reason for most people to bother with English, the empire has a political cancer, we should wall it off.
Please keep off topic posts to the current Open Thread.
If you are new to my work, start here.
I assume you are thinking of the experience of Australia, which picked the wrong Lebanese, importing an entire crime-ridden clan.
Georgians are definitely more Western than the Lebanese, a country mainly known for exporting gang-rapists and Hezbollah militiamen.
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In my neighborhood, they were all Maronite Catholics, and thy eventually built a fabulous and large church. While they were building it, they conducted mass at the neighborhood Ukrainian Catholic church. My first recollection of any Lebanese individual was that of the neighborhood pornographer who had a modest sized venue for his wares and tares that was fronted as a newspaper stand including a wall of comic books. Within it was housed a backroom filled with boxes an boxes of glossy print girly books galore. Downtown, he owned a number of movie houses that showcased x-rated movies (before the era of home video TV equipment). Most of the community was a hard working, church going people (like their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors). Lebanese bars and restaurants that included their exotic mix of foods were to be found dotted throughout the neighborhood. My first introduction to tabouli and even the now ubiquitous gyro was at one of these establishments. I can still remember the mouth watering pie made from fresh apricots. And yes, the girls with their shiny coal dark and wavy hair were some real head turners…..
I haven’t been to Poland in about ten years. At that time, anyway, nobody was smiling on the streets and in the restaurants, hotels, and museums of Warsaw. Same as you describe Russia. Perhaps it’s different now.
For the record, I think both polish women and Russian women overall are a sexy bunch. Ukrainians absolutely too. (A Polish guy told me a joke, “for every beautiful Polish woman, God made an ugly Polish man.†I can appreciate the emotional security needed for self-deprecation.)
Of course there’s a more diverse genetic spectrum and thus a wider range of “looks†in Russia. Poland doesn’t have the part-Korean/Chinese people that Russia has around Vladivostok, for example. (I met Russians from there in LA. I talked to them out of curiosity because they looked entirely Korean but were speaking Russian to each other. They said it’s not unusual out there.).
Nor does Poland have many people who are a substantial part central Asian as Russia does, e.g. half-Tuvan defense minister Sergei Shoigu. I’ve also read that there are Northern and southern Russian types, with the former being heavily Slavic and Scandinavian (to me a perfect blend), the latter being mostly Slavic but having often substantial genes from Caucasus, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia and the like. Each can be hot in its own way. But smiling makes almost any woman more attractive.
Basically, my hierarchy of women for little old me: (1) MY WIFE (hey she reads unz sometimes, nah I’m serious anyway), (2) white gals, certainly including Slavs, (3) some Asian gals.
Some would dispute whether Ioffe is Russian. She seems to identify more with being Jewish than Russian. Her departure was likely due to her family (at least some of them) seeking better payola (Multiple sources say that she has family relations still in Russia, including her grandmother.). Meantime, plenty of Russians in the West who don't dis Russia. These are the kind of Russians typically muted out of Western mass media, much unlike the Iofees.Conversely, there're a Ukrainian ex pats who aren't so pro-Euromaidan and anti-Russian. They're the kind of Ukrainians typically getting muted in the Western mass media and body politic structures.. Regarding Ioffe:Re: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/31/strange-twist-fate-now-its-russian-jews-praying-american-jews/?utm_term=.33e807663dffExcerpt -
You talk to those who have fled. It’s a skewed sample. Look at Russians such as Julia Ioffe who ran away from Russia and what they write about the country they left.
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More accurately put, the Cold War era saw the USSR take a geopolitically motivated anti-Zionist/anti-Israeli line, which isn't necessarily anti-Jewish. Somewhat reminded of those who say that being against the Russian government isn't necessarily anti-Russian. Despite the aforementioned restrictions, Jews in the Soviet Union compared socioeconomically well to other ethnic groups in that dictatorship - which adhered to a set of beliefs, known for being theoretically opposed to all religions. The aforementioned restrictions bring to mind the matter of affirmative action in the US and a recent Fox News segment of Harvard University discriminating against Asian applicants. If I'm not offhand mistaken, the described Soviet internal passports listed the stated ethnic group of the given person - "J" or otherwise. Zionism supports the idea of a Jewish nation. It has been said that some people of Jewish background in the USSR listed their ethnic identity as something other than Jewish. Soviet census taking allowed the individual to have some leeway on how they wanted to be ethnically listed. During the Cold War, there was a noticeable US political activity seeking justice for Soviet Jews. There was also the reality that living conditions in the US and the West in general, was considerably better than in the USSR. At the time, it was understood that the best way to get US approval for entry was to claim being ethnically discriminated against, as opposed to seeking a better economic standing. I know a pro-Israeli Jewish attorney who worked for the INS reviewing Soviet Jewish applicants. According to him and some others, a good number of the stories about persecution seem exaggerated, if not completely made up. In addition, there has been second guessing on just how Jewish the background of some (not all) of the applicants.
