Second time you force me to use this image:
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Second time you force me to use this image:
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It took a minute for me, at least.
Here's a direct link to the official video for people who don't want to deal with Vimeo: Macedonian Cafe
If Macedonians want to use that name for the same reasons Greeks don't want them to use it...
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
They really ought to resolve it by having Serbia annex the country and province of Macedonia as well as Epirus while Turkey occupies the rest of Greece until they come to a sensible solution. Or Turkey and Serbia could just decide to annex the rest of the Balkans and form a neo-Byzantine Empire except with Serbs and Turks in charge instead of the Greeks that mucked it up last time.
But I don't want to annex Macedonia. Please no. Have you seen Macedonia?
Parts of Greece, ok. There are some nice beaches and islands.
I'd really like Serbia's annexation in the future to be limited to nice places like Seychelles, Maldives, Malta, Copacabana...
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
That is often a factor in "identity" centered conflicts. As with same sex marriage here in the USA, no other label was acceptable. A civil union with the exact same rights and privileges or government referring to all marriages as civil unions would not have been and was not acceptable because the use of the SAME label had been conflated with the identity expressions of the aggrieved.
Identity is, I have believed for some time, the most powerful of needs-level motivation.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
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