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dorquemada

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  1. gross but yeah probably, i need to change my pricing model
  2. What I don't get here is that Snyder, as an extremely wealthy man, could afford to hire the sorts of prostitutes that cater to extremely wealthy men, and make cheerleaders look like yesterday's leftovers. Besides his obvious difficulty in making good decisions, why on earth would he creep on his employees like this? Besides, dude, just go out to the internet and find pictures of women that don't work for you. It's not difficult, but if you're unsure I can act as an IT consultant to help you on your journey for only $7500 an hour
  3. I'll get out over my skis here and suggest that a disproportionate percentage of NFL players are from the States that are just entering the worst of COVID right now, so these guys have family and friends in the middle of it, and might be legitimately concerned about getting sick and/or bringing the 'vid back to gramma in Alabama. I'm in USNY like a lot of you, and we're certainly past the peak now, and certainly over the shock of it. I can tell you, i have family in the deep south and they spent a lot of time mocking New York over this, not so much now
  4. See thats why you're twobillsdrive forums poster Buffalo716 and not Bill Belichick
  5. Bellicheat has seen the future and knows exactly how many games he hast to lose in order to draft Trevor. spoiler: he falls a few spots in the draft so BB can win exactly 6 games and still get him
  6. There's just so much about trading up for TJ Graham and not taking Wilson that is dumb and wrong, it's hard to know where to start
  7. This would have been infinitely preferable to the timeline we're in
  8. There were very few Jewish slave owners, and very few Jews at all in the US, particularly in the South in the Civil War era. Most Jewish immigration happened in the late 19th, early 20th century, and was concentrated in the big NE cities like NYC & Philly. My own ancestors came from Russia in 1899. Besides that, Jewish immigrants were generally dirt poor and almost none of them would have been farmers as Jews were largely prohibited from owning land in Europe. It's also important to remember that Jews weren't even considered 'white' in the US until post WW2, and would not have been welcome in the antebellum South. There were a couple small enclaves of jews in Mobile and New Orleans, but that has more to do with their history as French colonial outposts where France was for the most part more tolerant of Jews than England. Jewish emmigrants were also dirt poor and lived in terrible conditions. The highest population density ever recorded in the US was in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the early 1900s. My grandfather lived in a 1 room 'studio' there with 12 others, all his family. They all worked in sweatshops and several of them didnt make it to adulthood. It wasn't slavery per se but it wasn't the 1% existence that bigots like to ascribe to Jews either.
  9. I'd put Sojourner Truth on the $20 bill if it were up to me, preferably holding a pistol
  10. Perhaps some statues across the South to the men who didn't secede and fought for the Union. "Tories of The Hills" is a book about some of those people. I dont really see it being available on Amazon but if you're interested it's in some libraries
  11. There was a big fight during the constitutional convention over Slavery. Lots of abolitionists wanted Slavery outlawed immediately, and obviously the southern states (though there were plenty of slaves in Northern states too, just not to the degree or of the type in the South) refused, and said they would not join the new nation. There are other factors that caused the Civil war besides Slavery. That was the obvious proximate cause and the moral rallying cry, but there were substantial economic reasons as well, including that the North was rapidly industrializing and competing directly with England, while the South was continuing to act more like a resource colony of England pitting the regions against eachother economically. None of this, of course, should be construed as a defense of the Confederacy but the actual story is a little more complicated
  12. Not disagreeing with anything you're saying Doc, except for that well under 10% of people living in the Confederacy States owned slaves. The average white family in the South didn't own slaves, and some (look up Winston County, Alabama) did not secede from the Union at all because they didn't want to go to war to prop up the 1% of that day, and they were right regardless of any retrograde beliefs they may have held otherwise
  13. Fair enough, but it's not a passive action to post something to twitter. Something occurred in his mind to trigger the action. "Oh hey I sure like the cut of this Hitler guy's Jib, I want to make sure everyone knows about this!" I guess the alternative to that is "Hurr durr i don't understand any of this context but imma post it anyways" which I realize as I type that is probably exactly what happened but if we extend him a mulligan for being an idiot than we have to do same for everyone else that says something stupid/hateful/racist as well? That would be the world I would prefer in which to live, but sadly not the one in which I do.
  14. Pretty much! Now we're getting the big crocodile tears and he terribly sorry that someone was offended. I don't believe he's actually repudiated any of it, and if so only under extreme duress. Antisemitism has been on the rise for some time and is quite chic in some quarters. Linda Sarsour who helped organize the big Women's March, is a rabid Antisemite and surrounds herself with the same. to the extent that the Women's March basically asked her to leave because having a pro-holocaust mouthpiece isn't a great look. It's amazing to me that in very recent memory you had race hucksters like Al Sharpton encouraging anti-jewish violence in NYC of all places, and all that's gotten memory holed because now he's some kind of folk hero of the left. It's almost like they think George Orwell wrote 1984 as an instruction guide rather than a warning
  15. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If someone wants to prove that ancient sub-saharan Africans built the pyramids, they better find something other than unhinged college newspaper editorials to prove it.
  16. I'll join this for a moment then promise to drop it but the reason I opened my big mouth in the African Geography class way back when was mostly this reason, and that the professor (a Man of Color) allowed a black student to fly way off the handle claiming there is hard evidence that Black people not only built the Pyramids, but had the power of flight. Not, you know, invented airplanes, no, they could fly like superman around the pyramids and white people stole that from them. The net is that most people will believe anything they hear, all the more so if it's something they want to believe. The professor didn't do anyone any favors by allowing that to go on. For what it's worth in the same class, another student asked where in African they drilled for Palm Oil ps dont send your kids to SUNY Albany
  17. Technical definition has to do with a family of languages, but in the common parlance refers to the ethnic groups that comprise Arabs and Hebrews today. I use the term Hebrews to differentiate them from Ashkanazi jews who have significant northern European DNA, though I'm sure I'll get a WELL ACKSHUALLY from someone here
  18. Nobody tell Kaep, but North Africans in general, and Egyptians in particular, are not Black, but rather more similar in genetic makeup to near easterners, Anatolians, and early people of SE Europe. Desean Jackson would be horrified to learn that the slaves that built the Pyramids were Hebrews of Semitic descent. I got shouted down in an African Geography class (SUNY Albany, 1990!) for bringing this inconvenient information to the table. Fun fact, tell a modern Egyptian that they are black and you're going to get an earful. Or better yet, don't. Liberal American sensibilities aren't shared by most of the rest of the world
  19. To ask the question is to answer it. It's the soft racism of low expectations to say or assume that Desean Jackson didn't know better, which i think can be seen in his mealy mouthed "I'm sorry that you were offended" apology
  20. As long as there are attention whores out there, especially those who specialize in taking offense on behalf of others, no permanent communications medium is safe. That perfectly acceptable opinion that you hold today? Like perhaps that you enjoy a nice Porterhouse? Wait 10 years, that may be evidence that you're a dangerous bigot and need to be cancelled
  21. I have good news for you regarding Hitler's employment status
  22. When Hitler was alive, Jews weren't even considered white in the US. Literally in living memory for some people like my parents.
  23. The Oppression Olympics might be my least favorite aspect of this, the stupidest of all timelines. Glass is a world class idiot
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