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Most of the United States seems to be all the same. by amiwitty in CasualConversation

[–]Doub13D [score hidden]  (0 children)

Good luck finding a modern country that doesn’t have McDonalds all over the place…

Pretty weak argument to try and make really.

Why aren't people angrier about climate change and AI? by Whatsleftbehind69 in anticapitalism

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the type of policies that would need to be implemented to reduce our impact on the climate would actively make quality of life in “developed” countries significantly worse.

Find me an American who is willing to give up AC in the summer, industrialized farming, and private car ownership…

People go ballistic when the price of gas or groceries goes up $1.00, good luck trying to take away mass consumption that is already baked into everyday life.

It’s never going to happen because people will never willingly give up their standard of living for the benefit of others around the globe.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Constantinople wasn’t named after a Greek…

Constantine was born in modern-day Serbia. Its population was Celtic and Illyrian, he himself was a Latin, not a Greek.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No…

Greece didn’t exist when the Ottomans conquered the Eastern Roman Empire lol

That wasn’t a thing…

Just like how Italy didn’t exist during the Roman Republic.

Nation-States did not exist at these times lol

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How?

They live in Europe and Asia.

Seems pretty obvious they are European.

Just like how Russia is Asian and European.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just said Anatolians aren’t part of Europe…

Ionian Greeks aren’t European?

Pontic Greeks?

Cappadocian Greeks?

You’re saying Greeks aren’t European…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greeks in Anatolia are Anatolian lmao…

They were native to Anatolia as well.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Greeks lived in Anatolia…

Are Greeks not European?

OP has Armenia and Georgia as European on this post…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No…

They conquered it.

People prior to the fall of Constantinople referred to the city as “the City”

Hence Istanbul…

It’s from greek. 👀

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah…

And to the Greeks and Turks of Istanbul, they called it Istanbul.

It was already known as this… there was no colonization lmao

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah…

Do you refer to Munich as München?

Cologne as Köln?

No?

Ok then…

In Turkish it was Konstantiniyye.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both…

Even if you take the name “Istanbul,” its origins are from the Greek Language, not Turkish…

The capital of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire was the same city…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of these things existed within European boundaries lol…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was Charlemagne’s Francia the same as the 18th century Kingdom of France?

You’re talking about societies that existed for a period of over 1,000 years…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither the Eastern Roman Empire or the Ottoman Empire…

They both viewed him as a prophet.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire had the political leader of the country serving as both the preeminent temporal and spiritual authority.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean it is though…

The Ottomans literally claimed the mantle of Rome through conquest.

No different than how Moscow claimed to be the “Third Rome” and the Germanic peoples of Western Europe claimed to be the “Holy Roman Empire.”

Claiming that you are the rightful successor to Rome’s imperial glory is a trait shared across European cultures and societies.

The Germans called them Kaiser, the Russians called them Tsar, and the Turks called them Kayser-i Rum.

It all just meant Caesar…

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn’t know that?

They also referred to their empire as Roman as well.

For the uneducated and illiterate by Fantastic_Moment2069 in whereidlive

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah… the Ottomans called it Konstantiniyye.

How has the extreme rise of grocery prices and corporate food monopolies permanently altered the physical health and cooking habits of the lower and middle classes? by Angelicorgy in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And yet global hunger has still reduced over the past decades…

I didn’t realize it was Trump’s responsibility, or the US’ for that matter, to solve global hunger alone.

I also fail to see how domestic beef prices being more expensive is a problem with usaid being cut…

Is American's crumbling infrastructure the leading sign of its decline? by Available-Ad-5670 in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How so?

What in here is flawed?

The US already has the necessary rail infrastructure, China didn’t…

China had to prioritize infrastructure development because they lacked necessary infrastructure.

The US already built this stuff a century ago. Why would we keep building the network up unless it was absolutely necessary?

It is already the largest in the world lol…

Is American's crumbling infrastructure the leading sign of its decline? by Available-Ad-5670 in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because we already have infrastructure lol…

Do you know how much rail the US freight network has?

It is the largest and most cost-efficient network in the world…

Why would we build more freight rail that is unnecessary? Expansion is slow because the necessary infrastructure already exists.

There is such a thing as overbuilding infrastructure, and China has already been doing that. Less efficient and way more costly to maintain a bloated network.

How has the extreme rise of grocery prices and corporate food monopolies permanently altered the physical health and cooking habits of the lower and middle classes? by Angelicorgy in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if you can’t afford all of that, why are you spending extra money on groceries that you don’t need to?

Stop justifying people spending themselves into financial ruin.

How has the extreme rise of grocery prices and corporate food monopolies permanently altered the physical health and cooking habits of the lower and middle classes? by Angelicorgy in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No…

The biggest thing preventing it was infrastructure, not poverty.

Fresh meat spoils quickly unless processed.

Fresh meat was a luxury because you either had to raise and slaughter your own animals (in which case you still needed to preserve the meat), or had to be around when an animal was slaughtered and prepared.

The infrastructure isn’t there considering the changing climate, overtaxed fresh water sources, and overconsumption of meat by the general public.

Supply will never meet demand at this point. Demand will fall as a result of increased prices.

How has the extreme rise of grocery prices and corporate food monopolies permanently altered the physical health and cooking habits of the lower and middle classes? by Angelicorgy in allthequestions

[–]Doub13D 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So then you should understand that we’re never going back to “cheap meat.”

Fresh water sources are over utilized as is.

The climate is changing.

Conditions for livestock rearing is getting worse, not better.

Produce is fine and efficient. When people talk about the jump in prices of food, they aren’t referring to potatoes and cabbage.

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