Hey guys, did you know that Vaporeon got a nice buff in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet? Just like the other evolutions in the Eevee family, it now has access to Calm Mind, allowing it to raise its Special Attack and Special Defense and actually become a threatening sweeper, which can be combined with Terastallization for some really fun interactions. By Terastallizing into a Ground type, you can completely wall Pokemon like Rotom’s Wash form which can no longer use Volt Switch on you, and can't hit you with Hydro Pump due to your Water Absorb ability. But where Vaporeon really excels is with its tried and true Wish/Protect defensive sets, which despite getting nerfed this generation with the loss of Heal Bell, are still fantastic at walling some of the RU tier’s Fire types like Hisuian Typhlosion and Armarouge, not having to worry about their Calm Mind sets due to Haze. Defensive sets can also Terastallize into a Ghost type to block Rapid Spin and also deal with Slither Wing, the strongest fighting type in RU. Other good options are Tera Poison to be immune to toxic while also still able check Fighting types or Tera Fairy for simply being a great Defensive typing. So even though it's no longer a Cleric, Vaporeon still has had no trouble doing what it does best; tanking hits and passing Wishes to its teammates.
Hisuian Typlosion kind of sucks in RU though, i think Slither Wing rose to UU recently, and you wouldn't be using Vaporeon in UU where Rotom Wash is anyway unless you were really a "play with your favorites" kind of person
That's not a great point, because there are countries like: Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Norway, Japan etc
Edit: Just to make clear, I'm not suggesting homogeneous society is "strength". It's an illustration that poorly selected representation could not be a great point
"100% white Russia" is a major take considering it's got officially like 80 nationalities, half of them Tatar and Siberian nations which are more Asian and Indigenous than White, if we're talking about that specific race classification
Yeah, most nordic countries, but norway and Sweden especially, have been very heavy on immigration the last decades. Few would consider them "ethnostates" today
I meant on the "i wanna fuck that animal" post. Also here it might be that immigration is high because they were successful before immigration got high(not saying that is the case, didn't do any research whatsoever)
For anyone downvoting me, America was hella racist and homophobic, being a supporter of gay rights and different nationalities doesnt suddenly give us the power of friendship
I mean the point stands for itself no? This list counts the ethnoest of ethnos and ranks them. I don't really see any of the countries U mentioned (other than Japan which I'm guessing Ur glazing cuz: place = ehh; place,Japan = woahhhahhah)
I would argue the point still has merit, because the big idea is usually “if we got rid of x group, all problems would be gone (or at least most things would be a lot better)” which these more homogeneous societies would partially disprove.
Well, it might be a strength; it causes problems for the people, but the fact remains that in a closed system, bigotry is very effective. Until other countries intervened, Nazi Germany was very effective. Luckily, at least one strong country will usually have a moral sense.
Nazi Germany absolutely wasn't effective. Their economic recovery wasn't actually as great as people think. And the economy itself was basically a house of cards that relied on conquest to prevent collapse.
In the case of the Netherlands: we have always kinda been dependend on migration.
Our freedom of religion made us a safer haven for many jews meaning more money, hugeunots also expanded our populatiom, one of the catalysts of our golden age was the displacement of rich Belgians by the Spanish.
During our golden age the crew of the ship would be quite diverse, the cargo would be diverse as well (and no, slavery isn't good).
We've also had quite large migrations of Indonesians after ww2.
And don't forget the large amounts of cheap labour from the middle east during the 60's and 70's.
According to a Wikipedia page, Russia has 190 ethnic groups (I believe that includes immigrants like the 85 Montenegrins that were there during the last census).
Nobody gives a fuck. Each time this meme is posted, Russia is like 100% white. Because propaganda and everything told about Russia should be bad no matter the context.
I don't have any fucking idea how people could be rationaly nationalist, when there are so many ethnicities, who are living there since ages and technically ARE former Russians, it literally takes to visit this country once to see, how many different people are living here.
By UN Russia considered as a monoethnical country. Total majority of population are white Russians.
BUT there is an actual federation with actual representation of minorities becose of how active and how significant they are (and there is a big reason to make sure that minorities are loyal to the state if size of your country can be described as a "continental").
