• ChocoboEnthusiast@leminal.space
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    1 day ago

    I think Americans caring about there heritage lives rent free in too many European heads. It doesn’t affect anyone’s day to day, and explains some weird idiosyncrasies in life.

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      23 hours ago

      It’s toned down since 23andMe was new, but I absolutely know people that will regularly call themselves by whatever European group they think gives them character.

      I always ask if they have an EU passport.

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      1 day ago

      I just love the shade thrown to Ireland, Guatemala and Lithuania. he did not hold back. “Not even the Irish want to be Irish” 😭 Also I think he is American.

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        18 hours ago

        Was gonna quote trainspotting, but realized it’s scots.

        Tommy: Doesn’t it make you proud to be Scottish?

        Mark “Rent-boy” Renton: It’s SHITE being Scottish! We’re the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some hate the English. I don’t. They’re just wankers. We, on the other hand, are COLONIZED by wankers. Can’t even find a decent culture to be colonized BY. We’re ruled by effete arseholes. It’s a SHITE state of affairs to be in, Tommy, and ALL the fresh air in the world won’t make any fucking difference!

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          14 hours ago

          Scottish people live in a completely different reality were they were the victims of the British empire and not its biggest beneficiaries.