Why americans LARP so much?

It is.
But luckily we confine them all to amsterdam, which is a horribly bourgie snobby cunt city anyway, so here in rotterdam (working class city) theres mostly just chinese people hopping off for two pictures before leaving again.
Its been picking up though. No idea why anyone would want to see rotterdam.
Amsterdam is real aids to go to, its full of the richest snobbiest of our nation, art students (who are rich), shitty tourist shops, tourist traps, tourists in general etc. The museums are nice though, but all the rest is better in other cities.

I once said to a burger "You know the difference between an American and an European ? The American believes 200 years is a long time, the Europeans that 200 kilometres is a long distance."

Not so bad. The american band Morphine for instances was more famous here than in USA. In here they perfomed for huge number of people.
I was also surprised to find out recently that there's 20k americans living here according to their embassy. I would never imagine it to be so high.
We are too busy talking poorly of ourselves to trash talk people from other countries.

I think americans are obsessed with race, heritage because from my perspective, USA isn't a very united country. I'm honestly surprised how there was only one civil war in 200+ years. I also find very shocking the crime rate in some areas in the USA. I'm just not used to that…i really have fear of entering the US to be honest, i think i am going to be mugged or stabbed, plus the number of serial killers, rampage killers. It all seems very crazy up there..i'm not used to that. I'm used to feeling safe all the time.

t. Portugal

Worst thing some of they do is treating Europe as a big country with one unified culture that magically started with the Greeks, went through the Romans, Franks and moved on to America

200 km is a long distance if you dont have straight roads without congestion for half a continent.

Try driving 200 km through northwestern europe. Guaranteed you will spend half your time waiting in jam.

Some other portuguese guy in the irc told me to tell you youre a fag

This pisses me off very much. They appear to be very lazy because nowdays is so easy to find out that europe was at constant wars for land, resources and colonies.

I think americans cant grasp that europe isnt united, because all they see is a group of people who have the same ancestors and cultural background as them, look like them, dress like them, yet america is one united country. To them the concept of smaller nation states just doesnt make sense. This is the same reason they generalize all of the middle east and the arab world into "arabs", as if they are one monolithic entity.

Americans LARP, because they want to find like-minded people quickly to give them an easy basis for social interaction. They have so little actual free time that fostering relationships takes too long. That's also why things like Tinder and Pokemon Go are popular there.

That is pretty true, actually.

Nope I don't look and dress like a skater manchild.
Also

I mean their origin.
They come from all over europe and are mixed up. So on the surface they see people like them
Pizza, sausage, bbq, pies, religion etc.
Of course those are not the same as in europe, but it comes from the same roots so at a surface level they look similar. (for americans)

exactly. Americans have never been a disunited States. the worst hostility you can find state-to-state is people yelling at license plates.

No est european here? I'm curious about what's the mainstream consensus there. When I went to czech republic I beat the shit out of an american cunt from arizona, no one seemed to care.

You can't complain when the EU exists which actively promotes Pan-European identity and every country in Europe other than the Swiss, Russia, and maybe Norway/Iceland want to be apart of it.

Plus it does make sense to generalize all Arabs as Arabs, because they're Arabs. If you want to get into the minutiae of everything then don't ever say "Americans" either. It makes perfect sense to generalize culturally similar people as one group.

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Found the burger fuck.
Are you saying that Italians and Polish people are similar?

found your confusion

I could see an united europe under a red banner. But cultural diffences would be valued. The eu failed. The left should use the infrastucture of the eu to gain power and unite everything ala URSS

they try but its not catching on at all. Lots of people in the rich nations want out and the poorer ones only want to join on economic grounds, not because they want to be part of some kind of pan-european fantasyrace.

Meant the middle east/muslim world. They group turks and iranians in there too. Shias and sunnis, syrians and marrocans.

More similar to each other than they are to the Chinese or Iranians.

I would unironically support esparanto for a pan-european socialist state. Although I would revise it to ditch the marks which are hard to type. Its similar to most european languages, very logical and permissive and doesnt make people angry that their proud language was not chosen for the lingua franca.

