yep. inherently suspicious movement. a quote from the dude who started it all, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell:
On 17 October 1939, Baden-Powell wrote in his diary: “Lay up all day. Read Mein Kampf. A wonderful book, with good ideas on education, health, propaganda, organisation etc. – and ideals which Hitler does not practice himself.”
it’s extremely anti-communist and pro-hierarchy. obey your king, your god, your country.
my gran was an antisemite. not the frothing at the mouth “let’s kill them all” variety, but an antisemite nevertheless. in europe at least, the ruling class could whip up the dormant sentiment at any time, i think. it’s just that they dont need to now, because 1) there are muslims, 2) the holocaust was broadly successful in that it killed a good chunk of european jewery and made another good chunk emigrate to US/israel, so there are fewer jews and 3) european jewery is fascist enough now to be accepted
antisemitism (the word) developed in a purely european context, before the recent muslim immigrants arrived. pretty much the only muslims in europe were in the balkans and western europeans didnt give a shit about that. the muslims of spain were long gone by this time, force-converted, killed or chased away.
until the arrival of muslim immigrants in europe in the last ~70 years, the representatives (in the mind of the averag european chud) of the despotic/untrustworthy/backwards orient were european jews. they were the stand-ins for muslims too. this is why some of the crusades never reached the levant, but ended up just doing pogroms on european jews.
this is why antisemitism doesnt make sense etymologically, but that’s normal for words. we have lots of words that dont mean what their etymology would imply.
i like how they had to change “my flag” to “the flag of the united states of america” to make sure people couldnt sneakily think of a foreign flag while they were saying it. paranoid brainworms.
it’s still more stuff to remember than you have to in metric. but yes, of course, now that you’ve already spent years memorizing this shit and practicing fraction addition/multiplication in your head a lot, it seems easy to you.
yes, it’s generally easier to remember 10 as the conversion number and nothing else, and it’s also easier not to have to add/multiply fractions of an inch in your head.
this also works between types of units, so it’s pretty simple to remember that 10cm^3 i’m a fucking idiot, it’s a 10cm x 10cm x 10cm cube, so 1000cm^3 is 1l is ~1kg of water, for example.
way easier to learn/remember or to convert things in your head. less chance of getting it wrong.
but once you’ve spent years and years getting used to the mess that’s US customary measurements, you’ve already put the work in, so metric doesnt look that much easier (and if you’re unfamiliar with it, will look downright harder).
because they industrialized before metricalization and it would’ve been incredibly expensive to convert all their machines and tooling to metric afterwards. same reason as the UK. a lot of places industrialized later, in metric from the start, and didnt have this problem.
and then they became the hegemon, and didnt have to convert, because fuck you, why should i cooperate with vassals.
the US will convert to metric when it sinks to the level it deserves and the customary units become a pain because nobody else is willing to deal with them and all the importable equipment is in metric.
the US and israel are clearly both deranged enough to drop nukes
A sirályok, a sirályok rájuk gondolni se jó
Akkor basznak a fedélzeten mikor süllyed a hajó
no idea, i was just looking for likely faces among the emojis
this one’s good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8zHXTMkMzc
it cannot be that the BBC is dogshit and people are pissed off at it, no. the BBC is basically good, 
and 
and 
have all told me this!
this must be the work of putin! or the chinese!
there really is a kind of person who’s deluded themselves into thinking polish/…/* jews are somehow palestinian jews and in fact more palestinian than actual palestinians.
as i like to say, i want Levedia back
hell, i am 100% sure jews entered the territory of modern day hungary during the roman empire at the latest, many centuries before the first ethnic hungarian ever made their way so far west, so at the very least, western hungary belongs to us jews.
australian media, famously impartial as it pertains to china
i still dont know what’s actually in this law, because every article about it i’ve seen is just some western NGO’s opinion on what it means.
well done journalists, you’re doing a truly excellent job.
he’s hungarian, so not slavic, but yeah, the rest is true.
he’s anti russia and frustrated because the US isnt winning hard enough due to what he sees as trump’s incompetence. he wants to see the US “regain its dignity” and successfully genocide browns.
normal eurolib brainworms.
yes of course the populous western parts with most of the industry will just let the far more empty but very resource rich east go. this is how these things go, this plan is a sure thing. we’ll have peace for a thousand years.
“chose”. learning the language of the worst colonizer of your time’s always been economically advantageous
oh dear, it turns out money owns western media? oh dear oh dear.