two million isn’t close to half the world population.

Simple solution: just kill 8106 million and it will be

So why are you advocating for the displacement of the majority of the world’s language families based on european languages popularity it gained through colonial displacement?

Same reason you are advocating wife-beating (i.e. I never said anything like that)

The majority of the world don’t speak european languages.

Correct. That’s was our starting point: there’s no language that the majority of the world do speak.

Indo-European is spoken by a 46% minority.

About 19% of the world’s population speak the Indo-Iranian branch alone. It’s by far the largest of the 8 branches by number of speakers. By number of languages (which includes tiny languages) it comprises about ⅔ of the family –

For example there are 884 million speakers of Hindi/Urdu + Bengali + Marathi + Gujarati + Odia + Punjabi in India, and Pakistan is almost all Indo-European (Indo-Aryan and Iranic).

Agus in theannta sin, tá Gaeilge (teanga Ind-Eorpach/Ceiltís) ag 0.0002125% den daonra domhanda!

w pa ayisyen?

know the English colonizers did … right???

Nooo I didn’t actually know that and needed an enlightened person such as yourself to tell me 🙄🙄

Tá mé tinn de bheith ag glacadh comhairle stráinséara. Imagine some blan started lecturing you about haitian history and how it should affect your opinions, wouldn’t you at least tell them to fuck off?

I never said anything approaching the words your putting in my mouth.

It’s bad enough that US cultural imperialism has forced half the planet to watch the same movies and TV shows

I have a comm for you

Correct reasoning, incorrect facts.

46% of the world speak Indo-European languages as a mother tongue.

Can’t do better than that. No other option comes close.

If you choose vocabulary that is culturally neutral, then that vocabulary is not easily recognisable.

There’s no workaround for that trade-off.

How did unipolar prevent a majority language?

How did wars and genocides prevent a majority language?

How is learning the majority language useless to your career?

Is that the default situation is it??

You dreamed up a scenario and now are asking why it is not the case.

You have laid bare how your mind works: “If someone’s not from the USA they’re from the UK”

Learn a bit about the world before talking about it.

Have you just learned that there’s more than two possible countries for a person to be from? 🤣🤣

The Bull McCabe for starters

When did I say anything like that? 🤣🤣🤣

Nobody mentioned Britain, like?

The reading comprehension on ye, honestly. Imagine being this thick and still trying to lecture foreign countries on their poltics and history.

Go easy on them. These people can’t point to countries on maps.

The original thing was they said “authoritarianism is when not white”.

After that it got confusing.

You fuckers caused this whole situation

How do youfigure that? It was the Brits and the U.N.

Your country still worships Winston

Again, showing your ignorance. Churchill hated us. He ordered the Black & Tans in here, who murdered three of my own relatives. He is a deeply reviled person here and in India.

The arrogance of Yanks is infinite. They think they can lecture people about Palestine/Ukraine/Tigray, when they can’t even find countries on a map.

The one hammer in their thick minds is they black/white hammer, which makes no sense for interpreting 90% of things, e.g. authoritarianism in this case.

Saying Hitler is white is holocaust denial?

This thread became gibberish a while back

Like I said, I’m here to slag Yanks and their know-nothing racist views of the world.

It’s astonishing how they’ll confidently lecture ya on things they demonstrate complete ignorance of.

Your make-believe country

This is an old imperialist chestnut. We’ve heard it all before. As I said here, it is one reason we sympathise with our Palestinian friends: we both have imperialist fucks like you telling us our country is make-believe.

Sorry I have no idea what you’re talking about.

The thread was asking about authoritarianism. I was slagging the people who said it’s about being black, not about Hitler, Stalin, the USSR, Putin, etc.

And I’m saying that these two constructs have a tendency to be aligned with each other

It’s not empiricaly right tho. Hitler and Stalin are the first type-examples. In the modern era it’s normally Putin and Xi who get the label.

Really leaning into the “no knowledge of the world” thing

Back when we had kings prior to colonisation, they were elected, could be recalled, and were not hereditary.

Don’t know what you’re on about with the shit reference.

Yanks have this one-size-fits-all thing with no knowledge of the world.

First guy was saying Hitler/Stalin/Milosevic/Putin aren’t white, this guy is saying Palestinians are brown

If you’re saying authoritarianism can be explained by non-whiteness…

But also saying that anyone opposing NATO become ipso facto non-white because it’s “an ever-shifting construct”…

Then the “construct” has no explanatory power.

Why not just say ‘authoritarianism’ is opposition to the NATO bloc?

You’re saying “authoritarianism = non-whiteness = opposition to the NATO bloc”

Why not skip the middle step?

The shite Americans will make about skin-colour.

This comment doesn’t stand up to 3 seconds thought. It’s their one answer to every question.

It’s back

The BMTH thing to me is hilarious

• Should I save 1½ seconds typing?

• If that makes my post incomprehensible?

I’ll never understand how people decide that trade-off is a good one.

The implication is weird.

Most music is about euphony, not about politics.

what does “pull a Digg” mean?

Did this just happen within the past hour or two?

heightening contradictions eventually lead to a crisis

Kaiser Chiefs

Be weird if they had made the first line of the Preface a counterpoint to the first line of Part 1

Stuff like a vacuum cleaner I buy a reputable brand like Miele.

Clothes you know by feel.

Cars there’s a lot to look out for.

What kind of stuff are you talking about?

Free as in free beer?

Have you timed this?

doing other stuff with my free time.

The real secret.

skittles

u r 😳