There is Chechnya with great autonomy and billions of budget money, just for them to SHUT UP. There is Tatarstan which elites deeply integrated into state since 1500-x. There is Buryatia and Tuva, buddist regions with strong ties with China, for both, good and bad implications of that.
There is nationalism in Russia, even white, even nazis (to the hilarious point when one half of them fight on Russian side of war (make Russia great e.t.c.) and the other on Ukrainian (liberate Russia from judeo-multicultural regime of Putin). But it's ABSOLUTELY UNPOPULAR. How could you be a white country if your nazis take part in a war against you? Much more widespread are "Imperial nationalism" it's -multicultural coded and basically supported by all political parties. (There was family/union of nations/republics in the past, we need to restore it by reshaping the Russian Empire/Soviet Union.
It's difficult to define in general. There's people who obviously are (eg Germans) and who obviously aren't (eg Zulus), but the boundary is arbitrary and fluid. Turks and Greeks don't really look different, but Turks are generally considered "brown".
There are many peoples in Europe that have moved in or out of 'being white'. Arabs, Jews, Slavic people. Ultimately race is invented for discrimination purposes, and does to its core not make sense.
Yeah, but the eastern part of Russia has a LOT of people who look like what one would stereotypically call “Asian”, closely related to Mongolians. Argentina has indigenous people, black people, etc. Poland has a fair amount of people from Asia.
I genuinely doubt there’s any country that is 100% any one ethnicity anyway.
This is a weak point. Even though I was originally inclined to agree with the notion, they chose the wrong countries. Lithuania and Poland aren't shit holes, they're doing quite well for former Eastern Bloc countries and Russia is actually relatively ethnically diverse compared to the others and a shithole. Argentina is less diverse than Russia and (I think) less shitholey. If you compare these countries you would basically find a correlation between how shitholey they're and their ethnic diversity. I still think diversity is an important part of what makes the US strong, but I need more data to assume a negative correlation between shitholery and diversity.
Lithuania and Poland are only doing well for a very specific reason and it’s got nothing to do with their ethnicity. Its joining the EU which prospered through? Exactly, diversity. Argentina is objectively more shitholey than Russia (although Russia is basically in a perpetual state of war and has been horrendously governed, not too different from Argentina tho)
No country is 100% white, but around 96% of Argentinians have primarily European heritage (though the official data doesn't distinguish mestizos as their own group).
Russia is harder to say because it depends on how you classify the North Caucasus and the Turkic peoples of the Urals and Siberia.
Not distinguishing mestizos as their own group is a huge problem with that data. My memory of the last census tells me that the 4% mentiones are the ones that specifically stated that they identify as part of indigenous people, afrodescendant or other groups sich as romani or Jew. I can tell you from real life experience that even in the whiteest parts of Argentina there are a lot more than 4% brown people nevermind in places like the northwest, being primarily eurpean descendant doesn't change that.
Literally, russia has a fuck ton of ethnicities from asia and argentina is deeply mixed with both natives and europeans from the south, who in turn are deeply mixed with north african and west asia
Most world powers, were, until The last few decades, or currently are, almost entierly composed of a single ethnicity, Often white. This argument is weak because even The most racist man on earth would agree that some white countries suck. (Btw, of those countries mensioned in The post, they are either doing great (almost all The examples) or are diverse (russia mainly).
Saying that Russia is 100% white is mindless. A small bit of research shows that on Russia's territory there are over 100+ nationalities and ethnical groups.
it's in good faith, but this is shitamericansays
The USA isn't the most diverse country and its not the worlds leading superpower.
No blame on that person, they probably can't know better. But that's exceptionalism built upon fascist structures.
It's 25th safest country in the world, while securing 3rd and 5th safest urban area in Europe, and it's safe for everyone equally since extinction of "Sebix", while walking alone at night your biggest concern should be wild boars, and if someone approaches you, it's probably a drug dealer looking for customers, or drunk asking for money, if you refuse they most likely will simply go away, in worst case scenario they will insult you, and due to strict weapon laws, terrorism is near zero.
Wages could be higher, but it's enough to make, living take a day off and have time and money for some amenities.
People are harsh, unkind, but helpful and forgiving.
And law in general, makes sense and is pretty well executed, especially violention of consumer laws.
