Stefferi
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Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3d ago
I'm sure of it, but that's different from ranch dip being a completely foreign concept encountered for the first time, as the slop vids would indicate.
Well, yes, because when euros feel like
"I have a 2 AM hankering for a burrito the size of a small child"
...we get a döner wrap instead.
(for full accountability, I've been to USA twice and have had drunk hole-in-the-wall/foodtruck Mexican a couple of times. It was pretty good and obviously better than the indeed dire local attempts at Mexican food, but didn't exactly help me understand why Americans are so obsessed about the quality of Mexican food as a particular topic of transatlantic culinary discussions, give me a proper döner every time insofar as drunkslop goes. Just had a 2AM döner with fries and mayo one and a half weeks ago that was far more memorable than any of the American Mexican food I had.)
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
3d ago
Out of all of the "Euros loving America" style slop content, the ranch dressing thing strikes me as particularly bizarre. You can easily get ranch dressing here, including multiple locally produced varieties. It's a very common choice for chicken wings, which are also available in basically almost every pub that also serves food here. Perhaps it's different in some other countries?
Stefferi
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3d ago
He just praised Harry Kane, too, though. I think he genuinely likes soccer, or at least feels some fondness for the game. He played soccer in his school days.
Stefferi
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9d ago
Some Dem politicians that have used the phrase "Epstein class" include Jamaal Bowman, Graham Platner, Jon Ossoff and Ro Khanna who, according to this, coined the term. New York City DSA, at least, also uses the term.
Stefferi
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12d ago
You can love something and still be disappointed in it, of course.
Stefferi
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12d ago
Obviously no-one's happy if the team sucks. The local football team I follow is going through a bad season (Finland plays summer leagues in football so the season is on right now) and no-one's happy about it, or some of the absolute shit games we've had to suffer through as supporters.
I think what the comment you're replying to meant that it's still interesting, since the battle is not only about winning but also avoiding relegation (or, if we're really lucky, winning the Finnish Cup and making it to Europe that way). The team's performance has improved but relegation is still not completely out of the question, so every game is still a part of a greater project to see whether we're completely out of the danger at some point.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
18d ago
So while it's true that Europe has been in the process of improving, it seems pretty clear that it took a literal invasion of a European country to get that going.
So what? The point is that Europe is doing what the US claims it wants Europe to do and the result is, well, all the things that Trump has done.
I'm all for Europe distancing from US and developing independent capabilities, and have been so even before Trump, but it's also obvious that you can't just achieve a neat split where both commit to doing their own thing without the other - the recent events have made clear that whatever US does globally will in any case have a huge impact on Europe (and what Europe does of course also has some impact on the US).
Regarding Greenland, it's odd to argue for Greenlandic independence aims (without anything concrete about the details vis-a-vis relations to the Western alliance, or anything else really, on the table), considering that Trump admin itself attempted to present itself as some sort of an opponent of Danish colonialism on the island and what have you.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
19d ago
It still blows my mind that European NATO countries can do things like "miss NATO spending goals and fall behind on military readiness for years despite years of increasingly pointed US signals that there will be consequences for this"
But they had already started ramping up spending before Trump's election and were continuing to do it after he was elected. That's the point - yes, Europe has been failing in several aspects, but it's been in the process of improving on those, and the result has been a continuous stream of piss on the face by the Trump admin nevertheless.
"make preparations to literally give away territory that is crucial to American defense preparedness"
The Chagos Islands? That's the UK specifically, it's not within the purview of (other) NATO (countries) to intervene in this affair. Why take out complaints with the UK on Denmark?
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
23d ago
In fact, curiously, Iran is apparently giving up their greatest leverage by opening the straits.
Why wouldn't they do that if they get a deal? The whole idea is that they can open and close the strait with relatively little in the way of consequences (sure, Iran has suffered various consequences from this war generally, but the biggest ones were before they closed the strait), and that includes opening it as well as closing it if they get what they want (we don't know what they're getting yet, of course).
If there's a strike at some factory and the striking workers get a deal, they're not "giving up leverage" by returning to work, they've just demonstrated very concretely the existence of the said leverage.
