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Oh, you could write several volumes of books and articles and still not totally deconstruct all his silliness.
- This dude needs to read Guns, Germs and Steel. Geography handicapped most African societies and yet they still did have complex settlements, societies and, in some regions, urbanization. Even Thomas Sowell cosigned Jarred Diamond's geography hypothesis about Africa.
- Obviously, he is excluding North Africa but even then, there are long standing towns and structures in other parts of Africa. Since this guy is Christian preacher, he should know that there have been a network on monestaries in Ethiopia since before Christianity even arrived in Poland, Scotland or Ireland.
- The human rights and basic dignity of an ethnic group, in the modern United States, should not be based on what sort of structures your ancestors lived in circa. 1200 CE.
- Most buildings in London or other European cities do not date back to the Middle Ages. He jokingly dismisses African claims that most of their structures, from the Middle Ages were burned down, in the intervening centuries. That's exactly what happened in most of Europe. Most Medieval Europeans lived in wooden building or Earthen houses (huts, if we're being politically incorrect) which were ephemeral.
- The few towns and portions of major cities in Europe, that do indeed date back to the Middle Ages, are rare, zealously guarded and the case of certain towns like Luneberg, Rottenberg and the old quarter of Venice, contain UNESCO heritage sites, just like, oh I don't know, Timbuktu.
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One of my favorite parts of this nonsense is when he list California as an African country.
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I hate that guy and people like him who take advantage of people's ignorance on world history, geography, etc. to push an agenda.
Meanwhile, the manbaby is back at it:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/vladmir-putin-russia-election/index.html
Meanwhile, the manbaby is back at it:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/vladmir-putin-russia-election/index.html
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but i thought he said the russia investigation was a hoax and a witchhunt?
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Could you imagine how crazy trump cult members would've been if Obama did something before the election
Probably would have been an assassination attempt.
Probably would have been an assassination attempt.
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He would've been well within his rights to act too
Dude is mocking him when he most likely wouldn't have been elected if Obama had actually acted on the intel at the time,ungrateful *** *****
He's too stupid to realize the contradiction between both statements he's made within days of each other,he just sees it as an opportunity to talk **** about Obama
Dude is mocking him when he most likely wouldn't have been elected if Obama had actually acted on the intel at the time
,ungrateful *** *****
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sonoftony
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fitting
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Mr.Guy
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I'm voting Repub in 2020 just so this racist country can burn to the ground. I'm moving to Canada in 2021.
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Just leave now b
aepps20
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EXCELLENT post as usual. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CARSON NEEDS US FOR HIS SURPRISE 2020 RUN.
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That's ridiculous.
I think allowing medical costs to reach such utterly ridiculous heights play a big role in the US' terrible healthcare. Spending significantly more than other top nations, while offering worse care for everyone but the rich who can afford the best the US can offer, which is of very high quality.
I would have to look deeper into our exact funding mechanism to keep medical costs down but it's one of the best parts of how we treat healthcare.
Hospitals and doctors simply can't charge such outrageous prices for treatment. Public hospitals often report financial losses and can receive subsidies to keep them going. Private hospitals/clinics have a bit more freedom with charging patients, ... They usually focus on a particular specialty. There's not that many of them.
But the best hospitals are generally our public hospitals. I'm in treatment at the Gent University Hospital which hosts some of the best doctors in the country and is frequently associated with world leading new developments in medicine. The Leuven University Hospital has a great international reputation as well, maybe even more so than the former.
As mentioned before, even if I choose to not invoke my insurance I don't have to pay much. €12 for an MRI, €8 for a CT-scan, ...
Even my very complex 4+ hour lung surgery performed by Belgium's best surgeon in that particular field and a second leading lung surgeon resulted in a bill of around €4400. That included a 4 or 5 day hospital stay if I recall correctly in a 1 person room.
After the surgery I was pumped full of more painkillers than I could count and required scans day.
That bill was quite strenuous for our financial situation at the time but nothing compared to what that would cost in the US at the end of the day. It's no surprise that our top hospitals receive a vast amount of patients traveling from other countries.
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You're 4 years late. People already used this brilliant strategy in 2016, either voting for trump because "he's an outsider" or not voting for Hillary because "they're both the same."
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I would suggest moving if/when the AHCA passes
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My grandma said Canada is worse for black people than the U.S. in the 1800s.
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Minnesota is a different breed outside of Henn County boy....
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lol California always gonna be blue so your vote will probably be invalid
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i pity the fool!
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I hate that guy and people like him who take advantage of people's ignorance on world history, geography, etc. to push an agenda.
Meanwhile, the manbaby is back at it:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/vladmir-putin-russia-election/index.html
Reading that article, obeezy did the right thing.
Son would rather deal with the backlash of not acting enough...
Than the sheer fury he wouldn't received if he had come out with it on front Street.
Dis
Can you elaborate?
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http://thehill.com/policy/national-...russia-probe-destroyed-in-us-compounds-report
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/24/man...ess-of-decline-led-to-president-donald-trump/
To share a college classroom with born and bred Americans, in a well to do area of a major city, who didn't know who their vice president and secretary of state were was definitely an eye opener.
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/24/man...ess-of-decline-led-to-president-donald-trump/
To share a college classroom with born and bred Americans, in a well to do area of a major city, who didn't know who their vice president and secretary of state were was definitely an eye opener.
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^ Even without getting into social responsibility, people like that don't even know how to act in their own self-interest, let alone for the greater good.
People think that watching CNN or reading articles on its own makes them an expert. It's like someone watching every episode of Jeopardy! and thinking that makes them an art historian. Along with critical thought, people are lacking a framework and perspective. You need to study history and political theory and so many other things before you can put what you hear on the news into context and to understand what it really means. Instead we have championed impulsive ill-informed reactions in politics, and in turn that is what politicians often respond to.
People think that watching CNN or reading articles on its own makes them an expert. It's like someone watching every episode of Jeopardy! and thinking that makes them an art historian. Along with critical thought, people are lacking a framework and perspective. You need to study history and political theory and so many other things before you can put what you hear on the news into context and to understand what it really means. Instead we have championed impulsive ill-informed reactions in politics, and in turn that is what politicians often respond to.
