I'm glad brexit was about economics and definitely not racism
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You know I find it immensely amusing how you're calling Poland, out of everyone, an 'East bloc satellite'.
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East bloc is outdated, we have the CISterhood now.
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Both Poland and Hungary were, as you're aware I'm sure, quite powerful players on european soil for literal centuries before the Eastern bloc, or the concept of Eastern Europe for that matter, were even a thing.
The point I'm trying to make is that orientalizing eastern European countries in Year of Our Lord 2017, when the USA is more a Russian vassal than any European country, comes off as ignorant.
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These points are nonsense though. We're talking about their modern economic and political situations. Those are DEFINED by their past as Soviet vassals and their touch-and-go relations with the West post-1989, not any long lost cultural memories of the commonwealth or the empire. The idiot in Washington has no relevance to Western-Former Satellite relations and is an irrelevant point.
E: In fact in Poland's case in particular much of the nationalist constructed identity exists as an explicit rejection of the Polish past as a power player, because the notion of the Poles as victims is so central to it.
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So America's national identity is Trump now?
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It can be?
like it or not, our country's reputation is a big part contingent on current administration policies let alone persona
Which is maybe why N. Korea is suddenly so bold. They must have think America is a joke now since they pick a clown as their president.
Among former soviet ruled nations you will find, if you look past often very bellitling and condescending coverage they get in western media of course, a WIDE variety of political, economical, and social situations. Using eastern bloc as a relevant blanket term serves no purpose but to perpetuate the same condescending rethoric in this case, it doesn't mean or explain anything else. I'd call that a nonsense personally.
Polish past as a power player is a historical fact. Poland getting the short stick in the 20th century is a historical fact. The latter happens to be more recent so of course it would resonate with people more.
we do understand that this call for reparations is purely to rouse a nationalist anti-EU sentiment though right
like we didnt just forget that and leave that somewhere
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Calling out the fact that certain countries are often thrown into the same bag based on criteria with no root in current reality =/= supporting nationalism in Poland.
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I would not say I fully support but I fully understand the anti-EU sentiment at least.
sure sure i just dont want to let it go under in your reasonable fiscussion about reasonable things that these people are in fact insane
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