Comments by "Owain Shebbeare" (@shebbs1) on "Biographics" channel.

  1. As with many dictators, though not all, some of his acts or programs, taken in isolation, were good. Doesn't redeem him though, not in the least.
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  2.  @matthiasnagorski8411  Yet he started no wars, nor did he escalate any. Obama did both, and espoused views that, had they come from Trump, would have been condemned.
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  3. True, this happened at the Battle of Stirling Bridge, exactly as in the film, which lacked, er, um, the bridge and looked a lot like Virginia countryside.
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  4.  @WanderingWriter  True. Most historiqns agree, based of contemporary accounts, that a major jousting accident was followed by negative changes in his behaviour and personality. Head injuries, and even planned neurosurgery, can lead to temporary or permanent changes in disposition. Had over a hundred neurosurgeries myself. Funny thing is you can be aware of the changes, yet unable to fight them.
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  5.  @bobtom3625  Actually your extreme ignorance is showing: there were extensive court cases surrounding those two bombings in the 1950's until the 1970's, and the result was that it wasn't considered a war crimem with similar, equally disputable, rulings given regarding the Japanese war crimes you fail to mention. You can't keep crying out for more and more rulings on such issues until you finally get the one you want, that is a very extreme-left way of doung things.
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  6.  @GuapoG0tGuap  Truth be told, Pol Pol ran up the largest proportion of his own people being killed. So many died that it affects Cambodian demographics to this day.
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  7.  @camerontaylor7471  So....are you pro or anti-vaccination? Hard to figure it out.
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  8.  @Sub-km4nk  They are all accomplished, though Dewey is mostly regarded in the US, especially given the fledgling nature of the US navy at the time he served. The likes of Yamamoto are probably more famous outside the US, but Nelson seems to trump them all, known worldwide and studied by officers in every navy of any note since.
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  9. To be fair, that policy of witholding public announcement of victims was already common elsewhere, though still sometimes fails, even now
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  10. BLM are scum.
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  11.  @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath  Certainly the rule of law was more reliable.
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  12.  @vanhovemare  I think you need to forget the notion that any of these communist groupe were "anti-authoritarian", they were mostly piss-ant competing groups that were anti-any- authority-but-their-own. This notion of Leftist anti-authoritarianism has been played on by protest groups and Lefty groups since the 60's at least, but is anything but true. They really do believe in authourity, just so long as they define it. The Political Correctness movement, or ideology, is a way of making the brutality of Far-Left ideologies more palatable. Often described as "tyranny with manners", it is more accurately described as the iron fist in a velvet glove, all peace, tolerance and inclusivity, but only if you toe the line.
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  13.  @vanhovemare  I just have massive issues with today's Leftist movements, given as they are to censorship, violence and narrow mindedness, while preaching tolerance and inclusivity. Giving these people what they want will leave us in the same position as every state that has undergone a Leftist-led revolution. Governments are about making the most of a bad lot, but in Western nations those governments with socialist leanings are to be treated with extreme caution. They lead to debt, increasing governmental control, social engineering and I submit Canada and France as examples, and Scandinavian nations too. As for Australia, where I we narrowly avoided a socialist government this year. I am deeply concerned about any extremes, but Leftism has been ascendant in my lifetime, and has the social power. As for what I want personally, it is for government to stay out of my life as much as possible, I trust very few, but today's protest movements, Antifa being just one, are examples of extreme ideology, with escalation being their way over time. This is what my political studies have taught me. To most conservative people like me, tired of being labelled as "far-right" when we dare even question creeping Leftism, be it our institutions, speech codes, or so-called social justice, the best we can hope for is benign incompetence from progressively Leftist governments. Democracy has never been absolute, which is why we have elected representatives, but modern Leftism does not offer a credible alternative. The crimes of communist states are now excused as "not real Communism", and leading to dismisal of our concerns, not debate.
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  14. Yes, and generationally, as the governments in the 1960's and 70's were criminally irresponsible in the UK on these sorts of issues, and the Blair government was, in some ways, even worse that Thatcher's. You can always trust government to suck.
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  15. Most depictions show him with a lyre, the use of the term "fiddle" was more poetic in English, from where that expression derives. The chronology and accounts of the fire don't back up the adage either. Bloke was still a wanker though!
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  16.  Hunter deja  He killed a greater proportion of his own people than any known leader, ever and despite the primitive methods usually used Khmer Rouge record keeping was meticulous. Best thing that could everbhave happened is if Marx had either died young or never had Engels to support him.
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  17. People forget that there were many competing Communist ideologies, not just the Stalinism that ruled in the 1930's. Trotskyites, Leninists, non-aligned communists, fascists and more all fought over the same ideological territory, with minor ideological differences and demographic factors being the main cause of rivalry. Another way of looking at is: it was more like the Reformation/30 Year War period with Christian sects against each other, than the Crusades, fighting an enemy with a completely differsnt world view.
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  18.  @camerontaylor7471  A fair answer. I don't agree with all of it, but thanks for your considered response. Where I am, Australia, vaccination is largely compulsory unless you are medically unable to be vaccinated, which may eliminate some or all vaccines. We also have some vaccine shortages; I need a Shingles vax, but have been unable to get it for a year.
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  19. I supose English is hard for you Americans. 😁
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  20. Definitely true! I look at Zuckerberg Vs Soros as akin to National Socialists Vs Communists: people essentially of the same mind fighting over the same territory. Soros is a sorry excuse for a hunan being, and the Clintons are too close to him as well.
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  21. He was also a racist and an intellectual property thief.
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  22.  @DivaViews  The scropts are written by Simon's American crew, and they have trouble with even getting a lot of basic things correct that don't involve the US.
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  23. It wouldn't have been any better anywhere else at the time, the US was even more backward.
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  24.  @adamk.7177  In honour of Nelson I am tapping an admiral right now.
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  25. We are not amused!
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  26.  @pegasusted2504  Atheism has a very dodgy past as well...plus better hope you don't need charity one day because it will be one those religions that will help you.
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  27. True. Technically neither is correct, according to the Dutch.
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  28. Joe Kennedy was a vicious crook.
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  29.  @vanhovemare  Their motives become irrelevant in light of their actions. As for me assuming the right to define their motives, well we were not there, but I have the benefit of having studied the hypocrisy of pretty much every social/political movement from that period. What they said they were Vs what they really were. Same applies today: most supposed anti-fascists behave like fascists.
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  30. YAWN Another defender of the horror that is Communism and the monstrous actions of Castro and that pretty-boy arsehole, Chè Guevara.
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  31. So he may, probably likely, be descended from Welsh stock? Learn something every day, had no idea.
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  32. Mate, the testicles were bad enough! All the rest of those misfortunes are relatively minor wheras crushed nadges are enough to make men wince almost a thousand years after.
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  33. The Hawaii mis-spelling and the refeference to the B-24 would have come from the scriptwriters, who are Americans and should know better
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  34.  @jasonanfinson9346  Göring is technicall correct.
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  35.  @alexj7440  That is a highly debated claim, especially as regards Thatcher, given the terrible state Britain was in after a string of disastrous, mostly Labour post-war governments and what they did to British industries.
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  36.  @clementl.9566  Not really the most famous, except to Americans. Nelson still has the greater notoriety, in a positive sense unless you are French! Nimitz is well-known outside the US, but not like Nelson. Time might well change that, but hasn't yet.
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  37. Stalin and Hitler, made for each other, though Stalin's foolishness gave Hitler a chance to invade. Then he spent the rest of the war sucking to, and being flattered by that senile fool, FDR. Churchill, for all his faults, knew Stalin's measure.
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  38.  @theawesomeman9821  🤔 Hmmm, China is no meritocracy, and is rife with nepotism and corruption, as all Communist governments are/were. There are imbeciles and fools at the very top, and all through their government, be they Party members or bureaucrats.
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  39. Oh yeah, there were quite a few policies of hers that were utterly shameful.
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  40.  @scottklocke891  Explain then how Obama was caught on camera and mic asking for Russian help in the 2012 election? That is more proof of Democrat/Obama collusion with Russia than has ever been found, despite years of desperate Democrat digging, on Trump.
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  41.  @kalanaherath3076  The true degenerate would have been Crooked Hillary, but US leaders since Reagan have been of generally poor quality. I know the liberals will jump to the defense of Saint Obomber(sic), but he is as dodgy as Hillary, and hardly deserving of a Nobel Prize.
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  42.  @DarkComatose15  England is the south-eastern part on the UK. In the mid-west is Wales, and Scotland lies to the north. This is the main island usually called "Great Britain". There is also Northern Ireland, the fourth part of the UK, hence the title of her being Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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  43.  Gaming With Ryan  Hmmm, you sound like an American. Probably not the best person to lecture others on pronunciation, gamer boy.
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  44. Probably depends a lot on which side of the Atlantic you are on. I would suggest that Orwell is better known internationally than Hemingway. Hemingway is well known, but Orwell is more referenced.
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  45. Batshit? All types of turds were in the mix!
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  46. Michelle Obama? Well to each their own. From a non-American perspective she seems too divisive.
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  47.  @SputnikKaiser  What, like you lot did in 2016?
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  48. Ahh yes, but Ace Rimmer: What a guy!
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  49.  @PlaceholderDoe123  I would tend to accept your view, except that liberals tend to get precious and hurt whenever similar jokes are levelled at their idols: couldn't make a joke about Obama without crowds of feral Lefties coming to his defence. Same about Hillary, Bill Clinton or and Democrat or other liberal icon really.
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  50.  @lordsithous4406  Most faiths have nicked stuff, Christianity is not unique in this, but funny how Islam is never similarly accused, though it is even more derivative. Fear of riots maybe? As for the Saturnalia connection, it is not as if there are any living adherents to that faith, apart from a few wannabes who just delight in reminding everyone of what was stolen from "them" even though that faith died out around 650 AD.
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  51. Probably a good this, that film was highly inaccurate. I know it is linked to a resurgence of Scottish national pride, and I will likely be told to ignore the errors, but it wasn't accurate with history.
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  52.  @pyromania1018  There is a question as to who exactly scored the fatal hit on Nelson, and the killing of Nelson hardly helped the French at Trafalgar.
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  53. Vastly different cultures, hard to compare.
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  54.  @SafetySpooon  It is well known that pretty much every senior member of Hitler's Reich had previous associations with Jewish people that were cordial. There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in pretty much any extremist, no matter what their leanings. No different today.
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  55. Risks? Maybe, but he also stole vast amounts of intellectual property and uses the legal system to maintain copyright over what he stole.
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  56.  @nzr4674  Yet, for some reason, the Argentines still revere here and even voted her despotic and moronic husband back into power in the 1970's. Go figure.
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  57. Yeah, yeah, you don't like her, but she was far better educated that you claim.
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  58. Blame the American researchers and scriptwriters.
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  59. True, they didn't, but both events fundamentally changed the nations in which they occured, if in different ways. Being neither a US citizen, Ukranian, Russian/Soviet or anyone particularly close to either event, I can still see how songle events led to great changes.
