AssortedBiscuits [they/them]

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  • I think people need to divorce the idea that school education should be expected to be in the exact same variety of language that the students would use with their family and friends. It’s honestly not even a good thing. Unless there’s a grand total of 100 native speakers, nobody uses the same exact variety of language. Tibetans don’t all speak a single variety of a Sino-Tibetan language called Tibetan. They speak various closely related varieties, what most people would called dialects. What’s called Tibetan is Standard Tibetan, which is based on a particular dialect or group of dialects along with various other changes to smooth over any regionalism. And if it’s done right, Standard Tibetan wouldn’t just be the Tibetan spoken in the largest Tibetan city with some token regionalisms thrown in to disguise the copypasta job, but a constructed variety that is equaldistant enough from major Tibetan varieties that no speaker of a Tibetan variety can say, “See, I’m speaking real Tibetan that’s taught in school and used in government, unlike you dumbass losers who are speaking grammatically incorrect Tibetan.” You’re just replacing ethnic majority chauvinism with a regional chauvinism.

    The ideal policy would be students are taught the regional lingua franca and the national lingua franca, especially if the regional lingua franca and national lingua franca are too different from each other. Both the standardized regional lingua franca and standardized national lingua franca ought to be different enough from an actually spoken variety in order to suppress regional chauvinism. But I don’t agree with the idea that education ought to be done in the same exact variety spoken at home or by the local village at all. People are more than capable of learning multiple languages.







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    it bought the Soviets crucial time to move their industries which were all very close to the border of Poland, they moved all of them up into the mountains. The Soviets may have been able to win at that time still but feared these industries were very vulnerable.

    Plus they were already at war with fascist Japan at the time. The pact was so the Soviet Union didn’t have to fight a two-front war against fascists in their European and Asian borders at the same time. The Soviet Union would then go on to sign a similar non-aggression pact with fascist Japan right before fascist Germany invaded the Soviet Union. And once fascist Germany was defeated, the Soviet Union would then violate their non-aggression pact with fascist Japan by invading Manchuria.











  • To add to what you’ve originally said, pipelines only work if average people can’t connect the two ends of the pipeline. There’s a reason why the opening end of the fascist pipeline is Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes instead of some blue eyes blonde hair Odin-worshipping freak named Olaf Henriksen. Tate being a brown Muslim and Fuentes being a (gay?) Latino is why they’re at one end of the pipeline while the Olaf Henriksens are at the other end. The Olaf Henriksens shitting on Tate and Fuentes for being [racial slurs] who are ruining white nationalism because they’re [racial slurs] play their part since normal people are going to be more easily fooled by the Tates and Fuentes going, “If you think I’m a white supremacist, you should read what actual white nationalists like Olaf Henriksen say about me. I’m just a normal guy like you who can’t stand the wokes and the [trans slur] and I wanna do something about it. Will you join me?”