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had some time to digest it and just wanted to share this
after the full time whistle the change in attitudes was immediate. me n the other brown lads i was with all immediately knew that we weren't sticking around in the pub. in the time it took us to get up and walk(1)
@holland_tom@TheRestHistory@dcsandbrook Aside from the early 20th century are there any other points in history where communist idealogy could have taken hold and what would it take for it to come back again as a major political movement?
@holland_tom@TheRestHistory Do Empires that intend to last aspire to become a single nation/federal -state? I.e China and the Soviet Union, or is this a more modern notion.
@dcsandbrook@holland_tom@TheRestHistory Was the outbreak of WW1 an inevitable conclusion of the militarism and imperialism of the proceeding century, or was it more the specific events and personalities of 1914 that led to war breaking out in the way it did. Would a 🇩🇪 under a Kaiser Wilhelm III still have iniated war
Would be nice if we stop using 'commercial appeal' to judge Asian players 👍 I'm sure Klavan is viewed as Maldini in Estonia, but no one mentions the number of shirts he'll sell
But mainly: while there is an effect and it can happen, we only ever apply it to Korean/Japanese players. That’s a form of orientalism, I think, part of a complex that sees those countries as a market to be sold to and exploited and nothing more.
Signing a player of any nationality potentially increases a club’s global marketing appeal. And yet it’s only ever something you hear said of players from Japan and Korea. And also Christian Pulisic, as it happens, but mainly Japan and Korea.