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  60. I read his stuff as a teenager. Good then, even better on reading again.
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  61. A fine film.
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  62.  Greene Bertrand * hypocrisy
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  63. Funny how Americans get pissy about alleged mispronunciations, yet stubbornly mispronounce foreign words and names all the time. Besides, the scriptwriters and owners of this channel are AMERICANS, so it is nothing to do with "limeys" or the "Queen's (sic) English"".
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  64. I belive that everyone who suggests population reduction, through any means, must volunteer themselves and their families first. Yes, we have too many people, but most of those demanding it be reduced expect that they won't be part of the reduction.
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  65.  @kalanaherath3076  Don't limit modern malaise to corporations though: the resurgence of failed Marxist politics has damaged society too.
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  66. @Death To capitailists Fair enough, but Communism, be it classical Marxism, Leninism, Stalinism, Jeuche/Kim Dynasty, or PolPot or any ofther expression of Marxism simply doesn't work. It will not ever give you the egalitarian society you seek, and brings people down rather thand lifts them up. There is always a rich ruling class too, so the 1% exists there too.
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  67. Seabiscuit was a third-rate horse compared to Phar Lap.
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  68. Yes, though unfortunately the same with so many figures from history. Is a bit of a bummer when we modern people like hard facts regarding history, yet they are so often missing, or found to be false.
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  69.  @dukethomas95  True. In Australia, also a Constitutional Monarchy, the Queen, via her representative at the time, sacked one of our governments, that of Gough Whitlam (Labor) in Novemer 1975. It is also one of the reasons many Labor people, even now, are staunch republicans. I am anti-republican myself, but it will likely happen soon enough after the Queen passes.
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  70. The Fighting Temeraire hangs on my wall (a copy, naturally), and does well illustrate the move from the time of sail to the more industrial era of steamships. The painting is almost a complete fiction, but I love it.
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  71. They did, but not in the manner you are alluding to, and they certainly didn't build the pyramids or major royal tombs. Nor were Israelites enslaved in the manner often cited in the Bible Belt.
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  72. Good idea though how many actual facts are known is debatable.
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  73.  @pinadulce9184  Well she was of Macedonian descent so she was likely paler than the average Coptic Egyptian at the time who were bronzed rather like Arabs. Descriptions of het complexion vary.
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  74. @El loco holandes errante Pretty much every country has something of that in their history, whether patriots, or partisans of those nations admit it or not. In my case, an Australian government in the 1970's sold out the East Timorese to Indonesia is an example.
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  75. Funny how the Far-right is rightly condembed, yet the Far-Left was no different, and far more widespread. Extremists are always a problem.
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  76.  @fcukugimmeausername  It also has a bunch of Left-wing claptrap too, all vying to force agendas rather than facts. Damn glad I am Australian, and an adult as that latter means I escaped a lot of the PC revisionist history BS taught today, and the former means I have a better accent! 😁
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  77. True and it is the Communists, and their other Stalinist and Maoist-types who infest Western universities and bureaucracies who control the narrative and wrote the histories.
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  78. Reminded me of the quote from "Shaun of the Dead": "For God's sake, Barbara, we had our shots when we went to the Isle of Wight". Obviously the place is a repository of diseases!
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  79.  @deanseawa  Simon reads the script and otjers, mainly Americans, do the research and scripting.
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  80.  Liza Tanzawa  Victim card? Not even American, but you lot sure hate it when your methods, straight out of diseased Marxist ideology, are used against you. One incident yet you liberals have bitched, moaned and created civil unrest since Trump was elected, but would never have tolerated protest againt the venomoys hag he was ip against. The acts against that restaurant were something your lot do all the time against people you disagreed with. I don't even like any of your idiot presidents, you Americans elect, but better Orange Man that Crooked Hillary. You know this to be true, Lizzie. As for the "fat" reference, thought all you liberals, with your PC speech codes, were againsy body shaming, or is it only your lot who are allowed to get precious? Hypocrites, all of you!
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  81.  @shyamashyam391  Education was too hard, and too expensive: easier to snip the blokes. She didn't dare sterilise Muslims, for fear of mass riots. I am no admirer of hers, that's for sure.
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  82. So...identity politics should define how people are chosen? I call bollocks on any sort of quota system, especially one forced by political correctness
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  83. Vlad, not critcising your claim, but a baguette seems to be a poor choice for a weapon. Then again, a Frenchman might well surrender before plunging that crusty goodness into his cheese-filled innards, so perhaps it is irrelevant.
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  84. A lot of weirdness gets forgiven in artists and other celebrities.
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  85. Well, it is very unlikely a minor noble from his era would have conceived or fought for anything approaching modern ideas of freedom. That would have been remarkable, and commented on.
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  86.  @fidelcastro8481  Funny how you Lefties, Marxist dreamers and fools, consider Communism to be some sort of mature, exalted ideal. It is a failed theory because it goes against human nature to make it work, requires extreme force to implement and control, creates the very sort of elitist top 1% you students claim to protest about now, when you aren't on the latest iPhone or looking for a new pair of Nikes. It cannot raise people up, it lowers most down, those that are not shot, send to a gulag or "re-educated". Any system that denies the right to better oneself without such advances being stolen by the State will, and should, fail.
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  87. Hint: look at his head, the whole head!
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  88.  @veganismisamentalillness7909  It is a myth now, in developed nations anyway, but wasn't when Disney was alive.
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  89. Not sure if it is Biographics, but there is a good one on YT. An interesting woman, to be sure. Will try and find it.
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  90. Those "carrot and machine-gun tactics" have been happily adopted by the rest of political Left, such as Stalinists, Maoists and assorted other Lefty rabble often haunting universities and the civil service.
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  91.  Garrison Nichols  Despite what JP claims, the facts actually back you up. At best Communist states were miserable and totalitarian, made worse by the tendency to use force and oppress their populations. JP will likely use the modern undergraduate excuse of " that wasn't REAL communism", but it is what comes from any implenentation of that faulty ideology.
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  92.  @Nutzkie2001  Santos Dumont was very depressed about the militarisation of aircraft, as were other pioneers.
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  93. The blind adherence to the idea that LBJ was some sort of civil rights saint, a misunderstood visionary and altruist is strong in modern Democrats.
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  94.  Jody Owen  not exactly a model for how to deal with this virus, but is often quoted in Australia, where I am, despite having 330 deaths per million population, whereas Australia, which was laughed at by the WHO and UN for imposing strict restrictions and calling it a pandemic before the UNconscionable UN finally woke up, has 4 deaths per million.
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  95.  @michaelahern9883  How? It was Hitler who invaded Poland.
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  96.  @wolfpac101  Wakefield is a known quack, his one paper, more than 20 years ago was based on poor research, sketchy conclusions and relies on the gullibility of people like to spread it. The autism link has been disproven by better people than you or Wakefield.
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  97.  @MaxArturo  Rationalism and pragmatism don't really excite, and Left wing ideology revolves around excitement, reactionary activity and, despite claims otherwise, loss of self-control, rationality and gentler traits. The old "Protestant work ethic" is rabidly fought against by Lefties, as are traditional British values. Idealism is rarely tempered with common sense or a need to build societal structures. Those structures can turn into creaking bureaucratic edifices, but the odd thing is that bureaucratic Civil Service jobs tend to attract Lefties.
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  98.  @lamppost7218  Tony Blair's government covered the worst of this period, and I note were not called out. Politicians are protected, whatever side.
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  99. Prince Regent: "That's a strange getup you're wearing there, Blackadder " Blackadder ""Yes...I'm off to a fancy dress ball, I'm going as Lady Hamilton's pussy!"
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  100. The US does seem to have been geared for perpetual conflict since at least FDR. Mind you, some wars are righteous, despite what the modern Left might claim. Britain had every right to defend itself against both Germany and Japan, as did the US in WW2. Wars since have been far less clear-cut, while the expansion of Communism was a real threat, the ideology and methodology of the Cold War was flawed on both sides.
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  101. The one probably nobbled by jealous Americans?
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  102. Actually there is another documentary, hosted by Jeremy Clarkson that is pretty good, though does focus more on the technology.
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  103. Pretty much sums up addiction recovery too, it only works if there is consent, and often not even then.
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  104. That said, his speed record in 1935 in the H1, still often repeated by Americans today, was no record except in the US. The Schneider trophy winning S6B exceeded 400mph in 1931, years before Hughes' slower "record", and had been beaten again, by an Italian aircraft, in 1934. His record was for a landplane, though is disputed as there were at least two competing land speed claims.
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  105.  @johnnygreenface  Not quite true, US units of volume, such as pints and gallons, differ from UK Imp. versions. There are some minor differences in some units of length and weight too. I know the volume one because I like beer, and a British pint glass is larger than a US one. Also mpg fuel consumption figures differ in British publications due to the difference in what we consider to be a gallon.
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  106. Not sure it is a case of going too far, it is more a case of being seen to be doing anything that might bring the Party into disrepute. Left-wing parties still do it today.
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  107.  @pinadulce9184  Why do you say that? She was of Macedonian descent. She definitely wasn dark-skinned as records have her lineage as Grecian.
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  108.  inside outside upside downside  It has been said that the greatest threat to a man's freedom is his government.
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  109.  @Machtyn  I think most nation's history curricula are parochial, to at least some extent. Being Australian, we covered nothing of the Americas, most of Europe or Asia in class in the 1980's.
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  110. Nope, they are bad too.
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  111. Does that include yourself? People who advocate this sort of thing rarely include their families or friends in their lust if people who shouldn't breed.
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  112. The post-Melsonperiod wasn't so grand. She is an interesting character, but likely never to be held in high regard.
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  113.  @MichaelBrodie68  Yes, "No jab, No play", and our anti-vaxxers scream, bitch, connive and moan, but compulsory vaccination for those who can be vaccinated, is mandatory.
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  114. A lifestyle choice made, or forced on many famous people. Look at Elvis, Johnny Cash, many politicians, evangelists and many sporting cheats
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  115. Good points, except Simon is English, not Canadian. That is definitely not a Canadian accent, eh!
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  116. Modern day Copts are closer to the original Egyptians, as most north Africans now are of Arabic stock. They were not sub-Saharan African black, though this is a popular propaganda point.
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  117. It is little different today: scientific rivalries abound, and a roomful of scientists has more inflated egos than a room full of politicians or Hollywood celebrities. That said, I still prefer the scientists.
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  118. Funny how the fantasists who believe the Russian collusion crapola about Trump forget Obomber(sic) asked for Russian help in the 2012 election, and collaborated with Crooked Hillary to sell Uranium to...Russia.
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  119.  @Zenhumanist  True as, whenever it is suggested, those suggesting it tend to exclude themselves, family and often people of their political of cultural tribe. Look at the Climate Change Alarmists, such as Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio and David Suzuki, insisting that we mere plebs not breed and have tiny Carbon Footprints, but they breed and consume with abandon.
