Youtube comments of (@sebe2255).

  1.  @shankieinthefridge Because being proud > being ashamed That is what it boils down to for all people. It is the same reason why you’ll never hear Africans apologize for their role in various slave trades but they will be proud of their nations or tribes
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  2. Clearly many Irish nationalists aren’t that bright
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  3.  @osheridan  As if hamas only enjoys 1% support in Gaza lmao
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  4. Being pro ceasefire without the capitulation of Hamas’ entire leadership might as well be being pro hamas
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  5.  @slimdiddyd  They have dropped a Nexit as a talking point though, and there is no indication they will push for it
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  6.  @cyrneco  Russia won’t invade Poland. This “they are next” meme is just scaremongering
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  7. The obvious reason is that the Roman Empire actually interacted with Western Europe which is what most of European history focuses on because most relevant European countries were and are in the west
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  8. Because larpagans need to cope about something
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  9. @ I am actually not. Perhaps I just know more about it than the few simplistic statements that are presented in this video. Like saying that French was only spoken in an area around Paris and that the whole rest of France was filled with completely different languages. While in reality these kingdoms would have (mostly) dialect contiuums and people would absolutely still understand each other. Provided they didn’t speak a completely different minority language like Basque or Breton For example the English identity has existed since the 9th century. We know this because this is when the people of the 9th century start describing themselves as Anglo-Saxon or English, even when contrasting themselves to continental Saxons for example. These aren’t my ideas, these are the people if the time describing themselves as such. We also have medieval lawcodes that explicitly put legal distinctions between freemen and welshmen. The word Welsh itself means something like stranger our outlander. Which is also where the name Walloon in the Low Countries comes from. And this applies to other Germanic tribes of the post Roman world as well. Many of them had laws for their own tribes and laws for the people they ruled over of different tribes or broader backgrounds. Some nations are very new, like the Belgian one or somewhere in between like the Dutch or the Russian (about 500 years old) ones. But some are well over a thousand years old and have even earlier direct tribal roots. The idea that the concept of a shared heritage, identity and country or in other words a nation is exclusively modern is laughable. It is basically revisionist propaganda. What did happen is that the identity/nation often expanded and assimilated into it either minority groups or closely related groups and tribes with a shared heritage. But that doesn’t mean that what came befofe came out of nowhere and nothing and that there is no continuity between the expanded nation and its earlier form.
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  10.  @jamieoshea1681  What? I am afraid I didn’t understand what you are trying to say. If you are equating Israel and Hamas though, then you can try again because Hamas is infinitely and undeniably worse
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  11. And I would argue that many “Nations” are actually quite old. The concept of an English identity or nation for example has existed since the 9th century. And European tribes and later “nations” or identities were well aware of their continuity and shared heritage
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  12.  @Carpediem357 He is going to be there forever. Or does a Sultan count?
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  13. Still they also lost a lot of power, land and control even its early days. And they were hanging on by a thread a couple of times, which were then followed by shorter periods of restoration and rise.
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  14. And yet the rational discussion completely ignores that any peace made with Hamas isn’t worth anything
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  15.  @Raphael4722  This is a naive take. The nazi regime was incredibly popular. They were more popular after the last vote in the Weimar Republic as the initial years of Hitler’s government would have been an improvement to the average German. And on tol of that Hitler restored Germany’s national pride (before ruining it for 10 generations)
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  16. It makes their larp more funny, they are literally just playing pretend
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  17. Because this guy is usually just basing all of his views on vibes and massive generalizations. He doesn’t actually know what he is talking about
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  18.  @Simalacrum  There is a big difference between providing French classes and providing the entire education in French
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  19.  @johnmc3862  Siding with Hamas because the English colonized you and assuming based on this that the situation is comparable is worse than brexit
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  20.  @Blanka1100  What are you talking about when you say lack of respect? Poland being in Nato is the exact reason that even if Russia had crushed Ukraine in 3 days, they would never have invaded poland. There is no “next” except for maybe Moldova or something. People fearmonger too much
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  21. It hurts high status/class women and low status/class men. It benefits low class/status women and high class/status men. Obviously a high status woman wouldn’t want to share her high status man with 5 other women
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  22. Why, if someone was popular and did a good job for 13 years why would you get rid of them arbitrarily
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  23. More so downplayed in favor of post Norman kings. But there are many references and historical sights related to Alfred and the house of Wessex in England.
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  24.  @Inzersdorf93  I mean if you had to start pointing out unfair wealth acquisition in videos about royal families, you’d never be able to finish a sentence
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  25.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  Not how language works
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  26.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  No it is not, words change meaning all the time, usually because their common usage changes
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  27.  @Oosh21 Why is he a poor student of history because he wants to keep the name he has had for his entire life
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  28. And the modern Frankish Lodewijk
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  29. It is because the Germanic Franks conquered Gaul. But they mostly don’t have the same roots beyond both being indo-european anyway The French are Gallo-Roman and not really Frankish
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  30. Did they make themselves disliked when they killed all the latin Christians 2 decades before this?
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  31.  @Apollo1989V Russia actually didn’t have any, but both the HRE and the Ottomans can be argued for. Ultimately this is all arbitrary anyway. Not like there is a law of gravity but for what is and is not Roman
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  32.  @julesvandermolen4919  Yes I know, and Dutch is modern Frankish
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  33.  @fongangamassana6034 That is completely arbitrary. The Arab slave trade for example definitely had ideological component and anti-black characteristics (like them being castrated and generally heavily looked down upon). The only way the west is special is because they traded a lot of slaves in a short period of time. But the general development of society also plays a role here. It was simply far easier to trade over large distances, in slaves or other products. And Europeans themselves were still being enslaved by the Ottomans and other Eastern countries. And if the only thing that sets Europeans apart is their efficiency, then that is hardly something to put them in a different category for. The difference for you now is that the legacy of this western slave trade is stronger because it is more recent. That is all it is, recency bias
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  34.  @dorderre  Their noble house doesn’t legally exist anyway. Obviously they probably wouldn’t consider those men part of their family, but they are just as noble as the others who weren’t adopted
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  35.  @Blanka1100  I think in a lot of those cases these people have simply bought into the fear that some spread. Most wouldn’t want Poland to be next. But yes, Poland won’t be next, and it is ridiculous to claim it, I agree
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  36.  @saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014  I mean neither is Christianity
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  37.  @Future183  No because it doesn’t apply to all Germanic people, and they are not, Germans aren’t a mixture of the tribes in Scandinavia or the tribes in Britannia (the Jutes and the Angles that is) and that is not even to mention the East Germanic tribes. German refers to the language continuum that used to span from Holland to Vienna, basically the western European Germanic tribes in what used to be Germania superior and inferior. But even there, the term German doesn’t apply to the Dutch anymore. Bottom line, Swedes are a Germanic and not German. Same for Goths and Angles. You have no clue what tou are talking about
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  38. Austrians pretending to be victims in ww 2 is quite funny
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  39. I'd say the concept of central Europe is even more arbitrary than the east/west divide, which seems to either come from the slavic/non slavic divide or the cold war political divide. Meanwhile central Europe lumps toghether countries that are very different culturally, like Poland and Germany, or disconnects countries that are culturally very close like the Netherlands and Germany.
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  40. Was he ever really a hero or a villain though? He was just always pretty bland, avoiding to adress issues and a generic pro-business PM
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  41.  @bastisonnenkind They did refer to themselves as German very early on. And the idea of a German realm/kingdom is at least from the 11th century. That being said the HRE and modern Germany obviously aren’t the same. And when you say Germany in a title it seems more likely and reasonable to refer to the later rather than the HRE
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  42. @@IlIlIlIlIlIlIlIlIIlIlIlIllIlIl Personally I agree, but he managed to hold on for 13 years. So a lot of people clearly thought he did a good enough job But I was speaking more broadly. If there was a leader I liked and he kept getting reelected I wouldn’t want him to be arbitrarily forced to quit
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  43.  @ThePresentPast_  Acting like the concept of race didn’t exist before the 1600s or even that it was radically different from what came before is also a bit ridiculous. Ethnic-group specific law codes and privileges existed for centuries before the 1600s in many societies. And it makes sense that as people interacted more with other races that they’d develop a new framework for that. But it isn’t like the concept itself changed much. Where previously it was ethnic or tribal a racial element was just added
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  44. It is a shame we have a monarchy to begin with
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  45. Unless if you want to ethnically cleanse them, or introduce extreme language policies to supress Russian and Russian identity, you shouldn’t be surprised if this just makes them more pro Russian. I wouldn’t feel more inclined to learn Estonian or speak it if I was a Russian in one of these countries when you are being directly antagonized (even if the Baltic state perspective makes total sense)
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  46. The Germans kicked the Kaiser out themselves so, whatever churchil thought doesn’t matter
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  47. In France, Clovis often is, which makes no sense. As for Germany, I never met anyone who thinks Charlemagne is their founding father. German tribes existed before him, and were very much not united after him
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  48.  @ff-qn7jm Nothing Moroccan about them except that they are Moroccan? Trust me they didn’t learn this behaviour in Dutch schools or from Dutch people
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  49.  @Apollo1989V  Blood ties are a bit a reach at best though. Because not only do the Ottomans have that too, the Roman Empire also had countless emperors without blood ties to previous dynasties. And yeah but if Orthodoxy is a requirement, then I have some bad news for Emperor Augustus
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  50. Just like the people of Constantinople do now? ;)
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  51.  @Hammerhook12  Sure but he means that Jutland wasn’t Danish or North Germanic. It was (North Sea) west Germanic, or Ingvaeonic
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  52. It does, the French nobility was Frankish, and they sort of laid the foundation for the kingdom of France, they aren’t French though
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  53.  @supportiveduck  Nobility, not royalty, but yes unlike most people (especially people in youtube comments) he could actually prove his descent from Charlemagne
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  54.  @Future183  No bruh
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  55. Its like when Americans say they German or Italian even though they are 80% anglo. People make those connections because they like having some exotic heritage
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  56. @ Except “historians” don’t say that and it is just one interpretation, an incorrect one. Nations did absolutely exist, as did racism. Neither are 19th century inventions. And you bringing no arguments except an appeal to biased unnamed historians isn’t doing a great deal to make anyone change their mind. You are preaching to the choir, or rather you are the choir being preached to in this video
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  57.  @peet4921  Most Dutch, and the Dutch language, are basically Franks. Depending on the region there is either more latin/celtic, saxon or Frisian influence though. As the Frankish culture was obviously the dominant one
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  58. No but Germanic people are generally more likely to have one or both of those features
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  59.  @shameonyou1681 he recency bias is all there is. The Arab slave trade or the Ottoman slave trade were about huge quantities of people too. Arabs were also incredibly racist and saw themselves as superior to their slaves. And they also still continued after Western Nations abolished slavery. There is no difference except distance and time to your personal history
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  60.  @timokohler6631  What? A German person from where? Anyway Dutch and German people are obviously closer on almost all levels than German and Polish people, with some border regions being exceptions. But that works both ways, the entirety of north western germany is probably closest to the Netherlands, certainly closer than to Poland
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  61.  @Hixley  Beetje naïef maar oké
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  62.  @Adaman368  And that is after the english created the situation that led to famine in the first place by depriving irish farmers of lands so they had to rely on potatoes as it is more nutritious and requires less land
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  63. Clearly there is a difference to people between giving a man who was the last of an era a state funeral (which happens to non monarch as well) and having an actual monarchy
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  64. Rebellions in Russia? Lay off the glue
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  65.  @popgoesthestoat Basically both depending on the tribe
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  66. Yeah and why should be ashamed of being part of the group that dominated for a while. That is just how it goes
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  67.  @multifandomnerd1328  Do you have to like Stalin to watch a video about him?
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  68. Seems to be more about the German people, not the Germanic people
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  69.  @Arquinas  The kaiser didn’t contest his removal that is different from voluntarily abdicating. The social democrats, pressured by the people rising up, forced him to go
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  70.  @Truthseiker87  I mean the internal divisions don’t matter as much as the over-all effect of Hispania remaining Christian.
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  71. Clovis was alive long before Germany and a unified German identity existed. Clovis was a Frank, not a German. Specifically he was a Salian Frank, and the descendants of those are the Dutch and the Flemish. So not even that is connected to modern day Germany. Of course he was Germanic, but that is a more a descriptor of a very broad group of people than an identity
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  72. Egypt in 2000 BC lmao
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  73.  @multilis2  Debt to gdp in isolation means nothing. If you use your borrowed money to invest in the economy and infrastructure (something Russia might look into) you will come out on top. The Russian economy is also fucked and desperately needs to be diversified. And that is not even taking into account the rampant corruption
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  74.  @mrhumble2937  Obviously Uthred is fictional, but if you think that the last kingdom is inaccurate, you haven’t seen Vikings
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  75. I sincerely doubt his name would have been just Hermann lol
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  76.  @anderskorsback4104  Just lie on the test
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  77.  @IronWarrior86  I don’t care why you like ir dislike Islam. If Christianity can become indigenous over time, then so can Islam. Its either that none of the religious we have in Europe today are indigenous to anywhere but the middle east
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  78.  @thistlebites2167  No one thinks you are cool for saying der Untergang. Who cares what other countries call it
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  79. Bread and Games, as long as people are fed and entertained, no will risk anything
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  80. He absolutely oversaw systematic war crimes. But probably no more than any of the other leaders of the involved countries
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  81.  @magical5181  Globaal gesproken zijn Nederlanders beneden de Rijn Franken, in het oosten Saksen en in het noorden Friezen. Holland is cultureel ook Frankish maar met meer invloed van Friezen. Bedenk wel dat tot 1500-1600 het vooral steden in het Zuiden waren die de Nederlandse cultuur domineerde, denk aan Brussel, Antwerpen en Brugge. Dit zijn ook voornamelijk Frankishe steden
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  82. Anglo-Saxons absolutely mixed with the local British Celts. But they also made up far more than a small ruling class akin to the Franks in Gaul or the Normans in England later on. Anglo-Saxons settled in large numbers and they basically wiped out the Celtic culture and language in what would become England (with some minor exceptions like the Fens, Cumbria and Cornwall). However they absolutely mixed with them as well The royal house of Wessex is likely Celtic in origin even
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  83.  @pingu6028  What about Romania? Not Slavic and in eastern Europe. Or even Greece, western Europe despite it being far to the east and bordering a country which get excluded from being European despite having land on Europe
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  84.  @AngloSaxons  The Anglo-Saxons did pretty well. But their migration to Britain happened centuries before Charlemagne subdued them. Enough time for population levels to recover and collapse a few times over
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  85. If you wanted non Germans to pronounce words exactly as they should be pronounced in German, you should have won the war
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  86.  @lightyagami3492 It didn’t really slowly rot away. It was ended because of Napoleon’s humiliation of the Empire and Austria. Not as a result of the divided nature of the Empire. On top of that they replaced it with a slightly less confusing but equally divided confederation anyway
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  87.  @myhonorwasloyalty  They absolutely weren’t the first. It is also very much uncertain what happened in that region in the migration period and early middle ages, but whatever it was, the lands east of the Elbe were clearly settled by Slavic tribes
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  88.  @Luredreier  I mean the languages are close, but as a 3-4 year old going to school I wasn’t fluent in any of them probably, especially not the official one as again, that was not spoken at my home. I learned the official language at school. It is also the reason why most people who speak my regional language can’t read it very well and can’t write it at all Latvian and especially Estonian are not close to Russian, but that can easily be taken into account. It isn’t like they are teaching you advanced maths when you are 5. That is when they teach you basic language
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  89. That is comical, the larp is real
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  90. I am pretty sure any Greek dreams of Byzantium died in the 1920s
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  91.  @theodorekell  Not 50? Opinion discarded
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  92.  @KarlSnarks  That they would privitize everything if they could was basically their only actual right wing position in the past couple of years. Socially they gave a lot of ground to the left (even if that usually was by doing nothing and not actively participating in the change)
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  93.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  No I don’t because you or I can make shit up and can thus be incomprehensible to each other. That is why there are generally agreements upon definitions, and those can change. So when you speak English it is only natural that the American usage if the word “Liberal” influences the way other people use it because the US is the dominant English speaking country. And generally people do not adapt all their definitions to non-native speakers
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  94. Their entire communities are guilty and yet nothing will happen
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  95.  @vincentfoxall5704  English culture is mainly Germanic and Norman based, but English people are definitely significantly Celtic genetically
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  96.  @vincentfoxall5704  Except no, whatever this study is has to be either wrong or more likely you are misrepresenting it
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  97. Lodewijk and Ludwig then
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  98.  @Arjonko  I don’t see that happening, Dutch people are very prone to accept the status quo, it would have to take a massive upset
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  99.  @infinitsai  No they didn’t, the Emperor in Japan had a more god like status and they figured it would be easier if they kept him around. Germans kicked Wilhelm out themselves
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  100.  @fusion353  I said English and not Scottish or Irish for a reason mate. But even the British nation is older than what this video would imply
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  101. Romance. The name French and France are the last remaining parts of their Frankish Germanic heritage. France was named after the Franks because their nobility also ruled there, and because unlike the other Germanic and even the actually Frankish parts if the Frankish Empire, they had a Karling in the throne until the late 10th century. The actual Franks are the Dutch, Luxemburgish and some west Germans in the Rhineland. Dutch for example directly descends from the Salian Frankish language
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  102.  @timokohler6631  Language isn’t necessarily the only determining factor, and this also goes for the people in NRW, not just saxons. Additionally the “Silesian” Germans as a group barely even exist anymore, there are certainly more people in NRW and the Lower Saxon region than there are people clinging onto Silesian or even Prussian identity
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  103. Germanized? I mean Charlemagne was Germanic (though of course that is not how anyone would have identified back then). You are basically saying that Charlemagne acted like a person of his time, background and position would have acted. No shit
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  104.  @paulhoffmann3405  And he was neither
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  105. That seems quite unlikely. Records of the female line are often vague and the Merovingian dynasty has been extinct in the male line for about 1300 years
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  106.  @HansWurst1569  Seems to me you are just in denial. Old Dutch is synonymous with old low Franconian (Frankish). The low countries are indeed Germanic, just as the old Franks were and most of their modern descendants are. Frankish =/= French, obviously the Dutch aren’t French
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  107. Lodewijk in modern Low Franconian
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  108.  @tomorrowneverdies567  There are no European principles, but what this type of langauge refers to is usually the principles of post war liberalism. Like freedom of speech, equality, liberty, you know the same old vague but nice sounding platitudes.
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  109.  @tomorrowneverdies567  Sure, you can add as many words that sound nice as you want. Even though a lot of them just exist to sound nice so we can all feel good and enlightened
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  110. Almost like there are large majority russian regions where you don’t need to speak the language and thus will never learn it or use it
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  111. More like a king of a political entity that would centuries later partly develop into France. Calling Clovis the first king if France is just weird romantic French nation building
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  112.  @remember9152 He definitely had a significant involvement in furthering tensions with other countries. And he also didn’t do nearly enough to stop the wat if he was so against it
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  113. The Latvian perspective is reasonable, and people should speak Latvian, but you shouldn’t be surprised if further antagonizing a large minority group in your country will just make them even more pro Russian.
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  114.  @serebii666  It obviously does, literally all lands have been subject to conquest and colonization at one point. You are just arbitrarily drawing a line here. But for a relatively close example Crimea and various regions in south-eastern Ukraine have been ethnically cleansed and settled by both Russians and Ruthenians/Ukrainians as recently as the 1940-50s. I don’t see anyone saying that these regions shouldn’t be allowed to resist Russia because they aren’t (Crimean) Tartar The Russians living in the Baltic states have been living there for 3-5 generations now, some much longer than that. At this point they are just ethnically Russian, unless if you want to employ ethnic cleansing yourself
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  115.  @vanCaldenborgh Merkel and Rutte are basically the same person. Merkel was an opportunistic pro business candidate centrist and Rutte was too. Neither of them had much of a vision
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  116.  @lars6870  Genetically sure, but the culture and genetics in Flanders are Frankish and Germanic. And of course Wallonia is more Celtic and Gallo-Roman
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  117.  @wingslider  Because Belgium is a strange country that only exists because of some very specific decisions. You mostly don’t see two completely different ethnic groups form a country like Belgium. So Belgian history before their unification is a mix of local, Dutch, French and German history. Which causes it to be a bit hard to focus on
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  118. She was just popular simply because the occupied the throne for ages. Sometimes people work that way, they just like something familiar to them. But now that she is gone people either don’t care at all or are becoming more opposed to the monarchy
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  119.  @gancarzpl  Bandera wasn't a nazi though. They literally put him in a concentration camp. He did work with them to try and secure a Ukranian state, but when it was clear that they wouldn't allow that either, they became enemies
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  120. Laten we nou niet verbaasd zijn dat een Islamitische Marokkaan andere Moslims steunt. Dit krijg je met leiders die niet Nederlands zijn
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  121.  @TheMelbournelad  The vikings invaded after the Anglo-Saxons sure. But ultimately they lost and all their lands were absorbed into England. Some people might have more “Viking” ancestry than others, but it will never be the majority of your ancestry. Simply because they were absorbed into the larger English kingdom and population As to your main point, a Scottish King inheriting England is not a conquest. William the Conqueror, conquered England. James I just got lucky that Liz had no kids. And he immediately moved his powerbase to England. Which makes sense, England was obviously richer, more populous and more powerful. However a conquest it was not. And ultimately, the Stuarts lost the throne and the predominantly English and Protestant Elite ended the rule of the house of Stuart, for clinging to the Catholic faith, and because like Liz they failed to have heirs they gave the monarchy to a bunch of random Hannoverian Germans
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  122.  @KingJohnMichael  Most? At best you could say Austria and Germany were. And I admit I know nothing about the situation in Austria, but the German Emperor was definitely also overthrown because the German government feared communist anti-monarchy revolutions. They forced the Emperor to go in direct response to just such a threat in Berlin On top of that, the lack of a monarch is hardly why there was instability. Italy’s monarchy wasn’t immune to Mussolini, and you have absolutely no clue what a potential Wilhelm III would have done had he been faced with the 1929 economic crash and the subsequent rise of extremism (both in nazism and communism).
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  123. Dit heeft niks met Brexit te maken maar met ongelijkheid
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  124. Moroccan food isn’t even that good
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  125. But a lot of “civilized” states have no laws against promiscuity, especially the western ones
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  126. Tell me you are naïve without telling me you are naïve It was always impossible for Israel to do nothing militarily. And fantasies about superhuman commando units aren’t a realistic alternative
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  127. Moors weren’t black, it mostly referred to Muslims of Arab or North African descent. The association with blacks came much later
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  128. This video is about Germanic tribes, a lot of it based on the few sparse Roman sources describing these tribes. Slavs don’t pop up (in written history) until centuries after this But obviously a video about Germanic tribes wouldn’t mention slavs
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  129.  @Ohmygodstfu2045  You have to admit it a pretty bad error though, same for not mentioning the right options at the Crimean referendum.
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  130.  @noorbohamad5796  No lmao, that isn’t how it works
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  131. Grfo or start agitating for unification with Russia? Why should regions with Russian majorities be ethnically cleansed? Don’t they have the right to self determination?
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  132. This has happened many times in recent history. The Dutch royal family applied the same principle. And they did it a century ago
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  133. It ended Austria Hungary, but the Russian Empire was just rebranded
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  134.  @Oosh21  Well one Charles got the monarchy back. And I am guessing the current Charles isn’t superstitious enough to let it impact him
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  135. Because the ven diagram of people who watch historical videos on youtube and people who have an obsession with Germany has at least a 50% overlap
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  136.  @ste2442 The EU clearly wasn’t your actual problem
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  137. It would be, but those aren't mutually exclusive either
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  138. You kind of have it, parties in the US have different “wings” that can take over or compete against each other. It isn’t like the Republican or Democratic parties are 100% ideologically consistent across their entire party
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  139.  @berndlauert8179 England predates Germany though, because East Frankia and Germany aren’t actually the same thing. And English identity is older than a German identity by centuries
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  140.  @Jether.  Nope that is absolutely false. You are conflating German and Germanic (which also wasn’t actually an identity). A common mistake, especially from uninformed English speakers.
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  141.  @Optimise247  Pushing for a ceasefire (the result of this rational and unbiased media and discussion according to OP) indicates it does ignore Israel’s position almost completely A ceasefire with Hamas is worthless
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  142.  @MarioLanzas.  Sure but the Dutch have been relatively recently. And this dynamic is at play in various other countries as well. With the rapidly fading collective memory of the second world war, so will that under-dog feeling. In addition to this this video is fairly one sided and paints a very one sided picture of the Dutch colonial period, not all of which was based on exploitation or bad
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  143.  @Kingedwardiii2003  Well Arminius is more so a heroic figure, but he absolutely isn’t a founding father of Germany. He was killed by his own tribe and replaced by a more pro-roman relative (the son of his brother).
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  144.  @kaseywahl  probably because countries and nations are real, just like how money is real, and that they are far older than this video is trying to suggest
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  145. This is why Erdogan is my favorite Turk. Imagine Turkey in the EU lmao, as if we don't already have enough of them
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  146. The reason isn’t that he was Germanic, the reason is that when he lived, and for centuries after his death, “France” didn’t exist. Not as an identity (French) or as a state. Clovis’ actions would eventually lead to France. But he has no real direct connection to it aside from establishing a state in the same area.
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  147.  @N0Time  No it doesn’t lol. No serious historian would claim that. Because historians should know better than to enforce anachronistic notions on historical figures. French identity and statehood wouldn’t exist for centuries You might as well say French history starts with Julius Caesar because he crushed the Gauls which led to the Romanization of Gaul. And the latin heritage of France plays a much bigger role than the Frankish one. Especially because much of what is now France was already Christian before Clovis invaded
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  148.  @greywolf7577  Bit over generalization and over-simplification there
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  149. Except it also means nothing actually gets done because you have to balance the ridiculous needs and wishes of 4-6 parties that are just pandering to their bases
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  150.  @myhonorwasloyalty  Slavs also used to be in much of what is now Austria
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  151.  @MantasJurkuvenas  No, against ethnic Russian living in Baltic states, not Russia. But the point remains the same. It is a measure aimed at one specific minority group (of which there happen to be a lot). Now you can argue over if this will not just otherize then more, and make them more sympathetic to Russia, but I agree that people should speak the main language of a country. Don’t be surprised if actions like these do more harm than good though
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  152.  @Luredreier  Kids learn languages fast. They have to learn completely different languages to the one spoken at home all the time, especially in the case of immigrants. It will be fine if it is used as the language of instruction as soon as they start kindergarten/elementary school. They will be fluent long before any advanced maths is even in question
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  153. Germanic, yes, German? No
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  154.  @OogaBooga-tq7jc  Yes, it is what Denmark, Norway and Belgium that have direct ties to any modern German town and haven’t completely abandoned the connection (like the Winsdors or even the family Orange-Nassau though theirs is a bit of a border case). There are far far more families larping as nobility without towns that happen to also be the origin of a foreign royal house
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  155. Mega-corporation is a good way to describe Western Liberal governments. Everything is in service of creating a bigger labor force, while avoiding the incoming collpase of the welfare system
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  156. Charlemagne was never holy Roman Emperor. He was just “Roman Emperor.” And there isn’t even a direct continuation between his Imperial title and the later HRE as founded by Otto the Great. The conflation of the (H)RE and Charlemagne was done by German Nationalist Historians
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  157.  @Edmonton-of2ec  Yeah it is good the Hohenzollerns were forced to drop their case for “their” possessions in East Germany
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  158.  @smallfeet4581  It wasn’t a government plan to starve them. It was the economic conditions created by the government and the subsequent indifference (at best) or malice (at worst) that would lead to worst of the famine.
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  159. They all come from Caesar, but Czar doesn’t necessarily mean Emperor. It basically depends on the period
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  160.  @mikerathers If he has taken such great personal risks, then why be such a complete sellout? He is not a good leader for any movement
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  161.  @MrTekeshi  Whatever Berlin was back when it was a Slavic swampland, it sure wasn't a city
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  162.  @jordanleigh8119  England actually won the hundred years war. If the Anjous had been able to press their claim on France and successfully claim the Throne, England would be even more French bow than it already is
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  163.  @mrfreeman2911  Perhaps because Gaul was incorporated into rome as an important region? A region with predominantly Latin speaking people on top of that? Why would Gaullo-Romans side with Germanic invaders? Also Germanic tribes often allied non-Germanic tribes. Just look at the Gepids and the Huns, or hell, the Franks and Rome
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  164.  @IronWarrior86  Not when that was the contested point
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  165. Burgundy is basically Belgium but bigger though. A mess of French and Dutch people with a few Germans in the mix
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  166. Most likely is, as it seems to be around Toulouse, their capital. And it certainly was not the Franks, who barely settled below the Loire river. And of course the Alsace would be Allemanic as well
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  167. Or they can agitate for pro Russian positions or even unification because they feel antagonized by the Baltic states (possibly influenced by Kremlin propaganda). Do they not have the right to self determination in regions where they are a majority?
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  168.  @jondawson7911  So why do Ukrainians have the right to self determination and not the Russians?
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  169.  @andreleers9457  Dan moet je toch terug naar school. Nederlands is niet “Anglo-Fries” maar Frankisch. Je kunt dit gewoon opzoeken. Nederlands is juist Istvaeonic, net als Frankisch. Omdat Nederlands gewoon de moderne versie hiervan is. Net zoals een paar regionale dialecten in West Duitsland (die aan het uitsterven zijn). In de linguïstiek is Oud-Nederlands ook een andere term voor oud Frankisch Je weet gewoon niet waar je het over hebt man
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  170. Especially when they annoyingly speak German (which is inaccurate anyway) making it annoying to just listen to
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  171.  @kraanz  No one can actually prove this either. They just make inferences based on dna. Which is hardly special. If you actually had documentation proving your descent then it would be something noteworthy
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  172. That is why they should he sent back quickly. If they know there is no chance of staying, they won’t risk it
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  173.  @tibsky1396  Most people aren’t nobles so yeah, that is what I said the French people (and culture) isn’t really Frankish
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  174.  @Fuzz82  Dutch schools basically skip the entire early and high middle ages. So the Frisians and even the Franks barely get connected to the modern day nation. It is a shame
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  175. At this point it is a chess match between Russia and Russia. The US and Europe literally just have to sit there, send arms and watch
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  176.  @greywolf7577 But claims don’t mean anything on their own, so they are pretending
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  177. Eh Dutch people are pretty meek, they’ll go along with everything they hear on the news
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  178. Neither Clovis nor Charles spoke German, they spoke Salian Frankish and Rhineland (Ripurian) Frankish respectively. For Clovis, the modern day descendant of his language is Dutch and for Charlemagne it would probably be the germanic dialects around Maastricht-Aachen, but this can’t be certain
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  179. Because the Anglo-Saxons settled in larger numbers relative to the existing population. And also because urbanism and vestiges of Roman civilization were still alive in Hispania and Gaul. This meant that the Franks and Goths had Roman institutions to adopt and that these regions simply had a larger population. In Britain the Roman order had completely broken, cities were crumbling and the population had fallen
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  180.  @NH-ge4vz  Franks still exist and they aren’t Romanized. The Frankish nobility that moved into Gaul would get romanized over the centuries after Clovis conquered northern France. But the actual descendants of the Franks today are still very much Germanic. They are the southern Dutch, what we now call Flemish and some western Germans. There are also a few Latinized Franks in Wallonia and Northern France, but that came centuries after the fall of the Frankish Empire with the spreading of the French language
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  181. That is what they think, but Hamas isn’t exactly similar to the IRA But Irish people live far enough away from Israel to get on their high horse and demand Israel wait until the next attack
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  182. They weren’t one people because if they were there wouldn’t be a distinction. They were both Germanic but that doesn’t mean the same
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  183.  @TheMelbournelad  Least delusional Scot
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  184.  @TheMelbournelad  I mean it might be a tiny part, but the Danelaw was absorbed into England in the 9th century. They definitely no longer exist as a distinct ethnicity, and they haven’t for a thousand years. Your ancestral background is definitely more British/Anglo-Saxon by now
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  185. Quite fitting for an institution of privileged babies to lose out because they were acting like privileged babies
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  186.  @shahidabdoullakhanzorovr1564 But Christopher Lee actually had the source to back it up
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  187.  @stevenmitchell1  Except he can? If you are descended from nobility the chance exists that you have extensive records of your ancestry
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  188. Die vergrijzing is toch niet te redden tenzij je elk jaar 500.000 migranten binnen laat
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  189.  @denisgorjunov  Makes sensw though, Germany can rival the UK and France within Europe, but they don’t hold a candle to the US
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  190.  @chekiefloofderg4997 The Scots didn’t win though. The power was still in England and by the time Britain was officially created through the acts of the Union the Stuarts were on the way out
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  191.  @vatsal7640 England was always the dominant power. And when the Kingdoms officially merged the Stuarts were already on the way out and about to be replaced by random Germans from Hannover
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  192.  @slouberiee  Bruh all of the distinctions are arbitrary, even a division purely based on geography would cause oddities
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  193.  @Future183  They do you clown, and they do that is because Germanic includes much more people than just Germans. You have a lot of confidence for a dude who doesn’t a basic grasp of these terms
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  194.  @stariyczedun  Western people will employ the most nationalist logic when it comes to Russian minorities, and then call their own people racist when they are worried about the large amount of barely integrated Turks or Moroccans or Africans. Welcome to the westoid my friend
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  195.  @EuIenspiegel No lmao, maybe the first couple generations were German. But British royals today aren’t German in any way
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  196.  @EuIenspiegel  And they don’t think of themselves as German
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  197.  @EuIenspiegel  You seriously think Charles thinks of himself as a German? They probably don’t even think of themselves as Saxe Coburg. Given that that isn’t their name and it has little to fo with them
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  198.  @EuIenspiegel  Sure and I doubt he thinks he is Vlach
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  199.  @EuIenspiegel  That a random Vlach (Vlad) doesn’t make Charles Romanian. Just as a German ancestor doesn’t make him German
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  200.  @theawesomeman9821  The Franks as a people are now the Dutch, Flemish and some West Germans. Frankish settlement in what is now France was minimal. As for the name, France comes from West Francia. East Frankia became the Holy Roman Empire but under a Saxon emperor, thus losing the Frankish name connection. Middle Frankia/Lotharingia would be devided between East and West Francia. France simply held on to the Karlings the longest, that is why they retain the name. Not because they have more Frankish ancestry, because they don’t.
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  201.  @dthird3107  In terms of culture, language and history Caesar would be more of a founding father thab clovis lol, that is a good point
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  202.  @tibsky1396  Well I he was more like an additional step to modern England, but yes, it is a good figure to make the point that Clovis absolutely wasn’t French. One difference though is that William was at least actually king of England. Unlike Clovis who was not even actually king of France
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  203. But, it doesn’t involve blacks, so I don’t think that will work
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  204.  @ElKakawateco  It is not like this was some honorable durl between two old warriors. The German army destroyed everything between Warsaw and Moscow. The red army wasn’t going to be honorable anyway, but you can hardly expect that after all their hardships they’d have any sympathy left
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  205.  @cruzaider5339  It ended the monarchy, but the soviets still tried to enforce the old Imperial borders on most of the breakaway states. Both in the immediate aftermath under Lenin and in the long term under Stalin
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  206.  @cruzaider5339  In other words Empire under a different name. Not a lot changed geopolitically
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  207.  @adelaidesngan604  I don’t speak French, but I do speak actual modern Frankish lol
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  208.  @adelaidesngan604  Again I speak actual Frankish and English, not French
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  209.  @adelaidesngan604  The French state is descended of the Franks. The French, with some exceptions in the North, are not
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  210.  @ax.f-1256  I don’t believe you, at least not on the weimar era Also typical German move to start speaking German for no reason, but sadly I also speak German
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  211. He undoubtedly had a bigger realm than Charlemagne did
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  212.  @Vaelor.B  The HRE was outright referred to as a German realm, not a kingdom though. Anyway you are thinking about this in black and white too much
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  213.  @erikeriksson1660  Who even cares about the dna. Europeans are genetically close anyway
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  214.  @phlm9038  Well they never had a majority in most areas hey settled. They mostly formed a ruling class elite. Of course France is not the only country whose name refers to the Franks. East Francia would obviously become the holy Roman Empire under a Saxon Emperor (Otto the Great), thereby losing the name connection. Middle Francia, or Lotharingia, was divided between east and west Francia. West Francia was the last kingdom to have a Karling king, and despite the Capetians also being Frankish in origin (refer back the ruling class frankish nobles) they would eventually officially change the name to France. The people that made up the Franks are still overwhelmingly Germanic though. Dutch and Luxemburgish are Frankish languages, and most of their people are Frankish. In Germany, the Franks live mostly in the west, but their regional languages have been lost to the German standardization
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  215.  @Jürgen_von_Schumacher  The “Saxons” in Hungary are actually mostly Fraconian (from the lower rhine and upper or lower Lotharingia) and not Saxon. They were just given an incorrect name by the locals
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  216.  @cheesecake370  The low countries are very different from Germany
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  217. Italy still doesn’t have the same level of free speech as the US. He is still correct, he even later says that Italy seems milder than Germany when it comes to this. Which is also tue
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  218. Are they ethno-nationalists?
