NoneOfUrBusiness

Damn, discriminating against people with depression.

For either Mandarin or French to supplant English as the world’s most widely spoken language we would need not just a large and wealthy segment of the world that natively speaks it, but a mechanism that encourages people who know neither French nor Mandarin nor English to learn one of the former and not the latter.

The latter usually follows from the former. Wealthy people buy things, sell things, create things and go to places, all of which requires those on the other end of the deal to be able to talk to them. China is also investing in its global image, and in a few decades they’ll be forced to import immigrants to make up the shortfall in their labor force.

Similarly, Mandarin is the second language of a bunch of non-native speakers who live or work in China, most of which are presumably Chinese natives whose first language was a different dialect like Cantonese.

Chinese is also gaining steam in Russia and Africa, though admittedly it’s probably going to be at least a generation before it becomes an actually popular language to learn.

Being widely spoken in one particular region (or even a few regions) doesn’t automatically connect to being a global lingua franca. If that was the standard we’d be speaking Hindi or Mandarin here. Francophone Africa is projected to experience a popular boom, but even in the best case scenario (i.e. one where francophone Africa experiences better economic growth than other parts) that’d only make it more widespread in Africa. Globally there’s no way it can compete with the rising utility of Mandarin.

I’ve always thought of nationalism as a religion, to be honest.

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They won’t because Europe is always on the loosing side and getting in any war is bad, against the us, let’s be honest, it would be a disaster.

I meant diplomatically and economically, not necessarily militarily. There are cards that can be played without getting into a hot (or even cold) war with the US; (most) European countries just don’t use them because A: Their elites profit from US war crimes too, and B: Most of them are happy being US vassal states.

No way Europe meaningfully stands up to Uncle Sam, and heinous Israeli-American war crimes are nothing new. Trump still hasn’t actually outdone the Iraq war, for example.

If this is sarcasm, hats off for pissing off so many people while being right. If it’s not, then… uh… I’ll refrain from speaking my mind so my comment doesn’t get deleted.

Cautious bet on number 2 from me.

I won’t respond to that, because now you’re moving the goalposts. That is not what we’re talking about here.

Not really, no. The US is heavily gerrymandered and there’s plenty of disenfranchisement to go around, but fundamentally Republicans don’t control general elections the same way Democrats control their primaries, and centrist Democrats have many tools (rhetorical and otherwise) to get primary votes that Republicans don’t in general elections. And, as I said, people don’t vote in primaries. Besides, this theory has already been tested in practice; according to election polling Bernie would’ve absolutely trounced Trump in 2016, even though he lost the primary.

Getting leftists on Dem ballots and winning an election against Republicans are completely different affairs, not the least because most people don’t vote in primaries (not to mention all the manipulation). If anything why do you think beating centrists in primaries is a prerequisite for being able to beat Republicans in elections? You need to justify that assumption.

and that they’re going to make a bad decision for the Gazans in the midterms because of their anger.

There is no good decision to be made for Palestinians in most American elections. No, not even comparatively. Even Trump did no more or less than Biden already was. That aside, though, Trump would’ve won even if every single Jill Stein vote went to Harris.

That’s a non-sequitur.

Why do the cats look like dicks?

and the only good that comes out of it will be Americans will finally have first hand experience of real war torn violence.

Hey, it might result in the dissolution of the US, which as a firm believer in “death to America” I’d welcome gladly. Anyway in case anyone thinks a peaceful resolution is possible, yeah no.

Solidarity among evil people, never fails to make me want to puke.

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It is, final volume came out in English last year.

I know LN readers can be annoying when they say this, but you’re seriously missing out by not reading the novels. They’re on a completely different level, and probably would be even if the anime got a Frieren-level budget, which it almost certainly won’t.