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  120. There is always one American wanker who drags their petty US, usually Left-wing politics into unrelated threads. Today that is you. No need to feel good about it.
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  121. The longest currently living. The previous was the late king of Thailand.
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  122. Even the most simple thug can really be a complex person.
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  123. True, though the Catholic Church was seriously antisemitic too.
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  124. True, it would confuse those poor Americans...despite the US officially adopting metrication, yet failing to implement it.
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  125.  @libertyhog1428  All true, except all early Wright flyers were launched with catapult assist. Arguably the 14-bis was the first to take of unassisted, though was only marginally controllable in all three axes of flight, a flaw the many early aircraft had, including the first Wright aircraft. That said, unassisted take-off doesn't make the 14-bis a more legitimate first flight. Several others have been claimed as the first as well, but the couldn't prove it, and proof is what is needed to support a claim.
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  126. The you will get all the loonies claiming he was set up.
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  127.  @kooringagnd  I have no problem dumping on the Russians, given they were allied to Germany for longer than they were begging for Western aid after Hitler invaded Russia. Thanks to that senile Lefty goat, FDR, Stalin became one of the Big Three. At least Churchill knew Stalin's worth.
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  128.  @protonjones54  Well he died, oh wait, several years too late. He failed there too.
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  129.  @hedgehog1965uk  A good film though it did gloss over Gandhi's faults, creating a fairly innaccurate impression of him.
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  130.  @BrianSmith-vl7xu  Might have been more interesting! It was the second battle scene that was filmed in the US, not the first. I got that wrong.
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  131. Overshadowed by Wallace, actually a more interesting character, and more is known about him.
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  132.  @ShoreshFathi  Hitler wasn't physically deformed. Propaganda at the time suggested he was, but there is more than enough footage of him to show he was normal. Even the "one testicle" trope was borne of propaganda, not his actual medical records, some of which survive. He was slightly shorter than average, that's about it. I despise the man, but it lessens a person to attribute things to him that were not true, or cannot be proven. He was a normal man who did abominable things, not a deformed freak.
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  133. No, it was Obama who asked Russia for help in 2012 and, along with Hillary, sold uranium to Russia. Good try with the tired trope that Trump is a traitor, but you failed.
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  134.  @justintay3079  No fan of Truman, but how is this true?
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  135. He did plenty wrong. Charles was no saint, but puritan types are consumate hypocrites.
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  136. Seems mostly to be Thatcher haters. I really don't care, but it does seem to me that nobody hates like the Left!
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  137.  @wombatdk  Unlikely that Trump voter would resirt to the same violence as seen now, or after the 2016 election. Your illiberal "liberals" are the violent ones.
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  138. *Organisation, not Service. ASIO. Despite being the butt of jokes, they are pretty competent.
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  139. ....and kill millions along the way.
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  140.  @wolfpac101  Just a simple question: if vaccines were intended to cause depopulation then why haven't they worked? Typical anti-vaxxer BS!
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  141.  @kalanaherath3076  Simply put, it Capitalism isn't perfect, never said it is, but Marxism is abhorrent, and is the main creed of the Socialist Left parties, be it in Australia (lost 2019 election, thankfully), the UK (bombed this week), and the US (2016). The main capitalists causing trouble are Corporatists, the likes of Elon Musk and George Soros, using Capitalism for gain, but espousing varying forms of socialism. When you blend Capitlism and Marxism on a vast scale, you get China. As for Leftist tropes like Climate Change, even the high priests of that particular religion, and it is religious in many respects, match the worst televangelists for fervour and self-enrichment, coupled with extreme hypocrisy. Mass poverty isn't due only to capitalism, yet the West, which has raised the living standards of billions, is expected to shoulder all the ills while communist states, those few that survive sit back and gleefully point fingers at the West while doing nothing. We will never agree, I reckon.
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  142. You really believe what you say? Can't redeem some people.
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  143.  @BatchelderPatrick  Americans who pull such stunts are hardly lesx accountable. Hillary Clinton should be subjectec to the same recriminations, and she is one of mamy. There are, or course more politicians amd senior bureaucrats from mamy countries who will or were never made to account for any number of reasons, on all sides of politics.
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  144. Like Lunch Lady Doris from The Simpsons: "More testicles means more iron!".
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  145. Some governments do use a sligan like that now, but it is twisted to say "dont die of ignorance...listen to us alone, we we have the truth and answers you need".
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  146.  @slav1467  It is a typical Democrat position: to not accept Trump under any conditions, yet insisting that Biden be accepted without question. Oh well, glad it doesn't affect me.
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  147.  @quanbrooklynkid7776  Surely you can think of a better response? The fact is that most of the world is aware of how the US became independent, but not enough to really think about it. It was a big event for Americans, but there is no reason for the rest of the world to give a crap.
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  148. His life is well documented, most claims about him are true. A few were propaganda, but most were true.
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  149. It is true that every culture, state and most famous people portray a highly selective, often crafted view of themselves. It is harder to get away with outrageous claims now, but many try.
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  150.  @rickyhunt4075  LBJ didn't care about civil rights beyond getting all the blacks (he used the "n word") to vote Democrat.
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  151. Woodrow Wilson is often held as your most dictatorial president.
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  152. Not accurate: The Dumont flight was a powered balloon, an early airship really, it was not heavier-than-air controlled flight. Use of a catapult to assist take-off doesn't invalidate the Wright's claims as some aircraft today, have catapult assisted launch. I am no fan of them, with their penchant for litigation and patent claims, but they have the evidence in their favour.
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  153. Well apart from the fact that he was a consumate BS artist, especially regarding his war record, his political incorrectness is something that sterile modern literature, which has to be PC it seems, cannot beat.
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  154. Damn, you cut to the truth!
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  155.  @-souls-5989  What do you consider to have been incorrect information? Seriously, what are your thoughts? My view is at least this presentation didn't gloss over his negative side, though it did, at the start, elevate Lindbergh to sone sort of high cultural status that is not really true now, and likely never was true, even at his height of frame.
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  156. It was a lot more complicated than that.
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  157.  @aaropajari7058  The slave trade was ancient, even back then. Funny how the riles of Africans and the Muslim world in the slave trade are never much mentioned and only white people are expected to feel guilt for it, even non-American whites.
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  158. Might get messy in the comments section.
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  159. Hellenic, specifically Macedonian, with a touch of Persian. The Ptolmey dynasty bred true, as was the habit of the time, with the possible exception of Cleopatra's mother about which little is known (cue Afrocentrists...). Depictions of her, as well as descriptions by historians, suggest she looked typical of the dynasty: Macedonian Greek in appearance.
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  160. No more than Ronald Reagan was present at the liberation of concentration camps or Hillary did a dash from a plane under fire in Kosovo.
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  161. Blame his researchers and scriptwriters and editors, who are American.
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  162. Hillary happily wanted him dead too, along with Assange.
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  163. You get one first, matey, I bet there will be a queue!
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  164. I think so.
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  165. With pictures!
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  166. No fan of Mac but proper preparation would have required resources that idiot, FDR, didn't allow him to have. That said he did underestimate the Japanese.
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  167. @blackjackleee I don't think anyone needs to create a negative image of Amin, he did a fine job of buggering his own reputation, as did those assorted idiots who supported him.
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  168.  @phantomfreeman283  Most of the world could easily do that, given we have a less partisan view of FDR, but liberal Americans appear unable to make that distinction, given they see FDR as a saint.
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  169. Que? College basketball is an American thing. Simon is British and lives, as far as I know, in Prague. US college basketball really isn't big outside the US.
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  170. A fascinating man. Might not always agree with his beliefs and politics, but achieved a great deal in tumultuous times.
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  171.  @KingEddo8  Well said!
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  172. Funny how the recording of Obama asking for Russian help in the 2012 election doesn't get mentioned.
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  173. Why? He won. No PC revisionism needed, he achieved more than you ever will.
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  174.  Hamish McIndy  Isn't it the Dems who are the paedophiles? Pervert Podesta? The old fart you think might beat Trump this year?
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  175. It was a different world, her general hygiene was hardly exceptional.
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  176. As Churchill said, "...apart from all the others". No other system has worked as well, despite its many faults.
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  177. Not all of Australia honour Ned Kelly. Doesn't necessarily mean we have much time for Vicpol, given its history, but the Kelly gang were murderers. The Jerilderie Letter is just arrogant posturing.
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  178. G'day from Australia!
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  179.  @wkdravenna  😁😂🤣😂😁😂🤣
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  180. Is vsauce dome inane American pop-culture reference? Sounds gay!
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  181. *Maths, not "Math".
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  182. None of those. Closer to Gogg or Gock in Dutch.
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  183. Hard 'c' os also correct in British English.
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  184. @Tattle Boad They all think they are cutting edge individuals, whhen they are really sheep.
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  185. @Tattle Boad oh, easy, if they all bleat the same inane claptrap, yet claim to be unique, then just walk away. There are sometimes external signs, such as man-buns and skinny jeans, but not always.
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  186.  @fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718  Most who advocate this sort of thing rarely follow these belifs themselves
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  187.  @howtocossackdance  Where does it say fellow political travellers have to like one another? People in political parties in Western democracies often loathe one another too.
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  188.  @fhialsdhkt43tg72  Mega-authoritarian methods are the only way to implement a Communist government.
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  189.  @johnnyfives5416  Petain?
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  190. Well, you can fight for historical reasons, or remain in the UK for welfare. The Scots chose the latter as independence will cut off funds from Westminster, and the Scots would have to go it alone. Most Scots don't want that.
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  191. It was missing. Poor editing, I reckon.
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  192. I got force-fed Romeo and Juliet in school, and we saw it on stage. The fact that Juliet appeared topless in several scenes increased my appreciation...for the script, of course! Very artistic.
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  193.  @swampivy12  Wow, you must be the life of every party!
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  194.  @t.j.payeur5331  True! We need more good leaders, whatever their sex.
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  195.  Forsaken Pumpkin  Semantics: it is well known that people flew before the Wrights, but they are credited with the first heavier-than-air powered flight. As for the Kiwi bloke, there is no proof. One thing the Wrights were was being very good at self-promotion, and this is what backs up their claims.
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  196. Actually the tourism value of the royal family returns more to the nation than is spent on the Civil List, and this has been the case for years. As for your description of her, it says more about you than hef.
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  197. Bollocks! The Monarchy has defined roles as well as a tradition, the Kardashians are as you describe.
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  198. Funny how liberals can whinge about BC/AD without question, but we have to respect BCE/CE without question. Politically correcting and policing language is petty but typical of Lefties.
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  199.  @EternalModerate  As was mentioned: we will never know. That said, his history suggests otherwise.
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  200. Find a population that, at any time, doesn't want to be ruled, especially in these times of Big Government Leftism? Few people are cut out for life with no government, the US being no exception.
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  201.  @WalterKlemmerPiano  I wish an awful year to nazi's and Communists/Leftists, opposite sides of the same coun, and you act so much alike.
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  202. Trouble is the "right reasons, the right way" is highly subjective and susceptible to abuse.
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  203. Well the second bit was true, as Brunel always has financial issues, but was a definite success, way above Musk. Musk is exalted by Americans but is really more like Edison, building on the accomplishments of others. Musk is also a corporate socialist, loving his big projects just so long as taxpayers foot the bill.
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  204.  @MsPuffykinz  They also don't have any associations that might alert suspicion, with no extremism, political or religios or social. That said, modern forensicsmight have helped here.
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  205.  @StevenOBrien  You are concerned about a small detail regarding a bloke who drew homo-erotic cartoons for a living?
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  206. To be fair, "the nation" didn't assassinate him, and even your suggestion that there is some sort of collective community responsibility for the assassination of MLK is rather moronic.
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  207. What bollocks!
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  208.  @lapamful  And those composers were usually the middle-men, having gained their inspirations from earlier works, often from classical cultures, be they songs or stories or legends..
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  209. Why not? Most of the world doesn't know, nor care about MLK day. No reason to
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  210. The often used "Thou shall not kill" is actually a misquote. The correct quote, in English, is " thou shall not commit murder", and the distinction made when it was written was deliberate and important.
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  211.  @CommodoreFloopjack78  It depends, as the initial version was precise and definitely specific, the later modern version is also designed to convey a certain message. You might call it a technicality, but communication often requires parsing between similar, but not identical words. This might seem pedantic, but it is indeed true that "- not commit murder" and "-not kill" are not precisely the same, and were written deliberately to convey different interpretations of the law. The first is a clear command not to murder, specifically, at the time other Israelites. Like today's legal definitions, not all killing is defined as murder, and these were laws crafted for a specific cultural setting. Commanding not to kill is more inclusive.
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  212.  @poonoi1968  Plus no leader in those days would have fought for, or even likely conceived of, a modern post-Enlightenment notion of freedom.
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  213.  @marciaosullivan3200  Actually inoculation (not modern vaccination) was fairly effective at reducing all three plague forms, though pneumonic and septicaemic types were indeed more deadly. Modern vaccinations are even better. Mind you, anti-vaxxers will never be convinced.
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  214. In short, yes he did, in 1945.
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  215. A fascinating man, a tragic statistic of Soviet ideology.
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  216. Sorry, but that cannot be proven. Santos Dumont's first heaver-than-air powered flight was after the Wrights.
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  217. I assume you don't drive, or get driven? While you are entitled to bitch aboyt the social cost of the automobile, at least admit your role in this "lethal, addictive, diseased peroccupation", as you are part of it and unlikely as any Greens politician or activist, to be developing a practical solution.
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  218. With pictures!
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  219. We go to the countryside, Americans go hunting, tomato, tomayto!
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  220. God save us from zStar Wars geeks.
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  221. Where? Simon doesn't sound like Shatner.
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  222. I went to school in Australia, and at a Lutheran school. They were quite open about Hitler, Stalin, various other dictators, tyrants and the problems of colonialism, especially British colonialism, which seemed a little biased given they were hardly to only ones in on that game. Nothing was ever mentioned of Leopold II or the atrocities in the Congo. Belgium is seen as a sort of quiet, anonymous Euro state filled with pompous EU bureaucrats, and not much else besides great beer. It might have been the school, the curriculum in the 1980's or something else, but this was never mentioned.
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  223. How so? At least make a charge and defend it.
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  224.  Gerhard Olm  Drunk? So was FDR, who was a womaniser too, before his polio. Coward? In what sense, as he stood by what he said and did, was not cowed by Hitler or Japan or Gandhi, so I think your claim is just BS.
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  225. Surprising still is the number of people who think Robin Hood stories are true.
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  226.  @nay4658  As much as a move towards a republic in Australia (or Canada) might occur after the Queen passes, we are not, depite the ever wishful thinking of Lefty republicans or your rather uninformed view, republics in all but name. I am obviously not in favour of us becoming a republic, the cock up by the Australian Republican Movement in our 1999 referendum wil hopefully be repeated, given the model politicians favour has them choosing the president, and the people prefer they not. In the end an Australian republic is likely inevitable, but the structure of it has not been decided on, and it involves more than just changing a few names and the face on our coins.
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  227.  @mustardorb8867  Good luck, Lenin would have described you as a 'Useful Idiot'.
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  228. Yes, and most history was written with little consideration for objective facts, as we might recognise them. Makes it a bit frustrating.
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  229. As well as getting your tense wrong, Trump is nothing like Quisling. Hillary was closer, as was Obama who actively appeased dictators.
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  230. Add the that the leaning iff technique he taught was already well-known, but he did spread the technique more widely
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  231. I think you are one of those people who can best help the world by remaining silent.
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  232. Whatever gave you the idea that Charles is too old to be king?
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  233.  @mannetjieman2546  Drunken? If you are American then point the finger at that womanising piss-head, FDR.
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  234. Damn, mate, your nihilistic view really does typify Millenial thinking.
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  235. Well not really, that would have been tbe prior Islamic invasions. For some reason those brutal expansions of Islam are ignored or excused.
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  236. Sort of correct, though inocculation, as developed by Jenner, and vaccination are not the same thing, even though both are aimed at triggering an immune response.
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  237. Not really, and certainly not at the time.
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  238.  @SamPJohan  well, I cannot speak for other countries, but doing that in Australia for all churches would mean a lot more need for state welfare, which is notoriously inefficient as there would be no volunteer workforce. I volunteer for my churches' charity, but definitely would not volunteer to help the government. That said, charitable status needs stricter regulation p.
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  239.  @kalanaherath3076  Yet UK Labor, and here in Australia in spite of your claims now embrace Marxism, if indeed they ever really distanced themselves from his diseased raving. Greens are a little less secretive about their ideology and goals. You haven't told me anything I didn't know, but your defence of any stripe of Leftism is an issue for you to grow up from.
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  240.  @breadandblack7718  So, around 10% are functionally illiterate? I thought Australia was bad at 1%.
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  241. It is hardly a secret, and that was the family origin. The Queen is British, owing nothing to Germany.
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  242. Poor editing?
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  243. Same problem! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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  244.  Emperor Augustus  Actually he merely popularised the production line concept, they were already in use in parts of the US and Europe. Some Americans still reckon he invented the automobile.
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  245.  @thirushangovender5423  True, though a lot of hispersonality and beliefs were close to modern SJW beliefs, and not just the antisemitism.
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  246.  @christineparis5607  you just described LBJ, one of your worst presidents.
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  247. Is David Irving that Holocaust Denier?
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  248. As much as his death was tragic, the Ugly American attitude where bad behaviour is excused as jokes and I have sadly seen a lot of that in Asia. He didn't deserve death, but you Americans have as bad a reputation as you deserve.
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  249. Drunk? Unllikely as you cannot then spell that name when you are pissed. Rule one of being a piss-head is to have an easy to spell name.
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  250.  @ido5269  By use of the Americanism "butthurt", it would appear you an American, still sore at the fact that you live in a former British colony? As for the events of 106y, I think we Brits face it in a far mire marpture manner than you claim.
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  251. Or the one where Walter and Jeff are in a sleigh and Walter is, as usual, bitching but then asks if they are being paid, to which Jeff answers that they are...which greatly changes Walter's mood!😁😁
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  252.  @MarielaQue  Depends on where you are. Where I am (Victoria, Australia), there are definite effects on civil liberties imposed by the state government and, to a lesser extent because of constitutional roles, the federal government. These effects may be temporary suspensions on associations, movement and so on, but there are concerns that not all these assumed liberties will be returned. I am not too worried myself, even though I dislike the state government, I reckon things won't change much in the longer term, but there are some who are very concerned. Oh well, time for a beer, a liberty I definitely can exercise!🍺
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  253. Thanks for the virtue signalling, I feel so instructed by your moral arrogance.
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  254.  @bigfish92672  It was a problem, especially given communists, and other Leftists still persecute Jews.
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  255. Most pilots did know the best way to extend range already, but there is a tendency to credit CL with creating and implementing the techniques, not just broadening that knowledge.
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  256. His involvement in hydrocephalus treatment is well know. The slightly earlier Spitz-Holter shunt, of which I have two still forms the basis of many modern shunts, though certainly not all. The Wafe-Dahl valve is largely superseded but szved many lives.
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  257. Probably one of the most famous book in popular culture, but rarely read, much less understood of correctly quoted. "Principia', and " Micrographia" and several others are more regarded in scientific circles mainly as they cement the foundations of modern science.
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  258. Marxist philosophy is an epic fail. It is a prime example of doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. These failures are labelled today under the usual claim of "but that wasn't REAL Communism" by the sorts of morons who would happily impose their abominable interpretation on the rest of us.
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  259. Your point? This doco has no reason to mention India.
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  260. I tend to believe that more money somply magnifies who you are, in most cases. If you are morally sound and grounded, you can do a lot of good. I have many doubts about Zuckerberg though.
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  261. Well YT finds wangs offensive. Apparently we all need to become androgynous drones like they are!
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  262. Well, Newton wasn't a robust giant either!
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  263. Sure looks like him!
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  264. I know, Hawaii should be called out more often! 😁
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  265. Not every psycho. Some use visions, politics, other religions, and many other justifications for their murderous acts. Using the concept of loyalty to the State allowed atheists to murder on an industrial scale without the petty influence of theology.
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  266. He didn't deserve death, but he shouldn't have acted like a loutish prick.
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  267. They really did make an ass of the script, in a funny way.
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  268. Good thing it isn't up to you.
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  269. The US is the greatest? Well you are entitled to your opinion, many no doubt agree with you, but it is still just an opinion.
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  270. Bad scripting, though to most people "ejecting" and "bailing out" are synonymous.
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  271. Both get used, it is rather inconsistent.
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  272. Not entirely sure, but I think John Paul II has been done. Might be thinking of another channel.
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  273. So if the hawking remains in the middle, you are gone? Seems a tad extreme, though only to yourself really.
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  274. Like all Americans in WW2, as with WW1; better late than never!
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  275. Not really.
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  276.  @rodrigolabarre  Scotland, despite the Minister's claims they could leave anytime, is dependent on the rest of the UK. They also voted recently to remain.
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  277.  @rodrigolabarre  What's a "wife beater argument"? The allusion means nothing to me, AND if it is what I assume it is, is not germane to this situation. The people voted to leave the EU in 2016, and also to remain in the UK. Sure, have another vote on Scottish independence, likely you will keep trying until you finally get it. Saying "they don't want the English" is a bit of a stretch when you consider the sheer amount of cash that heads north every year, and people know it, but are likely just venting. Sure Scotland might survive just fine, good bloody luck to them, but it will need to be true, full independence with no Scottish votes in Westminster, or a perpetual lifeline to bail out Scotland's economy. The parasitism, economically, hasn't come from the English, it has come from SCotland.
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  278. Well the channel is American, and they are simple people when it comes to the English language. Odd they use an English narrator.
