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    I would view both the Islamic Jihads of the 8th - 13th centuries and the trope-naming Crusades as meeting the definition. After all, while the Crusaders may (correctly, afaik) have viewed it as liberating conquered regions, by the time they actually reached the Holy Land (even for the first...
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    A crusade can be best understood as an extended, multinational military campaign by adherents of a specific belief system to forcibly impose that belief system on non-believers. The Russian Civil war, the Soviet invasion and conquest of Eastern Europe, the Soviet crushing of reformers in...
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    A common mistake people make is to presume that 'Aid to X' is actually focused on helping 'X'. It normally is not. A lot of foreign aid, globally, is about subsidizing third world purchases of goods and services from richer countries. It boils down to a slush fund for the well connected...
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    Wow. I have not been keeping up with the academic left's descent into luddite insanity, clearly. 1. Math (as we understand the term today) is a mix of Bablylonian, Greek, Arabic, and Hindu contributions, with only calculus and post calculus actually coming from "white" people. 2. Last I...
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    Time-traveling ones, at that...
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    Of course it is. European appropriating (and misusing) Arab numerals, Greek theories, and Hindu proofs, scandalous! (We'll just elide over the rest of the world doing the same thing. Racism isn't racism when the melanin advantaged do it). Of course, by the same 'logic', all those non...
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    I think they did, just the wrong ones. I defy you to look at Rey-wars and tell me that was not the product of a fanfiction author mary-suing herself as Rey into the Star Wars Galaxy.
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    I remain fascinated by the mental disconnect of allegedly logical materialist "atheist" liberals claiming that transvestites can be born into the 'wrong' bodies because they are 'really' the opposite sex on some mystical level, while at the same time claiming that nothing outside the material...
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    Point of fact, pretty often slaves were paid. Roman slaves (the name-maker of 'slave') were often paid (very little) and there are numerous records of Roman slaves buying their or their children's freedom with their saved wages. Even in pre and post revolutionary USA, some slaves were paid...
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    if you think about it, inflation, and the fiat currencies that enable it, are the best things that ever happened to legislatures. What do legislatures like to do? Spend money on their constituents and campaign donors. What do legislatures hate to do? Raise taxes on their constituents and...
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    actually, Gringo very specifically means American (or, yanqui, or norteamericano, take your pick), with an implied (but not required) adjective of (anglo). It comes from a very specific bit of inadvertent US-Mexico cultural exchange during the Mexican-American war.
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    Well, again, you are making a claim, and not a logical argument. One has to wonder if you understand the argument as a conceptual and rhetorical framework. Here, allow me to offer you an example, so that you can do better next time. Question: Should we revoke women's suffrage? Position: We...
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    Utilitarian in the sense of making an argument based on what will benefit those to whom the argument is being made in an attempt to convince them to support the position argued for based on expected benefits to the person hearing the argument. I had thought that was obvious from context...
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    You may be having a translation issue, because you are making a moral argument, which is the opposite of a utilitarian/pragmatic argument.
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    Not as such. Remember there are two arguments for female suffrage. 1. The utilitarian argument - Women have concerns and an understanding of politics which will moderate the more violent and ruthless male approach to politics. This will result in fewer, shorter wars, less violence and...
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    I'm not sure why we're all supposed to be ok with killing children based on who their sperm donors were? I thought one of the points of the Enlightment was to move away from the notion of inherited guilt.
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    Yes, and? My point was the Woke alphabet behavior is insane and self destructive and driven by political extremism. The insane and self destructive behavior is idolizing and whitewashing people who want to kill them. Not seeing a contradiction. Oranges being orange doesn't mean that they...
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    Political extremism is a form of insanity that makes people act in stupid and self-destructive ways, who knew?
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    Thierry Breton - EU high commissioner for human rights - Post the Oct 8 demonstrations in Paris (what a coincidence) sent letters to X & Meta (along with other "VLOPs"), (specifically calling out Musk & Zuckerberg) demanding that they censor 'disinformation' posted on Meta & X. Apparently Mr...
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    Think of it as "turn about is fair play". Europe spent a good several hundred years telling most of the world how to act (still does, or at least tries to do so, in many ways*). Now the rest of the world gets to return the favor. The ones who have room to complain are the Irish, who never got...
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