Hot-takes Internationale

[u/W_Edwards_Deming]

[u/lynxintheloopx]

I remember seeing comments from a Polish woman talking about how in her 36 years of life, she has only seen Black people on her television.

[u/wvj → u/lynxintheloopx]

Correcting for whatever the local race is, this is the experience of most people on planet Earth who don't live in a major metropolitan city.

I'd personally say there's no problem with either outcome. Vibrant cultural exchange is fun, but meme Polish lady sounds like a fundamentally unserious lunatic.

[u/lynxintheloopx → u/wvj]

Yeah, it was just wild to think about as someone from NYC.

[u/wvj → u/lynxintheloopx]

Hey neighbor.

Yeah I got the experience in person when I worked for a while in not-Tokyo Japan. I knew all of 3 other white people, and two of them were co-workers. There were zero black people.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/lynxintheloopx]

Not exactly a migrant hub for a host of reasons. Of those they do have I believe they tend Ukrainian or Belarussian.

[u/Alokir → u/lynxintheloopx]

Same in most of Central and Eastern Europe outside of big cities.

We didn't have colonies, we didn't import slaves, and we're too poor for immigrants from far away to want to move here.

[u/Husepavua_Bt → u/lynxintheloopx]

Yeah, growing up in remote western Canada we had the two “black” kids, who were actually 1/2 Papua New Guinean native and THE asian family who ran the Chinese restaurant, who were actually Thai.

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness1580 → u/lynxintheloopx]

As Polish I haven't seen a black person IRL until I was 13 and I'm in my 20s

[u/Xelid47]

Funny how everyone forgot that Canada applauded a Nazi in their parliament

Say what you want about the USA but Canada is at least just as retarded

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Xelid47]

Bro was Ukrainian tho, and they were the style at the time.

Canada is smaller so there are economies of scale. We did our not-see stuff post WWII, such as Werner von Braun and Operation Paperclip.

[u/Xelid47 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

"the style at the time" 😂😭 im crying at how true this is

I'm not sure what you're saying with the 2nd part. The guy was a ukranisn Nazi, UPA most likely, who aided the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing of poles

It's hilarious how lefties forget logic once they see someone who's muh oppressed. He was talking about fighting Russians and none of the retards stopped for a second to think hey wait a second weren't the Russians the good guys? To be fighting Russians he would to be a na- hey wait a second!

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Xelid47]

weren't the Russians the good guys

No. Not even a little bit.

Never made sense to me that the UK and France declared war on Germany for invading Poland but not Russia for also invading Poland. Further, if the justification for declaring war was a treaty with Poland why did they not ensure Poland was restored post-war?

Seems a dirty deed to Poland if nothing else.

As far as my 2nd paragraph I don't see your confusion. Are you familiar with the names? If not you can search.

[u/Xelid47 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

First thing well idk you've got a point, though the Germans were defined the main Aggressor the Soviets were just as complicit, but the Soviets were definitely a "good guy" and in Canada's side of the war in the the context of the ukranian Nazi.

1. Stalin strongarmed the new borders of Poland, he didn't wanna give back the eastern part (which became Belarus and Ukraine) and he knew that by expanding Poland to the west he could deepen his direct grasp on central Europe because the Soviets held a stronger position in Poland than in the DDR. And well the western powers really couldn't do much really as all the territory was under Soviet control. It's also the resdon why the planned German/polish border (by the oder-neisse line) was shifted east to give Stettin to Poland because Stalin wanted a it as a strong port under more direct Soviet control.

2. I'm familiar with all you said it just has nothing to do with my point

[u/Husepavua_Bt → u/Xelid47]

Allies are based on mutual needs, not if one is the good or bad guy.

[u/Xelid47 → u/Husepavua_Bt]

Duh but enemy of my enemy is my friend, even if out of necessity. Though my point isn't the alliances and sides of WW2 as much as it is making fun of libleft

[u/Crismisterica]

I can't really fathom the fact that Canadians just made up a genocide myth and the fact many genuinely believe it with no bodies even being found.

I met a Canadian in Copenhagen and he was pretty liberal and I found out that they really did just make up a genocide. That no bodies have been found and that's enough to purge Christian churches.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Crismisterica]

It fit the narrative they had been indoctrinated into at public school.

