Niko Ništa
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My worldview, first posted as a comment on an answer written about the legacy of Gorbachev. As to what the point of the USSR was, it’s rather simple: Human life - the life of any living thing really - i…
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What are some historical examples of the oppressed becoming the oppressors?
Liberia. Started out as a colony of African Americans, many of them ex-slaves that travelled to Africa to set up a new life away from slavery. As literal ex-slaves, it’s hard to think of people more oppressed than them. They even incorporated freed captives from slave ships that were intercepted. Aft…
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Gonzalo Guerrero was shipwrecked and then captured by the Maya in 1511; when found by other Spaniards about 20 years late, he had been made a warlord and refused to return to Spain. Why would the Maya make a low-born European sailor a warlord?
Guerrero and his crew were shipwrecked off the coast of Jamaica. Using a makeshift raft, they drifted for two weeks until they reached the Yucatán shore. Several died of exposure or other ailments along the way, but Guerrero and nine of his soldiers made it. They were immediately apprehended by a May…
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What was the earth's beef with the bugs in the movie version of Starship Troopers?
That they exist on planets humanity wants. The attack on Buenos Aires is a false flag ( the bugs would have had to start that asteroid from their home system well before they knew of earth, like several hundred thousand years earlier) that serves as a justification for both further encroachment and g…
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Spurtin’ out Holy Water… …
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What appears to be public comments is actually just 20,000 bots disguised as real people. …
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About drinking, I am very familiar with all the disadvantages of it, like drinking & driving, increase in crime & violence etc, Can any strong advocate of drinking account a single advantage of drinking?
There are no “advantages to drinking” from anything except a purely personal perspective: people enjoy it. There is a HUGE advantage to keeping drinking legal: banning it doesn’t prevent it, it simply undermines society and empowers organized crime.…
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