[geisterland]

small introduction yay - twitter

[geisterland]

while I do agree that europeans and usamericans being revolted by argentina just existing given their own issues and how xenophobic they actually are and are using this opportunity to be is quite ridiculous, it is insane to claim we shouldn't put politics in the world cup and that they have never been here before this year? Hey I want you to google slavery in the 2022 world cup or the 1973 chile-USSR game or you know just FIFA in general

[imsobadatnicknames2]

what’s the real story with argentina being a nazi haven, overblown stereotype or lib fabrication? or more an annoying rhetorical distraction from the fact that the real nazi haven was germany and that denazification simply did not happen?

I mean there *were* cases of nazis being smuggled into brazil, argentina, chile, and paraguay through illegal escape routes colloquially referred to as ratlines. That is a thing that did happen.

However, the way americans in particular seem to latch onto this fact to dismiss any latin american that pisses them off, either in a "well whatever your country gave refuge to nazis" sense, or in a "I'm directly implying your family were escaped nazis" sense (another example I remember seeing once was a post about US imperialism in latin america where a yankee replied that OP had no business bitching about imperialism because she was probably "a white brazilian called Helga or something") is a bit ironic to me, considering that:

The vast majority of german immigrants to these countries in the 20th century were jewish refugees fleeing the nazis

The US took in thousands more nazis after ww2 than the entirety of Latin America combined

A lot of the nazis that *did* escape to latin america did so with the direct help of US intelligence agencies

Nazis that escaped to the US were treated as valuable anti-soviet assets, and many of them were given cushy jobs by the US government. Most of the nazis who escaped to latin america spent their entire lives hiding from the authorities under false identities, and those who were discovered were extradited or jailed

So americans in particular thinking they have any right to joke about latin american countries being nazi havens is just plain xenophobic jingoism

[handweavers]

the idea that the british empire accepted their decline with grace and peacefully and willingly withdrew from all their colonial territories and took their loss quietly is commonly expressed as fact but it's very much untrue, it's a successful propaganda campaign for them to claim that this is what happened but they were busy committing war crimes throughout their colonial territories long after supposed "independence" & they continued/continue to maintain economic control over these regions and actively killed local movements that wanted economic sovereignty, land reform, nationalization of natural resources much like the united states did/does within their sphere of influence. i say this not to minimize the atrocities the us has committed but to make a point that the uk is also guilty of these crimes up to the present as much as they'd like to pretend this was an era that ended a century ago. british colonial violence isn't something that ended after ww2 it continued throughout the 20th century and still to this day if you look at the actions undertaken by the british military and their mercenaries throughout the former empire

[handweavers]

for the past handful of years ive seen people say stuff like "well the british empire accepted their decline with grace and pulled out when they saw the ship sinking so why can't the us do that" and it's important that you understand that the british empire didn't actually do that and neither will their son lol

[geisterland]

been reading abt fascist italy and I think a lot more people need to make him a kind of sleaze bag I'll scratch your back you scratch mine business type of character

[geisterland]

keep looking at the russian ssr drawing and laughing to myself how did I make him look that fucking stupid oh my god

[chariskris]

mauris… they are twin sisters!

[geisterland]

mindful daughter or... hm

[geisterland]

I never draw her angry or being an asshole so here she is

[geisterland]

my favorite world cup mascot is ciao

[geisterland]

followed by fuleco and zabivaka because they're the mascots of the two world cups I first remember watching (sorry zakumi I was 5 years old) and also because I am a furry

[geisterland]

this years mascots were ugly as fuck especially clutch except for zayu he's pretty cute

[geisterland]

my favorite world cup mascot is ciao

[geisterland]

followed by fuleco and zabivaka because they're the mascots of the two world cups I first remember watching (sorry zakumi I was 5 years old) and also because I am a furry

[geisterland]

my favorite world cup mascot is ciao

[geisterland]

this is how I feel about today's game

[geisterland]

I feel kind of bad now, I'm giving her a warm bath and chocolate milk

[geisterland]

this is how I feel about today's game

[geisterland]

I may still use it for a chapter in the speculative biology series on the different kinds of legs (and maybe other attributes) countryhumans can have, but I liked this drawing well enough so I’m detaching it for now and showing it here lol

[geisterland]

drawing and I'm not gonna lie drawing china and russia in shorts is I think the weirdest way I've ever drawn them and I don't know why

[geisterland]

its a thing where I wanna show the different types of legs countryhumans can have ahaha

[geisterland]

drawing and I'm not gonna lie drawing china and russia in shorts is I think the weirdest way I've ever drawn them and I don't know why