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  219.  @AnonYmous-si5qv Rusland gaat ons niet aanvallen gek
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  220. Doesn’t matter because either you probably know that Æthelread and unready actually mean well advised and poorly advised, or you don’t and the humor will be lost on you anyway
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  221. Shouldn’t have fucked around then
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  222.  @the2ndcoming135  Except it is, they are Germanic too
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  223.  @DarkDutch007  There are doubts about the the actual connection between modern Dutch people and the Batavi though. Its likely they migrated south or got assimilated into the Franks.
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  224. It is just clickbait hype for westoids who see this war as a hoi4 game
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  225.  @ZwaartEntertainment  They call themselves Franks, but they aren’t actually Franks. They, like the French, just inherited the name as a result of Frankish conquest of the region. Also Old Frankish/Low Franconian is not just a term for regional languages that happen to not belong to any of the other ones. That would imply Dutch isn’t actually Frankish but that they just slapped the name old Frankish on it because it isn’t Saxo or something and that Dutch actually has nothing to do with Frankish. But that is ridiculous. The evidence for the southern Low Countries being the heartland of the Franks who settled in Rome (Salian Franks) is overwhelming. Dutch is descended from Old Frankish, and the main existing Frankish language today. Unlike East Frankish (the language of the Franks in Franconia) where the linguistic connection to old Frankish is unclear. They actually just have the name East Frankish for their language because it is unclear what orher group they would otherwise belong to. But there is no indication that when the Franks conquered the region in the 5-7th centuries that they saw these people as kin. Germans (and German regional languages) from Hesse, NRW and the Rheinland are all more Frankish than the Franken region is. The region around Cologne was the heartland of the Franks that remained east of the Rhine (Ripurian Franks). Their Frankish regional languages just got absorbed into standard German and are dying out Lastly, in traditional Dutch history the modern Dutch people are directly described as Franks, Saxons and Frisians. So it isn’t like the Dutch don’t see themselves as the descendants of the Franks or don’t call themselves as such. Especially in the regions below the Rhinez even though what is now Holland was also colonized by Franks, who either killed, drove out or assimilated the Frisians. The Saxons just live in the East
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  226.  @baneofbanes  No there isn’t, at most it is 10% and I don’t know hiw many of those are daily use but I suspect it is no more than 5%. The Frankish impact on the people of France in terms of their language was very limited. It is not comparable to say, the Angle and Saxon invasion of Britain, or even the Norman conquest of England. It is more like the Norse presence in what is now Russia and Ukraine. A small ruling class elite that would eventually assimilate into the local population
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  227. Starvation does that to you
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  228.  @kaanaslan3003  False, the real blocker is that no one actually wants all the Turks to head west
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  229.  @finnnodiffs  Apparently Hlodowig
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  230. As if Greece isn’t a part of Eurocentrism lol And yeah all countries primarily teach the history of their own nation. So for Britain, the Roman chapter ends with the Romans abandoning the Islands. Why would you continue with the Romans when other far more relevant events happened at home, like the arrival of the English. You know, the people who created the country we know today
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  231.  @petersteenkamp  Yes because of religious and political issues. Nationalism played a minor role for the Flemish
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  232. Also French, despite the name, does not linguistically descend from Frankish. Frankish certainly influenced the Romance language spoken in Gaul which led to it being called French, but for the true descendants of the Franks and their language you have to look at the southern Netherlands, modern day Flanders, and various dialects in West Germany. One of the earliest examples Old Dutch/Old Low Frankish, is literally written in the Frankish Salic law. The French for the most part just inherited the name because they managed to hold onto the Karling dynasty the longest. But their connection to the actual Frankish people, who are still Germanic today, is weak at best.
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  233.  @runewme  To be honest, I wish instead of taking in half of Morocco and Turkey, we would just make easier immigration rules for Boers or Afrikaners. It would help the Afrikaners who want to return and us as we wouldn’t have huge issues with multiculturalism
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  234. Bruh they could have kept Prussia united and it wouldn't have mattered. They couldn't have done anything about being directly occupied for decades, especially after they just lost millions of people and their economy was in ruins. You don't just magically come back from that because you have a few extra square kilomters of land
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  235.  @Svensk7119  Not just Norwegian, German and Dutch have the same word for dictionaries, woordenboek
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  236. I mean plenty of Germanic tribes just converted, like the Franks. But aside from that it isn’t like the Germanic pagans were peaceful either. This is just how it went in 800 AD
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  237. More so a father of France that a son of France. France didn’t exist yet, though a distinct “French” culture was developing in Northern France at this point
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  238.  @constancerijsdijk9332  The Germanic people originate in Scandinavia and what is now northern Germany. So no matter where they are now, all Germanic people trace back to those early Germanic cultures And yes Scandinavia refers to Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The Nordic countries includes Finland.
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  239. Saxons didn’t totally abandoned their homeland either. Jutes and Angles probably didn’t either (they just didn’t last). The Frisians just didn’t have a kingdom of their own and probably just assimilated into the places they settled. Especially because Frisians and at least Saxons were very closely related and difficult to distinguish from wach other
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  240.  @Jürgen_von_Schumacher  Depends, the closer you get to Austria, the more Slavic
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  241. I think you are getting lost in the weeds here. They can do to each other what they wish. But it is a disgrace that some groups of people here feel like they can act like this in European cities with impunity
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  242.  @frododiddledeebipedybopedy9840  I agree neither Israelis nor Moroccans should feel at liberty to do so. But generally speaking Israelis aren’t the part of the population that engages in this behaviour. And this is just another episode in the long and exhausting story of Moroccan problems. And usually those problem impact Dutch people and not Israelis. Which makes it all the more frustrating that only becomes a national, or international even, issue when the precious Israelis are attacked. On top of that, obviously Dutch nationalists won’t care about Moroccans or a certain religion being attacked. Calling them citizens doesn’t change the fact that especially Dutch nationalists don’t see them as such, for good reason. Finally don’t make me laugh, they weren’t defending Amsterdam’s honour. They could not care less. This was just Israelis and Moroccans fighting out their battle in a formerly Dutch city. Stop spewing nonsense about dignity
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  243.  @theentity5201  Plenty of peoples converted to christianity and made it a part of their culture though
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  244. The older generations have received a more nationalist conservative education and the younger generations are receiving a more guilt focused “left wing” education. Almost like education is a vital means of controlling people and determining their viewpoints
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  245.  @Luredreier  I think both are acceptable. Latvian is the official language, let them learn latvian through either a specific class or just by making them speak it in general in schools as a language of instruction. They can still speak Russian everywhere else I wasn’t able to speak my regional language in school either and it was fine
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  246. I think it does make sense to emphasize Hellenism as opposed to Romanism when you don’t even control your previously most important city and region, and capital of the Roman world.
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  247.  @TheMogregory  While that is true mathematically, it seems very unlikely that all of the people who claim that William the conqueror is their ancestor under videos like this have the documentation to prove it
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  248.  @DunkelblauerMB  While the dialect in Cologne is more similar to Limburgish than Standard German is to Limburgish (provided you aren’t from Kerkrade) I wouldn’t say that you can talk to people without any problems, there are definitely differences. Like sure you can ask for directions but you can’t have deep debates about religion. Also there are linguistically Frankish regions above the Rhine, most notably Holland
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  249. Wasn’t Germany back then, they left before German identify became a thing
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  250. Regardless of their policy, their population was much smaller so they couldn’t have achieved what countries like Spain or England managed anyway
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  251.  @MultiMidden  Same is true for Celtic, they didn’t originate in Ireland or Britannia
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  252.  @awakisolog1105  We don’t have to imagine lmao
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  253.  @lesterstone8595  🤓🤓 Are you always this pedantic? The US had a population of 5.3 million in 1800, so 60.000 is barely more than 1% of the population for a doubling in landmass, it is insignificant
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  254.  @drengrperuna2737  Not true at all, the Dutch from around Brabant, Limburg and Flanders are Frankish. And they were the wealthy and culturally significant regions long before the northern low countries became relevant, with cities like Brugge and Brussel. And even when the balance started to shift north towards Holland, that was partly because of protestant refugees from the southern low countries. To put it plainly, the southern low countries are Frankish, Holland is a sort of mix (the Franks did assimialte or just kill the Frisians) and the East and north are Saxon and Frisian respectively
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  255.  @HansWurst1569  Ahh no worries, well usually when people say Franks it is in reference to the old Germanic Franks. Whereas West Francia usually just gets called France/French. Hence the confusion
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  256.  @drengrperuna2737  Even though when it comes to very similar germanic tribes that inhabit the same region you can’t really tell the genetics apart, the Dutch are definitely not just Frisian in terms of heritage. They are also Saxon, and Frankish. The Frisian element is stronger along the coast and in the north. Also, modern Frisians are most likely closely related to the saxons anyway
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  257.  @Thanadeez  I mean, I can assure you that no one in Dutch Limburg wants to join Belgium
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  258.  @00PlPu00  In practice it is uncontrolled in the sense that an infinite amount of people can enter. They just have to go through the procedures. And even if they fail that process they aren’t deported. So you have an infinite growth of a migrant population, regardless of how “hard” or easy the process to migrate itself is.
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  259. Unless if you are part of some noble family it is extremely unlikely you have documentation that proves you are directly descended from Charlemagne. That being said, all western Europeans are descended from him anyway, so you are probably correct anyway!
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  260.  @tomorrowneverdies567  I mean absolute free speech is a laughable concept but that is not my main issue. Though Europe’s duplicitous attitude on it is annoying
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  261.  @jjoohhhnn xcept they can’t be Roman generals by that logic because they can’t really show a line of generals from then to now. And given that the house of Wessex created England, it isn’t unreasonable to call back to them. Especially when they can prove they descend from them. And even back in 1066 female lines were used as the basis for claims. The hundreds years war also started because the English claimes the French throne through the female line. It was the French that invocated the Salic law just to prevent that. So no, it isn’t as easy as you presenr it. And in the modern day the idea that only the male line matters has been abandoned completely.
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  262. Well the French are named after a Germanic tribe themselves. And the main Germanic tribe that the Franks conquered early on were the Allamanic tribes
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  263. Nouja er zijn de afgelopen 50-60 jaar wel meer vluchtelingen en immigranten binnen gekomen dan 50.000 En Tsjaad heeft toch net wat mindere (dure) voorzieningen
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  264.  @derdude6214  I mean whether or not you think Merkel saved Europe based on the refugees and the debt crisis is highly controversial lol. Plenty of people think the exact opposite. You may have noticed that. In the debt crisis she wasn’t the only one responsible for the taken course of action either. Though you can absolutely blame or praise her alone for the way she approached the refugees. How did she stand up to America though?
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  265. The legal/illegal distinction is irrelevant. If your government legalized all migration tomorrow would you be ok with them flooding in? No, you wouldn’t be. It isn’t about legal vs illegal, it is about the sheer number, legal or not
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  266.  @IronWarrior86  That doesn’t really matter
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  267.  @N0Time  Historians don’t say that lmao. Nation building/revisionist French historians may say that. Clovis absolutely wasn’t French nor the the first king of France. France literally did not exist and it wouldn’t exist for centuries. This is not exactly comparable to Alfred. It would be more like saying Odoacer was Italin. Alfred was a Saxon and styled himself king of the Anglo Saxons. And it was his grandson who would first be the king of England. The Saxons are a Germanic people, who founded a Germanic kingdom made up predominantly of Saxons and Angles. Clovis was a Frank who invaded Gaul, and who would be king of a country that would eventually, centuries later, also lead to the creation of France and of a French culture. This French culture would have very little connection to the Frankish culture of Clovis, and not only that, it did not even exist yet. French culture as we know it today comes mainly from the area around Paris, and was adopted by the Frankish nobles that settled in Gaul a little after Charlemagne. Additionally, Clovis adopting Christianity is just a propaganda moment. Christianity obviously already existed in Gaul, that is the whole reason why the Franks converted, not the other way around. Naturally, Clovis is part of French history. You need to know about him to understand why France would develop centuries later. But the conversion of Clovis is not the beginning of France, nor was Clovis French. He was a Frank, and again it would take about 4-5 centuries for the Franks that settled in gaul to assimilate in and contribute to the creation of a French culture. Just because France ended up being a blend of some peoples (though France is mostly made up if Latinized gauls nonetheless) doesn’t mean that you can go to the beginning of this process and call all the people involved French. This is anachronism
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  268.  @imwinningthisone7613  And Dutch
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  269. The Frankish kingdom split so many times that it is honestly impressive they were a great power at all
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  270.  @Richard.Vox.  It makes sense that you would be more removed from it. You will naturally feel less connected to Italian history when you don’t live there and the last person in your family tree to speak Italian was one grandpa 2 generations ago. It makes sense new identities develop And because Americans don’t live in one European country and tend to have mixed European backgrounds you tend to generalize it all. Because if you are half Polish half French that is a lot of diverse history you could look into, but often time Americans generalize it all into “European History.” Which again, makes sense if you are 1/8th irish French and English, it becomes too broad very quickly
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  271.  @bommelmapping307 By leaving?
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  272.  @michaelcooreman3509  Frankish settlement was relatively minor (unlike for example the anglo-Saxons in England). Which is why French has little Frankish influence. Even in Northern France the majority of people would be Latinized gauls. They were of course ruled over by Franks until the Frankish elite assimilated into the Latinized Gaulic people and created a French identity. In essence the early French state was Frankish, and France as a medieval kingdom was shaped in large part by the Franks, but they are not the Franks
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  273. Additionally, the standard Dutch taught in the Netherlands and Belgium is exactly the same. The institute that decided Dutch spelling and grammar rules is shared by both the Netherlands and Flanders, they are the exact same langauge, just with regional varaiations like most langauges have.
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  274. @CROM-on1bz The language of art and literature? Sir it isn’t the 1850s anymore. It is just a bit of a nasally ugly language. French has just benefited from good PR
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  275.  @VVeltanschauung187  😂
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  276. No they often flee just go get a better life here. Not because death is imminent
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  277.  @doncorleone1553  So? The population mix between Hellenized anatolians and Turks had been happening for centuries
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  278.  @raimuu14  Yeah so?
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  279. You could argue that Spain surpassed Andalusia, but the Ottomans definitely didn’t reach the height of the Roman Empire.
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  280.  @oleksii000  If they had it, they should be able to slit off from Latvia or join Russia. Whichever they want. Which most people absolutely wouldn’t support, despite supporting it for Ukraine. Seems hypocritical to me. In some of these regions Russians are a 90% majority, and plenty have well over 50%
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  281.  @d.b.2215  Guess what, it isn’t Latvian original land either. No land is anyone’s original land. Ethnic borders shift all the time and they will continue to do so. So either you are just an anti-Russian hypocrite, or Russia is completely justified in its logic when it wants to retake Ukraine, or parts of it Which, for the record, I don’t think is legitimate (with the possible exception of Crimea). It seems obvious that most of Ukraine doesn’t want to join Russia, and therefore not only is this war completely wrong, it is also just a waste of Russian potential. Even if Crimea wanted to join Russia, other options like pushing for a (supervised) referendum and negotiation should have been tried first. But that does mean that I think that if majority regions in Latvia or Estonia do want to join Russia they should be able to to. On the same basis that Ukraine or other regions don’t
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  282. “Prussia” was established as a union between Brandenburg and the Duchy of Prussia. Brandenburg and particularly Berlin were the core of this union, and they are still German.
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  283.  @jojomathew8176 Probably because Austrian Fascism was completely absorbed by Nazism anyway. So after the annexation it is just a pointless distinction
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  284. No it is not, it is an English video. Don’t whinge about it Francis
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  285.  @SiPakRubah That is pretty simple Charlemagne gets declared emperor of the Romans (not the HRE). This Empire dies and is defunct for a few decades Otto the Great manages to unite a lot of it under East Frankia and gets declared Emperor of the Romans again (so not yet the HRE nominally) In the 12th century they do a rename and the Emperors become Holy. In essence it is just a continuous elective Empire that was founded by Otto the Great
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  286.  @theManAgainstTime Tell me you don’t know the difference between German/Deutsch and Germanic/Germaan without telling me lmao
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  287.  @tibsky1396  That is absolutely true. It is extremely annoying when this happens. Especially because most of the Franks did not end up becoming German, and the German identity literally didn’t exist during Charlemagne’s life. People who say he was French or German (or Belgian or Dutch) are just letting nationalism lead them
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  288.  @MalleusIudaeorum  I mean even if you like Mosley more, he wasn’t very successful
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  289. Not really a satellite, just an ally
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  290.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  Americans will not change their definition of the word liberal, and the person who is most likely to cause a misunderstanding will be you. As long as America is the dominant english speaking and western country culturally we are far more likely to change our meanings to theirs than they are. You can not like it but that is just how it is
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  291. The BBB is a clown party though
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  292. You have less influence in choosing an Emperor (none) than in choosing the president
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  293.  @Jean-Pierre-Villard  I don’t think anyone sees Arminius as the founder of Germany. And if they do then they are nationalists that took the bait lmao
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  294. Yeah, or the problem with having a huge population of unassimilated immigrants that technically count as citizens because they are second, third or even fourth generation
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  295.  @TheDudefrom1987-b1i  Maar de ongelijkheid is ook toegenomen door gebeurtenissen die totaal geen verband hebben met de brexit. En daar komt dan ook gewoon nog het interne beleid bij, wat veruit de meest directe invloed heeft op welvaartsongelijkheid binnen een land. Je kunt een situatie als deze nooit volledig toeschrijven aan de Brexit. Natuurlijk als het bnp daalt of import duurder wordt helpt dat deze situatie niet, maar uiteindelijk is het gewoon een onderdeel van een veel groter geheel Als je rond moet komen van 2 pounds per dag gaat de import je ook niet redden
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  296.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  Amazing, every word that you just said was wrong
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  297.  @Goremachine  That doesn’t mean it is worth it when they make it difficult for you. Its not like Germania was very wealthy when compared to Egypt for example
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  298.  @nazarenoorefice2104  Rome still used Germanic soldiers. The Batavi rebelled after Teutoberg, when they were still used as soldiers by Rome. Same goes for the Franks centuries later
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  299.  @NeilLewis77  Historical information is almost always biased. Often times simply because there is a lack of unbiased sources and historians have to just do guesswork, especially when it comes to the early middle ages and before
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  300.  @valenrn8657  That would require ateast one unanimous vote though
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  301.  @valenrn8657  Oh lmao sorry I replied to the wrong comment. Although I doubt Ukraine will start throwing nukes at anyone too
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  302. How does that show they weren’t nazis?
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  303.  @nickvanachthoven7252 The US and Poland are sovereign nations, Russia can cry more
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  304.  @eardwulf785  I always see people commenting under videos like this that they foubd out they descend from king X or that their family was given land by king X or helped Charlemagne kill the Saxons. But unless all of them happen to descend from well documented royal lines, they are just bullshitting
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  305.  @eardwulf785  Thanks! My surname is regional to the southern Netherlands. I am not actually sure what it means so the connection to fighter or warrior is new to me. There is a book about southern Dutch surnames, and it says it could be a bastardized form of a minor noble family’s last name, or relate back the Frankish name Begga
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  306.  @eardwulf785  Well my great uncle has a family tree going back to the 1650s, and I found another one online (also made and publishedby someone with my surbame) that does connect us to this minor noble family. However I haven’t seen the research that has gone into that obviously so I have never taken it as conclusive. Arnhem is definitely nice though. And I am guessing you are English?
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  307.  @eardwulf785  Well Frisians and the Dutch are slightly different. The Dutch, especially below the Rhine and including what is now Flanders, are mostly of Frankish descent. The Frisians are their own people that have been driven out of most of their lands along the Dutch coast or were assimilated by the Franks. That being said Franks and Saxons were closely related anyway as neighboring Germanic peoples. That is a interesting part of your persnal history though. I have been in England a few times now, but sadly not to York yet. It is always a shame how much of the older English/Anglo Saxon history has been snowed over by the Normans
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  308.  @eardwulf785  Ah a viking festival? That does sound like a lot of fun. Perhaps I can make my way there at some point in the future hahaha As for the Frisians, that is apt description. It also has to be said that the modern frisians most likely aren’t related to the Frisii of Roman times. The lands they inhabited were flooded, and it is assumed that after these lands became habitable again, some tribe of Saxons moved in. This is why Frisian and English are so similar. And I agree, there is no pure blood of any early medieval tribe, let alone even earlier.
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  309.  @Ayatiinka  No they shouldn’t be. They should be proud of their moments in the sun (but also remain reasonable, no one likes a delusional patriot)
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  310. As if god can’t pick what skin color he wants to be
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  311.  @Mimi.1001  Initially the position of being Emperor would have been inherently tied to the Roman Empire. But by the 20th century they weren’t larping as romans anymore. (Though the Germans kept it going for a long time)
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  312. I'd say the concept of central Europe is even more arbitrary than the east/west divide, which seems to either come from the slavic/non slavic divide or the cold war political divide. Meanwhile central Europe lumps toghether countries that are very different culturally, like Poland and Germany, or disconnects countries that are culturally very close like the Netherlands and Germany.
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  313. They are a Germanic ethnicity, part of them would become German (Ripurian) and part of them would become Dutch (Salian) More to the point though, when Lious “the German” ruled, German identity didn’t at all exist, so they couldn’t refer the him as such. Whereas obviously Germania as a geographic region is a much older concept. The 18th century name is obviously just a reflection of rising German nationalism.
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  314.  @apveening  The Netherlands also forces people of minority languages to speak Dutch. There was no education in Limburgish for example, and we were not allowed to even speak it to teachers
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  315. Franks are the Dutch ;) But yes many Germanic tribes adopted it freely and without any form of coercion or violence forced on them. Also the Frisians were forced as well.
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  316.  @BalboaBaggins  5% van alle migranten krijgt een baan? Onzin dat is sowieso meer
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  317. The Christian Conservatives and Liberals who governed the Netherlands during the whole of the 60s and early 70s?
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  318.  @praisethelordpig1212  If they had been, they wouldn’t be winging about imagined English oppression so much
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  319.  @ASS_ault  I don’t even, I said a few times I don’t blame the Baltic states for this reaction, and I also think that the Russian war against Ukraine as well as Putin and his regime are, to put it mildly, extremely bad. What annoys me is the rabid bloodlust, especially from fellow westerners who are not even connected to the conflict. I understand that it will probably and sadly take more lives for Russia to be willing to negotiate, and Ukraine probably shouldn’t accept an offer that doesn’t allow them to join defense pacts. The unquestioned bloodlust and support just annoys me because I do believe it will ultimately cost more lives, both in Russia and Ukraine. Ultimately it is western hypocrisy and obviously the waste of the war that annoy and sadden me
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  320.  @ASS_ault  There absolutely is a ton of western hypocrisy lmao
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  321. People speaking celtic could converse with Germans? In ww1? I doubt this very much
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  322.  @aAverageFan Berlin isn’t Russian
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  323.  @aAverageFan  and it was never the most important city of the Kingdom of Prussia
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  324.  @romans883  And before it was Slavic it was Eastern Germanic. And before that it was indo-european etc etc, those claims are meaningless And Germany clearly did pay a price, you said it yourself, all of their lands east of the Oder
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  325.  @EuIenspiegel  Heredity succession doesn’t even necessarily always take the name of the house of the father anymore. Like the UK, where it is still Winsdor. The more salient point however is that being a member of a “German” house doesn’t make the person German. Like his mother who English and his father who identified himself as Danish (though born in Greece).
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  326.  @EuIenspiegel  And? That doesn’t make Elizabeth German, because she wasn’t lmao
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  327. Not like the eastern Christians killed the Latins in Constantinople in 1182, oh wait they did. Don’t pretend that there was much of a brotherhood between the 2 Christianity denominations
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  328.  @tibsky1396  While it is true that what is now French culture was formed over centuries as a merger of mainly Gallo-Roman culture with a dash of Frankish, it is ridiculous to say that Clovis was a part of this. At best he set that process in motion. But he himself was nothing but a Frankish king that conquered most of Gaul. The state of France and even the French culture wouldn’t exist for many centuries
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  329.  @monkeymoment6478  The Franks didn’t Latinize either, well most of them didn’t. They did adopt Christianity to better be able to rule in Gaul of course. And to use the Roman church to increase their legitimacy
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  330.  @finnwraith5319  Almost like this is a subjective take and everyone has a different view
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  331. Ook zonder de brexit had je extreme welvaartsongelijkheid gehad hoor. Daar heeft Brexit weinig mee van doen
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  332.  @Rockstone1969  Which is actually a ridiculous notion, like those kids could change their mind on their own too. Plus at this point Catholics are actually the biggest religious group in the country
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  333. Time to go home for her
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  334. Oh they know, cater to the rich and pander to the center right
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  335.  @kevinmsft  The Baltic crusades were ancient history to those people even before ww2
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  336. The Merovingians were Salian Franks. Some if them settled in Gaul and became a sort of warrior elite there. The rest remained in the lowe countries where they had settled under the Roman Empire and evolved into the Dutch people of today
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  337.  @trenttuttle603  That is more on the Capetians, but they couldn’t have done it without Charlemagne and in turn Clovis
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  338. It was actually Sjarel
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  339.  @adelaidesngan604  No lol
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  340.  @adelaidesngan604  No, just no
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  341.  @adelaidesngan604  This like talking to a Turkish nationalist lmao
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  342.  @oriraykai3610  Don’t confuse German and the Aachener dialect now with what it was 1200 years ago
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  343. Is the Greek government supposed to stop human trafficking in North Africa?
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  344. It does help that they completely overshadowed the Dutch by the 18th century. The Dutch were simply limited by their small population
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  345. More like entry 0, French didn’t exist yet and wouldn’t for centuries
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  346.  @ax.f-1256  The Tsar was fucked either way, he didn’t flee Russia when he had the chance and it doomed him and his family. Germant having an emperor wouldn’t have changed that as Germant would have been in shambles for a fee a years anyway
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  347.  @ax.f-1256  Germany would have been completely fucked for at least a few years. Just because there is an emperor doesn’t mean the French won’t insist on their reparations Also, the Weimar Republic was actually becoming more stable in the 1920s and would have most likely survived had it not been for the 1929 stock market crash, undoing all the work of people like Stresemann overnight. Lastly, it was the Germans themselves who revolted against the emperor because of the abhorrent conditions created by the war
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  348. To be fair this could apply to almost all germanic subgroups. Frisians aren’t the only group that is distinct from its country’s main culture. And even in the Netherlands only 300.000 people speak it. More people speak other regional languages like Limburgs than they do Frisian. Also the Frisians were conquered by the Franks, and driven or assimilated from a lot of historically Frisian land along the coast of Holland and Flanders
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  349. The terminology is a but vague, but there were explicit references to a German kingdom or a German royal title as early as the 11th and possibly the 10th century. Even if it had not defined borders, it was definitely a cultural concept and a title that was used
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  350.  @Vaelor.B  There are plenty of sources lmao Not my fault you are too lazy to check or something Just look up what the Italians called the state that laid in Germania, or what the function of the Arch-Bishop of Mainz was. Or why Henry II was called king of the Germans
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  351.  @Vaelor.B  Just look up what the Italians called the state that laid in Germania, or what the function of the Arch-Bishop of Mainz was. Or why Henry II was called king of the Germans
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  352.  @ste2442  My own country obviously. But the point was getting rid of the EU doesn’t help when your domestic politicians are just as bad if not worse
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  353. Charlemagne definitely wasn’t French as that didn’t even really exist until the Capetian dynasty (who changed the title from king of the Franks to French). And saying France originated from the baptism of Clovis is just French nation building. It would take centuries for the Frankish nobles that settled in Former Gaul to adopt a “French” identity. And there are currently people who are directly descended of the Franks in terms of language and ethnicity. These are the Dutch (except the Frisians and Saxons in the east), modern day Flemish and some west Germans
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  354.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  Francia =/= France though. And the Germanic parts of France are only limited in terms of Frankish heritage. Even the Alsace for exaple is Allemanic, not Frankish
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  355.  @phlm9038  They settled first in Toxandria which is now in the Netherlands, below the Rhine. Basically south of Utrecht. From there they spread into what is now west Flanders and Northern France. But the Frankish majority areas were limited to very small parts of northern France around Lille and Calais
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  356. But, the “Anglocentric” version is actually the Norman Frococentric version
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  357. Welcome to the replacement Irish friends
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  358.  @iainrendle7989  If they are dubbing it to English anyway, they might as well dub the acted parts
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  359.  @Jürgen_von_Schumacher  No worries, it wasn’t a correction or anything I just thought you may want to know. But yea they are Franks, their language is close to Luxemburgish, but they came from all over what used to be lower Lotharingia. I think they were invited to develop the lands
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  360. No the Kingdom of Great Britain was created in 1707. This was during the “reign” of the last Stuart monarch. But Anne wasn’t a strong monarch, and she simply inherited because William of Orange and Mary II didn’t have kids. After Anne King George I of house of Hannover was asked to become king
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  361.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  You said the UK though. Which was even later than 1707, that was 1801 when the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was created. 1707 is Great Britain and 1600 is just the personal union between Scotland and Ireland
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  362.  @TotallMax13  This is meaningless policy speak. Those investments are done because the expected returns are greater. Educating people here at our expense only to send them back in the hope that they may offer beneficial connections is ridiculous. You should invest billions in a “maybe.” Generally countries don’t want the people the educated to start benefiting others for free
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  363.  @TheEverFreeKing That is a great observation there. And back when Russia was only able to occupy small useless villages they were all laughing and celebrating. Now it is going as expected, because it is hard to break defensive lines
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  364.  @leijenburgh01  German history and the Anglo-Saxons are at best tangentially related. The Germanic tribes that settled in Britain left long before a German identity ever existed. German and Germanic are not the same
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  365.  @lordofthegame5268  Dude people barely know their own country’s history that is covered over many years in schools.
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  366.  @black_hand78 That isn’t what he said though. The term “Celtic” is applied to a large group of peoples with clear genetic diversity. And ancient irishman and Alpine Celt didn’t have the same genetic breakdown. Trying to group them together only by genetics is pointless. The same applies to other extremely broad ancient categories like Germanic. They are mainly a linguistic or cultural/religious term, which isn’t the case for more narrowly defined ethnic groups of modern nations
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  367.  @Nizzet Not only linguistsic but also modern genetic evidence. A small group of elites and warriors (akin to the Franks in Gaul) wouldn’t have led to 30% of the English dna being Anglo-Saxon on average
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  368.  @MatthewMcVeagh  No, it is 30% on average, with those regions thus being higher on average And Norse settlement would definitely have been smaller in scale than Anglo-Saxon settlement. And on top of that, it doesn’t explain why the Celts completely gave up on their culture and language. Plenty of Germanic tribes did small scale (relative to the size of the area they moved to) migrations. The Franks, Goths, Lombards and Suebi. All of them assimilated into the local populations of the regions they settled in. But the Anglo-Saxons completely wiped out the language and culture of the Britons. Small scale settlement just doesn’t make sense. It is simply impossible to maintain that a decentralized, early medieval, society like the Anglo-Saxons would have been able to completely assimilate an apparently far larger native population. This was simply impossible until the early modern era. There would have been no “convenience” reason for a native Britonic farmer to give up on his language and nust wholesale adopt English. Just like the Basque peasant didn’t adopt French and the Gaulic peasant didn’t adopt Frankish. And there was hardly a modern education system to enforce a standardized language It is just impossible
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  369.  @tkg__ Surr but a lot happened in those 1000 years. Including the settling and later ethnic cleansing of the Germans. And not to mention that some of those people who lived there in the 1000s weren’t even Poles (yet)
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  370. Friezen en Franken (Nederlanders) zijn ongeveer even oud. Dus die andere uitgangspositie slaat natuurlijk nergens op. En Limburgs wijkt toch wel meer af van ABN dan andere Frankische streektalen, mede omdat het meer naar Hoch Deutsch neight door de klankenwissel
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  371.  @benismann I mean saying that Byzantium was a “second” rome kind of implies they weren’t an actual Rome to begin with. Especially if you put it in line with the Russian third Rome claim. Because out of all the states that claimed to be Roman, that one has to be the most ridiculous
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  372.  @nikolamilicevic1040  Sure, Russia became the preserver and main Orthodox power, but the Roman Empire didn’t have one religion that decided “Romanness.” Because I am afraid that Augustus wasn’t an Orthodox Christian, but he definitely was Roman. Additionally the Western Part of the Empire would never embrace Orthodox Christianity, but Roman Catholisicm. And shifting from one Abrahamic religion to another (Orthodoxy to Islam) is a smaller leap than going from polytheistic Hellenism to Christianity. Which is why claiming rome simply in the basis of religion is a bit ridiculous.
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  373.  @CeruleanMoonlit  The German, or rather Holy Roman Empire’s claim was directly tied to the pope. The Pope being a remnant of a Roman institution, and also seated in the actual city of Rome. When it was created it also held control over Northern Italy. So I mean that definitely makes it a more credible candidate than Russia. All Russia had was that it shared a religion with the Eastern Roman Empire for a while Last I checked France didn’t really claim to be the Roman Empire though.
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  374.  @Itsme-xf7sx it has mostly just shrunk though
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  375.  @brandonlyon730  Was predominately (around 60%) German. Now it is basically just French. But yes ethnicity alone isn’t justification, it depends on what that group of people wants.
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  376. Actually having a debate over that is like paying with Monopoly money
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  377.  @Zveebo  Except those Empires are either dead, or they actually are popular choices as a second language within their own sphere. Russian is a common second language in a lot of eastern Europe and centeal Asia because of their Empire. Same goes for Chinese and the business world in east asia. Also there is a reason why the largest Portugese speaking country is not Portugal and that reason is Empire Meanwhile there is one global hegemonic power that uses and exports English which is the reason why English is a popular choice for a second language in all of the west and a lot of the world in general. That would never have happened without the American (and to a far lesser extent the British) Empire.
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  378.  @blacksmith67  The Dutch population would have been too small to out-colonize the Uk. If they had held on to Nieuw Amsterdam, it would more than likely have been a small town, and not the mega city that New York is today
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  379. I mean their conversion, and the conversion of any of the other Pagans whether Germanic or not, wouldn’t have been instantaneous. It involved a lot of harmonization between the pagan faiths and Christianity, and like you said often times people would even still worship both gods. Naturally over time Christianity would win out and worship would solidify. But early Christianity wouldn’t have been as dogmatic and solid as Christianity in the high or late medieval era, when the hold of church over people was much stronger
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  380.  @jessiemeisenheimer8675  Tbf it wasn’t a black Germanic tribesman, it was a woman from North Africa. That being said, Arminius’ gay brother dying makes way less sense that a black person in Germania
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  381.  @the2ndcoming135  well no the video is just named incorrectly, it should have included them if it was about all the Germanic tribes.
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  382. It wasn’t even too big for Europe, just too big for France
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  383. England, Russia and France aren’t German so no
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  384.  @semi-useful5178 I can’t see it anywhere, unless if you mean the Papal State
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  385.  @mueezadam8438 German identity doesn’t predate the HRE, they start developing at around the same time. You probably meant Germanic identity. And while Germanic tribes obviously understood they were related to each other, and different from say Latin speakers they interacted with, a broader Germanic identity that they all adopted or identified with also didn’t exist.
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  386.  @aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029  No they don’t. The origins of the Robertians themselves are uncertain to begin with. So proving any connection to them is basically impossible. And there are certainly no reliable records proving any descent from a Merovingian king.
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  387.  @aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029  No it isn’t, it is speculation at best. Weird propaganda fantasy at worst
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  388. Anyone saying that what is happening is actually a genocide is just not a serious person.
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  389. It was never really relevant. It was overhyped by Americans and a few British republicans
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  390.  @Pindasaus It would be kind of funny though to see Caroline meet other heads of government/state
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  391.  @charleshayes2528  Pedantic point. Just because in the 5th century there was no common culture or identity yet doesn’t mean it didn’t develop later. And Angles and Saxons were extremely closely related anyway. You are just trying to create categories to create division where there is none
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  392.  @LotusStitchandSketch  “German” as such didn’t exist yet at that time. The Franks were just one of many tribes. As for their language, Dutch is the direct linguistic descendant of Frankish
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  393.  @JeffBilkins Even that isn’t anti-democratic if the population wants it. It isn’t like the emergency powers include the suspension of elections or democracy as a whole
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  394. Especially when it is not even the way they would have actually spoken. Modern German and French make about as much sense as English
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  395.  @KarabauPlay  Actually, Otto would also have been just a Roman Emperor. The holy roman part comes from the 13th century. Otto is seen as the first “holy” Roman Emperor because there was direct continuity between his title and the later name change. But if you want to be completely accurate, he wouldn’t have called himself a Holy Roman Emperor, and neither would his descendants for a few hundred yest
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  396. He was a good king and important in unifying England, but imo his father is overlooked, and at least as crucial, if not more so, than Æthelstan was. Integrating Mercia into Wessex was no small feat. And of course there have many great English kings after
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  397.  @accaciagame1706  Most of them aren’t that Frankish. They are more Gallic with some minor Italic and Frank
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  398. They do though, Berlin and a lot of what was Brandenburg are solidly German. In top of that, this is just politically. The kingdom was named Prussia but the heartland was never in Prussia. Prussia as such was always a bit of an afterthought compared to other German regions, like the Rhine or even Silesia (which also isn’t German anymore obviously)
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  399.  @11and1is12  Because they were driven out by the Franks, aka the Dutch
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  400.  @Marvinuser  The modern day Frisians are not the same as the Frisii. But yeah Frisian and Dutch (Frankish) aren’t the same
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  401. Clovis is the original anyway, Chlodovech is more accurate
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  402. They are still present in the Netherlands, but they have been almost completely absorbed into the Fraconian culture, unlike the Frisians
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  403. The pagan roots it didn’t have from 900 till 2000, casually disregarding 1100 years of more direct ancestors lol
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  404. The real answer is that no one cares about portraying the changes in the Dutch coastline over centuries of video content
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  405.  @GBOAC  There are literally always Dutch people whinging about a random polder either being absent or being present when it shouldn’t be. And most of the time the coastline is not correct in these videos because it changed a lot over the hundreds of years that the video covers and no one can be bothered to reflect that when the video isn’t about it
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  406. 😎
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  407.  @alexanderballa6152  Yeah but the lend lease included a lot of food an trucks, which are absolutely vital in maintaining industry and not having your workers and soldiers starve
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  408.  @florianschneider8396  I wish lmao, most of them would barely even know Arminius
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  409.  @dlasky He didn’t really. They actual reason they sacked the city is because they acted as mercenaries to one Emperor who got overthrow and the new guy didn’t want to pay them. So they just took the city lmao
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  410. He wasn’t Holy Roman Emperor, just Roman Emperor
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  411.  @pistolpetetc  So what is the point then. The whole idea of the classical world influencing the west is built on “the Balkans” influencing the west with their Greek ideals of democracy and thinking. The whole reason they are often seen as honorary western is because of that influence. But that doesn’t apply to anything beyond greece
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  412. Magna Frisia is not really relevant for this. It was the Franks who would become the Dutch who drove them out of most of the area to begin with The Orange-Nassau family is centuries after this happened and thwy have literally nothing to do with it
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  413.  @markmulder9845  Yeah Unlike the Germans at Leningrad, or Stalingrad, or half the towns in between Warsaw and Moscow
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  414.  @Fritz999  There are many Frankish dialects still around, not just one
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  415. So Putin?