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  279.  @eddiedeleon3784  If you are talking to me, then my answer is that American ways of speaking English are neither universal, nor necessarily correct. We Brits find "American English" to be quaint and humourous, and often wrong. To-may-to, tomato.
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  280. Definitely not the first to imagine it, but it was the first practical, self-powered, vehicle. If you have an alternative, suggest it.
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  281. Pretty sure nobody was confused.
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  282. True, but not much is really known about his life.
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  283. We don't. Most of us are flexible.
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  284. Pronunciations vary. American pronunciation is considered quaint, even odd, elsewhere.
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  285. Better than American bombast! Far more dignified.
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  286. @Eason Cheng Good to finally see someone who knows their stuff!
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  287.  @vibinginmybedroomrn9948  After a certain point her craziness was her own.
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  288. Obama was caught out asking for Russian help in the 2012 election. Obama definitely did use the instruments of state to track and persecute Republican organisations. Not sure of Donny Boon's exact claims, but mine are solid.
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  289. No, there are many more over-rated people, in many areas of society.
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  290. Feel better? I doubt your country's leaders have a great reputation either. They are our royals, your foreign opinion doesn't have any value.
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  291. Why? The things Parks fought against were all created and run by Democrats? Be it the KKK, Jim Crow or the leaders in Alabama!
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  292. Definitely more recognised outside the US.
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  293. Dr John Snow, one of the first to accurately map a cholera outbreak would be a good biographics.
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  294. Bad scripting...by Americans who should know better.
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  295. Same as Labor (sic, though it shouldn't be) diddlers in Australia, or the perverts that infest the Democratic Party in the US. Hell, those Americans now have a Hair-sniffer in Chief, at least until Kamala bumps him off.
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  296. "Historical people"? Yep, definitely true, locally, globally and in many areas of endeavour. Specifically relating to pirates he is likely the most well known, though how feared he truly was is hard to say.
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  297.  @lordbrain8867  Oh Cromwell doesn't deserve adulation, I agree, but few of us give a crap about that uptight megalomaniac. Interesting to study, but a total wanker. The rest of us, and our history is awesome, and I say this knowing it will be accepted as dair, balanced and reasonable. Seriously though, name a country that doesn't have didgy acts in its history. The US is full of them, Britain's European neighbours too, every Asian and African nation, the other American nations...
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  298. It is yet another case where literature replaced the facts as history. Not surprising is the number of British and Americans who think that Robin Hood was a real person, and the characterisations in the stories were true reflections of who they really were.
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  299. I thought there was one. Might be mis-remembering.
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  300. Well I don't like his populist Lefty politics either so, as a physicist and amateur astronomer, I focus mainly on his science. We all have elements to our beliefs, be they social, religious, political or scientific, that others may disagree with, in whole or in part. Remember he grew up in a country, and time, where Socialism was strong, and he likely also benefited from the NHS, Britain's National Health Service.
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  301. He is rather amusing, so politically incorrect!
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  302.  William Cooper  I think your problem, not that I condemn, is you use facts. That never works with those who extol the idea of Communism and believe, in error, that some sort of practical application of Marx's delerious "theories".
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  303. Not a myth, a confusion as French units were different from the more accepted British units. That said, he was closer to 5'7, not 5'10 which would have been very tall for the time.
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  304. You are onto something that a lot of people don't realise: Moses is an Egyptian name, which should be obvious, given his history, whether you believe the Jewish or Christian traditions or not. As to the familial link, adoptive or otherwise, I really don't know.
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  305. As an Aussie I have no idea what a "Chad" is supposed to be.
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  306.  @kevinkev9996  Still common enough today!
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  307.  @trentbardy2271  I have no issues with Obama doing that, just so long as his own portrats can be similarly removed, as he was a serious war-monger as president. Speaking as a Brit who likes Churchill, I understand he was complex, made huge errors and whatever, and the same could be said of FDR, though Stalin was an out and out pig and bully.
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  308.  Wojciech Pordzik  Actually it was Stalin's mate, FDR, and the weak Truman who sold out Eastern Europe to Stalin. Churchill despised Stalin, was cautious around him, and wanted to subdue Soviet influence, but lost the 1945 election to that Communist luvvie, Clem Attlee who, in Churchill's worst was " a ver" modest man, with much to be modest about". Attlee then sucked up to Stalin. Britain is still paying for voting that fool in, but there is a lesson there: democracy doesn't always mean your guy wins.
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  309. He is just reading a scripf.
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  310. It is established fact, not just in hindsight. HF was definitely associated with Hitler.
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  311. FT I.R.A!
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  312.  @disturbedlife5691  Yet organised crime thrives in other systems, especially communist systems, and various thuggish dictatorships. Democracies are usually the best of a bad lot, though as they become more socialist the government becomes the greatest thief, or one of the greatest thieves.
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  313. Nope, monarchy. We leave such things to real crime families like the Clintons.
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  314. The truth about that profligate fool would be good.
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  315. The s ripts are written by Americans. Sadly their erroneous ways are becoming the norm.
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  316. Whoose founding fathers?
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  317. People on glasshouses...I reckon you would bugger up a few yourself.
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  318. British? He murders Welsh pronunciation as well, and we are British. Stop stressing, get over it and have a beer. Plus others mispronounce all the time, Americans being the worst.
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  319. Maybe in New York, but not originally in Sicily. Consider that the American way can be the odd way. Tomayto, tomato!
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  320. Where did you get that idea from?
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  321. I think he has been covered previously.
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  322. Begs? Grovelled! 😁
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  323. With pictures, and facts, not Leftist Youtube-friendly propaganda.
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  324. Cancer has been found in archaeological remains and documented for centuries. Developing HIV would have been beyond any 1940's technology, despite all the conspiracy theories that have been thrown around.
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  325. Well the accent is English, and he speaks quite fast.
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  326. Maybe by your ignorant American standards!
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  327.  @IsabellaFrank2  What about the other 4%?
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  328. A region in Germany.
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  329. Two points: Your view is just an opinion, and by your standars, Obomber (sic) should also be banged up. Point two is you need to know where to capitalise words corrrectly as you currently sound like a deranged SJW.
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  330. That's okay, North Korean propaganda claims that Kim Jong UN doesn't defecate, so there are all sorts of strange stories surrounding the physical attributes of many famous people.
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  331.  @yetigriff  You might need to learn more about metallurgy: you can easily weaken metals through heating, melting isn't required. A prolonged jet-fuel fire could easily weaken the structure of a building where the bulk of the strength came from the steel outer construction. Besides, if you believe "truther" BS, blame Rapey Clinton for 9-11, it was planned in his time.
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  332. True, and you would think the American scriotwriters would know this. Hell, I am not American and know it.
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  333. People might say the same of you!
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  334. Well, seventy five years of rampant Leftism will do that. Atlee would have bent over and welcomec Hitler, just as he appeased Stalin.
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  335. What, the pretty-boy poofter seen on t-shirts on most university campuses? A butcher!
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  336.  Jody Owen  Thanks for your very detailed answer. These were deeply interesting, yet sadly flawed people. They were all great observers of the world. I actually find Hemingway a brilliant writer myself. Merry Christmas!
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  337. Why?
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  338.  @kathrynhamblin2997  Well he was born in New Zealand, but they didn't want him. Everything Phar Lap ever wax came from Australia. If the Americans hadn't nobbled him he would have achieved much more.
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  339.  @generalhyde007  Mostly true, though many had been members of the Nazi Party.
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  340.  @Grahameajohnson  Yet people from the US refer to themselves as "Americans" to the exclusion of other American nations, and their country as "America" rather often. True, your official documents and institutions are usually more precise.
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  341. That is pretty much true, hence the use of American measurements, terms and a focus on that audience generally. Plus it gives them a huge opportunity to whinge about his pronunciation, not that they can talk.
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  342. Depends on whaere you are alluding to. To liken and Western nation, or most developing nations too, to ancient Rome is a big stretch, though the Romans would admire the trail of bodies surrounding the Clintons, or the hawkish nature of formwe UK PM Tony Blair..
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  343. As much as that might be a valid idea, there precious few actual facts known about Jesus.
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  344. Nobody, except you and a literal few other use the ter, "non-Catholic Christianity". The usual term is "Reformist" or we refer to the various denominations by their names. Bear in mind that atheists often conduct themselves on a manner that is religious in style, albeit without a deity. You are just as dogmatic as those against whom you profess a higher reason or morals. Plus your Trump stuff is just typical liberal hyperbole. I don't really care, not being American, but Obomber(sic) was far more likely to dump bombs on others, and did SFA about gun violence in the US.
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  345. Easy, millions do it every day.
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  346. Perhaps you should research it.
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  347. Poor scripting, most likely.
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  348.  @sonyabunkum6212  Yes, though we Brits, as a British Australian use both forms. Personal preference really.
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  349.  @tigercap100  I would take a steaming dump on both!
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  350. The naval tradition, used by many countries, of re-using names from previous vessels is a fascinationg one. While Enterprise popularly claimed as an American name for a vessel, it was being used by the French and British before the Americans, and has been used by the Royal Navy, and still is.
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  351. Meh, everyone's a critic.
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  352. Try looking it up.
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  353. In short, no.
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  354. @tzar2007 It died in the arse! Mate, read a book! Most credulous fans of Communism/Socialism are what that thug, Lenin, called "Useful Idiots".
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  355. Most advocates of the failed ideologies of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao and so on are Champagne Socialists, the very same Useful Idiots that Lenin used, but despised.
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  356. Dawkins and Ward fairly recently separated. It was apparently amicable, which is good.
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  357. Look at your history: the Dems have never truly been supportive of black people beyond platitudes and a sense of entitlement when it comes to demanding the black vote.
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  358. Most pirate stuff is a literary re-writing thanks to Robert Louis-Stephenson and a couple of campy 1950's movies, carried through to today in even more campy movies.
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  359. It is well known he had a proclivity for young boys.
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  360. Populist comic-book reference required to engage immature Americans.
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  361. The ultimate corporate Socialist of our time.
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  362.  @CrowBag  Bollocks, you are not villains for having the audacity to degend yourselves and win. I know you are likely a student of all that 1960's BS where Germany was painted as an innocent victim, almost always using Dresden as your supposed proof, but we Brits fought back, had every right to, and hold no guilt for doing so.
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  363.  @6h471  Herman Göring's brother was a prominent anti-nazi, but suffered due to association with Herman.
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  364. Too many gameer and other geek references here already. Don't need more obscure crap!
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  365.  @ncwdevine  what is with this American tendency to end a statement, usually in caps or forceful exclamation of ' Period'? Does it mean something special?
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  366. These presentations are made by Americans, and mainly for Americans. Colour television is definitely attributable to him.
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  367. Apparently it was exactly what it sounds like; a pool filled with raw liver.
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  368.  @devinecatlady  Close to Gogg or Gock, but not too hard on the last syllable
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  369. Apparently. Archer knows his stuff!
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  370. He didn't spell it that way, his writers did, and they write for an American audience.
