Balar

[Balar @rc_20231]

@MsMelChen @BTC_broo Gabby Reece while not on Peterson's level intellectually is a good one.

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

As a connoisseur of racism, I have found no greater joy than discovering other language realms on X where they are truly light years ahead.

Behold the great meme war between the Turks 🇹🇷 and Chinese 🇨🇳 which has been brewing now for 3 days!

It began with a small Turkish account posting a meme of a cat wearing a straw hat + slitty eyes + wispy moustache. A Chinese user then replied with a meme of Patrick Star from SpongeBob parachuting next to the Turkish flag, with a caption along the lines of “I heard the Turkish flag was designed like this, is that true? Both were from small anonymous accounts but now has been viewed by several millions.

Turks took it as mockery of a national symbol and all hell breaks lose.

The broader historical and cultural pile-on on both sides were equally impressive in its deep knowledge of Ottoman / Chinese history, along with very creative vulgarity. I read one Chinese tweet calling Turkey the fleshlight of the entire world. Both sides insulted each other as “might as well be Indians.” Then it got super testy when it ventured into Turkestan/Xinjiang/Uyghur territory, and soon out came digs about the Turkish lira, China virus and other general nationalist trash talk.

The next stage was the free speech Olympics. Turks started posting images of Xi Jinping and daring Chinese users to criticize him to prove that China is “free.” Chinese replies often flipped it to “you criticize Xi but none of you dare criticize Muhammad.” When no Chinese account could criticize Xi, the Turks concluded they were all bots.

The latest stage has been the international expansion.

Japan + Taiwan + Azerbaijan + Spain lined up with Turks against China.

Japanese accounts were the most visible contingent. Taiwan joined the Turkish side for obvious reasons. Azerbaijan was in Turkic solidarity mode. South Korea and Spain too for reasons which are not clear to me.

Iran + Greece + India + Egypt joined up with the Chinese against Turkey.

I saw an Iranian account openly telling the Chinese to keep going and “discipline the Turks” because the Ottoman/Persian rivalry runs deep still. Greece obviously went against the Turks and as for India, who knows. Could’ve gone either way but they chose the Chinese.

The whole thing, while viscous and passionate at times, has strangely left me with the warm fuzzies. Imagine how much more boring life would’ve been without @X’s auto-translate feature

[酒仙 Dionysus @WildeWongza9i]

现代土耳其是个很有意思的国家。

奥斯曼帝国崩溃以后，凯末尔几乎凭一己之力把一个可能继续被列强肢解的帝国残骸重新捏成了现代民族国家。世俗化、民族国家化、军队现代化、外交现实主义——凯末尔确实称得上20世纪少见的政治、军事、外交全能型人物。

如果没有土耳其独立战争，今天安纳托利亚的地图很可能完全不同，伊斯坦布尔/君士坦丁堡最终归属如何也未必像今天这样无悬念。

但凯末尔建立的已经不再是“奥斯曼人的国家”，而是“土耳其人的国家”。

这带来了一个很重要的问题：
一个失去了大部分疆域的旧帝国，该到哪里寻找自己的历史纵深？
向西，是欧洲。
但土耳其努力了一百年，也始终没有真正成为欧洲的一员。
向南，是曾经属于奥斯曼帝国的阿拉伯世界。但土耳其人与阿拉伯人的历史记忆并不完全愉快，而且一个重新整合中东的土耳其显然会与地区内几乎所有大国发生利益冲突。
于是还有第三个方向：
向东。
从安纳托利亚，经阿塞拜疆、中亚，一直到中国新疆，把广阔欧亚大陆上的突厥语民族重新解释为一个跨越千年的巨大历史共同体。
然后土鸡就同时触碰三个地区：
俄罗斯境内的突厥语民族；
俄罗斯传统势力范围内的中亚；
以及中国新疆。
所以对中国而言，泛突厥主义并不是一个遥远的土耳其民族主义思潮，而是一个能够直接触碰中国领土、民族和安全议题的意识形态。
这也是为什么中国人对土耳其民族主义的感受，和一个法国人、德国人甚至阿拉伯人的感受完全不同。
而泛突厥主义还有一个非常典型的民族主义问题：
它喜欢把语言共同体倒推成政治共同体，再把政治共同体倒推成自古以来的民族共同体。
欧亚草原两千年的历史远比这种叙事复杂。
匈奴、鲜卑、柔然、突厥、回鹘、契丹、蒙古以及后来无数中亚政权之间，有战争、有征服、有联盟、有迁徙、有语言替换，也有大量人口融合。
土耳其的图兰主义者却很喜欢拿着今天的民族地图回去给古人发身份证。
于是你会看到一种非常奇妙的历史叙事：
只要说突厥语，或者曾经生活在某片草原上，就可以被装进一条从古代一直延伸到现代土耳其的民族谱系。
这和有人把“匈奴—鲜卑—柔然—蒙古”全部解释成一个从两千年前延续至今的蒙古民族，本质上是同一种历史叙事方法。
尤其讽刺的是，回鹘汗国当年还是唐朝的重要盟友，曾经协助唐朝平定安史之乱；而回鹘的崛起本身，也发生在后突厥汗国覆亡的历史过程中。
所以真实的欧亚历史从来不是“一个民族从蒙古高原一路西迁到安纳托利亚”的民族史诗，而是一锅持续煮了两千年的语言、部族、帝国和人口迁徙的大杂烩。
当然，这并不意味着现代土耳其政府每天都拿着尺子准备建立一个从伊斯坦布尔到新疆的“突厥帝国”。
现实政治没有这么简单。
土耳其加入北约，却经常和北约盟友发生冲突；它遏制俄罗斯，又购买俄罗斯S-400；它支持乌克兰，同时又不愿彻底与俄罗斯翻脸；它发展“突厥世界”，同时也和中国做生意。
它想成为一个拥有独立势力范围的欧亚中等强国。
问题在于，它寻找势力范围的几个方向——巴尔干、高加索、中亚和突厥世界——几乎每走一步都会踩到别人的脚。
踩俄罗斯的脚，俄罗斯人不会喜欢它。
踩希腊的脚，希腊人不会喜欢它。
介入阿拉伯世界，很多阿拉伯国家不会喜欢它。
而当泛突厥主义一路向东，把新疆也纳入自己的民族主义想象时，中国人当然也很难喜欢它。
所以问题其实不是：
“土耳其为什么那么让人讨厌？”