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  416.  @recordofragnarokisapurehyp6660  Yeah but that is completely irrelevant now. Prussia is gone and so are its people. No one cares about demographics that are 70 years out of date
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  417. They should speak the border dialects at the southern Dutch German border if they were going to go with the language that most likely descends from the language Charlemagne spoke.
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  418.  @claudiodeugenio  After world war I not only did Germany lose fewer people, they remained nominally independent and were not occupied directly. Ww1 wasn’t a defeat on the same level as ww2 was. Without any western or eastern alignment post ww2 they would have been a broken and poor isolated state had they somehow been able to secure their independence. But, they we’re completely occupied, their entire army was gone, their entire administration was disbanded and they were at the absolute whim of greater powers with far bigger and stronger armies and economies. France and the UK also suffered much less in terms of the destruction of cities and people when compared to ww1 (in 1919 German cities weren’t reduced to rubble) and obviously the US was now taking the center stage as leader of the west. There is absolutely no way Germany could have recovered without the Western Nations agreeing to help them. Prussia was completely irrelevant at this point Directly comparing this to the post ww1 scenario is shallow and simplistic. And your point about anglo banking interests is laughable. Had the allies kept Germany’s territory the way it was in 1936, that wouldn’t have brought back the millions dead, ruined cities and more importantly it wouldn’t have removed the hundreds of thousands of occupying soldiers from their lands. Germany had 0 chance of reaching their previous heights, Prussia or no
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  419.  @fantasy9917  When that seperation of Poland happened, most Poles were still under the eastern Russian influence, and 60% of the people living in what you would class as the western half of Poland were Germans that were ethnically cleansed after ww2
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  420.  @FilipMoncrief  Swiss (well 60% of them), Dutch, English, Norwegian, Swedish and Austrian people are Germanic. THat doesn't mean they are German, which is just an English word for a country that also happens to be Germanic. Nor does that mean that Germany is the only legitimite Germanic country. Germanic means far more than just the Federal Republic of Germany. In the same wat, the Czechs are absolutely Slavic, just like most of Eastern Europe but that doesn't mean they are all the same
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  421. I'd say the concept of central Europe is even more arbitrary than the east/west divide, which seems to either come from the slavic/non slavic divide or the cold war political divide. Meanwhile central Europe lumps toghether countries that are very different culturally, like Poland and Germany, or disconnects countries that are culturally very close like the Netherlands and Germany. It seems to be used by the Czechs and poles to avoid any association with Russia and negative Eastern Europe sterotypes, and for the Germans to feel special, like they have their own political sphere of influence (which is where the concept comes from originally).
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  422.  @FilipMoncrief  Even though genetics are irrelevant, most of the Germanic countries are significantly Germanic ethnically. Idk about the czechs
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  423.  @g.f.w.6402  But that is not because of the UN, it is probably the other way around. No one is like “hmmm I wonder what the UN considers Eastern Europe to be” and then goes from there. They are like: “polish people drive trucks and are exploited seasonal workers, definitely eastern europe.”
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  424.  @GundamReviver That would require balls and vision
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  425.  @N0Time  Bruh I just gave random names to get you to do some busy work because the “quote me a historian” thing is annoying More to the point though, of your list I only read Gregory of Tours and he never refers to France or the French (because that didn’t exist yet, again). How could Gregory say French history started with Clovis when France didn’t even exist. Gregory himself actually starts history with bible
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  426. And Charlemagne probably spoke an old version of modern Limburgs
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  427. This theory is actually disproved by genetic research because the Anglo-Saxon impact is simply too big. On top of that the Britons would never have completely abandoned their culture if there hadn’t been a mass of people moving to Britain. The cultural migration theory is dumb and completely rests on vague archeological evidence from which huge extrapolations are then made
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  428.  @lukasiatg3962  Almost no one outside of the countries that claim to be central europe is aware of it lol
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  429.  @lukasiatg3962  Every single one
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  430.  @user-be1jx7ty7n  They have the Germans on board, because that way they can feel special about being the most relevant country in one region by a significant margin
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  431.  @jvjjjvvv9157 Putin was correct because “Ukraine” as an independent country didn’t exist historically. Obviously Ukranians, or their predecessors under whatever name you want to give them, did.
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  432. This is the real reason. It is basically impossible to have in depth knowledge of every topic. And most people care about topics that at least had some impact on importance in the history of their own country. Which Byzantium just does not have for Western Europe. Certainly not to the same degree as the actual Roman Empire
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  433.  @joeybru If nothing else Southern Germany looked much more beautiful in the 60s
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  434. They enforced male only succession specifically to avoid having an English king inhereting France though.
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  435.  @4H46PvD  Wrong, tribes have often been the nuclear of a later nation, and they are basically the same thing in many cases
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  436.  @martavdz4972 Romans also barely left a legacy in what would become England. They left the Isle and their society was in decline and decay when the Anglo-Saxons invaded/settled. There genetic legacy is nonexistent and their cultural legacy was extremely limited. A 3% north african result on a dna test also wouldn’t be explained by a few Romans who might have stayed. Their numbers would have been so incredibly low that their genetic traces would are long gone, and certainly not at 3%.
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  437.  @jjoohhhnn Conquest and plantations aren’t really genocide though
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  438.  @LordWalsallian  No the issue is more so that the executive is always weak and watered down, which is a problem. presidential system doesn’t tend to have
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  439. It wasn’t, they officially left the HRE in 1648, but functionally they had left when their independence war started
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  440.  @Greasy__Bear You could say that for almost everyone. Wealth and power attract rivals
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  441.  @wotan1991 He was not German. German didn’t exist yet. He was Frankish, which are now classified as a Germanic people. But in no world was he German
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  442. That image is from centuries after his death and probably looks nothing like him. He probably had no beard and short hair (to look more like the Roman emperors of old who’s legacy he wanted to claim)
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  443. The Eastern Roman Empire and the (Western) Roman Empire. The HRE comes after Charlemagne and his Empire. He was just crowed Roman Emperor. And his Empire went defunct before the establishment of the title that would eventually become the HRE, which was founded by Otto the Great
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  444.  @constancerijsdijk9332  Finns are not Included in Scandinavia. And Scandinavians are Germanic. That is literally where the Germanic people originated
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  445.  @constancerijsdijk9332  Even still, it was basically just the part that is now attached to Denmark. And I don’t think anyone is having a debate over the status of Scandinavians, they are definitely Germanic
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  446. And those people will soon learn that Rutte wasn’t actually the problem and nothing will actually change He was a pretty standard politician and a pretty standard politician will succeed him
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  447.  @nightchicken283  Franks are much cooler anyway, they assimilated or drove out the Frisians after all ;)
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  448. The catholic/protestant divide is a much more recent development though and isn't directly related to the older ethnic groups in the low countries. As you may know protestantism originally took hold in the waelthy southern cities as well. So this is a new cultural divide. However you are correct that the Dutch (and what is now called Flemish) who live below the Rhine are Frankish. And because of their influence spreading north Holland is a sort of cultural mix.
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  449. They did see it coming. People (like Powell) even saw it coming decades ago. They just don’t care or even support it, for their own reasons
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  450.  @PabloSa0032 Cry more Pablo
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  451.  @Alex-lg6nz  Ultimately it is all theories, and looking Russian as the origin doesn’t make much sense. The Slavic people who settled there in the early middle ages wouldn’t have spoken Russian, maybe look at some Sorbian words
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  452. En die van Aboutaleb ook
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  453. So just one person with their own interests (keeping the position of privilege they find themselves in)
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  454. These types if videos also always conveniently forget the massive number of people that are descendants of immigrants that came in the past 6 decades that never assimilated but count as EU citizens now. Looking at just the numbers of immigrants year by year glosses over half the problem.
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  455.  @heathercopeland21  Yeah because documentation from the time period is very rare to begin with. The Merovingian dynasty especially as it is in the very early middle ages, is basically a big question mark in terms of marriages and descendants. And these videos always have dozens of people saying they found some direct documented link to a random important historical figure
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  456. Charlemagne himself would probably have spoken something closer to Limburger and Aachener dialects. The Karlings had their powerbase around the Maastricht-Liege-Aachen region. Additionally, there wouldn’t really have been a single Frankish regional dialect. More so a continuum.
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  457.  @kipkipper-lg9vl  Germania and Germany are not remotely the same concept. Germania was a geographical term used by the Romans. German is a medieval identity that was eventually adopted by almost all continental west Germanic people (with the exception in of the Dutch and much later Luxemburgish people). Just because the names are similar in English doesn’t mean they are the same concept. In German or Dutch for example the distinction is far more clear. Germaan/Germanen and Deutsch are two very different things. And the German/Deutsche identity didn’t exist before the 11th century. The Angles Saxons and Jutes they left the region of Germania, and they are now classified as Germanic peoples (though they also knew they were closely related back then) but they weren’t German. In fact the English identity is older than the German one
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  458.  @OogaBooga-tq7jc  Maybe, but they aren’t lords of those towns if that is the case. And that is like what, 3 places?
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  459.  @Gladedancer  What? All the Frankish tribes were Germanic. And there were no other Frankish tribes in Gaul other than those ruled by the Merovingians. They invaded the Gallo-Romans in Gaul. not other Franks But yeah they didn’t settle in Britain. I misinterpreted the comment
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  460.  @wolfgangpagel6989  Two languages of the Benelux are Frankish. That being Dutch and Luxemburhish. The Franks as a whole never assimilated into local cultures, they stayed were they were. In parts of what is now Belgium, the Netherlands and Nothern France.
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  461.  @francogiobbimontesanti3826  From what I can tell, the Dutch Republic had a popualtion of 1.5 million at around 1600. Now the closest I see for Portugal puts them at 3 million at around 1500. Meaning that barring some plague I am forgetting Portugal would have at least double, or more than double. Setting that aside though, Brazil was also heavily populated by other European immigrants after the early colonial era so that is not really relevant, and not to mention, an enormous amount of slaves.
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  462. Germanic* Not German
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  463. It wouldn't solve the demographic problem at all and just decrease the already lowering social cohesion
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  464.  @lesterstone8595  idc what your source is, just because Australia has even more wasteland doesn’t mean that 60.000 people in a huge area is a lot. My whole argument is simply that, 60K is not a lot of people
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  465.  @lesterstone8595  Except it wasn’t significant to the Japanese armed forces and government. The nukes did not deter them. And yes when your landmass gets more than doubled but your population increases by a percent, then it is an insignificant amount of people. And sure to the 60.000 people it would be significant. But if I stub my toe on a piece of furniture that is significant to me, but not to the world at large. This is why there is no real French or Spanish legacy in most of the regions that were a part of the French/Spanish colonies. There barely were any of them
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  466.  @HansWurst1569  The same is not true for Frankish and Dutch. The Dutch langauge (and most of the people) is directly descended from the Frankish language.
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  467.  @drengrperuna2737  By Dutch I meant the broader language and cultural area, not just citizens of the Netherlands. And Holland is definitely Frankish in large part. Many Frisians were driven out or killed in the Hollandic wars against them. This should be obvious from the fact that people in Holland speak Dutch, a Frankish language, and not Frisian. Last but not least, Holland experienced waves of migration from the southern low countries when cities like Amsterdam were developing into powerful centers of commerce as well as to flee persecution from the Spanish. This obviously further decreased Frisian cultural influence
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  468.  @HansWurst1569  This is also not true. Post ww1 Limburg has been firmly in the Dutch corner culturally. No one cares about the Duke of Gelre, or that brief period where Limburg was prt of the Netherlands and Germany at the same time. There may have been resistance to the Dutch historically (Limburg joined Belgium after all) but that is completely relegated to history now
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  469.  @Thanadeez  Yes I have No but seriously there is literally not even a movement for any more independence from the national government, let alone secession and joining Belgium lmao
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  470.  @michaelpickel9534  It can’t be Teutonic if they ignore other Germanic languages, that would be teutonic as well. Also obviously Anglish wouldn’t include anything from pre-Roman Britain as the Anglo-Saxons weren’t even on the Isles yet
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  471.  @meadow-maker  Welsh is obviously very different from old english though, so using it to determine how much Latin already influenced old english pre 1066 is completely pointless
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  472.  @meadow-maker  Except you are wrong. I just used Welsh a shorthand for the descendants of the pre-Roman celtic languages since it is the most relevant one. But you can’t just say that because Welsh, or literally any other language, has Roman loan words that the language of the Germanic invaders would have had those loan words too. Also there are almost no traces of any celtic language in old english, so this is especially true for old English. It is definitely debated how violent the setting of the Germanic tribes was, but the language of the Britons was absolutely driven from what is now England with some peripheral exceptions in Cumbria and Cornwall. You can say that certain celtic languages on the British isles borrowed from Latin, but you can’t have apply that to old english. So yes, welsh is completely pointless here.
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  473.  @adventussaxonum448  Sure in names, but not words. There is virtually no British influence on old English
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  474.  @bastisonnenkind  No the term Germans in English is derived from the term Germania for the region east of the Rhine and it has little to do with the later German identity as such If it is news to you, then you just don’t know anything about the subject. There a many references to a Teutonic or German kingdom or offices within a kingdom, starting in the early 11th century. Of course it would be a process that would take centuries, but you can clearly tell that by the 15th-16th century most people would recognize themselves as being part of a broader German cultural group. Which is also why this is when the Holy Roman Empire changed its name and added “of the German Nation.” Nationalism in the 19th century led to a United (mostly) German state. But a German cultural identity had existed for far longer. If you count the HRE name change a national one actually already existed for centuries as well The other ethnicities don’t matter as much. Just because they existed in a majority “German” realm doesn’t mean that this invalidates how those German subjects saw themselves. And besides by the 15th century it was almost entirely German with the Czechs being the most notable exception.
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  475.  @waynenash6008  That is literally Celtic. You are saying they weren’t Celtic but they were a sub branch of Celtic (of which there are many from Hispania to Anatolia) that is also Celtic lmao
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  476.  @Siegbert85  Well medieval historians would obviously try and connect their patron or realm to more prestigious previous realms or figures. Medieval or classical period historians made up all sorts of stories, like Angles descending from Troy. But I think in today’s age it is more often the modern nationalist perspective that informs posts claiming that X figure was X nationality than the medieval legend/prestige perspective. But yes you are correct it isn’t exclusively modern
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  477.  @year4559  St Petersburg wasn’t founded by Sweden? The city as such was founded by Peter the Great. Just because there was a Swedish hut in roughly the same place doesn’t make it a Swedish founded city
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  478. Because he is full of it
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  479.  @embreis2257  So the US could be the undisputed global hegemon. Which is exactly what happened after ww1 and ww2 ruined the Empires of Europe The US profitted massively
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  480.  @Ramen.4.life0  mostly post 1066, at least in my experience
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  481. Yeah I want my reparations from the aristocracy too
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  482.  @Edmonton-of2ec  No the law abolished titles, they just let them keep the larp
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  483.  @Edmonton-of2ec  Sure it is their last name, but it is still larp. Larping as nobles they aren’t anymore. Because it isn’t just a last name they held for 100s of years. Their last name was never Prinz von Preussen lmao
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  484. This is my favorite ridiculous theory lmao
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  485. The far right isn’t even polling that well. Unless if you think thr bbb is far right. But that would make you a bigger joke than they are
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  486.  @paultj4e Het hoort geen afspiegeling van de samenleving te zijn. Het hoort alleen te zijn waar wij op stemmen
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  487.  @NothingSerious...2  Germany is not really a successor state to the HRE either. England is a different case. The Kingdom of England as it existed until the acts of the union was founded by the Anglo-Saxons and is a direct continuation. There wasn’t even the need for a successor state as there was no successor. It doesn’t exist anymore now as it was followed by the union of Scotland and England, and later the creation of the United Kingdom. But England isn’t like the HRE in that regard. There is a clear and direct continuation of the Kingdom
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  488.  @acceptablecasualty5319  Hitler wasn't Prussian though. In fact I think it was an Austrian plot to destroy Prussia and have the Oktoberfest be the thing people think of when they think Germany, and not guys in spikey helmets
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  489.  @acceptablecasualty5319  Lmao I wasn’t being serious
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  490.  @thibautnarme6402 Except those kings did change their name from Franks to France. The French identity started to come into existence in the north of West Francia. On top of that the French state is directly descended from West Francia, and not any Merovingian kingdom (they had many)
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  491. Wales is beautiful, but in terms of dynastic relevance, it isn’t really important
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  492.  @jbatts834 Because the center of power was clearly not in Hannover even if the king was from there. That is why they immediately moved to Britain lmao
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  493. @EndDimsTo be fair the region barely had any people back then either
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  494.    I am Dutch, so guess who knows more about what referendum got ignored lmao It is fine to be pro EU, but don’t become delusional mate
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  495. What did Merkel do to save Europe?
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  496. I think the idea of the monarch being a figure of stability goes back to at least Victoria.
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  497. Charlemagne had support from the pope, in Rome. You can argue about what you find more or less legitimate, but ultimately he was seen as the Emperor of Rome in his time
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  498. People also assume you always have to agree witn whatever the pope says as a Catholic. Which also isn’t remotely true
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  499.  @cegesh1459  No they don’t. Not everything the pope says is the “word of god.” When popes speak with that authority they issue a special proclamation, and that hasn’t happened for decades
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  500.  @IronWarrior86  none of this makes either islam or Christianity indigenous
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  501.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv I don’t think anyone classifies Ireland as Germanic. But aside from that, German =/= Germanic.
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  502.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  Celts aren’t Germanic though, so no they aren’t The Welsh, Irish and Highlanders aren’t Germanic. Them and the Bretons in Northern France are the last celtic cultures still around today
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  503. There are not millions of speakers of low saxon in the Netherlands. It is dropping off very quickly
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  504. That will not happen, they'll keep kicking the can down the road to make sure there are enough workers all while undermining European identity more and more. This looks more like a ''European'' mega corporation than an organisation trying to unite Europe at this point. European between '''' because demographically it will hardly be European if this path is followed
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  505. Saxony isn’t actually Saxon, but aside from that a name isn’t really an argument. Paris exists, but the Parisii don’t. In the case of England though there is obviously a large anglo-saxon element in the culture and people. English is predominantly Germanic Anglo-Saxon and genetic tests show that the average english person is about 30% descended from those tribes.
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  506.  @dehistoriapisciumfish7639 Anglo-Saxon is literally a term used by Alfred the Great. It is contemporary, no matter what fake historians think. On top of that Angles and Saxons (and Jutes and Frisians) were not that different. Another group of people, the Franks, was also a merger of a few Germanic tribes like the Chatti and Chauci. These closely related tribes merged and created new identities all the time.
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  507.  @davepx1 And yet they basically creates a new anglo-saxon culture anyway. You are just being pedantic
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  508.  @davepx1  The country’s other population groups? Who would that be? The Britonic people? Because if you mean them it is actually shocking to most historians and linguists how little of their culture and language influenced old English. England is absolutely an Anglo-Saxon creation. The Germanic invaders and settlers saw themselves as closely related, and they called the Britonic people Welsh, meaning foreigners. In the same way that Walloons are called foreigner, and Latin speakers in southern Germany and Italy were too. The convergence was between closely related North Sea West Germanic tribes that had a very similar culture, language and religion. Aka Anglo-Saxons if you want to group them together. Angles, Saxons and Jutes if you want to be pedantic
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  509.  @anthonyseymour1403  Wrong, there is more Anglo-Saxon than viking on average, 30% anglo saxon
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  510. It is a disgrace they feel strong enough to do this
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  511. Maybe some, but I think most would still prefer the closer, larger and also far better land of the US
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  512.  @bommelmapping307  That shows that politics is mainly just a show. Most people aren’t happy with Rutte’s last few years and they don’t really respect him either
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  513. Except it is nothing like the ss. It is just a penal battalion on a larger scale
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  514.  @sirbonobo3907  He was not German, he was Frankish and neither the French nor German identity existed when he lived
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  515.  @michaelcooreman3509  Franks also lived in Germany, but German identity is a merger of far more Germanic tribes than just the Franks so their influence is more diluted. In terms of ethnicity and language the Dutch (both in the Netherlands and Belgim) are the most direct descendants of the Franks, particularly the Limburg, Brabant and Utrecht regions
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  516.  @Thinkaboutit56789  What are you talking about? Germanic is a category we modern peple enforce on ancient tribes that is mostly based on language and religion. As for Germanic tribes, Germans can’t claim to be Frankish simply because they are also Germanic. Saxons, Bavari and Allemani tribes were all distinct from the Franks. Some Germans are Franks but the overwhelming majority of them aren’t. There wasn’t just one Germanic tribe, and German identity developed much later. I also didn’t say the French are Frankish. The modern day descendants of the Franks live in parts of west Germany (mostly along the northern parts of the German rhine), the Netherlands (except for Frisia and the few Saxon regions), Belgium (mainly in Flanders, Brabant and Limburg) and small parts of Northern France That all being said, Charlemagne absolutely wasn’t German, as the first mentions of German identity stem from the early 11th century, long after he lived. It would he like saying Caesar had an Italian identity, he didn’t
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  517. Pay your mercs then
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  518. Sanest armchair general
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  519.  @elwoodzmake  Yes, the older generations did not have enough kids and it is time they felt it
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  520. @CROM-on1bzThe French language is a bit overrated though
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  521. Labour and the Conservatives definitely are
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  522. Not only is there no Britonic element to Old English, modern genetic evidence proves that a significant part of the English ancestry is anglo saxon. That being said the lack of Britonic in old English is still weird as Anglo-Saxons and Britonic people must have interacted and mixed.
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  523.  @noelleggett5368  Except we don’t know exactly what happened, and genetic, linguistic and contemporary evidence points to large scale settlement, not just Saxons becoming traders and elites. If it was only a few traders and rulers the genetic impact would have been much more limited (like the Franks in Gaul or Normans in Normandy or England). Also any extrapolation based on what happened to the Irish can be dismissed out of hand. Highly centralized states could enforce language bans, and even then it didn’t work. It took the famine to actually destroy Irish. But a decentralized early medieval state did not have the capacity to ban languages, nor enforce any such ban on their people. The theory that there were only a few Germanic settlers is popular with people who want to deconstruct Englishness. But that theory was already based on very weak archeological eviction to begin with, and has been completely disproven in the last 10 years with genetic evidence. But even without it didn’t make any sense. As if the Celtic Britons just all abandoned their language en-masse in favor of this minority ruling class tongue, even people in villages who would never need to trade or speak Old English. And not only that, that they didn’t leave any linguistic traces in old English? That is beyond what one can reasonably believe. Because languages do actually mix rather well, it is called loan words. It is why modern English had a lot of French words, introduced here by a feudal ruling class. But old English is still the core of the language. It is why French has Frankish loan words, but Latin is still the core of the language. If there had only been a few Saxons the situation of the French language would have been more likely. A latin language with significant Frankish loanwords and pronunciation. Basically the “small settlement” theory is outdated rubbish. And even when it had some plausibility, it was plagued by huge holes and rested on biased interpretations of archeological evidence.
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  524.  @geoffgjof  Perhaps, but if that is the case we don’t know. And regardless of that, it is still strange that there is no influence of Celtic languages in the Old English that we do know about. Because large groups of Celtic language speaking peoples were assimilated into the English
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  525.  @xiphoid2011  Nah not really, the exact same problems happen in governments with high turnovers
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  526.  @Kalimdor199Menegroth  I don’t think Orban is a dictator, but Erdogan intimidates people to vote for him making his elections not exactly fair Just governing for a long time (Merkel or Rutte) does not make one a dictator
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  527.  @Kalimdor199Menegroth  Just because people support doesn’t mean he can’t also be a dictator Also you are being a dramatic unserious person. The pandemic and especially the farmers aren’t signs of corruption or anything dictatorial
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  528.  @maddogbasil  Because most Christian nations weren’t overly concerned with the Balkans. It is not like there was actually one unified effort against the Ottomans. Point is, for most of the wealthy and powerful Christian countries, bar Austria and Poland (which they were never even able to take) the existence of the Ottomans was an extremely minor concern. Again sure the Ottomans were powerful but again again again, they didn’t wield the hegemonic power of Rome at its height
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  529.  @hussainashraf5179  20 nations? Are you high, all they had were some Balkan Slavs and Romanians Spain was more concerned with the actual powerhouse in Europe, France, than native with sticks
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  530. Dutch is Modern old English? What?
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  531. Dat slaat natuurlijk nergens op. Friezen bevindend zich momenteel ook maar in een provincie in Nederland. In Duitsland is het praktisch uitgestorven. Het Limburgse taalgebied strekt zich daarentegen uit van Belgisch Limburg tot Dusseldorf. Hoewel het aan de Duitse kant ook slecht gaat met de taal. Daar komt ook nog eens bij dat Limburgers Frankisch zijn. De Maasvallei was zelfs het kerngebied van de Karolingische koningen, en dus vormde Limburg een deel van de kern van een nog veel groter rijk dan de Friezen. Die zich eigenlijk beperkte tot Holland, Noord Nederland en Stukken van West Duitsland. Het huidig Belgisch, Nederlandse en Duitse grensgebied was de kern van het rijk van Karel de Grote. De beste man zelf sprak een voorouder van de taal die nu Limburgs en Aachener dialecten zijn. De grote van het rijk heeft dus niks te maken met het gebrek aan status van Limburgs. Daarvoor moet je toch echt in de modern geschiedenis (na 1830) zijn, waar Limburg eigenlijk een deel van de periferie van Nederland is.
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  532. Dutch is just the modern continuation of Frankish
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  533.  @andreleers9457  Yep Dutch is Frankish, not Saxon or Frisian You don’t what you are talking about
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  534.  @oracle372  Lmao those two things are not remotely the same and you know it. The Israeli government isn’t going to whipe out the Palestinians, unlike whT Hamas would absolutely do to the Jews So no, it can’t be reversed because Hamas is a genocidal organization. Israel is not. On top of that it is Hamas that always breaks their ceasefires to commit horrible atrocities and start up another war. Probably to shore up support when Israel understandably reacts. Hamas cares less about Gazan lives than Israel does, and that is a low bar
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  535.  @barutie-patooty6253  Depends, the word child is doing some heavy lifting here. A 4 year old obviously isn’t, but a 14 year old Hamas supporter can shoot and pillage you just as much as a 40 year old Hamas supporter
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  536. Created the modern world is perhaps a bit of a stretch, but yeah this cultural erasure is taking the piss
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  537.  @pyrocumuluscloud  In essence your nation is the Tuvan ine and your country is the Russian one
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  538.  @Emanon... It is absolutely a stretch and an impossible scenario. There won’t be civil war over this lmao Ya’ll need to play less war games
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  539. Hitler and Eva weren’t too bad either, just not married
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  540.  @N.Sniper  De meesten Russen leven gewoon in Europa hoor. Het centrum van Rusland ligt niet bepaald in het Verre Oosten of Siberië
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  541.  @serebii666  Let them leave then, some of these regions have overwhelming russian majorities. Hold a vote and see what they want. Or does self determination only apply to Russia’s enemies when it is convenient?
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  542. Wisely? It had nothing to do with being surrounded by far larger neighbors with far larger armies? And it had nothing to do with having a relatively small population, thus not being able to do much settling in colonial regions? I doubt it
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  543.  @hefipaleburp9543  Dna, linguistics, contemporary sources
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  544. Depends, the Christian ones probably aren’t
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  545. Speaking broadly they are Romanized Celts. French identity is a combination of these people and a Germanic ruling class that started around what is now Paris. But French and Frank is not the same. The Franks are the Germanic tribes that conquered and settled Gaul. The Franks still exist, most prominently in the low countries, Dutch being the modern version of the Frankish language
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  546.  @elevatormusic3421 That is just nonsense. The core Frankish lands are in the Low Countries and the Rhineland. The Franks that lived there were not oppressed, whiped out or changed through assimilation or conquest. They literally still speak modern Frankish today. They naturally developed into what are now the Dutch and some West Germans. The French can’t pretend to be a people they are not simply because the Eastern half of the Frankish Empire was more powerful and able to reform Charlemagne’s Empire. Because that is the only reason that France was the only state left calling itself Frankish. It also doesn’t matter that the Dutch state as such didn’t exist until the 16th century. The Dutch state and culture is made up of the Frankish people and language. Besides that, I used Dutch in a broader context, not in terms of statehood. The only thing Frankish about France now are the names of historical kings who’se families have long been deposed. And the French are in no way Frankish. And are we supposed to pretend that France is actually still a continuation of the Frankish Kingdom of West Frankia? Like they are somehow the same despite a thousand and more years of history with even their monarchy being overthrown? And all that just because their name sounds similar? Political continuation is a vague and useless concept. But I understand why the French would want to claim the Franks for themselves. It is a bit embarrassing to be named after your conquerors That being said they can claim the political continuation if they want, even if it is meaningless. But they should stop claiming to be a people they aren’t. Oh and as a sidenote the Dutch and Belgian regions of Brabant are also actually direct political continuations of the Frankish kingdoms. As this Duchy was born out of Lower Lorraine and they were the Dukes of Lothier (Lotheringia) until, you guessed it, the French Revolution happened. The French of course invaded and abolished the Duchy of Lothier, but Brabant still comes directly from a Frankish political entity. It is also no coincidence that the region of Brabant (as well as Limburg and Flanders) were the centers of medieval Dutch culture, and these regions are the homelands of the Franks
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  547. Also the south (Flemish and Brabtine cities) were more so centers of the reformation than the North, and many people from cities like Antwerp fled North
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  548.  @charleshayes2528 Angles and Saxons formed the dominant cultural element though. Sorry to the forgotten Britonic tribes that left almost no traces of themselves in the English language and culture
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  549.  @Adreal357 Government spending isn’t socialism. Or a medieval lord taxing his peasants to build a road would be socialism too
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  550.  @toomanyopinions8353  Seems a little too elaborate to be a wog whistle lol
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  551.  @toomanyopinions8353  I don’t think that really applies to this. You could say nationalists could be more included to like this in general, but that doesn’t make it a “dog whistle”
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  552.  @DuskyJewel  White nationalist? The French are white too.
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  553.  @toomanyopinions8353  Perhaps, but it is weird to just throw around the term white nationalist.
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  554. The last legacy of the Franks in France after they got rid of their monarchs
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  555. Germany defeats France twice (and no one else) and all of the sudden they think it was a regular thing
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  556.  @DoN-xh3pd  Italy yes, but neither France nor Germany really existed during the time of Charlemagne’s grandsons
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  557.  @helenamcginty4920 That makes no sense. Old English has virtually no traces from any Britonic language. And you should seriously doubt that the Britons would just abandon their entire language and cultural identity just to do some trading. It is the fundamental flaw in this trading theory making it almost certainly false. (On top of modern genetic research also confirming a large Anglo-Saxon settlement)
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  558. The Franks don’t just come from one tribe though, they were a merger of a few tribes like the Salii, Chamavi, Chatti and Bructeri (and probably a few others but for which there is little evidence such as the Batavi)
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  559.  @thepretorian5292  Along the Rhine, towards the coast in what is now Flanders (including Brabant), along the Meuse and down towards Luxembourg
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  560.  @KarlSnarks  They absolutely aren’t anti immigration in practice And also they can be right wing economically and socially liberal left/leaning which they are.
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  561. Bro, its 1200 years ago. Time to move on lol
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  562. Forget about that, they don’t even teach us about the connection we have to the Franks (the earliest form of Dutch is found in the Salic law and the Dutch are mostly directly descended of the Franks, especially in a region like Limburg). Out history classes take a Dutch state centric point of view, which happens to center around Holland for the most part
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  563.  @GlitchPredator  Possibly, I think it is more so a general disregard for this period in history tbh
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  564. Well Germans were already unified in the Holy Roman Empire. Which was sometimes referred to as “of the German Nation” so a united German state did exist in the medieval and post medieval period
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  565. The difference is that in Britain their culture and language dominated and that they settled in larger numbers
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  566.  @erikschlangenauge7514 The Franks in Bavaria Probably aren’t Frankish though, they are similar to the French and their name is derived from the conquest of the region. The real Franks still live where they did when they invaded Gaul though, Along the Ruhr, Meusse and Lower Rhine (incl the Dutch part) and in the Southern Low Countries
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  567.  @erikschlangenauge7514  My point is A that the region if Franken probably isn’t Frankish and B it is not just German history either and the Franks are indisputably part of French history, and Dutch history (with the Dutch being the closest to a modern day continuation of the Franks) and Italian history and the list goes on. The Franks that invaded Gaul weren’t even predominantly from the modern day German part of the Frankish lands but from the South-Western Low Countries, and yes, modern day northern France. The Franks in what is now Germany were also absorbed, conquered and integrated by these other Franks What you mean to say is that the French are not Frankish, which is true. But to say that the Franks aren’t a part of French history is also a ridiculous claim. The entire history of the Merovingian period, the early rise of the Franks, takes place in Gaul. And of course it is the result of the Karolingian breakup that directly leads to the creation of France in the first place. Which is not the case for Germany or other the Benelux. As a fellow Frank, it pains me to say that France is undeniably the state (key word their state does not their nation or people) with the strongest ties to the Franks. Even if their people, language and culture are not Frankish. And there is no “agenda.” This is just reality
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  568. East Frankia has little to do with any early modern German state though
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  569.  @vanCaldenborgh  You must never have actually crossed the border into Belgium or Germany then lol
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  570. And the Batavii have very little to do with the Dutch people to begin with
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  571.  @Showwieh  Because Frisians were a minor tribe and this video is only 42 minutes.
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  572. And punishing the elderly without kids. Time to directly tie having kids to elderly care and pensions
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  573. Bro Italian is real, it is just a standardised language. Almost all European countries have this, and many of them did base their standard on one or a few prominent regional dialects. Every language is a made up language by this logic
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  574.  @ruyfernandez  But you do actually have influence, and I fail to see how going from indirect influence to no influence is a good thing when what you seem to want is more influence. Weird argument
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  575.  @michaelmuller9385  Normans weren’t really Vikings though Descended from them sure, but not Vikings.
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  576. Not like Pagan Romans persecuted Christians, oh wait no they did
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  577.  @rubengonzalez750  They weren’t German. A unified German identity didn’t exist yet either
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  578.  @floepiejane  Language is not the same as identity
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  579.  @floepiejane  I mean if you still don’t understand these incredibly basic concepts then I may as well be arguing with a brick wall
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  580. It is also an incredibly simple design
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  581. Sure, and because they actually just want money and they are afraid that if people think an apology has been made their chances of getting more money will be smaller
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  582.  @Einardav  Not really, assuming the Roman account is completely true, which seems very unlikely, the Germanic tribes were able to maintain the status quo after Arminius.
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  583. The Celts contributed to the conversion of the Anglo Saxons though, not the other way around
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  584.  @nickyprice2617  I just mean that being punished for speaking Welsh and Christianity are unrelated. When the Anglo-Saxons invaded it was the Britons who were more Christian (ofc not all of them) and not them. So speaking Welsh and being pagan aren’t inherently tied to each other, especially because it was the Britons and Irish that contributed to the conversion of the Germanic tribes
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  585. Well Ireland is very underpopulated, if they want peace they can propose a solution. But something tells me they don’t want 100s of thousands of fighting age men and boys who support Hamas
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  586. Poor attempt at a genocide given that not only are there still Saxons, a Saxon dynasty supplanted his and created the Holy Roman Empire
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  587.  @rwolfheart6580  This whole process favors men tbf. It is also why some people keep insisting that Charles is actually not a Winsdor
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  588. Except most evidence, ranging from linguistics to contemporary sources to modern genetic research, point to large scale anglo-saxon movement to Britain. So no it almost certainly isn’t a “myth.”
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  589. Did they though? Did they?
