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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by linksnapzz on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:14PM (#50374700)
..and in the case of some of those Italians, they were absolutely right.

High-trust Anglo civilization is not compatible with the attitude towards civil authority common in the 19th-century Mezzogiorno. It took literal generations to fix.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by cucumber3732842 on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:39AM (#50378929)
>High-trust Anglo civilization is not compatible with the attitude towards civil authority common in the 19th-century Mezzogiorno. It took literal generations to fix.

Waspy paternalism gave us eugenics, multi-generational welfare and plenty of other great stuff so it's not like the alternative is all that much better.

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Re:'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save ... by linksnapzz on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:58AM (#50379125)
Whataboutism: Is There Anything It Can't Do?
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