而是：
一个失去帝国的国家，如果始终试图在旧帝国边缘和语言亲缘地区重新寻找大国身份，就注定会不断进入别人的历史叙事和现实利益范围。

土耳其最大的地缘政治困境，也许正来自这里：
奥斯曼皇冠已经戴不回去了，
欧洲的椅子又始终没有真正坐上去，
于是像吉娃娃一样，不停地向四周寻找一个足够大的自己。

[Balar @rc_20231]

@VolodimirZelen1 Ce compte est parodique, pas possible qu'il ne soit pas parodique.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@JoshSchoen There's no nìggers in my car. Ever thought about that?

[Balar @rc_20231]

@pfmerino @RabbiJeffx @grok multiculturalism for thee, ethnostate for me.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@karim_chahine tu vas remigrer.

slama.

[Balar @rc_20231]

Je lance une cagnotte contre la faim (de la maman de Lola Fleur Whittaker, militante contre le grand capital entre 2 échappées en Grèce, Croatie, Sicile, Oman, Malaisie, l'ile de Ré, la Baule et autres destinations pour pauvres smicards), aidez Isabelle Whittaker, vous pouvez la contacter sur son IG (où elle prend de bien belles photos "iPhone only") https://t.co/hLLY94LgMR

Merci à tous pour votre aide, elle a faim je vous le rappelle.

[Spycraft101 @spycraft101]

Prison cells built during the Spanish Civil War were designed as “psycho-technical” torture chambers inspired by the work of surrealist painter Salvador Dali and abstract artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, among others.

The Military Information Service of the Spanish Republican Army contracted Alphonse Laurencic, a French citizen of Slovenian heritage to design the cells, meant to hold known or suspected Nationalists who were aligned with General Franco’s fascist forces. Laurencic was an artist, musician, and architect as well as an anarchist and member of the National Confederation of Workers.

The cells were built inside Catholic churches by forced laborers who first stripping out all religious iconography before construction. The jails were called ‘Chekas’ in honor of the original Soviet secret police organization because the USSR was providing support to the Republican government at the time. At least three Chekas were built between 1937 and 1939, in the Santa Úrsula convent in Valencia and the churches on Vallmajor and Zaragoza streets in Barcelona.

The tiny beds were tilted at 20-degree angles so that prisoners would slide off onto the floor if they ever fell asleep, and some rooms had a very high, angled chair which was impossible to sit on. The floors themselves were covered with a random pattern of standing bricks meant to keep the prisoner from walking or lying down. Green and red flashing lights would wear them down mentally, and the walls were painted with geometric patterns intended to provoke dizziness and visual discomfort.

Prisoners could also hear an amplified metronome which moved at varying speeds and were kept within sight of a clock that ran too fast, all to further disorient them.

After General Franco’s forces claimed victory over the Republicans, the new government put Laurencic on trial in front of a military tribunal, and he was executed in 1939. His work on the prison cells was largely unknown for more than 60 years, until art historian Jose Milicua uncovered a document summarizing Laurencic’s trial.

#spain #civilwar #surrealism #modernism #bauhaus

[Balar @rc_20231]

Le destin de la France c'est l'Espagne de 711. La reconquête arrivera peut être mais certainement pas ce siècle et probablement le suivant non plus. Il faudra des décennies d'humiliation pour que l'européen blanc redevienne ce qu'il a été. Enfin espérons car l'alternative c'est la fin de l'Europe et de la race blanche.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@LeVoteRoyal @yuZuki010A @4Ud1CCuftl19105 you're a faggot and a pathetic dhimmi.

[Balar @rc_20231]

"Wola la palestine"

Sale fils de pute.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@roman_valois You re gay buddy.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@YaelBRAUNPIVET Oui pauvre connasse il faut absolument ne rien foutre "en commission" plutôt que d'agir et mettre toutes ces merdes en prison ou dehors. Vous êtes à vomir.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@GiorgiaMeloni So violence bad, ok cool, are you in charge of anything? aren't you supposed to fucking put those animals down? so fucking weak.

[Ahmed Khalifa @_A_khalifa]

Europe .. Remind you of what the UAE Foreign Minister said a decade ago! Just in case you forgot (which you obviously did) !

[Balar @rc_20231]

It's not even illegal migrants for the most part, it's "french" aka 2nd/3rd gen níggers and sand nìggers, who are even more vile and braindead than their parents and grandparents (which is quite a feat), and we're importing more of those that will also breed like fucking rabbits, the situation is quite hopeless and for those sweet summerchildren who think that Le Pen will do anything about it, well I got a bridge to sell.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@Judepim @EPhilippe_LH

[Balar @rc_20231]

@BrigitPROSPERI Putain de boomer, ils seront pas contents tant qu'ils n'auront pas tout foutu en l'air.

[Balar @rc_20231]

@rvleroux La marque du parasite incapable de créer quoi que ce soit : fonctionnaire, gauchiste, qui ne pourrait évidemment pas survivre sans l'Etat. Pauvre merde.