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  590. They don’t cause much trouble but they also don’t really integrate well. They also tend to stick to their own, keep speaking their native language and hardly assimilate. Again the main difference is just they tend no to commit much crime
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  591. England did not exist before the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes because the concept of an “England” comes from them. The native Britons did not call themselves English
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  592.  @timothyhouse1622  No they don’t, they obviously focus on their own country’s history more. When it comes to most kids in school you can be glad if 10% of thr knowledge is retained
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  593. That has been the main counter argument for decades. Until recently when genetic research disproved the “small settlement” theory. I wonder why some people are so hellbent on deconstructing English identity
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  594. @Антон Александров The Germans were arrogant in general in thinking they’d be able to take one France, the UK and Russia.
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  595. Because French Catholic propaganda needed a hero
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  596. Lothar was a non German king for the simple reason that neither a German identity nor a German kingdom existed at this point. He was a Frankish king and emperor though, and directly ruled Middle Frankia, which would later be split between Burgundy, Lotharingia and Italy (with Italy retaining the Imperial title) on his death
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  597.  @dukeofwestphalia  No he absolutely didn’t. Lothar has almost nothing to do with Germany or German identity. German identity only started developing after the Karolingian kings lost power in East Frankia. This statted happening around the very early 11th century, so well after Lothar lived. As a side note, the region of Franken probably got its name the same way France did, through conquest. The Frankish Empire only integrated the region between in the 6th century, and it wasn’t where their power center was nor where the Franks lived. The Franks lived in what is now Flanders, Brabant and parts of Northern France (the original Merovingian region) and in what is now Limburg (in Belgium and the Netherlands) and in NRW primarily centered around cologne. Dutch itself is directly descended from various old Frankish dialects. And yet neither Charlemagne nor Lothar were Dutch, or German or French, in any sense. He was Germanic yes, and Frankish, and as all Karolingian kings he would his heritage would have been closely tied to the Region around Maastrich-Liege-Aachen, but calling him a German or Dutch king is anachronistic. Representing him as emperor of Middle Francia (which was dissolved and isn’t the direct predecessor to Germany anyway) is the only correct way
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  598. Rome was doing the bloodline thing at this very moment, and they had before this too
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  599.  @mrhumble2937  Lmao no, or rather it depends highly on timeperiod and even within a certain time period on the specific succession It wasn’t entirely dynastic by default, but it absolutely played a major role in deciding the succession
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  600.  @PortmanRd You can back your belief up with many contemporary sources, linguistics and genetic research though
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  601. No he doesn’t, Germanic is a far better term for a whole lot of distinct peoples, many of whom never identified as German or even explicitly Germanic. Anglo-Saxons, those that moved to Britain were never German by any definition
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  602. @ Except it doesn’t, German, in English, specifically refers to an identity of certain Germanic peoples. This “German” identity also didn’t exist yet in the 5th century. Germanic, in English, refers to a broad group of tribes and people that speak or spoke related languages or worshiped similar gods (often both). Angles and Goths were never German, in our modern way of classification they would be Germanic but even this is an identity they themselves never adopted specifically Germanic =/= German
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  603. @ And it was not German, they didn’t speak English. No Roman ever called anyone German. Germania or any other term the Romans used (which was also geographical and not always cultural) is obviously not directly matched to modern terms. And even if the Romans called them Germans, they themselves didn’t. It would just be a foreign name for disunited tribes, a derivative of which wouldn’t take hold as the name for a broader identity in the region for centuries. Just because the English name for a modern nation is derived from it doesn’t mean that Anglo-Saxons or Franks or hell Goths or Vandals were German, because they weren’t. Not to mention the Scandinavian Germanic tribes. They were Angles, or Saxons or Franks etc. Groups we now linguistically or culturally broadly lump together now, but they certainly didn’t do. German (11th century identity) is a subgroup of Germanic people (modern classical). Not the other way around. So no, Saxons and Franks didn’t speak German. They spoke Frankish or Old Saxon and they didn’t identify as German (until the development of the German identity, which the Anglo-Saxons and most Franks didn’t take part in but of course many other tribes did).
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  604. @ConradAinger Wow Tacitus wrote jn English? With English definitions of words? For the last time Germania is not Germany and Germani is not German. You completely missed the point. Anglo-Saxons were never German. And they never called themselves such. Bede refers to Germania. The “German” identity literally wouldn’t even exist on the continent for another 3-4 centuries and even then it would take another 4-5 for it to take hold. I assume you are German with a name like Conrad who feels the need to post-hoc claim tribes that weren’t German? Or are you merely ill-informed? Can you still get a refund on that degree?
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  605. They are only in favor of that because the EU, with the exception of France, is militarily inept
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  606. They’ll happily take economic migrants too, most migrants are economic
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  607.  @valenrn8657  To abolish the veto
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  608.  @valenrn8657  So?
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  609.  @valenrn8657  It doesn’t really though. It was clear to everyone with eyes that this “American guarantee” didn’t actually mean that the US would commit to a defensive alliance with Ukraine
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  610.  @valenrn8657  To be honest I think the US is probably doing more than anyone ever expected them to do under the Budapest memorandum. No one has ever believed that the US would send its own troops to defend Ukraine, or would be obligated to do so. As for nuclear proliferation, every dictator or country already knows that having nukes is the best guarantee for safety, especially North Korea. Nothing has changed here
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  611.  @valenrn8657  Obviously the US is under no obligation, that was the whole point
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  612.  @valenrn8657  No it said it was, but you are hyping yourself up over nuclear proliferation, when no one was looking at this situation as a reason to acquire or not acquire nukes because of US guarantees If anything would inspire other countries to get nukes because of this, it would be because of the Russian invasion. And anyway, the US invasion of Iraq or breaking off ties with Iran, or any other time random dictators or rulers get overthrown by the US have been far bigger inspirations to acquire nukes then the US supposedly not helping Ukraine (which they are so idk what the whole argument os over anyway). Even if that support is dependent on politics, all support is
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  613.  @valenrn8657  What are those exact obligations? Seems to me the US is respecting Ukrainian sovereignty under their 1991 borders
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  614.  @valenrn8657  Seems to me they only offered explicit (tacit) support in cases where Ukraine would be threatened with Nuclear weapons. And again the US is actually massively funding Ukraine through weapons and training. So they are more than holding up their end of the bargain. Russia isn’t struggling like they are for no reason
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  615.  @valenrn8657  Thanks for reaffirming that the US (and some nato allies) are spending an insane of amount of money on this More than making good on their “security guarantees”
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  616.  @valenrn8657  But the US completely adhered to the first 2 and they are doing for more than a useless UN complaint lmao Also the last one seems to refer to nukes
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  617.  @valenrn8657  yeah an act OR threat in which nukes are involved. Anyway we don’t have to present our case to the judge here. The US is doing far more than they have any obligation to. I would argue that 10s of billions in arms aid is more useful than crying to the Un security council So you don’t have to be afraid
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  618.  @valenrn8657  Why are you comparing this to Syria or Iraq or whatever. What is the poin
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  619.  @valenrn8657  It is lmao, Ukraine is receiving more in aid than Russia’s defense spending. You are just fearmongering over nothing
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  620.  @valenrn8657  Newsflash, that is literally always the case, and the support is still going strong
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  621.  @AltaiAustro-Hungarian  More so the Germans antagonisong the English bu building a fleet
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  622. The US doesn’t pay for anyone’s healthcare. You pay more per capita than most other countries and it still sucks. The problem is your healthcare system, not Israeli weappn grants
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  623.  @angiek1827  I am saying that even if you didn’t pay for Israel’s defense, which you don’t do anyway, you still wouldn’t have universal healthcare. You already pay more for healthcare than other countries, like Israel. It is a choice to have it be run like an insurance scam.
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  624. For most of them religion isn’t even relevant anymore to begin with. And their Christian heritage is closer and far better documented than a far away tribal past
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  625.  @GabberPinda  Alsof mensen die niet Fries zijn Fries spreken
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  626. The Christians are your ancestors too
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  627. Churchill was very much an elitst dickhead, even for his time. His overseeing of the war and victory over Germany have snowed over how much of a weird warmonger he actually was
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  628.  @lukeappleberry827  They were simply kingdoms and cultures at conflict. And the pagans lost. Making any judgments about either side is retarded
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  629.  @timokohler6631  Croatia is dissapearing already because all of their people move to western Europe
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  630. @ Well duh, but Poland and the US signing a defensive pact is not “starting” this conflict. Russia also needs to accept that isn’t 1950 anymore, and that they are nothing compared to the US. And that there is a reason why all the countries bordering it seem to want protection
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  631. Probably not that extreme, but is political in the sense that Ukraine probably feels pressure to show that they are capable at using the massive amounts of equipment given to them. Which is why war rhetoric from westoids is so bad
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  632. @Spicyleaves WW2 was done for Germany when they ended up at war with the USSR and the US at the same time. France and Great Britain basically did nothing forb months after Germany invaded Poland
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  633. He shouldn’t be named clovis at all, that wasn’t his name. His actual name was probably Hlodowig
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  634.  @harrynewiss4630  Yeah, and even the origins of current royal families are unknown past a certain point or based on speculation and assumption. Anyone who claims to have conclusive evidence of their ancestry before the year 1000 is either prince William in disguise, or making exaggerated claims based on faulty research
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  635.  @RackerPaS  Where did you get the Frisian from? Saxon and Franconian (not modern day Franken) would make sense as those just made up a large part of the Germanic people inside the HRE, but there were hardly any Frisians
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  636.  @RackerPaS  I could find absolutely nothing about this
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  637. The nickname charles the fat was not contemporary. It comes from the 12th century
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  638.  @davidpaterson2309  There is actually shockingly little Celtic in the English language. To the point where this is one of the main arguments to support a large scale Germanic invasion/immigration as opposed to a ruling Germanic elite class (akin to the Franks in Gaul).
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  639. Actually it ended with the dissolution of the HRE
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  640.  @NaSaSh1087  Russia is literally at war right now, so if you mean that, no it isn’t exactly the same As for Germany, I would say they can be proud of many elements of their past. But obviously not of their ww2 history. They don’t have to feel guilty for it either, unless if they happen to be one of the last living SS guys. And they were probably worse in those 12 years than most colonial empires
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  641.  @jesuscarrno5742  Sometimes the writers write the history
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  642.  @MrNonejm They never say they are in favor of unpopular policies, and they will do them anyway. When Western Europe took in Turks and North Africans they said it would be temporary “guest” workers. Temporary has been 4-5 generations
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  643.  @wpjohn91 When people say they arw anti-immigration they usually mean a certain type of immigrant
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  644. I guess it helps when someone shows you that bar you previously held for the lowest point, can be set even lower
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  645.  @palastofhistory4026  The oster conspiracy is one thing, but I don’t think it shows that much character to start working against a man you tried your best to befriend years earlier when he is in a position where he cannot possibly win anymore. It shows sels preservation or opportunism or possibly both
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  646.  @palastofhistory4026  Well he had no hope for himself, but he and his relatives definitely hoped that the nazis might bring back the monarchy, especially early on of course. And they (not Wilhelm hiself but some of his sons) provided the nazis with conservative support Sorry, didn’t see you said prince, that is true
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  647. As if anyone alive cares about pre-medieval population migrations lmao
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  648.  @FenrirRobu  The term central Europe is just as arbitrary as east-west
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  649.  @wardakawababa6213  Dude who cares. The video is in English. Don’t be dramatic Also it would be like you going to an English video and complaining about how they pronounce the W, oh wait…
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  650.  @wardakawababa6213  No that doesn’t make a difference, words can be borrowed, and this isn’t even a word it is a name. I doubt you correct that Frenchman on his pronunciation of mannequin or something, a word that comes from Dutch You are just being pedantic
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  651.  @TurquazCannabiz Jij doet toch net zo stoer achter je schermpje?
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  652.  @TurquazCannabiz  En ik adviseer je om eens na te denken voor je wat zegt, dan lijkt het in ieder geval of je iq boven de 10 is
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  653.  @TurquazCannabiz  En ik adviseer je om niet zo ruig te doen. Het is een beetje gênant Maar ja wat verwacht je ook anders van jullie volk
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  654.  @TurquazCannabiz  Wat gaan we zien?
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  655.  @TurquazCannabiz  Wat een dom volk hahahah Een kans zegt ie ook. Alsof ie wat voor stelt. Hoef je niet bij de ww te zijn voor je uitkering ofzo?
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  656.  @TurquazCannabiz  Moet je niet bij de ww zijn ofzo voor je uitkering?
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  657.  @TurquazCannabiz  Je bent wel echt een beetje een kneusje he? Lekker ruig doen online hahaha
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  658.  @TurquazCannabiz  Voel je je nu ruig? Beetje leuk doen op youtube? Face to face hahahah man laat me niet lachen, klein mannetje met een groot ego
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  659.  @TurquazCannabiz  Face to face? Hahaha, voel je je nu beter? Een beetje ruig doen hier? Ego mannetje, zal wel een onzeker Turkje zijn
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  660.  @TurquazCannabiz  Face to face Hahaha, voel je je nu beter? Een beetje ruig doen hier? Gefrustreerd ego mannetje
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  661.  @TurquazCannabiz  Hahahah ja waar woon ik dan? Ruig mannetje
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  662. @ Dus je weet waar ik woon maar je kan het niet zeggen. Klinkt als onzin vriend. Maar is goed, ik zie je wel als je opblaast of bij opsporing verzocht ofzo. Tot snel gefrustreerde Turk
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  663.  @TurquazCannabiz  Ik dacht dat jullie daar zo trots op zijn. Vind je vast niet erg. Anyway succes met zoeken ruige boy
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  664.  @TurquazCannabiz  Ben je toch? Dus dan zul je er vast trots op zijn. Waarom weet ik ook niet maar zo is jullie volk nu eenmaal. Anyway succes met zoeken ;)
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  665.  @RavusNox-z5i  The Norse are also Germanic. Germanic =/= German
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  666.  @kam7r882  Not really though, there are massive cultural and demographic changes that happen in Gaul after Vercingetorix gets defeated
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  667.  @cernel5799  Distinction without a difference for the most part
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  668.  @cernel5799  Again, makes no functional difference at all because usually people just mean Italy, Japan and Germany
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  669. Be that as it may, the Germanic presence in what is now France coincides with their conversion to Christianity, so there wouldn’t be any “holy” sites
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  670.  @apveening  In nederland niet, maar het is toch een regionale taal. Dat het nier herkend is bevestigd alleen maar het punt. Dat zorgt er dus voor dat je het niet mag spreken en dat je dus gedwongen wordt een andere taal te spreken. Meer mensen spreken Limburgs dan Fries, en er zijn nog meer minderheidstalen die op scholen niet gesproken mogen worden. Overigens is er geen linguïstisch onderscheid tussen wat een “taal” en een “dialect.” Linguïstisch is Limburgs gewoon een regionale taal (en is ook op Europees niveau zo erkend). Dat de Nederlandse overheid niet zit te wachten op meer nationaal erkende talen staat daar volledig los van
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  671.  @apveening  Fijn voor jou maar dat betekent niet dat er geen verschil is. Ik ken genoeg mensen die Limburgs totaal niet begrijpen. Limburgs en Fries staan het verst af van standaard Nederlands. En als je niet bekend bent met Limburgs, en dan bedoel ik echt Limburgs en niet gewoon het accent van iemand uit Venlo, dat je er weinig van begrijpt Maar zelfs als je het kunt boeit dat totaal niet. Want het is wel degelijk een regionale taal die je niet op scholen ken en mag spreken. Of Bert Veening het snap maakt niets uit
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  672.  @silveryuno  Neither solves the problem though. The core issue is that the old people who now need to be taken care of didn't have enough kids to sustain the system. So either it collapses or we create a Europe were every young persion is an Indian expat and every old person is a native European at death's doorstep
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  673.  @Fuzz82  Burgundy was a political entity. The modern day Flemish are Frankish, not Burgundian or Celtic.
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  674.  @griffinmckenzie7203  Even though they make way more sensw
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  675.  @N0Time  The Franks aren’t French though. The Franks conquered Gaul and the Frankish nobility became a key part of the creation of French identity. But French is a latin language not descended from Frankish. And the French people are mostly romanized celts, not Franks. There is a distinct difference between the two
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  676. Both are correct
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  677.  @daviddavidk2352 Yes it is, it is just called Lower Saxony, Niedersachsen. The Saxons didn’t all leave their homeland The State of Saxony, Sachsen, is the one that has nothing to do with the Saxons. That region only got the name Saxony as a result of some dynastic politics
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  678.  @jacquelinevanderkooij4301  Frisians didn’t have their own political entity which is why they tend to be overlooked. Even the Jutes tend to be overlooked and they had a prominent kingdom in Kent. And Frisians were probably also easily absorbed into the Saxon population
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  679.  @redcapetimetraveler7688  Actually they didn’t really have a capital, Aachen was just one place he liked to stay at more. They had a moving court
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  680.  @gadpivs  Tbh that does exactly like a coincidence, the Saxons get forced to submit and Danes raid a monastery that is at best vaguely connected to Charlemagne?
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  681.  @gadpivs  I feel like the advisor connection is incredibly vague though. That is the whole point. So some guy from Northumbria adviced Charlemagne? Why not actually raid Charlemagne then, or an ally or vassal of his. Seems like a coincidence and that Charlemagne wouldn’t be very bothered with a distant raid
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  682.  @gadpivs  That is entirely conjecture on your part. There is no evidence for this, especially when earlier you said this must have been some form of targeted response. Also it isn’t like the entirety for the Frankish Empire was well defended, hence all the later raids and even attacks on larger cities. For their motivation though, you can make up anything you like, but the adviser connection seems like an extreme stretch. I feel like small scale raiders wouldn’t know or care anout some adviser at the Frankish court
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  683.  @gadpivs  It seems highly unlikely that was it targeted attack on Charlemagne though. The connection to him is strenuous at best and I doubt he cared overly much. Especially, again, if this was done by raiders who were more likely out for plunder than geopolitical plays
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  684.  @gadpivs  Again this don’t seem like events that are directly connected. A random monastery is raided and a few years later a march is created to act as a buffer against Danes? He couldn’t exactly have created a march on the border before actually pacifying the border region to begin with. Also it is my understanding that there were raids perpetrated by Scandinavians before Lindesfarne, just not in Britain. Why they picked up in the early 9th century is generally uncertain, but you’d need to show some evidence that this was about religion that goes beyond conjecture. Why wouldn’t they have started earlier? The Saxons were only the latest of the Germanic people to convert. From what I can tell, there is no consensus as to why raids picked up around the 9th century. But I have not seen a direct source pointing to a religious reaction or purposeful containment of Christianity. Because if that was the case, why would priests be allowed to set up churches and convert people in Denmark in the 820s and 830s? And why would later kings voluntarily convert even though they were never militarily subjugated? Or why would priests not have written about this and used it as a sort of rallying cry for Christianity? You’d expect that if priests were getting raided and Scandinavians were invading for religious reasons that they’d at least make some note about what is then basically a Norse holy war
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  685.  @gadpivs  Yeah the march existed after the saxons were pacified, these are just logical next steps as that would have been the border of the empire. Also you said a lot, but no direct evidence for the relationship between the pacification of the saxons and the viking raids was actually given. A simple quote doesn’t change that. Even the quotes say it os just a theory based, there is no direct evidence for it. And I find it a very unconvincing theory. There are too many holes in the story for it to make sense, especially without evidence
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  686.  @gadpivs  You can absolutely have credible evidence for historical events. It can be in the form of a written source from that time period or archeological evidence. But this theory is just very unlikely to me. I feel like if religious fervor had been the driving power behind this development, then there would be some indication for that. Just because it may have been a factor doesn’t mean anything. It may have been a factor that they just hated Denmark and desperately wanted to leave. Do I have any credible evidence for that? No. So that puts my new theory on the same level as the religious fervor theory. Btw the overpopulation narrative is also being questioned now by historians The growth of wealthy towns seems to me to be the most straightforward and logical explanation for increased raids on Britain and Frankia. To me the religious fervor theory is disproved by the lack of conversion efforts, the lack of targeted raids on kingdoms supposedly responsible for this development and the Norse kings allowing missionaries of thie very religion they are apparently going to war with to enter their lands and establish churches.
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  687.  @gadpivs  judging by the titles of some of those works I suspect they were quote mined. I doubt a history france work goes into great depth of explaining the reasoning for Danish raids lol And you can find plenty of sources for the overpopulation theory too, that doesn’t change it is no longer taken for a fact Anyway, you don’t need to show me a quite by king Rolfgard the Bloodeye saying he wants to raid lindesfarne because he hates Charlemagne, just anything that isn’t 100% conjecture would work. Like we know the wealthy towns attracted them because they targeted them and kept looting them lmao. We don’t need an account for every viking on the boat that says they went for cash when we can see that they consistently took all the cash.
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  688.  @gadpivs  It matters because that doesn’t make them experts on that topic. They probably just quoted someone else. Also it doesn’t have to be removed from Wikipedia, clearly it is a theory, just a dumb one Anyway, you don’t need to show me a quite by king Rolfgard the Bloodeye saying he wants to raid lindesfarne because he hates Charlemagne, just anything that isn’t 100% conjecture would work. Like we know the wealthy towns attracted them because they targeted them and kept looting them lmao. We don’t need an account for every viking on the boat that says they went for cash when we can see that they consistently took all the cash
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  689. Moroccans (and Turks) are in the Netherlands because the Christian Conservatives and pro business liberals let them in to do cheap labour in the 1960s and 1970s. Seriously the entire period when Moroccans were coming here it was an alliance of Christian conservatives and Liberals that were in charge Which goes to show that even from the beginning “conservatives” could not be trusted on immigration, and they still cannot be trusted. Similar to how Boris opened the flood gates for you guys post Brexit. All they care about is markets and a cheap exploitable labour force
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  690.  @dairoleon2682  Well, I don’t know who started it in the Uk of the top of my head, but since this was about the Netherlands, yeah, turns out Christian Conservatives and business interests did have disproportionate power in the 60s. The same goes for Germany btw where the Turkish guest worker program was started under the Christian Conservative government of a certain Konrad Adenauer.
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  691.  @BoxStudioExecutive  None of those languages existed when Arminius was around
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  692.  @claudiussmith8798  90% mixed with “Romans” west of the rhine is a complete exaggeration. I am a Frank too, at the border of the Ripurian and Salian Franks, but if 90% of the people here had always been romanized Gauls then we’d be speaking French here, not Dutch or regional Frankish languagess
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  693.  @BoxStudioExecutive  That your point doesn’t make sense either
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  694. Charlemagne was a real figure though, and not a historical invention
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  695.  @kasiar1540  the inquisition was extremely mild, there were hardly any convictions and even when convicted most weren’t sentenced to death. The Crusades have always been a shit example for this though because it started as an effort to contain muslim aggression (after they had taken over many Christian people in the middle east and north africa)
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  696. Even if they had taken 0 German lands, the direct occupation and the invention if nuclear weapons would have made sure of that too.
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  697.  @fyrdman2185  Oh I agree. Scottish people have adopted a completely fake historical narrative where they were oppressed and invaded by the English. Even though what actually happened is that the Scottish elite happily went along with it, and at most you can say that Highlanders (aka Celtic people) were oppressed for a time. But lowland Scots oppressed them too lmao And ultimately even the highland Scots were happily integrated into the Empire and participating in the British Empire alongside the English
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  698.  @praisethelordpig1212  The Scots didn’t come out on top though? You’d have to be quite delusional to think that England wasn’t the dominant power in the British Isles.
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  699.  @praisethelordpig1212  They didn’t come out on top though? They fended off invasion but let’s not kid ourselves here, England was always the dominant power
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  700.  @praisethelordpig1212  Bannockburn secured Scottish independence sure. But the Scottish never dominated England. Some Dynastic coincidence leading to a Scottish king doesn’t change that. A Scottish king who immediately moved to England because that is where the real power and wealth were.
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  701.  @praisethelordpig1212  The Romans didn’t conquer the English, the “English” didn’t come to Britain until after the Romans withdrew from Britain. And the Scots didn’t exist yet either, as the Gaels (Scoti) hadn’t invaded yet either, or at best they had just started to settle in what would become Scotland, or Alba
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  702.  @Arjonko  Willem-Alexander is incredibly bad at pr, but these poll numbers mean nothing. They will probably go up again, and there is absolutely no political nor popular desire to get rid of those leeches
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  703. Obviously there was no genocide against Saxons. There is nothing that suggests Saxons were killed for being Saxon. A Saxon dynasty even took over East Francia and started the process of forming a German state and identity
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  704.  Steiner 01  And because they revolted, but yes there was obviously an effort to stamp out paganism, not saxonism
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  705.  @drengr811  Uhm no, you could convert to Christianity and still be a Saxon. That is what most of them did. So it wasn’t an attempt to kill the Saxon people, just their Pagan religion. Which the Franks themselves obviously worshipped centuries earlier without genociding themselves when they converted
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  706.  @drengr811  I already said it was a “war”against their religion which is obviously a part of any group’s culture. But not against the people belonging to that group themselves. Again the Franks voluntarily converted, is that a mass self genocide then? No. Religion and the group of people are not the same, regardless of their Weltanschauung of race (which you are just projecting on them in the first place). Also yes I am European, part of one of the people descended of the Franks, so you can chalk it up to my centuries long genetic bias against them or something lmao
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  707.  @drengr811  What other comments? I only saw one notification and I don’t see any other comments in this chain
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  708.  @drengr811  Probably, annoying when that happens
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  709. I mean, not that shocking that countries whose borders are mosly inside the Frankish Empire go back in some way to that Empire.
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  710.  @johndorilag4129  Screw that, we had an Empire before Spain even existed
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  711.  @BlackBoxEnte  They broke one anglo supremacy, and themselves in the process. Only for the anglo supremacy they broke to be replaced by a worse anglo supremacy
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  712. Veel dingen kun je überhaupt niet “doorrekenen,” zeker op de lange termijn
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  713.  @Future183  Lmao it is quite funny how much of an idiot you are. I’ll give you the answer though because I am so much better than you, Germanic people would also include all of Scandinavia (people who aren’t German) and even the English (again people who very much aren’t German). Oh and of course the Dutch. Germans aren’t the only descendants of Germanic tribes. You are welcome though, for this basic information that was apparently beyond you
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  714.  @puchokoffie8152  Look them up, there are too many to list
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  715.  @stariyczedun  I wasn’t talking about them, I was talking about the support for these policies in western europe
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  716.  @stariyczedun  Because as you said, they don’t care about Russians. But it is a clear case of hypocrisy, if not from governments, from these rabid bro Ukranian westerners who seem to be just anti-Russian and bloodthirsty (over a conflict they won’t have to fight in)
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  717.  @SS-ln9dy  The practical implications are still the same, especially in the case of Turks , where their government tries to control their diaspora population through intimidation. And third generation Russians in Latvia didn’t colonize anything, they were just born. Born into regions that have now been majority Russian for a while. That is just what happens, ethnic borders shift. I don’t blame Latvia for trying to protect their nation, but don’t pretend there is a difference
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  718.  @mguitarte  Learn to read, they are majorities in certain areas and even on a national level they are a very large minority group
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  719. The TikTok ban/forced sale is good. Why would any country voluntarily let a rival country propagandize their youth lmao
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  720. 4500 isn’t that much
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  721.  @AviationAddict69  Yeah sure?
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  722.  @pedanticradiator  Yes that is what I said
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  723.  @NKOTCstuggi  Eh, the Alps cover the south and a oart of east and west, the west would have been the major issue, but even there the Rhine provided some respite. The east is definitely more open but luckily for the Germans, these lands were generally underpopulated and lacked unity. So it wasn’t a real theat
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  724. Hamas killed more civilians in a day than the IRA or the British killed during the troubles, but the Irish refuse to accept that a ceasefire with such an organization is not poasible
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  725.  @floatahhh  A lot of them are, a lot of then aren’t
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  726.  @Rildar  Danzig wasn’t even a part of the Duchy or Kingdom of Poland until the divisions of Poland
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  727. Germany wasn’t punished any harder than they themselves triednto punish Russia though
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  728.  @EuIenspiegel  But no one cares about the houses and where some ancestor 1000 years ago who gave it the name came from. That doesn’t make you German, or not And you can make the argument that people like Victoria were culturally German. Hell King George I actually was German. But Queen Elizabeth and King Charles are definitely not German, regardless of their paternal ancestor’s name
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  729.  @glenthor2123  No it is not, that is based on completely unreliable self reporting Most are English
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  730.  @raven-sf3di Not really, the Celtic element got whiped out. Genetically it didn’t but that doesn’t mean anything. All northwest europeans are closely related anyway
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  731. It wasn’t their kin, the Franks killed many saxons because of their rebellions against Frankish rule and their religion, not for being “Saxon.” The Anglo-Saxons (who were more than just Saxons, but also Jutes, Angles and Frisians) were Christian by this point. I doubt they’d care much some pagans far from home were killed
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  732. There isn’t going to be a third world war over this. Calm down
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  733.  @locustswarminbound8702  Which is a peak liberal tm take. Both sides in world war two committed “war crimes” beyond counting because this was a brutal total war. And for the most part only the losers faced any sort of official punishment. And this will always be the case
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  734.  @zues9614  Japan had it coming
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  735.  @user-kj9hk  Free France was actually not considered the legimate government, because it wasn't. Free France was the pro allied faction of France, the actual pre war government was succeeded by Vichy France. Just because Free France usurped the position of legitimate government at the tail end of the war doesn't mean that it was considered legimitate at the start, or that everyone on the allied side agreed that it should be considered a full member of the allies
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  736.  @GeneralYen  France officially surrendered to Germany and was basically out of the war from the perspective of the British. Their contribution was also obviously much less than the US. And again, Free France was not considered the legitimate government of France until the last part of the war, when the US had been in the war for years. I think some, in particular Americans, consider France an axis power because of Vichy France.
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  737.  @tibsky1396  After World War 2 France had no leg to stand on though, especially when compared to an actual great power like the US. They can count their lucky starts they had de Gaulle
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  738. What about the thousands upon thousands of dead and wounded that would be required to take it? I don’t understand why people are so bloodthirsty. Well I do, it is easy to be a keyboard warrior
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  739. >not having outdated rules >parliament approved royal marriages 🤡
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  740.  @apveening  I recommend you read again what I said. Non-religious is not a religious group.
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  741. Flanders is basically covered by the Franks
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  742.  @FiveLiver  The 0 was never truly expected obviously. The point was to make the Torries as small as they could possibly be. And conservative figures like Peter over here going against that at the very end certainly did not help
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  743.  @cruzaider5339  I guess it also weakened the British Empire Ultimately though when people say the war was for nothing they mean that no one actually ended uo gaining anything worth the loss of life
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  744.  @derrickperry5644  Because there are too many of them already
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  745.  @cambs0181 ot necessarily, a constitution just describes the rules. Theoretically the constitution could just say the king has all the power and can do what he wants It generally describes the rules and laws by which the country’s government functions
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  746. Unless if you think Russia can be totally militarily defeated there will have to be some sort of settlement with Russia. For now both Ukraine and Russia want to continue fighting, but it is more likely that at some point they will negotiate than that one will military defeat the other
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  747. Omdat we helaas te veel buitenlanders hebben in grote steden. Buitenlanders en linkse Nederlanders die de wolf in schaapskleren niet herkennen. En dan krijg je dus burgemeesters die niks hebben met Nederland en niet Nederlands zijn
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  748.  @Aardappelschijf Dat ze de dezelfde rechten hebben is helaas zo. Maar alleen een Nederland paspoort maakt je echt geen Nederlander.
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  749.  @Aardappelschijf  oh maar daar heb ik niet veel tijd voor nodig. Wat dacht je van Nederlandse afkomst? Hamas steunende Moslims wiens voorouders op zijn vroegst in de jaren 60 hier heen gekomen zijn, zijn het in ieder geval niet
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  750. The grass is always greener. More parties doesn’t equate more good
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  751. Except, if he was actually real, he didn’t. One of his descendants did centuries after his death
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  752.  @marysia5365  Not all migrations were limited to the same continent, Hungarians, Huns, Turks, Cumans and Avars just to name a few migrated from Asia to Europe. And of course many Europeans migrated to Africa, Asia and the Americas. And it doesn’t matter that there were migrations from Asia to Europe. That is not a valid to capitulate and surrender our nations to foreigners now. We need to be the dominant group, no one else
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  753.  @marysia5365  Well, to a degree. Turkic peoples (Turks and Tartars) definitely settled in significant enough numbers to assimilate previously European populations into their own. The same goes for arabs in Spain, although they were later driven out or assimilated into the Spanish population again. The main point still stands though. People did migrate from Asia/Africa into Europe. And it does matter. Should we give up in our culture and people because 1000 years ago some Asians moved here? No
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  754.  @Vitalis94 Most anglos probably hardly care about it
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  755.  @kevinmsft  I mean Pearl Harbor is was relatively recent and triggered the US (at that point the main industrial power) joining the largest war ever. The Baltic crusades are just one of the many feudal era European wars. I don’t think they had to be whiped out because they were inconvenient. Almost all of those conflicts are completely forgotten And Prussia, after the Northern Crusades and Ostsiedlung, is one of the most popular historical states in the Western World. And it doesn’t even exist anymore. If anything that is the Prussia “they” would want you to forget about, not the Baltic Prussia
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  756. Istanbul alone has a bigger population than all of Greece lmao They aint gettin nothing back
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  757. Jews in Europe didn’t elect and support a movement that wanted to destroy Europe and it’s people
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  758.  @DieNibelungenliad  By the time Charlemagne was around it was almost time for Danish and Norwegian migrations. The Anglo-Saxons had already settled
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  759. It is funny the way people talk about this, like it is a game. Even though these setbacks are thousands of Ukrainians dying
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  760. For what?
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  761.  @gijsv8419  We should just also have labor day, fucking right wing governments
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  762.  @matheus.bueno47  It worked though, the Saxons were assimilated so well that one would end up reviving Charlemagne’s empire as the Holy Roman Empire
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  763.  @nagameel7324  The intial settlers were. But they prerry quickly became French. Both culturally but also by marrying locals
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  764.  @aaronwylie6928  Well they never conquered most of the Germanic people. But the ones west of the Rhine were obviously conquered
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  765.  @jakeg3733  I fail to see the point. How can you rebel against Rome if they didn’t conquer you in the first place? Also you are just talking about the very tail end of the Roman Empire in the west. That doesn’t undo the previous centuries where they did rule over Germanic peoples in Gaul with more stability
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  766. The constitution that limits the power of the king was created after the establishment of the monarchy though. It was taken on in 1848 to stave off the threat of revolution. But King William I had much more power than his son did
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  767.  @EintagsFliegenTV  you ok?
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  768.  @EintagsFliegenTV  I think so
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  769.  @user-lv6rn9cf8m  Yeah it is always weird when Germany gets seperated from the Netherlands and France. Like you can't tell me that the people in NRW or BW have more in common with the Czechs than with the Dutch or the French people in the Alsace
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  770. Their original homeland wasn’t the Netherlands though, they migrated from the eastern bank of the Rhine into what is now the Eastern and Southern Netherlands and Eastern and central Flanders/Wallonia
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  771.  @meh2972  they Obviously came from further East, otherwise it wouldn’t have been necessary to allow them to settle in the Low Countries, as they would have already been there. And the Salians, or the Franks that would become them aren’t the earliest mention of the Franks either, their earliest mentions don’t specifically say anything about which tribe made them up
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  772.  @meh2972  If they came from the North then they must have been Frisian or Saxon, as there is not a lot of land above Saland. Unless of course you suggested they came out of the sea. But if it is the case that where they came from before they were recorded by the Romans does not matter, then it is also not relevant that some of them once lived in the Eastern Netherlands, before they were driven out by the Saxons anyway. It is not a Frankish dialect that is spoken there natively now. And on top of that, the Merovingians centered around what is now Wallonia and Northern France, certainly not the modern Netherlands. So if they are the only thing that matters, then the Franks are apparently associated primarily with those regions. The Netherlands as such were completely irrelevant in the Merovingian period, with the exception of maybe Maastricht.
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  773.  @meh2972  Dutch is not the historic regional language, it is a form of Saxon. Now of course because of the integration into the Dutch they primarily speak Dutch now. But I was talking about their historical language. Because again the people of the Eastern Netherlands are Saxon, and have been since the Franks left and were driven out. Well if the Franks came from the North as you suggested, then that doesn’t leave a lot of room for other regions they could have come from. As you are such an expert you must know north of Saland, were the Frisians and Saxons. Also I am not saying the modern Dutch don’t come from the Franks. I am saying that the Franks aren’t originally from the Netherlands. But the people of the Netherlands, specifically the area below the Rhine, as above the Rhine it is far more mixed (or just straight up Frisian and Saxon not Frankish), are Frankish. So you just didn’t read what I said Lastly it is you who clearly doesn’t know what he is talking about. The Karolingians were centered around Aachen, Maastricht and Liege, basically the Rhine-Meuse valleys. The Merovingians were firmly based around Tournai, Lille and then various cities in Northern France after the conquest of Gaul. Their power base was certainly not anywhere close to the modern Netherlands. Because the Netherlands at this time (again above the Rhine) were primarily Frisian and Saxon. Please don’t state such obvious nonsense, it betrays that you don’t actually know the differences between the early and later Frankish period. Which is especially funny when you accuse me of ignorance. The Dutch (most of them) and the modern Flemish, are Frankish. But they are migrators, they didn’t originally come from the low countries.
