Not enough people. You still see people talking about it, citing their Hogwarts houses, playing the games, squeeing about news of the TV show snd so on as if nothing was amiss, and dismissing any concerns about the profits going to persecute trans people as some kind of weird Peta-tier puritanism. It’s still considered acceptable in the mainstream to be into HP and be accepted as a good person.
L. Ron Hubbard would disagree. Scientology doctrine holds that we inherit all our stress and anxiety from clams who were our ancestors, and their tension between their desire to open and close their hinge. (It is apparently possible to stress out an indoctrinated Scientologist by making opening and closing motions with one’s hand, subliminally reminding them of this.)
The Icelanders can beat that; a traditional Icelandic lullaby translates as “sleep, you black-eyed pig, and fall into a deep pit full of ghosts”
Half of them are coded sedition against the king at the time.
Not becoming part of Russia sounds like a decent return.
Over and above that, if the defence spending could put people in Europe to work at decent wages and serve as a Keynesian stimulus, that would be good. If we can get some dual-use goods (like upgrades to infrastructure of use for defence), that would also be useful.
There should be diesel generators and/or UPSes which are pig-shaped, at least in Schuko-plug land.
Tell me you’re not in Europe without saying you’re not in Europe
That’s Belgian
Danes, or as they’re called in America, Lego Germans.
I wonder whether his descendants are still in the upper strata of the aristocracy, managing an ancient pot of money from a yacht in Monaco or a small, high-ceilinged office in Geneva, the logo of their private bank paying tribute to their fortune’s history with a well-hidden fart joke.
The full swathe from Art Nouveau/Jugendstil through Art Deco/Moderne and Bauhaus functionalism through to 1950s modernism. If I had to be more specific, I’d focus on British interwar modernism.
That’d be ammonia, a metabolic byproduct of their carnivorous diet.
IIRC, the short Napoleon was his grandnephew, Napoleon III.
Sometimes, the void screams back
The Staatsräson and loyalty to Israel is where Germans get to be Prussians again
The Poles are probably the most pro-American nation in Europe, largely due to history and geopolitics. Or at least were until Krasnov came to power.
That sort of thing has probably been an open secret since the Council of Nicaea, if not earlier.
It’s impressive that Mossad have the capacity to smuggle drones into Iran and do this at the same time.
Given the confluence of weeb culture and the alt-right (think incels and “traditionalists” with anime avatars, right-wing gamers pointing to Japan as a high-tech conservative utopia untouched by wokeness and such), it was inevitable that sooner or later someone would try to imagine a Japan that goes to Latin Mass.