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LiamOMaraIV

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Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.

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British explorer was ordered to treat people with civility and avoid violence, but on in 1779 he tried to kidnap a aliʻi nui (leader) and fired into a crowd so he was deservedly clubbed in the head and stabbed in the neck.

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You know a dead leader is unpopular when, more than two years after death, his corpse is dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded, with the body tossed in a pit and the head displayed for 300 years. That happened on in 1661 to , dictator of Britain.

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45 people with the movement in , , were killed by paramilitaries during a prayer meeting on in 1997. Soldiers tried to cover it up instead of helping, cleaning blood from a church where pregnant women were stabbed.

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The worst disaster in England happened on in 1866. in experienced a series of 17 underground explosions, killing 361 miners & rescue workers. An inquest assigned no cause, and parliament took years to call for safer conditions.

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On in 43 BCE, was killed. A statesman ( suppressed ) & syncretic/ , he backed , so under the he was murdered, head and hands displayed publically in Rome.

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On in 1961, leader of the broadcast a speech across in which he declared himself explicitly to be a intent on adopting a form of state-centred in the Caribbean country.

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On in 1946, French warships shelled () in , setting the city ablaze and killing thousands of civilians. They then sent ground troops to go door to door, killing more. This was in response to Vietnamese desire to escape .

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To-day is , or if you are an arsehole. Columbus was a literal slave trader and paedophile monster who thought he was in India. I am one of those "left-wing arsonists" that accuses of trying to "destroy his name and dishonour his memory."

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For the dishonest idiots who still claim the movement isn't based in , here are a bunch of fascist pricks in Orange County holding a rally to memorialize and chanting "white man, fight back!" The has made for itself a useful martyr.

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As an amateur player and enthusiast and Middle East historian, it was hard to read that the have once again banned the game. With its ultimate origin in India, its rules were perfected in Iran, and its early masters were all Muslims. 😞
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/06/17/g-s1-72309/chess-ban-afghanistan-taliban

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is a social science, not a hard science, and the are descriptive, not predictive. History, anthropology, sociology, etc., can tell you what happened and why, but they can't tell the future. Any economic model discounting and is garbage.

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@georgetakei Buttigieg is wrong, as usual. Failures have nothing to do with it. Trump scapegoats Haitians and other immigrants for the same reason as Hitler did it -- to gain and hold power for a specific racial/national group. This is why his arsehole fans love him. They think he succeeded, and for their vicious interests, he did.

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@georgetakei Sounds about right. Her head is filled with the same stuffing you'd find in any cheap sofa.

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Just another day in the American . Anyone not angry enough to organize for systemic change is a part of the problem we must overcome. If can't be woken up to their complicity, permanent rule is inevitable.

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In case you need a smile, check out this cute video. And remember that (, , , etc.) are wicked-smart and deserve your respect.

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