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haha does the onion do this every time america doesnt rattle sabres hard enough now?
Thanks For Letting Me Harbor Al Qaeda And WMDs
COMMENTARY • Opinion • Mar 25, 2003
By Saddam Hussein
maybe teyve always been like that actually
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First off there's the anti-russians; Romania did have a strong anti-russian/slavic ideology, starting (like in the rest of europe) in the nationalist awakening of the 19th century up until WW2, and then during the rule of Ceausescu. This was your typical Latin Superiority over those savage slavs shit, complete with a cult for the Roman Empire and with seeing western Latin countries (namely France) as models that must be copied in every way (almost 40% of romanian vocabulary is of french origin, and it all happened in the last 150years).
But then after the fall of Ceausescu, there was a push to go against everything he stood for, including nationalism so his Romanian Superiority shtick was wholly rejected and for a while replaced with the opposite. There is still a cult for the Romans, with statues of Romulus, Remus and the dog being put up all across Romania, children are still being named after Roman emperors and so on but otherwise this Latin nationalism has turned into just listening to reggaeton, wearing Soy Latino t-shirts and viewing Mexico, Cuba etc as brothers (many romanians consider themselves latinos, it's pretty funny).
So from 1989 up until now nobody cared about Russia anymore and I thought the old attitudes towards them had died out; but now after the Crimea crisis they seem to re-surface, complete with bringing back old stereotypes like "they're savages who can only be ruled with an iron fist" and so on.
Then there's the other side, the pro-russians, who are fewer and who I've only seen on comments sections on the internet and a few blogs. This bunch is more about being anti-western than just pro-russian, and just like with most of those who are anti-western here in eastern europe, their ideology is simple: the west promotes homosexuality, atheism, and feminism, plus they're ruled by the jews, so we must follow the model of Russia which is a strong, independent, jew-free orthodox nation where homosexuals are killed, "women are still women", and so on.
I guess I am a little worried these events could stir up more right wing sentiment among the general population from both of those groups I've mentioned, but thankfully they have an uphill climb as the right wing is really weak here; the ultra-nationalist PRM party hasn't managed to enter parliament in the last 2 elections and now they don't even get 1% of the vote, while our one neo-nazi group Noua Dreapta can barely get a few dozen people at their anti-gay and anti-hungarian rallies. And since both PRM and Noua Dreapta are defined by their hatred of hungarians, I don't see how they could take advantage of Russia vs. Ukraine, as that doesn't have anything to do with Hungary. Unless if the russians somehow attack Moldova next? Now romanians couldn't care less about Ukraine, but with Moldova it's a completely different issue and I can't even imagine what it would be like here if they get attacked.
Well, this was my romanian analysis, hope u enjoy, ciao
Tokyo_Sexwale posted:Latin nationalism has turned into just listening to reggaeton, wearing Soy Latino t-shirts and viewing Mexico, Cuba etc as brothers (many romanians consider themselves latinos, it's pretty funny).
what
c_man posted:what
if u dont believ eme, heres what american peace corps has to say
Hispanic American Volunteers may encounter preferential treatment from some Romanians, many of whom are very proud of, and even defensive about, their Latin origins and view Hispanic Americans as kin.
http://pcwiki.peacecorpsconnect.org/Diversity_and_cross-cultural_issues_in_Romania
c_man posted:someone was arguing here a while ago that the conservative right in the usa was dying and that it would be gone in a few decades
it will be, conservatism is ultimately a sympathetic, if dumb ideology, and closer to communism in terms of ontology than liberalism is (it basically recognizes classes, it just actively calls for a new master figure to manage them rather than trying to abolish them). what was called neoconservatism in the US (nobody uses that term anymore, right?) was neoliberalism with conservative aesthetics, just as obama is neoliberalism with liberal aesthetics
at some point in the near future you will get a horrible bonapartist president who will unite the democratic and republican parties - probably not in name but at least in practice, by finding some kind of broad agreement among the ruling class and implementing it. itll probably have gay rights, legal weed and what have you but at the same time it will uphold the order you are familiar with, only more strongly. itll probably be a libertarian, since american libertarianism is basically your version of bonapartism, in that it makes a kind of appeal to national common sense and "transcends" the two party system by identifying the bourgeois class' essential interests and promoting them without the liberal and conservative aesthetics of the two parties you have now.
Tokyo_Sexwale posted:c_man posted:what
if u dont believ eme, heres what american peace corps has to say
Hispanic American Volunteers may encounter preferential treatment from some Romanians, many of whom are very proud of, and even defensive about, their Latin origins and view Hispanic Americans as kin.
http://pcwiki.peacecorpsconnect.org/Diversity_and_cross-cultural_issues_in_Romania
wow
roseweird posted:i hope its me
its justine tunney
Crow posted:the right wing here is really weak, in the usa
RIGHT WING IS GAME TO YOU???