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  774.  @sohflipz4439  He was forced to abdicate his throne
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  775.  @ax.f-1256  They definitely wanted to get of Wilhem, but the social democrats felt pressured by communist revolutionaries in Berlin and thus decided to abolish the monarchy as a whole. And that decision was never overturned, so the German people didn’t feel strong enough to being back the monarch. I didn’t say the reparations led to hitler, they led to Germany being in shamles for a few years Also the emperor fled to the Netherlands because he was told he had been forced to abdicate already. Lastly, Churchill was an elitist bastard, so of course he would support a German Prussian monarchy. If it hadn’t been for the stock market crash, we’d probably still have the weimar republic
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  776.  @ax.f-1256  Absolutely false. Hitler was not at all “inevitable” and he would have been a failure was it not for a global economic crash. Do you actually known about the politics and figures of the Weimar republic? Of the economic and political stabilization in the late 20s? The Weimar Republic was finally doing better, when the hard times you mention came in the form of another economic disaster. That is when people elected Hitler. Your whole rant about a centuries old monarchy is just unfounded nonsense. Finally, Wilhelm fled because he was overthrown, he didn’t have a throne to come back to
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  777.  @ax.f-1256  You are so wrong I don’t even know where to begin. Hitler got incredibly lucky to end up where he did. His popularity, and that of the communists was decreasing before the 1929 stock market crash, because when people have food and stability they won’t vote for or support radicals, that is just how it is. If you know your own history so well, then go and have a look at the elections before and after 1929. In 1928, the nazis are a complete fringe force, that no one takes seriously, with less 2% of the vote. Then, suddenly one election later in 1930 they are at 18%. The communists actually took the lead in that election too. I wonder why these radicals suddenly became more popular in between 1928 and 1930. Truly a mystery Tbh you sound more like an incredibly biased monarchist than anything else. Like dude, you can start a revolution with a monarchy, that revolution was brewing and the social democrats tried to stop it by forcing Willy to go. Now a revolution still happened (and it successfully applied enough pressure to at least overthrow the monarchy) but they tried
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  778.  @ax.f-1256  You clearly don’t know the basica about the weimar era, just look at the elections before and after 1929 lol
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  779.  @ax.f-1256  Lol you can’t even argue because they refute your point. Hitler was a laughing stock with 2% of the vote in 1928. I don’t care what your family members allegedly said, they were clearly wrong, maybe they were just nazis themselves and therefore biased
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  780.  @ax.f-1256  Clearly you don’t know anything though, but Germans are nothing if not arrogant
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  781.  @ax.f-1256  No you apparently don’t, which is not a bad thing. I am sure there are people that know more about my country than I do. Plenty of Germans know next to nothing of their history
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  782.  @ax.f-1256  Actually I completely forgot to mention this but I also spoke to people from that time and they told me exactly what I said. I guess now you must accept it Anyway idc what your nazis relatives told you (if they even did) in hindsight
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  783.  @ax.f-1256  Sorry I didn’t read all of that
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  784.  @xshme e VVD pretends to be conservative. They aren’t even anti immigration outside of the election season because they want a larger labor force The are socially liberal but above all pro business The CU is weird, it sort of caters to slightly more progressive religious people that still want to vote for a religious party. Like the friendly version of the SGP
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  785.  @DutchSimmer1  The Low Countries were just as much a part of the HRE as the rest of them, he just spent most of his time there, as he was also raised there.
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  786.  @jorenbaplu5100 Which is why it is time to tie elderly care and pensions to having kids. Like it was 100 years ago where people had kids in part so someone could take care of them. No kids? No state pension and far longer waiting lists for elderly care
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  787.  @Vaelor.B  For Louis you are talking the 9th century, but not for every emperor obviously. I didn’t dispute that he wasn’t king of Germany, he wasn’t. But there are contemporary sources starting in the 10th century that refer to some of them as German kings (be that as Teutonic or Tuisch) or to a broader German (Tuische or Teutonic again) realm. I wasn’t talking about anything referencing Germania as yes, those are different concepts So yes it was actually directly referred to as a German realm in multiple contemporary sources and documents. Hence why I said it definitely at least existed as a cultural concept.
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  788.  @wich1 The BBB is a meme party but it would be funny
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  789.  @Luredreier There is no way we are going to change to a different system than capitalism
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  790.  @wich1  It would be hilarious to see them try to govern
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  791. @ Your own politicians who betrayed you. You left the EU, and you are just as shafted as before, if not more so. Nothing actually changed structurally and you even have more third world immigrants than before. On paper leaving the EU could have been used to “take back control” but you actually have to do it lmao. Instead you got the same thing before you left the EU and the same thing we in the EU still have, both on the EU and national levels. Weak, spineless politicians. And in reality, especially with the Uk having been a net contributor, you can even tell the EU to piss off when you are still a member (Poland and the best example Hungary). The EU wouldn’t even have been able to fine the UK which is their go to method of punishment or coercion
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  792.  @ste2442  Your domestic politicians. Leaving the EU could have been used to seize back control over your own laws and borders, but you have to acually do it lmao Meanwhile you’ve got more immigrants from worse countries than before and you are left with aldi Lenin in charge.
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  793.  @ste2442  I typed this perfect eloquent reply, with watertight logic, and youtube deleted it lmao. So in short. Your weak treasonous domestic politicians have always been the problem
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  794.  @ste2442  Your own politicians
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  795.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  He spoke Frankish and Latin and probably Greek
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  796.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  And old high German. But those oaths are not written during the time of Charlemagne
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  797.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  Lmao first of all it is not even known for sure where he was actually born. But even if he was born in Liege that wouldn’t necessarily make his mother tongue Vulgar Latin. Not only were the main Karling lands Germanic as well (Maastricht-Liege-Aachen), but the Franks are specifically known for having been a ruling class elite in the Latin speaking parts of their Kingdoms. Meaning that a lot of them kept speaking their mother tongue anyway, like is the case with the Karlings. His native language was definitely a Germanic Frankish regional language. Contemporary sources from his own time, like Einhard, confirm that. That is how we also know he did learn Latin and Greek.
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  798.  @ОлегВоло-с2н  Ah ok you are just trolling, fair enough
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  799.  @NexusOfTheUniverse Him and his traitorous party of aristocrats had and have it coming
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  800. @Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin Quite rich coming from you mr Putin
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  801.  Proud Englishman  Rip the angles and Jutes
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  802.  @TotallMax13  Why would we want first invest in people to just send them home again? That makes even less sense than trying to avoid the welfare state collapse by letting and endless stream of immigrants come in
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  803.  @TotallMax13  To me that is doubtful, seems more like we are helping other to rival us long term. It is a naive approach. But that is fundamental to a modern liberal world view which I am not a proponent of. In any case, there are no returns from educating Africans now, except it makes you feel like a good and virtuous global citizen
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  804.  @TotallMax13  🧐
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  805. No they wouldn’t, a decision about that wouldn’t even be made. If there were really barely any anglo-saxons who came over your average village Briton would never have come across old English, let alone adopt it. And modern generic evidence shows that there was a significant movement from Germania to Britain, because the average english person is 30% anglo-saxon
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  806. The Turks didn’t seize all of Anatolia and certainly not Istanbul in 1071, go back to your palace Erdogan
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  807.  @logangodofcandy No thanks bruv, you can keep your American Heritage
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  808.  @danboyd2725  And other myths you tell yourself. 12:1 is ridiculous even if Russia is losing
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  809.  @VMan29397  Vman, it wasn’t worth it lmao
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  810.  @VMan29397  General? If anything it is armchair politician. But I don’t think you need to be a politician to think that thena of thousands of deaths aren’t worth a few, now destroyed, Ukrainian towns
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  811.  @felixjohnsens3201 East Frankia and Germany aren’t the same, and England (or English identity)is actually older than Germany. It is one of the oldest European nations that still exist
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  812.  @litmeister Germanic and German aren’t the same. Goths weren’t German and neither were the Franks. Saxons and Angles also invaded Britain before a German identity developed, so those that left were also never German. Altogether later Saxons would be absorbed into the German identity
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  813.  @litmeister  I don’t want to share it with the world. It is just that people like you always seem to conflate them. They aren’t the same in terms of people. Germanic is a mostly modern category based on either language or in the ancient world religion. Before you start, yes the Romans also used the term Germanic/Germania but not in the same way we do today. Romans used the term both as a geographic indication (east of the Rhine) and as a cultural group. But in many cases it is not actually clear if a tribe they described as Germanic actually was Germanic by our modern conceptualisation of the term (linguistically mostly but also culturally). So no, they aren’t the same people. German is an identity that was adopted by most, but not all, the contiental West Germanic tribes which first developed around the 10-11th centuries. Germanic is just a broad categorisation of a few groups of people. Obviously Germans are Germanic, but Danes, the Dutch, Swedes and other now extinct tribes or people likes Goths or Suebians were Germanic and not German. There is no 10th century document anything that where people in what is now Germany describe themselves as German or identity as German. There are many such examples for English/Anglo-Saxob for example. So calling a kingdom like East Francia “German” is just wrong. It is a high medieval identity at the earliest
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  814.  @edwardblake1407  Lmao Wehraboos and their delusions
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  815.  @damonroberts7372 Could it be an incentive for some to start speaking a different language? Sure Does it explain why there is absolutely no Britonic influence on old english and why they all just happened to give it up? No it doesn’t Luckily modern genetic research proves that the Anglo-Saxons make up a large part of the English ancestry, putting this silly theory to rest
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  816.  @danmcshain The Gauls were absolutely destroyed though. The Romans killed and enslaved half of them. That is certainly something that qualifies as an invasion. There was also significant settlement of Latin speaking soldiers and administrators.
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  817.  @michaeleldridge5640  There are I think a dozen “Welsh” (aka britonic) words in Old English. Which is basically none and far far less than you would expect given the fact that the Anglo-Saxons must have assimilated the Britonic people. Dad is a fairly universal word though and almost certainly just comes from the original Indo-European language.
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  818.  @shankieinthefridge he vvd is not right wing socially by any means Which is probably why they cave on social issues to the left wingers in the government. Lest you forget we have multiple parties in government and at least one of them is socially very left wing (d66
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  819.  @bobs_toys  They'd be like half empty though
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  820.  @bobs_toys  Well it depends on what you consider makes someone Russian. But if all you changed was the language people in eastern ukraine speak from Russian to Ukrainian they’d probably still be invaded because the ethnic component is just an easy excuse. Russia just wants to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence, and even more so keep it out of the American/European sphere of influence
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  821.  @bobs_toys  But it isn’t like they actually care. Why would you displace your own people just so Russia has a harder time making up a reason to invade
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  822.  @bobs_toys  Dude it makes no sense to displace your own people just so Russia doesn’t invade Many of the people fighting the Russians are Russian speakers
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  823. Franconian usually get associated with either the Modern day region in Germany or parts of West Germany historically. The Flemish are mostly Low Frankish
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  824.  @benismann  I don’t think it really matters where you first hear about it. Why would you be a twat about that lmao. And the OP here literally even says Russian history then just skips Byzantium and focuses more on Rome anyway.
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  825.  @nikolamilicevic1040  The Ottomans being claimants to the Roman Empire is far more reasonable than Russia tbh At their height they had almost all of eastern roman lands, they had dynastic ties to a previous Imperial family and they controlled the core lands of the ERE and most importantly the second capital of the entire Roman Empire
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  826.  @karambura  Dynastic claims are just ridiculous in this case though This is how you get people who were never even Emperors selling a title they didn’t have to Spanish lmao
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  827.  @karambura  I know where it comes from, it is just bit laughable. Which is why even then it wasn’t taken seriously by other countries
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  828.  @karambura  Yeah because many dynasties were at some point married to a random members of the (extended) Byzantine ruling family. Ruling family at the time because the Byzantine system was not strictly dynastic itself. These families lost the Imperial title quite often. So it is hard to actually take such claims seriously. Because being married to a random person doesn’t exactly make you the next Emperor. It didn’t even mean that within the Empire they claimed to be And then people attach nationalist sentiments to these silly medieval claims, and you get people arguing Russia was Rome. It is a bit sad tbh, your country probably has better things to feel proud about than, even at the time, silly dynastic claims
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  829. As opposed to the business funded vvd? The focus would just shift to farmers
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  830.  @francoisdaureville323  Germanic yes, German no. That concept didn’t even exist
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  831.  @francoisdaureville323  Yes, but Germanic and German are different things. And the concept of Germany is younger than the Merovingians
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  832.  @ommsterlitz1805 Charles Martel was many things. But he was absolutely not French If anything he and his predecessors are the reason for the power balance within the Frankish Kingdom shifting away from northern france back to the original Frankish homeland Also, the Imperial title didn’t go to either East or West Francia but to middle Francia and then Italy. Middle Francia included the Imperial territory of Italy and the Frankish heartland in the Low Countries and West Germany. So if anything it the anomaly is that both if then didn’t join under Middle Francia.
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  833.  @smal750  lmao ok Algerian Batman
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  834.  @buzzardist1659  “a lot”
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  835. It is clear that the lack of potatoes had an impact on the Irish. Because if they think these situations are similar they are definitely mentally challenged
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  836.  @lucabarbanti8211  Not like it matters
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  837.  @Zveebo  That cultural dominance would not have existed without the British or the American Empire though
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  838. Het is bijna alsof mensen het misschien niet leuk vinden als hun vrouwen en meisjes verkracht worden en hun landen opeens gerund worden door Soviet marionetten Ik kan me nou echt niet voorstellen waarom die mensen niet stonden te juichen
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  839. Not like ge had much choice, thr Germans didn’t want him and the Belgians and French would hage hanged him
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  840. What?
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  841.  @AnonYmous-si5qv  Nee ook dan echt niet. Rusland kan amper Oekraine aan, laat staan de EU/Navo
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  842.  @noidea5984  Except they weren’t able to defeat Britain. In ww1 the British navy directly starved them into defeat and in ww2 they also failed to defeat Britain after the fall of France.
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  843.  @noidea5984  Lmao lots cope here
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  844.  @jbird4478 Dat is dus de houding waar dit soort volk misbruik van maakt
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  845. @ Als het gerecht faalt moeten anderen het maar doen. En ik denk dat veel mensen daar niet mee zitten
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  846. Most of the time people stayed and died though
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  847.  @pyrotechnick420  Granted I am not a native German speaker but der Plan das ist sounds wrong
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  848.  @Hugh_Morris  I mean, Holy is open for interpretation, and Roman was always a stretch excepy maybe in the first century or two. But in a twist of fate when they did exert direct control over Rome/Italy they didn’t call themselves Holy yet (the Holy was a 12th century addition)
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  849.  @Hugh_Morris  I think you or forgetting THE other christian Empire, namely the Roman Empire. Also they didn’t really control Rome for centuries. The HRE and Rome often had a complicated and antagonistic relationship. And the Empire itself didn’t refer to itself as holy until the 13th century
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  850.  @Hugh_Morris  They didn’t control Rome then. It was the Franks who gifted the papcy its own state and lands. And they’d end up fully losing control over Italy as well. So while some emperors may have effectively controlled some popes, they never really heald Rome nor its Roman institution of the papacy But you are forgetting the Roman Empire. It was seen as the Empire. It was that Empire that the (Holy) Roman Empire was trying to usurp. And it was firmly Christian.
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  851.  @Hugh_Morris  See now you have added qualifier of “Western” Europe, which you hadn’t initially. And you seem to making the distinction between various branches of christianity, again something you didn’t do before. If you move the goalposts it is certainly easier to score.
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  852.  @Hugh_Morris  Yeah and I said that “Roman” was a stretch except maybe in the first century or two. Holy isn’t really an actual thing, so it is fully open to interpretation. That was my point. Whether it is or is not holy or Roman depends entirely in your perspective
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  853.  @Hugh_Morris  I mean that is still not a real thing
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  854.  @Hugh_Morris  So it means nothing. You can say it is holy (or sacred it makes no difference) at any point. It is never true or untrue. Because it isn’t like God actually ordained the Emperor
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  855.  @Hugh_Morris  They can think whatever they want. That is the point. And there were certainly people who still believed in divine ordaining when Voltaire said his quote, well after the height of the Empire The coronation by the pope was also only important in the earlier history of the Empire. There is a reason they let it go (conflicts with the pope)
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  856.  @Hugh_Morris  The Empire was still pretty powerful in 1530, even if it wasn’t the height of the Emperor’s authority. It is right before the authority and unity take a full on nosedive (the religious wars). But you don’t get the point. Holy/sacred is not an objective thing. It literally doesn’t matter and it can apply whenever you want it or not. The Empire itself, again, didn’t refer to itself as holy until the 13th century when they were having another papal-imperial conflict
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  857.  @ruyfernandez They don’t, no one has that
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  858.  @aureltoniniimperatorecomun4029  Even the origins of the Robertians are unsure. You say it yourself “probably” Eariest they can prove is late 9th century. Anything else is speculation and unable to be proven
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  859. Roermond is wel echt Limburg, maar zeker als je boven Venlo komt is het inderdaad eerder Gelre
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  860. It is not exactly relevant though. A day’s delay doesn’t matter that much
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  861. No they won't, as long as there is money to be made they'll stay and just pander to whatever is needed
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  862.  @vargvikernes8357  If anything the higher prices are hitting small businesses way harder. But trust me, as long as they can earn billions in revenue in highly developed markets, they will stay lol
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  863.  @Goldenhawk583  Then maybe the UN definition doesn’t suit the actual act
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  864.  @Goldenhawk583  You can bend the definition however you wish. Collateral damage as a result of a military bombing campaign is not a genocide. At worst you could say they are trying to ethnically cleanse part of Gaza through expulsion/bombing. But that isn’t a genocide. Just like the bombing of Germany, Japan, Vietnam or France weren’t genocides
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  865.  @johnmc3862  Calling for a ceasefire is basically siding with Hamas. It just allows for them to prepare more attacks and break the ceasefire whenever it suits them, as they have done before. It is like making a non agression pact with Hitler Expecting Israel to just sit tight and wait for this keep repeating, as it has done for decades now, is ridiculous. So yeah, it is pro Hamas in practice
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  866.  @kendiamond8722  What? How is that relevant
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  867.  @kendiamond8722  I am not even British you potato Anwyway what the British did to the Irish is way worse. But we don’t live in 1800 or 1919 anymore. And de facto supporting Hamas because the British were involved in the past is ridiculous. The situation has changed and Israel is not the British government and Hamas is not remotely close to being the same as the IRA or Irish nationalist movements
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  868.  @Corrax8  You have as much influence on China as you do on Israel
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  869.  @severalgeollosscreaming48  wot mate?
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  870.  @IrishBoyASMR  I am not even British you potato. I am from a country that actually had to pay to keep your tiny and economically mismanaged country from collapsing But yeah Irish nationalists are still more idiotic. Supporting Hamas just immediately means your opinion, on everything, can be dismissed
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  871.  @valentintischer7970  A nice loophole to use, it is good that they won’t be getting back what they claimed
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  872.  @palastofhistory4026  Prussian history can be preserved by the state,like someone else here said the people his ancestors lorded over built and paid for those castles and artifacts anyway, let the people (through the state) own them again
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  873.  @TypicallyThomas  Don’t worry, because of the flaws of our government system combined with large divisions in the country, nothing will meaningfully change no matter who wins. Even if it is the BBB
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  874.  @TypicallyThomas  Nah the royals will be fine, no one cares about them anyway. Her meeting other actually elected officials would be funny though. And I doubt she’d do much aside from embarrassing herself.
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  875.  @garrywynne1218 But the Britonic people got driven out, killed or assimilated to the point where at least for England they don’t matter anymore, and haven’t since like the 8th century
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  876.  @emreahmet167  The latinization of what is now France happened much earlier than the Frankish invasion of Gaul. Like, with Caesar destroying the Gauls. Some of the Frankish nobles would assimilate into the Latin speaking population over the centuries after Clovis invaded Gaul though that is true. But the western kingdom was Latin before the western kingdom existed
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  877.  @KarabauPlay  So not the HRE. There isn’t even a direct continuity between him and Otto
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  878.  @KarabauPlay  True, but it is a bit of a simplification
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  879.  @legateelizabeth  While explicitly atheist movements have cringed themselves to death, the trend of former Christian regions in Europe and the US just abandoning Christianity has not really changed. So yeah Atheism is the biggest threat at least on the short term. In the long term I think Islam will prove to be the biggest threat to both atheism and Christianity (in Europe)
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  880.  @Rynewulf  Dumb ass take. Christianity underwent a lot of change over the centuries. And it was primarily spread by European civilizations that made it fit to already existing pagan traditions
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  881. He should have been speaking Dutch
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  882.  @rockstar450  Well obviously hindsight is 20/20 in the case of the papacy. But relations between east and west were poor at the time of the sack anyway.
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  883.  @NikolaDeath  No, westoids will do anything to make Ukraine fall in their sphere, screw over Russia and retake Crimea. Even if it takes the death of a million more Ukrainians
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  884. Nooooo Ukraine will retake Crimea soon, another score for Ukraine. This is so based it is like watching my favorite sports team!
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  885.  @DaDunge  They aren’t ready to start a civil war
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  886.  @draganjagodic4056  Friedrich and Charles are very different men in very different times
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  887.  @MarkLac  I mean it isn't like Germany investing in its army will lead to Hitler 2.0. That fear is completely ridiculous
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  888.  @thurahtun6428  Iirc plate armor didn’t exist at all in Lotr
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  889. Nah not that much. Had the world economy not decided to crash in 1929, the Weimar Republic could probably have stabilized itself. Of course you could say that Germany was only horribly affected by that because it had to take American loans to recover from Versaille, but then you may as well say that Clovis led to world war II because he set in motion the process that would lead to France and Germany existing. Point is, Versaille had a drastic impact on Germany in the immediate post war period, but the stock market crash is a far more direct cause if Hitler’s actual seizing of power
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  890.  @balabanasireti  doubt what
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  891. Redbad is definitely a Frisian thing. I had never even heard of him until they made that mediocre movie
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  892. And yet the boats keep coming and the massive current immigrant population (including people who are technically citizens) remains unassimilated
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  893.  @baneofbanes  It really isn’t though
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  894.  @MightyGachiman When your entire political system + media + law enforcement is covering it up, caught and it doesn’t do anything then what can one person even do? Nothing
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  895.  @oooshafiqooo  The Hohenzollern are never coming back. It was obviously a joke about Germans going extinct in their own country and being replaced by Muslims (or other foreigners)
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  896.  @KR-jt4ut  They are Dutch in a broader cultural sense, just a different branch. In the same way Austrians are still German even thought they aren’t citizens of the bundesrepublik Deutschland. That doesn’t mean the Flemish are the same as the Dutch, or that they are just an offshoot, but they are Dutch terms of language and culture.
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  897. Why would westerners care about the history of countries that have 0 bearing on them? Like wow, people care about their own history, what a shock. Not like Asians know much about Polish history
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  898. Even if they did, giving 80 million Turks access to open borders and extending the EU border to Syria would be the death of the EU
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  899. They didn’t do too well though lmao, their country was literally dissolved because they kept losing
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  900.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  This is just a pointless semantic argument. Prussia was a country and it has since been dissolved
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  901.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  This is a completely useless semantic argument. Country/state it doesn’t matter. They were a de-facto independent political entity
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  902.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  Well obviously after the unification of Germany Prussia was a German state within the Empire. However it was Prussia that created the Empire and contained something like 60% of the population. Which is why was seen back then, as an extension of Prussia. They of course also formed the majority of the military and political elite. Prussia as a state, or rather the area associated with then got destroyed by mr Stalin who annexed it into Russia and gave it Poland. That is what I meant by my comment. It wasn’t any deeper than that
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  903.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  Prussia absolutely created the German Empire, after they led to a break down of the German Confederation as a result of their war with Austria, there was no more overarching German entity. Then after the Franco-Prussian war, Prussia created the German Empire with the other German states - Austria. But it was unquestionably a Prussian effort to unite Germany
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  904.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  You must be autistic, this just semantic nonsense It means the same thing. Before 1871 there was no German Empire. The distinction between creating and unifying is irrelevant
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  905.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  This is literally just pointless semantics
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  906.  @peet4921  It looked like you asked if the Dutch are Frisian
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  907. @The Nator What gets calles Dutch today is a mix of Mainly Franks with some Saxon and Frisian (itself a Saxon subgroup) added in. Not celtic at all
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  908.  @johanvandermeulen9696  De naam Frankrijk zelf kan in principe als een oud Nederlandse/oud Frankische naam gezien worden
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  909. Alternatively the Greeks didn’t like that the Bishop in Rome rejected the authority of their emperor. The breakdown in relations between east and west took centuries. Hell 2 decades before this sack the Greeks killed all the Latin Christians in Constantinople.
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  910.  @SimonTmte  I don’t think the Irish hate the Jews. They just seem to have a very naive attitude towards Hamas and the broad support Hamas enjoys among Palestinians. As most “rational” Europeans do tbh.
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  911.  @michaelmurdock4607  They’d speak Frankish, modern Dutch or some German dialects. Latin would also be used for church and official matters. Though even here Frankish and later High German and old French were used (depending on the kingdom).
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  912.  @projectpitchfork860  Also Britain had guaranteed Belgian independence in the treaty if London
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  913.  @pax6833  Only if you mean the day-to-day engagements. The over-all reasons and development of the war are very clear
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  914.  @NLJeffEU  Or any West African country. You are right they are just using it as an opportunity to try and get cash. And Western Nations are weak enough to cave
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  915.  @GBOAC  Well my initial comment was just the actual reason why the coastline is actually wrong in most of these videos. Accept it as an answer or not, but that is the reason. So here is for some feedback: don’t expect your country’s specific coastline to be done perfectly when the video isn’t remotely related to that
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  916.  @GBOAC  I just noticed this trend of Dutch people (presumably) feeling entitled to having their specific cheesecow polder represented in videos that aren’t about the topic. And my first comment wasn’t made to start an argument, not my fault you interpreted it as such and started one
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  917. Retribution? Russia is laughably incompetent. So unless if Putin wants to blow up the world (assuming their nukes still work) we’ll be fine
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  918.  @test-201  Joan wasn’t burned by Protestants That aside I think it is funny when people get their panties in a twist for an event that happened 1000 years ago with absolutely no bearing on modern society
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  919. @g.dalfleblanc63Because his actions have literally nothing to do with Germany as a country? He prevented the potential Latinization of the Germanic peoples, but that doesn’t just apply to Germans, it applies to basically all continental west Germanic peoples. By this logic he is also the founding father of the English, as without him they’d also have been latinized
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  920.  @Philipp.of.Swabia He is more of a Germanic hero in general. Like without him the English or the Dutch wouldn’t exist either
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  921.  @antoniescargo1529  I meant tibes that would later on assume the German identity. Because the original comment was about Germany specifically
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  922. The Merovingian dynasty was of Salian Frankish origin, wh came from what is now Flanders and parts of Wallonia (that were still Germanic by this point). And it is a complete misconception to believe that the Franks all just moved and assimilated into the Gaulic population. This can be easily shown by the Karolingian dynasty still being a primarily Germanic dynasty hundreds of years after the Merovingian invasion of Soissons.
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  923.  @kes1709  Purple on this chaty clearlt represents Germanic. It includes the Franks, Dutch, Germans (broadly) and even the Visegoths for example
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  924.  @CloneDAnon  The west is hypocritical sure, but they didn’t overthrow the government in Ukraine and they didn’t set up a puppet government. It is hardly thr west’s fault Yanukovych triggered and uprising against him by going back in his promises and killing civilians Take your meds
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  925. They don’t, it is just people larping tbh
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  926.  @ryoutaichika  Habsburg-Lotharingen is their actual name though, which they adopted after the male line lost control of Austria when Maria Theresa married the Duke of Lorraine
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  927. The Dutch are predominantly Frankish, not Saxon or Frisian (which is just an offshoot of the Saxons anyway)
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  928. Not while they give you bread and games
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  929. Versaille was far les harsh then the Brest-Litovsk which the Germans enforced on the Russians. But to be fair the French did want to make it way harsher lmao
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  930. Dutch, Luxemburgish and various German dialects along the lower Rhine. Dutch is the most relevant language descended from the Franks though, and the Low Countries are the only region where the Franks formed a majority and the dominant force in the creation of modern identities and peoples. But Charlemagne probably spoke the ancestor to modern day Limburgish, which also extends into Germany
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  931. De harde realiteit is dat er gewoon flink op ouderen bezuinigd zou moeten worden. Voorgaande generaties hebben gewoon niet genoeg kinderen gekregen om onze bevolking in stand te houden en dan krijg je dit probleem. En nu lopen we zo veel investeringsmogelijkheden mis omdat een gigantisch deel van ons budget naar ouderen gaat. Stel je voor hoe veel huizen we wel niet zouden kunnen bouwen, of hoe veel we wel niet zouden kunnen investeren in onderwijs. Stap een zou moeten zijn om de AOW van mensen zonder kinderen af te schaffen. Maar goed dat gaat niet gebeuren. Want die bejaarde gaan wel stemmen, ze stemmen zo de toekomst weg voor hun eigen beurs
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  932.  @pistolpetetc  Greece is honorary western, the rest is eastern
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  933.  @pistolpetetc  Hence honrary, they get the honorary western label, also geographical location isn’t the ultimate deciding factor
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  934.  @pistolpetetc  No one in the west cares about the histories of Serbia. Greece just gets special honorary status because of all that classical history nonsense
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  935.  @pistolpetetc  It is not me who sees it that way, just generally the west Also my culture definitely isn’t based on an eastern european region, at most it is some religious elements
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  936.  @pistolpetetc  Why of all things the byzantines? It is a very small part. It is much more so based in Roman Catholicism and germanic traditions. As a Belgian you should know that. Germanic/Northern European culture has very little in common with Greek/Byzantine culture. Personally I don’t think Greece is western european, but a lot of people in the west just think it is because of pro ancient greece propaganda. I mean the east west divide started because of the clash between the Roman Catholic Church and Germanic tribes invading or adopting that religion, and the Byzantines. So I wouldn’t say there is much Byzantine culture in the west. And there probably aren’t many western cultural elements in the east
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  937.  @pistolpetetc  Sure it has been influenced, but I wouldn’t say it has been a major influence on most western European cultures Greece and germanic europe are almost nothing alike Speaking for the modern day the “western” (mainly american) influence on greece is much larger than some Greek in the 8th century who became a bishop in Orleans or something
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  938.  @pistolpetetc  Yeah but you brought up the Byzantine influence, which is incredibly minor and not recognized by anyone as some sort of rant against western arrogance. But the west definitely acknowledges whatever small influences they got from Athenians having a vote Also the Balkans were a mess back then too. Whatever the small amount if Byzantine influence is, there is basically no serb influence lol. They didn’t even live in the Balkans when the Western Roman Empire fell
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  939.  @pistolpetetc  And when did the western Roman Empire fall? Would that perhaps be before the 7th century? Oh wow I think so! Also it is nice that Serbs influenced the Orthodox church, but is meaningless to someone from France. Lastly yes lmao, the invasion of the slavs in the early middle ages was a mess, just like the Frankish invasions were a mess in Gauls, at least initially Also consider going back for that degree then, if you don’t even know that the 7th is after the fall of Rome in the 5th century.
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  940.  @pistolpetetc  Negro, am I racist toward the Franks too then? It seems you are projecting some insecurities on me. Are you sure you are actually Belgian or does your last name end in ic
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  941.  @pistolpetetc  Well that isn’t true, I have nothing against them, nor look down on them
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  942.  @pistolpetetc  Depends highly what part of the middle ages you are talking about, for Byzantium that is, not for Romania and Croatia. Also yeah, again that is why Greece is often lumped in with the west (that and cold war divisions). Idk why you have this stick up your ass Serbia wasn’t more relevant than England or France even in 1350 lol.
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  943.  @pistolpetetc  Culturally richest means nothing. That is a completely subjective term. But they certainly weren’t more economically advanced than the main powers in western Europe in the high and late middle ages. Nor did they have more means to project their power than them. Good for you if you like Bulgaria, but stop being ridiculous Also idc what Greeks think, never made any statements about them
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  944.  @pistolpetetc  No they weren’t lol, also you keep including the balkans under byzantium, which during the 10-14th century they hardly were a part of. Also Byzantium was basically on its last legs at the end of this time period, and it wasn’t doing great throughout a lot of it (with some exceptions like the Komnenos restoration). Also I don’t refuse to acknowledge Slavic influence, there is just hardly any, especially in regions like Flanders. You have just made claims, not even given any examples. And if Greeks want to call Italians honorary easterners they can. That wouldn’t trigger me like the reverse has triggered you. There has obviously been more influence from Germanic people on the slavs, given that one group mainly ruled over the other in cases where there was ethnic overlap, and it wasn’t the slavs
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  945.  @pistolpetetc  No they weren’t lol, hell a random western crusader army even temporarily destroyed the Eastern Roman Empire without even really trying. You just make random claims because you have some strange bias for the region. But Byzantium and Serbia weren’t hot shit compared to England or France or parts of the HRE. What is now the Flanders region was certainly a rich and well developed region. Maybe you need to remind yourself of your supposed studies, as you seem to be forgetting some major events in the 10-14th century that would definitely indicate that the Balkans at this time weren’t more powerful than the west. And I am still waiting for examples.
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  946.  @pistolpetetc  No it wasn’t, again you just claim without even giving any examples, unlike me. I looked at a map of 1204 and I couldn’t see the Byzantine Empire. It is even funnier because the first Emperor of the Latin Empire was of the house of Flanders. I don’t recall a Byzantine Emperor rulling over the rich port of Brugge. I wonder why. I suspect you just don’t know what the fuck you are talking about
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  947. Actually it ended with the dissolution of the HRE in 1806
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  948.  @stefanalexandrucojocaru1789  And the Holy Roman Empire was a restoration of Rome (in the west) But really I was just making fun of 6 greek guys in one city pretending to be the Roman Empire. They can’t have believed it anymore either lmao
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  949.  @iainrendle7989  The people who lived there were culturally Greek though, no matter if they called themselves Roman or not
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  950.  @iainrendle7989  That doesn’t change the city was gree too, greek culture changed, as cultures do
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  951.  @iainrendle7989  I don’t care who founded the town, that doesn’t determine what happens to it after. Istanbul isn’t Thracian today. But you can reword your argument as often as you like, it was still a Greek city for centuries. Sure not the Greek of ancient athens, but Greek nonetheless
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  952.  @iainrendle7989  Sure Greeks referred to themselves as Romans, still Greek at the time though. And yeah the Thracians or whoever came before are irrelevant
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  953.  @iainrendle7989  Obviously it has something to do with Greece, given that the Greek lands became the center of the eastern roman empire, and they started identifying as Roman, and not just in Constantinople. Cope all you want, the city was Greek, they weren’t speaking Latin 1100 AD
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  954.  @iainrendle7989  I know what you are talking about, you are just trying to separate the city from the Greek. Probably because you are personally biased or something. Anyway Constantinople was Greek, and heavily influenced by the Romans (who were in turn heavily influenced by the Greeks) like all the other Greeks of the “Byzantine” era
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  955.  @iainrendle7989  The Eastern Roman Empire was Greek bruv, stop coping
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  956.  @iainrendle7989  Bruv, Eastern Roman and Greek aren’t mutually exclusive. Idk why you are hell bent on separating the Greeks from the Eastern Roman Empire (which was basically Greek) but is weird.
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  957.  @iainrendle7989  Greeks calling themselves Romans are still Greeks
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  958.  @iainrendle7989  Alternatively, you are just a black and white minded person who doesn’t comprehend the simple concept that two things can be true at the same time
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  959.  @evertjan9479  Idc if they called themselves smurfs, they are still Greek
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  960.  @evertjan9479  Your constitution is completely irrelevant when it comes to your own identity, but setting that aside, them identifying as roman but being ethnically greek is not mutually exclusive
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  961.  @evertjan9479  I didn’t say they identified as Greek, but they still were Greeks. Also, genes don’t but neither does your constitution. Plenty of Turks or Moroccans in the Netherlands who technically have Dutch citizenship but don’t consider themselves Dutch
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  962. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter because in practice there will be large numbers of third world immigrants who can join the massive numbers of immigrants and their descendants that already live here and that technically count as full citizens now. Even though they are unassimilated and they aren’t European in any way The cultural clash will continue regardless of how you label theoretic migrants
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  963. Harold himself had Scandinavian ties. And the Harald got crushed too fast to be considered a liberator by most people in Northern England. If that was even the case
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  964. The Kingdon of Prussia was definitely a part of the hre
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  965. Lower Saxony and parts of Saxony Anhalt are the actual regions where the Saxons love though. The current state of Saxony is only named such because of dynastic ties
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  966. At least the people who supported this the most will also suffer the most lmao
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  967.  @herptek  The initial point of the siege was to destroy the city and most of the people
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  968. Leaving the EU, then voting in a “Conservative” government that opens the floodgates to non European migration again is the real answer lmao The EU was never the issue. The EU didn’t let the grandparents of these Moroccans into the Netherlands. Our domestic governments are just as rotten, if not more so
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  969.  @charleshayes2528 It is a pedantic distinction. They weren’t one tribe when they arrived in Britain but they did become it. The Chauci and the Chati weren’t one tribe either, but they still united to form the Franks
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  970.  @charleshayes2528  I don’t think it is misuse though. Not only is Anglo-Saxon a contemporary term (used by Alfred the Great) it is basically just a catch all term for the Angles, Saxons (and Jutes and Frisians). Who while belonging to different tribes were closely related. Not only were they closely related, they recognized this in their own time and tbey ended up forming a completely united culture, people and country. It is like saying German is a misused term because the country is made up of Saxons, Bavarians, Franks, Thuringians and Allemanic tribes.