The EU is extremely questionable to most people and doesn't foster a continental identity anyways. lmao only the cuckiest yuppies think "I'm european :🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧"

Americans are all citizens of america, arab means you are one of at least 10 countries, with subsequent differences in material conditions and local politics. Get a grip burgers

Syrians are arabs bruh, its an ethno-linguistic-religious thing.
Naturally though, syrians like to set themselves apart from Jordanians or iraqis or egyptians

What does that matter?

Aussie here. I see murica as world policing imperialistic evil bastards. When they send their people, they're not sending their best. They're sending obnoxious cunts. Some are alright… probably.

Well I'm a socdem so I definitively disagree on that, at least.
I'd see a confederation of States cooperating on scientific, humanitarian and cultural level, with coordinated and common diplomatic actions (but each country would still be entirely autonomous). Safety would have also have to be a common concern, and the country would help each other out.

However, the economy of each country should be left alone, no predatory and capitalistic common market, no deregulations, no outsourcing.

But those groups between them aren't the same. Syrians differ as much form marrocans as spaniards differ from russians, even if they were both in the same cultural phere.

On top of that, Europeans are not much more different from Americans than other Americans are. They are used to other places being very different but still "like them."

Put on some fucking glasses. Still for anyone but americans the difference isn pretty clear

Pizza is an italian only thing. Second get the fuck out here before I puke. We are really really different. You can't fucking get it

They're still arabs, but true this isn't a very important point.

Which is understandable, they were all under one government at one point in time. Islam is a very anti-nation religion which promotes the idea of a global Muslim community, the Ummah. They're all very influnced by Arab culture and the Arab language as well, Turks less so after Attaturk's reforms though. They're economically and politically similar as well, again the gulf states being extremely wealthy, Afghanistan much poorer, some more democratic than others but they are mostly similar.

The point is that they are much more similar to each other than they are to any other part of the world. Like the Anglosphere, Latin America, Sinosphere, etc. There are lots of very similar regions that can be grouped together. The only problem is when you make wild generalizations based on their similarities, but some generalizations are fine.

Like always the americans derailed the thread. So any est euro here?

But americans arent used to that. America is litterally one monolithic culture due to its late start and thourough capitalist culture. Any true differences that still exist are minor accents and a few regional variations on dishes.
Americans on the web are surprised when other americans dont have certain stores. Europeans can't speak the language if they travel a bit, dont know the food, dont know the culture, etc. Then theres hoping that whoever you ask for a bag of beans speaks english or whatever other shit you know.

Italy is nothing like the netherlands. Hell, belgium, a place where they speak dutch and are the same ethnic group, is nothing like the netherlands. Fuck me, the people in the province next over speak a dialect so thick i cant follow it, they have different food, different religion, different holidays and different mannerisms.

I dont think you grasp how different it is. Just because they have a vaguely peach-ish skintone doesnt mean its "different but like them". I can't even swim in french pools without buying a different set of swimming trousers than I use here.

Lack of culture and history.

I am from Ger, there are the types of people who still see them as heroes, and the rest who sees America as the imperialist cancer it is and Americans as willful supporters of it.

Then they'd vote accordingly. Most richfags outside of UK realize that it'd get a lot harder without EU.

Lol, this is like those pictures showing the "obvious differences" between Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans. They're both regular white people.

Like voting works or is respected.
We had a refferendum about ukraine, the people voted against, but the government did it anyway. Syriza wanted to do shit to save the greek people, but the EU blackmailed them into doing what they are told.
The EU core doesnt allow dissidents.

Figures. Bet you cant even spot a german if you see one.

Really germs like american cock so much? Is because of the gdr?
berlin is top 3 cities in europe it would be higher if it wasn't for your obnoxious coldness and the fact that is full of brownies

This seems like the best place to ask: I'm a burger who wants to go to grad school for literature and history. I want fucking off this sinking ship, where should I try to move to in Europe?

Like these minor differences matter when you live in a globalized world and can stand a Pole and an Italian next to a Somali and a Indonesian and see how "different" the Italian and Pole really look from each other.

Poles and italians look very different.
Like, holy fuck I honestly cant believe you are serious right now.

