Not totalitarian you say?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

My experience in Azerbaijan also included tales of when they were children passing curds to starving prisoners through chain fences in Kazakh gulags. The Soviet Union did more harm than good to the leftist movement and is used as the scary example every single time someone begins to think twice about the capitalist system they live under. Socialism is forever tainted by the USSR and severely struggles to remove that image. Fuck the USSR.

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Ungovernable mess is a hell of a way to say resistant to foreign authoritarian central control.

The head of the security service isn’t just a meathead bit of heavy muscle there to jump in front of a bullet.

Martial law also isn’t some obscure policy, it’s an internationally understood term that replaces the democratic civilian parliament with military rule.

This is definitely something someone in his position should be very aware of and should be willing to do something about.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law

Until you’ve been doing it for a few years, and it’s winter, and you only have 6 hours of daylight per day, and you see 0 of them.

Aye that’s fair. We’ve a weird history with being both oppressed and oppressor simultaneously.

Oh wow, sealbh math dhuit! Tha mi ag ionnsachadh cuideachd ach tha Duolingo ceac. Is dòcha gun cuidich seo: https://www.davebanks.com/Gaelic/pdf/The Naughty Little Book of Gaelic.pdf

To be fair, saying to be fair and giving examples of it happening in the past doesn’t justify allowing it to happen again.

The powerful cannot be allowed to control such fundamental aspects of our lives as how we communicate with one another.

And yet it’s happened. It is happening. Some times more brutally than others. From Pictish, as you said, to Palestinians today. In comparison, Gaelic may have had it easy, but it still doesn’t make it okay.

Every aspect of our lives is Anglicised, from our media to our way of speech. I can speak fluent English and understand many weird accents. I can barely get by in Gaelic without Google Translate, and I’m fucked if anyone has even a bit of a weird accent. I can tell you more about the politics of London or Manchester than I can my own city. I know how the English and American legal systems work far better than I do my own. My friends talk about English football teams, not local ones they have a connection to. English and American propaganda media have taken over the world. Even such cultural titans as the French are under attack from Anglicisation and have bodies like the Académie Française to ensure French stays French. Apply this same concept across the globe and it’s scary to think about how much influence English has, how many cultures are dying because of it. And therefore, how many people a media empire can influence.

Now you may say, “but nobody’s forcing you to consume English media” and this is true. But that wasn’t always the case, Gaelic was persecuted and oppressed over a period of years. It has only seen a resurgence in numbers since devolution, and the regained ability to control some aspects of our lives. Less than 2% of the population understand it now. Why oppress a culture and a language that is no longer a threat? How many Gaelic speakers does that leave to create Gaelic media?

Culture wars work, they just take a long fucking time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Académie_Française

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic#Number_of_speakers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scottish_Gaelic#Persecution,_Retreat,_and_Dispersal

A bheil Gàidhlig agad dha-rìribh? An urrainn dhuinn barrachd conaltraidh a dhèanamh?

And this is exactly why England tried to wipe out Welsh, Irish, and Scottish culture and language.

It’s hard to sincerely say you’re part of that culture if you can’t even say that in your own tongue. Best you can do is say you’re British which is just a ball hair away from being English.

Culture wars work, they just take a long fucking time.

Is mise Albannach, tha cultar nas cudromaiche na beairteas. Not the other way around.