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John Larkin
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On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 13:00:03 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
Slavery was universal all over the world through recorded history.
What\'s remarkable about England and the USA is not that they had
slaves, but that they abolished slavery.
Are kids taught that?
Great movie, Belle.
https://www.amazon.com/Belle-Blu-ray-Gugu-Mbatha-Raw/dp/B00KO10QH2
My Irish ancestors were essentially slaves. Most people were, before
the Black Death shook things up.
--
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon
On 2/22/2022 12:35 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:23:11 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
On 2/22/2022 12:01 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 16:51:27 GMT, Jan Panteltje
pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:15:39 -0800) it happened
jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote in
oev91h9ke0vp38obuv8bsbtbfok99dpleo@4ax.com>:
Is it a crime there to assault a burgler in your house?
Well, we have been joking about that as no, you should welcome those burglars.
Problem is if you permanently disable one chances are you get sued
for using disproportional force or something.
I think its better now, but shooting one if you have no gun license may get you into big trouble.
OTOH its a lot of meat for in the deep freezer although I do not consume earthlings myself
bad for your health, way too fat.
Just had some fresh potato chips from the duplicator...
Fixed my sat dish this morning, now the wind is down, wedge bolt pulled out of the wall by the storm!
Anyways it now aligned again, can see Russia RT, people in the areas that Russia now supports as peace-keeper
celebrating and having fireworks.
US imperialism and weapon stuffing (and UK) to Ukrain is evil.
So many lies, just like weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
biden is a monster, just like his predecessor Bil Clignon was making war in Europe.
We have Joe for three, or barely possibly 7 more years, but the
Russians have Putin for life.
Lust for territory is really weird. Germany, Japan, USSR, China. Makes
little sense.
The US bought the Louisiana territory and Alaska for about 2.6 billion
and 100 million in modern dollars, respectively. Some believe these
territories weren\'t really France or Russia\'s property to sell in the
first place...
Right. Who owns a hunk of territory?
For the bulk of the continental US it MIGHT BE argued it was the Native
Americans, but their concept of \"ownership of land\" was likely much more
vague than Europeans initially.
Sort of an annoying thing to own when you think about it as compared to
stuff like precious metals, say, land is very heavy, not easy to take
any where. Paper dollars are even more convenient
I guess the only workable answer is, the people who live there.
The Federalist party was very much opposed to the Louisiana purchase
because besides just detesting Jefferson they figured it would lead to
strife between new western states and the original colonies, and
potentially a civil war between slave states and free states.
Which in hindsight is basically what happened. Freedom-loving
slave-owner Jefferson still carried a lot of clout at that time and
their objections were overruled. The Federalists were also taken aback a
Constitutionalist like Jefferson figured he had the power to broker
deals like that, but he was more of a Constitutionalist before he was
President.
That Jefferson was something of a big hypocrite is the kind of thing
freedom of speech-lovers seem to not particularly want American kids
being taught in schools under the heading of the \"CRT\" (which is hard
for me not to think stands for a course about obsolete display technology.)
I think this is odd considering a large fraction of the (white)
Americans most opposed to this being taught likely have no family
history of e.g. slave-ownership in the first place. Many of my New
England ancestors were here before the United States and owned slaves in
the 1700s as was common at the time.
Slavery was universal all over the world through recorded history.
What\'s remarkable about England and the USA is not that they had
slaves, but that they abolished slavery.
Are kids taught that?
Great movie, Belle.
https://www.amazon.com/Belle-Blu-ray-Gugu-Mbatha-Raw/dp/B00KO10QH2
My Irish ancestors were essentially slaves. Most people were, before
the Black Death shook things up.
--
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end with doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon