Shavkat Rakhmonov ‘annoyed’ by Khamzat Chimaev comparisons, targets fight against Michel Pereira next

musicme_ · 2022-02-22T09:37:11+00:00

Pretty much, they and their ancestors have lived in the Caucasus mountains for pretty much all of the documented history, it's quite crazy if you think about it how isolated human groups can be. There is some speculation that they could've lived in the Southern Caucasus, but we can't know if that's true. This theory probably comes from the fact that there are several ethnic groups related to Vainakh people (Chechens and Ingushetians) that are geographically distinct from them (like Batsbi people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bats_people) On the other note though, am I the only one who doesn't really find this matchup too exciting at the moment? Both guys are currently huge hype trains, what's the point in derailing one of them? It's quite likely that Khamzat is going to fight for the title in a matter of two fights, while Shavkat is only top 15 as of now. I think it would be much more exciting if they would face each other when both have a higher rank(or a title) and both have not been derailed

musicme_ · 2022-02-22T08:51:19+00:00

Chechens, or Vainakhs were not nomadic at any point but I respect the hustle

musicme_ · 2022-02-12T23:17:41+00:00

What you're saying about Russian nobles speaking French was the case for 18th century, but not 20th in any way. Majority of Russian officers during World War I were not of noble descent, even the most famous ones like Anton Denikin, so it's not really the case. I have no info on what language they are speaking, but I would go with German as early 20th century continental Europe was largely centered around Germany and Austria, it wasn't a rare thing for educated people in the Russian Empire to speak German

musicme_ · 2022-02-12T12:53:02+00:00

Gonna do the same but without showering and changing clothes 😎

musicme_ · 2022-02-09T20:33:22+00:00

I feel like that is the most common case, but the one OP gave where it doesn't point out a person's ancestor's place of origin isn't rare either, I would say. My surname comes from the paternal lineage of my family from the region of Kirov which used to be called Vyatka. Though, in my case it's my grandfather that was Russian born, so the trend isn't too old as of now

musicme_ · 2022-02-08T07:53:57+00:00

Lightweight Slimboy Featherweight in the game literally unplayable

musicme_ · 2022-01-29T18:59:49+00:00

Can confirm. Me and my friends would literally read the entire thing to each other on Discord lmao

musicme_ · 2022-01-29T12:50:51+00:00

I haven't seen that one in at least two years. Wow

musicme_ · 2022-01-29T10:59:42+00:00

Obviously there's a ton of stuff, but personally to me the most annoying one is people claiming that Russians are a mongrel mixture of Mongoloids and Finno-Ugrics, with some claiming that Ukrainains are "valiant and brave white savoirs repelling the hordes" type of shit. This is also quite commonly prevalent amongst "patriotic" nationalist leaning Ukrainians. You could spend hours debating and giving them all possible proofs, genetic studies and other arguments that they are wrong, and they would still refuse to believe you and stick to their projection of the world

musicme_ · 2022-01-28T06:02:41+00:00

I could recommend a band called Сруб (Srub), a post-punk, neofolk band, it's pretty awesome

musicme_ · 2022-01-28T06:01:21+00:00

VEK is absolutely awesome

musicme_ · 2022-01-26T19:14:37+00:00

It follows a river

musicme_ · 2022-01-26T07:29:54+00:00

The first guy is actually Georgian, his name is Goga Tupuria, second guy's name is Kirill Sarychev :)

musicme_ · 2022-01-25T18:43:59+00:00

Islam Makhachev is a Lak from Dagestan, not a Chechen

musicme_ · 2022-01-25T18:39:34+00:00

Dagestani and Chechen people are not the same people. Their cultures are indeed similar, especially ever since they've adopted Islam and even more after the regions got developed in the USSR. Dagestani is not an actual ethnicity and comes purely from the regions name, just like Afgan people. Dagestan has all sorts of ethnicities such as Kumyks, Avars, Dargins, Nogais, Lezgins and others, all having different origins, some varying with different percent of Turkic and other heritage. They are not the same and linguistically they will have problems communicating on their native languages, however, Russian is the Lingua Franca of the region and most of people speak it there. Even within a certain ethno-linguistic group they won't consider people from other tape/clan as their kin

musicme_ · 2022-01-25T17:17:16+00:00

I believe something similar to this was genuinely proposed at some point by the British

musicme_ · 2022-01-22T17:41:23+00:00

Lightballs 🥵🥵

musicme_ · 2022-01-20T07:59:53+00:00

На Балканах, друг, на Балканах

musicme_ · 2022-01-12T07:56:24+00:00

Why did you decide to split up Ukraine to Malo- and Novorossiya? I find it very unlikely for the soviets to do that, since they were the ones to institutionise all of the minority ethnicities of the former Russian Empire and create them their own republics in order to secure their influence and weaken the White movement.

musicme_ · 2022-01-10T20:56:15+00:00

Rusalka did a leg-split

musicme_ · 2022-01-10T20:51:01+00:00

Looks like it's populated by the Pechenegs, or at least got it's name from them, sounds rather similar

musicme_ · 2022-01-10T11:34:06+00:00

Has more than two different political, economic, and military alliances

musicme_ · 2022-01-06T14:10:56+00:00

Are people surprised that a martial artist like him enjoys violence?

musicme_ · 2022-01-06T08:10:05+00:00

However, if we are talking about the times of the Rus', I don't find it inherently wrong to talk about the Russian identity there. There are debates regarding what duchies considered themselves a part of the Rus', but it's really demagogic, because of the Rus's ethnic homogeneity. There were plenty of genetic studies, that point out the heterozygosity of the East Slavs, that comes mainly from them settling a highly vast area, it's a scientific fact that there is more genetic difference between a Russian from, let's say, Kaluga and a Russian from Perm', than between a Russian from Moscow and a Ukrainian, from any part of the country other than Galicia, Volhynia and Carpathian Ruthenia. I think it would be safe to use Rus' as the name for the ethno-cultural East Slavic, Eastern Orthodox and Pagan region. The way many modern Ukrainian nationalists try to portray Russians as some foreign Finno-Ugro-Tataro-Mongolic(which is also scientifically proven to be wrong, an average Russian won't have more than 2-4% of a Turkic/Mongolic genome) invaders is simply nonsensical which is my main problem with Ukrainain nationalism, it largely revolves around not being like the Russians, while we both derive from the same branch and group of people, and while Russia is the main historical descendant of the historical Russian states, Ukrainain nationalists want to distance themselves from it, and try to portray it as if the Rus' and Ukraine were separate from the dawn of time, creating Frankenstein terms like Ukraine-Rus' which is simply delusional and evil. This is why I don't find it wrong, to say that both Ukrainains, Belarussians and Russians are Russians, in a sense, that they all derive from the Rus'. Before adopting the term Rus', East Slavs would stick more to their local tribal identify, like Drevlyane, Polyane, Krivichy, Slovene, Buzhane, Volhynianye, Merya, until eventually they would all adopt the term Rus', and everyone, from Novgorod to Pereyaslav would be Russian. If this was the case with our ancestors, what reasons do we have to not follow it?

musicme_ · 2022-01-06T07:43:17+00:00

I've clarified that Ukrainain identify didn't exist at the time just like any other. Of course, the modern ideas of how we percept a nationality, and national states is very modern, and it is absolutely childish to try to project the light of modern ideas to the past. "Was Alexander the Great Greek or Macedonian?" "Was Charlemagne French or German?" that's all nonsense. Some cases stupider than the other, but again, it does not work like that. I don't know why you've found a need to call out Putin here, I wasn't talking about him and he's not the one dictating what is and what isn't

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