Like the century before it, the Soviet era was riddled with anti-Semitism. Jews were often discriminated against by the government, from restrictive quotas at top universities to having the equivalent of a letter ‘J’ marked in their internal Soviet passports. Anti-Semitic imagery and slogans were rife and generally accepted by Soviet society.Starting in the 1970s, Soviet Jews began leaving for Israel and the West. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a 1-million-strong exodus had taken place. The chaotic 1990s saw many more go.�
I’m willing to suffer some, too, if it will induce a couple million Jews to leave the USA for Israel.
I can understand you confusing Russian women with Polish women ( who actually do a lot of scowling)....but how on earth can you confuse Russian women with Chinese women?Replies: @DFH
Alleged beauty of Russian women would go a lot further if they wren’t constantly scowling
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It is completely the opposite, I always see Russian women scowling but Polish women smiling sweetly.
Georgians are definitely more Western than the Lebanese, a country mainly known for exporting gang-rapists and Hezbollah militiamen.
I assume you are thinking of the experience of Australia, which picked the wrong Lebanese, importing an entire crime-ridden clan.
But Lebanon is “diverse”. In the US, in my boyhood (1960s-1970s), the Lebanese I knew were children of business owners and physicians. They were ambitious and likeable guys (and the girls were pretty). They were Orthodox Christians (Antiochian patriarchate). They benefited from America, and even my jaded old xenophobic WASP self believes that America benefited from them.
Immigration just needs to be restrictive. Extremely restrictive. Never import a likely candidate for the underclass. Import only someone that that a college-educated American might envy.
LOL.....What part of "perfect mix of Tsarist and Communist era people" as I have previously written , are you too thick to understand you idiot? How could the cretinous reference to "Sovok" apply, considering what I have said....particularly with Nicholas II and other tsarist figures winning?
Are Sovoks impressed by airport names?
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Hahahahahhaah! You only know that because I have been going on about this project for the last few weeks and mentioned this exact thing you dumb prick,! something along the lines of "foreign people under patronage of the Tsar". There is Vitus Bering, Kant nearly won, I would have tried to get guys such as Euler and Bernoulli in, they could have got in the British guy, who because of decision making in Saint Petersburg, built the first bridge over the Dniepr or who helped set up the coal industry in Donbass...but the point remains of the abnormal freak you are , copying my comments but then completely doing a BS misinterpretation/distortion of it.
They used a Dane for one of them didn’t they?
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Utterly bizarre. Can't be bothered with that drivelReplies: @AP
How many of those names were stolen from Ukrainians, Poles, etc?
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..What part of “perfect mix of Tsarist and Communist era people… How could the cretinous reference to “Sovok†apply, considering what I have said
It’s very cute when Sovoks try to appropriate pre-Sovok people and try to be proud of them.
Also, most of us here our proud of our grandfathers/fathers who fought in WW2
People who fought bravely to defend their homes and families should be honored. At the same time, only a Sovok would deny that the mass nature of the sacrifice was the product of Sovok stupidity and failure, and the fruit of all that sacrifice was a shabby second-rate society, eclipsed within a generation by the enemies it barely (to to its own stupidity) defeated.
You must be bitter that the Banderists who escaped West live so much better than do the ex-Sovoks.
Average Ukrainian-American family income is $72,449. Remind me what average family income in Russia is?
They used a Dane for one of them didn’t they?
Hahahahahhaah! You only know that because I have been going on about this project for the last few weeks
No, I googled the project.
It’s a shame they are renaming Sheremetyevo airport. It was built on or near the lands that your Sovok ancestors stole from the Sheremetyevo family. Instead of reflecting the history of the place, you have Sovok cargo cultism approach, renaming it after Pushkin.
Trying to erase history that you are ashamed of?
laughable projecting freak....you know your a spambot idiot account and spending all day here every day is your sick life ...the "springboard" is just your disinformation and stupidity that you need to invent some justification for the abnormal amount of time you spend hereReplies: @AP
but his posts provide an excellent springboard for corrections that disprove various Russian propaganda stories
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aughable projecting freak… spending all day here every day
I wrote four posts yesterday.
The day before I wrote 3 posts.
The day before that I wrote 8 posts.
I know you are so dumb that it might take you all day to write 4 posts or 8 posts but it does not take normal people all day to do so.
