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Shouldn't he be anti-Armenian?

appears Kanye West has lost his everloving mind and has slid into rampant genocidal antisemitism.

I used to think on balance the experience of places like Africa and India were net positive from the British Empire. I think if the British had recognized the folly of racism and their own hubris earlier, they might have had a much more productive relationship with the colonial states akin to the relationship they had with the "Dominions" such as Canada, Australia, NZ. But, because humans were involved they didn't see past those things.

There was significant difference between individual European empires. Belgium was terrible. It was truely the heart of darkness in the Congo. Germany was really bad, but in some ways good (their post-WWII treatment of former colonial areas was very good I'm told). France remains the colonial power in vast areas via soft power. The British areas were basically caught between the reformers, the capitalists, the missionaries and the modernizers. Oxford eggheads fighting with City bankers, the Debeers diamond interests and their ilk fighting with the Clappham sect (the reformist who organized for the end of the slave trade). The Boers were the worst because they had a religious zeal to their abuse of the Black Africans.

They seem nice

Yikes

The only problem with this metaphor is Russia burnt their home so Ukraine wouldn't have a home and so Russian soldiers could steal their washing machines and toilets because Ukrainians are not considered actual people.

I recommend our solution to COVID over China's solutions to COVID. Even though those thugs are responsible for the disease in the first place. The Western/civilized world has responded to the emergency correctly for the most part. It was the use of caution, guided by science and history. The Chinese on the other hand are consigning entire populations to lockdowns and quarantine prison camps for a single case.

Ugh...you guys.

that is an interesting mix. I guess I'd think Cinnci gives him the fastest route to success.

If you expose something to a Canadian it only makes it colder and drunk.

Damn, just as Trump....

Tennessee just came and went, didn't they? I guess losing an elite QB does that.

She was wearing a leather skirt!

Slightly older news...but welcome Not the Mike Lee nonsense. He's vile. Mitch finally lands on the correct answer after trying all the others for 6-7 years.

Here is the true meaning of Christmas...er, this thread's true purpose.

We will post only the sober and earnest In the "this is the crap we need to cleanup thread" sure thing.

I would bet you don't support granting Ukraine NATO or EU membership because it will complicate Russia's warmongering.

They do negotiate. They have regular prisoner exchanges. They have the grain deal.

And why should Ukraine stop now when Russia is a cardboard cutout of an Army waiting for the door to be kicked in this Spring? Why deny them their right to a victory?

Ignore? I'm sorry but nobody is ignoring the war crimes and egregious violations of international law.

There are certain major corruption issues: e.g., Brett Favre's welfare money. The idea that they would deviate money from athletics to hard science or things that could help humanity is ludicrous.

Weirdly, the ROTC officers I've worked with who graduated from that program have been pretty solid people. Otherwise you would think that any institution that followed their template would produce crack heads.

Fishsticks doesn't like college education for your kid