Having read Mark Twain’s autobiographical travel log, I love that he himself is a bit of bigot - stereotyping quite a few of those peoples he meets on the way.

Albeit in a fairly human way and with a bit of irony about it. Great writer interesting human.

Amazing!!

My friend, I said I was surprised at the tactics not at the goal.

I’m tuned in to the situation, but appreciate the links

This is funny but I can’t upvote AI nonsense out of principle :-(

Correct.

In Latvia the reason they are even having this discussion is because when USSR were occupiers they suppressed the local language (Latvian) with a brutal police regime, concentration camps, and the forced migration of ethnic Russians.

So yes - exactly. Moscovite Russia/ USSR started a cultural genocide in Latvia. This is just the fallout

Downloading it for free now on PS5 to try and understand the meme…