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27955 pts ยท August 4, 2012


Why should western governments pay reparations? They didn't enslave those people, enemy kingdoms like the recently whitewashed Kingdom of Dahomey (painted as anti-slavery heroes in the movie 'The Woman King') enslaved them and then sold them to traders, who in turn sold them to plantation owners. The only involvement western governments had was in doing nothing to stop it until the abolitionist movement eventually succeeded in turning public sentiment against it.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

95% of transatlantic slaves went to European colonies in the Caribbean and South America, where they were worked to death and continually replaced over and over again.

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This happened in the middle of the night, ATC was only talking to like three planes and the emergency vehicles. When its 'busy' a controller could be talking to dozens of planes at once.

5 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

AI had nothing to do with it, the school was previously a barracks and was part of a still actively used IRGC compound where all of the buildings were hit according to CNN. The US is obviously still at fault and their target vetting process failed.

3 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

From a movie called 17 Again.

6 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

California spent about $30 billion on 'housing first' in the last decade. Didn't accomplish anything at all, there are more homeless than ever... Drug addicts just tear the homes apart so they can sell fixtures and copper pipes for drug money.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Already ended up bad when California did it a few years ago... They created a mandatory gun registry and then promptly leaked it online, which not only included peoples names and addresses, but the reasons they bought their guns (which people are legally required to disclose on their application to purchase firearms)... So all the domestic abuse victims who bought guns to protect themselves got doxxed.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Literally any US plane can carry nuclear munitions... B61s are relatively small and virtually every fixed wing combat aircraft in the US' inventory, and most NATO allied planes who participate in nuclear sharing as well, are certified to carry and deploy it.

9 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

"Noooo we need undocumented slaves out in the fields 12 hours a day getting paid illegal sub-minimum wages so my groceries stay cheap!" - 'Progressive' Leftists

10 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

This policy would have had them using even more chlorination. It required testing poultry and if the level of salmonella wasn't below a certain threshold, they would be required to dispose of the entire batch. So they would chlorine bath the shit out of every batch to make sure it never failed.

11 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I, for one, can't wait for the impending competency crisis... Why learn to fly a plane or cut open an abdomen correctly when you can just not do the work and get straight A's anyways in the name of good feels?

11 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 9

Europe is free to attack Russia at their leisure.

11 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

Not only is it not enough to live on, but if you somehow manage to amass $2000, the government will kick you off of means tested programs like SSI and Medicaid because $2000 is the asset limit for them. An asset limit set 40 years ago when SSI payments were like $300/month, that wasn't tied to inflation, and has never been adjusted since.

1 year ago | Likes 114 Dislikes 0

The 3/5th Compromise was also compromise in favor of free states, not in favor of slave states. Slave states wanted their slaves fully counted during the census, because a larger population would obviously grant them more seats in the House of Representatives. Free states didn't want slaves counted towards slave state populations AT ALL, so slave states would get less representation in congress. Thus the compromise.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fly ash and a bunch of carcinogens.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's the thing with testing for weed, the test has no way to indicate when you did the drugs. Say you are a forklift driver and you just accidentally ran someone over and the authorities test you for drugs and you test positive... They don't know whether you smoked two weeks ago or smoked right before you started operating the forklift.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I don't understand what people aren't getting about this. If years from now you default on your mortgage, it becomes a huge headache and potential money sink for the bank to foreclose on and then offload the house that they now own. If you suddenly stop paying rent, its no sweat off their back, they have nothing to do with that.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Crazy concept, but most people who intervene against thieves don't do it to protect the business, they do it because they don't want to live in a crime infested shithole where theft is tolerated.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Shit I'd rather be in one of these 'tin cans' during a tornado than most other places... Freight locomotives weigh several hundred tons, that shit aint going nowhere.

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

He's clearly having a conversation with them, you can see him look up over at them with his mouth moving multiple times.

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

So Wendy's might have been trying to say the same thing in a way that wasn't going to hurt share prices. Both of them have seen declining sales due to price inflation, which would explain why they are saying it.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I mean it might not be bullshit, McDonald's had a similar experience earlier this month. The CEO announced they were making efforts to make their menu more affordable and their share prices started tumbling and the CEO faced shareholder backlash for making the statements.

2 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 2

They are called 'white monkey' jobs. Basically companies hire white people to just hang out in their offices and look like employees because it makes their business look more legitimate to other Chinese people since Chinese people often stereotype white people in China as being high end professionals, business investors, etc.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

And it would only hamper ourselves (IE: the US/'the west'). China and the like aren't going to care and will carry on with the research/technology no holds barred. I know everyone on this site hates America, but most can agree the CCP shouldn't dominate the planet either.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How is it incredibly difficult to stop buying useless consumerist garbage? The amount of plastic used to wrap food, which yes, is hard for most to avoid, pales in comparison to the amount of plastic from just random consumerist junk. But apparently so-called 'environmentalists' absolutely can't live without their Baby Yoda merch, their new iPhone every year, their dozen deliveries from Amazon every week, their makeup, their umpteen different bottles of skin care products, etc.

2 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 1

The person I live with watches all those home improvement networks and so many of the shows on them have the worst audio mixing imaginable... I'll head out to the kitchen to get some food and can barely hear anything from their TV and then the upbeat music starts playing and its like a flashbang just went off and the house literally starts shaking.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He goes well beyond that, he unabashedly parrots Russian propaganda. He excuses the entire invasion and says Russia had no choice but to invade due to evil American imperialism. Go watch his interviews, it literally sounds like he is reading straight from a checklist of pro-Russia talking points produced by Russian state television.

2 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 4

The biggest and loudest group against getting rid of tipping is wait staff themselves... Because most of them make far more than they would otherwise. They just like to cry woe is me on top of that.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Probably actually overtook it over a decade ago. Various population studies/surveys have recently been suggesting China may be overestimating its population by 70-130 million people, most of whom would have been born during the one child policy era. The CCP provided additional funding to local governments for education based on how many kids they had, so for several decades various local governments across China exaggerated how many kids were being born to get more money.

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