2020 Post Election MEGAthread

[Lune]

Like Cortes, Colombus toppled civilizations in spite of being deeply outnumbered, ill-supplied, and thousands of miles from home. Pretty interesting and heroic if you ask me. I think Cortes takes the cake though; the Aztec Empire was a much more worthy foe than a bunch of naked savages on Hispaniola.

Shame about the genocide but it's not like he was the only one that murdered natives, that was par for the course with settlers, explorers, and conquistadors from 1500-1880ish.

Neither were good people and definitely shouldn't be revered, just remembered.... accurately

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Modern American capitalism resembles Chinese capitalism nowadays more than the Protestant ethic.

The flags are made in China.

[FatherSioux]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Like Cortes, Colombus toppled civilizations in spite of being deeply outnumbered, ill-supplied, and thousands of miles from home. Pretty interesting and heroic if you ask me. I think Cortes takes the cake though; the Aztec Empire was a much more worthy foe than a bunch of naked savages on Hispaniola.

Shame about the genocide but it's not like he was the only one that murdered natives, that was par for the course with settlers, explorers, and conquistadors from 1500-1880ish.

Neither were good people and definitely shouldn't be revered, just remembered.... accurately

History on Fire: The Conquest of Mexico

Must listen to anyone interested in that period of time.

[BiG SiP]

ok grandpa lol

[Lune]

+ you should have seen what the Ottomans were doing to Christian Europe during Columbus's lifetime. Yikes, hundreds of thousands of galley slaves and concubines kidnapped from the coasts of France and Italy to be shipped back to Anatolia.

Violence is an ouroboros. We're lucky we live in pax americana

[Woke Locc]

I've softened on usury and think it's pretty useful now

[BarnabusCollins]

"toppled civilizations" IS EVIL - YOU SUPPORT EVIL

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM IS EVIL.

[FatherSioux]

Originally Posted by Woke Locc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've softened on usury and think it's pretty useful now

Do you really mean usury? Or simply loans?

[Woke Locc]

Originally Posted by FatherSioux [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do you really mean usury? Or simply loans?

Charging interest in any form is usury in my peabrain.

e: what happened was I saw islamic banks don't give/charge interest so I was like no that's dumb.

[BiG SiP]

humanity is inherently evil, duh