Supah_Schmendrick
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Supah_Schmendrick
7d ago
Foremost for Blackstone is allegiance (weirdly shortened to ligeance in a few places)
It's not a weird shortening at all; allegiance is all about who you recognize as your liege, i.e., your ruler.
Supah_Schmendrick
10d ago
The British one seems pretty batshit, what with being somehow both fanatically culturally-progressive and also Islamist.
Supah_Schmendrick
10d ago
Dizzy, do you believe that apartheid ethnostates are morally acceptable in the present age
Yes, the gulf arab states are perfectly legitimate, regardless of their appalling track record towards "migrant workers."
Supah_Schmendrick
10d ago
"Ethnic cleansing" plus 50 years is just a normal border.
Supah_Schmendrick
10d ago
Because no-one wants to get stuck in the middle of a war zone. Same reason there were refugee columns out of Belgium and northern France during the early days of WWI.
Supah_Schmendrick
17d ago
Personally, as a luke-warm supporter of the war, nos. 2-4 resonate with me, with a side-dish of "Israel probably told us their intelligence had penetrated the IRI governance and internal security structure enough to be able to achieve meaningful attrition/disorganization of regime-loyal elements."
Like, apparently things are so crazy that Mossad agents are calling individual district commanders of the Basij and warning them to stand down or get droned.
Supah_Schmendrick
20d ago
Yet the persistence of this misuse indicates (at least to me) that there's something underlaying it other than just an inability to comprehend the scope of third world squalor.
If I had to guess, I would say it's not so much with the actual harm done the worker, but instead a discomfort with the idea of a westerner exercising power and control over a racially or ethnically-othered workforce. The journalist isn't looking at the worker and seeing Kunta Kinte from Roots; he's looking at the worker's boss and seeing Simon Legree, and backfilling everything else from there in horror.
Supah_Schmendrick
27d ago
If we're going to stay faithful to actual latin pronunciation, apparently it would be "weekeh wersah" because latin "v" is pronounced like an english "u" and latin "c" is pronounced like "cat" not "cell."
Of course, as a proper anglophone of the 21st century, I find this abhorrent, and never actually use it. It's "Veni, Vidi, Vici" not "Wenny, Weedy, Weeky" damn it!
It was the actual choice of the founding generation, who explicitly adopted the english common law in state constitutions and statutes (see the term "reception statutes").
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