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(From the thread Pope again stresses 'dialogue' with other religions as video depicts all as equalquote:To: Faith Presses On quote:To: Faith Presses On much?
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Radish posted:LOL at the guy that inferred counting slaves as one person for the purposes of representation was benevolent. "We want them to count towards population total, but letting them vote? gently caress THAT NOISE." They wanted it because they knew it'd balloon their totals in the House of Representatives, nothing more. ForeverBWFC posted:(From the thread Pope again stresses 'dialogue' with other religions as video depicts all as equal I'm reminded of the guy from Kingdom of Heaven that Balian encounters on his way to the Holy Land. "To kill an infidel is not murder! It is the path to Heaven!" Say what you want about Ridley Scott or Orlando Bloom, but that movie does a very good job capturing the "our way or the loving highway" attitude Christians of the time had, and the way that the con artists among them exploited fear and racism to get what they wanted. Fritz Coldcockin fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Crabtree posted:Yeah, the three fifths a person for every slave was all about appeasing the yankee aggressor and not adding more gerrymandered votes to an already corrupt government where certain states were in the pockets of very wealthy slave owners. God do I love to STILL see people continue to perpetuate Lost Cause bullshit in thinking the South was economically weaker to the North when they had A loving SLAVE SYSTEM. No matter how terrible Irish Immigrants or Kids in Factories were treated by your most Charles Dickensian Northern Captain of Industry, they would never be able to compete with an economy that doesn't have to pay their workers jack poo poo. It wasn't so long ago that Historians the world over believed every part of this unfounded nonsense until actual economists and not southern apologists started to actually dig through the numbers and see that the rebellion of the South wasn't a bunch of poor farmers against the rich factories of the North, it was a small number of very wealthy land owners playing off states rights pride to try and carve out their own country that would let them profit even more off of Slavery and guarantee it stays in the south forever. And no matter how much Sherman may have burned the south, the most damaging thing to the Southern economy was all of the potential male workers leaving to fight the war AKA their own self inflicted stupidity. You can't have an agrarian society without a lot of farmers to till their fields or manage your slave population, jackass! I still love how the South assumed that Britain would support them, but Britain had a huge problem with Slavery and realized they could get their cotton from India.
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WaPo (Op-Ed): Ted Cruz Not Eligiblequote:I'll only comment on the hypocrisy in the mainstream media, which has treated the Cruz issue seriously with well-researched articles and published opinions from learned scholars of constitutional law, whereas with Obama it was strictly ridicule. But the fact remains, Cruz isn't eligible. quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall; All quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: moehoward quote:To: KC_Lion quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: cloudmountain quote:To: DannyTN quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Responsibility2nd quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: Behind the Blue Wall quote:To: eastforker; Behind the Blue Wall; Norm Lenhart That's just from the first 50 of 175 (and counting) posts. This could get bad enough for a 2008 style purge, if jrob ever comes down hard for one of the candidates. Fuck You And Diebold fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:WaPo (Op-Ed): Ted Cruz Not Eligible
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Oh man, we haven't even started voting yet and they're already having a civil war on freep. This is somehow going to be even more fun than the last two and those were hilarious. edit kik2dagroin posted:Rachel Carson (author of "Silent Spring" which resulted in the DDT ban and is used as a form of population control): 60-80 MILLION deaths and rising every year Wait, what? I get being upset with Sanger, but Carson? That's like being upset with the person that banned lead paint. Sir Tonk fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Sir Tonk posted:Wait, what? Environmentalism is just a secret communist plot to kill all real Americans with malaria
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 21:39 |
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Malaria does kill a lot of people, but I wouldn't think most of them 'counted' to freep
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:Malaria does kill a lot of people, but I wouldn't think most of them 'counted' to freep Please, they respect them by using the whole of those they harm for their political gain
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# ? Jan 12, 2016 22:03 |
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Now let me tell you how Planned Parenthood is history's greatest monster because of all those adorable little black babies they've heartlessly butchered.
