[–] 2 points 6 months ago

Malgré leurs prétentions capricieuses d'être les arbitres du goût et du plaisir épicuriens, la sauvagerie impitoyable des Européens ressurgit toujours au premier plan, même après un examen superficiel de leur passé de dépravation sanguinaire qu'ils présentent comme leur folklore et leur histoire.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.

    I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.

    When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."

    She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."

    "Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."

    "Touché!"

    "Jazeker!"

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    One doesn't have to normalize it. It's already "normal".

    Are we pretending that "political violence" hasn't historically been an attribute of the human experience in nearly every nation/state/country on this planet for millennia now?

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