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Slight correction regarding the Catholic countries and their involvement in the Western Hemisphere, Spain, Portugal, and France all built numerous and extensive civilian colonial settlements throughout the territories they occupied. The Portuguese were limited entirely by treaty negotiated under the auspices of the pope and only had Brazil. The French, unlike the other European nations didn’t approach their venture by attempting to conquer, instead they attempted to cooperate and coordinate with the indigenous peoples which was a considerably slower process but far less costly. They were also dealings with some other issues back in Europe at the same time. The Spanish on the other hand went hog wild on the colonization of pretty much everywhere they could lay claim to. The entire state of California has a string of cities built around and named after mission churches built by the Spanish colonial powers. There’s an entire genre of architecture called Spanish Colonial Revival based on their buildings. Mexico City is a colonial city literally built on top of the previous Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. The cathedral in Mexico City is literally built right on top of the primary temple of Tenochtitlan. St Augustine, Fl is the oldest city in the United States and is a Spanish colonial city. There’s an entire string of theme parks called Six Flags which takes its name from the fact that several Southern states have had the flags of six different countries flying over them with Spain being one of them. They didn’t just come here mainly to exploit the resources. They didn’t treat the Americas like they treated subsaharan Africa. They came here deliberately for land to expand into. The Spanish conquistadors were promised land grants from the crown with titles of nobility to accompany them here.

I would like to point out that the Louisiana Purchase which was a sizable chunk of land that is now several of the states that make up the central portion of the continental United States was purchased from France. The French, much like the Dutch, didn’t conquer when they came to the Western Hemisphere as explorers and traders. Unlike the Spanish, Portuguese, and British, they legitimately did come here strictly to explore, set up trade networks, and build colonies where the indigenous populations would permit them to. Unlike the Dutch they did not attempt to barter for land, the French simply looked for potential locations and made certain that the indigenous peoples were OK with them establishing a colony or trading location there or if it would disrupt a preexisting local agreement. I’m uncertain about what the situation in Alaska was with regarding the Russians before they sold that to the US government. Of course the worst case wasn’t actually conquering so much as an illegal overthrow of a legitimate government at the request of private business interests owned by US citizens and enabled by the use of US military personnel. That would be the annexation of the kingdom of Hawaii btw. The sugar barons, all of them US citizens, who were private citizens and private business owners requested that the US government provide them with US Sailors and Marines in order to depose Queen Lili’uokalani the last and rightful monarch of the kingdom of Hawaii, establishing the short lived Republic of Hawaii, which very quickly became the US territory of Hawaii. A few decades later, after enough White people had moved to the islands to outvote the Native Hawaiians, it became our 50th state. I should also mention that the entire concept of there being separate races of Homo sapiens with vast differences that can be scientifically detected and measured is complete nonsense. It’s totally founded in the debunked pseudoscience of eugenics and has absolutely zero scientific evidence supporting. There is only a single extant species of human today, Homo sapien, and there are no subspecies within that species. The distinctions that are detectable are quite literally only skin deep, and that’s it. They’re pretty much just limited to the amount of melanin that is present in the epidermis, the way in which the hair grows, and eye color. There are a couple of things like sickle cell anemia which is more common in people whose ancestors were from areas that had large amounts of malaria, but that’s related to the fact that malaria was present and nothing else. Since malaria was extremely widespread from Africa to the Middle East, and the entire Mediterranean basin, that’s going to include a huge number of people. A couple of other extremely location specific adaptations have arisen in particular populations, but again that’s more because of the specific location than anything else. This whole argument about immigration is nothing more than racism based on pseudoscience mixed with xenophobia and nationalism. No nationalism isn’t patriotism, and it isn’t better than patriotism either. It’s worse than patriotism, and it’s actually worse than hating your own country. Nationalism is worse than hating your own country because, when you hate your country at least you’re able to notice & acknowledge when it’s making a mistake. Nationalists are simply incapable of recognizing that their country is even capable of making mistakes in the first place, let alone recognizing that it’s making one in the moment. Thus when it’s doing exactly that there’s no one to keep it from going past the point of no return. Nationalists always doom themselves to failure and defeat, ALWAYS. They can’t see their own mistakes, so they can’t learn from them, they can’t improve themselves, and they can’t think outside of their own tiny little boxes, or I should say echo chambers. They wallow in groupthink and don’t understand that they’re stuck. That’s why they don’t understand that diversity actually is a strength. They view it as a weakness, but their ideology of having everyone assimilate into one homogeneous culture is the weakness. If everyone looks, talks, thinks, acts, and believes the same and a problem is encountered, what happens when they try everything they can think of and none of it works?

Hell I call myself a faggot while getting pounded and fisted.

