blanketswithsmallpox

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I like how you don't mention what kind of supremacist lol. Human supremacy ftw!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Do you genuinely believe there are people out there who aren't born predisposed to violence? This is a well known fact and a reason we have prisons for people who are not able to be rehabilitated. There aren't nearly as many monsters out there as people think, but they're there.

People like serial killers are well known for having relatively normal upbringings but go on to become murderers/rapists. Some even come from loving, caring, and enthusiastic homes.

People can hand-wave genetic predisposition all they want, it doesn't make genetic heritability for a multitude of of disorders untrue. Nor does it change how you rolled poorly in the genetic lottery and now you're stuck with a male brain inside a female body.

No amount of therapy is going to keep some poor pedophile's brain wired to find children attractive from finding that they're attractive. They get to live their entire cursed existence hating themselves even if they never hurt a single kid.

People give biology way too little credit for the monsters that society has to deal with. And as shown above, a lot of it isn't due to culture, how you were raised, or if you were loved. It's because you hit the genetic snake eyes and you don't have the little thing in the back of your brain that finds rape and murder repulsive.

Genetics doesn't absolve them of their guilt, but it's one piece of a puzzle that too few people give credit for. For the same reason why one kid can do coke once and never try it again, and another ends up having their life spiral out of control for a decade due to addiction.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

THOUSANDS THOUSANDS THOUSANDS.

Mississippi/Population 2.95 million (2021)

That tracks lol. There are good people everywhere, but sometimes you do walk into an area where everyone around you is just a giant PoS.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This time?

America supports whoever we think will benefit us the most geopolitically lol. Israel is a centerpiece in the MENA which can't really be ignored for how much pressure they put on their neighbors.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For the lazy, it's their 6th, 7th, and 8th links.

Projected Air Temperature Extremes and Maximum Heat Conditions Over the Middle-East-North Africa (MENA) Region | Earth Systems and Environment

Climate change projections for the Middle East–North Africa domain with COSMO-CLM at different spatial resolutions - ScienceDirect

Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East - Zittis - 2022 - Reviews of Geophysics - Wiley Online Library

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Chill out Louis.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Just to add to the other comment... Mobile homes. There's a reason why the poor and infirm live there. No structural integrity. Light up like a match. Little protection against any serious weather. Mobile homes are notorious for uping kill counts for natural disasters.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having to carry every BLOPS game between two people while everyone else was average or worse. Every night for like 2 years lol.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

Could you remind us who was the Pope before Jesus?

Saint Peter or are you trying to put words in OPs mouth lol?

 

YSK: Blankets with smallpox isn't real. It's literally made up history. At no point did the genocide of native Americans happen due to being purposely given blankets riddled with smallpox. It happened due to them being exterminated piecemeal by the US Government and invaders. It's another piece of history whitewashed because of a historical ear worm with ALMOST zero truth. Native deaths came from the smallpox doing it's own thing while the US Government did the rest. There weren't explorers handing them out trying to kill natives, the government didn't have some sinister plot with blankets with smallpox, even if people were trying to kill natives with blankets riddled with smallpox, it wouldn't have worked... It's bullshit. Researchers and historians firmly believe it cannot really be passed on that way. Smallpox is a super fragile virus, it dies quickly outside of the body. You cannot give people blankets and contract smallpox from it the same way you can't contract herpes sitting on a toilet seat or AIDS from kissing someone with it.

If this were reddit you'd see it pinned on my profile. Alas, that's deleted so I'm going to try to post something similar here so I can cite it. Unfortunately a mod more recently deleted my last info dump when random people inevitably try to ad hominem so I'm doing it here again.