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  371. She has often owned several at once, and they would be well cared for, especially as the Queen is the royal patron of the RSPCA.
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  372. Do one on Kreiger's girlfriend!
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  373. Which wars did Nixon and Ford initiate? Somewhere in South ir cental America?
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  374. You didn't listen closely enough as apparently Klingon was his native language!
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  375. He may well have been all you say, and my take on him mirrors yours, but many do seem to elevate him to an exalted position.
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  376. We also don't need to capitalise most words.
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  377. I cannot stand the American way, it is lazy.
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  378.  @angelitabecerra  Actually the chariot theory seems unlikely too, given his physical deformities, not least a club-foot. It has been examined at length. Current theories suggest a number if causes for his death that exclude both murder and the chariot accident, backed up by an increased amount of evidence from his health issues. That bloke must have been pretty uncomfortable for most of his short life.
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  379. No real evidence of that.
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  380. Another commie failure!
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  381.  @CulturalBolshevik  No, it is ruthlessly communist, run by the Chinese Communist Party, with a self-appointed president for life and everything is controlled by the government, even the supposedly capitalist parts of the Chinese economy. Communist countries have usually had no problem with allowing certain elements of capitalism to operate, but make no mistake, it is always under strict Party control.
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  382. Plus Labour for the 1990's and early 2000's outbreaks, handled with the same incompetence.
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  383. Why?
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  384. No, just another speculation.
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  385. Properly it is neither, nor is it the American "van-go".
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  386.  @hasenhirn1965  You do realise it was Obama who asked for Rusdian help, caught on video, in the 2012 election, and he and Hillary happily sold Russia a massive amount od weapons-grade uranium? Typical Democract: accuse others of that of which you are guilty. As for me, I am not even Americam, much less a Trump fan, but that collusion theory is long dead. As for scapegots, well it is true that various regimes have targeted certain groups, but the facts point to China as the source, and that they mishandled and lied regarding COVID-19.
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  387. @Prince Vegeta The differences between State Socialism, Communism, Fascism and Nazism are of interest to political historians and those seeking to advance or deny one or more of these systems. If you are the average person you will note all need oppression to be enacted, ruthless central control, violence, social engineering and more just to be enacted, and these traits get more onerous over time. All essentially derive from the delerious ramblings of Marx and Engels and others.
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  388.  @betweenthepanels9145  Swings and roundabouts matey! Find one leader at the time who wasn't racist? FDR wasm Stalin, Musdolini, De Gaulle, Hitler, even Gandhi. It was a different time, none were good in this regard, so why pick out Churchill alone?
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  389. Bollocks!
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  390. Who? We Brits say the same thing about Americans.
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  391. Good to see someone knows their history! Add to the fact the the Nazis modelled their eugenics ideology and practices after American activities on this area, not least the likes of Margaret Sanger.
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  392. The premonitions of thus sort rarely have any true Biblical origin, they are usually either made up, or deliberate misinterpretations of scripture. Same crap happens in Islam, Buddhism and other faiths. I think it is often nutters trying to gain a reputation.
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  393. Dame, mate, that sort of turgid negativity is very much a Brezhnev way of thinking!
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  394. A raging philanderer and hypocrite? Some people know
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  395.  @leonardhaddrill8842  Indeed true, the Me designation was correct for the Me-262 and some other aircraft, but the 108, 109 and 110, and others, Bf was correct.
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  396.  KMSMista  Great comeback. I think you were referring to yourself with that one. The gender wage gap has been disproven time and again in Western countries.
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  397. Well the exact nature of the problem with the crown isn't clear given time and dramatic licence. It may well have been an adulterated alloy, or the whole story may be apocryphal. Who knows?
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  398.  @dogphlap6749  Good insight. I vaguely remember this too, from when I was in school, but will we ever know? There are likely many more deeply interesting inventions that will be discovered as having appeared earlier.
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  399. No, that ship was built almost 50 years later, being launched in 1764 and rented Endeavour (sic) prior to Cook's voyage. Most sailing vessels outside of naval vessels had fairly short lives too, at least by modern standards.
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  400.  @hammerofgod6481  I'll always take a good recommendation! Thanks!
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  401. Have to these days, YT rules are prissy and liberal activists police everything from language and opinion to images.
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  402. Former King Edward definitely seemed to have some pro-nazi sympathies. Best thing that can be said there is that it is good for Britain that he abdicated.
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  403. Partian: Well, good for you mate, but he was a total hypocritical wanker, and a monster.
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  404. "Fully prepared to commit violence"...Communism all over, even against their own.
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  405. Probably sweat and grine, like most people at the time.
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  406. Does it upset you that Hitler, monster that he was, showed more respect than FDR? If you don't like the truth then blame FDR for being an incredible asshole. Pointing out that fact does not equate to being an apologist for Hitler or nazis. Perhaps being an American liberal prevents you from understanding that people can be more than one thing.
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  407. Same could be asked of FDR. The two relative moderates when it came to alcohol were Hitler and Stalin.
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  408.  @michaelandbrytanyjordan7573  American liberals claim to be against eugenics, yet love Planned Parenthood, and the notion that conservatives shouldn't be allowed to breed.
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  409.  @Vbluevital  Sorry, was well known at the time, from the pervert's own mouth.
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  410. I agree, John Spera, may his crotch be infested with the fleas of a thousand camels, and his arms be too short to scratch...before an eternity of withering agony!
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  411.  عمر حليله  I doubt people will believe what you say given better people have actually provided evidence of Bin Laden's culpability, over and above his claims of responsibility. I know conspiracy theorists like you get off on trolling youtube and other sites on this issue, but your claims have no concrete evidence.
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  412. There is no universal love for him, nor should there be. In many ways he was a total wanker.
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  413. Good choice, if less popular than most. Bloke was interesting, to say the least.
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  414. Reminds me of Blackadder!
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  415. Amerocan svripting, I think. It is like the modern tendency to explain things using a question-then-answer way of explaining thigs: it is didactic and precise in a way, but hardly good grammar and dumbs things down. Very American.
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  416.  @UnamusedAHole  Yet those are the facts about Marx, among others. As for fascism, one is not a fascist if one opposes the abomonable Marx, and anyway, fascism and Marxism are two sides of the same coin, it is just that Marxism won.
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  417.  @Kunumbah1  The US hasn't had a successful military leader since Eisenhower, though he obviously wasn't president then. Trump is no military leader, true, but that is a charge common to all of your presidents in the past almost 60 years. If you want presidents involved in wars not as actual military leaders apart from the title of Commander In Chief, well take your pick, but, in that respect, all your presidents are then technically military leaders.
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  418. Ironically she was a Catholic, as were almost all the Irish.
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  419. In short, yes, at least in the case of the US. There is a lot of spare soybean for feed in the US, reducing risks somewhat.
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  420. Half the planet is 8n summer. So northern-centric of you!
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  421. Not quite: had Edward been king his children, if he had had any, would have bumped her down the line. It is suspected he couldn't father children because of possible sterility from a case of the mumps.
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  422. Bad scripting...by Americans who should know better.
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  423.  @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan  Those (supposed) ideals do not exist without all, the monstrous stuff. Any evil person or group can usually be made to look saint-like if you cherry-pick ideological points. As for opposing war, that is a very selective point as communists are famous war-mongers.
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  424.  @amandajean7738  A constant diet of fellow fat-cats. Imagine the cholesterol!
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  425. Unlikely the dog will be mentioned by name, given it is politically incorrect.
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  426. Medical care has historically been rather classist in many countries, including much of Europe and the US. Because there were a lot of cultural myths suggesting a supposed "delicacy of womanhood", with issues like hysteria being common in upperclass women, facilities were apparently needed to treat a range of conditions believed to be common in women of upper classes. It would be easy to pass this off entirely as endemic chauvinism, but women reinforced this attitude too.
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  427.  @mattd3121  Unlikely as the pilots and other terrorists were still in training when Bush assumed office 8 months earler. Blame Clinton and his dithering, spending too much time enyoing his interns andnot really doing much else of note. The plot was hatched well within his time in office.
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  428. A lot of translations from English to German are similarly tautological.
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  429. I think you either need to get laid or have a stiff drink, at least.
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  430.  @mmlas8683  Good to see a "full-stop" instead of the inane, and over-used American "Period", usually with at least a few exclamation marks for inaccurate emphasis.
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  431. Well, maybe idiot Americans read it that way.
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  432.  @cbbgenki4315  A few points 1. I am not Amweican, I don't even like Trump, but Hillary deserved to lose, and she and Obama were seriously dodgy. 2. Asking for foreign help is still dodgy, and there has been no credible proff that Trump ever did seek Russian help three years ago, but Obomber(sic) was caught on cameran and audio. Seems to me you Obama tragics apply different standards accirding to side. 3. Not here to entertain you, but I might as well keep piinting out that Killary and Obama were dodgy, and the FBI was corrupt. They will do anything to protect a Clinton.
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  433.  @coolexio  It would end up being a whitewash of the man, making him into the saint that definitely was not, even in his later years.
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  434.  @AverageJoe483  The Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie was after that, and was definitely Libyan sponsored, so you are definitely wrong.
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  435. The Arthurian legends are a confusing melange of different legends, so this April Fools version makes as much sense as any! 😁
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  436.  @rageblanket2139  oh I can see a carefully crafted future attempt to get Chelsea Clinton on the throne, oops, in the White House.
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  437. Ned Kelly came first. Billy was the follower. That said, Ned was a two-bit thief and murderer, hardly someone of note.
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  438. Probably a tad too local.
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  439.  @alexandermacdougall7873  The rise of Islam did too.
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  440. Why would March be at all relevant? It just took time for people, especially China, to admit its existence and take it seriously. Some countries took it seriously as early as mid January , which still too slow, and the UN/ WHO wasn't honest about it until two weeks after that. Is there something special about March?
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  441. Musketball, it is quite clear.
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  442. He was one of the inspirations for that character.
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  443. What is this "reeee" thing?
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  444. Nobody cares, least of all Harry S. Truman.
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  445. Pig's arse! Still, you have the right to be wrong!
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  446. Both are actually correct
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  447. Spooky looking place. Would love to do the tour of the town.
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  448. Another brute, lionised by the political Left.
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  449. The main audience is American. About the only Indian they know might by Gandhi, his name and little else.
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  450. Fastest in the world? Maybe only for one mile. Real horses do the 2 mile Melbourne Cup!
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  451. The most successful piece of propaganda that the Stalinist International Socialism ever performed: to divorce Fascism and more "traditional" Leftist movements and place Fascism at the hard right of the political spectrum (that traditionally Leftist academics created).