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Sir Tonk posted:Oh man, we haven't even started voting yet and they're already having a civil war on freep. This is somehow going to be even more fun than the last two and those were hilarious. the critique is banning ddt has killed people via preventable illness and the benefits of the ban do not outweigh the harms these people are massively inflating the potential harm and are morons
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They forgot one from that list Fritz Haber: Nazi, inventor of artificial fertilizer, reason that 2+ billion people are alive today (also a bad person) I guess this puts atheists in front if you're willing to count weird neo-pagans as atheists!
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Haber was a Jew who was exiled from Nazi Germany. He did a lot of work in chemical weapons though, so he probably has a spot at the bad person table.
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The only pro-DDT argument that holds water is that if we would have just waited a little longer before banning it, we might have totally eliminated bedbugs (it's too late now though)
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Alter Ego posted:
I'd be wary of taking much of anything from that movie as good history and especially wary of using terms like racism for an event that vastly predates what we think of as racism.
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The US banned DDT in 1972... Eight years after Rachel Carson died. Man she's good. And it was banned for only agricultural use. People in Africa can and still do use it for malaria, while we in the US have progressed since DDT was first introduced in the 30s. Although its use is creating DDT-resistant mosquitoes, which is always fun. After I heard about this originally and stopped laughing at the irony, I thought about why Rachel Carson isn't held up atop a great mountain of Conservatives (from Wikipedia, although I first heard it elsewhere): quote:... the US ban on DDT is cited by scientists as a major factor in the comeback of the bald eagle (the national bird of the United States)...
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# ? Jan 13, 2016 00:32 |
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quote:The only countries that will survive the invasion are those who rely heavily on their Christian roots, like Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Ooh, got some bad news for you there, chief...
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Ooh, got some bad news for you there, chief... I assume he just meant Slovakia, that juggernaut of financial and military power? Or he's not aware the Czech are the most atheist people outside of Scandinavia?
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So apparently two small USN patrol boats had mechanical problems near Iranian waters earlier today. They drifted into Iran's territory and 10 U.S. sailors got taken into custody. Iran held them until they were able to determine it really was just a problem with the boats. They're going to meet up to return the sailors to a U.S. ship, probably tomorrow. I'm sure Freep isn't going to overreact at all. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3382902/posts quote:Iran could kill all those hostages and nothing would happen to them from this bunch. WHY DIDN'T WE SHOOT SOMEONE IN THEIR OWN HOME??? quote:This is serious BS. quote:Jimmy Carter = Iran hostage situation.
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DeusExMachinima posted:So apparently two small USN patrol boats had mechanical problems near Iranian waters earlier today. They drifted into Iran's territory and 10 U.S. sailors got taken into custody. Iran held them until they were able to determine it really was just a problem with the boats. They're going to meet up to return the sailors to a U.S. ship, probably tomorrow. Ah yes, what better example of straight and honest dealings in the middle east than old Ronnie Reagan
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And yes surely after all the effort they've put into getting out of the poo poo and restoring trade relations with the west Iran's going to say 'nah let's take these dudes hostage'.
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Epic High Five posted:Ah yes, what better example of straight and honest dealings in the middle east than old Ronnie Reagan Gotta admit though, dude was killer at
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Feinne posted:And yes surely after all the effort they've put into getting out of the poo poo and restoring trade relations with the west Iran's going to say 'nah let's take these dudes hostage'. This is a chance for Iran to commit evil against the United States, Islam's number one reason for being.
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Guavanaut posted:Haber was a Jew who was exiled from Nazi Germany. He did a lot of work in chemical weapons though, so he probably has a spot at the bad person table. He was so dedicated to developing chemical weapons that it drove his wife to suicide, and he didn't even pause his work. I don't have a hard time calling him a terrible person.
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Cape Cod Crab Chip posted:This is a chance for Iran to commit evil against the United States, Islam's number one reason for being. No, no, no - Iran will free the hostages, because why would they want to harm their fellow Islamite, 0bamalamadingd0ngallzeroshessuchaloserfuckhimfuckhimfuckhimfuckhimnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggeeeerrrrrbama
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We will not rest until every soldier is brought homewait he brought some home? Well they're traitors, draw and quarter them immediately.
