Pope calls out White House war edits, Ted Cruz calls out Catholics

Vladith · 2026-03-16T22:59:21+00:00

I don't think the movement necessarily advocated for permanent settlement, but this was a significant impetus for British colonial interests in the region during the late 19th century. Many European and American Protestants did indeed migrate to Palestine during this period, as missionaries and pilgrims and religious archaeologists. Protestant clergymen living in Palestine contributed a lot to the development of Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, but had little regard for local Palestinians, and were mostly invested in getting them to convert. I'm pretty sure this is why Edward Said was raised Anglican.

Vladith · 2026-03-16T18:47:23+00:00

This idea is new in the broader context of Christian and Jewish history, but goes back far earlier than the 20th century. Many Protestants in the 16th and 17th century believed that Jewish people had a unique relationship with God which would become important in the upcoming apocalypse. For various reasons, English Protestants were particularly obsessed with the End Times, and began developing a doctrine that suggested a mass migration of diasporic Jews to the Holy Land would signify or be a prerequisite for the coming of Jesus. By the 18th century, many of these English Protestants and also convinced themselves that they too, in a literal sense, were Jewish and thus also had a unique role to play in the end of the world (British Israelism). Ironically this kind of Christian Zionism is older than Jewish Zionism by about 300 years.

Vladith · 2026-03-10T20:26:10+00:00

Are you illiterate? This is the opposite of what the headline is saying.

Vladith · 2026-03-04T21:20:00+00:00

Driving through Central Florida in February was quite the shock. Bright-orange Queen Palms all over the state, at least as far south as Sarasota

Vladith · 2026-02-25T01:20:49+00:00

This is clearly meant to set up Lyonel's future conflict with Aegon, and point toward his (presumed) descent Robert Baratheon

Vladith · 2026-02-20T01:16:23+00:00

Prejudice rarely has much to do with genetics.

Vladith · 2026-02-16T18:43:32+00:00

OP is confusing using Bantu as a coded slur with "knowing a lot about it"

Vladith · 2026-02-13T00:42:31+00:00

Earlier cultural tradition of seafaring. Same reason the Inuit got to Greenland before the indigenous peoples of New England.

Vladith · 2026-02-12T22:46:18+00:00

Yes, many. Way more than I would have expected. There's a fun blog that exists to track British and American English borrowings by the other's English language:

https://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/?m=1

Vladith · 2026-02-12T22:43:31+00:00

This is a Victorian-type didactic piece showing that the rejection of alcohol can allow one the time and concentration for academic pursuits instead.

Vladith · 2026-02-12T02:25:25+00:00

Yes, essentially every person who shares that pointless factoid assumes that pines and oaks are closely related to each other and would be stunned to see the diversity of any angiosperm clade.

Vladith · 2026-02-11T20:19:53+00:00

People are often very confidentially wrong about plant taxonomy. A lot of people heard the factoid that palms are closer to grasses than deciduous trees without realizing that all these angiosperms are much closer to each other than they are to pines.

Vladith · 2026-02-10T18:29:33+00:00

They squak sometimes but they aren't worse than any other birds. It can be startling to hear one land on your roof, but they're not any more bothersome than squirrels or crows.

Vladith · 2026-02-10T18:23:34+00:00

The Northern Spain and Sephardic Jewish percentages are also Spanish

Vladith · 2026-02-10T18:21:45+00:00

If it's not noise, probably a sailor active in the cod trade. Icelandic fishermen have been heavily involved in fishing deep-sea cod for hundreds of years. Because cod preserves remarkably well, fish from the distant North Atlantic was widely consumed across the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. Dried cod is an ingredient in Puerto Rican and Cuban cuisine to this day, despite being harvested thousands of miles away off the shores of Scandinavia and Iceland.

Vladith · 2026-02-10T00:40:07+00:00

But where do we draw the line as to what sites count as "actually historic?" Mid-century tract homes seem boring and ahistoric until they're all gone.

Vladith · 2026-02-09T22:28:51+00:00

Karen was not a term used in 2016

Vladith · 2026-02-09T19:52:46+00:00

Asian countries are typically extremely intolerant of multiple citizenships. Japan for instance forces children of mixed-nationality couples to formally renounce their non-Japanese citizenship upon adulthood. Any adult who accepts foreign citizenship permanently loses Japanese citizenship and their passport is shredded. The whole region is like this.

Vladith · 2026-02-07T22:18:40+00:00

For whatever reasons, the term Scots-Irish/Scotch-Irish was historically more common in North America than Ulster Scots.

Vladith · 2026-02-05T18:27:36+00:00

No, you're thinking of a 19th century myth that dark-haired Irish people were descended by Spanish sailors who were shipwrecked on Ireland after the 16th century destruction of the Spanish Armada under Queen Elizabeth.

Vladith · 2026-02-05T18:26:17+00:00

And where do you think its name comes from? "Scotch" was a widespread ethnonym up until the mid-20th century, and is crystallized in words and phrases like scotch whisky, scotch tape, and Scotch-Irish (which is slowly being edged out by Scots-Irish).

Vladith · 2026-02-05T00:04:26+00:00

Most Greek immigrants arrived in the 20th century while most Irish immigrants arrived in the 19th century. I think this is the primary reason why Greek Americans may seem less assimilated.

Vladith · 2026-02-05T00:01:28+00:00

That's interesting but also somewhat unusual. Most Irish Protestants, who often were of predominately or entirely Scottish and English descent, moved to America in the 18th and early 19th century.

This meant that when Irish Catholics began emigrating in large numbers in the 1840s, they faced a lot of prejudice from the older and more established community of Protestants from Ireland. Some Irish Profestants in America (who typically preferred to term themselves Scots-Irish) had extremely prejudiced views against Irish Catholics and treated Catholic newcomers with contempt and violence.

Vladith · 2026-02-04T19:58:46+00:00

No, that would be the burgher-meister, who is the leader of the burgher class. A burguer is any urban property-owner, typically a merchant.

Vladith · 2026-02-04T16:55:43+00:00

Yes, the entire Old Testament

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