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Post by code on Jun 30, 2023 17:02:47 GMT
The French appear to be fed up with European Wokeism / Greens and its perceived effect on them.
Yeah,
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Post by flearider on Jun 30, 2023 18:21:17 GMT
The French appear to be fed up with European Wokeism / Greens and its perceived effect on them.
Yeah,
looks like Ukraine... ahhh the war never told ..
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Post by blustnmtn on Jul 1, 2023 13:04:50 GMT
That’s a nice BMW. The music sucks but I assume that’s rider specific.
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Post by walnut on Jul 1, 2023 13:35:54 GMT
But they should stick to burning cop cars, leave the bourgeoise alone this time. That phony Bolshevism is what brought all this on in the first place.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 1, 2023 15:19:07 GMT
This seems largely to be happening in the larger cities, where "the more recently French" of largely North African origin are concentrated. We Americans are almost totally a transplanted people in historic times. The French retain a large Celtic element, who have been there for several thousand years. Conquered by Latins, and then by Germanics, they are more heavily concentrated in the west, not unlike their cousins, the British (Albion) Celts. They certainly knew (historically) what it was like to be a displaced people. The Angles and Saxons did a number on them. There are indications of local resistance to the import of muslims.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 7, 2023 20:42:57 GMT
But they should stick to burning cop cars, leave the bourgeoise alone this time. That phony Bolshevism is what brought all this on in the first place. Some define this as a modified renewal of an islamic invasion that seized wealth, people and territory along all of the Western Med from the 7th to the 15th centuries. Just by other means.
Wikipedia
The Umayyad invasion of Gaul occurred in two phases in 719 and 732 AD. Although the Umayyads secured control of Septimania, their incursions beyond this into the Loire and Rhône valleys failed. By 759 Muslim forces had lost Septimania to the Christian Franks and retreated to Iberia.
The invasion of Gaul was a continuation of the Umayyad conquest of Hispania into the region of Septimania, the last remnant of the Visigothic Kingdom north of the Pyrenees.[1] After the fall of Narbonne, the capital of the Visigothic rump state, in 720, Umayyad armies composed of Arabs and Berbers turned north against Aquitaine. Their advance was stopped at the Battle of Toulouse in 721, but they sporadically raided southern Gaul as far as Avignon, Lyon and Autun.[1]
A major Umayyad raid directed at Tours was defeated in the Battle of Tours in 732. After 732, the Franks asserted their authority in Aquitaine and Burgundy, but only in 759 did they manage to take the Mediterranean region of Septimania, due to Muslim neglect and local Gothic disaffection.[1]
A later Muslim incursion into France, in the ninth century, resulted in the establishment of Fraxinetum, a fortress in Provence that lasted for nearly a century.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 23, 2023 13:14:01 GMT
We don't mention India's tech future much.
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 24, 2023 13:19:41 GMT
We don't really want to see this happen to our southern neighbor.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 6, 2023 11:20:26 GMT
French Policing
It is interesting watching how the French run police patrols. Seven - ten member squads in full combat dress ... automatic rifles at the ready ... walking the neighborhoods. The locals ignore it.
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Post by ratty on Aug 7, 2023 0:58:56 GMT
French Policing It is interesting watching how the French run police patrols. Seven - ten member squads in full combat dress ... automatic rifles at the ready ... walking the neighborhoods. The locals ignore it.
Buy a beret and practice looking French.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 7, 2023 10:19:48 GMT
French Policing It is interesting watching how the French run police patrols. Seven - ten member squads in full combat dress ... automatic rifles at the ready ... walking the neighborhoods. The locals ignore it.
Buy a beret and practice looking French. Other than military, I have not seen any berets here. The Bretons have their own traditions that are only marginally French (for the last 500?+ years). It is unknown as to how long the local Celtic tribes have been here ... 1500 BC? Earlier? The Veneti and others controlled the tin trade out of Cornwall ... trading it into the Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures. They are said to have been related to the Cornwall Celts, who partially packed up and moved out of Cornwall during the Angle-Saxon invasions ca. 400-600 AD.
I notice two seemingly distinct genetic traits in what I am estimating to be the local population. One is black-haired, dark-eyed, narrow-pointed facial features. I remember Acid referencing a standard description for men from Cornwall (and maybe their relatives in Amorica). The other is the more standard Celtic traits, lighter-haired, fairer-complexioned, broader features. Are these two (at least) genetic tribal composites? Too few YDNA samples to make a determination. But I would wager yes. Male genetic persistence over thousands of years.