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  971.  @charleshayes2528  Well in a historical context it would not include Danes or Normans. But yes, in a modern context when people are referring to the modern English (Again English is a term already used by the historical Anglo-Saxons when their identities statted to fully unite in the 9th century) then yes it would include Normans and Danes. And I see what you meant regarding the DNa, no worries I understand now!
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  972. More so stopped by the HRE helped by the kingdom of Poland.
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  973.  @alekm5646  Because Poles didn’t eveb make up a majority of the relief army, most were troops from the Empire. And they weren’t even the first in the charge
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  974. The main tribe that turned into the Dutch is a large part of the reason that christianity spread to the Germanic people in Germania though
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  975.  @runewme  Well it is a broad topic of course. Many Germanic tribes such as the Vandals, Goths, Anglo-Saxons and Franks simply converted. The Franks then spread christianity to the pagan Saxons and Frisians as well. Although this was done by force. However the Frisians only make up a part of the Dutch people. And they are more so a separate branch. The main tribe that became the Dutch were the Salian Franks (with a few Ripurians in the south east). So it was the Franks who spread christianity. But it is the Dutch (except Saxons and Frisians but including most of the Flemish) who are descendants of the Franks
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  976.  @runewme  I mean, even the Franks were pagan before they converted. You shouldn’t feel bad about being a Pagan either. But also don’t forget that most of your recent ancestors were christian. Also, Afrikaans is cool. I am Dutch so it sounds funny to me, but I do think it is great that there is a branch of Dutch in south africa. Although it seems to me your position now isn’t that great
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  977. Scottish people do love to pretend that they were the victims of English Empire after all
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  978.  @berndlauert8179 No it is just that in many other countries (France and England) the development went towards centralisation and a stronger state. Whereas in the HRE ot went towards de facto independence for the member states. It wasn’t “better recorded” it just stands out more in contrast to the other powers
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  979.  @dantecaputo2629  In the case of the Cherusci yes, but the Chatti would settle between the meuse and the rhine and become part of the Franks. So they again fought and ultimately usurped Rome
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  980.  @mauriciorv228  same logic though
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  981.  @nmpolo  Russia is literally a laughing stock losing a generation (that their demographic cannot sustain) to try and take a smaller and weaker neighbour and failing “Strong”
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  982. @ Pay taxes and watch the Russian army fail
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  983.  @jdjphotographynl Exactly nothing will change and people will keep whining about the same issues that are barely adressed
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  984.  @tylerbozinovski427  The nazis didn’t have nothing to do with Prussia, they received disproportionate support from Prussia and after they seized power they spent a lot of resources and time on courting the Prussian military elite. That being said, attributing some original militaristic sin to Prussia was obviously ridiculous. And this was mainly used in order for the allies (and the ussr) to be able to easily dissolve the state of prussia and take the actual Prussian lands themselves or Poland. This wasn’t really necessary though as there is no way Prussia or Germany could have resisted this division anyway. Maybe it just made Roosevelt and Stalin feel better
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  985.  @Flotter-Flo  So what separates the Netherlands and Belgium from Germany?
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  986.  @g.f.w.6402  No one cares about the UN
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  987.  @FilipMoncrief  Germanic =/= German. Of course they are all different (Austrians and Germans probably being the closest to being the same). But Germanic is broader than just German, Germans don’t have the monopoly the on Germanic legacy. There are also similarities between all of them though, most importantly of course that they all come from the same original region and people
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  988.  @FilipMoncrief  Then I don’t understand your point
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  989.  @g.f.w.6402  Idk what you mean with slavs are eastern european by definition but yeah ofc people want to avoid that association
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  990.  @ertuncdelikaya8237  Maybe, but no one thinks of Turkic muslims as European. Almost No one would think a Turk from Edirne is European
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  991.  @ertuncdelikaya8237  I mean, technically speaking they are from land that is generally accepted as Europe, but. Idk about the Crimean Tartars but I rarely met a Turk that identifies as European. And I don’t think that just because a Turk is born on one side of a small body of water, they suddenly become European when they don’t even identify as such themselves
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  992.  @kaloarepo288 They aren’t really words though, they are names.
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  993.  @kaloarepo288  Eh names aren’t really the same as words that are used in a language. Or at least they don’t really tell you much about the development of a language
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  994.  @Vhmvd  At best a coup, I doubt many average Russians will throw their lot in with a crazy pmc commander
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  995. Most of Prussia was ethnically german too though, it makes no difference
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  996.  @N0Time  Yvon Garlan, Pascale Mormiche, Charles Robert Ageron Who argues it does?
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  997.  @N0Time  i am not interested in a source war, you can find historians with the most retarded takes
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  998.  @jadawin10  They can believe whatever propaganda they want. Clovis wasn’t the first king of France, it didn’t even exist. It is pure anachronism, plain and sinple
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  999.  @jadawin10  You are a clown lmao, I am not Russian
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  1000.  @elevatormusic3421  Disagreed. The Kingdom that Clovis founded underwent various changes and breakups and reunifications. France comes from West Francia and not Francia And the Dutch are absolutely Franks. The political continuation is irrelevant. Last I check France itself doesn’t even have a king anymore. And its top feudal class was always the only Frankish thing about it. The Dutch, as well as the Luxemburgish and a part of the Germans are a direct continuation of the Franks as people, Culturally, linguistically and ethnically. French people on the other hand are not Franks, and they removed all remnants of any direct Frankish legacy long ago. And just because they held onto a Karling king for a few years longer than anyone else doesn’t mean they were the only political successor to the Franks either. East Francia literally reclaimed the defunct Frankish Imperial title. And sure, that Empire may not exist anymore, but neither does the French monarchy or feudal class. Acting like French history is one line from the Franks to now is ridiculous. The French as a whole only ever had a tenuous claim to being “Frankish” meanwhile we literally just are their descendants unlike the French. It is not in France that Frankish is spoken.
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  1001.  @elevatormusic3421  language, culture and ethnicity are all far more relevant than some vague and arbitrary concept of political continuity, especially when there isn’t even a Frankish presence in France anymore. The idea that a frog could tell a direct descendant of the Franks that still speaks Frankish and is culturally a direct continuation (unlike Lebanese people or Tunesians who were radically changed top-down by arabs) that they are less Frankish is laughable. The French are Gallo Romans ruled by our kings. And I am not even saying the modern Dutch or Germans or Luxemburgish are Frankish. That is an early medieval identity that doesn’t exist anymore. I am saying we are their direct continuation as a people, culture and language. Unlike the French. There is no political continuation, you aren’t the 5th Frankish Republic. All that is left is the distant history of Kings that, when they were Frankish, ruled over a vast population of Gallo-Roman peasants. Honestly it is ridiculous to say that culture, language and ethnicity all mean less than this lmao It is a weird and offensive way to disconnect us from our history driven by French nationalism. And the only Frankish thing about France now is that the name is a derivative of the Franks.
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  1002.  @elevatormusic3421  Lmao a Frog nationalist rewriting history and stealing culture calling me an ethni-nationalist is rich. Wouldn’t be the first time the French try and destroy other ethnicities and ethnic groups though, it is perfectly in-line with the post revolution French drive for unity and nation building. The French aren’t Frankish, and the modern French state isn’t even a continuation of anything Frankish. But cope more you inbred Gallic peasant
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  1003.  @tomben6180  His son was just as good
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  1004.  @tomben6180  Anglia, and he also managed to increase the English grip over Mercia, and managed to retake a lot of it after Norse incursions from Ireland and the remaining Danelaw
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  1005.  @fyrdman2185  Is he though, is he?
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  1006.  @fyrdman2185  Setting aside that both of those men actually failed, and that one of them absolutely wouldn’t qualify for any great man list, I don’t think he was lmao
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  1007.  @maxberan3897  Probably leftists who are over sensitive to anything that can be seen as nationalist
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  1008. Clovis being labeled as the first king of France is pure French nationalist anachronism, with a dash of Catholic propaganda thrown in. The point when French identity as such starts is blurry, but it certainly wasn’t as early as Clovis and it was definitely post Charlemagne
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  1009. There are indications that he was gay or asexual though. Or at least wasn’t straight
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  1010.  @filipjirovy8557  Mitteleuropa is just a political invention of the Germans so they can feel special. But Germans are not closer to Poles than they are to the Dutch or Northern France
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  1011. It is funny how this is used as an excuse to expand the armed forces in the west. Because if anything it has shown that Russia is a paper tiger and that the previous level of spending was more than enough to keep them in check lol
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  1012.  @Raphael4722  lol no, you have to look at other things not based on election results because you can’t trust them. You can’t even actually trust that 40% number because those elections weren’t free either and the police and SA were used to intimidate voters Also Trump was only popular with one part of America. He was despised by one half. Hitler, while of course hated by German anti-fascist movement was much more universally popular
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  1013.  @subpages They just go to see London in general. Even the palaces are not the main attraction.
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  1014.  @adriaanvandoorn1263  That was also the case for tribal identities and cultures though. A Frank who settled in Paris and a Frank wo remained in the Low Countries were both still Frankish even if they were far apart
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  1015.  @4H46PvD  I said tribes, plural m8
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  1016.  @КолтуновСерёга  My dude, most people with any experience running a state would have been nazi party members. It is not something they could practically work around. But given that west Germany didn't turn into some neo-nazi state it doesn't really matter much now does it?
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  1017.  @baldingbee5403 Yes but those Northmen basically immediately adopted the local Gallo-Roman language and culture
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  1018.  @robertrobinson3788  A state that didn’t exist yet when he died
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  1019. Too few of then settled in Britain to leave a significant impact, and then many of those that did come over left whith Rome. And the ones that did settle in Britain often married with local Britons, meaning their “impact” was quickly diluted
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  1020.  @LordVader1094  Literally no one portrays the Western Roman Empire as a state without issues. The history of the Western Roman is also about decline and invasion, primarily from Germanic peoples
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  1021.  @WalterKhayyam Creating conditions that led to a famine in the first plcae, doing almost nothing to stop it and then also attributing their suffering to their people’s character (the Irish were heavily discriminated and looked down upon) constitutes a genocide to most people
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  1022.  @Halokon I mean the English didn’t invent the blight, but they did set up a land system which forced the Irish to rely almost exclusively on potatoes for their calories. On top if that the Irish were discriminated and treated as stupid and dirty (literally) Catholics who probably deserved their suffering anyway
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  1023. Hindsight and arm chair generals, name a more iconic duo
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  1024.  @BlueDragon998  No they wouldn’t, I doubt France would have been able to integrate millions of Germans, but they wouldn’t have had to kill them either. And they wouldn’t have killed them
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  1025.  @antonius3745  Just because they weren’t a kingdom doesn’t mean they were in the HRE, they weren’t. And the HRE had a Kingdom as a constituent member, Bohemia. So being a kingdom didn’t even mean you can’t be in the HRE They weren’t an autonomous part of the HRE, they weren’t in it. They paid no homage to the Emperor and had no obligations to an Emperor either. They just had nothing to do with it, and the Netherlands existed for centuries before the HRE was dissolved. In 1815 the southern Low Countries were added though, as they had remained part of the HRE
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  1026.  @antonius3745  Lmao Are these documents in the room with us right now?
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  1027.  @reineh3477  How does connecting their ruling class to a different region matter that much? It is not like the Rus were majority Scandinavian, or that the Normans were majority Norwegian
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  1028.  @Braveboots777 Germanic people*
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  1029.  @zaltan1234 It was clearly a Frankish Empire. Charlemagne’s mother tongue was a Frankish language. It isn’t until after the desth of him and his son that the Frankish nobles really start embracing a completely separate proto-French identity
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  1030.  @deyzacvincent3091  Kut Fransen ook altijd, meen je nu dat ik dit snap? Spreek echt Frankisch aub, en niet dit nasale Latijn
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  1031. And then William invaded and wiped out the native Anglo-Saxon elite and culture anyway
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  1032.  @patrol329 It doesn’t really matter if a country is small. Hungary itself is small. You just need someone to have your back because of the Byzantine system of the EU where 5 guys on an Alpine peak can hold up the entire union (veto and unanimity principle)
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  1033.  @DBTHEPLUG  Objectief gezien hebben ze klappen gekregen hahaha
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  1034. Colonialism? I seem the recall the Arabs thinking they could crush the Jewish state in its infancy. Then they failed and the Arabs in what is now Palestine/ Israel just never moved on. But calling the creation of the state of Israel colonalism in order to create this image of a powerful state coming to crush some natives, is just disingenuous
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  1035.  @ai-d2121  Sure, it is somewhat inherent to a parliamentary democracy.
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  1036.  @ai-d2121  Yeah so nothing will change but people will be up in arms
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  1037.  @ai-d2121  Laugh at the spectacle and expect nothing
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  1038.  @kseven6551  I don’t know what the point here is. Firstly I doubt literally all Germanic people left, and their settlement in most of those areas must have been limited in the first place for them to be so easily replaced. But what is “theirs” is where they live. Obviously Germans resettled at some point, but were kicked out again anyway, leading to the oder basically being the border, close to what it was in the year 1000 Germans don’t have an inherent claim on thise lands because a related germanic people once lived there
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  1039.  @bingchilling09  iirc they are the leat Germanic “genetically” out of all the Germans, with more Celtic or even Slavic elements. But who even cares these are all very similar and related groups anyway. There is no pride being in being more Germanic than any other group. And by and large you can assume that groups at the borders, like the Bavarians or the Austrians or even the Franks and Allemanic tribes will be more mixed than people less close to these old cultural borders
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  1040. Given that the only mention of him comes from one source written centuries later it is basically speculation
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  1041.  @frododiddledeebipedybopedy9840  I say that the only lesson we can learn from the behaviour of Moroccans/Turks is that they are not compatible with the Dutch, and that assimilation or hell even integration, is a fantasy
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  1042.  @rakandy3878 in the short term it can if the average life expectancy goes up, which did also happen in Europe. But obviously the bulk of the growth now is through immigration
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  1043.  @spudragaming8374 Asylum seekers and immigration are also a massive problem for a ton of reasons. Like obviously greedy corporations are a problem but so is immigration, especially at the current extreme levels (400k a year in total) when combined with an already existing demographic crisis
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  1044.  @spudragaming8374  The source is literally the cbs, look again
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  1045.  @spudragaming8374  Yeah so the total is 400.000 that is half an Amsterdam in a year. Even pro immigration people should admit it has become unsustainable
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  1046. Being afraid to up conscription laws and then proceeding to recruit NK to help doesn’t exactly show a great willingness from their people to continue the conflict
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  1047.  @DenUitvreter  The judge based education goes hand in hand with the cultural marxist view of history, which is what people are taught now. However, to imply that older generations weren’t just getting a different selection of historical events as propaganda is equally silly. Education has always been a tool to mold people by. And slavery did actually happen. It isn’t like they aren’t teaching facts now. All that matters is the framing
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  1048.  @nineviaaware4910  On top of that, itn isn’t like Russia wouldn’t just make up another excuse the invase countries around them if Russians didn’t live there and they couls get away with it. Unless if Russian isn’t lying and the Russians living there in Russian majority regions actually want to join Russia, in which case they should be able to do so
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  1049.  @marisolrodriguez618  If the 1500 years of Stockholm syndrome as you call it ends, it will end with atheism, and not with paganism
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  1050. Bias in favor of what? A period we actually have sources for?
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  1051.  @Robrecht_van_Bethune  The ''Flemish'' Elite (Flemish back then would just refer to historical Flanders, it was more so the Brabantine, Flemish and Limburgish elite) was very French oriented anyway. There is a reason they switched from speaking Dutch to French quickly and easily in Brussels. Aside from that, there was also popular support to split off from the Netherlands in what is now Fladners. Mainly as a result of the disdain for Protestantism and the way the Dutch treated them
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  1052.  @Robrecht_van_Bethune  Sure Belgium also had a pro French language policy in its early history. But you are downplaying the influence of religion and general neglet from the Dutch towards the south that meant that there was also support for separation among common people. For example, the commander of the fort in Maastricht sent many local man away from the fort as he was afraid they’d revolt against him and take it from within. Of course the French would neglect the Flemish just as much. Luckily nowadays the language border has basically frozen, and Dutch has become the language of business in Flanders and even in parts of Brussels and Wallonia.
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  1053.  @Robrecht_van_Bethune  Of course there was support for independence from common people. And with good reason. The southern parts as a whole, but especially the French parts, were neglected by the Dutch government. In addition to that, the south was far more industrialized, and they naturally didn’t want their tax money to enrich a government that neglected them. Now they probably wouldn’t have supported the francophone policies that came after, but there wasn’t much resistance to them either. No Flemish revolution against the Walloons And yeah agreed. It is also a shame the real Frankish parts of northern france have lost the Low frankish language as well
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  1054.  @MantasJurkuvenas  If 1/3rd of your country speaks Russian and you don’t make it an official language upon the collapse of the previous overarching state where it was, that is clearly political too. In my opinion it makes perfect sense to force everyone to speak the main official language of the country, or rather force them to at least be able to speak it. But you also can’t ignore that those policies in the Baltic states are politically targeted towards Russians. It woul also justify the Russian living there now to appeal to self determination, but rhat comes with the territory. Just own it.
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  1055.  @Luredreier  By forcing I mean that they should simply be “forced” to learn it in school. They can’t be forced to actually speak it. As for the second part. I do find it strangely funny that westerners will imply hardcore nationalists logic to Russian minorities, but will then turn around and call their own countrymen racist for being concerned with what basically amounts to the same issues. I guess anti-Russian attitudes are just popular now
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  1056.  @laurencefraser  A lot of those borrowings are also purely academic or so archaic that no one uses them
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  1057.  @Alex-lg6nz Might as well say it is a German name then, Bär
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  1058.  @MatthewSprint  It used to be whatever the dialect of the Sorbs of the region was yes, that is exactly my point. Slavonic was like Latin, a language for scripture
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  1059.  @katherinegilks3880  Yeah it is better, because then they can’t larp as fake princess anymore Habsburg-Lotharingen is fine as a lastname and it reflects the history of the family well enough. It just doesn’t make them seem like weird pretentious people clinging onto dead titles
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  1060. Europe has definitely been in crisis mode for a little longer than 2022
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  1061. That isn’t actually how the pope works though lol. Not everything he says is automatically Catholic doctrine and has to be accepted
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  1062. It wasn’t the most powerful country in Europe though.
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  1063.  @micahistory  Is that why it always loses?
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  1064.  @micahistory  I mean that is just idiotic to begin with, but I’d say that the UK and USSR were definitely more powerful than Germany
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  1065.  @micahistory  And yet Germany could nevet beat either of them Also the UK basically beat Germany in world war one by just starving them lmao
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  1066.  @micahistory  Germany wasn’t alone either though. And the Germany army on its own was probably better than the British one, but countries are more than army. Had Germany had a better navy than rhe Uk things might have been different
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  1067. It is unknown because it is irrelevant to the Western World
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  1068.  @skasteve6528  These two things are unrelated. Many people would still come to Europe in seek of wealth. And we could destroy all of those countries and still refuse to take any people anyway. It is a policy to take them in
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  1069.  @arisplugis5197  It is also because elderly care has been decoupled from having kids. You don’t need to have kids yourself anymore to receive elderly care or a state pension, but society as a whole still needs enough people to able to afford elderly care and pensions. Directly tying pensions and elderly care to having kids would solve many issues
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  1070.  @skasteve6528  Irrelevant, we could still refuse them or deport them
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  1071. Except it does not actually match the German Empire. It leaves out Silesia for example. The presence in Kaliningrad is suspicious though. As this was more German than other areas marked on the map (where more Slavs who would have had Germanic ancestry lived) and it was basically entirely cleansed and settled with Russians.
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  1072. Je kunt van het Limburgs in Belgie en Nederland echt wel een standaard taal maken. Of het ooit zal gebeuren is natuurlijk een tweede. Kerkrade is eigenlijk een heel ander dialect en valt onder het Ripuarisch. Dus dat is een slechte voorbeeld.
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  1073. Sure but it by the point they renamed the city Istanbul had also been in use for centuries
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  1074.  @DunkelblauerMB  The way I see it, a dialect and a language are the same, just one lacke official recognition. And yes, the saxon languages in the Netherlands have of course come under significant influence from standard Dutch. This language standardization leads to harder borders between what was previously a continuum
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  1075.  @griffinmckenzie7203  😎
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  1076. 46.000 is just asylum seekers. Which is already too many given the massive amounts of immigrants and asylum seekers that have come here in the past decade. But the total number of immigrants is 400.000 so maybe actually educate yourself before you open your mouth If you want the asylum seekers in NYC (most of which come here because of American destabilizing the ME) you can have them
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  1077.  @sakkra93  No we aren’t. Germany is just one Germanic country, and more Germanic than the Scandinavians or the Dutch. Germany is not some motherland for all of us
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  1078.  @sakkra93  People really need to learn that German and Germanic aren’t the same thing. Also the first Germanic tribes most likely originated in what is now Denmark as well, Germany, and the German tribes especially, are not some motherland for all Germanic people. Even more so because these tribes spread into what is now Germany, Austria, the Low Countries (and the East Germanic people into regions of Eastern Europe) long before a German identity ever existed
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  1079.  @Gladedancer The Franks were Germanic, but most of the people in Gaul were not. And like the Franks the Northmen didn’t settle Normandy in large enough numbers to change that
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  1080.  @MasoMaria Yeah but that is always how it works. If the other parties (mainly d66) thought new elections would have been beneficial, they would have voted Rutte out earlier
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  1081.  @MasoMaria Sure but the CU fills a different niche, one that relies more on integrity or at leas the appearance of integrity. They are a small party that will never have any major victories that cater to a religious crowd
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  1082. Nazi is a slur lmao
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  1083.  @hendriktonisson2915  Wallonia is French speaking and not part of France, as are parts of Switzerland. Not everything has to be a neat ethno-state.
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  1084. Charlemagne has nothing to do with the way Europe lets other cultures run over it now
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  1085. Feudalism already existed before the Normans
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  1086.  Volksgrenadier  Because Russians live there now lol If you wanted to not get ethnically cleansed from a certain plot of land you should have thought about that before starting a war and ethnically cleanins others from their plots of land.
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  1087. Ook niet echt een argument. Je kunt dan net zo goed zeggen dat stemmen op partijen die niet met Wilders willen werken ook een stem voor stilstand is. Anders zouden zij toch zo een coalitie kunnen vormen? Oh nee wacht dat kan ook niet
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  1088.  @accaciagame1706  They didn’t assimilate with the locals. Only the Franks that settled in Gaul did, and even that took centuries to develop into France.
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  1089.  @wolfgangpagel6989  First of all, there is no one German language, there is standard German which is one of many languages that are often classified as German. The distinction betwern language and dialect is political and not linguistic. Dutch is close to German sure, but Dutch (and Luxemburgish) are descendants if Frankish, in the case if Dutch Salian and in the case of Luxemburgish a Ripurian version. There is no debate about this, they are in essence Frankish languages. That is why when looking at Frankish loan words in French, they are first compared to (old) Dutch and Luxemburgish. Standard French is not “originally” Frankish, it is a form of Vulgar Latin with minor Frankish influences. As for the Franks themselves, some of them moved into Gaul and were assimilated into the Romanized Gaulic and latin population, but the Franks still exist as a Germanic group in Belgium, the Netherlands and parts if west Germany.
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  1090.  @wolfgangpagel6989  That is not a classification, languages can be mutually intelligible. For example, Portugese and Spanish are quite similar and people from both languages can have basic conversations, but they are separate languages. Besides you can also say then that Standard German is a Luxemburgish language then. As for the Franks in what is now Franconia. It is possible that they originated there, but by the 5th century it is likely that there was no significant presence there. There is also no real linguistic connection between Old Frankish as it is known to us and the regional franconian dialect. This is the case for Dutch and to Luxemburgish but to a lesser degree. Lastly idk what the point was about all the different tribes, but most of the Franks changed either into the Dutch and some west Germans. But those west Germans are themselves part of a broader German identity so they are less distinguishable from other Germans, which is obviously not the case for the Dutch
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  1091.  @wolfgangpagel6989  No, the actual origins of the Franks is very mirky and interpretations are made of sparse Roman sources. That is the origins before they settled in what is now Utrecht as fedorati. Logically they came from east if the Rhine, but exactly what tribes made ip the Franks is mostly unkown with some exceptions like the Chatti. The Dutch were part of the HRE sure, but they left, and as such the local language of the Netherlands which is directly descendant from Frankish became the standard language, which of course as you said did not happen in Germany. You don’t have to get semantical about old Frankish, specifically the Salian variety. Obviously they weren’t standardized, but the term is used to describe their language continuum as a whole. The languages of Nothern Germany are similar to Dutch because they, like Dutch did not experience the High German consonant shift, making them closer in terms of their sounds. That being said Low German is mostly made up if Saxon, whereas Dutch, again, is Frankish. Simply put, the Dutch are the direct descendants of the Franks with minor Frisian elements (Frisian elements in Dutch, they are themselves of course still separated). There have of course been many many cultural changes, but as a people the Dutch are the descendants of the Franks
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  1092.  @wolfgangpagel6989  Late means very little. Also the Dutch separation from the HRe has been a very long term political change which among other things has led to German and Dutch being very different languages, if related. You keep doing semantics about language terms, I know lower German is not one language but I am not going to name every dead or dying north German language And yeah I know, that is what I said. You were the one claiming we know exactly where the Franks came from. We don’t know that, but we do know what happened to them
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  1093.  @wolfgangpagel6989  It is a Dutch separation, no Dutch person would identify with Germans or vise versa and the standardized languages are not similar enough to be mutually intelligible. The separation from the HRE was done for inheritance reasons by Charles V, but the consequences are that there is now a cultural, linguistic and identity separation. Idk why some Germans insist on this pan-German(ic) enforced uniformity, when Dutch people don’t do that at all
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  1094.  @wolfgangpagel6989  Lol, no dutch person would consider themselves german except for weird nazis types. Dutch people are not German anymore, that identity only lasted from about the 12th till the 17th century The Netherlands were separated from the HRE when Emperor Charles the Vth gave the low countries to his son and the empire to his brother on hos abdication. However they were officially recognized as an independent entity at the treaty of Westfalen. At this point they were functionally independent for almost 100 years though. So no, they weren’t in the HRE till its dissolution
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  1095.  jonnyneace8928  If you had studied it you would have known that what you said isn’t remotely correct and you would hVe saved yourself the embarrassment. The Franks who settled in Rome (called Salian) are the ones that would lead to Dutch, not French. Some of them would later, after their conquest of Gaul, settle in Gaul and then adopt the Latin of Gaul though. But still, they didn’t mix with Allemanic peoples to become Dutch. That makes no sense, Dutch isn’t Allemanic at all. If anything they would assimilate the Frisians in some areas along the Northern coast. Oh and and top of that, Franks mixing with Allemanic tribes did not lead to Saxons, Saxons already existed independently from the Franks. In fact it was the Saxons who drove the Franks out of what is now the Eastern Netherlands. Again, all your comments are a bit embarrassing and betray a lack of knowledge and geography (the Low Countries are not east of rhe Rhine lmao)
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  1096.  @yannschonfeld5847  Disagree, language is a part of identity. A lot of Dutch people are now using English terms or even whole sentences. I think that is a shame at you lose unique Dutch words or sayings
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  1097.  @yannschonfeld5847  Try to introduce language purity.
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  1098.  @gasbasman The VVD isn’t even really very right wing. They pretend to be on certain issues when it is election season but they are always liberal and pro business in their governing
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  1099.  @Qnexus7  Ultimately it is very hard to solve without taking incredibly unpopular measures, like drastically cutting into healthcare and pension funds. It is no wonder that most politicians go for an easy but temporary solution. But yeah you’d have to drastically reduce the spending in healthcare, and make it less of an unsustainable pyramid scheme, which will affect the care for a lot of people. But ultimately that is the issue, those people that need care now didn’t have enough kids to take care of them. That fundamental human condition, which was taken for granted 100 years ago is still there. Alternatively you can say, fuck it, open the flood gates, and hope that you can automate enough jobs by the time the welfare state is about to collapse again. Which will happen as immigrants get less kids themselves. But this would completely erase European nations and identities, and I do not support this. There is no easy solution that helps and pleases everyone. Which is what a lot of people pretend there is
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  1100.  @Qnexus7  Public spending barely influences the birthrate at all. But healthcare and pensions especially, why would anyone decide to have kids or not because of a potential healthcare bill they could have in 4 decades. If you want to get people to have kids through public spending you should make it targeted and overwhelming, like idk give people a free or cheap house or something if they marry and have 2 kids. But yes pension spending and healthcare costs need to go down. They only exist to keep old people who already didn’t have enough kids alive for 5 more years. And while that may sound harsh, that is simply the reality. Or again, open the floodgates
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  1101.  @Qnexus7  Sure but most young people are not in need of costly healthcare. Its the legion of 70+ year olds drive up the cost, need more employees that care for them and are a healthcare money pit. Additionally, the cost of living doesn’t really impact the birthrate. Poorer people, even in western countries, still have more kids than wealthier people. Now it may come to a point where people can’t actually afford more than one child, but they were hardly having more to begin with. Again, wither cut down on healthcare and pension and set up benefits for people who have kids specifically, and I don’t mean a 0.5% interest reduction on their loan or some other weak measure that helps no one, or open the floodgates
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  1102. No one actually takes German nationalists seriously though. Even they just use it as a way to hype themselves up and they know they will never get those lands back. They have more serious issues in their current borders anyway
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  1103.  @lesterstone8595  No one lived there though, it was mostly a land purchase
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  1104.  @geesehoward700  Britain wouldn’t exist without the Normans? That is just nonsense.
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  1105.  @lesterstone8595  I didn’t mean that literally no one lived there. Just almost no one, an irrelevant amount of people
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  1106.  @lesterstone8595  population density doesn’t mean much. And 60.000 people is barelt anyone for a huge region that is basically the entire midwest. I was right 😏
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  1107.  @lesterstone8595  60k is a lot for a house, not for a landmass half the size of Australia. That is small town size
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  1108.  @lesterstone8595  No it wasn’t, 60.000 people was insignificant for an area that size even back then Relative to a random small region in Europe 1% the size of Australia, it was minor
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  1109.  @lesterstone8595  Source bro
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  1110.  @lesterstone8595  I mean lets say it was 500.000 people, still a minuscule amount for a region that big
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  1111.  @lesterstone8595  🤓
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  1112.  @lesterstone8595  🤓🤓🤓 Stop being pedantic, also it was to Japan, they were prepared to keep fighting
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  1113. Wat een onzin
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  1114. I hope they are actually leaving
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  1115. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences right? You made your bed, lie in it lmao
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  1116. It is a great system if you like deadlocks and such watered down coalitions that nothing ever actually gets done
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  1117.  @HansWurst1569  Me neither, tbh the French identity as such probably starts with the Capetians
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  1118.  @HansWurst1569  Of course, but at least it seemed to me that getting rid of the Karlings and shifting towards France instead of the Franks is what allowed a sort of French identity to develop in the French nobility. Of course there is never actually a hard border in cultural matters such as these, but it does the job.
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  1119.  @Thanadeez  I sincerely doubt there is even one. I have seen like 3 people seriously support independence. I doubt anyone who isn’t Belgian wants to join Belgium
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  1120.  @Thanadeez  Also we can’t join Belgium. We need to remain separate, to easily have the benefits of both countries
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  1121.  @Thanadeez  No? The situation is already good, we get Dutch public spending and cheap gass. Better yet if you move 2 meters over the border into belgium for low taxes
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  1122. @@arisnotheles Families that Spoke French at home in North Limburg? What? Also a newspaper doesn’t have to mean anything. Limburgish is its own regional language. But that doesn’t mean the people can identify with the Dutch
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  1123. @@arisnotheles Limburg has never been French speaking and a random family herr or there doesn’t change that
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  1124. @@arisnotheles The amount of posh or noble native French speakers in Limburg must have been incredibly minor even in 1830, compared to the total population. But I doubt you grew up in the 1830s. By the 1930s was basically impossible unless if they were actually just French/Walloon. 5 nobles speakign french to each other has very little relevance. It was a “unity sausage” I have no idea what you mean when you when you say that most local named are foreign. Most local names are just patronymic or professions. Like Janssen, Smeets an Peeters aren’t Bohemian. Are you saying Limburgers are actually from Nassau and Bohemia (quite specific regions especially Nassau)? Lastly none of that changes that after the first world war the Limburgers started to identify, or accepted their status, as Dutch
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  1125. @@arisnotheles Yes, we all know mass migration has happened in the past 60 years. That still doesn’t make Döner a local last name. But are you one of those Limburgers who feels the need to overly emphasize their “European” connections to compensate for your inferiority complex? Oh and North Limburg isn’t even actually Limburg. You don’t even speak Limburgish there. Just a bunch of Brabanders in disguise that should just be handed over to them. Everyone knows the real Limburg starts at Roermond, and the further south the better. But based on your scholarly elitist attitude and your desperate need to identify with other European places I can only assume you are actually just Frans Timmermans lmao, or at least just as annoying and arrogant
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  1126.  @padriandusk7107  The word half is doing a lot of work in that there comment
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  1127.  @victorfergn  “Most” wasn’t no, but a significant part was. 30% on average with certain regions having more (Anglia) and certain regions having less (all of North-Western England). But this actually makes it even weirder that there is no presence of Celtic in Old English. What you would have expected to happeb with these numbers, is that because of significant intermarriage between Celts and Saxons, some linguistic exchange would have also happened. But it seems that the Anglo-Saxons wiped out the culture of the Celts almost entirely. Which is quite extraordinary, even for the migration period
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  1128.  @victorfergn  No 30% being Anglo Saxon. If it was 60% which it isn’t (not on average anyway) then they would have replaced most of the celts. Anyway, again, genetics don’t even really matter here. They still wiped out most of the Celtic culture and language. Which is the more interesting and unique development
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  1129.  @victorfergn  King Arthur was revived, or rather brought back to England, primarily by Norman-French rulers and their storytellers, not the Anglo-Saxons. But I’d argue that one story doesn’t really compare to the annihilating of seemingly everything else
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  1130. Everything that I don’t like was the FSB You give them too much credit. The EU was perfectly able to alienate large groups of people on its own
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  1131.  @Siegbert85  Actually their title was Roman Emperor
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  1132.  @darkfoxxbunyip  A lot of socialist/communist books but even things like the first works of research into gender identity and transgenderism, I’d argue most books they burned were good to burn (although obviously #notall)
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  1133.  @marusdod3685 For the whole of the Roman period the Islands were still by far majority Celtic. It isn’t until the Anglo-Saxons come that this changes. The Scandis mostly fought the Anglo-Saxons so they hardly had anything to do with the islands not being Celtic
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  1134.  @waynenash6008  The point was that Scandinavians didn’t contribute to the decline of the Celts in the British Isles as that happened either centuries earlier in England and the Lowlands, or would happen centuries later in the Highlands and Ireland
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  1135. I don’t think you can count Charlemagne as a German monarch (nor a French one for that matter) because Charlemagne predates the crystallisation of those identities, hell he predates their first mention or formation. Saying that he was a German monarch is anachronistic and has more to so with modern nationalism than actual history. Even though you can say he is a sort of proto-monarch for both states
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  1136. Northern Ireland isn’t occupied lmao And I forget that part of history where the Irish tried to destroy the English early on, failed, never got over it and then created a political party who’se only aim is to destroy England and the English people
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  1137. But there are some pretty strong indications that he at least wasn’t straight. Out of all the kings in English or world history, some would have been gay, and for Æthelstan there are some indicators he mayhave been. Like not marrying and being described as somewhat more effeminate. Obviously it wouldn’t be written down by a monk if he was, so we will never truly know, but you can absolutely make him gay without it being “identity politics”
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  1138.  @danz1182  If they are pro russian, russian majority regions that border Russia, why not let them unite with Russia then?
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  1139.  @maryanchabursky9148  That will just tell you which Russians live in reality and which do not Because it does belong to Russia
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  1140.  @maryanchabursky9148  Not really, Crimea is Russian right now. And it probably should be tbh. Provided that is what the people there actually want
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  1141.  @aaronbaker2186  Aaron, most parts of Siberia and the far East are also Russian majorities. They lost their non Russian Empire with the collapse of the USSR
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  1142.  @maryanchabursky9148  What evidence do you have?
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  1143.  @maryanchabursky9148  The one where they voted overwhelmingly to remain part of the USSR as a constituent republic? I don’t know how that helps your caze
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  1144.  @ASS_ault  It isn’t though, and clinging onto it makes no sense
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  1145.  @ASS_ault  What referendum?
