I hereby declare that my conlang’s term for “commodity fetishism” will be sotaňinnateogestvaluekruňiyabelief which may be abbreviated as “STOKiya”. I have made the people of my conworld endure the evils of colonization and genocide, but I will not make them endure for the fifty millionth time having to explain “no, not like a sex thing”

For some extra context: Innlandet County is the largest county of Norway, formed on January 1st, 2020, from the merger of Oppland and Hedmark counties, as part of Norway’s administrative reforms. It is roughly equal in area to Bosnia and Herzegovina, or somewhere in between the size of Maryland and West Virginia. Innlandet is also noticeably sparse, and very, very beautiful. Aside from Hamar, which has a population of ~32,000, not a single town or village or municipality mentioned in this article has a population greater than 3,000 people. So this is definitely an urban-rural conflict.

※ Anglosphere in this context refers to the “core Anglosphere”. We do not have beef with Trinidad and Tobago.

We have more than one Circassian music appreciator here?

Edit: This slaps

TankieTanuki owns TankieTube, which is like YouTube but better

I have read Raafi al-Kamel’s text in full, and my opinions on the Islamist section of the Palestinian resistance remain unchanged.

I figured it was probably something to do with the Winter War, but I don’t think it’s necessarily right to say that disliking Finland is a “thing” because of that. But maybe that’s just because I don’t know what “disliking Finland” is actually supposed to mean.

It’s a reference to Seinfeld. The character in the top frame is Newman, “nemesis” of main character Jerry, the character in the bottom frame.

When Jerry and Newman bump into one another, they are known to exchange greetings: “Hello, Jerry” — “Hello, Newman”, usually said with a smug and/or contemptuous intonation. This is the recurring gag referenced in the top frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-O9xFnhlfM

When Newman has pulled some sort of petty, vindictive scheme against Jerry, thereby causing Jerry some sort of vexation or misfortune, Jerry will often mutter “Newman!” with a clenched fist. This is the recurring gag referenced in the bottom frame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_8YxDQYCo

I have never noticed Hexbear having any sort of particular beef with Finland, so I don’t know what that’s about.

Yam, short for Jams in a Can by Yamaha

My first temptation was to say “JK Rowling writing a Jewish character ass name”, too, but apparently Mizrahi has been a fairly common (or at least not unheard of) surname for centuries. Wikipedia seems to indicate that Mizrahi is most often a Sephardic surname — originally pointing to someone who arrived to Iberia from the east — however it seems like there are also a number of actual Mizrahim with the surname Mizrahi, interestingly, including a number of American Jews of Middle Eastern descent. The most famous person named Mizrahi appears to be Elijah Mizrachi (1455-1525), author of The Mizrachi, a very creatively titled supercommentary on Rashi’s commentary on the Torah. There was apparently also an Egyptian Olympic fencer in the 1920s named Joseph “Jack” Mizrahi, who I am very curious about now.

So in hindsight, you know, I don’t know if Jenny Mizrahi actually chose that name in the same way as Bibi’s dad was born Mileikowsky, or if ol’ Jenny was like born in Seppoland and was given a typical Anglo forename with the inherited surname Mizrahi. But you know, in any case, with that added context, “Jenny Mizrahi” seems only as silly a name as like, I dunno, Jason Costello or something.

There’s stoves everywhere for those with donuts to make

There’s three types of people who wish themselves a happy birthday: people who are ridiculously full of themselves, people who are profoundly lonely, and people who put shogi pieces on cakes to torment their siblings.

Really? I guess people with bad ideas would be overrepresented in that group, but it doesn’t stand out to me as a red flag as such.

Edit: the bad kind of red flag obviously

If they’re anti-furry they’re a bit more than “sus” in my eyes.

The charitable interpretation is that since a state’s number of electors is equal to its representation in Congress, that each reservation having electors would also necessarily mean that Indian Country would have some 75% of the House of Representatives and 82% of the Senate.

I mean it still wouldn’t change the fact that it’s decolonization by assimilation, but it does make it considerably funnier. Like 82% of the Senate stands empty 'cause the Natives decided to use the Sinn Féin strat

I try.

Could you have come up with a better comparison at 3:40 AM, or is the comparison actually very apt and you just don’t like the “tone”?

Yes, I am “ideologically vegan” in the same way as a soldier in an active war zone could be an “ideological conscientious objector” – I believe the proper Hellenic term is “hypocrite”.

What?

Because c/vegan is for vegans only and I am not at present a vegan