Sounds like someone needs a hug.

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So you’re saying your comment was just violating our incivility rule?

Altaicist isn’t an insult. I didn’t say there was anything wrong with being an Altaicist. There are reputable linguists who are Altaicists.

I was just observing that the person I was talking to subscribes to the Altaicist hypothesis.

You know, this is the third comment I’ve made to you in the past half hour where I’ve had to correct your misframing of what I’ve said. Can you please stop twisting my words? It’s starting to feel personal.

No, I was not agreeing.

I know. I’m not the one who claimed Turkish is related to Mogolian. The other guy said that.

Did you respond to the wrong person?

What’s with the downvotes? Are you all Altaicists here?

Who would have thought the worst thing about Lemmy was all the bad linguistics theories.

Edit: Oh, come to think of it, I guess bad anthropological theories are a bit of a staple of American reactionaries.

Yes, but you don’t have to overstate things in the headline so much.

I sometimes think of something to say after my original comment.

And is “comrade” supposed to be a dig of some kind? Because it isn’t.

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the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an agency that reviews violations of religious freedoms overseas and makes policy recommendations to the President and Congress.

Why does that exist?

What imperialist bullshit.

“Report says” is newspaper speak for “this is probably bullshit”.

Part of me thinks “Surely American military intelligence must know there are different ethnic groups in Russia”.

But then I remember how the invasion of Iraq happened in part because the Americans didn’t understand the difference between Shia and Sunni Iraqis.

Another story I saw says that North Korean troops were spotted in the Russian military. How could an observer know they were Korean? Were they wearing a Korean uniform? And if so, why haven’t we seen any photos of that? Ukrainians have cameras, right?

Is this just a case of Ukrainians not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans?

Edit: Come to think of it, it’s more likely a case of Americans not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans.

I can only imagine their shock when they eventually learn that Russia, a country that spans all of north Asia, has Asians in it.

So one intelligence source says 10,000 have already been sent, and another says 3,000 will soon be sent.

These are just rumours. Inconsistent rumours.

This is clickbait for a paywalled article.

Also, the capital of the ROC has never been Taipei. It’s Nanjing.

I said “the government in Taipei”. They’re in Taipei, even if that’s not their de jure capital.

It’s technically a civil war between the Republic of China and the communist uprising.

Yes, that’s the war I’m talking about.

Taiwan continues to be controlled by the government of the Republic of China. Mainland China is controlled by the Communist uprising.

(At least, that’s how the government in Taipei would describe it. The government in Beijing would describe it differently.)

what you’re saying is not technically accurate. China and Taiwan have NEVER been at war.

I said mainland China and Taiwan. They are both part of China. They are two different parts of China fighting a civil war for control of the whole of China. (Technically.)

Reminder that mainland China and Taiwan are technically still at war.

When you post on Lemmy, you can set a language tag that will steer your post towards people who speak the language.

(English speakers rarely set a tag for their posts, because we arrogantly expect everyone to know English, and if they don’t, we’ll try speaking again louder.)

The advertisement, which is running in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, blames Stein for Republican challenger Donald Trump’s 2016 win and warns that “a vote for Stein is really a vote for Trump”

Muslim voters don’t care. They see Trump and Harris as the same. This ad will have zero effect. If anything, it will give Stein greater exposure.

I don’t know why they’re bothering. This must just be for appearances. They’re trying to set Stein up as their scapegoat or something.

They’d really rather participate in this theatre than stop supporting genocide.

I don’t think she’s running to win. The Democrats have already accepted that they’re not going to win the presidency.

When Biden was the candidate, there were concerns he’d be so unsuccessful that most Democrats downballot would be wiped out. That’s why they replaced him.

Harris was brought in to maintain the status quo to protect the Democrats downballot. But they’re not trying to win the presidency.

To win the presidency, Democrats would have to depart from the status quo, and the Democrat machine has no intention of doing that, and Harris is not bold enough to do that.