(referring to herself and shoeonhead I think)
perfect blend of twitter reactionary nonsense and established hexbear memery
Literally demonstrating why the :anti-italian-action: bit exists.
Also italians have the blood of gramsci and graccii, so they're not pure evil, like the dutch
There are two things in this world I cannot stand:
People that are intolerant of other people's cultures... And the Dutch.
I kid, I know at least one very fine Dutch person. Funny story, he was on his way home from work in his truck smoking a joint and an officer following him smelled it and pulled him over. The officer approached his window and he's sitting there still smoking his joint and the officer is like the hell are you doing that's illegal and you're driving, upon hearing his thick Dutch accent the officer is just look oh nevermind you're from Holland and lets him off with a warning.
I'm partial to plum blossoms over tulips myself. Not only are they pretty but they also make a great tea, and their fruits are so multipurpose.
I'd try to argue the plum rose is, unfortunately, the symbol of the ROC and therefore representative of a capitalist empire getting roflstomped by communists, but the flower was adopted in like' 64 - 15 years after the PRC was proclaimed.
I've read some more recent analysis that suggests that the tulip mania mostly only happened on paper and the contracts with the vast sums on them were mostly not actually executed. And that at any rate the tulip gambling was confined to a small group of people and hade little economic impact.
So now I have to do more reading to figure out if that's cope or not.
I like to believe it was a country-wide phenomena with a bunch of Dutch dorks in clogs clacking around with literal bundles of tulips in hand while they go grocery shopping
If I'm reading his genealogy thing correctly, he was more Italian than Albanian since that ancestry was from his grandfather Gennaro.
no way to know if they didn't mingle with the existing albanian diaspora, but regardless the guy was at least 4th generation from Albania & italian albanians speak a different dialect (and had been a population in naples since the 1300s). english people don't get to claim yankees sorry :hoxha-turt: you dont get gramsci
Yeah it was actually a fascinating rabbithole to dive down in relating to the Balkan diaspora resulting from the ottoman conquests.
theres also griko in the mezzogiorno but they're mostly thought to be leftovers from roman times (romans ejected in 1071) more than greeks fleeing the ottomans.
greeks who lived under/fled to italian rule in the renaissance usually were with the maritime republics who had greek islands; albanians came to naples because charles of anjou attached albania to the neapolitan (sicilian) crown
Are the Griko related to the old Greek colonials from way back during the founding days of the southern colonial city-states mixed in with the Indigenous Italian tribes? Or are they a more recent ethnic group?
there's an uninterrupted presence of greeks in southern italy from those initial greek colonies to the present day. the character of this presence has changed quite a bit though, and exactly where too. of course ancient colonies were city-states, and its thought the pretty immediate surroundings were habitated by italians, and this didn't change when the Romans conquered italy. Romans liked greek though so besides a lot of them getting enslaved greek cities survived until hellenistic civic culture goes into decline in late antiquity.
in late antiquity greek italy is briefly part of the gothic kingdom but afterward is the portion of italy most securely held by the 'byzantine' (greek-speaking now) romans and undergoes the same process of deurbanization as the rest of the empire; which is when greek language really gets emplaced in the countryside. ironically after the normans who conquered sicily kick out the roman government, its the cities who most directly interface with state authorities and trade & abandon greek while the peasants speaking greek don't. modern griko are the most podunk rural villagers in southern italy
so idk are they the descendents of Sybaris & Herakleia or medieval roman ruralization? they certainly ain't city folk like ancient times, the OG's were pagan & these modern ones are latin caths, & theres no geneaologies going back that far so :shrug-outta-hecks: its subjective
Honestly the histories of such ancient lands fascinates me, thanks for sharing. It's genuinely so amazing how much history can happen in small places
Albania runs on the reverse one drop rule. Albania stronk. An oz of Albania is mightier than litres of Italia.
:fash-bash: :cure-for-fascism:
shoeonhead is a literal nazi. keffals is hanging out with a nazi.
this is after she told her followers to make fake twitter accounts and pretend to be black people with neopronouns.
:no-fash:
idk shoe is a grifter and not trustworthy but I've never seen anything from her since Bernie bro turn that indicates that she's an outright fash? Did I miss something?
idk shoe is a grifter
Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.
That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.
Yeah I'm not arguing that lol but last I checked she was grifting by being a Bernie Bro not a fash.
Like many of the people who fell in to bernie's orbit she's been busy revealing that she's completely unprincipled trash who believes in nothing but the almighty dollar.
All things that are not full communism are the exact same degree of bad!!!!!!!!!
I think she is or was dating some alt-right sleezoid. And as far as i understand (i don't really care) her arc has been right wing grifter to left wing grifter to why i left the left "here's how you can be a leftist without any ideology or theory while still being a bigot" grifter.
Ah, I dont think I was fully familiar with that latest stage.
I only know these things because people i follow on twitter lack the wisdom to block and move on.
She’s dating a nazi, is transphobic, and was previously a gamergater before briefly pretending to be a socdem, and then doing post-left patsoc content
She’s on the Chris Cuomo arc. Twitch employees don’t go to work tomorrow
It's definitely meant to be ironic but ironic shitposting is still shitposting, especially when you just scheduled a podcast with a Nazi
Bait, yes, but she's been on a campaign to establish herself as the cool anti-woke leftist who picks fights with wokescolds and says slurs.
Being neck deep and 'researching' all that KF shit for months really put the zap on her head, huh?
You're just discussing terminally online behavior, which is politically agnostic
I don't know what being an ML has to do with it. I think it's more of a symptom of being a community of long time internet-heads. I do think the collective position here on "grifters" is frequently the poster protesting too much. the funny internet characters are entertaining. sometimes they're smart but usually they're not. the anxiety that discussion of them is crowding out Important topics is alleviated by ignoring them if you really don't care and simply talking about those important topics.
leftism is something people identify with to feel better about themselves.
It certainly can be
also to be clear Vaush is an exception. I do not want to see discussion of him whatsoever. I'm not a hypocrite.
I don't even think we hate Keffals, (Shoeonhead has nailed the colours to the mast, on the other hand.) Everyone knew she was a lib, but a lot of well meaning people are libs and she'd gotten a lot of goodwill holding off the terfs.
Mostly I'm
- sad I know who any of these people are.
- disappointed that under fairly mild critique she's gone into an instant fash spiral. everyone has bad takes, everyone gets dunked on. Most of us either check ourselves or find a bottle of cognac to cry over and accept we're not going to agree on every point.
Please join my party here write your name on the list no don’t worry that it has “FBI Deathnote” written on the top
Not so much an excuse for not joining parties but an explanation for why said parties don’t exist
tbh, most parties are just glorified bookclubs where people from comfortable families go to smell their own farts