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  1146. Well try forming a political party around the idea of abolishing state pensions (at least for people without kids) or abolishing free healthcare. Good luck. Immigration is a band-aid solution to the failure of the Pension/healthcare systems which were made for a growing or at least stable population
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  1147. Given by who? They just pretend to titles that don’t exist anymore
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  1148. They would never have started speaking high german at that point. Except if somehow they’d been integrated into Germany for a century
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  1149.  @Guido_XL  Depends on where in Limburg, maybe in Kerkrade it is different but there hasn’t been a politically pro German movement in Limburg since the first world war. I am also from Limburg and I have heard my fair share of jokes and anti German comments solely based on ww2 from people in my grandparents’ generation
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  1150.  @Guido_XL  Perhaps, but you also shouldn’t generalize your parents to apply to everyone. And I of course the sentiment in Limburg would more charitable during the whole war as Limburg had already been liberated during the hongerwinter, which caused a lot of bad blood. That being said, the post war sentiment was definitely not pro German
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  1151.  @DieLuftwaffel  Who even cares if they have a family tree going back to 974 Unless if you are the king of England, you won’t have that, and English culture is Germanic and Norman at its core, even if you are 80% celtic and don’t know it
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  1152. By the time of Charlemagne it definitely wasn’t going to be an Italian continent anymore (And he absolutely didn’t invent europe
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  1153. Saxons, and Angles (Anglo-) and Jutes and Frisians. But of course the Saxons are one of the core elements of said culture
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  1154.  @brittakriep2938  The chief-larping branch are still the descendants of the main Hohenzollern family, you know the descendants of the Kaiser, the Imperial family. And they definitely had palaces and castles in former East Germany They are also the ones who own Hohenzollern Castle in Swabia, and their current head, I forget the clown’s name, sued Germany over the unlawful dispossession of castles and art in East Germany
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  1155. They have to pretend to be against immigration in general, and not a certain kind of it in particular
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  1156.  @rivenoak  It is not an oxymoron, in some Germanic languages including German the word Reich/Rik/Rijk doesn’t have to mean Empire with an Emperor, it often just refers to a realm or the country itself.
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  1157.  @rivenoak  What? That doesn’t change that a word has more than one definition and in this case the Weimar Republic obviously didn’t apply the “having an emperor” definition.
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  1158.  @rivenoak  Because Reich doesn’t just mean “state with an Emperor” It really is not that difficult to grasp the difference. Perhaps you don’t understand it because you don’t speak a Germanic language that makes the distinction
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  1159.  @rivenoak  You clearly didn’t pay attention then
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  1160. Moderne Friezen zijn anders eerder verwant aan de Saksen en hebben niks te maken met de Frisii van de Romeinse tijd. Zij zijn dus ongeveer in dezelfde periode de lage landen ingetrokken als ook de Franken. Friezen en Saksen zijn eigenlijk gewoon twee takken van de Noordzee Germanen. Maar Friezen zijn dus niet ouder dan de Franken of de Saksen, en wonen niet eens veel langer in de Lage Landen
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  1161. Geen enkele taal begon met een standaard taal. Die zou voor het Limburgs, net als voor het Nederlands of Fries of Frans etc etc, ook gewoon gemaakt kunnen worden. Maar goed je hebt gelijk dat hierbij toch vaak kleindenkend chauvinisme de overhand neemt en dat dit een lastige opgave zou worden hahahah Daarbij zijn de Friezen niet verwant aan de Frisii van de oudheid, en eerder gewoon verwant aan de Saksen. Limburgers zijn Frankisch en vormde in de Karolingische tijd een deel van de kern van het Frankische rijk. Karel de Grote zelf sprak waarschijnlijk een voorouder van wat nu Limburgs en Aachener dialecten zijn. Dus aan de groote van oude rijken ligt het ook niet.
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  1162.  @grantjohnston7972  Lmao this is absolutely false. Ireland was not overpopulated. Most Irish people just had to rely on potatoes because they had too little land to use for other crops. And that was obviously because British landowners owned most of the land
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  1163.  @grantjohnston7972  Most of the land was used for cattle or other crops. But these products didn’t belong to the Irish peasants, they were just sold abroad mostly. Which is why during the famine food was exported from Ireland. After Cromwell and the William of Orange most land was not owned by the Irish. And regardless of who owned it, the starving peasants had so litlle land that they had to rely on the potatoes. Ireland was not overpopulated, and the famine was a result of how the British had set up a system that exploited the Irish peasant while they barely had enough food to feed themselves. So when the potato harvest fails, they starve. You are just an insane nationalist trying to make up excuses for the British Empire
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  1164.  @grantjohnston7972  You literally said they were overpopulated which is the go to response for people trying to make excuses. Ireland was not overpopulated
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  1165.  @grantjohnston7972  Lmao it actually wasn’t. And it hasn’t seen that population since because right when the population of other European countries was starting to boom due to better child mortality rates and technological improvements, the Irish had suffered a massive crisis with huge impact on their demographic situation. What was that again? Oh yeah the famine! Ireland can easily sustain more than 8 million people lmao. It is a large country with more than enough farmland. But it is almost like when you force them use potatoes because other people own most of their land and they then starve their population doesn’t increase. The Irish peasants didn’t rely on potatoes because they were overpopulated. They relied on potatoes because they have a better nutritional value per acre which was necessary because British lord owned all their land and exported the valuable meat and other crops. They couldn’t use grain because they didn’t have access to enough land to live on grain. Again because the British owned all the land and just made the Irish work on it. After Cromwell and William III the British owned over 90% of the land. So they couldn’t use the land to feed themselves. If they had been able to use the land and thus had not been impacted as much by the famine they would have had around 20-25 million people now. You are just shilling for the British Empire. But you are too biased to be reasoned with. And I am not going to waste more time arguing with a shill
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  1166. Nee die regels gelden alleen voor Politici die wat aan Islamisering willen doen. Plus die aangifte tegen werden natuurlijk grotendeels gedaan door buitenlanders, en die boeit het echt niet als een Imam van hun haat zaait tegen Israel. Nederlanders zijn gewoon erg tam geworden
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  1167. Met nog grotere stromen blijft er niks meer over van die regio’s
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  1168. This is pointless semantics, it is Russian now
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  1169.  @pjhgerlach  And yet the legal border doesn’t reflect reality, almost like there is something else that determines if land belongs to a certain country, like idk, being the country to actually hold the land
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  1170.  @pjhgerlach  Legality is irrelevant, and we’ll see lol. I doubt they will. Maybe they can use it as a bargaining chip in the future
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  1171.  @ChangesOfTomorrow  When you ask people why people used to have more kids, they will give you a simple awnser, because they needed to have someone to take care of them as they got older. Now we are getting older than average and have fewer kids than ever. People think that we don't need kids to take care of anymore, but we still do, a false disconnect has just been created. Now they are just trying to plug the hole with immigrants (and because corporations want more consumers and labour) at the expense of social cohesion. But even though the stream of immigrants is endless, the problem keeps existing because they also have fewer kids. So either the pension system (and drive for more consuming) is reformed, or we will hollow out or nations until all there is left are old natives and young immigrants whiping their ass
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  1172.  @ChangesOfTomorrow  They still are an asset, just not immediately on a personal level, which is the disconnect I described
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  1173. Cold comfort to all the Australians that died and suffered in a completely pointless war, especially for them
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  1174.  @zohlandt  No it doesn’t, it comes from place-holder. The fact that it sounds like city-holder now is just a coincidence
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  1175.  @zohlandt  Just because a word sounds like something in the modern doesn’t mean that is what it meant. It comes from place-holder (like the German Statt) and not city. You being Dutch doesn’t change that lmao
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  1176.  @KurtFrederiksen  The Kievan Rus is a term for more than just a centralized state ruled from Kiev. It was made up of various principalities and founded by the Rurikovich prince of Novgorod. Kiev was later usurped and sacked by the prince of Vladimir (out which Moscow would grow) all of those places are in Russia. So saying that the Kievan Rus is purely Russian or Ukrainian is just wrong.
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  1177.  @KurtFrederiksen  Kiev wouldn’t keep that until the Mongols invade, though the state is often still called the Kievan Rus the city of Kiev itself was usurped and sacked many times long before the Mongols arrived. On top of that the name Kievan is not even contemporary, it was just called Rus (in various forms) and the name is a 19th century invention. So no, it wasn’t always led from Kiev, it certainly wasn’t centralized and many of its princes (including important ones like Novgorod and Vladimir) are in what it now Russia. Unless if Muscovy, which came out of Vladimir also isn’t Russian lmao Honestly this is just a very strange and also blatantly wrong attempt to undermine the Russian identity/nationality
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  1178.  @KurtFrederiksen  I don’t mean that the city was called Rus, I meant the state. A state that was founded by a Novgorodian ruler. Oh all of the eastern and northern principalities went on to form Russia, under the leadership of Moscovy, which came out if Vladimir, a key principalty, which even usurped Kiev. Also I think calling them by the name they were actually called in various contemporary sources, the Rus, is more correct than the 19th century make belief. Anyway you are just completely irrational at this point, there is no sense in arguing with someone who is just trying to justify anti russian nationhood positions (Russia is obviously the main successor to the Rus on top of that). And I am not even saying Russianis the only successor to the Rus, Ukraine and Russia both are, as is Belarus. You are the one excluding one of the countries that came out of the Rus principalities for no reason other than bias Have fun with your anti-Russian ramblings though
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  1179.  @dylanvogler2165  That is your view
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  1180.  @dylanvogler2165  Is there someone you forgot to ask? (Russia)
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  1181.  @dylanvogler2165  Doesn’t really matter, the point is that it is a matter of perspective
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  1182.  @dylanvogler2165  Yes, but clearly you don’t get mine lol
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  1183.  @freethinker8603  By 1066 they were basically French
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  1184.  @storymaker299  And the Franks barely settled northern France themselves Franks =/= French
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  1185.  @freethinker8603  They had adopted French/Frankish governance. They had adopted French culture and they intermarried with the French for a century and a half
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  1186.  @freethinker8603  Astute observation, you must be very proud
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  1187.  @freethinker8603  I see your level of analysis doesn’t go beyond the label that is slapped in a group of people. For the sake of argument, yes, if that Irish person’s family had settled in England 150 years and married into English families they would be English at that point lmao For a free thinker I must say your thinking is about as deep as a puddle
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  1188. Can’t really blame the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire on one selfish guy. They had plenty
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  1189. Germany and the Holy Roman Empire aren’t the same thing though. And the title says Germany
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  1190. One drawback of that is that nothing ever really changes. Meaning serious issues aren’t adressed either
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  1191.  @theavansoest4218  Deal Thea, alsof schoonmaken en voor je eigen kinderen zorgen zwaarder is dan 40 uur per week zwoegen of op een kut kantoor zitten
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  1192.  @roidrannoc1691 hey are considered to be the first French kings only because of Catholic-French nation building. They were not French in any way Only France agrees with that, and most of the world doesn’t care at all
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  1193.  @roidrannoc1691 West Francia was not a Frankish state. They just clung to the Karling dynasty the longest and didn’t transition to an Empire like East Frankia did. They kept the name but they weren’t meaningfully Frankish. Except for the country of Flanders they had no regions where Franks were a majority. All the Franks lived in Lotharingia at first and then later in East Frankia and the HRE
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  1194.  @axolotl-guy9801 The Franks never romanized fully for the most part. They still exist today and don’t speak a Latin language
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  1195.  @petersteenkamp  And it was no longer majority Dutch well before the American revolution. You could attribute the aid against England in the Revolutionary war as the Dutch helping to found the US though
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  1196.  @TheSuperappelflap  That sounds a bit like interpreted wishful thinking. How could you possibly show the link between a small amount of Dutch settlers to American Pluralism or freedom of thought. Especially when those issues were important to other religious groups who also settled in the US, in far larger numbers. To the degree that the Dutch lost their majority very quickly The constitution being inspired by the Dutch is true. But it was also inspired by the Iroquois confederacy for example, and those people also did not leave any major cultural elements in the US
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  1197.  @TheSuperappelflap  Many of those people came to Americas exactly to avoid persecution. So they would also have a vested interest in religious freedom.
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  1198. I don’t think that the ethnically cleansed Germans or their state had much to do with Polish political divisions. Correlation is not causation ;)
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  1199.  @paulmayson3129  Thank you. The idea that nations, or a national identity, didn’t exist until the 18th century is ridiculous. It is revisionist propaganda aimed at undermining nations in modern times
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  1200. Yeah this is just Global clique propaganda
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  1201.  @drachna They are also still head of the church so it makes sense
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  1202.  @jackyex There is a also quite a big difference between the pagan greek city states and later Greek claimed Roman Empire
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  1203. Zelfs al zou Duitsland die gebieden krijgen, wat natuurlijk nooit gaat gebeuren maar stel dat, dan zijn er nog niet genoeg Duitsers om ze te bevolken. Tenzij je er een soort gigantisch bejaardenhuis van wil maken, terwijl steden als Berlijn en Keulen nog Turkser worden dan ze al zijn
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  1204.  @pvught390  Dus je wil de Polen en Russen deporteren en ze dan braak laten liggen? Wat een goed plan man, ze moeten jou echt de macht geven ergens
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  1205. This always happens because modern countries are simply a convenient if incorrect way to talk about a certain landmass that more often than not was disunited. For example Frankish Kings and Kingdoms are often called French even though wouldn’t have been
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  1206.  Syd McCreath  To romantic French and German EU-philes perhaps
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  1207.  @Diev-Et-Mon-Droyt  House Anjou, or as they have been called by historians to distinguish them from the other Anjous house plantagenet, is incredibly relevant for English history But no they would absolutely not be speaking English. France would have become the cultural center again, as the lands were far richer and has like 5 times the population
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  1208.  @Diev-Et-Mon-Droyt  It doesn’t matter, they were French speaking anyway. And the house of Anjou does matter, they ruled England until Richard III. And the English kings were always more focused on France and French culture until their loss of continental lands (basically Henry IV) made them adapt. Had the English monarchs been able to usurp the French throne you can be sure that their focus would again switch to France. Whether or not you consider France a cultural hub or not is irrelevant, the fact is that due to the large difference in population and prosperity, the English would have stood no chance of culturally assimilating the French, the opposite is far more likely.
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  1209. Dus omdat er ooit een conflict was tussen Protestanten en Katholieken moeten we nu maar tot in de oneindigheid een bijna vijandig geloof accepteren en zijn gang laten gaan Nee
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  1210.  @juliajs1752  They can go for modern Frankish though
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  1211. Regime changes in unstable countries that are economically devastated and have just lost a war don’t tend to go in the way of shining liberal democracy
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  1212.  @cSwDamian  Bit edgy but ait
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  1213. Someone with a gondor pfp should know better
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  1214.  @matteoaievola8643  And yet the EU gives disproportionate power to smaller members through its veto. But no one is saying Luxemburg rules the EU. Of course with the biggest economy Germany would be expected to have more influence than smaller countries, but they are far from in charge
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  1215. Bekeerlingen zijn sowieso mentaal onstabiel
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  1216.    Ignoring the referendums did happen
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  1217.    All Dutch referenda are, but the outcome was still ignored, as it was in France. Or more accurately, they just rebranded the treaty and then conveniently didn’t have any more referenda. Stop being a blind shill mate. You know damn well the EU constitution was rebranded to the treaty of Lisbon. Which is why there was no second referendum in France or the Netherlands. Because it was the exact same treaty - some symbolic nonsense Again you can be pro EU, not my problem. But don’t deny reality
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  1218. It is obviously a genocidal statement coming from Palestinians. They just lack the military force to enforce it. You cultural marxist clown
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  1219. Not exactly fair to compare modern interconnected technologically advanced economies to the colonial era
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  1220. The term central Europe is just as artificial as west and east, and it is mostly either a way for Poland and Czechia to avoid association with Russia and for Germans to feel more special
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  1221.  @atisnicholson1844  I meant Romans relied on Germanic tribes
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  1222.  @mepvep  A lot
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  1223. Any serious scenario pre-supposes that this gets resolved. And thank god it won't.
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  1224. Technically that would be Otto the great, as Charlemagne consider himself just emperor of Rome, and the holy roman empire would come centuries later. The same goes for Otto but in his case there is a direct institutional line from him to the holy roman emperors, which there isn’t for Charlemagne
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  1225.  @Chris-hp9be And she was still not able to overtake a French guy who, unlike her, actually reigned
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  1226. A lasting peace? With Hamas? Lmao the EU can’t even take a unified position on an issue, let alone solve this conflict. Unless if Europe wants to take 2 million refugees, that could solve it
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  1227. Well to be fair, the war itself is far removed from tge lives of any young person today. You may not like it, but this will always happen with time. Just like no one cares about the dead of the Napoleonic wars, the thirty years war or anything before that
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  1228. It absolutely wasn’t big H that started the idea of a single German identity. This is a concept that has been slowly developing since the 11th century. Also, just because someone sees themselves as Hessian first, doesn’t mean that they aren’t a part of a broader cultural group. Certainly after the 15/1600s it was generally understood that you could be Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon or Austrian etc etc and still all be German. Even if there wasn’t a single unified nation-state
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  1229.  @AK-hi7mg You act like they speak a completely incomprehensible language every 50km, they absolutely do not Germans all speak closely related languages (on top of the standardised language of the modern era) and have closely related cultures customs and identities, even before unification. Germany is not a forced or arbitrary construct. For that you can looks at places like Indonesia or India. These nations are actually made up of wildly different groups that before they happened to be conquered by the same country, had little to do with each other or in common.
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  1230. But, even if all immigrants we took in now were immigrants like yourself that adapt to European societies, we’d still have a large part of the problem. That will be the legacy of importing low skilled and unassimilated immigrants for decades. Our demographics are such (because of low native birthrates and high current and past migration) that ethnic tensions will keep existing. There are simply too many young descendants of immigrants that have not assimilated but that do poses European citizenship to solve the issue easily
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  1231. But, even if all immigrants we took in now were immigrants like yourself that adapt to European societies, we’d still have a large part of the problem. That will be the legacy of importing low skilled and unassimilated immigrants for decades. There are simply too many young immigrants or their descendants (who now possess EU citizenship and are never counted in these videos) that never assimilated to avoid a cultural clash
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  1232. Ultimately all nations act in what they perceive to be their own interests. Were Germany and France technically hypocritical? Sure. But Germany wanted in on the land grab and obviously they just didn’t want to share. And Germany ended up losing
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  1233. Ironically the connection between them and the Franks is the least clear. Franks do still exist today and also in Germany, but they live along the lower Rhine (in Germany). The Dutch and Luxemburgish are also directly and clearly descended of the Franks. Both Dutch and Luxemburgish are linguistically clearly descended from Frankish too, and are thus national languages descended primarily from Frankish. The modern day region of Franken in Germany probably has that name because of the Frankish conquest of thw region between the 4th and 6th century. In the same way that France is named after the Franks, but it isn’t actually Frankish
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  1234.  @nickduf  Flemish and Limburgish can be grouped with Dutch yes
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  1235.  @reynoldtanto4853  It doesn’t matter who the most legitimate successor is. There is no such thing. It all just depends on your beliefs and what you like more, legitimacy is completely subjective. The point is that Charlemagne was recognized as Emperor of Rome
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  1236.  @reynoldtanto4853  No there isn’t, the only reason anyone even took the Eastern Roman seriously in the 15th century is because they had a direct link to Rome. Whoever claims it now is just larping
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  1237.  @reynoldtanto4853  It is literally irrelevant, other members of his family also pawned off the title. Rome is dead and no one cares about those ridiculous claims. I mean honestly Rome probably died in 1204
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  1238.  @RussiasSufferingInUkraine  I think everyone understands that by now. The point ia just that isn’t always a “bad” move.
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  1239. Anglo-Saxons also had slaves. Also Vikings were Germanic too. So it is incoherent. The only point is to destroy your identity
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  1240.  @IronWarrior86  Still not indigenous. Your time requirement is arbitrary because you just don’t like Islam probably
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  1241. The idea that they voluntarily gave up their entire language, culture and land is just laughable. Theories based purely on vagie archeological evidence (or lack of archeological evidence) are incoherent
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  1242.  @Dikkeganzenclub  Maakt niet zo veel uit, Belarus betekent Wit-Rus. En de gemiddelde Nederlander weet toch niet wat het verschil is tussen de Rus of Rusland
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  1243.  @Dikkeganzenclub  Als je het over propaganda hebt is dat wel degelijk relevant Voor bijna iedereen betekent Rus gewoon Rusland. Voor de Russen ook, ze hebben zich niet voor niks die naam gegeven
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  1244.  @N0Time  Lmao Joan of arc and the church? Look if for some reason you have attached your religious beliefs to this concept of French existing centuries before it did, that is fine, but just admit it
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  1245.  @N0Time  I am the historian. Look if you want to be a source bitch, fine, you don’t have to engage with arguments or historical claims if you don’t want to
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  1246.  @N0Time  Difference is that there were much more anglo saxons in Britain than Burgundians and Franks in Gaul. Genetic testing (and linguistics) prove that there was significant migration to the British isles
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  1247.  @N0Time  I don’t even care enough to unpack this nonsense. I will just say that anglo saxon dna is on average 30% in the UK which is vastly more than Frankish generic legacy in France. The french aren’t even Franks, not based on language, genetics or culture lmao
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  1248.  @N0Time  English people have 30% on average. Idk about Isle de France (and those numbers would not be accurate now due to huge waves of migrations to Paris, but I do know that over-all the Frankish genetic impact on France is completely insignificant when compared to the Anglo saxon impact on England. Idk where you got your numbers from but the most recent comprehensive genetic studies out the average at 30%, with more in the south and less in the west. In any case, this whole argument is irrelevant, my initial point is that Clovis was not the first king of France (a Kingdom that didn’t even exist in the 5th century) and nor was he was French, as again that culture literally did not exist. This is not opinion, it is fact, there is no reference to France or French people, and if anything the only connection Clovis has to what is mow France is that he conquered a large part of it and is the first link in the chain of the process that would lead to France centuries later. There is literally no historian who would seriously suggest that France existed in the 5th century, at least no historian who isn’t also a revisionist french romantic lmao. It is like your operating under 1880s french romanticism interpretations of history.
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  1249.  @N0Time  Oh and like I said I am the historian 😎
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  1250.  @N0Time  You haven’t highlighted any errors. You seem to be operating under a delusion that France and Frankia are the same. Btw You don’t have to verify historians, if you don’t even know that france as an entity didn’t exist in the 5th century then idk what to tell. Just start with the basics Also imagine basing your views on the writings of monks, any historian would tell you to not just trust on biased sources (like the church). But even if you do that, they wouldn’t have called Frankia France either. The term France wasn’t adopted until 987, but I will grant you that the continuity between West Frankia and France is there, it was basically just a name change, so you can start with West Frankia. Absolutely not with Hlodowig Anyway, I am done talking, it is like talking to a wall. Just go and read any book about the Franks that was written in the last 20 years, or even Wikipedia will do
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  1251.  @N0Time  Contradict? Bruh, West Frankia was established after the death of Lious the Pious, it is separated from Clovis by about 4 centuries. You really lack even basic knowledge about the timeline. If you want to call Charles the Bald the first king of France, no one will have much disagreement there, though technically the first king of a country called France was Phillip II. Anyway it is obviously not a contradiction lot of things happened in those 4 centuries, like the development of French culture From your last paragraph there I can tell though that you prefer to see history as simple narratives, that your probably simple brain can easily put into a nice story. Talking about actual historical details is pointless. Next time though, at least doa quick google of the timeline and the figures involved, which would avoid you confusing West Frankia with the Frankish kingdom under Clovis, it will help you not reveal your impressive lack of knowledge
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  1252.  @N0Time  🤡
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  1253. I wish they supported anti-immigration policies
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  1254.  @fluffypineapple790 eople that weren’t kings or priests didn’t write in 800 ad lol Anglo-Saxon is a contemporary concept, and, Angles and Saxons weren’t even that different to begin with. They wouldn’t be the first nor the last West Germanic tribes to form a new common identity
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  1255.  @davepx1  Frisians and especially Franks were a small component, and Frisians are most likely a branch of Saxons, and they are definitely a North Sea West Germanic people. Franks would at least be Wesser-Rhine Germanic, but even there, Dutch is the second closest language to English, and Dutch is the modern form of Frankish. So these were all closely related people. Them being politically disunited doesn’t change that I never said the modern English aren’t Celtic genetically. It is your side that is spending a lot of effort try to prove the opposite, in vain because luckily for us now genetic evidence has disproven the small settlement theory Also placenames are not the same as words in a language. The native Americans were whiped out completely in large parts of the Americas, even more so than Celts in Britain, yet a lot of their place names remain. But if that is too far, Roman names in Britain don’t mean that Romans had any significant impact on Old English or on the people of Britain. Given that they had all left before the Anglo-Saxons invaded. In the actual spoken language of Old English though there are like 6 known loanwords from Celtic Britonic languages. Which is shockingly little Archeological evidence in this case is limited and people use it to just try and prove beliefs they already had. We don’t have any archeological evidence for the battle of Hastings either but that battle definitely happened. And that is a case where you know where and what to look for. So a lack of burials or graves on either side doesn’t prove anything on its own. It can be used as an indicator, but when that indicator is directly contradicted by genetics, contemporary sources and linguistic theories, it has to take a back seat Is it likely bede exaggerated? Yes. Does that mean anglo saxons don’t exist or that there was almost no Germanic settlement in Britain? From the most recent evidence we have, no it doesn’t
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  1256. Probably because it is an effort by people who are culturally mostly descended from the Anglo-Saxons, especially in terms of identity, and not pre-Roman celts. But, those people’s descendants are also very keen on preserving their language in Wales. It is obvious why English people would choose Abglish over a Celtic languages they have nothing to do with
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  1257.  @toomanyopinions8353  Because it is an English language movement, not a Welsh one
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  1258.  @salmonegg4321  Wars have happened at every moment in your life. You just didn’t know or care
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  1259.  @salmonegg4321  Seemed like you didn’t lol
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  1260. Not really, if they fulfill every practical function of the role. That just means the custom changed
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  1261.  @Yongle96  Have they ever been referred to as emperor elect or are you literally just making all of this up?
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  1262.  @Yongle96  So you are making it up? Again were they actually ever referred to as emperor elect by their contemporaries or in legal documents, or just emperor. You can can just answer bruh
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  1263.  @Yongle96  Checked what? Because I can only see references to them being Roman emperors or kaisers, not kaiser elect or roman emperor elect Also elected and elect aren’t the same. Elect, when referring to this would mean they have been chosen but don’t officially or practically fulfill the role yet. Elected just means that they were elected and are emperors in their full right
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  1264.  @Yongle96  That is a pretty relevant distinction though. Before you claimed that the imperial title was basically seen as unofficiated, meaning they were not true emperors yet until they’d get coronated by the Pope. Now you are saying they were merely elected and did hold their full official office. which yeah that is obviously true You just translated it wrong lol, regardless of what language was spoken in the hre
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  1265. Depends on where you are from. The regions below the rhine are mostly Frankish. Holland is more mixed but culturally and linguistically mostly Frankish with some Frisian elements. But Overijsel, Drenthe and Groningen are Saxon
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  1266.  @bommelmapping307  Eh I think most people who don’t vote vvd are mourning his departure lol
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  1267.  @mckenzie.latham91  Well given that time is still linear they are penal battalion now. I am not speaking of Wagner 4 years ago when they were just a pmc. They still aren’t anything like the SS though. And they also don’t really represent Russia’s top forces. Just their most seemingly most effective ones in the Ukraine war. And part of that is the brutality and the callousness with which a penal battalion can operate and can be used But I don’t need to get involved in a discussion about how effective you or I think Wagner is. We’ll see, speculation serves no point. They just aren’t the ss lol
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  1268.  @ThePhil1909  Justice? It was a war lol. And Germany was far harsher on Russia than the Allies were on Germany. Germans or Wehraboos just keep crying about it
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  1269. Displacement
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  1270. Of course Israel cares, but everyone also knows you can’t just give in to a foreign army that just raided you. Especially if you are surrounded by hostile countries
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  1271. Harald’s invasion isn’t really a viking age raid or invasion though, it was just Harald pressing his claim.
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  1272. Just because it is also supported by large agricultural companies doesn’t change the fact that they have plenty of popular support. Hardly a street without an upside down flag where I live
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  1273. Why not? They clearly learned the correct lesson. In order to make sure your people aren’t at the mercy of other peoples, you need a nation state. Not a 50-50 Arab Jew state where you will again become a minority. And when your state is attacked by a foreign terrorist group you have to strike back. Especially when you are surrounded by hostile nations who even help that group.
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  1274.  @j451  But the heartland of the Franks was also in Modern day Germany, so it doesn’t really matter either way. Some west Germans along the Rhine, most of the Dutch and some people in Northern France are the descendants of the Franks
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  1275.  @Thinkaboutit56789  I meant not German, simple mistake. I meant that German and French identity didn’t even exist, so he can’t have been either French or German. Obviously he was Germanic as that is just a broad category of different peoples
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  1276.  @tibsky1396  The origins of the medieval French kingdom is Frankish, but all that is left now is the name
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  1277.  @tibsky1396  France doesn’t really have kings or nobles anymore though. So while Franks founded the kingdom in a way, neither the French state nor people are Frankish now
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  1278.  @tibsky1396  Naturally, which is why you can say the state itself has Frankish origins, and that the Kingdom was run by Frankish nobles (mostly), but the Republic basically has no Frankish elements aside from its history and the name
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  1279. Yeahb I wonder why he likes us so much
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  1280. It is weird to call him that, it isn’t like he identified as European and tried to unite the EU lmao
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  1281. Almost like this channel and the charts cater to English speaking people!
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  1282.  @hugolouessard3914  Yeah probably because calling people a name that isn’t theirs would be inconvenient. But thankfully no one is expected to shout at Phillip of France anymore. Besides these names were also given to these people back when there was far less interaction between people from different countries. But being whiny about it now makes no difference either
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  1283. Nou door het overstromen van wat nu Friesland is tussen 100 en 400 AD is er tussen de Frisii en de Friezen weinig verband. De huidige Friezen zijn gewoon Noordzee Germanen die ingetrokken zijn nadat het gebied weer leefbaar werd. Vandaar ook dat de Friese taal verwant is aan Duitse streektalen en zelfs Oud Engels (en modern Engels maar in mindere mate). Maar ze hebben hun taal als rijkstaal erkend gekregen omdat de Frisii ook ooit daar woonde
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  1284.  @wertyuiopasd6281  I must have missed the part where the Japanese got invaded by a completely different people but kept the name of that people despite the connection being exclusively based on a ruling elite
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  1285.  @andyfriederichsen A great European federation from Connaught to Vladivostok of course In all seriousness while Europeans aren’t all the same it is time for all these small irrelevant nations to unite. If for nothing else because otherwise we will continue to be overtaken by China and the US
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  1286.  @davidjames4915  Saying that a loan word automatically enriches a language is a knee jerk reaction too. It is as you say the exact opposite of wanting to maintain total purity
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  1287. De toename is te wijten aan migratie en een ouder wordende bevolking
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  1288.  @moniekfalck7089  Ah globaal gesproken komt het natuurlijk door het verbeteren van de levensverwachting in bepaalde gebieden maar ook door een sterke afname in de kindersterfte. Eigenlijk gebeurt in Afrika nu wat in Europa gebeurde in het begin van de vorige eeuw. Ze krijgen nog steeds heel veel kinderen maar er sterven er niet veel meer. Daarom is de bevolking ook zo jong. Als het alleen kwam door het ouder worden van de bevolking zou de bevolkingspiramide er iets minder bottom heavy uitzien
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  1289.  @zigzag913 No he wasn’t turned down
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  1290. Even the “Eastern Roman” emperors had to know they were larping as Rome when all they had left were some dispersed territories in Greece and the Balkans
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  1291.  @lucasgillis You are correct that France as a state is a continuation of the Frankish Empire (specifically of the West Frankish Kingdom). But the French people are not a continuation of the Frankish people. That would be the Dutch, some West Germans and, because of colonalism, the Afrikaners.
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  1292.  @lucasgillis  There are though? And besides that wouldn’t even be the point, the point is that most of France, including Northern France, is Gallo-Roman (mostly Gallo). Franks didn’t settle in large enough numbers to displace the language or culture of the region. Which is why the Franks that did settle in Gaul assimilated into the Gallo-Roman population. Whereas the Franks in the Low Countries and West Germany didn’t. These regions form the modern continuation of the Frankish people, not France.
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  1293.  @lucasgillis  well we don’t live in the year 900 anymore so that is a bit irrelevant. And these regions were never the core of the French (West Francian) domain, culturally or linguistically. Which they were for the Dutch, specifically the Dutchy of Brabant, Brugge and Hasselt-Maastricht I see now I read it wrong. You mean Lille? I mean sure and this region was natively more Frankish that is true. But that is also just a tiny part of France that was again not part of the core domain that coalesced into the French culture and people we know today. The native Frankish (Dutch/French Flemish) dialects died out for a reason.
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  1294. And, lets be honest here, no one wants millions more Turks in the EU
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  1295.  @dutchgamer842 Noord Limburgs is ook geen Limburgs, het hoort gewoon bij de provincie maar het is Klevelandisch
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  1296. @ Sir it isn’t the year 1850 anymore. French is just the language of arrogant people who dwell in Gaul
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  1297. @ Just some names no one knows m8
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  1298. @CROM-on1bz So? That doesn’t make French the language of literature and art. Again it isn’t the 19th century anymore.
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  1299. @CROM-on1bzNo it isn’t. Most art students or literature students won’t speak French. Time has moved on
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  1300. Sore loser?
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  1301.  @Kay-jg6tf Yeah and no one lives there. Not like you’ll be able to do much with a population of 5 old farmers
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  1302. I wish bro, they are still pushing and most Europeans don’t care
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  1303. When people say get rid of the monarchy they don’t mean they can keep all the lands associated with the monarchy though
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  1304. The problem has become an existential one for many European countries though. Even if every Arab we took in from now one was a model citizen, we’d face demographic replacement, and some people just don’t want this. And hopefully those people win out in the next 20-40 years
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  1305. Even if all Non Western immigrants we took in now were highly educated model citizens we face an existential demographic crisis because of migration and low birthrates among native Europeans
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  1306. Celts are immigrants too though
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  1307.  @VVeltanschauung187  Goebbels called, he wants his propaganda back
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  1308.  @noelleggett5368  Yes it does lol, most historians actually support that there was large scale settlement. Because the average Englishman has about 30% anglo-Saxon dna. That is more than you’d get from a generation of mercenaries who simply took over and them magically enforced their language on people in a highly disfunctional and decentralized region. The theory has been proven in the modern day but even in the past it had strong arguments. Far better arguments than biased archeological interpretations. I don’t know who still clings to that outdated rubbish now, maybe some bitter Welshmen or something who still can’t accept they lost 1400 years ago. Evidence for small scale settlement: no mass graves Evidence for large scale settlement: Genetics Linguistics Contemporary sources (Doesn’t officially count ofc but to me it does: common sense lmao) The small scale settlement theory is literally just wishful thinking. Which is why it has never been able to actually answer the linguistic argument, and why it now can’t adress modern genetic research that proves it wrong
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  1309.  @noelleggett5368 No they don’t lmao, idk anything about those Asian or African examples, but when you look at the Gauls, they were enslaved, genocided and there was extensive Roman settlement (mainly soldiers and administrators) in the region. Rome was also a far more organized state. You seem to harp on about other irrelevant examples, and like everyone who supports this weak theory you can’t adress modern genetic research that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that settlement was significant. I suspect you just don’t understand genetics, and as such think that “powerful men spread their seed” counters the argument. Which it doesn’t. One or two generations of poweful elites don’t leave 30% genetic contribution to a modern people 1400-1600 years later. Unless if they somehow castrated every Britonic male and had 1000 women harems. Which I sincerely doubt. Point is, you have no idea what you are talking about. Pick up the book Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris and he’ll tell you why you are wrong in far more detail than a youtube comment allows
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  1310. It isn’t really a Ukrainian counter-invasion but yeah, play stupud games, win stupid prizes.
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  1311. There already was not semblance of a balance. Russia can’t even defeat a non nato country that gets nato backing. Imagine if they actually had to fight the US. But Nato won’t invade Russia and Russia won’t invade Nato, so it hardly matters
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  1312.  @winstonchurchill5892  Also, if the US military had been able to fight like the Russian one does, on other words without any concern for domestic opinions or enemy civilians they would have reduced north vietnam in ash and won. The US was only hamstrung by its own people not wanting that
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  1313.  @Suojeluninja  They absolutely won’t though
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  1314.  @Thai8521  The point is that the US army could have absolutely destroyed Vietnam, it just wasn’t allowed to do so. So using the Vietnam war as a failure on the US aemy’s part or as an indication of its weakness is stupid
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  1315. English is just as authentic as Hochdeutsch lol. Both of those are Germanic languages that are completely different from Frankish in the 8th-9th century
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  1316.  @miramax6165  Many Turks are descendants of assimilated Anatolian “Greek” converts
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  1317.  @perseusarkouda  Hellenized during the classical period you clown
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  1318.  @dotz7616  This is not inherently tied to being in office for a long period of time. Parliamentary systems have people like Rutte in office for more than a decade quite regularly, and they aren’t dictators. Erdogan it just a dictator and yes those tend to want to stay in office.
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  1319.  @Kalimdor199Menegroth  Lol get over yourself. Human rights abuses lmao
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  1320.  @pinquinsam  Well Mark didn’t personally accuse people of fraud. That was more so a result of a state apparatus. He obviously then covered it up to avoid accountability and then as is usual for the government was hesitant to spend any more money than budgeted. But it isn’t like he was plotting against parents. I have no sympathy for farmers. They don’t have a human right to be farmers and we have a government so we can organize society more efficiently and react to changes. If that means less farmers so be it. The housing crisis is absolutely something they didn’t act enough on that is true.