The French Ruling Classes are largely descended from the Germanic tribes that settled into the failing Roman power structure in the 400s AD. They occupied the vacated slots in the economic power structure. They did not destroy it. Destruction was left to the invading hordes of muslim armies who sacked and pillaged the Med coasts in the 7th and 8th centuries. The Dark Ages along the Med were the result of the Prophet's Hordes. Amorica (Brittany) was seemingly hardly affected by these.
The larger Pan-Celtic movement, association of remaining Celtic Core Areas is cultural (semi-political it seems). They do not appear to be revolting ... but are demanding that their cultural soveirnty be respected.
NOTE: The Queensland and Auckland Bag Pipers are here in force. Many, many.
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Post by walnut on Aug 7, 2023 13:18:50 GMT
Buy a beret and practice looking French. Other than military, I have not seen any berets here. The Bretons have their own traditions that are only marginally French (for the last 500?+ years). It is unknown as to how long the local Celtic tribes have been here ... 1500 BC? Earlier? The Veneti and others controlled the tin trade out of Cornwall ... trading it into the Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures. They are said to have been related to the Cornwall Celts, who partially packed up and moved out of Cornwall during the Angle-Saxon invasions ca. 400-600 AD.
I notice two seemingly distinct genetic traits in what I am estimating to be the local population. One is black-haired, dark-eyed, narrow-pointed facial features. I remember Acid referencing a standard description for men from Cornwall (and maybe their relatives in Amorica). The other is the more standard Celtic traits, lighter-haired, fairer-complexioned, broader features. Are these two (at least) genetic tribal composites? Too few YDNA samples to make a determination. But I would wager yes. Male genetic persistence over thousands of years.
The French Ruling Classes are largely descended from the Germanic tribes that settled into the failing Roman power structure in the 400s AD. They occupied the vacated slots in the economic power structure. They did not destroy it. Destruction was left to the invading hordes of muslim armies who sacked and pillaged the Med coasts in the 7th and 8th centuries. The Dark Ages along the Med were the result of the Prophet's Hordes. Amorica (Brittany) was seemingly hardly affected by these.
The larger Pan-Celtic movement, association of remaining Celtic Core Areas is cultural (semi-political it seems). They do not appear to be revolting ... but are demanding that their cultural soveirnty be respected.
NOTE: The Queensland and Auckland Bag Pipers are here in force. Many, many.
I just happened to have read this book lately, an account of 19th century Cornwall from the perspective of a couple of young slackers. Lots of observations about this and that.
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Post by blustnmtn on Aug 28, 2023 21:38:43 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 28, 2023 22:26:24 GMT
Other than military, I have not seen any berets here. The Bretons have their own traditions that are only marginally French (for the last 500?+ years). It is unknown as to how long the local Celtic tribes have been here ... 1500 BC? Earlier? The Veneti and others controlled the tin trade out of Cornwall ... trading it into the Mediterranean Bronze Age cultures. They are said to have been related to the Cornwall Celts, who partially packed up and moved out of Cornwall during the Angle-Saxon invasions ca. 400-600 AD.
I notice two seemingly distinct genetic traits in what I am estimating to be the local population. One is black-haired, dark-eyed, narrow-pointed facial features. I remember Acid referencing a standard description for men from Cornwall (and maybe their relatives in Amorica). The other is the more standard Celtic traits, lighter-haired, fairer-complexioned, broader features. Are these two (at least) genetic tribal composites? Too few YDNA samples to make a determination. But I would wager yes. Male genetic persistence over thousands of years.
The French Ruling Classes are largely descended from the Germanic tribes that settled into the failing Roman power structure in the 400s AD. They occupied the vacated slots in the economic power structure. They did not destroy it. Destruction was left to the invading hordes of muslim armies who sacked and pillaged the Med coasts in the 7th and 8th centuries. The Dark Ages along the Med were the result of the Prophet's Hordes. Amorica (Brittany) was seemingly hardly affected by these.
The larger Pan-Celtic movement, association of remaining Celtic Core Areas is cultural (semi-political it seems). They do not appear to be revolting ... but are demanding that their cultural soveirnty be respected.
NOTE: The Queensland and Auckland Bag Pipers are here in force. Many, many.
I just happened to have read this book lately, an account of 19th century Cornwall from the perspective of a couple of young slackers. Lots of observations about this and that. How did you like it? On Amazon, one reviewer claimed that the print was so small, it was hard to read.
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Post by walnut on Aug 28, 2023 23:09:55 GMT
I just happened to have read this book lately, an account of 19th century Cornwall from the perspective of a couple of young slackers. Lots of observations about this and that. How did you like it? On Amazon, one reviewer claimed that the print was so small, it was hard to read. I think that it is probably worthwhile, and I think that you would like it. Of course read the preface/foreword for a little context and literary validation. As to small print, I don't know, I didn't notice that myself. Maybe a different publishing edition.
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