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Dividing Palestine into 24 sectors centered on al-Quds like that insane map of the “Central European Union”

“Some damned foolish thing in the Levant”

Satanyahoo

I’m gonna be honest, I read this as “Satanya-hoo” instead of “Satan-yahoo” at first. Yes, as in the Gabriel Dropout character.

I know that you’re referring to when he first took office, but Netanyahu is really about as old as “Israel” itself. He was in his mother’s belly when the “Ink Flag” was raised, when the Zionist Entity joined the United Nations, when the Zionist Entity commemorated the first anniversary of its declaration of “independence”, when the Green Line was set. Netanyahu was the Entity’s first PM to have been born after the Entity’s declaration of “independence”, and there have only been two others since then.

So, you know, time is relative, basically.

So you’re saying you’re in favor of Deaf people having a set of common signs to use when communicating with people from different countries, but you don’t want this to replace the local sign languages? Because if that’s what you’re getting at, then that’s just International Sign, isn’t it? That already exists and is widely used at international Deaf events.

If you were to force all the Deaf people of the world to use the same language, Deaf people would still communicate with their local communities far more often than communities in other countries, which means that neologisms and accents and so forth would gradually develop and accumulate, until there would eventually once again be hundreds of different regional sign languages — unless you were also continually suppressing Deaf people’s attempts to control their own languages, which is both a terrible thing to do and also not particularly sustainable in the long run.

…So by imposing a “Universal Sign Language”, you would’ve really just eradicated an enormous source of understudied language diversity and global cultural heritage, in order to not-solve a non-issue. Deaf people already have ways to communicate across language boundaries that they’re perfectly satisfied with, including, among others, the international auxiliary pidgin language used in the above video.

How the heck has nobody mentioned Lupin III yet?!

Yes, they do, but I’m just confused about why you think different sign languages should have the same sign.

Sorry, are you implying that sign languages are just engineered representations of spoken languages? Because if you are, those are called MCLs (manually coded languages), and are completely different from sign languages.

That sounds uncomfortable.

Conlang translation challenge (said as if joking, but with a faint voice in the back of my mind telling me that it might actually work)

I want to say Kin-Dza-Dza. It’s a very silly and memorable work of Soviet science fiction.

What’s the deal with not accepting that Ireland is a part of Europe, anyways?

> Appeared on Epic Rap Battles of History against an incumbent leader of a nuclear state

In hindsight, I feel like the original comment should’ve struck me as more reactionary than it did.

You’re being an ass, please stop.

Your culture was made out of plastic fifty years ago.

That’s the thing, right? When people say “American culture”, what they really mean is essentially “lowest-common-denominator American culture”, which is itself a fancy way of saying “whatever the least marginalized Seppo jackass approves of that hasn’t (yet) become global culture”.

You absolutely could find hundreds or thousands of years of tradition, mythology, and landscape, as well as quality banter, within the borders of Seppoland, but you would just not find any of that labeled as “American” culture — you could even find culture in Seppoland that is new, yet also decidedly not plastic, but which would again not be labeled as “American” culture. Because the nationality generally pointed to by the term “American” is a colonial identity, anything that goes against colonization is not allowed, and would not allow itself, to be given that label. “American” culture has a prudish, puritan heart in a thick coat of cultural theft and bastardization and fabrication under capitalism, that must, like capitalism itself, continually expand through yet more theft and yet more plastic junk until it cannot sustain itself anymore.

The amount of things you could call “real” American culture that would remain if you took away all of the theft and junk, would be absolutely negligible, and would not fit together into anything cohesive and comprehensive; on top of this, Seppoland’s cultural imperialism, and the inevitable march of technological progress, has left so many originally “American” things as part of essentially “world culture”; and on top of this still, a fair amount of the “real” American culture is just not particularly salvageable given the wretchedness of Seppoland in general.

All of this has honestly fucked with me as an Anglo-American born and raised and still living in Europe, because while I am treated as an immigrant’s child, as I should be… The children of immigrants from other countries actually have those thousands of years of culture to fall back on for an identity, whereas I have fuck all. So I’m basically pushed by everyone around me to identify with a nationality without any real substance, like an ethnic null pointer error — and I’ve spent my life basically trying to figure out how exactly to make that work, for better and for worse. This is actually a big part of why I am so opposed to Seppoland’s cultural imperialism, and admire your work a lot, albeit critically.

Edit: To be specific I think you are often poor on racial issues, that you tend to be opinionated and over-extrapolate from your own very limited perspective in a very unhelpful way. So it would do you a lot of good to be more inquisitive about racism in both Europe and Seppoland.

Edit 2: This thread has made me think considerably less of you and your potential for growth. Perhaps I should ask Hexbear to set up its own version of NoYank.

It’s like I’ve said before, it’s “Spiderman pointing” societal issues: I’ve seen Seppos point to anti-Roma or anti-Slav racism in Europe to prove that Europeans are more racist, just like Europeans point to police brutality against Black people and Latin Americans in Seppoland to prove that that’s the more racist region. I wouldn’t necessarily argue that the liberals in either region are better or worse, just that they’re shaped by different circumstances. I’ve been meaning to actually do a write-up about bourgeois vs proletarian anti-Americanism in Europe, but it is a big topic, isn’t it? My own stance in brief is that Europeans’ attitudes towards Seppoland are best understood through the contradictions of Europe’s current subordination to Seppoland.

to get off to the fact that they are 10% less shitty than the worst cancer to ever plague mankind at best,

Trying to compare how bad Europe is compared to Seppoland feels like it’s the liberals’ game, and should not be ours.

the typical Euronazi idiot making fun of the “racially impure Mutts”.

Honestly I feel like this doesn’t get discussed nearly as much as it probably should, likewise anti-European sentiments in Seppoland. I think a lot of people act as if there aren’t these sort of “dormant” racist attitudes between these groups that, while fringe for now, still point to a deeper tension that could one day flare up.

Speaking as an American leftist, I know that non-American comrades are fully able to discern me from the idiots of this shithole, respecting me as another fellow comrade. But on the other hand, those hateful, bitter Euro nationalists aforementioned would most likely treat me as a subhuman cancer cell just solely based on the fact that I’m a Yank.

I have mixed feelings about this part, it bothers me a little, I guess because I have the perspective of actually being an American born and raised and still living in Europe, but I’ll need to gather my thoughts together into something cohesive before sharing them.

it’s the fact that most Eurolibs would immediately bend over and start sucking Uncle Sam’s dick the moment communism starts winning (as you could see this moment) and their precious imperialist outposts [Ukraine] and [the Zionist Entity] are in legitimate danger of losing

I’m not so sure about this part. I think it will depend on how things play out.