SuperPengato

Fun fact: Finnish and Estonian are both Finnic languages. Meanwhile, the other Nordic countries mostly speak Scandinavian languages an the other Baltic countries speak Baltic languages, which are part of the broader Balto-Slavic group. So really, from a linguistic perspective at least, Finns and Estonians are more similar to each-other than to any of their neighbors. And also pretty similar to Hungary (Magyar being a Finno-Ugric language).

^found the clitoris!

AND I WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS!

I would definetely not call France Insoumise tankies. Their platform is basically what the Socialist Party's platform was in the 80s, they pretty much only have a niche to occupy only because the socialists moved so far to the right. That being said, they do have the benefit of being vocal on anti-racist and anti-colonial policies.

I wish they were actual tankies. In France. The French Communist Party has some Marxist-Leninist memberd, but they are not the majority of the party right now. For a while, the PCF was in an Alliance with the Parti de Gauche (the precursor to France Insoumise), and only took parts in elections as part of this alliance. But Mélenchon, who used to rule Parti de Gauche and now rules France Insoumise, stopped making concessions to the Communist Parti (such as supporting their candidates in the few Communist Parti strongholds left in France), which was seen as a betrayal, and so the Communist parti elected as its leader Fabien Roussel, who is less favorable to alliances with FI unless there are other parties in it as well to avoid the PCF getting fully absorbed as a satellite of FI.

The problem is that despite the core of the PCF's program being further left than FI's program, the rethoric used by Roussel, the pojects he puts forwards and the ones he chooses to ally with are increasingly further right wing than FI. With FI being new and having more momentum, they're the ones often demonized by the center and Roussel's strategy is to make the PCF appear less scary than them. He is cultivating an older and whiter electorate that can be nostalgic of the time when the PCF was strong and scared of the new and strange FI. I would've liked the PCF to instead go further left than FI. But unfortunately, its move right is kind of in the continuation of the de-stalinisation that happened after the fall of tbe USSR. It's a party with a rich history, more of an internal democracy than FI and deep ties with unions and other organizations, but the way it's headed, it can't go very far.

Then you have Force Ouvrière, a Trotskyite party. Problem with them is they kinda have their butt between two chairs. They take part in elections just to get known, while claiming the true change must come from a revolution... But aside from selling newspapers, they're not doing much organizing. They're neither really giving themselves the mean to act either in the political world or in the streets. They're not in favor of seeking improvements through unions or electoral politics because they think small improvements will stop people from wanting to revolt.

This description fits most of the small leftist groups in France, but despite their similarities, their attachement to ideological purity keeps them from banding together

Wow, you really put great effort into rendering the details on the girl's jean. You also put a non negligible effort in painting a person in the mirror with the same colthes as the girl but surprisingly little time making sure they had the same haircut or that this made sense with the position and orientation of the mirror. Which could be that there's a third person in the room who just happens to be dressed like her, but for this to make sense without them being seen in the image the best must be behind them in the mirror and that's not what we see in the reflection.

You are truly scum for claiming this by your drawing. Effort was put into this color and rendering, but not by you. By artists whose work was scraped and spat out at your prompting by a large model at the cost of large amounts of energy and water in a polluting data center. All this for a seen before joke that would've worked just as well with a stock photo or hastily drawn stick figures.

Don't blame me, I call them limules. I'd say something about carcinisation, but tbh I don't think they even look or move enough like crabs for it to apply. Someone just called it that and it stuck I guess.

They're not crabs! They're not even crustaceans! They're not even mandibulates, which means insects and myriapods are more closely related to crabs than they are! They aren't even antennulata, which means they're further from crustaceans than trilobites were!

What they are is cheliceriforms, like sea spiders and arachnids.

They can be consumed, but not all of them, and there is a risk of poisoning.

For anyone confused, this is a reference to Crank mah Hog, the biblical city and its king from the Apocalypse to which George Bush Jr was referring when he tried to get the French president Jacques Chirac to join the Second Gulf War.

Don't forget the crackers!

Among the classics from the 60s, I'd also add Thelonious Monk, Arts Bakey, then the Headhunters, and Sun Ra's Arkestrs. That's a period with a lot of diversification (free jazz, bebop, funk jazz, Afrofuturism...). Earth Wind and Fire is also funk jazz.

There also Tito Puente from Puerto Rico, which leads me to transition to the caribbeans. Outside of the US, you have of course Compay Secundo and the Buena Vista Social Club, and also Juan Pable Torres in Cuba. Caribbean Sextet in Haïti. While we're in the Caribbeans, Ska is also derived from jazz and Rocksteady and Reggae are in turn derived from it, try older Ska bands like the Skatalites, that's where it's most obvious.

In Africa there's Manu Dibango from Cameroon, who blends some trafitional music influence, also Mulatu Atatske from Ethiopia (who's still alive and kicking), then you have the whole Afrobeat genre starting in Nigeria with Fela Kuti (early Afrobeat is still really close to jazz, though modern Afrobeat, which is closer to hip-hop).

That's those I know best among the classics (I'm not sctually a huge expert despite my tirade, I may have been exagerating a bit because I got defendive and also as a joke). But if you search almost any country name and add "jazz" after it, you'll certainly get a result (the only time I failed was when I tried Bhutan, and I still think they likely have jazz somewhere, it's just hard to find).

My favorites among the recent ones are Shabaka Hutchings from the UK and, Thurgo Théodat from Haïti (not super famous, but really good, I've actually heard him play live). Mulattu Atatske has also done stuff recently, and sun Ra's Arkestra still exists.

Also, since nobody plays jazz alone, once you found a jazz player you like, a good way to find more is to see who they've played with. If it's a band, see the members and what other band they've played in!

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What even are words? Pieces of long dead people's thoughts, which we assemble as grim puppets to replicate our own thoughts in a form that we hope others will comprehend? To hell with this, return to grunts and screams.