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  • and then goes on to say “why would you add people to your country that don’t speak the language” in English and not the native tongue of the tribe that the land was stolen from

    The irony of this is that people who are hardline isolationist/against immigration use that having happened as fuel for their argument, because 'look what happened to the Native Americans when Europeans were able to immigrate en masse', and they argue that that's what'll happen to them if they allow immigration now.

  • I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.

    This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it's just always going to feed you whatever's popular, which will include his stuff.

    You're doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it's rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I've seen more than a month or so ago.

  • The US's incredible levels of prosperity back then was essentially a unique period of time created by extremely specific circumstances (i.e. the US was THE superpower, and the primary economic force on the planet for decades). There's a reason the 'baby boom' happened then. It was literally a unique slice of world history.

    It is unrealistic to expect to ever return to that level. Comparisons between now and then are all disingenuous for that reason.

    Instead of framing the changes we want to make in terms of 'but we had X back then', they should simply be framed in terms of what improvements are beneficial, feasible, and sustainable, in the present.

  • The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle; all divisions) in men’s competition to one of the top-ranked swimmers in women’s competition tells the story

    In the 100 freestyle, Thomas’ best time prior to her transition was 47.15. At the NCAA Championships, she posted a prelims time in the event of 47.37. That time reflects minimal mitigation of her male-puberty advantage.

    During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

    Removing the records set while competing in women's events seems justified in this case.

  • This take generally comes from looking at the profits of successful drug X, while being unaware of (or ignoring) all of the drugs that have millions upon millions put into their R&D, that never result in anything that can go to market.

    Overall profits will seem much higher than they actually are if you leave out that very-relevant data.

  • A lot of the gay elders i know are tired of history being changed when they were actually there. Unfortunately the biggest myth is that [Marsha P. Johnson] started the stonewall riot and kicked off the lgbt movement.

    But in fact she wasn’t even there when it started. She also referred to herself as a drag queen/transvestite... not trangender. Sylvia Rivera is the one who is trans not mpj.

    If anything it was likely a big butch lesbian who started it.


    There wasnt even a brick that started the riots. A lot was happening at once, but it most like started when cops began harassing Butch Lesbian Stormè DeLarverie and someone, no one is sure who, stepped in to her defense. Violence broke out and next thing we know, we have the stonewall riots. Maybe bricks were thrown with Molotovs, but no one can be credited with doing anything first except maybe DeLarverie asking for help.