America bombed Iran, decapitated its leadership
Has the regime collapsed? No? That would seem to demonstrate both that the regime is quite a bit stabler than most would have expected and that it's ruling regime do not have much in the way of personal fear of death.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
30d ago
It's probably more (universally) popular in anglo countries. Yes, I know, that's not what "universal" means. Still...
Stefferi
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1mo ago
Because it's one of the last really big, universally known rock songs before rock lost the last remnants of its cultural force (or was killed by poptimism, whatever?) Sure, there are some well-known songs coming after it (Sex on Fire, Chelsea Dagger etc.) but I don't think they compare in bigness. Seven Nation Army is a competitor.
Also, it came in just at the right time to lodge itself in the minds of the Millennials, a generation that's bigger (IIRC) than the generations coming both before and after it.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
I don't think I've ever seen it used to refer to a man, and it's the literal counterpart to the "Man Child" in the original comic that popularized the phrase (which has left the original context specified in the comic - boring-ass Millennial slice-of-life webcomics).
Stefferi
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1mo ago
There's a large amount of contemporary fiction where there's a priest character who is a bastard/failure, but everyone else is basically a bastard/failure as well.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
I thought the US was full of safe constituencies.
You can still get primaried in a constituency that is "safe" from the opposing party, though, no?
Stefferi
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1mo ago
That's not too different from saying that obviously men like promiscuous women since women in the male equivalent form of fiction - porn flicks - are promiscuous, no? Fantasy is fantasy, reality is reality.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
I don't think that's what Putin - basically an unimaginative relative centrist authoritarian operating within the limits of a demented/apathetic political culture - wants or is ready for.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
Then there is the pour encourager les autres element: at this point there is a distinct sense that the Baltics are actively flirting with the idea of baiting the Russians into attacking them, because they figure that fighting against Russia does not actually look so bad away from the frontline and if they can secure NATO or EU support early on the frontline doesn't have to be on their territory (and Estonia's feelings about Narva getting the Vovchansk treatment probably amount to "don't threaten me with a good time" anyway).
"Baltics are just on the verge of baiting a general NATO-Russia war because they are INSANE RABID DOGS" has been a vatnik theme for the entire duration of the war and doesn't seem any closer to actually happening than previously.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
1mo ago
Germany != EU
There almost should be a feature to automatically remind people of this extremely salient point every time EU comes up for discussion.
Also, of course, it wouldn't be the EU Russians would be fighting but the NATO - even if US bows out there would still be Turkey to deal with, for instance.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
It seems realistic to me, which of course is different from stating that it's true.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
There's a fairly balanced gender ratio among younger converts in my (Finnish) parish (60-40 with men predominant, perhaps?) with several couples and marriages forming, and I've still seen women complain about the dating prospects - though not due to the beards AFAIK (which are generally well maintained), just the general levels of tism.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
O'Neill's point is not really as much "the collapse following the loss of Roman power in the West didn't exist at all" but rather that the concept of Dark Ages is overextended to basically claim the entire period from the end of the classical era to the beginning of the Renaissance as a "Dark Age", use this as a stick for beating Christianity (which didn't cause the Western Roman collapse in any case), and when this point is challenged the anti-Christian polemicists will resort to motte and baileying.
The original, invented by christians, do not steal, holiday of easter?
The Easter is obviously a continuation the Jewish Passover with the death-and-resurrection-of-the-Christ thematic superseding it yet still being symbolically in many was a part of the Passover, no Christian (or O'Neill) would deny this. The Easter myths that O'Neill criticizes are the spurious claims of pagan origin, such as the idea of an obscure British goddess that might or might not have been celebrated around this period having anything to do with the greater global Christian concept of Easter/Pascha.
Stefferi
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1mo ago
This describes approximately 0 male-female friendships I've had, though some relationships may qualify.
Literary translation, particularly for prestige authors like McCarthy, is not really "desperate for work" work. The money's not good, but you generally do it on a grant, so you have to plan the project and justify it and so on.
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