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DrProsek posted:We will not rest until every soldier is brought homewait he brought some home? Well they're traitors, draw and quarter them immediately. "Give us our soldiers back so we can kill them ourselves!" sounds pretty out of context.
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DeusExMachinima posted:WHY DIDN'T WE SHOOT SOMEONE IN THEIR OWN HOME??? Is he seriously wondering why the US soldiers did not suddenly open fire on an Iranian rescue craft that they sent for? What is wrong with these people's brains.
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Live Thread: 2016 State of the Union Address (9 p.m. EST 1/12/16) Followed by GOP at 10 p.m. I am picking up at the point of the Republican quote:To: TornadoAlley3 quote:To: Impy Note how quickly the conversation turns racist quote:To: Windcatcher quote:To: mylife quote:To: Clint N. Suhks quote:To: advertising guy quote:To: dandiegirl; wardaddy; Salamander quote:To: Pelham quote:To: warsaw44 quote:To: Pelham quote:To: warsaw44 quote:To: Pelham quote:To: warsaw44
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The world would be so much better if more Freepers would say "Didn't realize that. Thanks" more often. You know, like when objective reality is presented to them.
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Elephant Ambush posted:The world would be so much better if more Freepers would say "Didn't realize that. Thanks" more often. You know, like when objective reality is presented to them. You correct, but this thread would not likely exist if your wish was reality.
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Bait and Swatch posted:You correct, but this thread would not likely exist if your wish was reality. I'll take that trade. Plus there's always more wackos to make fun of somewhere else.
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Their topics about the Iran story are hilarious given how much they wanted a repeat of what happened to Carter. Instead the whole thing was over before most people had even heard of it.
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Pfft real presidents get people out of Iran with weapons deals.
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Uhh excuse me Saint Ron got those hostages back just by taking his shirt off and flexing in the direction of Iran like MY COP HUSBAND Vladamir Putin would do how dare you imply anything else.
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bobkatt013 posted:I still love how the South assumed that Britain would support them, but Britain had a huge problem with Slavery and realized they could get their cotton from India. I've been digging into local history and I understand why the belief was widespread at least. The areas that agitated longest and hardest for secession (I.E the areas around Savannah & Charleston) had a strain of luxury cotton that was like ten times the value per pound. So their sense of King Cotton's worth was as inflated as the prices. Of course the irony is that eight months into the war the Union steams into this area basically unopposed and the slaveowners run the gently caress away. The Union sets up shop and seizes the plantations, sells them to the freedmen and gives them guns and education, and African Americans keep political office for a full fifty years after the Civil War. The Sea Island Experiment is a fun "what-if", and I'm glad I've seen it in some history textbooks
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bobkatt013 posted:I still love how the South assumed that Britain would support them, but Britain had a huge problem with Slavery and realized they could get their cotton from India. It's funny because the British DID support them, just not to the extent they needed. They bought millions in Confederate bonds (I have a sheet on my wall) but wouldn't give any material support because of the whole, you know, slavery thing. Years after the war Britain tried to come back to the US and redeem the bonds and America laughed until it was covered in drool.
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Funny thing is if he had still been alive Lincoln might have actually pushed for honoring the bonds since he really kinda wanted to 'no harm no foul' the whole thing as much as possible.
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A lot of the British establishment was very supportive of the CSA, if only because it would have been in the UK's best geopoliticial interest if the rising superpower of the USA was split into two separate countries, each at the others' throat. This is why the Emancipation Proclamation was so important. Once Lincoln turned the conflict into a fight to end slavery, it became very hard for the (liberal, abolitionist, anti-slavery) UK to support the CSA.
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Jeb Bush Passes Marco Rubio, Moves Into Third Nationallyquote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: Sybeck1 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: TheConservator quote:To: manc quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: jimbo123 quote:To: Sybeck1 quote:To: jimbo123
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