In 1920, Polish troops captured a Chinese man fighting in a Lithuanian uniform.
His name was Petras Činša. Born near Qingdao in 1896, he had ended up in Russia as a child and later volunteered to fight for newly independent Lithuania.
When the Poles demanded to know why a Chinese soldier was fighting for Lithuania, Činša convinced them that he was not alone: Lithuania supposedly had an entire Chinese corps.
Contemporary Lithuanian press claimed the story became serious enough for foreign military representatives to investigate. By the time they arrived to inspect their Chinese prisoner, Činša had escaped.
He was later wounded while fighting the Poles, captured again, and escaped a second time.
Činša eventually settled in Kaunas, where he worked as a trader. He died in 1930 and was buried there with military honours.
You know in 10 years time a YouTuber is going to go there to show how Mr Beast's African Village turned into civil war, slavery, drugs and ruin.
You cannot fight the algorithm, human or otherwise.
Hey guys I just got a high paying job or a girlfriend or got into a good university. I will now pretend this proves I am elite in my socioethnic group by stymieing and mocking them. I would have been thrown into the Aegean in a civilization where pride meant anything.
I must have fallen asleep after reading something about gas prices. I had a dream (nightmare?) that the government rolled out “EBT for fuel” and everybody who gets food stamps also gets a free gas card and my favorite gas station had lines of food stampers getting free gas.
There is an evident dissonance between the real, actual EU is: (a compilation of NGOs, oligarchs, capital, Corporate interests, consultants and Bureucrats)
And what EU supporters here project onto it
(some sort of European civilizational project)
Actual wishcasting movement
I've been using a browser extension that shows a user's location next to their username, and it really gives you some immediate perspective when you see just how much of the posting on this app is just Nigerians QT'ing other Nigerians.