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I find it hard to take seriously people who overtly attack others for their beliefs on message boards, knowing exactly what they are doing.

Tends to make me feel more positively about staunch religious people, to be honest

Back in my day, they were called "cubic zirconium" and they were considered trashy AF. Costume jewelry.

Look at the colors on this webpage, baw.
Tigers go back to the 1890s and will exist as long as Louisiana has a state government.
Saints have been around since 1967 and, as a private business, will eventually leave New Orleans as that city continues its steep decline.
(Regardless of any horseshite that idiot Gayle or her representatives say about always keeping it in NO. Money talks and lawyers can undo anything that is done).
That said, Saints had a great run and I'll cheer for them and hope for their success.

Tigers, though, are an organic part of Louisiana and its people.

Anyone this bent out of shape by traffic aint living right.
Slow down and enjoy your life, baw. You only get 1.

Trudeau is an authoritarian, so it makes perfect sense.

The difference between a left wing authoritarian and a right wing authoritarian is a classroom opinion.

As far as Ukrainian Nazis go, the truth seems to matter less to many than their own ideology. Yes, of course there were many Ukrainians who favored the Nazis.
Some people seem to be in denial of this historical fact.

On the other hand, people who do acknowledge it can't seem to see things outside of a narrow Western viewpoint. Ukraine was caught between Hitler and Stalin (who already starved and killed millions of them).
Given that horrific choice, it is not hard to see why Ukrainians, at least ones who are not Jewish or Slavic, would side with the Nazis. Easily the least horrible option (of 2 terrible options)at the time, given the circumstances.

Resistance to Russian hegemony is obviously going to evoke past resistance efforts, of which the Nazis represent one of the most overt and recent.

I guess given the ridiculous mainstream propaganda that Ukraine is some Western style "liberal democracy" confuses people. Under Zelenskyy, it is the same corrupt,authoritarian regime that it has always been.

In either case, it is not only none of our goddamn business, but against the interests of the US citizenry to be involved. Unless you are a politician washing your crooked money there or heavily invested in the defense industry.

That might be true, but who the fux wages have gone up? Everything else has.

Govt spending/"monetary easing"/high oil prices/raised interest rates.

Looks like someone called 911 in East Mandeville for some reason? All those emergency services go to call point.
But haven't heard anything.
Also, no burning smells.
Can't be too terribly bad.

Sounds like the Lincoln Project guys found a new agit-prop target.
I'm sure it was real Nazis...??

Cedar. Costs more but looks better over time and doesnt warp.

No

Yes. We were able to talk it down through our agent but even with that, it was a huge increase.
Eta: There are close to 50% new roofs in my neighborhood post Ida (including mine). Probably has something to do with it.

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The only flaw there is that he lived in a time where the heaviest firepower you would face was muskets. Not Boston Dynamic terminators and attack drones

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Tell me you don't know anything about late 18th century weaponry without telling me you don't know anything about late 18th century weaponry. Or Locke. Or Jefferson.

Also, if there is anything we've learned thoroughly in the last 50 years, it is that the US government and military will always lose to insurgent and guerilla forces. Every time.

Not supporting it and don't know how much will the people would ever have so long as grocery shelves are full and the a/c is working. But our government has definitively proven it is incompetent at counter insurgency warfare.

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China is ahead of this game

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Completely agreed.
The West needs to wake up.

My earlier point is that China is just one -upping the West in what the West used to do really well (for good or ill- or both simultaneously)

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The fact is that Sub-Saharan Africa had governments that allowed it to conduct trans Atlantic and trans pacific trade networks and fight off the British Empire

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Not really. The British wouldve destroyed any one of them with a sneeze. And African kingdoms in that time period loved nothing more than the slave trade. It was their key to economic success.
It is true that Africa was not quite the stone age civ portrayed by some on here, but it is just as silly to pretend they were noble and advanced. The successful African kingdoms and tribes in that period were only that way due to collaboration with European powers.
As it turns out, history is messy, complex, and complicated.

Not sure how Guns and Steel entered the conversation, but that book is considered discredited by most contemporary historians. Less due to wokeness than just shitty scholarship. I personally have never read it so can't vouch either way

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The Chinese are evil. they finance shitty projects knowing the host nation will be unable to pay it back, and the take ownership.

They've financed quite a few projects in the Caribbean and S. America too.

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"Evil?" You must truly hate Western Europe and the US.
China is our enemy and we need to use proper policy to compete with them but they are just late to the game. What do you think European nations, Western based NGOs, and the US have been doing for a long time now? And we did it to China until Mao too.

If you simplify history into good guys and bad guys, the West is Satan personified. A man of wealth and taste, but oh, the exploitation and butchery.

Truth is, the West ultimately made the world a better place due to those "evil" practices but that's my Western perspective, shaped by Western values and having lived well fed with air conditioning my whole life.
The Chinese are simply trying to "get theirs." Can't blame them but if we like our well fed, HVAC having ways, we better meet their challenge.