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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: I'm sick of young Americans obsessing over communism! |
| cyberdad |
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| Communism is more terrible even than capitalism. A balance of restrained capitalism with socialism would be most people's ideal I think, if they recognized the implications of such a system. The US government used the rise of communist Russia as an excuse to wage war on any form of civil dissension... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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| You understand the difference between 'this might be a good area for production' and 'this is demonstrated to be a significant producer', right? Posting a link that one can claim proves potential isn't the same as posting a link that proves it's actually happening on the scale you claimed. My point... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Palestinian DNA and others |
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| ^ Hard core fanatical Jews WANT Jews to be two things:1) descended from the Biblical Jews of Judea, and 2) racially separate from Palestinians and Arabs. No, although the Palestinians are "Arabs" in the sense of Arabic-speaking, they are to only a limited degree descended from the Arabs w... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Palestinian DNA and others |
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Misslizard wrote: My maternal DNA is 6.9% West Asian ,
Persian! do you have a penchant for filtered coffee and puffy cushions and soft rugs? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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Replies: 19
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Sigbold wrote: Funny enough if there was a better and more widespread understanding of this tradition, we might still see a new change in his appearance. But not to sooty pete's, but to a more non-human/ krampus-like figure.
So is Sooty Pete mean't to be a chimney sweep? |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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naturalplastic wrote: Or in your country of Australia ...mostly in the Temperate zone...but in the southern hemisphere when Christmas comes in the summer?
Yep, santa needs an air conditioned slay when he comes to Australia |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:03 pm
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| [ The original real St. Nicholas was an olive skinned guy from Turkey. They changed him before. They could change him again. :D And...nobody cares. The prototypical archetype for santa is a chubby northern European with a flowing white beard. Heck! even white jesus is burned into my memory banks |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:31 pm
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| They could go one way, or the other. Make both Santa and his helper...of undefined race. Or make Santa also be Black. And indeed someone posted a pic of Dutch parents and their kids interacting with a Dutch Father Christmas, that later dressed in full regalia (almost like the Pope), played by a Bla... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:29 pm
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| :roll: In terms of production, Afghanistan would be the major producer of cannabis resin in the world . This is principally due to the high resin yields measured in Afghanistan (145 kg/ha), which are four times higher than in Morocco (36 kg/ha measured in 2005), where cannabis resin is also produced... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The Palestinian DNA and others |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:22 pm
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| Wasn't sure the direction of knowing Palestinian DNA was going, But becomes apparent. For indigenous claims to the land, the modern Palestinians want to claim connection to the ancient Philistines (who predated the arrival of the Jews from their ancient ancestral home in Sumer). According to the vid... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:01 pm
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| Given what Israel has put them through, it's not shocking in the slightest. You'd feel the same way if you were in their shoes. How about the many people subjected to slavery and colonisation all over the world? They all suffer intergenerational trauma loss of land and are subject to dehumanising d... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:49 pm
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| They all need to smoke more hashish Most of the world's crop is grown by the Taliban, Burmese army and Al Qaeda. Source? It's not like any of the legal markets allow for importation of cannabis products produced in Afghanistan, but also Afghanistan is known for opium (and meth, as of recent), much ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:35 pm
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| Perhaps one of the helpers could be black, but be played by an actual black person instead of a white person wearing (exaggerated, caricaturish) blackface? It seems to me that a non-caricatured multi-racial set of helpers, perhaps with an actual black person as second-in-command, might perhaps be t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Openly Racist Professor still tenured after 23 years |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:44 am
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| There is currently an ongoing legal battle to sack an openly racist female law professor, Amy Wax from Penn State University. The case has been held up due to Wax launching her own grievance against the Dean of Law at Penn State. https://www.vox.com/23592864/amy-wax-university-of-pennsylvania-racism... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Soon you will be rooting FOR the Taliban. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:41 am
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Misslizard wrote: They all need to smoke more hashish
Most of the world's crop is grown by the Taliban, Burmese army and Al Qaeda. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Zwarte Piet |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:37 am
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| In 1850, the Amsterdam-based primary school teacher Jan Schenkman published the book Sint Nikolaas en zijn Knecht ("Saint Nicholas and his Servant" in English). It is widely considered the first time a servant character was included in a printed version of the Saint Nicholas narrative. The... |
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