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My grandfather and grandmother started life as impoverished peasants in Czechoslovakia.
Because of the capitalism that created the steel mill my grandfather worked in they were able to own their own home as well as a small apartment building while sending three children to college.
@ADu1530033@newstart_2024 You mean capitalism is worse than spending your life scratching the earth and praying for rain knowing that one bad harvest was a death sentence like our ancestors did for thousands of years?
Thankfully they found the time to have children or you wouldn’t be here.
@TahaFarah8@archeohistories That’s absurd. It was the monks during the Middle Ages that carefully preserved the writings of Aristotle. It was the monk/philosopher Thomas Aquinas that reintroduced Greek philosophy to western culture.
@Kyleinflight@ICEgov Correct. That is why it is so sad that faces that are being sent out to enforce the laws passed by Congress must have their faces blurred
@citrussage@DHSgov@USCG Haven’t you ever seen one of those cop shows where some guy driving a stolen car keeps going for miles on the rims even after his tire is shredded by stop sticks? What if you miss the tires and the guy blows by you? Then what?
@yapcine@RealAirPower1 Give it a break. He didn’t start flying until 1944 when he turned 17. We can’t all be as worldly wise as u undoubtedly were at 17.
@FarrarN57854@RealAirPower1 Give it a break. He didn’t start flying until 1944 when he turned 17. He was not a Nazi. We can’t all be as worldly wise as u undoubtedly were at 17.
@MichaelSmith69@RealAirPower1 Give it a break. He didn’t start flying until 1944 when he turned 17. We can’t all be as worldly wise as u undoubtedly were at 17.