Don't come here pls.

Ireland.
They got plenty of room left after the english let them all die during the famine.
Or if youre a girl, go to the faroe islands, lots of farmboys without wives.

WTF
Really, buy some fucking glasses like right now.
Holy shit.

That's the point. Italian pizza is different from Chicagoan pizza, but it is no more different from Chicagoan pizza than Californian pizza is from Chicagoan pizza. When someone from Chicago goes to California he does not feel that much different than when he goes to Italy. The Californians may be Americans, but they act differently than he does.

The guy from Chicago might feel a bit more out of place in Italy than he does in California but not by a large margin. His idea of what makes a national identity is a lot more loose. Why are both he and a guy from California Americans? Well, because they were both born inside some imaginary lines. That's the extent of it. So, when he goes to Europe he sees Europe the same way. What makes a person European? Well, he was born between certain lines on a map.

That only makes me want to come even more user.
I just wanna study Humanities and live a quiet life. This is increasingly hard and painful to do in the states.

Also
.t no concept of indonesia
There isnt "an indonesian", its a patchwork of different ethnicgroups, including those australoids from papua.

Come on. Muh conspiracies?

What kind of referendum? Most aren't binding. To get out of EU, you can vote for a party who promises it. Worked for UK.

They didn't ask for anything extraordinary. Syriza was smart enough to realize that European countries will be fucked without it, no matter the downsides. UKIP and Torie weren't, and now the pound is almost equal to euro before it even happened.

Italians look 'very different from each other. Don't call them Italians, there are Southern and Northern Italians. They are visibly and culturally different from each other so you can't possibly categorize them as one group.

England or maybe ireland. Stay away from east europe.
Maybe berlin? Berlin it's nice. Downside is that people are cold as fuck and it captures that urban depression feel really well. That said pls don't come. You are a cool guy, if I'll ever make it into politics americans are the first to get the gulag

1 more imp fact too: new york/new jersey italians are literally a different species than native italians

That's true.
t. Italian

I know. But even if you take them as one group they look noticably different from poles.
South italians are the best italians btw.

pic related

Because they share the same media, they have constant free migration between them, they have a single nation, they have the same products. They are highly influenced by each other. Europeans are much more seperated culturally exactly because of national borders. TV stops at the border, language stops at the border. Any European literally cannot follow another countries media unless they specifically learned the language. We dont listen to the same music. We dont follow the same politics, we dont have the same history.

t. Terrone

That's what I'm leaning towards. I think I'll have a decent chance of getting into Trinity in Dublin, but I've also heard that white supremacist groups were getting more active there in recent years (I'm a brown dude).
If you're serious about gulaging burgers, I'll goddamn help fund your campaign.

Hell even countries with the same language cant follow each other sometimes.
For a dutch person to follow a flemish speaker who doesnt speak "proper" they need subtitles. A german and a swiss german cant communicate properly.

My grandgrandgranddaddy was south italian (im pretty sure)

How about we just nuke Europe? Most pretentious part of the world, they hate all their neighbors, and they failed repeatedly at this whole revolution thing. We should just do them a favor and put them out of their misery. I don't think Americans are even a fraction as racist as they are anyway.

Oh god please, this will be even more cancerous than white americans. You wont even fit in with the yuppies and definately not the coloureds.

What did he mean by this? Doesnt your country kill black people on sight and keep slavery the longest time?

Thanks, after I gulag the browns. Joking. You don't have to fear for white supremaicst. They never did shit. Maybe england is a better fit for a black

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We need to push this angle of white nationalists being mongrels more often. I mean, they're americans after all.

Fuck racism tho. We never did shit out of racism here, plus you are a fucking american. Kill yourself before we do you motherfucker. Rascism. Like we have a real problem with racism here and not like you guys that get offended over fucking statues. Kill yourself and your family.

Well if you dont count the germans, of course.

UK wants out and isnt europe

yeah. But neo nazi rallies are never taken seriously. Also the most racist here is against immigration more than anything and he has a point but for the totally wrong reasons

Did that whole holocaust thing not happen? Plus there are numerous separatist movements being crushed by ethno-cultural majorities.