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Sauce regarding the 1 'verified' instance where a US Officer tried to give natives 2 blankets and a handkerchief at Fort Pitt. Historians believe the effectiveness to be almost entirely made up because you cannot give someone smallpox with blankets. Smallpox had already run rampant in the native population.*:

Https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/plag/5240451.0001.009/--did-the-us-army-distribute-smallpox-blankets-to-indians?rgn=main;view=fulltext

https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt

https://nativeteachingaids.com/cfd-blog/2020/7/24/smallpox-blankets

https://cherokeeregistry.com/smallpox-blankets-2/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/smallpox-blankets

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/uncovering-the-complicated-history-of-blankets-in-indigenous-communities-1.5264926/the-complicated-history-of-the-hudson-s-bay-point-blanket-1.5272430

https://asm.org/Articles/2023/November/Investigating-the-Smallpox-Blanket-Controversy

Sauce regarding the far more prevalent reality of Native Americans dying from genocide and ethnic cleansing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples

https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/wjdt_665385/2649_665393/202203/t20220302_10647120.html

https://hmh.org/library/research/genocide-of-indigenous-peoples-guide/

https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states

PDF Warning: https://www.se.edu/native-american/wp-content/uploads/sites/49/2019/09/A-NAS-2017-Proceedings-Smith.pdf

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shocking-savagery-of-americas-early-history-22739301/

https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/news/2021/genocide-kill-indian-save-man

Post link: https://kbin.social/m/YouShouldKnow/p/3503101

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E: For clarity and conciseness since people were having issues somehow with me sourcing the 1 instance but somehow saying I wasn't including the 1 instance... that didn't work... because you can't give someone smallpox with blankets. Not only was it not even rare, there was only 1, verified, instance... which did not work. The colloquial use and thought of natives somehow being sneakily given smallpox through blankets regularly is a straight up lie. It sounds just plausible enough for people to share it but it has ZERO basis in reality. It doesn't work. And only 1 scumbag US Officer in a war against natives was ever confirmed to have tried it.

#YouShouldKnow

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do certain medications which are are strong as some and worse than many illegal disqualify someone from owning a firearm? Wasn't there pretty wide claims about Trump popping pills which would disqualify him from owning a firearm anyway?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

AACAB I can get behind lol. ACAB half the time is just straight up internet trolls and instigators. Meanwhile the same people love to espouse shit like how the wealthy are the real oppressors while ignoring most police are only firmly low-middle class. There are way more people getting into that job who just happened into it like most people in the world. While yes, the abusers and psychopaths are attracted to the job for the above, the separation of powers in places like that are wide. Just like they would be in most businesses. Let alone the real deal PTSD they have to deal with daily to weekly in som areas.

Any direct supervisors for teams that have pretty full automony know it's impossible to track what they do constantly. So much of it is based on the trust system and good faith actors speaking out when they see something. Throw in some bystanders effect and benefit of the doubt for people who'd normally be good to you but a monster in the shadows... I'm not envious of police one bit, or the people trying to make change from the inside. Which is the only real way it's going to happen despite internet tough guys espousing otherwise while refusing to pay taxes for shit like mental health services lol. Elected local/state politicians, DAs, also being the people who could make those changes. Also equally vilified.

It's way more complicated than people give it credit for when you're actually trying to make change. For most people trying to get by, best thing you can do is vote.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How dare the public not want to hear about us stripping the rights of gays, and trans people? ECHO CHAMBER! I JUST WANT CIVIL DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOTHING BUT THUGS AND RAPISTS AND THEY SHOULD GO BACK TO AFRICA.

How about no dude? Go back to Truth Social and rant there. Nobody wants to hear about your eugenics, how a female comic artist hurts your browsing experience and you're too contrarian not to spew misogynist rhetoric.

Progressives and most real moderates know better now. It's all bad-faith arguments and dog whistles. The paradox of tolerance is real and people need to stop platforming insanity.

 
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Every spoiler tag variant I'd ever tried didn't work. Google was fruitless. No wiki/helpguide on the sidebar. Would be nice.

 

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Center or left two screens for my main visor. Right e-reader for text, minimap, ammo, mech metrics, etc.

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See the title. It's one of the few things that is preventing me from being able to browse super efficiently. Unfortunately a lot of my scrolling is going through the same stuff over and over.

Also hooray for more images being embedded so you can just hover over them with IMAGUS to see it!

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