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  452.  @samjames6890  No, the Left love to re-write history to suit your agenda. It is in the name: National Socialist German Worker's Party, and it was just one of a bunch of socialist groups fighting it out in the 1920's and 30's in Germany, though the International Socialism of Lenin and Stalin eventually won out, and wrote the histories, especially in the 1960's and over the past 20 years, once Keft-wing depression over the fall of the USSR faded. Hitler himself said the Nazi's were Socialists, just nit quite your sort, not that it jade any difference to people invaded by Nazis or by your Stalinist lot: all were Lefty thugs. Remember , Hitler and Stalin were allied for far longer than Stalin was, nominally, one of the Allied nations. It was only due to that senile Democrat twat, FDR that Stalin, and your lot, got the chance to score a win for your branch of Socialism.
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  453.  @samjames6890  You really think Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Kims, Ceausescu,, Pol Pot, Chavez and Castro were emancipators? Oh right, Lrfty rdvisionism states that "it wasn't REAL Socialism/Communism", and modern Lefties lap it up, because it polishes the turd that is Marxism. As for details in ideology, they did exist between all Lefty groups, but Hitler's lot were united with Stalin for far longer, and in Germany Communists and Nazis fought over the samr ideological ground. Remember, Marxists locked up Nazis too, a way of defeating the competition. Then again you are a sad commie, education pointing out facts means nothing to Lefties: you can justify anything in your own minds, but doesn't make it right.
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  454.  @greenbrickbox3392  Ho Chii Minh was anything but that! No Communist leader has emancipated anyone, just enslaved them.
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  455.  @greenbrickbox3392  Hitler himself defined Nazis as rival Marxists, born of the same (diseased) ideology. They were collectivists and, despite a veneer of allowing property and business ownership, everything was controlled rigidly by the State. If Communists were such emacipators, then why the failed economics, oppression, death and "re-education" camps, closed borders and and lack of media and speech freedoms? Fascism is just another collective ideology (hence the root word from which fascism was derived) that requires extreme violence to impose, not emancipate people. Sankara? A vicious thug who brought the Upper Volta nothing but pain and misery which continues today.
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  456.  @greenbrickbox3392  You really believe all the Stalinist peopaganda that tried to divorce Nazism from the othe mad eavings of Marx and the abominations of Lenin and Stalin, talk about brainwashed. Name one, just one Communist state with anything remotely approaching Western freedoms and has bedn an economic success using Marx's mad economic notions? Sure, Corporal Hitler spoke out against certain iterations of Marxism, but there are many quotes, actually by him, not Communists verballing him, where he stated ckearly that Nazis were socialists, in name, and in fact, just not the sort you lot want to own up to. Yes, Viet Nam stopped the Khmer Rouge, but they were communists fighting other communists. Viet Nam has a terrible human rights record of its own accord, one nominally humanitarian war diosn't change that. Worked in Viet Nam for years, it isn't good in terms of human rights, even the deeply corrupt UN admits that. Time to burn the Chė t-shirt, and your Little Red Book, I reckon. Unless you are living in one of these supposed Marxist utopias you are just supporting a system you haven't got the courage to adopt yourself. Very undergraduate. Lenin cojned a phrase for people like you: Useful Idiots.
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  457.  @greenbrickbox3392  Funny, all you have said is the Left-wing view: your lot won the Lefty conflicts, and wrote the histories, making Marxism sainted, and everyone else is thus to be purged. The Nazis, I repeat, derived from the diseased ideology of Marx, and were just one of many competing far-Left ideologies. You, as all communists do, forget that Stalin and Hitler were allied for far longer than your murderous Thug, Stalin, was sucking up to the Allies, begging not to be left out. It was only thanks to fellow Lefty, the senile FDR that was allowed to change sides as opposed to facing Hitler alone. Defending the Vietminh is natural for a communist, but you really need to stop painting them as saints. They were , and are strict oppressors, ethnic cleansers (sound familiar, it should as Stalin and Hitler did the same thing) and needed the usual amount of force to make everyone conform. Still does. Going up against Pol Pot doesn't redeem them. Books? Read all the time. I make the same suggestion to you, and stay away from the deluded Marxist tomes, chock full of BS.
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  458.  @greenbrickbox3392  I can say the same about you, you repeat the same excuses for Communist governments and abominable Marxisy philosophy. As you have no actual life experience you really have no relevance. I don't need to provide new content, and you have only dragged out more and more communist propaganda. You see communism as liberating, yet don't live under such a system: I have, so my life experience beats your turgid regurgitation of tired, failed communist tripe found at the local communist bookshop. Talk radio? I assume you mean American rubbish. Not American, talk radio sucks, and in my country it is Lefty anyway. Remember Gramsci who exponded on the notion of a long march through institutions. Well your lot have done that in the West, you should be happy. I do suggest that you try living in a communist nation, instead of looking, cow- eyed, at supposed communist utopias while living in the comfort of a Western nation.
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  459.  @greenbrickbox3392  They really aren't, I don't need to attack you personally, they are just reflections of your flawed idealism. If you are so enamoured with communist lufe, why do you live in the West? Why do you so exalt a system you have no experience with? Hiw come you don't reflect, even marginally, on the force required to implement and maintain a communist society? You don't mention the fact that, with very few exceptions, they are montrously corrupt, and the leaders live like kings while the rest are oppressed. Not a word from you about the social implications of forced equality. No mention of the ruthless purges of intellectuals and people of faith or ethnic minorities common to communist governments. Really mate, I justpointed out some of the few facts common to diseased Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist, Frankfurt School, Gramsci and Maoist philosophy. If you believe those, as dearly as you seem to, without daring to live in a communist society yourself, then all you have is words and pseudo-intellectual pomposity. I have not even scratched the surface of the issues with communism, don't really need to given your depth of understanding of it doesn't go much beyond "we really hated nazis", " communism is emancipatory", and some muddled ideas about Viet Nam. Oh, and you dropped a few ad hominems yourself. Seriously mate, have the courage of your supposed convuctions and live in a communist hellhole for at least 2 years (I lived in Burma for 4 years and Viet Nam for almost 7), then come here and preach about it. Until then you really have no grasp of what you are BSing about.
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  460.  @greenbrickbox3392  Again I ask, why are you living in a Western country? You choose not to see all the benefits of capitalism. Sure it isn't perfect by any means, but you exalt Communism to the extent that you see no faults, and want a glorious " worker's paradise" to take over. Such a takeover would require force, and would result in an unsustainable economy. The USSR failed because the Marxist drivel it was based on is inherently flawed. Do you seriously believe a communist military would have been better than a capitalist one? Do you really want to be dominated utterly by the State, with not even the freedom to post on blogs or sites like this, even if you had access to international internet? Are you truly happy for your neighbour to hold views contrary to those of the State without feeling the need to have them forcibly re-educated. I see problems with every system, but you see none, or excuse all the problems with Communism. The system I live under in Australia is far better than the " soft socialism" we nearly ended up with at our last election. Soft socialism hardens, becomes more invasive and restrictive. You might want Communism, but remember that for every true believer in the fairytale glorious revolution like you, there are thousands that you will have to oppress to impose your ideals, and don't keep kidding yourself that you would be serving some greater good. As I said before, Lenin's " Useful idiot" description comes to mind. To the leaders of Communist societies you will just be a number, as assuming you don't get purged as useful idiots often are.
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  461.  @greenbrickbox3392  Nope, just got bored. Nazism derived from Socialism. Deal with it. Oh, and Communism is every bit as bad as Nazism, given they derive from the same source, use the same methods, and exalt the State over personal freedoms.
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  462. Joe Kennedy was a serious bastard, and his crotch goblins were not much better. JFK was a typical Democrat war-monger, only LBJ topped him, though Obomber(sic) is one too.
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  463. Leaving aside your earlier bias, you actually believe that Trump didn't win in 2016? Damn, millions and years spent by Democrats, even the most feral prove you wrong. Hillary pissed off many, and was not a good candidate.
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  464.    Well true, Leftists do like their comforts...paid for via our taxes, with a tremendous sense of entitlement.
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  465. Good choice! 😁
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  466. Morgan, despite being a fellow Brit, cannot deal with Shapiro.
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  467. Forced sterilisation is abominable, but fairly standard doctrine in various branches of socialist ideology.
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  468. Yes, his reputation in much of the world is not nearly as grand as in much of the US.
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  469.  The Reverend Jim Jones  Hah, I am no SJW, you wanker, but I reckon you are! Plus all I have done is state well known facts about Walt. He was definitely a racist, and definitely a property thief, all you can do is try, in your pathetic SJW way, to hurl abuse while having no argument. As for being "that guy", whatever that means, must be some stupid Americanism. Many others here have noted the same facts about Walt. His intellectual property theft was legendary.
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  470.  @georgemckenna462  True, but using wing-warping to induce roll died out pretty quickly in mainstream aviation. Ailerons are far better, though the Wright's tried to claim they had a patent on that too.
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  471.  Cam  Well, Osama cclaimed responsibility. Then there is the actual evidence.
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  472. Parts of it did, sure, and it is something of a source of interest as to why, though it seems there were a few reasons. These included the terrain, possibly local resistance to the pathogen, luck and cultural factors.
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  473. Try an adblocker. They are not perfect, but they do get rid of most of the ads.
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  474. Interesting bloke, though note that a lot of what he did was intellectual property theft from his time at Tatra, and his close work with Nazi monsters cannot be denied. Plus "his" way of building a car, namely rear-engined and air-cooled didn't really catch on, even though there have been many such designs.
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  475. Trotsky, yet another communist thug who ended up getting stabbed in the back by his fellow tossers.
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  476. The expression is "knocked for six".
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  477. Astrology is BS.
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  478. Great choice! His military and later civic endeavours were extensive and shaped much of Australia during and after WW1.
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  479. ...and the longest reigning monarch still living, though she won't beat the length of the late king of Thailan's reign for a while, though he was quite a bit younger when he ascended his throne in the 1940's
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  480. Truth, at least as regards the strength, if not the policies.
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  481. The EU suggests otherwise.
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  482. He was just sucking up to you ignorant Americans!
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  483. One question: do you want an honest bio, or propaganda? Mohammed was not a good man.
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  484. Except that VP's, not least LBJ and Truman, who assumed office have been elected as VP. Ford wasn't.
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  485. That is such an American comment! I will have mine with strawberries and cream.
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  486. Note that the American way is not correct either. "Go" is no better than "Goff".
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  487. How is that relevant? OK, you hate Trump, but it doesn't make you a better person by advertising your hatred.
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  488. As far as I can figure it, BC and AD were relpaced with BCE and CE respectively, as a politically correct way of re-naming the time periods. I could get worked up about the change, and the Left-wing PC bollocks behind it, but why bother? It does get annoying when they get mixed up in a presentation, such as using BC and CE together, or BCE and AD, stick to one or the other, consistently. That is poor scripting and editing. Regarding 0-1 CE, there is no year zero in either AD or CE, which is why, as one example, the end of the second millennium was Dec 31st 2000 and not Dec 31st 1999. I really didn't care, it meant having two piss-ups instead of one. 😁😁😁🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
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  489.  skullpull 101  Well Communists and their fascist cousins do steal resources too. Just remember, only liberal democracies have developed to allow gays and others to exist without persecution. You won't get that from Lefty governments.
