I'm just glad Bill Maher is willing to have Nazis like Ben Shapiro on his show, trusting that his audience won't get radicalized into White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism hearing the little pipsqueak hypertalk.
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Terthna
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Fat chance of that ever happening; his audience is even more entrenched in regressive leftist ideology than he is. I think the only reason he has people like Ben Shapiro on his show, is because he keeps thinking he's giving them enough rope to hang themselves with; when in reality, they almost always embarrass him by exposing his complete lack of knowledge on just about every topic.
f1onagher
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Bill is pretty contemptuous of his clapping seals.
Go to 30 seconds where he has to explain to the crowd that he's being sarcastic about hunting down Olympics personnel for being bad.
Maher's like a lot of older liberals. He thought he was helping to usher in an age of enlightenment back in his prime and doggedly holds to the delusion that most of his fellow travelers aren't really as crazy as they seem to be. The concept of lying in the bed he made doesn't come up.
A Buzzfeed News Investigation revealed the famous fact checking website Snopes and its co-founder/CEO David Mikkelson plagiarized over fifty articles between 2015 and 2019 under a pseudonym.
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Terthna
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Let's have some Fox News cringe, just as a change of pace:
I'm sorry, but ending human sacrifices by killing hundreds of thousands, and enslaving the rest, seems like a net loss to me in terms of legacy; especially considering the Spanish Conquistadors were only ever interested in enriching themselves.
I'm sorry, but ending human sacrifices by killing hundreds of thousands, and enslaving the rest, seems like a net loss to me in terms of legacy; especially considering the Spanish Conquistadors were only ever interested in enriching themselves.
History can often be summed up with the words "We did a horrible thing to prevent something much much worse from occurring."
Terthna
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And the rest of the time, it can be summed up with "We wanted their stuff, so we did horrible things to them until we got it."
I suggest you do more research into this. While the Spanish may have come looking for gold, the ending of human sacrifice was not a happy accident - the Spanish were quite disgusted at the practice and did take deliberate steps to eradicate it. It had no relation to wanting the gold.
Terthna
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I am well aware of that; but at the same time, the only reason they were there in the first place was for the gold. It's not like they went there with the intention of ending the practice of human sacrifice; and in any event, they clearly had no issue enslaving the few surviving natives to mine gold for them afterwards.
Walk over corpses or perish by the hands of those willing to. That's how things tend to be.
MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid has an excellent take on the ongoing situation in Afghanistan.
"Culture Writer" Roslyn Talusan of the AV Club, Vice Media and the feminist website BITCH MEDIA has discovered that there's White people culturally appropriating Asian cooking. In this case, White Female Chef Pippa Middlehurst had the AUDACITY to write a cookbook titled "Dumplings and Noodles."
Love the comments and ratio of course.
Love the comments and ratio of course.
Doomsought
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is it wrong for me to want that type of person to enjoy an authentic street vendor meal cooked with gutter oil?
Also, dumplings and noodles are hardly exclusive to China. Dumplings are literally just "boiled dough" when you get down to it, and that's hardly a complicated thing to figure out; I mean, look at the list of dumpling variations around the world. Noodles are in a similar situation, appearing to have been invented multiple times in different locations in the world.
Seriously, one could argue it's MORE racists to assume that all noodles and dumplings originated in East Asian cooking...
... for a moment, I thought YOU wanted to enjoy an authentic meal with gutter oil.
bintananth
behind a desk
I'd be amused if someone were to claim that all beef-and-potato dishes are cultural appropriations of whatever came way before the Inca Empire (or metalworking) was a thing in Andes Mountains.
Yes, potatos (and tomatos) were first cultivated there and didn't reach Europe until the Spanish showed up and brought them home.
I can assure you that a massive baked potato smothered in shredded cheddar cheese, butter, sour cream, chives, onions, an very spicy beef chilli is something an Inca chef would not have been able to prepare due to lack of ingredients (specifically: practically everything but the potatos, tomatos, and salt).
Mimas
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So true.
We have a family recipe for egg noodles that's been passed down since before my family immigrated to the US. It consists of: eggs+flour. Mix and let air dry in strips of desired thickness.
There's... Not a lot to figure out there. Science has plenty examples of multiple people independently discovering the same things. I wouldn't be surprised to find out noodles were one of them.