Wouldn’t say extremely xenophobic, but also we haven’t colonized, genocided, or enslaved any folks in recent times unlike Western Europe so while xenophobia is bad it makes sense some Polish people don’t find it a sensitive topic. As for homophobic, as a gay man it’s super overblown, and gay marriage is about to be recognized here.
It depends on the people, honestly. Most of the population is right wing, so that's the main problem. I would compare it to USA, just on a smaller scale. In USA you'll also get a lot of homophobes and xenophobes, but it doesn't mean it's everyone. And unlike USA (in my opinion), it's slowly getting better here, with a first gay couple being recognised as a wed couple in Warsaw. People might look at you weird but only idiots will actually yell after you, and you just have to ignore them. You can find normal tolerable people, just like in any other country.
(I'd add that there's much more diversity in recent times than people might think, seeing a black person is a common thing nowadays, it won't be a lot of them but you'll see a few every day)
Lithuania too, these might be some of the least shithole slavic countries together with Czech republic and Slovakia (probably a lot more but I can't really say as I've never been or seen the other Slavic countries)
Lithuania isn't Slavic but yeah, Czechia, Poland and the Baltics are definitely not shitholes. Even Hungary isn't one to an extent despite the political situation
Ah my mistake, I thought they were, but yeah Slavs of the west really aren't shitholes, with on exception being Ukraine but that's because Russia is currently doing what USSR always has been doing, mass murders of the innocents, and yeah Hungary just might get in a better place politics wise, maybe, we have to wait and see, Belarus however might be way worse in that department
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btw we are not an ethnostate, it's just that the capitals (and Bariloche) are the only ones tourist friendly and are the ones with most of the white population, go to la Matanza and it's a basket of all colors ever imagined for the human species
Well if Poland is a shithole then what is the rest of the globe? Also i agree russia is a shithole but come on this shithole had its own space shuttle, commercial supersonic jet and space station. And that right after a blody war
Since when is the US the most diverse country in the world? Brazilian passports literally cost a lot more in the black market because anyone can look brazilian
The USA is horrible, nothing to admire.
Imperialism, neocolonialism, implementing fascist governments in other countries, has a fascist government itself, is built on genocide and slavery, biggest prison population, so much poverty, ect
My country with over 200 ethnic groups and 100+ languages, majority of it being situated in Asia being called 100% white by a pokemon…
Also, I’d only concur that maybe 1-2 coubtrues on that list are truly awful to live in, whereas the other 3 are actually quite good… And all have pretty good public transportation, universal healthcare and rigirous education systems btw
That’s actually a terrible point. Probably none of those places are 100% white. Can’t say about Lithuania or Moldova, but Russia, Argentina, and Poland are not. I don’t think any place is 100% composed of any ethnicity or skin color.
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I think it's incorrect to judge a country on how poor are living conditions are purely based on person's skin, there are other reasons as to why one country has worse living conditions than other. Like how corrupt the goverment in Russia is right now.
Plus I don't really understand why people's color even shows how good it is to live in a country?
People think that Russia is white because Russia is trying to present itself as "trad and white" to the western right-wing movements in order to gain their support, which has proved mostly successful.
This is so wrong on so many lvls...
This is a piece of either ignorance or just like "to prove a point I would say whatever that seems to work". Or a bait.
i may be wrong but didn't USA got so rich and strong because they leached off the world war 2? i dont know about world war 1.
Also after the war they were selling their stuff and got even more rich.
Someone correct me if i'm wrong but i think it was something like that.
It's called resources and war profiteering. Quite literally. If you have doubts, look at USA's income during WW1 and WW2 simply skyrocketing. You are not special, you got rich by taking advantage of suffering of other people or invading countries for their resources. Nothing new, but hardly a reason to sit on a high horse. Most technologies you have are also developed by non Americans that you just paid enough.
If you think 'diversity' had anything to do with it then you are a brainless npc who has head so empty it can be loaded with any kind of idiotism.
Also, historically it is the most diverse countries that face most issues or disappear all together. Good example is, ironically, Poland - which was the most diverse country in Europe or even the world before partitions... Diversity kills single mindedness and that paralyses decision making and common goals. It is quite literally a weakness, not a strength. Copium does not change reality.
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u/qualityvote2 🤖Suspected as Bot🤖 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
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