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Anchillas wrote:

I've always had an interest for the Scandinavian or Nordic cultures. I even tried to learn Icelandic at some point but hilariously failed.

The anarcho-capitalist lands of kool-aid wrote:

i've always found Nordic culture interesting as well.

I almost moved to Norway once. I had been way into the MyOpera community back in the day, and Opera Software was hiring Perl developers, and I knew Perl...not super well, but enough. But it is/was tough to move into Norway, and Opera didn't have the staffing to assist other than saying, "yes, we hired him." If you got the job.

Luckily I didn't. Years later, Opera eventually got gobbled up by a Chinese conglomerate, and a lot of the people I knew jumped ship.

Still love Norway, and have it on my "someday" list. In the meantime, I've been learning Finnish, which may be handy as they attempt to become the newest additions to NATO.

Suomi on kylmä ja kaunis maa!
(Finland is a cold and beautiful country!)

Miranorte wrote:

How are your Russian lessons? Have a question about the current war?

What is the current mood of the population ? And why do the Russian soldiers not have Night Vision and Optics?

Anchillas wrote:

I am a Libertarian and do not support ethnonationalism, and don't you dare say I support it.

OK, I won't say you support it. How about saying that you are curious about it?

Miranorte wrote:

How are your Russian lessons? Have a question about the current war?

I have a question. When will Russia surrender?

Miranorte wrote:

He probably won't surrender, or he'll try to make a treaty closer to his goals.

Was shouting "Хуй войне!" at the St.-P. concert spontaneous?

Midlands wrote:

OK, I won't say you support it. How about saying that you are curious about it?

I often find myself curious about many topics, and research them. I would say I have looked into historical examples of ethnonationalism, but that certainly doesn't mean I support such a thing.

Miranorte wrote:

People are neutral or they just don't like it, things got a little more expensive but not that much, you can take life, about the soldiers the government censors the media about it.

did you guys have to duck under your School Desks for Nuclear Drills like us Americans ?

Midlands wrote:

I have a question. When will Russia surrender?

that's Easy even for a non Russian, It will Never Surrender.

Divided Wastelands of America wrote:

that's Easy even for a non Russian, It will Never Surrender.

Why? Russia surrendered in the Crimean War, in the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. Tried again in WWII, but Hitler foolishly refused to accept the surrender.

Midlands wrote:

Why? Russia surrendered in the Crimean War, in the Russo-Japanese War and WWI. Tried again in WWII, but Hitler foolishly refused to accept the surrender.

the Tsars where Reasonable. Russian Leadership Now ? are they Reasonable ?
Russia will not Surrender it will Take a Chunk of Ukraine. before a Treaty that is Favorable is Signed.

Divided Wastelands of America wrote:

the Tsars where Reasonable. Russian Leadership Now ? are they Reasonable ?
Russia will not Surrender it will Take a Chunk of Ukraine. before a Treaty that is Favorable is Signed.

It won't take a chunk of Ukraine.

Midlands wrote:

It won't take a chunk of Ukraine.

It won't Leave Until it Does.

Divided Wastelands of America wrote:

It won't Leave Until it Does.

Oh, no, it will leave, and not of its own will.

Midlands wrote:

Oh, no, it will leave, and not of its own will.

I Doubt that.

Divided Wastelands of America wrote:

I Doubt that.

Russia will run out of steam by late August.

Miranorte wrote:

How are your Russian lessons? Have a question about the current war?

Miranorte wrote:

Hardest part is the alphabet and conjugating the noun.

my lessons have been going well, спасибо. I've gotten the alphabet down. I'll admit ы was a little hard to learn. Currently I'm on the "Scary" part, cases. Honestly I need to work on vocabulary more. At this point I mostly understand the structure of the language, I just need to learn more words.

Midlands wrote:

It won't take a chunk of Ukraine.

I guess you were off planet in 2014.

Divided Wastelands of America wrote:

did you guys have to duck under your School Desks for Nuclear Drills like us Americans ?

Sergei Khrushchev once commented in his typical gallows humor that as children they were instructed in school to pull a blanket over themselves and then slowly crawl towards the cemetery.
Why slowly?
So as not to create a panic.

Midlands wrote:

Russia will run out of steam by late August.

Russia has one of the most powerful militaries in this world. They will most certainly take at least Donbass for themselves.

Anchillas wrote:

I often find myself curious about many topics, and research them. I would say I have looked into historical examples of ethnonationalism, but that certainly doesn't mean I support such a thing.

No need to get defensive with someone who has not once used the label of libertarian correctly.
Almost every nation on the planet to this day defines itself through an ethnic national prism.
For example, no amount of time spent living in and adopting the cultural trappings of Russia, will ever make me Russian, and that does not have to be bad thing as long as you avoid an ethnocentric view that can breed a false sense of cultural supremacy.

At the other end of that is the rare exception of the US where despite taking some time to fully realize, being "American" is more a matter of philosophy than ethnicity.
I have met some remarkable people around the world that in their hearts without even realizing it are more American than many of the people I bump into here on the streets.
I get torn between laughing and shouting in a rage when I hear the dummkopfs of racial activism try to reinforce their claims about the inherent prejudicial nature of the US.
So I take a deep breath, then point them in the direction of African immigrant families, particularly Nigerian, that outperform white US natives in any societal metric you care to compare.