As a native American man with a French last name and a dead culture riding on my back, I have somewhat of a bone to pick with most colonial powers. France still manages to hold a special place in my heart. French Canadians are pretty much the only thing worse. Colonizers are bad enough without inbreeding.
If there ever was a systemic failure of humanity due to genetic bottleneck, im pretty confident it was the global decision to allow France’s continued existence after WWII.
That disgusting inbred backwater shithole should have been divided up amongst the allied powers, as the Vichy French interim government showed conclusively that the savages are unable to effectively govern themselves. The French have been a stain on our species for far too long.
Humans got down to about 1,200 individuals approx 800k years ago. We came back just fine. We could probably make a conservatory for 10k or so of the species and bring them back at our leisure.
Canadians are bad, but French Canadians are just the absolute worst. Distilled colonialism shouldn’t exist.
You can choose to be anything other than French. France and its people continue to exist by mutual consent of all other people on earth. It is possible to reach a consensus to end France. Bury its history, integrate its people, and do our best to purge any and all reference to its existence. It is possible to live in a world without French at all. We should all dream of a better future.
Yes just forgive the colonizers for their history of butchery and pardon their offspring who have enjoyed the wealth that butchery produced. Its fiiiiine.
Meanwhile, ill just live as a remnant of a dead people with a French last name like its all even Steven.
And you call my soul evil. Check your privilege.
Not when those French infant births were made possible by the stolen wealth of nations and cultures that have suffered and died so those French babies could be born, no.
Show me an innocent French baby and I will show you the product of 20 generations of genocide, for they are one and the same.
Every last French is born both and worse besides. They are a global disease that has wiped more culture from our world than the worst despots of time. If you can’t see how completely they destroyed my people, what about Africa? South America? Vietnam? The Philippines?
Regardless of where you look I can guarantee you will find the stink of France staining history at one time or another.
As a native American with a French last name, I can comfortably say fuck all the French, fuck their ancestors, and fuck their future generations for enriching themselves on the wealth of my people.
Every last fucking french sack of shit doesn’t deserve the oxygen the Earth was kind enough to produce.
You think think its practical to have the same training for police in Mexico and Canada?
False. Police agencies are the only institutions legally allowed to discriminate based on intelligence when it comes to hiring. Jordan v. City of New London set the precedent that its okay for police forces to refuse to hire a person because they are too smart. The reasoning in court was that those who are too intelligent face the risk of finding the work boring or becoming distracted by issues outside of the scope of their work. What that means from a practical standpoint is that they want dumb, obedient candidates for police positions rather than logical critical thinking individuals who might actually follow the law over orders from superiors. Its the same thing in the military too.
In the face of the facts, university education is probably more often a disqualification for actual law enforcement.
There isnt any irony to recognizing the first steps in cultural erasure. It starts with language. Maybe China doesn’t go as hard as colonial NA, but they dont have to. All they have to do is mandate all students learn mandarin.
In a few years, they start phasing out the availability of teaching materials in languages other than mandarin. This is the start of “standardization”
In a few more years, they mandate all tests must be taken in mandarin, because its the only language every student is required to learn.
Next thing you know, all official documents are only recognized as valid if they happen to be in mandarin. A decade or three of quietly suffocating the “other” languages will have drastic and lasting effects on the next generation of people’s those languages represent. And that’s the whole point. Associating education and intelligence with certain languages has gone very well for English speaking nations before. Why not mandarin as well? It’ll only cost the minorities.
No, its to eliminate discrimination by homogenizing the populace regardless of cultural or linguistic background.
The whole point is to strip individuals of the things that the state could discriminate against. There can be no discrimination between culturally and ethnically identical drones, and that’s the end game. The state is dictating which language (and culture) should be taught in an effort to cultivate obedience and conformity among unique and distinct cultures. Its a quiet genocide.
As a native American man comfortably past residential schooling and the other atrocities committed against my people, i will still bear a French last name on all of my official documents for the rest of my life. I am very aware of cultural erasure. That’s what this is.
Its only discrimination if someone other than the state discriminates. When the state discriminates, its called “campaigning for unity”.
I feel like its the best the media has achieved so far. The color representation, the purposeful distortion of the visuals, the visual design itself, all coming together in a batshit over the top nonsense story. It is the pure essence of a cartoon mixed with some truly passionate artistic expression.
Honestly I dont even care for the characters. Its a feast for my eyes.
There are other works with much better stories, way more technical visual design, and all kinds of other neat shit. Nothing beats Redline for me when it comes to any anime.
P.S. Funky boy did nothing wrong.
Tremors 1, 2 or 3. Don’t bother with 4+ its all straight to DVD nonsense.
Redline (2009) probably the best animated movie of all time (studio ghibli people i will fite u)
Idiocracy is very funny in a not very funny kind of way
Elemental was a fantastic Pixar IP that looks like its going to get some fascinating world building in a sequel
The US does not use stone. You can thank the queen’s men for that.
As a machinist, though, I’m coming around to metric being the superior standard for building and engineering. Its easier to keep track of everything instead of constantly converting from decimal to fraction and back. Figuring out taps and drills is WAY easier too.
Holy shit I almost took you seriosly. Then I read the part about how “them” created AIDS lmfaoooo
And I thought I was a good shitposter. Whew. I am thoroughly outclassed.
People villify nuclear weapons to ludicrous proportions, and that was kind of my whole point. Would you, as a thinking and feeling person, if given the choice, choose to be instantly annihilated by a nuclear bomb or live to be poisoned over decades? I’d choose to meet the sun, personally, but I’m always astounded how many people think the poison is somehow the lesser of these evils.
Now tell that to your high-school English teacher when they assign you a research project.
Don’t forget the part where Rowling and Epstein were so close that people looking to get in touch with Rowling would contact Epstein to set up the meeting.
I wonder how many boys and girls read HP on the island…