Location: HAMPSTEAD
Posts: 1,156
I'm brian.
Isn't it common sense to use what funds are necessary and then spread whats left to more useful concerns?
Oh hang on I'm shooting myself in the foot here.
Common sense doesn't exist anymore in politics, plus the 2 opposing party ethos wouldn't allow spending less would it?
I think I've shot myself in both feet.
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That sounds familiar. I had someone trying to tell me that the British introduced opium to China and got all the Chinese addicted to it. Obviously prior to the nasty British getting involved China was like some sort of nirvana or Eden.
And this wasn't a Chinese feller telling me this but a British person who clearly hates his own country so much he's prepared to believe any old nonsense he's told about it. He wants to believe. I didn't bother arguing, what's the point?
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Location: Manchester
Posts: 359
I'm John.
There are significant numbers of people who believe that Europe started the African slave trade. They are completely unaware that Africans were enslaving Africans long before we got involved and long after we abolished it. Still goes on in Africa today.
I agree about modern social justice warriors. Their enraged and ludicrous fanaticism is like nothing I've seen before, or certainly not on the scale we see it today.
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
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Location: HAMPSTEAD
Posts: 1,156
I'm brian.
The population of North America didn’t reach 100 million until the 1930’s! And look at the density of population at that time, with many cities having more than a million residence. The height of the Mayan and Aztec civilizations were before they ever saw a white man, their cultures were already on the decline when the Spanish first came to South America, and diseases like Smallpox killed the majority of all Native Americans before they ever knew a white man existed. But the consensus on this Native American Facebook Group is that white people purposely spread these diseases to kill them off, funny that no one knew what a germ was or how they spread, and believed illness was God’s punishment in those days. By the time England and France started to colonize the mainland of North America, indigenous people were very few. And while we did war with Western waring tribes like the Cherokee, most of the eastern, and even West Coast Indians were assimilated into white society. They are bread into most Americans, including myself, my grandmother was an Indian, and my great grandmother was an Indian.
I’ve thought recently that if everyone had one of these DNA tests to tell who our ancestors were, especially here in America, everyone would be shocked to find out that we are all a little Indian, black, white, Latino, and even oriental.
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