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  1. Rubus Leucodermis
    (I hope.)
  2. Rubus Leucodermis
    The man you voted for President in 2020 said something very similar: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/jun/03/hillary-clinton/yes-donald-trump-did-call-climate-change-chinese-h/
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    Now do the side that says climate change is all a lie and part of an international conspiracy against America.
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    Also this:
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    How would you feel if China helped Native Americans establish their own ethnostate in Oklahoma (which was originally all Native American land, and was promised by Congress to the Native Americans)? Suppose you had to pack your sh*t and git on short notice, and ended up in a refugee camp with basically the clothes on your back and a suitcase full of a few possessions? Would you just accept it, or would you feel resentment?
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    An extremely biased and one-sided summary. Home to non-Jews for millennia too (not everyone there was a Jew; witness the parable of the good Samaritan). Occupied by the Ottoman Empire, promised to the Arabs by the British in return for revolting against the Ottomans (one of Britain's enemies in WWI), then the British turn around and promise it to the Zionists as well. May or may not have seen the light of day given how impractical it was, but then the Holocaust happened. Would have been better to create a Jewish homeland in the somewhere in the land of the ethnic group most responsible for the Holocaust, i.e. the Germans but now probably too late for that. There is nothing the Palestinians are doing that any other people who lost their country due to the machinations of imperialist geopolitics would do. (And no, I don't like terrorism, just saying it's to be expected given the circumstances.)
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    Or maybe she just wants Israel to be less racist and more democratic.
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    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418 https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/called-dont-gay-rules-expanded-12th-grade-florida/story?id=98691183
  9. Rubus Leucodermis
    It's called living in an echo chamber. Might want to try and escape it.
  10. Rubus Leucodermis
    If Phil manages to work that sort of magic, we should invite him out here every summer.
  11. Rubus Leucodermis
    So it's only a problem when Newsom does it. I was right.
  12. Rubus Leucodermis
    It's the GOP's Trump problem: hard for anyone else to win the primary, but hard for Trump to win the general. I'd say Trump still has a 50-50 shot in the general. It really depends on what No Labels does. They could peel off enough Biden votes to doom the D's. But most centrists see that, can't stand Trump, and are trying to talk NL out of running this time. And particularly if NL runs, I would not rule out Christie or Cheney (or both as a team) retaliating and running in the general.
  13. Rubus Leucodermis
    Small potatoes. Check out what DeSantis is doing. Or doesn't it matter when your side does it?
  14. Rubus Leucodermis
    And you can't do anything about it. The only thing you can really do something about is what you say and do. This goes for all of us.
  15. Rubus Leucodermis
    Matthew 7:5 comes to mind.
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    Probably more than anyone here, ML shows signs of spending too much time in an echo chamber. He's actually more thoughtful and intelligent than most of the stuff he reposts, if you can manage to engage him in an actual conversation. I just wish he would stop and think about whether or not what he reads really passes the smell test. (And in this particular case, taking care to format would have helped. As it is, the overall effect of that post was of someone taking a dump on a public sidewalk and leaving.) Echo chamber material is designed to press our hot buttons and make us feel righteous while the Others are evil, stupid, depraved, etc. It's a powerful drug that is making the $ocial media empires billions. One must push back against one's gut tendencies when consuming social media or one's voice turns into just one more echo in the chamber.
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    Noice! Would make for a good drenching IMBY (if it verifies, of course).
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    Oh, the resource curse exists all right. It’s not insurmountable, but it definitely can be a strike against developing. It can easily lead to a tiny entrenched elite holding all the wealth and power, living in luxury while the masses struggle in poverty. It just goes to show how bad conditions in those blue countries are when places like the Phillipines and India don’t “qualify.”
  19. Rubus Leucodermis
    C'MON!!!
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    I think that's more historical legacy than anything else. Note how it's mostly sub-Saharan Africa that's in blue. South America has no blue countries yet has lots of tropical ones. A lot of Australia is in the tropics, yet Australia is a wealthy first world nation. Singapore (also first world) is almost smack-dab on the equator, and its neighbor Malaysia is just a notch behind.
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    I thought it was not nearly so bad. It showed estimates by many methods, and how much they varied, and how much pronouncements that it was so much warmer in the middle Holocene really can't be made so definitively. If you have some better data to share, I'm all ears (and eyes).
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    I agree there is a misuse (a misunderstanding, in many cases, I expect) of what individual local events say. I have never denied that. What I am saying is that getting the details wrong is a less serious error than getting the basic does-it-exist-or-does-it-not fact wrong. Some people here seem to think they are equivalent, or even that the lesser error is the greater one. Yes, I do believe we can correlate civilization to the environment (or, more precisely, the health of one to the health of its environment), and that environmental degradation has ended civilizations in the past. And before they ended, the local environment was being changed profoundly just as the civilization was approaching its zenith. Reminds me of the joke about the man who fell out of a window in a skyscraper, but hat yet to make contact with the ground. "So far, so good!"
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    I already retracted my claim about there being no civilizations halfway though the Holocene. I don't know what you are talking about.
  24. Rubus Leucodermis
    By many estimates, we are already now warmer than during the Holocene temperature maximum ~ 8,000 years before present.
  25. Rubus Leucodermis
    Just looked it up and it is not generally considered to be a full civilization but a "proto-city".
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