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Many good answers to the race baiting idiocy, but this one made me laugh out loud. Well done! As for me: moms side comes from Denmark- supposedly there’s an illegitimate heir in there somewhere... not sure it’s ever been proven, but it’s believed by those who have done research. No clue on my dads side. Just realized the other day that I haven’t ever thought of it/ haven’t heard about it. European, but not sure what. Wife’s family is Irish and Scottish.

Sweet. Now do historical record. I don’t want us to go too far down this rabbit hole in this thread, so I’ll leave it at this: if you find the absence of archaeological evidence enough to counter thousands of years of historical record (biblical and not) that’s fine. Help yourself.

I’m fine with people not taking the OT as gospel (excuse my pun) but it seems to me (and I may be wrong) it was universally accepted until a few years ago and all ancient histories point to Jewish slaves in Egypt? Can you explain how every ancient history is wrong while carbon dating (which is a science full of assumptions) is right? When we change history, the litmus of proof is on the new view. Maybe I’m crazy, but carbon dating doesn’t do it for me.

There’s a big push in academia to re-write the history of who built the pyramids and remove the Jewish slave portion of their history. Came up in a PPP discussion briefly, and I won’t get into it, but my favorite discovery in reading up on it was History.com writing an article about how it’s now believed Jewish slaves weren’t the builders of the pyramids, quoting an ancient historian for a random fact about the pyramids, and ignoring that said historian specifically said that they were built by Jewish slaves. not to digress, but that’s where academia is at when it comes to “re-writing” narratives.

Mmkay Pumpkin.

Let me explain two things that you’ll never be able to understand: 1- someone being able to honestly assess what Trump has done, and determine without emotion if it’s good or bad, is not a “Trump supporter”. It’s called being a rational human. I can say wholeheartedly that there’s much about Trump I don’t like, but there’s also much I do like. For a TDSer like you whose so high on Orangemanbad he’s frothing at the mouth, you likely won’t understand what intellectual honesty looks like. 2- I can insult you with absolutely no emotional investment.

Breaking news: local idiot learns how to spell SATs.

Yep. There was a huge push by Democrats and never-trumper Republicans to get electors to jump ship and choose anyone but trump. Ironic that the left is so good at worrying about cheating when their cheating plots don’t work.

Number of faithless electors Trump benefitted from in ‘16 = number of IQ points on OP’s most recent testing.

No knock on Mahomes, but I can’t see this truly ending well. Either they have a bunch of buyouts built in (which is unlikely as why would he sign) or else they are truly stuck with him for 10 years, which is insane.

Masks don’t work until we’re 3 months into the pandemic. Keep up.

Tell ya what, those communists sure now how to produce things!

You’re an idiot.

It wasn’t. That’s Exactly right. Europe is a fantastic example of the fact that history is just that- history.

And they were forced into a treaty and then taken advantage of because they spent their time killing instead of developing. They weren’t called savages for nothing- they were called that (though narrow-minded and wrong) Because they were a technologically inferior society. That led to their downfall. They were inferior because instead of leaning on their own common heritage, culture, and ethnicity, they fought and killed each other for hundreds of years leaving them ripe for takeover. History has plenty of blame to go around.

Blocking public roads isn’t peaceful. It’s a crime. Cause it’s a reminder that their ancestors spent so many years fighting and killing each other and not innovating, developing, and uniting in order to stem the coming tide of European invaders?

I can understand why they would be or think they should be- but I can also say it’s stupid to be offended by that. Furthermore, i think it’s as much the narrative as it is the actual offense involved. I’m sure things will be fine, and it makes the Redskins exciting, which is a solid first.

I respect their right to change the name, and the right of their sponsors to withdraw sponsorship and force change. That being said, it’s stupid and you have to work very hard to be offended by a football teams name- but that’s where we are as a country. All that being said, as a fan of football- I love the idea of a team changing names! Never seen this before. Now I just need an expansion team!

Idiotic. The implication this creates is that the national anthem is the white anthem all because a subpar QB decided to kneel.

I mean, this is pretty simple: Statues built to honor men who had some issues (defense of slavery being one) while also having much going for them is clearly racist and pro-slavery. Wonder of the world built on the backs of slaves is just history.

It’s just a song that you barely even have to listen to, just get over it and stand there like everyone else.

Yeah, except that the media is pushing cases like they’re deaths.

You lost him at “you do understand.” You forgot the part where he goes to work in his mother’s basement. ? Damn, I bet you were a hard out in dodgeball in school....

Lol. I see context is hard for you.

This we agree on. But he won’t. Best people ignore his thread and converse in threads started by rational people who won’t delete when they lose arguments.