Really no est euro here?

Where? Ukraine is not europe. balkans hardly europe

brilliant

I think eastern european commies are a bit rare.

Dont forget the english and the irish though.
The english had a similar racial philosphy to the nazis tbh. Read that churchhill wanted to take europe and shit.

Bongistan is full retard. Hobbes was right about self-defense.

I've never meet a est european against communism tbh

Polish and baltic states seem to hate it.

And romanians too

Oh, what are they? Asians?

fug
true story

The top guy in the second pic is pretty hot for such a pussy.

The balkans have never been culturally european and neither has ukraine.
The baltic states have always had extensive contact with europe, bulgaria is heavily influenced by the greeks, romania is litterally roman, czechoslovakia is within the european sphere, hungary was part of europe with austria, poland never really was a real state but heavily influenced by germans.

And yes, ukrainians are asians.

Note that I am defining european here as the following:
Renaissance Europe.
Even russia was heavily europeanized due to its contacts with the royal families of europe (family and all that), this was imposed by the czar. Before that russia was not really european culturally.

Baltics yeah, polish are fucking strange

Romanians, well understandable

thus is the nature of idpol.
ive seen some hoteps claim that julius caesar and the ancient greeks were really all black people as well.

Didnt that start as a joke religion?

Sauce

*Rolls eyes*

I dunno I thought I read that somewhere.

Oh right i forgot our shitposter was in london.
You better show up for the next bunkercon bro.

Why there are blacks in england?

Because the english had lots of colonies.
Lots and lots of colonies.
Also immigration.

Try driving for 200 km on Belgian roads, it'll feel plenty long

You can feel a physical bump when you cross the border, after which your car immediately starts vibrating.

Theres one place where the roads have a height difference of like 3 or 5 cm, because the belgian road builders couldnt be assed.

Cuz The British Empire in it's glory days controlled 1/3 of the world's landmass and a chunk of that was in The Caribbean and Africa. Same goes for France, Belgium and The Netherlands.

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Which "shitposter"?

My ass, they do. What do they share? Network television? Nobody watches that anymore. Cable companies can't even sell it without bundling it with internet service. There is a reason that mainstream news is losing ground to internet news. What else is there? Every city has its own newspapers and radio stations.

How often do you think people move across the continent, especially now that everyone is broke?

Imaginary lines? They obstruct a lot less than people seem to think. Do we have any New Yorkers here? Would you say that guys from Buffalo are more like you or more like Toronto?

That I will give you, although if you are going to call language a significant cultural barrier–it is–you are going to have to draw a line between North and South Florida and checkerboard California and Texas.

Have you ever heard the difference between heavy metal from Seattle and heavy metal from San Francisco? Rap from L.A. and New York? Blues from Chicago and Mississippi? Yeah, the pop shit plays everywhere, but it also plays everywhere like Asia and Europe.

Nobody has the same history. You don't have shared experiences handed down to you over generations. That shit is spooky as fuck.

How is it being an African-American European?

southern Italy is a shithole compared to northern Italy

you

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You think that's bad? Half The Daily Mail and Guardian's comments are posted by people from [Insert city here], United States.

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Are these two our most prevalent shitposters atm?

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stalinguy isnt a shitposter, afro is a semi-shitposter and hochie is the supreme shitposter.

Shit, was that pic before or after Spurdo Sparde?

Fuck you too.

Shes american though.

???
Its old as fuck if thats what you mean

I ask myself that all the time. I think this might just be the guy Spurdo Sparde/America Bear was based off.

That's even worse.

I always love it when Americans who couldn't locate planet earth on a globe pretend to be experts on what is going on in Europe.

Because Britons have a huge fetish for the dark meat.
I think not even Swedes have such huge cravings for shadow skin like Britons have.

