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Hey so in the wake of what’s happening in Charlottlesville, your friendly neighbourhood historian is here to remind you that

  • the enormous majority of American citizens didn’t want to join the fighting in the second world war
  • for years Americans didn’t care that people (Jews) were being massacred
  • Hitler was doing all kinds of anti-Jewish shit for about six years before the war even started and the American government’s official response was basically  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • in 1939, the United States denied entry to 900 Jewish refugees. The boat had to turn back to Europe, and many of these people subsequently died in the Holocaust 
  • in 1941, even though the State Department knew what was happening in concentration camps, the American government made it’s immigration policies stricter so that it was harder for fleeing refugees to find safety on American soil
  • it was only after an attack on American soil (Pearl Harbor) happened that Americans finally entered the conflict (the epitome of “I only care about a thing if it directly affects my life” and 70 years later nothing has changed)
  • it is largely believed in America today that they “won the war” when, if we’re being historically accurate, what they did was show up halfway through to tie up loose ends and then take credit for what Russia had been working towards for three years. America was basically The Vulture from Brooklyn Nine Nine. The job was almost done, and they swooped in at the last minute, did the bare minimum, and then took credit for the whole thing

tldr: America has always been, and continues to be, enormously anti-Semitic. Condemn what’s happening in Charlottlesville because it’s horrible and wrong, but don’t let uninformed people use World War 2 as proof that America isn’t an anti-Semitic place. Jewish people are by far the most persecuted population globally and historically and no country has ever done enough to stop this from continuing into 2017. 

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Me when I hear someone speaking a language that's not their native with an accent: YAS slay the game you are doing amazing go you.
Me when I hear myself have an accent in a language that's not my native: I want death, this is terrible. This needed to be gone by yesterday.
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Assholes: Sagittarius, Aries, Aquarius, Taurus

Bitches: Cancer, Gemini, Libra, Leo

Literally Satan: Capricorn, Virgo, Scorpio, Pisces

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A Russian native speaker’s perspective on the Russian language

For those of you learning Russian or just curious about it :)

  • spelling is a mess 
  • punctuation is even worse: you have to know 76487658 rules and conduct a 10-step linguistic analysis to put proper punctuation marks in a more or less complex sentence
  • we constantly mix up similar-looking letters in English and Russian on the keyboard
  • everyone’s New Year resolution is to brush up their English
  • no one actually says ‘zdrav-stvuj-teh’ (здравствуйте, hello). It’s usually ‘zdras-tu-te’, ‘zdras-te’ (the most common variant), or even ‘dras-te’ (there is a russian meme ‘дратути’ (dra-tu-tee) mocking a way of shortening the word)
  • in fast speech it’s normal to drop like 10-20% of sounds 
  • there are quite a few widely used words an expressions originated from criminal argot, presumably left over after mass imprisonment under Stalin
  • the common way to address a stranger is мужчина, женщина or девушка (literally ‘man, woman[young] girl’). Everyone finds it weird and inconvenient, but can’t to come up with smth else
  • Russian swear words sound way ruder than English ones (still almost everyone swears)
  • quite a lot of English words don’t have well-sounding alternatives in Russian (words like self-consciousness, counterintuitive, a rule of thumb will sound strange translated literally)
  • …but good luck translating 50 shades of meaning of Russian diminutives (кошка, кошечка, киса, кисонька, кисуля, кисулечка vs cat or kitty)
  • don’t ask me how Russian works without articles and link verbs, it’s probably just black magic
  • the Russian language is amazing. I’m fucking blessed to speak it as a first language.

the whole fucking language is just black magic and i am thankful every single day of my life that it’s one of my mother tongues

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