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Apparently we just need a fucking thread for Canada, because it sure wants to compete with Sweden for the title of "Most lolcow nation."
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There weren't even 15 million in the congo to be genocided. Do you think a bare bones agricultural society has the capacity to field 15 million people? The Congo is pretty big, but it's all jungle. I believe AT MOST around 10 million people lived in the Congo region at the time. Anything above that and the type of civilization you would be getting is very different, you're looking at at most a late feudal civilization or lowerWhy not? King Leopold II very likely killed upwards of 10 million people. That's certainly at least the same ballpark as the Holocaust.
There weren't even 15 million in the congo to be genocided. Do you think a bare bones agricultural society has the capacity to field 15 million people? The Congo is pretty big, but it's all jungle. I believe AT MOST around 10 million people lived in the Congo region at the time. Anything above that and the type of civilization you would be getting is very different, you're looking at at most a late feudal civilization or lower
The Belgian parliament was heavily against Leopold because the Congo was personal property of him and not the state. They had a vested interest in making it seem like he was a monster. So much for an unbiased source.The Belgian government's inquiry into Leopold's atrocities found that half the population perished before the Congo Free State was taken out of Leopold's hands. The first census taken of the Belgian Congo, in 1924, found there were 10 million people in the territory. I think you can do the math.
The only person who believed that was E.D. Morel, an activist whose literal job was to kick Belgium out of the Congo. Historians have referred to his numbers as "just a wild guess," or less charitably as "completely imaginary." Blood libels are meant to be sensational though, so it stuck.The Belgian government's inquiry into Leopold's atrocities found that half the population perished before the Congo Free State was taken out of Leopold's hands. The first census taken of the Belgian Congo, in 1924, found there were 10 million people in the territory. I think you can do the math.
The only person who believed that was E.D. Morel, an activist whose literal job was to kick Belgium out of the Congo. Historians have referred to his numbers as "just a wild guess," or less charitably as "completely imaginary." Blood libels are meant to be sensational though, so it stuck.
Calm down there. I don't think anyone here is saying Leopold didn't do some seriously bad shit. They're arguing that the numbers are likely overblown for political purposes.Which historians?
I'm happy to know that all those pictures of natives with their hands chopped off are simply "blood libels," though.
Jean Stengers and William Roger Louis, who collated E. D. Morel's notes and compiled a companion to his work on Congolese history. I'm not saying Leopold's colonial administrators didn't chop native's hands off, but 10 million is something nobody should believe.Which historians?
I'm happy to know that all those pictures of natives with their hands chopped off are simply "blood libels," though.
Social mobility only occurs in very few instances throughout history, and is the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, the social class you’re born into is likely the class you stay in (unless something happens). This meme makes no sense because it assumes this is capitalism’s fault, rather than an ongoing issue in any economic model. At least with capitalism there is a chance of upward social mobility, the same can’t be said for communism and socialism.
I mean, is it really a coup when only 4-5 states are letting them act like chimps?This. So much this.
You know how the Millennials and the Early Zoomers like to hate on the Boomers to the point that it's basically the generational equivalent of A-Logging?
The hatred the Late Zoomers and Alpha Gen will have for the Millennials/Early Zoomers is going to make the hatred of the Boomers look like deep reverent respect for their elders.
The Woke Left partly emerged because the Religious Right ruined the fun of many Millennials when they were kids. Given how more intense the SJW's have been and more successful than the Religious Right thanks to social media, if there is a backlash, it will be massive.
As god-awful the "Fuck You Dad!" views of the Woke Left is, the future Based Right's "Fuck You Mom!" views will be just as bad and cringe-inducing, if not moreso.
The Religious Right never tried to start a violent coup to create Gilead IRL, but the Woke Left has spent the last two months trying to create an IRL mishmash of Animal Farm and Wakanda but also filtered through a woke and insufferably pretentious punk rock veneer. If their coup fails badly enough, there will be a backlash and the pendulum will swing hard against them
This. So much this.
You know how the Millennials and the Early Zoomers like to hate on the Boomers to the point that it's basically the generational equivalent of A-Logging?
The hatred the Late Zoomers and Alpha Gen will have for the Millennials/Early Zoomers is going to make the hatred of the Boomers look like deep reverent respect for their elders.
The Woke Left partly emerged because the Religious Right ruined the fun of many Millennials when they were kids. Given how more intense the SJW's have been and more successful than the Religious Right thanks to social media, if there is a backlash, it will be massive.
As god-awful the "Fuck You Dad!" views of the Woke Left is, the future Based Right's "Fuck You Mom!" views will be just as bad and cringe-inducing, if not moreso.
The Religious Right never tried to start a violent coup to create Gilead IRL, but the Woke Left has spent the last two months trying to create an IRL mishmash of Animal Farm and Wakanda but also filtered through a woke and insufferably pretentious punk rock veneer. If their coup fails badly enough, there will be a backlash and the pendulum will swing hard against them
(Emphasis mine.)Social mobility only occurs in very few instances throughout history, and is the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, the social class you’re born into is likely the class you stay in (unless something happens). This meme makes no sense because it assumes this is capitalism’s fault, rather than an ongoing issue in any economic model. At least with capitalism there is a chance of upward social mobility, the same can’t be said for communism and socialism.
Yeah. The best way to give people a chance of social mobility is to have systems in place that let people have a roughly equal start off. So places like the Scandinavian countries where there’s high quality and cheap childcare and preschools for example do OK. Give everyone access to a decent start off, a decent healthcare system and decent education in a country with fair and transparent laws.Social mobility only occurs in very few instances throughout history, and is the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, the social class you’re born into is likely the class you stay in (unless something happens). This meme makes no sense because it assumes this is capitalism’s fault, rather than an ongoing issue in any economic model. At least with capitalism there is a chance of upward social mobility, the same can’t be said for communism and socialism.
Both require a musical sense and also Jazz quite often a sense of nuance. I don't see either being anything other than niche offerings in the world as currently constructed.This woman is here complaining about rap being popular. Meanwhile, Im here praying jazz and polka make resurgences.