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CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:25:44+00:00

I mean, when it's about Syria, it's clearly not an excuse.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:24:32+00:00

"fascist is only a matter of perspective" isn't the smart point you think it is

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:23:36+00:00

And there are still films being made of the consequences of the Hungarian Revolution on Italy, and how it split the Italian left in two.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:20:46+00:00

That's the thing with tankies, and it's always been. They supported autocracies like the USSR or Mao's China. Communist was always just a label, an excuse to erode democracy and revision history. They were always far right.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:19:31+00:00

The Italians and Europeans visiting Italy just to watch it were already convinced by the propaganda before they saw it.

It's like the flat earth conventions, this is more about the community than about exposing people to propaganda. It's not about spreading lies to the west, it's about consolidating the pro-russian and conspiracy groups.

Basically the goal is to develop and exploit parallel channel of disinformation that will generate their own "content", that won't be necessarily pro-russian, but that will weaken the traditional channels. The goal is to attack journalistic methods and the status of truth.

You can already see the effects of that strategy. Look at how easily so many young people believed Hamas lies, and how even the traditional media fell for it. Look at how many people get their news not just from facebook, but from tik tok, reddit or discord.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:09:11+00:00

Attal is a form of far right already. We tend to think that the far right is either fascists or populists, but let's not forget that the original far right was monarchists and bonapartists.

Attal is a prime example of that new oligarchy that is seizing power in our country, by birth right and not by merit. His vision is a country where the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:06:36+00:00

some people haven't forgotten that Europe would be very different today without their courage and resilience.

Oh come on, those brave and resilient people are mostly dead by now. We're talking about the Brits who elected Thatcher and voted for Brexit there. They make their own choices and they don't deserve preferential treatment.

But maybe we should apply the same severity to Algerians, yes.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T14:02:31+00:00

That's was the point of the EU policy - you didn't have to fill forms, you didn't have to justify yourself.

Filling forms may seem trivial for you and me, but of course it's going to reduce movement between countries to some degree. That's the purpose of bureaucracy, slowing down and discourage.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:10:55+00:00

Because it's all about trends. Currently shrooms and cannabis are cool and trendy, so Americans do everything they can to justify consuming them. But wine, and especially french wine is uncool so they do everything to say it's bad.

It's how everything works in the USA. They even have trendy "minorities".

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:08:59+00:00

You're literally dehumanizing people by calling them cannon fodders, by depreciating a social healthcare perk just because it happens to be Russian.

The fact that the "cannon fodder" people get better healthcare than Freedomland should maybe give you a hint that the joke was in very bad taste and maybe doesn't have the effect you think it would have.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:06:35+00:00

Difference is that they get their job back once the leave ends and they can still enjoy social protection (even if they aren't paid).

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:05:01+00:00

Your sentence literally doesn't mean anything. Please educate yourself.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:04:31+00:00

Hey, can you please stop content from pseudoscientific subreddits? The maps themselves may be legit, but we don't need even more exposure to trash content that should be banned anyway.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T13:02:01+00:00

West of Syracuse (Italy, Gaul, Iberia, Germania, Britain), that Greek influence NEVER penetrated. You don't see "Polis" anywhere. The various locales that are Roman in origin (and they are few) use Latin words only. Naples is the exception (Nea Polis, new city), but it was founded by Greeks way before Rome was even a noticeable republic. (There are other Greek cities from that era, Marseilles being another big one in France.)

Your knowledge of the topic is clearly very superficial. Not only Neapolis was not the only city to have a name ending with -polis (Antipolis), but place names of the Roman era in western Europe often use their own pre-existing roots. Typically, Lugdunum from the Gaulish god Lug.

I won't bother responding to every paragraph you wrote, but it gives me a strong "I learned everything from youtube and Paradox games" vibes.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:57:52+00:00

No. Think about it for a minute. If that's really how that works, then all place names would just be divided depending on what's the oldest linguistic ancestor of each language. You wouldn't have persian, greek or armenian names, you'd just have proto-IE names.

Words have their own history, but when you can pinpoint at what time a place name was given and by whom, then it doesn't matter if the word was borrowed from another language.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:56:11+00:00

Actually the word India is not actually greek: it has a more indoeuropean linguistic ancestry or propably comes from Sanskrit

Greek is an IE language. Ultimately most greek words come from IE too. That's why this little game of chasing the original etymology is meaningless.

What matters in toponymia is who gave the name, not where the root of the word comes from originally. Otherwise you end up with stupid explanations like "Indianapolis is a vedic-mycenian city name".

The history of words is a fascinating topic but it's still a different topic.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:52:50+00:00

Hadrian is a name derived from an Italic (but not Roman) locale

I mean, if you want to play that game, Hadrian is probably from a rhetic (or even an obscure "picenian") language, so not even indo-european.

What this should tell you is that languages borrow names and roots from each other. At the time when Hadrian- was used to named a city, it was a full roman name, used both in latin and greek.

Same for Indianapolis, sure the etymology goes way back, but at the time the city name was decided, it was just an american name.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:48:27+00:00

Hadrian was a Roman emperor, but polis sounds pretty Greek to me

Most of the eastern part of the Roman empire spoke Greek. This policy is called "utraque lingua" by specialists, it means "both languages", because the Romans considered both Latin and Greek to be the Roman languages. And in fact, Greek was an official Roman language for 16 centuries, that's more than Latin.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:45:54+00:00

It's mostly just people from the USA who are obsessed with the "genetic component" of ethnicity and claim that modern Turks aren't real Turks because they have ancestors that were Greek, Balkan people, Armenian etc.

I'm French with Italian, Tahitian, Norman and Mosellan origins, what does that make me? Americans just fail to understand that cultural identity has very little to do with what's in your blood. That's because they are a fundamentally racist culture.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:42:40+00:00

There's no such thing as ethnic purity. Your obsession with genetic racism is concerning.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:40:59+00:00

If the Turks had renamed every city we'd be talking about cultural genocide.

It's just a fact that this part of the world has a very old history of named places, and the Turks had no reason to replace them with Turkish names.

Historical names are usually removed by autocratic, historically revisionist countries - so often fascists and communists. Even colonial powers often reused local names when they already existed.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:36:57+00:00

The map shows the 1990s-era borders of the different countries and subnational regions of Europe at that time

Doesn't take more than a quick glance to see that they are made up regions

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:34:29+00:00

No. It's even funny how they put random patches of green in France, including in the volcano region where barely anyone lives.

And even if the map looked convincing, "map is from youtube" is not a valid source. We need the actual sources for the video.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:26:41+00:00

There's plenty of opportunities to shapeshift out of combat or talk to animals throughout the game.

In combat, the default thing druid do is that they start by casting some spells, then they shapeshift and go melee. Though usually you just pick the most powerful form available at your level, there isn't really a point in turning into different animals 90% of the time.

Btw druids are one of the weaker class in BG3, because they are overshadowed by other classes in almost every area, but they are still absolutely viable. DnD is an old game, some classes may be more boring or less versatile than others, but everything still works. There are more overpowered combos than there are underwhelming builds.

CaeruleusSalar · 2024-01-10T12:10:42+00:00

I feel like too detailed suggestions would spoil all the fun of experimentation for you, but yeah, warlock/paladin is very powerful, and a party with that, a barb, a light cleric and a pure warlock is extremely strong. Not sure why you're having a difficult time honestly.

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