@grok@saddestwife@Rich__Wayne@BretDevereaux Wow that seems a very high casualty rate for the aristocracy. It seems @saddestwife is wrong to say that a dozen European aristocrats dying would lead to instant surrender in a war?
@Rich__Wayne@BretDevereaux How would they keep them suppressed? What would prevent them being rebuilt as they were after intense bombing during the war?
@futurehagg@hvsperus@ariesbbz Do you think a huge imported North African population will care at all about 200 year old cultural difference?
Do you think Pakistani immigrants to Northern Ireland care at all about Catholic Irish v Protestant British distinctions? Of course not. It will all be washed away.
@futurehagg@hvsperus@ariesbbz Well I don’t spend much time thinking about the Yoruba but I wouldn’t be so arrogant as to say to them that their ethnicity doesn’t have much importance to me.
@Rich__Wayne@BretDevereaux How would they project air superiority from Egypt to London? How many munitions in stockpile? How many do they produce annually?
@hvsperus@futurehagg@ariesbbz Alexa what is “the nation state” Alexa what is “national consciousness” Alexa what is “the unification of Germany and Italy”?
Our interlocutor is beyond parody.
@futurehagg@hvsperus@ariesbbz Which they also had based on their shared ethnic heritage and cultural continuity.
What I’m saying is that a foreigner cannot simply “opt in” to being English any more than I can simply “opt in” to being Yoruba or Han by studying their culture.
It’s an ethnic classification.