So it is projection by you.
But I see you wrote another long post I can use. Thank you, anti-Russian troll.
We all have our particular weaknesses – at least Averko likes to wear his Russian allegiance on the sleeve by choosing a Russian moniker (Mikhail), but this yolup thinks that he’s some sort of Anglo (Gerard). My sweet mother would sometimes come up with her own pidgin Ukrainian/Englsih dialectical phrases. For ‘get out of here’ she shortened it all to ‘geradi’. It’s appropriate for our friend here:
‘Geradi Gerard! 🙂
Are Sovoks impressed by airport names?
“Great name of Russia†Airport naming competition
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Are Sovoks impressed by airport names?
LOL…..What part of “perfect mix of Tsarist and Communist era people” as I have previously written , are you too thick to understand you idiot? How could the cretinous reference to “Sovok” apply, considering what I have said….particularly with Nicholas II and other tsarist figures winning?
Also, most of us here our proud of our grandfathers/fathers who fought in WW2, …and thus a random despicable retard as yourself has no right to flimsily use the word “Sovok”, as of course you would be ashamed of the failure, murdering, rapist ( of humans of any age and animals) , turncoat, coward Banderite retard relatives of yours
As for “being impressed”…this is the mind of a 4 year old whose algorithm for typing BS to waste time on here , is failing…..everybody is impressed when a country has such a great history, successful and talented people. pride, patriotism that there are so many names with which to choose from for important public space ( i.e Airports) .Particularly bizarre you would write that drivel in view of how extremely insecure Ukraine is over this type of thing *( for obvious reasons), focusing huge efforts on renaming or knocking down things…and any “Ukrainian” would be in positive delirium if some genital hair in America was named after them.
The idea of “Ukraine” is such a non-starter that they will soon be forced to do what the shithead Poland and Baltic states do…….have such a lack of “history”, culture, talented and great people ( well many great people, just that they are of course Russians) that they are forced to name public places after scumbags like Chechen terrorist Dudayev ( in Warsaw and Estonia) , numerous pseudo-“Human-rights” activist cretins from Russia , American Presidents, Crimean -Tatar “activists” and so on.
They used a Dane for one of them didn’t they?
Hahahahahhaah! You only know that because I have been going on about this project for the last few weeks and mentioned this exact thing you dumb prick,! something along the lines of “foreign people under patronage of the Tsar”. There is Vitus Bering, Kant nearly won, I would have tried to get guys such as Euler and Bernoulli in, they could have got in the British guy, who because of decision making in Saint Petersburg, built the first bridge over the Dniepr or who helped set up the coal industry in Donbass…but the point remains of the abnormal freak you are , copying my comments but then completely doing a BS misinterpretation/distortion of it.
What the point there is that, clearly, there are way more than enough Russians to choose from you dumb prick. Overflowing with super-talented people in our history…but the good thing here is that the country/society is so secure and stable that Communist or Tsarist figures….nobody minds, foreign people who worked to benefit Russia?….same thing. Now compare this to the cesspit that Ukraine is at state and organisation level you thick twat.
How many of those names were stolen from Ukrainians, Poles, etc?
Utterly bizarre. Can’t be bothered with that drivel
It's very cute when Sovoks try to appropriate pre-Sovok people and try to be proud of them.
..What part of “perfect mix of Tsarist and Communist era people... How could the cretinous reference to “Sovok†apply, considering what I have said
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People who fought bravely to defend their homes and families should be honored. At the same time, only a Sovok would deny that the mass nature of the sacrifice was the product of Sovok stupidity and failure, and the fruit of all that sacrifice was a shabby second-rate society, eclipsed within a generation by the enemies it barely (to to its own stupidity) defeated.
Also, most of us here our proud of our grandfathers/fathers who fought in WW2
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No, I googled the project.
They used a Dane for one of them didn’t they?
Hahahahahhaah! You only know that because I have been going on about this project for the last few weeks
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but his posts provide an excellent springboard for corrections that disprove various Russian propaganda stories
laughable projecting freak….you know your a spambot idiot account and spending all day here every day is your sick life …the “springboard” is just your disinformation and stupidity that you need to invent some justification for the abnormal amount of time you spend here
I wrote four posts yesterday.
aughable projecting freak... spending all day here every day
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Alleged beauty of Russian women would go a lot further if they wren’t constantly scowling
I can understand you confusing Russian women with Polish women ( who actually do a lot of scowling)….but how on earth can you confuse Russian women with Chinese women?
Alleged beauty of Russian women would go a lot further if they wren’t constantly scowling