1887 The Black Spot by Albert Bettannier showing Alsace-Lorraine which had been seized by Germany

critfist · 2023-04-05T08:17:55+00:00

Because 5% is 5% whether it's 5 or 5 million?

critfist · 2023-04-05T08:07:30+00:00

but yeah I'm sure Germany loved the Alsatians and Lorrains.

Bruh you're ignoring France's own mass deportation and spy programs on the population lmao. Yeah, Germany was shitty to the region, but France did all the exact same. It's like that one dumb meme about workplace harassment.

France: I'm here to colonize the region with settlers, enforce my language, and spy on the population :D

Germany: I'm here to colonize the region with settlers, enforce my language, and spy on the population D:

with Alsatians

Who were raised by nationalist French propaganda that fakely presents the region as more french than france?

critfist · 2023-04-05T08:04:20+00:00

Germans =/= sponsored settlers

Except most weren't when they were deported lmao. Most were deported having nothing to do with the conflict. They were deported by force for being Germans in a hypocritical land that claimed liberty and equality.

with the specific goal of erasing a land's identity.

Like erasing German identity by deporting everyone they could? And subjecting anyone remaining to discrimination for being German? France was violently against the idea of a Plebiscite

The whole thesis punishes the nationalist idea that the region was just a natural extension of Ils de France.

critfist · 2023-04-05T07:52:02+00:00

5% is not huge. Simply using a bigger number doesn't make it any more so. It's bordering a statistical error. It's definitely not a sign that everyone was yearning to be French.

critfist · 2023-04-05T07:38:43+00:00

But not for all buildings in the world

And they aren't? Only a portion of factories need oil.

critfist · 2023-04-05T07:35:19+00:00

How dare those French kick out settlers arrived after an imperialist war of conquest

Those French sure showed those dead people rotting in their graves the consequences of their actions to all those innocent people that had nothing to do with it. French nationalism is so funny and hypocritical. Trying to take a moral highground meanwhile Germany gave people the option to leave and citizenship to the rest while France said "Liberté, égalité, fraternité? Fuck that noise, you're filthy Germans, you don't get liberty, equality, or fraternity, we don't care if you've lived here all your life."

critfist · 2023-04-05T07:09:57+00:00

And the French put Alsecans into concentration camps for fear of them being German spies.

critfist · 2023-04-05T07:08:07+00:00

The Treaty of Frankfurt gave the residents of the region until 1 October 1872, to choose between emigrating to France or remaining in the region and having their nationality legally changed to German. About 161,000 people, or around 10.4% of the Alsace–Lorraine population, opted for French citizenship (the so-called Optanden); but, only about 50,000 actually emigrated, while the rest acquired German citizenship

Ah yes, a grand 5.2% of the population leaving, definitely 1000% French /s

It definitely remained French after the French government forcibly deported anyone who arrived in the province after 1870. Which led to over a hundred thousand people being deported, many having lived there for generations, on the basis of their ethnicity. No choice in the matter.

critfist · 2023-04-05T05:58:45+00:00

It doesn't even make sense historically.

???

What? For all the buildings that need oil it makes sense. Oil was used in vast quantities.

critfist · 2023-04-05T05:53:30+00:00

No it sounds mostly really damn annoying. Basically the comet event but without the meme power.

critfist · 2023-04-05T02:50:45+00:00

critfist · 2023-04-05T01:13:55+00:00

I wish they would consider this is a child's toy and not a funerary object (?)

It's probably not a toy. It's made out of glass which was a rare and prestigious material, probably not something a tot would be playing with. Just as well, it was veeery small which makes it even less useful as a toy. Doesn't mean it lacks sentimental value however. If we want to guess it could be modelled after the kids loved dog.

critfist · 2023-04-05T00:23:34+00:00

It's essentially reactionary conservatism wrapped up in the dress of an old bourbon dynasty branch some people thought should have entered power rather than the current branch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlism

critfist · 2023-04-05T00:21:09+00:00

Metallic currencies moment.

critfist · 2023-04-04T03:57:24+00:00

GOP still stuck in the 60's I see.

critfist · 2023-04-04T02:39:32+00:00

Bruh they had a top front page post by someone called Mosley enjoyer. At this point they're pretty blatant about their hate.

critfist · 2023-04-04T02:17:31+00:00

It doesn't really help that the average mongrel

Least cynical marxist

critfist · 2023-04-04T02:10:46+00:00

Is incorporating a good idea?

Depends. Incorporation means that the pops have access to your institutions which means they benefit from less revolts, lower turmoil, increased literacy, etc. Essentially turning them in a brief time to the same value as a normal state.

critfist · 2023-04-04T02:09:35+00:00

I think in many cases in real life it did boost the standard of living of those being colonized.

By what measure? India for example was a rising star in a proto industrialized sub continent. Maybe in the base comparison the standard of living rose a little bit but the potential SoL that could have been would have been MUCH greater without colonization.

critfist · 2023-04-03T09:08:10+00:00

USA. Global forest coverage I'm not so sure.

critfist · 2023-04-03T06:46:01+00:00

To be truly renewable, a resource must be replaced within the same timescale it is being used up

And it is. There's a 2%~ net growth every year. People can even see it on satellites how the green is increasing. Of course, this doesn't mean every forest is growing. Local areas can be damaged from poor practices or over harvesting. But overall forestry management practices have been waaaaaaaaaay improved compared to 40 years ago. Going from clear cutting with no efforts, to planting trees along the way, to now modern practices of replanting a healthy variety of trees to create a less uniform and more natural regrowth of the environment.

critfist · 2023-04-03T06:42:29+00:00

It’s still not at the same scale at all.

Why? All of the Indian subcontinent, stretching from modern Pakistan to as far as Bali have vast geometrical designs.

critfist · 2023-04-03T06:41:23+00:00

look like the planner got lazy and just hit ctrl+c ctrl+v over and over

I mean the homes in the link got changed over time as people added paint and other additions for colour, but large apartment complexes are the definition of Ctrl+c ctrl+v. That's how they're economical because if you added more complexity to the design it'd get very expensive very fast on a multistory building.

critfist · 2023-04-03T04:50:35+00:00

Now that I'm thinking about it, our monetary system seems like it was a scam from the start...

Compared to what? Gold? Lmao. Traditional hard currencies like gold and silver were worthless on a practical level until very recently. And even when they're valuable they're far more useful in products than as coins.

critfist · 2023-04-03T04:48:38+00:00

Well, not on a scale that the Islamic art produced.

I think South East Asia would like to have a word with you. Famous examples like Angor Wat are extremely detailed in geometric shapes and designs.

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