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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • That is some “logic”. So Greeks were responsible for Mussolini because they are close to Italy?

    Sorry, no. Back in the good old days everyone was fighting everyone and the Greeks also were happy to war and expand.

    What we can talk about is the last give or take 200 years when the borders mostly settled and modernity started. This is where ruzzia (and a couple of other nice empires) were trying to fuck everyone else. For ruzzia it was starting with Japan, Korea and China over by the Asia and into Europe, wrapping with Finland.

    Ukraine for ruzzia was always a problem exactly because of the so called similarity. The Rus started in Kyiv and it was a great shame for them. Ukrainians were supposed to be uneducated slaves, not founding fathers. That’s why ruzzia systematically tried to destroy the culture, the language and the people.

    Soviets inherited the approach and pootine has happily announced he’s doing that too.

    And that’s what matters. Unless you would like to suggest that Greece should pay reparations to Egypt for occupying in Alexander’s time.







  • I’m allergic to YouTube videos, so I’ll rely on your text, instead.

    I do believe it goes back to the Mongols where the Russian “ingenuity” was to embrace being slaves. They realised that at any moment the “guard” can come and take everything away.

    Which means that stealing is not wrong.

    And it also means that the best way of protecting yourself is by making the guard look at somebody else. Thus insatiable need for expansion.

    Which is ironic since the guards left more than a millennium ago, but the system kept going.





  • Well, it’s complicated :) I believe the psychology defines several important phases in this regard (I’ll wing them from the top of my head). First is the discovery of boundary me/not me for the newborns. That’s when they realise their mom is not part of them. Then there’s simple us/not us. That’s when we’re awkward about people outside our immediate family. Then there’s the teenage rebellion phase, where we discover “my group” of people with similar interests. The “mom, it’s not a phase” time. And the final, for the rest of one’s life, is the phase of discovering “me as an individual”.

    So to your answer, yes, everybody feels they don’t fit, but for many it’s easier because they can use their social skills while some are “blessed” to figure out in hard mode.