Looking at a few of the sample sentences I see of the language, it would be a great language to use in a fictional setting. Just gotta swap out the characters. And honestly, using it in a good work of fiction would help its popularity immensely. Just look at the number of people who study Klingon or Elvish.
Iirc, back when I was interested in learning Esperanto, one of the criticisms I saw was that it's very Eurocentric in its design. It strives to be a "universal language" but is very obviously rooted in Romance language. However, conversely, I remember seeing the argument that learning Esperanto for a second language is comparable to learning the recorder for music: it's not so much that you will use the skill in Esperanto, but more you will use the skill in language-learning to more easily learn other languages.
Personally, I think Esperanto is pretty neat, especially conceptually, but probably not too practical unless you're involved in the Esperanto movement and committed to it. I believe there are people raised to speak it natively, and there is a sizable international community. It could still catch on, given the right spotlight.
I've had scorpion before. I'd eat crickets if they were prepped right. Grasshoppers, too.
I can relate. I'm looking into magic (more the secular occult kind) because my gf is pagan, and this New Age stuff has been an underlying culture in my family and friend group. The community is very liberal where it isn't overtly fascist.
Thankfully there's plenty of Leftist (if not exactly communist) pagans and magicians out there. You just kinda gotta fish for them.
Nope. There's no ethical consumption under capitalism, and as long as we're aware about what's problematic in the media we consume, I don't think I should feel bad about it.
True. Though, considering Europe - and especially Scandinavia - is deepest blue, I wonder if the source is just European.
Actually just looked it up. Statista is German, lmao.
Oh they do. Even funnier, I bet some of them realize the "authoritarian" countries happen to be ones not under the economic control of Europe or the US, but as soon as they show a trickle of self-awareness I bet they shut it down.
That one meme of Principal Skinner.
Trying to figure out if they recognize the US is so bad it finally warrants as a flawed democracy by their own warped metrics, or if there's a party bias and they're calling the US flawed because they don't like how much power the other side has in their country...
I was disturbed to see the Girl Meets World episode where they teach a horribly inaccurate version of communism, and I was just bewildered they'd do that in a kids show. It's pretty interesting how kids shows will tackle big issues like "communism is when you're forced to be the same", but not "the Nazis murdered millions of people for being born different". Really shows what's more important to Californian artists.
Still, some shows ain't afraid to fight fascism, but they're usually on streaming services, not TV.
As a person in the Imperial Core, I still can't comprehend how backwards the logic is here that most Americans would read this meme and think it's grounded in reality. Even having been the kind of guy who would believe it once, I still don't understand.
I think it's just racist indoctrination to believe Russians are evil.
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