The News Thread

[TechnicalBarbarity]

nvm I was mixing up Europe with continental Europe.

 

[CiG]

mkay

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

glad these scum were arrested.

 

[Dak]

You can guess their politics just by looking at em.

 

[CiG]

What were they arrested for? Are they the Tucker protestors?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

its that one rabid cunt who spit on and punched a few of the Him Too protestors a few days ago, and some of her fascist buddies.

 

[CiG]

I know I'm a foreigner and all but...

"Portland"

...enough said.

And of course the pink haired subhuman only got charged with harassment, rather than assault. #FemalePrivilege

 

[Onder]

Europe is fucking terrible, why don't we have these metoo and himtoo clashes?? They look super fun. #envy #europeeons #eutoo #europeiscesspool

 

[CiG]

Instead you just have periodic rimjob rampages from Asian gentlemen.

 

[The Ozzman]

Europe is fucking terrible, why don't we have these metoo and himtoo clashes?? They look super fun. #envy #europeeons #eutoo #europeiscesspool

Too busy dealing with peaceful Muslims ramming cars into buildings and knifing people with illegal butter knives

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

@The Ozzman made a fucking joke
why the fuck does everyone have to over-analyze it??

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

woman sues whataburger - Google Search

 

[The Ozzman]

@The Ozzman made a fucking joke
why the fuck does everyone have to over-analyze it??

It's the job of the in crowd to take everything seriously. GMD is serious business.

 

[Onder]

@The Ozzman made a fucking joke

Wait where?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

 

[Onder]

Oh cool. Is that my chubby whiny donut-eating Amrucan soul mate?

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Are people from the U.K. considered Europeans? I know some Brits that get offended when they're called European, but that could be political.

Valid question that hasn't lost its relevance over the last couple of centuries. There's always been disagreement on both sides with support and opposition for both sides of the argument. During the period I study, quite a few German intellectuals explicitly argued, in reaction to the post-war wave of Anglo-American influence, that the Brits were not, and, instead, Germany should stick to it's continental roots. The same goes on the British side during the period, in which it wasn't uncommon for it to be argued that Britain should hesitate before meddling into European affairs. This is pretty clear at the outset of WWI. It was also a topic while good old Napoleon was running around the continent. Brexit and the reactions to it have made clear that discrepancies in opinion on this matter haven't lost their political significance.

"European" is a messy designation in general and the Cold War did an awful lot in shifting perceptions on who a European is and what type of European specifically. Germany was only considered Western after WWII, communist east Germany excluded, of course. Prior, they, along with Poland and Czech, were Central Europeans, the latter two of which are typically called Eastern European now (much to the chagrin of some Poles and Czechs). The EU, of course, throws another wrench into this, and the once seemingly likely prospect of Turkey joining doesn't complicate it any less.

In any case, I know some Scots and northern Irish who get offended by being called British while also identifying as European and wishing to stay within the EU.

tl;dr designations are never quite accurate and nobody will ever agree on anything.

 

[CiG]

Makes me think, do Hawaiians consider themselves Americans?

As it relates to the U.K. and Europe, if it's to be determined solely by continental categorization, couldn't the same method be used to call Canadians Americans?

Thanks for the quick rundown, it's an interesting subject. The reason I initially brought it up was because I was reading along with a debate some friends were having mostly related to how, in one of their words, continental Europe tends to prefer technocracy, bureaucracy and statism at the expense of individualism while the Anglosphere tends to prefer basically the opposite and this is why it's problematic to lump the English in with Europeans.

I hadn't really thought about it much myself but it was interesting nonetheless.

 

[Dak]

Ease of travel and shared language has a hand in marking identity of place. In the US, state identity has eroded with the advent of of the car and plane. The former has helped lead to regional identity shifts in Europe.

 

[Einherjar86]

U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy
https://nyti.ms/2zmesuU?smid=nytcore-ios-share

A major scientific report issued by 13 federal agencies on Friday presents the starkest warnings to date of the consequences of climate change for the United States, predicting that if significant steps are not taken to rein in global warming, the damage will knock as much as 10 percent off the size of the American economy by century’s end.

The report, which was mandated by Congress and made public by the White House, is notable not only for the precision of its calculations and bluntness of its conclusions, but also because its findings are directly at odds with President Trump’s agenda of environmental deregulation, which he asserts will spur economic growth.