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A glorious gathering place to celebrate (and lovingly roast) the lands, peoples, quirks, and contradictions of Her Most Magnificent Europa. From the fjords to the Med, the steppes to the Atlantic spray, this is a shrine to everything that makes Europe gloriously weird, wonderfully diverse, and occasionally passive-aggressive in 24 languages.

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[–] unknown@piefed.social 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

White, blond, christian, healthy/strong, smart (glasses?), nationalist/proud of being Polish, badass winged hussars are badass and possibly also some 'empire' type sentiments regarding the former commonwealth with Lithuania?

I have some family like this in Poland and I know some Polish history, so this was a semi-educated guess based on that.

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

True true, I was wondering if this was a reference to a specific person or character.

[–] unknown@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Ah. I'm not actually Polish and my Polish media knowledge is kinda limited to 1670 qnd a few other random Polish netflix shows and Bolek i Lolek, lmao, so I really have no idea.

I do have a dickhead of a cousin though who looks just like that, so it's probably just a stereotype as I doubt Marek has enough imagination to be an individual.

(1670 is fucking hillarious btw, fully reccomend it)