I know that this is several months old, and all of that, but I have wanted to add some perspective to this discussion from a bit of distance. I don’t intend any offense or insult to anyone involved with the original discussion, quite the opposite I’m simply hoping that since some time has passed and some grieving has occurred, it can be assessed and processed in a new light. Both Ellentonboy and Brian Bonds brought up valid points in their respective posts, but each of them also reacted to the behaviors of others with anger which is extremely common during the grieving process. Neither of them did anything wrong, they were just humans being human. Ellentonboy mentioned that Brian had no idea how someone else was connected with the deceased, and that’s true, even Brian somewhat acknowledged that in his own post before making statements that Ellentonboy disagreed with. I find that Brian’s message was a little mixed there, and he really didn’t have the right to demand that other people behave in specific ways. No one has the right to dictate how another person gets to behave , thus it would have been better if Brian had worded it as a suggestion. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened, he was dealing with his own grief over the death of a friend of his and when humans grieve we often get angry for no reason and lash out at anyone and everyone for no discernible explanation. It’s just something that humans do, as if it’s hardwired into our brains. Brian Bonds did make a good point though, about what is generally considered appropriate or inappropriate as a topic of public discussion when someone has just died. Ellentonboy’s discussion of Colton’s music career was completely appropriate for public discourse, and I would think wholly welcome by both Brian and the late Colton. Remembering the person who has just passed through something that brought joy to a wider audience than another career they had pursued would have been the preferred choice for many such artists I think regardless of what that alternate career was. In fact, just before responding to these posts I was thinking about what I would have written at the time, and I include it below … Colton Ford was, like all people, a complex human being, who definitely marched to the beat of his own drum. The beauty of it is that he decided to share that with the world by changing gears and launching a music career. Thank you, Glenn, you were truly a wonderful person who was genuinely kind and true pleasure to be around. You are sorely missed.

He was born in the US, making him a citizen by birth thus he can’t be deported. However he did grow up in South America and would travel back and forth as an adult.

So far no one has come across any sort of death certificate or obituary for him under his real name anywhere either here in North America or in South America. He was born in the US but grew up in South America before returning as an adult. What the reality is no one knows.

I wonder why the Department of Education has never fully succeeded? Let’s see, it was created under Jimmy Carter, who was replaced shortly thereafter by Ronald Reagan. Reagan was all about slashing the budget as far as some discretionary spending went, but not the areas where it really should have been cut, which simply rewarded large government contractors. Reagan had also teamed up with Pat Robertson’s “Christian Coalition” and Jerry Falwell Sr’s “Moral Majority”, both extremely conservative Evangelical Christian organizations which either directly or via subsequent organizations have pushed an anti-intellectualism agenda for decades. On top of that they’ve pushed for public funding for private Christian K-12 schools for decades as well, barring that they have strongly encouraged Evangelical Christian parents to homeschool their children and have produced their own curricula for this purpose, these curricula it should be noted are extremely substandard as far as the quality of the information they contain. Add to this the fact that the GOP has consistently cut funding to the Department of Education at every opportunity they’ve been able to locate ever since it was established. Finally, there was the absolute disaster that was the George W Bush admin’s program called “No Child Left Behind” which forced teachers to pass students at the end of the year even though those same exact students were failing so badly that they couldn’t grasp a single concept in the curriculum. Even now the Congressional Republicans have been voting to cut more and more funding from educational programs around the country, including programs that provide free lunch to students who need it. They would literally have students go hungry and fail because of that than see the Department of Education actually succeed at any aspect of their job. That’s not a failure within the Department of Education! That’s a massive failure within the Republican Party!

As for people complaining about Biden being too old or having “old man ways”, etc. He’s literally less than 3 years older than Trump! LESS THAN 3 YEARS DIFFERENCE IN AGE! It’s widely known that Trump has to wear diapers due to incontinence of his bowels. There are hints that he’s also dealing with bladder incontinence. His father was a dementia patient at this stage of life, and Trump has been demonstrating behaviors very similar to those of dementia patients., and more recently advanced stage dementia patients. There’s serious concern that he’s currently showing symptoms of severe congestive heart failure and cardiovascular disease with possible signs of strokes. His mental health hasn’t been stable for decades, and it hasn’t been improving over the past 15 years. He is incapable of remaining on topic within a single sentence, let alone finishing that sentence. He refers to completely irrelevant subjects and rambles from there. He’s been pardoning not just violent J6 criminals but also people who have been convicted for sexual crimes against children, and involving them in his administration! He made the illegal sweetheart deal with Ghislaine Maxwell moving her to the minimum security prison and giving her work release, which there are federal laws specifically forbidding people convicted of child trafficking like Maxwell from getting either of those things! Trump is hyper fixated on having tariffs and using the threat of them as a bargaining tool in international trade negotiations, which has completely and utterly cut the US off from all meaningful international trade agreements! Combined with Trump’s erratic behavior and decision making plus his extremely close relationship with Vladimir Putin, no other country in the world currently trusts the United States, not even our oldest and closest friends and allies! We’ve been isolated from our support system, which is the single largest threat to our country’s national security! WE HAVE NEVER ONCE WON ANY WAR WITHOUT THE DEDICATED ASSISTANCE OF OUR FRIENDS AND ALLIES NOR CAN WE EVER WIN ANY FUTURE CONFLICTS WITHOUT THEM! WE HAVE ALWAYS REQUIRED A TEAM COMPOSED OF DIVERSE MEMBERS IN ORDER TO QUICKLY INNOVATE, ADAPT, AND OVERCOME ANY ENEMY WE HAVE BEEN VICTORIOUS OVER! WHENEVER WE HAVE NOT USED THAT APPROACH WE HAVE LOST MISERABLY! HISTORY DEMONSTRATES THIS CLEARLY! But please explain to me exactly how it’s all Joe Biden’s fault that our country is in this rut!

