Mike Major

Miniature hobbyist, veteran, political centrist, believer in the rational

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@broadwaybabyto It's been an absolute trainwreck

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@genispobbler99 People of both sexes are perfectly capable of being horrible and evil.

It's the way that it manifests that makes it different. Men, particularly younger men, are effectively hopped up on combat drugs all the time - which means some of them wind up being horrible and violent.

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@The8BitIdiot Funny how almost all those grandfathers were from Eastern European and Asian countries where slavery had been outlawed long before communism came along...

History - it's a thing!

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@HPluckrose Ouch - feel better soon!

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@barkmeta Iran is incapable of triggering WW3.

All they are capable of is doing crappy things - it's been past time for them to go for - well around 47 years.

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@mtracey Oh another version of the 'You've been naughty on the Internet - give us money' scam...

<sigh> Send to cops.

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@TheEmilyBloom Very well done.

My daughter did silks for awhile but never reached that level of skill.

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@HistoryBoomer I could not vote for either of them, so chose not to vote.

Neither was a good choice, although so far Trump has surprised me in a positive way - but I remain wary.

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@MungusShug @AnotherBrisket @ejrosetta Sure, that's easy.

A member of the NSDAP.

Anything else is not a Nazi. There are certainly other individuals with similar ideologies, but they are not, in fact, Nazis.

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Unimpressed with Twitter tonight. Think I will ditch this app for awhile.

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@IonaItalia I agree. The thing is that with the advent of the Age of Reason ‘civilizing’ rather than genocide was a thing. Not that it was nice - but it’s really the only reason there are any North American indigenous people left.

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@IonaItalia No, I’m analyzing history coldly. We have archaeological records of entire tribes wiped out completely by other tribes, histories of slavery and torture. American indigenous people were not nice.

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@IonaItalia The only reason Cortez beat Montezuma was because the Aztecs were so hated due to their butchery that the other tribes rose up and joined the Spanish. Most of Cortez’ armies were indigenous (he only had around 400 Conquistadors).

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@IonaItalia Plenty of that in indigenous on indigenous activities though. I don’t know South America much but Central American and North American cultures were rife with it. They may not have been as good at it, but it wasn’t for lack of trying. 1/2

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@benappel It’s a cultural/sex thing. Nail Polish makes no sense if you work with your hands making or fixing things. So it’s uncommon in men as a lot of men still do that (even if at home rather than as a career).

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@thewhgirl @SpensPainting Congratulations!

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@IonaItalia Curious- can you provide an example where this isn’t true?

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@IonaItalia Never mind ‘colonizing’ the crap out of each other at every opportunity - usually with a big side of genocide and atrocities.

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@IonaItalia I’m thinking even in the global sense for most analytics, but I could be wrong. Certainly very true here in North America. Indigenous people here get a lot of white washing of their history but the reality was that they were up to their eyeballs in torture, genocide, slavery etc