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  490.  @thecrispy7789  The same flaw of degeneracy infects all Socialist and Communist governments. Theocracies too, though few remain.
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  491.  @numanfairchild8442  *you're
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  492. Plus a lot of Karl Orff's "Carmina Burana", another composer who's work was tainted, quite unfairly, by nazi association.
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  493. The politics of this channel clearly favour the Democrats
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  494. Good for you.
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  495. Your point? Not everything is literal, and people do know the meaning of that term.
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  496.  @OriginalR69  Most of our second wave derives from state government incompetence, especially in Victoria. NSW and Queensland are not doing so well either, but Victoria is easily the worst.
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  497. That's two words. Buddhism is violent in many ways.
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  498. That quote easily pre-dates LBJ
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  499.  @lilymarinovic1644  Exactly true. Political types do tend to steal quotes and their fans then claim that their idol owns those words.
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  500. In what way does communism deserve sympathetic treatment? No expression of it has been humane.
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  501. Better than how Americans pronounce it! "Accolards" 🤣
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  502. Who cares, who cares, who cares!
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  503. Oh I know your point, I just don't care! Nor does anyone else.
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  504. No. Whay makes you say that?
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  505. Looking at 1990''s British Labour. Looking at Obama's government when BSE brome out in the US in 2016. Plenty of blame to go around.
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  506. Maybe the illness was part of his creative genius. Many geniuses have been mentally ill or at leasy quirky people.
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  507.  @annescholey6546  Better than all those mad Labour gits who buggered the UK.
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  508. Simon's accent? Fairly typical middle-class English. Not quite the ultra-formal Received English, but pretty educated.
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  509. Simon just reads the script.
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  510. Well, your previous one.
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  511.  @dylancooper787  Could be either, but the second one is the main basis of their dogma, even if it is based largely on sketchy anecdotal claims and very poor knowledge of science.
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  512.  @vanhovemare  Fair enough. 😁
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  513.  @MaxArturo  Agree with you there. I tend to think thay most revolurions are started by "the people", or some subset of the population, but are co-opted by far-Left groups, in most cases. I am in favour of the institution of the British Monarchy, even if some members are not exactly my cup of tea. The EU, to me at least, represents the worst of Lefty globalism, as does the UN.
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  514. Why? The man was an utter, unrepentant fool!
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  515. Me too, but so what?
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  516. Glad your comment is personal, as it doesn't mean even SFA really. You are American, I assume, and we laugh are you every chance we get.
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  517. No way, there are already too many slow, didactic videos, complete with an American drawl.
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  518.  @jakehix8132  True..you Americans killed him simply for being better.
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  519. Similar, my father died just a month before Freddie and I barely noticed Freddie's passing. A bad time.
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  520. Might be hard, not a great deat is really known about him.
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  521. Neither did Labour, as these issues were known since the 1960's at least, and the big '90's BSE outbreaks hapoened under Blair's New Labour, who pompously mishandled everything then.
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  522. Definitely a bogan hero. Funny thing is all the modern people claiming his legacy, itself worthless, for various causes.
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  523. Following on from that of Obomber(sic) who asked for Russian help in the 2012 election and sold uranium to Russia.
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  524.  @badwrench13  No, Obama was caught on cam and mic asking for Russian help in 2012. There is no record, only wishful thinking, that Trump asked for Russian help in 2016. As for the uranium sale, it required Obama's approval. Face it, your Messiah was a lame duck at best, crooked at worst. You Americans really cannot elect good leaders.
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  525. Used to own a Chrysler Valiant. Was OK, just rather tired when I got it.
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  526. British way. Why do you Americans get so worked up about English oeople pronouncing our own language? Then again we snigger at American speech a lot, you are so funny and quaint.
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  527.  @kevin7rxxx346  It is our own language. You Americans just borrow it. 😁
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  528.  @kevin7rxxx346  Hmmm...bollocks! There are so many words you lot mispronounce. You also fail at spelling, but with your education system I am not surprised.
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  529. My memory is eidetic, or used to be before hydrocephalus issues reared up, but it required a lot of effort. My identical twin brother has no such ability, and we were nagged and badgered throughout our svhool years to participate in various studies, often by teachers who pretty much expected we would do so. I have spoken to many others with similar abilities, and some found it easy, most had to put in effort and needed motivation. I don't really miss the ability, though the condition that stopped it does suck.
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  530. @Teemu True, it is neither perfect, nor effortless. It can also cause social issues for those of us with it. Glad I lost the ability, but 115 brain surgeries are a bit of a difficult way to achieve that freedom.
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  531. I this some pop-culture reference?
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  532. True, though the distinction escapes many people. The scripts are written by an American team, and I have noticed that accuracy seems greater when it comes to the US, and Americans than it is with non-American people and places.
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  533. He really has not done much. 40 years in politics, little to show for it really apart from self-aggrandizing positions on issues, until he changed his mind. Plus the life-long corruption and obscene interest in children. Oh, and before you say I like Trump, I will remind you that I can criticise Biden based on Biden's own career, without having to reflect on the NPC's favourite boogeyman. I am not even American, but must say that your choices for prez really suck!
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  534. You are the third stutterer on here today. I suggest beta-blockers, they should help.
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  535. Very brief and hardly critical, but wasn't the focus of this presentation.
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  536. You mean the terrorist, and hic seriously deranged wife?
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  537. Why? Nothing there of note except a bit of meditation.
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  538.  @laalki80  Oh. Not American, means nothing to me, especially when that time point in the presentation refers to a bloke sitting on his Blessed ASSurance for a week. Can you elaborate, if you have time or interest?
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  539. Chè happily admitted his acts, and Churchill certainly wasn't what you claim. A false equivalency.
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  540. Seriously mate, all your presidents are dodgy, doesn't matter which corrupt party they are from! If you really think the Democrats are better then you are part of the problem!
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  541. Very true, the entire TV series was shown in between his last book and his next in the ASOIAF. No idea when The Winds of Winter will come out, if ever. Might have to be like Asimov's last three books, being completed by estate-approved third parties.
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  542. Your point? It isn't a competition.
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  543. There is a valid argument for the Black Death being triggered in the 7th century and 14th century by temporary climate changes following eruptions of Krakatau (around 648 AD) and probably Samalas (around 1346). The cooling caused by volcanic fallout changed societies all over the world in both instances.
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  544. There were many more famous fighter pilots.
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  545. "Van Go" as Americans say it is no better.
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  546. Many film-makers, authors, even poets credit him, which is fair.
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  547. Can't really add to your comment, he is as you say.
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  548. Greece, not Germany.
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  549. Why? How do you say it? If it is the American way, then you are wrong too.
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  550. It was better explained in the script.
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  551. Yes, so long as the truth of the Dalai Lama is shown. Fêted in the West as a font of Eastern wisdom, he, and his predecessors have all been ruthless feudal overlords. China isn't any better, and I am not defending them, but the Dalai Lamas, including the current one, are not saints.
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  552. You should know he doesn't write the scripts, and they are written by Americans for this channel's mainly American audience.
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  553. Well, Americans have issues with English pronunciation. To-may-to, tomato!
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  554. Genuine or the Mel Gibson BS version?
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  555.  @edbadyt  Yet his successor, Atlee, was also all those things, but a poor leader and economic moron...but he was a Lefty so your lot forgive him.
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  556. According to you....and ignorant Americans
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  557. True, bit of tautology there.
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  558. Just like the Americans, French, Chinese, Indians, Brazilians Russians, Germans...or any other nationality.
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  559. The difference was the Great Eastern was innivative, the Titanic was just built to a price and operated by morons.
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  560. Anglo? The presenter is English, but we Europeans have mixed views about Castro.
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  561. Akenhaten disproves your point. His unorthodox reign was treated with even greater attempts at erasure than Hatsepchut's was, both at the time, and by modern historians.
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  562. The English is correct, it is only infantile Americans who picked that out.
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  563. Facts are thin on the ground.
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  564. Slavery in Africs has historically been Africans selling each other out to slaving groups, such as the Barbary pirates, though they then onsold the slaves and it is the European end-users who cop the historical blame. Most modern slavery in this region is still operated my Muslim people traffickers, and the bulk of Islamic slaves went east, e bc en centuries ago, but it isn't PC to say so.
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  565.  @Wittle_Boyo  Perspective mate: apart from the modern obsession with comic book movies Stan Lee isn't really a household name, especially outside the US. As mentioned, his natural death is not a tragedy, unless you are someone like Sheldon Cooper. I know nerds like him, and you, exist, but the majority of us who have jobs, friends and sex lives find any obsession with "superheroes" quite ridiculous.
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  566.  Forsaken Pumpkin  The semantics of what constitutes the first flight do make Abbas ibn Firnas as having made the first recorded flight, using a glider. with the Wrights able to prove the first powered, heavier-than-air flight. If there were earlier cases in either category, such as that New Zealand bloke, there is no evidence to support such claims, making them pretty much worthless..
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  567. Well atheists haven't exactly covered themselves in glory, insanity is there too. Oh and fake belifs in their superiorty too. Dicks are everywhere.
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  568.  @tarunbhatt6051  It is a reference from "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
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  569. If you are speaking as an American, then I would say you have it wrong. As someone English, his mispronunciations are merely amusing, even when mispronouncing Derby, using the crude American way, ie: as is is spelled.
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  570. Those Jacobins definitely otherwise! Heads rolled.
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  571.  @CulturalBolshevik  Sorry dude, LBJ was a political animal, happily able to be himself while supporting a bill that advanced his standing and created a legacy for him.
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  572. Blame his American scriptwriters and editors.
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  573. Yep, might well be so! Who really knows?
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  574. Because depictions of her are are a Macedonian Greek descended woman, with some ancestral Persian. What did you expect? She certainly wouldn't have been black, and the Ptolomies didn't breed with native Coptic Egyptians. Cleopatra's mother may have been an exception, little is known of her.
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  575. There is one.
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  576. Not sure, but definitely didn't invent the automobile, even if many, not just Americans, believe it so.
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  577. Rommel was a fairly good self-promoter, though partly it was the Nazi government who put him up as a figurehead and hero.
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  578. Mispronounced "lieutenant " too.
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  579. Just so long as it was "zed", not the ghastly American "zee", which sounds odd coming from a Brit.
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  580.  @karlmeyer9473  The concept of a political spectrum or graph is sound, but who then places the data? Most modern political grapgs of this type are written and peer reviewed by left-wing academics and confirms their bias.
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  581. Even if that is apocryphal, first appearing five years after Twain died, and attributed to him.
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  582. Tony Blair too, given the 90's outbreak was well after he was elected, and New Labour handled it with the same incompetence.
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  583. Nope, the American scriptwriter did, and the American editor missed it.
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  584. Best not to use an actor from the wrong side of the Atlantic. Too American-centric.
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  585. It was pretty impressive!
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  586. Gh has more phonetic sound variarions in English than any other two letter combinations. Very confusing.
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