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An effect of lack of T is not being able to feel any emotions, including crying.

As others said, the topic is likely to come up, I am trying to prepare OP to have a respectful discussion instead of going in as some "debate me" redditor who thinks he can change an expert's mind armed with cable news and wikipedia.

Do you really think you'd be prepared to debate someone who has direct access to primary sources and has been paying close attention to those issues due to literally living there for much longer than you? The fact that you thought you'd debate them instead of learn says enough.

Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.

Protect him from the crossfire in case an acorn falls nearby.

That's horrifying, wtf happened?

You do understand that Helldivers is a satire of America? This didn't change in 2024. The Helldivers yell about freedom and democracy while having zero meaningful freedom or political influence, and invading other places to steal their oil or murder them for being communists because that is what Americans do.

by 1856 all states had removed the property ownership requirement for whites.

The purpose of that was to marginalize the freed slaves and keep the working class divided. The removal of the requirement wasn't because a faction in power decided it would be nice and create a freer society, but because it gave them further power.

To quote LBJ a century later: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Please, just the bare minium reading comprehension next time you try to engage someone.

Don't condescend when you haven't read shit on a subject.

What books are you reading that you think 1776 was about anyone's freedom except for the bourgeoisie's freedom to exploit the working class and genocide the natives?

That's not to say the people who did the fighting and dying didn't think they were fighting for freedom, just that they were surprised when they were disenfranchised by property requirements and laws that favored the big bourgeoisie over themselves. You may remember Shays Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion?

If you're looking for further reading, The Counter Revolution of 1776 is a good one.

Third heading down, "former colonial powers and Africa"

Ferero international S.A. is an American company, whiches largest majority owned by Blacrock

Blackrock owns 4%. The majority of its shares are held by the Swiss. It is headquartered in Switzerland.

We're getting in the weeds, the point is that Europe's actions maintain an incredibly unbalanced trade with Africa; colonialism never ended, it just took on a different form. America does this too.

Neocolonialism was used to describe a type of foreign intervention in countries belonging to the Pan-Africanist movement, as well as the Asian–African Conference of Bandung (1955), which led to the Non-Aligned Movement (1961). Neocolonialism was formally defined by the All-African Peoples' Conference (AAPC) and published in the Resolution on Neo-colonialism. At both the Tunis conference (1960) and the Cairo conference (1961), AAPC described the actions of the French Community of independent states, organised by France, as neocolonial.[39][40]

The politician Jacques Foccart, the principal adviser for African matters to French presidents Charles de Gaulle (1958–1969) and Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), was the principal proponent of Françafrique.[41]

The works of Verschave and Beti reported a forty-year, post-independence relationship with France's former colonial peoples, which featured colonial garrisons in situ and monopolies by French multinational corporations, usually for the exploitation of mineral resources. It was argued that the African leaders with close ties to France—especially during the Soviet–American Cold War (1945–1992)—acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests than as the national leaders of sovereign states. Cited examples are Omar Bongo (Gabon), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Ivory Coast), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo), Idriss Déby (Chad), and Hamani Diori (Niger)

You know the shit your companies pull, say nestle using slave labour in south america, would not fly here?

Nestle is Swiss.

Again, can you maybe read your links? It exclusively gives examples of immortality of the US?

It literally doesn't, scroll down.

The economic dependency is another fun segment for implying that the smaller countries don’t want the larger one’s investment in return of soft power!

The investment is in maintaining systems that keep resources flowing out as cheaply as possible. Yall aren't sending dictators arms out of the goodness of your hearts.

Wait, you really don't know about neocolonialism?

Also American cheeses as a whole are extremely mid, you're not going to find anyone defending that shit out outside of Wisconsin.

Unlike you Americans, we actually do recognize our actions against our past colonies as crimes against humanity!

lmao 14 countries are forced to use France's central bank. Do you think Africa sells you labor and resources for pennies instead of developing their means of production because they just love stripping their country of resources for you?

Well I didn't vote for him.

why in the hell did anyone think it was okay to own a person and why the fuck did it continue for as long as it did?

Because it made them a lot of money. You can go back to any point in history and find people saying slavery is immoral, and not just the enslaved people.

Instance admins can tell your IP and presumably browser info if they bother to collect that data.

DEI was implemented because without it, equally qualified minorities don't get hired, there's been endless studies on this. Stop falling for racist propaganda.

I feel like 3 kinda comes with the territory of politics. The sort of people who mod political forums have more rigid ideas of what ideas should prevail in the discourse than someone modding a board for embedded electronics, not that that's an inherently bad thing.

It just feels worse because a greater portion of Lemmy is politics; here I've caught bans for being insufficiently pro-Kamala months after the election or not going along with a china bad circlejerk, but at reddit people catch bans for "John Brown did nothing wrong" or just posting footage from Palestine.

Please don't fedpost, recommending someone do an adventurism is how you and the site owner get visits from the feds.

Additionally, adventurism doesn't have that great of a track record for destroying systems; one of the splits between the Bolsheviks and the SRs and other factions was their analysis of the effects of the previous half century of random assassinations of government officials, including the Tsar. Assassinations create a power vacuum, but it's not productive if the bourgeoisie are positioned to fill that power vacuum.