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  1321.  @dotz7616  I read the full comment and I don’t think it is a valid comparison
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  1322.  @RiotforPeacePlz  oh please, don’t be a cringy ancap
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  1323.  @marnickfox9891  I agree, I never said I thought he did a good job. I just commented on the concept of term limits. Maar even terzijde, immigratie is al sinds de jaren 60 een probleem. Mark is daarin niet speciaal.
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  1324.  @maddogbasil  They didn’t hold the same level of power compared to other countries of the same time period
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  1325.  @maddogbasil  Which the Ottomans weren’t
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  1326.  @maddogbasil  Nah they absolutely weren’t a hegemon in the way Rome at its height was. They never managed to control, France, England, Italy and Spain which were great powers at the time too. They never even managed to take down Austria. And counting every war against the ottomans as one single conflict is a misrepresentation, or just plain retarded
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  1327.  @maddogbasil  The Ottomans couldn’t have taken any of these nations either. They barely made it through the Balkans. That doesn’t make them a hegemon They didn’t have the same ability to enforce their power on everyone around them like the Romans had. I am not saying they were weak, I am saying they didn’t have the relative power of Rome
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  1328.  @hussainashraf5179  Not at the same time and not in overwhelming force. And also they still actually lost that century long struggle, they were driven out of almost all their gains im Hungary, the northern Balkans and Transalvania were lost especially quickly. Look no one is saying the Ottomans weren’t a world power, they were. But they did not match the power of Rome at its height and they did not pose a lasting threat to most of Europe
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  1329.  @hussainashraf5179  Lmao, they didn’t conquer Rome, the Eastern Roman Empire was in trouble long before the Ottomans popped up, they did finish them off though that is of course true. Eastern Europe is also ever so slightly bigger than Serbia and Bulgaria I suspect you are some cringe muslim zealot or turkish nationalist who wants hear that the Ottomans were the greatest nation ever, which they just weren’t. Don’t be greedy and prideful and be satisfied with being a major power for a few centuries
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  1330.  @hussainashraf5179  Can’t have a reasonable conversation with a muslim 🤡
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  1331.  @hussainashraf5179  I am not even Christian, Christian zealots are equally retarded. And for the record, Christians did manage to push back the Ottomans to Anatolia Actually no Muslims are way worse
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  1332.  @hussainashraf5179  Even if that is true, it is pretty humiliating to lose against barbarians, so badly that they now have to beg to be let into an economic union Not really a win to degrade the people that beat you. But hey you do you
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  1333.  @hussainashraf5179  🤡🤡🤡
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  1334. Well at least he got that latter one. And now there aren’t even any greeks in their greatest city
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  1335.  @noqueq9003  All 10 of them
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  1336.  @noqueq9003  There are basically no Greeks in Istanbul. The city is like 99% sunni muslim
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  1337. Saved how? The Pagans lost
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  1338. Anglo-Saxon language was definitely influenced by the Normans and Angevins. Though obviously not replaced entirely. Anglo-Saxon literature and cultural traditions and even to a degree their form of christianity was absolutely replaced or wiped out
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  1339. @ Anglo-Saxons were Christian, but the English world was divided between more indigenous Celtic inspired (they converted the Anglo-Saxons) Christian traditions and the dogmatic Roman ones. There were disagreements over the appointing of Bishops, over the nature of monasticism and the role of lay clergy just to name a few That is one of the reasons why the pope gave William his blessing to invade England.
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  1340.  @oleksii000  Ethnic borders change all the time. When are the people descended from what you would probably consider colonists allowed to make their own choices? Or are they stuck with their “original sin” forever. Also the Baltic states are completely safe as long as they are in Nato. Not like Russia will invade and colonize them again
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  1341.  @smokyjoe4748  And any other person who managed to have descendants alive at the time
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  1342.  @michaelkovacic2608  The legality is completely irrelevant. You could introduce a law tomorrow that makes them all legal, and the problems would be the same. The problem with immigartion right now is the sheer amount that has happened and is still happening. There are too many legal immigrant too. Now of course there are reasons why governments are letting them in, but those are short sighted at best
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  1343.  @epicmoment648  Literally the only reason for that is that Israel is far stronger. If Hamas had the capability of Israel, Israel would no longer exist, and their death toll would be far higher. Hamas explicitly wants to destroy the state and people if Israel. Israel doest want to do the reverse. Hamas is obviously worse
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  1344.  @tu7454  Sounds like you pulled those numbers from your ass. And the word child is ways doing some heavy liftinf here. A 16 year old and a 4 year old aren’t the same
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  1345.  @JS_Gaiserik  I didn’t say I don’t understand why Palestinians support Hamas. But that doesn’t mean Hamas is either right or better than Israel. Because it is not
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  1346. Yeah like it was only Islam that was spread through violence lol I think it should be obvious that 8th century conversions weren’t always peaceful
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  1347. What is the evidence that France joined because it wanted Alsace Lorraine back? I always see this but it never gets supported by any actual statements or documents proving it
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  1348. Lowland Scots are just Angles pretending not to be
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  1349.  @B_B463 Germaniseren? De gemiddelde leeftijd van een Duitser is 55 man, daar hebben ze de mensen niet voor hahaha
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  1350.  @13tuyuti Pruisen waren ook Duitsers. Ze hebben gewoon de naam van het volk overgenomen wat er voor hen woonde. Maar de bevolking van het koninkrijk Pruisen en daarvoor de Duitse Orde was gewoon Duits, en niet Baltisch
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  1351.  @B_B463  Germanië bestaat niet. Maar de gemiddelde leeftijd en demografische situatie in andere Germaanse landen is niet beel beter dan in Duitsland. Een groot deel van de bevolking onder de 30 (wat al een relatief klein deel van de bevolking is) is van buitenlandse afkomst. Dus tenzij je het gaat “germaniseren” met Polen en Marokkanen gaat het er niet van komen vrees ik
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  1352.  @videovoer8130  Nouja ligt aan het gebied. De Slavische volkeren hebben het weer gejat van de Goten
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  1353.  @13tuyuti  Je kunt het gejat noemen, dat boeit me totaal niet. Baltische Pruisen bestaan toch niet meer. Maar het punt is dat the Pruisen waar iedereen het hier over heeft Duits waren. En geen achtergesteld Baltisch volk
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  1354.  @13tuyuti  Klopt en je hoort mij ook niet zeiken over dat het Pools is
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  1355.  @jarlsparkley  It is because this video can’t even get the distinction between a nation and a country straight. The English Scotish and Welsh are three different “nations” united in one country
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  1356.  @balabanasireti She didn’t really try to help and she was the one at the top of the system responsible for creating the conditions of the famine
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  1357.  @Theworldsucks-kg5jv  Yes the name became Prussia as a result of Imperial politics, but Berlin was the center of the state, not East Prussia
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  1358. Big fuck up there
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  1359.  @q-tuber7034 Takeover by the Flemish actually
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  1360. No, just the Roman Empire actually
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  1361. He out played everyone by doing what? Quitting? Tbh he probably just didn’t want to do the job anymore
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  1362. Not special unless if you can actually prove it
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  1363. Istanbul alone has more people than all of Greece, it aint happening
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  1364. But that makes sense right? Why would the West care about the Eastern Roman Empire? Which they had very little direct interaction with and which you could even say they eventually destroyed
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  1365.  @N.Sniper Wat lul jij nou weer. Een gigantisch deel van Rusland, met veruit het grootste deel van de bevolking ligt in Europa
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  1366. Bruh, it was the 9th century. Every king kill people in brutal ways.
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  1367. They don’t even have power
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  1368. Germany and the Netherlands weren’t exclusively converted by the sword. The Franks (most of the Dutch and a large part of central west Germany) peacefully converted
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  1369.  @ellidominusser1138  Because they were too arrogant to work with any potential allies
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  1370.  @maryanchabursky9148  You are right, they were ethnically cleansed. But that doesn’t make parts of the Baltic states any less Russian now. And saying they don’t have the right to self determination because they came there through “colonization” is completely arbitrary. That was just my point. I don’t blame the Baltic states for trying to protect their nations, any sane society would. But don’t pretend you aren’t being anti-Russian in the process by making up weak justifications and excuses why Russians denying various people the right to self determination is bad, but you denying them that same right is good.
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  1371.  @Yassified3425  Historic lands means very little. Ethnic borders shift all the time. So either they ethnically cleanse the Russians, integrate them or give them self determination. This is the same logic Russia is using. Why would they let historic Russian lands leave their union? Rabidly pro Ukrainian westerners have 1 shared brain cell I swear
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  1372.  @torehaaland6921  Of course Russians would tend to be pro Russian. But the only actual issue is that Russia could use them as a reason to attack (they won’t attack Nato so that won’t happen). Additionally it could make Latvians and Estonian feel threatened domestically as the Russian minority is very large. And in that case them being pro Russian doesn’t matter that muxh
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  1373.  @bigruapurart  It would still give free EU access to 80 million Turks, yeah no keep them out, we already have more than enough annoying Turks
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  1374. Because usually the anti-immigration parties lean right or are outright right, and almost all the left-wing parties are either pro immigration or they don’t talk about it at all.
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  1375. Years? You mean decades. It all started in 60s and we are now finally reaping what was sown
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  1376.  @robbiejay It is true though, the German government opposed Turkish immigration at first, thinking they didn’t need them as a labour force, but after US pressure on West Germany they had to accept them. And why would the US pressure them? To appease Turkey and better relations with them ofc
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  1377. Years? More like decades. This has been happening since the 60s. Demographics have caught up with us now though and now we reap what was sown by idiots
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  1378.  @gabrielsilva-pl3dx fucked by the British yet again
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  1379. How would you get rid of the Veto when small countries will definitely veto that lmao
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  1380. It was an invasion though, anything else is just cope
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  1381.  @hefipaleburp9543  There pretty much is
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  1382.  @jadawin10  You couldn’t be more wrong if yoh tried lol
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  1383.  @jadawin10  French people couldn’t be more obnoxious if they tried
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  1384.  @ThanhNguyen-vf5rl  There weren’t many Franks who settled in Gaul, and basically none settled below the Loire so everyone to the south of there definitely wasn’t really mixed. But yeah even in the North (with minor exceptions close to the Moselle and the Lowlands) the Franks were never a majority anywhere
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  1385.  @theodorekell  Were you 50 years old 1991?
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  1386.  @theIOis  No it doesn’t matter, government spending isn’t inherently socialism even if it for the public good. Otto von Bismarck wasn’t a socialist either. Socialism is public ownership of the means of production
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  1387.  @theIOis  He was called a socialist maybe. But he was a conservative Junker who wanted to take the wind out of the actual socialists’ sails. Bismarck wasn’t a Socialist and neither was Charlemagne when he created a network of communication for his realm (which benefitted everyone). Socialism is a specific economic theory that wants worker controlled means of production. And this is not government spending
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  1388. Idk about the bald, but the fat one got that nickname centuries later for no apparent reason
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  1389. The EU, and a lot of western governments, basically act as detached mega-corporations who'se primary concern is to expand the labour market at all costs. I mean half of the EU's countries and most of the EU's institutions actively undermine European integration by supporting and endless stream of immigration, many of which are from countries that don't give a shit about Europe and who don't assimilate at all
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  1390. In Merkel’s defense (that is an awful thing to say) it was hardly her fault Germans as a whole are stupid when it comes to energy and climate issues I am sure she understood that nuclear was the best alternative, but when your entire country is anti nuclear, there is little you can do when you are a spineless political figure
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  1391.  @valyshknee4203  It is infinitely more embarrassing for this alledged military super power to resort to ww2 tech than for a smaller and weaker country that is defending itself to do so
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  1392.  @valyshknee4203  I mean there is a sloght difference to using a random functioning vehicle and welding a naval canon to a 1940s track It is quite obvious though that the US army is actually capable, unlike the russian one. It is a matter of scale
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  1393.  @valyshknee4203  The US army wouldn't have to do that because they'd actually be done in two days like when they invaded Iraq.
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  1394.  @deyzacvincent3091  Leer op zijn minst Engles zodat we je ook begrijpen
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  1395. Are you drunk? None of that makes any sense.
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  1396.  @susansusan1980 4000 isn’t even that many all things considered
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  1397.  @EricEscander Your grasp on history is awful too. Charlemagne was neither French nor German. He was Frankish. French of German didn’t exist at the time. However, given that his mother tongue was Frankish and that his family held their core lands in the Rhine-Meusse region, he is obviously most closely associated with that region and those people
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  1398.  @tibsky1396 Except Charlemagne was clearly not a “Salian” Frank, aa that distinction had long lost any relevance. He would have just been a Frank. And looking back at it now you can far more easily place him on what it is today considered the Ripurian end of the Frankish spectrum. His mother tongue would most likely be the ancestor of what are now regional languages along the German-Dutch border (Limburgish and Aachener dialects). These regions would have culturally and linguistically been more Ripurian than Salian. Which is why Limburgish is very different from standard Dutch
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  1399.  @grandmanitou6563  French and Franks aren’t the same people, and neither are German. Franks are Germanic and the French in some regions somewhat significant Frankish ancestry, but other regions have basically none As for Charlemagne, he himself and his family were from the area that is now the border between the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. But obviously he was Frankish and not Gallo-Roman, so he is closest to the Dutch and German people that live around Aachen-Maaatricht
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  1400.  @tibsky1396  You said it well, French is a derivative of Frank, because they aren’t the same thing, and the French certainly aren’t Frankish
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  1401.  @tibsky1396  Sure the kings that invaded Gaul and ruled there were Frankish, but the people weren’t. So unless if you are Henry Capet, the French aren’t Frankish. And of course people speaking low Franconian were Frankish, those are the actual Franks, it is literally called low Frankish lol
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  1402.  @tibsky1396  That would be the case were it not for the fact that Germanic people who speak Frankish and who culturally, ethnically and linguistically directly descended from the Franks (unlike the French) still exist
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  1403.  @tibsky1396  They didn’t necessarily merge, more like a few Franks were mostly absorbed into the Gallo-Romans that lived there before. Franks weren’t a majority anywhere in what is now France with a few minor exceptions in the Moselle and around Lille. But yes obviously the word French didn’t exist until well after the Frankish conquest of Gaul, like 600 years after, but the people who lived there before obviously did exist under a different name, anachronistically sometimes called French. Actual Franks (or at least their direct descendants, they obviously don’t call themselves Franks anymore) still exist and live in the Low Countries and parts of west Germany. They didn’t merge with Gallo-Romans. A nation is more than an ethnic background, but in the case of the Franks modern ethnic groups that are cleary and directly “Frankish” exist (unlike say for Vandals and Goths) and they aren’t French
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  1404.  @MalleusIudaeorum  I would define success as his movement or if not his own movement at least his way of thinking taking over the country in which he was agitating. Their growth and the records they broke with their speeches matter little when it only ends up with the BUF and Mosley becoming completely irrelevant.
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  1405. Not remotely though, the character of these migrations are very different
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  1406. Yeah making a genetic distinction between closely related Germanic people that live in the same area is pointless. Dutch culture and language mostly comes from Frankish though, with Frisian and Saxon elements naturally
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  1407.  @RunawayTrain2502 he BBB isn’t reactionary though. They are just pro farmer and function as a protest party But they are absolutely not anywhere close to far right or reactionary on any issue. They are just clowns
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  1408.  @prof5282  What is not stupid is the very real consequence of giving 80 million turks free access to all Eu countries. No one wants that lmao
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  1409.  @prof5282  Yeah I know, trust me, too many already. No way we want even more And it isn’t a double standard, ordering a fucking kebab or going on holiday somewhere doesn’t mean you want to turn your nation into that Nation lol
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  1410. That and a book Charlemagne had made with Frankish stories was lost
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  1411. Split in two and losing 1/3rd of their land from which they also got ethnically cleansed. I wouldn't call that light, but yes you are right, they fucked around and found out
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  1412. That makes no sense, people don’t just abandon their native tongue. Especially in a decentralized medieval era without any form of education for peasants. They abandoned their language because they were forced to by Anglo-Saxon invasions and large scale settlements (resulting in the assimilation of the celts)
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  1413. Christianity was mostly just adopted by various Germanic tribes though. With the exception of the Saxons and the Norse
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  1414. This is not a practical position though. Unless if the Baltic states will ethnically cleanse their russian regions. They won’t leave and may just become more pro Russia
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  1415.  @NLTops  That is an incredibly small part of the prison population though, and it is laughable to claim that it was intended to be some sort of extension of slavery
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  1416. For a lot of Indonesians at the time the Dutch Empire was just repalced with an ''Indonesian'' one. With enforced nation building and the annexation of islands and peoples that didn't actually want to be part of Indonesia either
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  1417.  @seanlander9321  Yes exactly you can apologize to Indonesians affected by it. But I do think we don’t have to apologize to their government when they are acting so sanctimoniously
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  1418.  @KarlSnarks  Tuurlijk help dat niet. Maar het echte probleem is dat mensen niet snel genoeg uitgezet kunnen worden, als ze dat uberhaupt al worden, en dat men deze mensen dus ook het idee geeft dat ze toch kunnen blijven. Hier door krijg je gewoon een eindeloze stroom van een groot aantal immigranten/asielzoekers.
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  1419.  @MyILoveMinecraft  Some of you already are
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  1420.  @manulad2000  Well Manuel I have seen plenty of them do it. So excuse me if I don’t believe you, manuel
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  1421.  @manulad2000  I don’t lol, but the unearned European sense of superiority is still amusing
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  1422.  @mistrants2745  They haven’t moved to the right at all though, except when it comes to their election campaigns maybe
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  1423.  @manulad2000  And now past glory is all that is left lol
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  1424.  @KarlSnarks  The vvd is pro gay, pro abortion, pro immigration and they aren’t even anti trans. If they are fucking socially conservative then the words mean nothing. Just because they aren’t cultural marxist doesn’t mean they are conservative
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  1425. It basically confirms that their entire community is guilty of the acts or guilty of turning a blind eye. Which is why they should all “go”
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  1426. Most Western Europeans will probably agree or not care at all. Showing a clear case of hypocrisy and anti-Russian attitude
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  1427.  @adrianwoods7720 By 1921 Irish had already been killed lmao
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  1428.  @davidadiwego4608 we can, look at what happens when Africans kick out white people lmao
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  1429.  @dseelenmagie8811  I mean, Charlemagne killing a few Saxons has very little relevance on anything that happens today. At best you could say it would have delayed their conversion
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  1430.  @dondeestaCarter  yeah but, who cares. It was the year 800 and Saxons are still a thing
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  1431.  @gavinrolls1054  Not really. Saxons still exists in the same place where Charlemagne killed them, with the same identity and name
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  1432.  @mijanhoque1740  You can be angry over whatever you want. But if you are angry over this then you are pretty damn stupid lol And the English aren’t still seething over the Normans. Likewise except from some particularly autistic nationalists, no one in Lower Saxony cares about Charlemagne.
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  1433.  @abelabel3664 The UN is a joke
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  1434. The solution is simple, stop endless third world migration. No one cares about Dutch-German border travel
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  1435.  @Mc-attac Lmao people washed themselves
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  1436. While that may be true for the Czechs, most people outside of Czechia do not care, and western Europeans will just see you as Eastern European.
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  1437.  @letecmig  The concept of Central Europe wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for Germans and Austrians trying to give themselves a region of Europe to have control over
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  1438.  @EduardoSilva-yp7ob Why would you apologize for being successful The Africans would have done similar things to us had they been able to do them. I mean they enslaved each other and then sold each other too.
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  1439. He realised it was incompatible with him being Kaiswr again lol
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  1440.  @FortniteBlaster2  They both oversaw Germany’s ruin. But at least Wilhelm can blame Generals and politicians as well. Hitler is the main culprit for his ruin
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  1441.  @germaniatv1870  Bruh I have seen this brainlet neo-nazi (even actual nazis would laugh you out of the room) take more times than I can count. And it hasn’t improved over the years
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  1442.  @germaniatv1870  I didn’t even say anything about the name? What the fuck are you talking about
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  1443.  @germaniatv1870  I am not even wrong for the simple reason that I am not even sure what you are responding too. Idc about your dictionary, good for you. But I never said anything about the word 😂 The anti-colonial stuff is just fucking retarded though. Idk what to tell you
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  1444.  @germaniatv1870  Negro, I am not American. Swing and a miss
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  1445.  @germaniatv1870  I am not negro, I am not American, I don’t even live on the Americas
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  1446.  @germaniatv1870  Negro, I don’t know what you are even talking about. I could not care less about the history of the word nazi, it is irrelevant. You seem a little schizophrenic. And again I am not American, I am European myself ;)
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  1447.  @ougi_rk But you can just tell them to fuck off anyway. You don’t need to accept endless immigration because you had an Empire at one point. This point never makes sense
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  1448. And there is no way everyone would simply agree to letting Turkey in, extending the EU border to fucking Syria and giving Turks free range across the EU. As we don't already have enough Turks
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  1449.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Most of thr Franks didn’t adopt a latin language and still speak Frankish today
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  1450.  @noahtylerpritchett2682  Yes them in Germany, sadly the German dialects are dying. Dutch is also Frankish (more Salien), and is the official language of a few countries. And the Netherlands still has more people speaking local Frankish dialects.
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  1451.  @iraqwarveteran470  Who was Germanic?
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  1452.  @iraqwarveteran470  I probably know more about them than you, I was just asking. That being said though Germanic is a broad term that is used to identify a large group of people that were not united in the slightest. Also the huns were not Germanic, though they did make use of Germanic vassals. Oh and the Franks and Saxons didn’t split after Charlemagne they had already split centuries and centuries earlier, before Rome even showed up at the Rhine. Franks today are still Germanic though, thought mostly not German
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  1453.  @iraqwarveteran470  If by civilization you mean Christianity, then sure to the Saxons I guess. But that wasn’t really the goal of the Romans to begin with. And yes our past is being erased in front of our very eyes
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  1454.  @tsp141181  Sometimes people assume that Germany is the only legitimate Germanic country, because of the name lol
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  1455. They are actually right to be worried about TikTok though
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  1456.  @douglasschliewen4302  This decentralisation applies to all feudal medieval states though. The early HRE is no different from France or England in that sense. The development of decentralisation with de facto independence only takes place in the later third of its history. And regardless it was still a single “German” political entity which was identified as such. And it isn’t like the Emperor had no authority or competences Political unification in one nation states happens in 1871 (or at least three if you count Switzerland and Austria). But there had been an explicitly German state foe centuries So it isn’t like the concept of Germany or German is as new as people pretend
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  1457. That doesn’t make sense. Christianity was obviously also one of the main aspects of every popular Western Empire and figure of the middle ages.
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  1458.  @JamesFurey-qx9mr  Is someone going to tell him?
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  1459. @ Calm down, I didn’t say there are no Franks in Germany, there are, just not in Franken. But you said it isn’t French history, which it is And by the time the Franks invaded Gaul they had long spread from the lower Rhine into Roman territory across the Rhine, and it was those Franks, to the east of what is basically modern day Brussels down to Calais-Lille, that united the Franks (in the Eastern Low Countries and modern day Germany) and conquered Gaul and the Allemanic tribes
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  1460.  @erikschlangenauge7514  In your first comment you literally said it wasn’t French history. Calm down and read broski Ny intention was to clarify
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  1461.  @erikschlangenauge7514  Well you edited the comment now, but before it said that it wasn’t part of French history at all. You are a sneaky one aren’t you? But yeah the Allemanic tribes were Germanic?
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  1462. Wilhelm was good? I mean you can say he wasn’t worse than Hitler but when you worsen relations with everyone around you, oversee the collapse of your Empire, and send millions to die in battle in your name for nothing, you didn’t do well
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  1463. Luckily for him he is in the US and not a country with a disarmed population. It doesn’t really matter what other countries think. And aside from that plenty pf countries outside the US also have a high rate of gun ownership
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  1464.  @kenari5763  You said that ordinary citizens having guns is a crazy position. But there plenty of other countries where ordinary citizens possess guns. From Switzerland to Canada to Norway, yes even the paradise of Scandinavia. Now the character of the gun ownership is often different (military reasons, hunting, protection, to name a few) but it isn’t necessarily a crazy position to think that ordinary citizens should be able to own guns.
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  1465.  @kenari5763  Nowegians actually do own a lot of guns mate about 29 per 100 people
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  1466.  @kenari5763  Yes, so gun ownership isn’t just a US thing. Although they obviously have the most guns and certainly a very toxic gun culture
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  1467.  @kenari5763  Yes, and the US has a toxic gun culture, on top of having by far the most guns, but it isn’t an extreme position to let citizens have guns
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  1468.  @DraconiInfernalus  Germans are hardly alone there. Almost Every european (including predominately european colonies) country is guilted over its past
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  1469. Almost like there is a reason why people are voting for the AfD And it isn’t just Germany. Many European countries are swinging to “right”
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  1470. Goeie keuze man, laat die gekken hier maar betalen voor het huis en inkomens van half Afrika
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  1471. Don’t worry the EU parliament isn’t that strong, and single parliamentarians are even more irrelevant
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  1472.  @kolomaznik333  Commission and the two councils
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  1473.  @adrienpetryka1682  Frankish became Dutch, and some local german dialects that are on the verge of extinction
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  1474.  @nifrain9494  No one said he wasn’t Germanic, he obviously was. But he wasn’t German
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  1475.  @meh2972  Correct, but Salian Frankish was never spoken up to Paris as a majority language.
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  1476.  @adrienpetryka1682  Frankish became Dutch and some German dialects (that are dead ir dying rapidly). But Frankish still lives
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  1477.  @borrburison648  When he was born it wasn’t a city in Germany, Germany didn’t exist. Modern countries do not equal early medieval tribes or kingdoms. Also, we don’t know where he was born. He could also have been born near Liege, which doesn’t mean he is was Belgian either
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  1478.  @borrburison648  It doesn’t matter who owns it now. The point is that German identity didn’t exist, and wouldn’t exist for centuries after his death. He literally cannot have been German, or French for that matter. He was simply Frankish. As for language, high German obviously retains some Frankish elements, but it also underwent significant changes as a result of the consonant shift and the influence of other Germanic dialects. The only official languages that are directly descended of Frankish are Dutch and Luxemburgish. Of course certain western german dialects would also be Frankish, but those are dead or dying as a result of language standardization, and high German unlike Dutch isn’t exclusively Franconian
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  1479.  @vanCaldenborgh  Then you must have visited them with your eyes closed. Because the public infrastructure in the Netherlands is infinitely better than Germany and Belgium. Especially Liege is a shithole compared to any Dutch city I fail to see these effects of “national egoism” or neo-liberalism (as if Belgium and Germany aren’t neoliberal either) Your comments regarding the Hague or Utrecht are funny though. As if you are a cultured southern boy in touch with Europe. Are you Frans Timmermans by any chance? Of gewoon een Limburger met een minderwaardigheidscomplex?
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  1480.  @vanCaldenborgh  Ja dat heb je al gezegd. Maar waar heb je nu werkelijk over. Want als je denkt dat Luik of Aken een betere infrastructuur hebben dan Nederland, dan heb je echt je ogen dicht gehad. Noem eens wat voorbeelden van de effecten van dat neo-liberalisme (wat duitsland ook had onder Merkel) of dat Nationalisme. Ik zie namelijk amper verschil. En voordat je de arrogante “wereldburger” uit Limburg uit gaat hangen, ik kom zelf ook vaak in België en Duitsland. Ik woon praktisch op de grens
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  1481.  @rolandboerhof9391 Bijna al die landen kiezen niet eens de “kant” van Rusland. Ze zijn eerder gewoon neutraal en blijven daarom met Rusland handelen. Maar het is niet alsof India ook nog eens Russische troepen traint en 50 miljard aan wapens stuurt
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  1482. Yeah the title is blatantly misleading and basically just spreading fake news. Also I wouldn’t call it a civil war, it nowhere near relevant enough for that. That being said it does look extremely bad for Russia
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  1483.  @arjenlaan4103  I mean in my opinion the Batavii aren’t even that great. We know little about them and at best they were Roman auxiliaries. The dutch nation is however a direct continuation of the Frankish one, and we hardly ever claim them. So it isn’t like we couldn’t do better hahaha
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  1484.  @oilslick7010  Probably not related to the Dutch all and definitely overshadowed by later Franks (and Frisians and Saxons) ✅
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  1485.  @rogerstone3068  Doesn’t mean they can proven it though
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  1486. It doesn’t matter who did what. We shouldn’t have raving bands of North Africans ruling our cities
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  1487.  @dutchgamer842 Maar goed dan kun je net zo zeggen dat Nederlands geen taal had kunnen worden omdat Fries en Limburgs (en Saksisch) erbuiten vallen/vielen. Je kunt op zich best een standaard Limburgse taal maken van het gebied midden Limburg en Zuid Limburg (min Kerkrade en Vaals die vallen onder Duitse streektalen). En je kan het zelfs doortrekken tot Belgisch Limburg en Duitse grensgebieden. Hier is het Limburgs echt bijna gelijk aan elkaar, en wijkt het echt niet meer af dan regionale versies van anderw standaard talen
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  1488. No, because Christianity and modern european attitudes are hardly related. Christian of a 1000 years ago wouldn’t have acted in the same sheepish manner as Europeans do today
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  1489. Wat een onzin, waarom zou je nu opeens weer miljoenen mensen deporteren?
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  1490. And the English defeated the Vikings anyway
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  1491.  @michaelmuller9385  Not Frankish, proto-French or Norman but other than that yeah
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  1492.  @michaelmuller9385  No Frankish and French (or Protonas French technically wouldn’t exist yet but we need a term) aren’t the same. On top of that neither Germant nor France existed in 843. Germany wouldn’t exist for a century and a half at the very least. And France is slightly more complicated but it is generally considered to have started with the ascension of the Capetians.
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  1493. The video is in English, no one cares. That is just how English speakers say it
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  1494.  @Cythil  Judges are not and have never been apolitical
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  1495.  @hoodatdondar2664  They also didn’t occupy any German soil. The allies did however intentionally cause a starvation with their blockade. And that is just Germany, there were warcrimes against civilians in the other theatres of war committed by the allies
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  1496. Most of your recent ancestors are Christian if you are from Europe anyway.
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  1497.  @Nick46289 The biggest country on the planet soon to be populated exclusively by old women
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  1498.  @floepiejane  Yes of course I am sure. Germanic tribes had no common identity even though they spoke related (but not the same) languages. They don’t even have a shared identity now.
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  1499.  @floepiejane  This is retarded on so many levels. No it is not, there are endless examples of language not being a determining factor in terms of identity even when the language in question is practically the same. Let alone when the language is related but different. Your thinking here has the depth of a glass of water
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  1500.  @floepiejane  Again wrong, that only works with cultures that left a language to analyze. The broadest identifiers are remnants like pottery or burial types. But you only do that if you have literally no other cultural identifiers to work with. People from Australia don’t identify as English, Dutch people don’t identify as German, Mexicans don’t identify as Spanish, Walloons don’t identify as French, old Saxons didn’t identify as Germanic. The list is almost endless. Language is an element of culture, but it is not the determining factor.
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  1501.  @floepiejane  No, but you can’t just say that because a language is similar or the same that the identity of different peoples is the same. That just isn’t how it works
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  1502.  @floepiejane  I gave you like 5 examples of identity and language not being the same already
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  1503.  @floepiejane  I will ignore the anthem because you are not intellectually equipped for that discussion given that you seem to think language = culture. And yes Dutch people speak a Germanic language, but that is not the same as a cultural identity. You are conflating two very basic concepts here (culture and language group), I suggest you pick up a dictionary and learn what the difference is.
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  1504.  @Kritiker313  Language can be a part of cultural identity but it doesn’t have to be. The Irish for example do not identify as English. You can’t just equate language and culture/identity
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  1505.  @Kritiker313  Irish is spoken by almost no one now. Their language is basically English but they obviously do not identify as such
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  1506.  @Beepbeepbeepbe  German wasn’t a culture in Charlemagne’s time either and Germanic is not the same as German.
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  1507.  @VonW-op3pd  Perhaps but they didn’t recognise themselves as the same people with the same identity. There was no broad Germanic identity
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  1508.  @Huntski36 Or maybe other Christian branches would have become more relevant
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  1509.  @Jean-Pierre-Villard  Bruh 😭
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  1510.  @nickyprice2617  Again though, you being pagan has nothing to do with the English trying to root out the Welsh language in the past because the Welsh were already Christian before the English
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  1511.  @nickyprice2617  I am literally just saying that the Celtic people converted before the anglo-saxons even landed in Britain. The suppression of Welsh is not tied to religion but nationalism. Welsh Christians spoke Welsh for centuries
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  1512.  @nickyprice2617  I have actually been in both scotland and wales. But that doesn’t matter at all, given that there almost no pagans in Wales or Scotland now, because they converted over 1500 years ago
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  1513.  @lahavmorris The EU did not bring Moroccans or Turks here. That was a process set into motion decades before the EU ever existed. European cooperation and integration is a good thing, letting in MENA thugs is not
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  1514.  @oriraykai3610  What?
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  1515.  @theotherside8258  Place names generally aren’t considered. Obviously there are many placenames that are Celtic, or Roman, but that doesn’t mean Romans are a core component of modern England, they aren’t. It just shows that it is easier to adopt a name when it already has one than to think of a new one. The Britonic people actually are a core component genetically however, which makes the lack of any linguistic influence even stranger
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  1516. It is about half of 40 million today. However you didn’t always need a larger population in the past to conquer huge swathes of land and have a large influence. The Franks were a minority in their Empire, the Mongols didn’t have a large population.
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  1517. 🧐
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  1518. We can probably get to 10.000 worse errors in European history before not trading with South America shows up on that list
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  1519.  @charlesvigneron565  Sir Lee could actually prove it though
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  1520.  @kressiv Als alle mensen uit gebieden die extreem warm of onleefbaar gaan worden hier heen komen maakt het niet uit wat je doet. Dat zou een aantal mensen zijn wat we totaal niet aankunnen. Dus kun je ze alleen of tegen houden of het opgeven als natie
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  1521. Goed is ook wel een beetje open voor interpretatie he, eindeloze voorbeelden van mensen die vonden dat ze goed waren en vreselijke dingen deden
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  1522. Maar dat is geen argument. Een standaard versie van een taal moet op een gegeven moment gewoon gemaakt worden. Anders is Nederlands zelf ook geen taal, er zijn zat van regionale verschillen en dialecten (waar Limburgs er een van is) die afwijken van deze standaard taal. En voor de standaard taal zich ontwikkelde bestond Nederlands natuurlijk ook gewoon, als dialect continuum
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  1523.  @ImperatorAugustus How far we have fallen that we have to pander to violent sand people
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  1524. There were kings before the Merovingians, and there were kings after them. That is just how it goes
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  1525.  @Michaelvasquez944  The amount of oversimplification of HRE History in this comment is honestly impressive To get to the point though. Muscovy grew out of the principality of Vladimir, a leading state of the (very decentralized) Rus. So saying Muscovy can’t be an inheritor of the Rus is ridiculous. They controlled many of the former Rus principalities, including ones you mention like Novgorod and Ryazan, and were obviously its chief inheritors with the only other princess being subjects of the Polish-Lithuanians This attempt to disconnect Russia from its own Rus heritage is pure Ukranian cope
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  1526.  @Future183  Germany set itself up to become a rival to the Uk whey tried to challenge the naval dominance. Both the UK and Germany were acting like imperialist powers. Ultimately though, no matter what, the US was destined to surpass them
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  1527.  @Future183  Yeah but it was heavily biased towards Germany, which makes sense given your pfp lol
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  1528.  @Future183  The core point, that the UK and Germany were destined to be rivals is not wrong. You just left out Germany specifically antagonizing the UK as well, and ultimately both were simply trying to either increase their position or maintain their position as imperialist powers. So it isn’t like Germany’s ambitions were just to be its best wholesome self and the selfish UK just couldn’t let them be Also you literally have a German Imperial flag. There is 0.1% chance you aren’t heavily biased
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  1529.  @Future183  The Germans failed to usurp the Brits though, eventually the Americans just easily overtook them and Germany
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  1530.  @hvermout4248  Ben je niet echt bekend mee als je niet uit de regio komt. Ik had er ook nooit ban gehoord voor ik in Leide woonde
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  1531.  @Vkdennis87  Franks are from Iberia? 😂
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  1532.  @zimzalabing  Not entirely true, different nationa can develop within the same language area. What is or is not a nation purely depends on how the people of said nation identity.
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  1533.  @alphavegas1  Very little is Vikings and Anglo-Saxons except if you are British or Scandinavian. The viking age really wasn’t that long, and the Anglo-Saxons turned into the English post Norman conquest, which is really what got them involved in mainland Europe. But yeah you are right, the migration period isn’t glossed over. It is just that the Germanic states or people that didn’t really last faded away. The Goths, Vandals and Suebi are just not around anymore so people obviously care less
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  1534.  @alphavegas1  On average British dna is 30% Germanic. The Dna is absolutely not identical to German (which itself is obviously not purely Germanic either) That being said it matters little
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  1535.  @alphavegas1  If they are 30 Briton (same for anglo saxon btw) that still clearly indicates significant Celtic British heritage
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  1536.  @Macion-sm2ui  In this case it is more so a misrepresentation because his kingdom included more than just Italy
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  1537.  @Macion-sm2ui  Saying he was Lothar of Italy is a misrepresentation, regardless of whether or not Italy exists now (setting aside the whole Italy not really existing for centuries in between and there being no statehood connection)
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  1538. What the fuck are you talking about
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  1539.  @NeilLewis77  I am just saying that the primary sources themselves are often biased. Not that this is a bad channel
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