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Do you ever actually research things? The Assyrians were displaced by ISIS, AFAIK the US never bombed the Assyrians in any way, rather, they attacked those who displaced them in the region when we moved against ISIS.

It was when the Assyrians got displaced that I had to do a double take personally. It's not every day you find out that an ancient fallen BRONZE AGE empire has descendants that still use their name.

To put this into perspective, roughly 10-15% of the male population is left-handed. It's one of the largest minorities as far as population goes, one that has a history of persecution and suppression against it, AND there's actual dangers involved being left-handed that show notable increase in...

I have to take exception to the Hunley being on there, nobody involved considered it a superweapon nor anything more than a prototype and experimental proof of concept. Further unlike the others the Hunley actually has a place in the history of the development of military technology considering...

This is... inaccurate. Many of these things, especially the Athletics and Communications area overlap each other and existed within Slow Traditional Cultures. I mean, most people didn't participate in sports historically with the vast majority either watching and/or gambling on sports events...

Or, you know, I could be using that as one quick example for websites I have literally read for DECADES and so know the general ideological leanings and influence of. National Review is very explicitly a Fusionist Conservative journal. You do know what the "Fusion" is for Fusionists right...

Replace "Conservatives" with "Republican establishment" and it's more accurate. Actual Conservatives are pretty heavily divided on reform vs abolish at this point, and the division isn't between more libertarian influenced conservatives and more libertarian influenced conservatives, it's...

No, members of the GI Generation, mostly women and certain kinds of men, set the intellectuals foundations for everything that plague us today. It wasn't Boomers who developed Critical theory, Post Modernism, etc., it was members of the GI Generation and earlier who then indoctrinated the...

This is why I reject the idea of "no enemies to the right" that much of the Next Gen Right seems to be pushing. I agree that Republicans and the Right in general have been much to willing to turn into a circular firing squad, but given how frequently actual malicious ideologies have pretended...

Just so folks understand how ridiculous New York tobacco taxes are. New York state, this year, adds ~$4.35 per pack, which makes a pack of 20 cigarettes cost $10.45 on average (there's obviously going to be some variance based on brand, etc.). How high is this? It's highest in the country...

No, Hentai. Mother/Son incest isn't a common anime trope, it's only common in hentai which is explicitly porn, and, well, it's a pretty common trope in western porn too. So too much porn.

And you're doing that collectivist thing. You're treating all police as a single category, and perhaps that's accurate in some countries. But in the US it's not. Police work is highly HIGHLY localized, at minimum to a State but often even further down to county and town levels. What this...

Look, I get where the feeling is coming from, but there really are times where the police are acting in good faith for public safety and generally speaking 90% of most people's interaction with cops will be involving cars and traffic stuff where a cop issuing an order is either because said...

Before the latter 20th century famine was common across the entire world though, it wasn't until the advent of the modern industrial Agricultural farming methods in the later half of the 20th century that we really made famines not a thing of production issues, but of distribution/governmental...

I understand it's hard to believe, but in the late 18th century, among many of the Virginia elite slavery was seen as a "necessary Evil", one they had inherited and couldn't just do away with without causing more harm to both the slaves and themselves than continuing slavery would do*, and they...

So the First Families of Virginia are a regional thing specific to Virginia. They were in the colonial and early Republic, the landed elite / gentry of Virginia and modeled somewhat on English Aristocracy. Because of this some were members of the Founding Fathers and Framers as they were the...

Firstly, I'm not aware of any Muslim population of the US or in the colonial period enough to be called a "community" until well into the 20th century. There may have been random Muslims here or there, but for the most part the early US was drawn from three main populations: Northern European...

Yeah, that's fine and I hope you feel better. It seems we're working from different definitions of "Capitalism", and that might be why you arrive at a different conclusion. If we're defining Capitalism most broadly, that is, an environment where people own their labor and things and may...

No it's not? Capitalism, as most simply defined, is the state of nature. People have thing they have (own) and they can choose to use those things to exchange with others people things they have (barter). Money is just a universal thing people want in order to facilitate trade. I mean, the...

Umm... no? As recently as the 19th century this was the norm, especially in America. In the 18th century America this was even stated explicitly: "...what is the militia? It is the whole people except for a few public officials." Militias were common across the entire US, with all men above...