Viet Cong trip is the worst poster on the board, bar none

Daily reminder that a socialist superpower's gotta occupy Burgerstan and re-educate the population if we're ever gonna make full communism a reality. #DayOfTheGrill #NoBurgerLeftUnturned

just admit youve never been to europe

Those people are ethnically (ie, both racially and culturally) of European descent.
They their "roots" are there.
Nobody claims they are European in the civilian sense of the world, the organzation is called "Identity Evropa" because it's about ethnical identification.
I can't see how this could go over your head.

this

Born and raised.
If I cross the border with germany they dont understand dutch, and vice versa.
There small exceptions in countries like belgium or switzerland, which are patchworks of language groups, or you have linguistic exclaves such as in sud tirol in italy. But these are disappearing due to standardisation by education.

Expand on your opinion please

Not him but lets start with the following
Should cover most of it.

Opinion discarded.

What's with you and that homefront game?

I laughed until I remembered this is literally what Flat Earthers do

i'm loving it!

I wish it was real.

But this is totally incorrect. Genetically speaking a big fat maybe but culture wise? Holy fuck snibeter don't make me laugh. American culture is consumerist culture, the total commodification of whatever trait they had before putting their ass down that ship. Reminder that money got no owners, only spenders. Consumerism got no identity, just clients

Alright enough bantz eurobros, time for bed. Its well past midnight.

Sounds like a sound plan

Thas rite!

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I always heard it was shit though.

Nigger, please.

It was/is, but the concept's pretty dope though. Shame it had to be made by THQ…

Daily reminder that the english had to invent "whiteness" to force the dutch to integrate and speak english.

THQ don't make games, they publish them.

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French culture + German technology = European Empire

Neo-liberal imperialism is bad. Otherwise you are saying that america is ok

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Sorry, meant to say
***They think their "roots" are there.
I'm just explaining how they identify themselves.

But not far from the truth
Full of LARPer wanabeed mestizos, but there are white people as white as they come.
Or wasn't there extensive colonization, genocide and breeding? There are lots of third generation immigrant chinks whose families kept fucking chinks and you wouldn't hesitate to call of chinese descent.

I sometimes forget the huge differences, but that's a product of recent history and doesn't invalidate the huge similarities. Remember I'm still talking about roots. You have to agree those LARPers actually embracing the non-consumerist part of their "roots" would be a good thing if anything.

Still, American culture is increadibly influenced by

Yes, A lot of this (eg clothes) can be found on other parts of the world because of the great impact Europe had on the world, but my point stands: White Americans have European roots.

But most euros no longer dress like that either. They wear suits to work and loaffers at night.
By far most instances of that are just festivals.
If blonde people have an "Oktoberfest" on the other side of the Atlantic and also LARP in traditional clothes of their "ancestors", it's not much different.
When Euros went to America, they brought their Euro clothes with them

Just meant to ridicule the thought process
Also yes it is

Gee, it's almost like European culture it's just a meme from the past and it doesn't even exist anymore.

Do they?

Nor ever did. There is no fucking European culture. As an user mentioned, just North and South Italy alone have a big divide.

literally all culture

This gratuitous nihilism is a theme all too common
You try to undermine an identitarian movement by undermining the validity of their identity, making no sense in the process.
No.
There is such a thing as European identity.

If you want white people to stop gathering together planning genocide start by not fantasizing that "white peole" don't exist as an ethnic group.
It's like you try to prove the colours Black and White don't exist by showing lots of shades of grey.

I fail to see why this is so controversial.
Honestly, lots of wishful thinking. You people are betting everything on "European" not being a thing.

Yes, but even if you call it a complex network of interrelated cultures, the concept applies.

Is that first pic even a French woman, or you just google "French woman"?
HAHAHAHAHA
Americans looking up to Euros on fashion doesn't help your point

>implying both kinds of footballs aren't European games

Get your shit together, hit me with examples that don't prove my point

I'm from baltics and heavy into leftism here to the point where I unironically enjoyed listening to red army choirs when drunk yesterday.

It's the loneliest feeling in the entire world when you think that in my entire country it's pretty much impossible to find somebody who is into marxism and isn't some old russian guy still nostalgic about USSR.

Also, why do you guys think the baltics have "gone fash"? Where is that perception coming from? Because besides our idpol against russians, we have free healthcare, good-quality state education, partly-free higher education and most people here are pro-EU (not that it has much to do with leftism, but maybe for some "communism is when government does stuff" burgers it counts as an argument?)