There has been at least one case of someone from Europe being denied entry to the US simply for sharing an unflattering meme of JD Vance.

And now the former county clerk from Kentucky has a petition before SCOTUS asking that they reexamine their decision regarding Obergefell. So it didn’t even take a full year for the first attempt to reach SCOTUS.

That’s definitely a huge part of it! The Electoral College is the last active vestige of the racist 3/5 Compromise left in the US constitution aside from the way in which we determine apportionment, but since apportionment really doesn’t have much of an impact in terms of racial issues, it’s not a problem.

It was pretty much the exact same people who voted for him all three times. He never had any significant gains or losses in total numbers of votes. What did change was the overall voter turnout across all three election cycles. 2016 had a very low turnout with more or less balanced numbers between the two candidates, which is why it came down to a few thousand votes spread haphazardly across several swing states for Trump to miraculously capture the Electoral College. In 2020 we experienced record high voter turnout because people were disgusted by Trump and his administration of grifters, which saw even a sizable number of hardcore Republicans vote for the Democratic candidate. They weren’t voting for Joe Biden so much as they were voting against Donald Trump. In 2026 we had another election cycle with record low turnout, with only about 51-52% of the registered voters in the entire country casting a ballot. Trump keeps talking about a landslide and having a mandate, but he simply doesn’t. Far, far less than half of the registered voters in the country voted for him.

Well, that’s an image that’s now permanently seared into my brain.

Oh so many citations, and yet when people who actually know & understand how to correctly read scientific reports look at the papers those citations are from compared with what RFK said about them, it becomes painfully obvious that RFK is incorrect in his interpretation of them. What he says regarding those citations is the exact opposite of what the citations themselves actually say in context. It’s one thing to complain about people not reading RFK, but if your strongest argument is going to be the citations then you really need to read them.

I wouldn’t say that he’s maintaining any sort of family related crackpotism/crackpottery. His entire family has essentially disowned him because of his conspiracy nonsense. I refuse to call them theories as that elevates them to a pseudoscientific status, and I simply can’t in good conscience do that. I’m willing to go as far as label them conspiracy ideas, but that’s it.

That’s the most paranoid, misinformed, misleading, ignorant, incorrect, incoherent, absurd, nonsensical, dishonest, completely false, and utterly useless piece of garbage that’s ever been published, and I’ve read Mein Kampf! Robert Kennedy Jr has absolutely no idea what the hell he’s talking about. He doesn’t know or understand how to read scientific reports, yet he cites several of them in the book. He doesn’t know how to identify and approach recognized experts in relevant fields of science, yet he has no problem giving his own opinion about those fields of science and specific topics in them. He doesn’t know how to frame questions to recognized scientific experts in order to get a relevant answer in a form that can be easily understood and supported by scientific evidence, yet again he has no problem offering his uninformed opinions. He has no frame of reference regarding these fields of science and what criteria are used to establish a recognized expert, yet he asserts that he is qualified to pass judgement on who is or isn’t such an expert and their actions. He doesn’t have any experience or training in the methods employed by the experts in these fields in how they conduct their research, yet he asserts that he is qualified to determine whether or not those methods are suitable and sufficient. In short, the entire book is an exercise in RFK Jr’s unwarranted arrogance coupled with his unparalleled ignorance, all wrapped up in his astronomical paranoia. He rejects established and demonstrable science in exchange for his own pettiness and unsubstantiated conspiracy nonsense.

It was also interesting that Ernst Rohm was the only member of the Party who was a close enough friend to Hitler that he could get away with addressing him directly as either Adolf or Adi instead of as Mein Fuhrer. Not even Emil Maurice or Magda Goebbels could do that, and, aside from Eva Braun, they were arguably Hitler’s two closest friends next to Rohm and Dietrich Eckart.

I would also like to remind my fellow Americans that the one and only time that Article V of the NATO Charter has ever been activated was when the 11 September attacks occurred and NATO rushed to our defense! THE ONLY TIME NATO ACTIVATED THE MUTUAL DEFENSE ARTICLE WAS TO DEFEND THE UNITED STATES! As for people who advocate for isolationism, that has never actually worked at any time during the entirety of recorded history! People who rant about “globalists”, “globalism”, and “globalization” don’t know or understand what the hell they’re talking about. Not only are Trump & Musk both perfect examples of what globalists actually are, and what globalization is, but the world has had a global economy since antiquity! We’re talking a global economy since at least the time of ancient Sumeria centuries before Sargon of Akkad built the first empire. It’s not a new thing!