Did you know when you typed this that ‘hungry ghosts’ are a huge thing in East Asian culture?

Iraq has the 6th largest daily production of oil and the 4th (or 5th) largest confirmed reserves in the world.

Sometimes the simple explanation is right.

I yearn for the day when the internet masses see this. I’m dropped out of any discussion within the manufactured culture war.

It’s based on the theory in: https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-4/mswv4_65.htm , a quick read if you’re interested

what’s a Sprit?

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-us-controls-iraqs-oil-revenues-2026-01-23/

I remember seeing some list of a huge number of reasons the Bush regime gave for it. They used something like 80 different reasons at different times.

Are you ok?

I understand the question.

Oh good! 😮‍💨

OP is asking what the English variations there are throughout the world.

Then why did she ask about Norwegian? Why did she say “of your language” rather than English? Why did she answer my question by saying she means dialects from the Americas?

I am curious if Jamaican Patois would count as a different language entirely

There’s no academic/formal definition of what counts as a different language rather than a variant. Then it gets politically contested: peoples who want to assert their separatedness claim their language is totally different (e.g. Ulster Scots). That’s one reason if you ask “How many languages are there in the world?”, linguists tell ya “Between 4000 and 8000”

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How can yer memories possibly be this short? Why do ye think the Terrorism Act was passed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_Great_Britain

OP what does the question mean?

Your post just asks what the Quebecois is, but you forget to say what it means to ‘be a Quebecois’

It’s funny that Kneecap have now gotten worldwide attention for Ulster dialect, coz Ulster dialect sounds weird to most of us.

Isn’t the correct answer that glucose-fructose syrup got subsidised?? (I might have my history wrong)

It’s funny how you never visualise the person on an internet forum as fat, but some of the people typing here are fat.

That’s not quite accurate. Only a handful of countries have exit visas.

Thanks for this comment, it really meant a lot.

Hi luv, thanks for the discussion.

A few things come to mind:

• Firstly, ‘the West’ doesn’t really exist, not in the very realist sense. It’s a label of convenience.

• Secondly, people dislike the West for exploiting (in other words expropriating, in other words taking) the wealth from the rest of the world. You mention ‘tankies’, who are materialists. Is it hard to understand why a materialist would expect an individual proletarian to follow the resources to the country that has accumulated them?

• Putting the above point more simply: UK extracted $64.82 trillion from India during colonial rule — which is the answer to both your questions. That explains both why people dislike the UK and why Indians have an incentive to move to the UK

If you think the West is evil, corrupt, racist, bad, why don’t you try moving out?

Have done. Loved it. Reluctant to give too many autobiographical details, but Africa is a wonderful place, people’s attitudes are more humane, less hurried and calculating.

We would love to hear your thoughts too. What are YOUR reasons for liking-or-disliking the so-called West and for living there or not?

You are as big as what you love and as small as what you allow to annoy you.

First, I thought this was a reference to masturbation. My bad.

Deliberate.

Second, this a whole lot of effort

It’s none whatsoever. On the contrary, big time-saver.

that could be spent opposing capitalism as a whole instead of a specific albeit important flavor of it. Unless I’m missing the point.

We have always struggled against the empire on a cultural level and it’s worked well. Everybody knows that yanking yourself makes you go blind. And how can we fight imperialism we’re blind to the difference between garrison and Gael?