well I guess I've won my bet (I've bet a box of chocolates with an old teacher from high school on a Trump victory in 2020 and lost, and again this year) which is about the only way in which I was invested in the elections as a non-Burgerperson

There is no alternative

Thankfully I'll leave France, though only for a semester, in a few months. However I'll be in so I'll still see brainworms infestations.

Speaking of going to a Chinese province, Albanian citizens can go to China visa-free for up to 90 days; as a mere Fr*nch citizen, I can only do so for up to 15 days. Maybe becoming Albanian is not so dumb an idea after all...

No, in the case of Albania for example they changed the citizenship law in 2020, and in my case (article 6 of the new law) I just have to establish a "direct lineal kinship up to the third degree" with an Albanian ancestor. This exempts me from the criteria in article 8 (such as residing in Albania for a certain number of years, and knowledge of the Albanian language), except for two of them: not having been convicted of a crime that would result in 3 years of prison in Albania, and not bring a threat to Albanian national security/public order.

TIL I'm eligible for citizenship by descent in two Balkan countries, despite not speaking either of their languages nor having ever lived outside of KKKracKKKer iSSland and the IIIrd Empire , because of how easy these countries have made it for someone who has a ridiculously small amount of blood from their country to become a citizen. If I wanted I could technically become a compatriot of both and

pop cult

你好！我也是汉语学生！我在大学学习政法和国际关系，所以我觉得学汉语真的很重要。我从来没去过中国，但是下个学期我要去学习在台湾省的一个大学！我希望我去那儿的时候可能也去其他中国的省份。

Je n'ai jamais mis du fromage dans mon omelette donc je ne sais pas si j'aime ça. Mais, de toute façon je préfère les œufs brouillés (surtout quand ils sont très cuits !)

GOOD bot

I really liked his Idols of Nations; pretty niche indeed, but also very interesting and it touches a subject I know next to nothing about. I guess I should read his other works since he has many others on similar subjects. Which ones would you most recommend off the top of your head?

At this point I don't know why I am even surprised.

chicanery

I think I remember seeing BadEmpanada jokingly saying that there should be a "we will dance again" festival on 7 October and explaining it for a few minutes. This poster seems too similar to a shitpost related to this, this can't be genuine right?

The other day I found a book titled Our Enver at home. It's not the first time I find pro-Enver Hoxha literature which was bought by my monarchist family (very cringe, I know; thankfully it's only the older generations that are still like that) but it's pretty funny that I keep finding them.

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Here's a picture of Enver Hoxha kissing flags:

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I finally got a notice today that my state scholarship application was accepted (this is normally supposed to happen before the summer holidays, but due to circumstances I could only apply very late), so I'll finally have a scholarship this year! I especially need it this year too, seeing as I have my student exchange to Taiwan next semester. This latter half of the year is starting pretty great, if you count July as part of the first half which doesn't make sense but let's just roll with it.

Insidejob

the automatic image spoiler made this look like the Pol Pot/Elon head meme lol

Exactly, I read 1984 when I was still kind of a lib and I still thought "hey, this just sounds like the US!" lol

Good cop: sad cop