GarbageShoot

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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I looked it up and it has the energy of a mirror world version of one of those "sjw owned" videos

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Socratic ignorance is still a type of knowledge

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

maybe the most pathetically loyal US client state in all of Europe,

ukkk

The dumbest American is 10x more curious about the world than the smartest German.

I could imagine this being true of other Anglophone states besides Ireland (which has some real Catholic morons, don't get me wrong, but also has some more intelligent people), but really? Germany? I suppose I have a prejudice because of German art, but I don't imagine the better among Germany as being nearly this dumb.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

fair enough (I did not mean due to dynastic rule)

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As others have mentioned in this thread, China had the potential to be the birthplace of capitalism but got slowed down by other factors like the Mongol Empire.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Wonder what a sundown town is then

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Availability of work animals gave much of Eurasia a significant edge compared to Africa (which generally only had access to them through Eurasia).

Idk how this applies to the Americas.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Telling people to vote" means essentially the same thing as "saying to people that they should vote", as opposed to "Telling people how to vote", which is informing them on the method without necessarily saying they should (though of course, why bother unless you think they should?)

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Policies like Medicare for All are popular with a majority of Americans, but aren't implemented because the parties in charge flatly refuse

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

All race issues except for systemic solutions to race issues or the economic basis of racial oppression.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

If I wanted to do chores every day, I would simply do work around the house

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