Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

oh, it's those whacky Eastern Europeans again!

So how is your red tree looking this year?

Actually do Hungarians and Slavs do Christmas Trees? I guess I always thought that was mainly a German thing.

[Syt]

[Tamas]

oh, it's those whacky Eastern Europeans again!

So how is your red tree looking this year?

Actually do Hungarians and Slavs do Christmas Trees? I guess I always thought that was mainly a German thing.

Yes of course. Well, Hungarians do. There's a heavy German influence on Hungary so I guess it's not surprising.

I have never in my long life seen a red Christmas tree though, ever.

But it is good to know that all Eastern Europeans get their ancestry finger-pointed out when something about them or their opinion needs to be dismissed as irrelevant.

[The Larch]

And Slovenes are barely eastern at all, they're basically Austrians who speak funny.

[Threviel]

And Slovenes are barely eastern at all, they're basically Austrians who speak funny.

Since Austrians are easterners that happen to speak german that makes them easterners.

[DGuller]

There were a couple of things I recall hearing consistently in Russian discourse that I never heard in American discourse until recently.  One was the use of the word "globalist", and another was the painting of CNN as an American propaganda mouthpiece (because that's the only American news channel Russians are familiar with).  Funny how disinformation campaigns tend to converge.

[Valmy]

Yeah it is kind of weird. One would think MSNBC would be enemy #1. Or the New York Times or something.

[PDH]

Yeah it is kind of weird. One would think MSNBC would be enemy #1. Or the New York Times or something.

Too many syllables in those.

[Eddie Teach]

Why would one think that? CNN is better established than MSNBC and has a broader reach than the NYT.

[Admiral Yi]

Why would one think that? CNN is better established than MSNBC and has a broader reach than the NYT.

Because MSNBC in particular more closely fits their caricature.  CNN is pretty middle of the road.

[Eddie Teach]

To people on the right, all of the "mainstream" media are biased against them. They focus on CNN because it's the most important.

[Syt]

[Oexmelin]

This is the result of so much US history taught in isolation from the rest of the world. Tens of thousands of loyalists fled the War of independence to Cananda and the Caribbean and tens of thousands of Confederates fled the Civil War to South America.

I know, it's a meme, but the idea that Americans in the past were not always in the movers and shakers of history is so widespread...

[Syt]

Besides, if there's one thing the Middle East isn't short of, it's people taking up arms.

[Valmy]

America is an immigrant country almost entirely populated by people who left their country of origin

This is the result of so much US history taught in isolation from the rest of the world

I think it is the result of people not paying attention even in US history class

I mean why didn't those pilgrims stay home and man up?