I'm American. I agree with you 100%

i think many americans can grasp the concept, it's just that many European countries are so small and weak compared to America, so they frequently get lumped together for the sake of brevity.

holy lel

Tell us what defines it then.

All the baltics ive spoken to are against communism.

It's mostly about USSR doing series of shitty decisions in regards to our region, like this one:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorite_War

I doubt it's about the ideology itself, or is it?

It can be hard for people to separate that though.

ha i never realised the italian hand gestures were in the source pic

Fat and noisy idiots with a skin colour obsession.

Feels good man.

I'm hungarian, and as far as I'm concerned americans are considered fat, stupid lowlife niggers who sit in front of the tv all day.

newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2012/03/latvia-riga-waffen-european

It's not related to nazism, these are commemoration events held by some family members of those men who got mad at commies gulag'ing their family members and sought revenge at them. The diaries themselves of those baltic SS troops said they don't really believe in fascism and if Hitler should retreat, they will try a coop to establish an ethnostate.

I agree that folks who attend those events are pretty spooked, but it's a fringe group of people in the baltics that praise these volunteer-SS units. Our local neoliberal media usually presents this as "just a piece of history" and it's seen as a harmless thing. These events affect our political discourse at national level just as much as few dozen EDL loonies annually gathering in some major english town.

Fuck off playing this retarded card. Any serious explanation would take a fuckton of books to correctly formalize, and you know it.
Stop being an autist because I can fucking tell you that normal people can recognize European shit.

You could play that with everything. Before we move forward, please:
Define the internet
Define time
Define gender
Define definition

Any difficulty in defining something, be it the complexities of it or the abundance of grey areas, doesn't invalidate the concept. You can't reduce life to formalities.
Please define what differentiates a small table from a large stool, and tell me without reverse image search which of these are tables and which stools, given that all could be used for both purposes.
Similarly, you'll find lots of greys, for example Northern Africa will have a toe into the room, given the history of European rule over there, etc, nobody is denying that.

Also, read the list on
How the fuck can you tell me America is not increadibly influenced by European culture, brought by Euros moving there?
Literally the definition of ethnicity.
All large migrations have this, why would American colonization be an exception?
Now you are going to tell me that there is no such thing as being jewish, or roma, just because there are lots of greatly varied subcultures and they are spread few and far between

I don't understand this need to undermine from the definitions.
I see this too often, people trying to invalidate concepts through pointing out the "greys" of the definition.

It's a similar argument to people pointing out that the age of consent is a bit arbitrary to justifiy removing any age of consent.

if white americans don't come from Europe where do they come from?

Just stay out of black neighborhoods at night. Shit is like walking through a 3rd world country.

Yakub, before whites betrayed him.

how

I doubt it.

Yakub had a primordial enemy that poisoned so called "white" minds and made them traitors.

Lmao every single fucking time

I swear to Christ, Americans are a subspecies.

There's a whole movement that apparently does.
What do you think Identity EuLARPers do all day? Sit and watch Bollywood movies?

We need to call them Identity EuLARPers now

Most crime in the USA is poors fucking with other poors. Stay out of known post-industrial hellscapes and you're safe as anywhere.

This new meme sucks

Mostly, they ragejack over brown people. That's what being white means in america. They pretend to be defenders of art, but they're also troglodytes that think pretty pictures=better so their opinion is worthless.

eularpers are retards, who cares what they do? In reality, Italians try not to think about Poles and vice versa, they know the difference in culture is vast. But being white is different from actually sharing culture, being white means you can exploit browns. Every immigrant group in America were called monkey idiots, why then were the European ones were allowed to join society, while the browns were explicitly wageslaved and ghetto'd?

why

This picture is of American Police

"apparently" huh

FYI, I'm not condoning the movement, because some of you seem to think so.

idgaf about pride in the "homeland" and related spooks, but IE is reactionary, and that's that

the inherent supremacy of melanin is not a joke comrade. Only an albino woulf argue with such a fact, since their brains are deformed from mating with neanderthals and living in caves.