They need to start waking up and buying guns.

Women need to stop choosing to be alone.

And start choosing to keep around women friends, and we’ll-armed.

These pieces of genetic filth don’t believe no is a valid answer.

I would agree with this completely.

Except, for 200 years, the south has only ever focused on racism, cruelty and evil, they have never cared about anything else and have been perfect single-issue voters in that regard.

I suggest we deal with them first, as with them in play democracy is effectively impossible.

That is their great fear, the loss of their most critical pawn, which is why after the Civil War the country suddenly sprung forward to become the greatest on the planet, and the progressive movement surged to improve the welfare of everyone.

The mistake was helping the south with the TVA, giving them the political power to hijack the rest of the country and drive us down their dark, destructive nightmare path.

I am not white. I moved there from the Midwest. I assumed it was basically the same.

It is INFINITELY WORSE than you can imagine.

They are monsters, it begins with economic problems, but the core of absolute and unreasoning hate is impossible to comprehend, reinforced by the most prideful arrogance beyond that which one could think possible.

I desperately managed to escape to the coasts, but they followed me, so I escaped to Europe.

They inspired the nazis (Hitler cited them in Mein Kampf as the model Germany must follow, the Nuremberg laws are copied almost verbatim) and black GIs came back from liberating Europe to be lynched for being “uppity”.

The BEST case scenario is a civil war, because we are being destroyed in the uncivil peace.

It has some wobbly bits, but it really exposes the most powerful parts of linux.

And it’s still somehow more user friendly than basically anything else in linux. Or windows for that matter.

I hate, hate, HATE GTK.

Sorry, it’s visceral, can’t stand using GTK apps, but really hate the framework, it is just so badly hacked together, and QT spoiled me forever.

Need to build one again, this time with a python wrapper, wrote one for VLC and it’s spoiled me too.

Used to work on WebKit, built my own browser for a while, but damn if they kept breaking qt/WebKit all the damn time.

So, I love Debian, and it’s an excellent distro.

But personally something like suse makes more sense, it’s more user friendly and is so German it’s painful.

Trump said schools can meet his political demands or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding.

This is the second time in American history that this threat was made.

The first time was when schools were demanded to desegregate or lose all federal funding.

Turns out some people learn from history after all, so get used to seeing every school of the south named after a confederate general.

Fox News coverage of the event:

We were in this position before, a period of even greater division, even to the point of violence.

Our mistake was not teaching the fascist confederates the price of evil.

With the able and eager assistance of their dearest allies, the Dixiecrats desperate to restore Jim Crow.

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Thank you for making my day brighter :)

Baylan Skoll played by Ray Stevenson who died just after season 1 started airing.

Not unless it was weird or something.

Violent offense?

Probably not, unless I thought he might hurt another person who was innocent. Then I’d have to think about it.

Maybe an exception for like a mass shooting, I think I might turn them in for everyone’s safety, because if the cops found them on their own things might get bad. Hard part is working out how to do it safely.

If it was a one -off and the victim deserved it? I have no idea what you’re talking about.

'lost" as in died irl.

I think then by inference you have to give me the rule of law.

They have the westminster system, something they could never have had under their local elites.

Everything else I concede as circumstantial at best.

The only real improvement in the process of conquest is that the Brits were no longer interested in slavery by the time they took a keen interest in India in the 19th century.

That’s a gentle way to put it.

The British ended the global slave trade, and enforced it via the Royal Navy.f

but I struggle to think of anything ‘basic’ that the Brits actually introduced to India en masse.

Steam locomotives?

Fine, feel free to take back some of the argument, however, the brute force of British colonialism had, imho, an excellent destabilizing influence on millennia of the caste system’s stranglehold on Indian culture.

I think India was so infinitely hidebound to its traditions, much like China and Russia were, and the enforced change had much of the same revolutionary effects that the communist revolutions had on the latter.

Sometimes change is needed, and imperialism brought beneficial changes I doubt we would have seen otherwise, as the cultural inertia was, and remains to this day, quite powerful.

Its not that I’m looking at colonialism with rose colored glasses.

I’m looking at pre’colonial civilizations with clear vision, and BTW, most of those were colonial or imperial too.

My subcontinent was colonized by the Muslims, here’s how that went:

All day Thursday and throughout the night, nearly fifteen thousand Turks were engaged in slaying, plundering, and destroying.

When Friday morning dawned, my entire army, no longer under control, went off to the city and thought of nothing but killing, plundering, and making prisoners. The sack was general during the whole day, and continued throughout the following day, Saturday, the seventeenth (Dec. 27), the spoil being so great that each man secured from fifty to a hundred prisoners, men, women, and children, while no soldier took less than twenty. There was likewise an immense booty in rubies, diamonds, garnets, pearls, and other gems; jewels of gold and silver; gold and silver money of the celebrated Alai coinage; vessels of gold and silver; and brocades and silks of great value. Gold and silver ornaments of the Hindu women were obtained in such quantities as to exceed all account. Excepting the quarter of the Sayyids, the scholars, and the other Mussulmans, the whole city was sacked. The pen of fate had written down this destiny for the people of this city, and although I was desirous of sparing them, I could not succeed, for it was the will of God that this calamity should befall the city.

https://ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson5/chapter09.html

100k dead, million enslaved, in days. Centuries of brutal rule where Hindus were livestock with no protection of law.

We have a lot of hate for colonialism because the ones who lost were the rich and powerful, my family were high caste, and I can tell you they were mostly entitled monsters and the world is better off with them losing power.

The rule of law is not an Asian concept, I am grateful for its existanfe, and weep at its waning influence.

Ask the taliban about whether they should get more of their stuff back.

Also how are those statues doing.

Sometimes there is an objective right and wrong that doesn’t align with your mindless idealism because many people on this planet aren’t innocent and are actually assholes.