Posted on 07/07/2020 9:57:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Maybe it’s the Mayflowers and their alchemy scheme.
“Cool, isn’t it? Weight, feel,
mal1eability, they’re all but
identical. On the periodic chart
of elements, they’re but one
proton apart. Great minds worked
for centuries to turn worthless
into priceless.”
(Actually I think they are three protons apart - Gold 79 Lead 82) - Minerva handed Hawk a bar of lead and a bar of gold.
There is sauerkraut in my lederhosen.
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/6121181e-b1bd-401e-a36a-da363838fd73
The New York Communist Times will become The Daily Oppressor
If it were not for the Americans, they’d all have been speaking German since the 1940s.
[If it were not for the Americans, they’d all have been speaking German since the 1940s.]
True. Which is why I think the U.S.A. (sadly) has to be out of the way for a New World Order. Hence the Globalists that hate the U.S.A. Just like the Democrats and their mobs of destruction.
Lol
“A lot of Europhiles use similar logic to justify the stifling of Irish Gaelic.”
The Irish have the right to decide what language THEY want to speak in their own country.
Though in today’s world small countries almost have to be bilingual - their own native language and English. It’s the only way you can remain competitive. Look at the Scandinavian countries, pretty much everyone speaks their own language and English.
With all due respect, you’re implying that Ireland has autonomy under the EU. They do not. Before the EU leadership accumulated the power it now has, Irish language speaking was on the rise and the country passed the strongest anti-abortion laws any nation had; forty years later, under the EU sway the native language declined, and pro-abortion and pro-homosexual “marriage” laws passed in the form of constitutional amendments.
I didn’t know Yoda was German. Like it, I do not.
The Germans got “Der Tag” after all. Lost the war but won the peace. Soon a Greater Germania will dominate Europe.
I wonder—if Time Travel was possible—If some one from 2020 could go back to 1944 and tell those boys in the boats about hit the beach in Normandy about the future—would they have given their lives? Disgusting.
That may be true, but they made the decision.
They collectively decided that being under the thumb of the EU and getting the economic “benefits” from such an arrangement was preferable than being independent.
It’s interesting, though, that Hungary and Poland have defied the EU on many occasions and they haven’t been kicked out of the club. They’ve shown that you don’t necessarily need to knuckle under.
And the reason is that the EU is very loathe to lose more members, so they’re walking a fine line.
No decision is made independently of the EU. That is the nature of that entity.
Poland and Hungary are strategically important to the EU in terms of its ambition. And their interests are not too divergent as far as the bigger picture goes.
Would they have surrendered?
“No decision is made independently of the EU. That is the nature of that entity.”
You’re making too many excuses for them. Where there’s a will there is a way. The Irish have demonstrated absolutely no collective will to want to disengage themselves from the tit of the EU.
The vast majority still think they live in an independent state. Not to mention there being almost no independent media outside the state-controlled outlets. Their long-standing animosity towards the UK also blinds them to the cause behind “Brexit” and how it’ll eventually apply to them.
Having once lived there, the transformation is very troubling to me.
I suspect that Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Jefferson might have some difficulty following a conversation in 2020 American English. How well would Goethe or Schiller do following a conversation in present-day German?
Ireland is competing with Italy for the letter I in PIGS aka third world component of EU. I think Ireland likes German money as much as Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. If not for EU they’d be in a rather poor shape. The are actually in poor shape, Germany simply compensates their deficits.
“Having once lived there, the transformation is very troubling to me.”
I’ve never lived there, but they’ve gone from one of the most conservative states in Europe to one of the most liberal in pretty much the blink of an eye.
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