• Leon_Frotsky [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          6 months ago

          I once heard someone say the southern Spaniards were basically like the Turks because like the Turks they were a combination of the Roman empire and the middle east and that’s why Franco happened because the Italian side is culturally inclined to fascism or something and the middle eastern side is culturally inclined to authoritarian strong men

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      6 months ago

      the “retvrn to tradition” guys are always racist in a very 1950s-1960s way, very boring. not once have I seen one of them that is digging up racial slurs that literally have not been uttered a single time in 150 years and can only be found in the journals of some corrupt British viceroy, so this kind of map is a new innovation