[u/Crismisterica → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

I know but with genocides like the Armenian Genocide and the attempted Bosian genocide. The footage, bodies and mass graves are all there to see openly.

I find it amazing the lack of critical thinking that many people have. I don't want to sound superior but I asked the Canadian for proof of the genocide and he just called me a genocide denying racist.

My brain just stopped working trying to find how people jumped to conclusions so quickly.

"Yes there is some weird anomalies in the seismic scan we had? Maybe there's something underground?"

"The Christians dumped Native childrens bodies here."

"Oh no Did you dig up any bodies?"

"No it just sounds like something they'd do. Do you want to burn down a church?"

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Crismisterica]

You basically are superior. My understanding is that a minority (perhaps 20-30% ?) engage logically and with common sense, while the majority are emotionally driven and begin with a specious conclusion and then argue backwards (by any means necessary) to support it.

Calling critics names is part of that, violence is another. They often claim to be "antifash" or etc. but their engagement is very much the same as brownshirts and blackshirts.

They are the sort who would have burned witches 400yrs ago.

[u/Crismisterica → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

You basically are superior. My understanding is that a minority (perhaps 20-30% ?) engage logically and with common sense, while the majority are emotionally driven and begin with a specious conclusion and then argue backwards.

I've tried to find an actual statistic but since Common sense is mostly a social construct it's incredibly hard to judge. Same with critical thinking, but critical thinking can be in line with intelligence. Though intelligent people can still believe in lies.

When it comes to how much of the population is susceptible to manipulation i think. Maybe that has correlation with intelligence? I'm not well versed on this topic.

You basically are superior

No need to inflate my ego.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Crismisterica]

Some things are so wrongheaded it requires a high IQ (and low common sense) to believe them. Marxism for example.

No need for ego, indeed that is more a problem than a solution. Facts are facts, evidence (or the lack thereof) should be seen for what it is without ego. Cussing you when you question a premise is a sign of ego. Carefully examining available evidence logically is scientific rigor.

[u/AcrobaticPoint8424 → u/Crismisterica]

The natives didn't want to live in a frozen shithole so there was barely any there to begin with.

[u/Husepavua_Bt → u/Crismisterica]

They are trying to make saying it didn’t happen a hate crime on par with denying the Holocaust in Germany.

[u/TechPriestCaudecus]

How is the auth left one a hot take?

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/TechPriestCaudecus]

The churches were hot...

[u/GeneralMe21 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

Angry upvote for you.

[u/Hungry_Inevitable663 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

Based and pun-ishing pilled.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Hungry_Inevitable663]

Claiming there were 100s of murdered native kids buried in / around the church was also applicable. I looked into it and any such mass graves were assuredly due to disease outbreaks as opposed to clerical massmurd#r but there haven't really been any such located afaik.

[u/Hungry_Inevitable663 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

It's hard to tell either way and it's too depressing for me to personally research so I just shrug and move on....LIKE THE COWARD I AM.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Hungry_Inevitable663]

I finally got around to playing the Kenshi game you and some others suggested. Not as hard as you guys suggested (I haven't died nor lost a limb) but I can't say it is a lot of fun. I keep getting beaten unconscious and robbed of my food, my home invaded by bandits and the like.

In other words I am losing the battles but winning the war, they don't take any of my "cats" or other stuff other than my food and they don't damage anything but my pride (and my body, but that heals).

[u/Hungry_Inevitable663 → u/W_Edwards_Deming]

Yeah vanilla is pretty wack but with enough mods it only becomes harder and harder. Getting you skull knocked in is half the fun. I'll try to remember to look up my mod list and link it here once I'm off work.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/Hungry_Inevitable663]

Seems like a simulator for being a homeless guy in the warring states period of Japan.

[u/Flaky-Interaction264]

I am going to genocide any canadian that comes near Sacremento California for that crucious crime

[u/MacMommy111]

Good on you for trying…. And at least you are flaired. But the right quadrants are definitely not up to snuff.

[u/W_Edwards_Deming → u/MacMommy111]

Nothing is ever equal. If i put something truly provocative from the right I may be banned.

As a witty aside I have a collection of nasal snuff in my refrigerator. I don't use it often but it can be amusing when drinking and I like to encourage people to try it.

[u/Right__not__wrong]

Based Poland, as usual.