@LumbyGoblin@WomanDefiner You are delusional. The Ottoman Empire castrated all males in Africa before marching them across the Sahara. The only slaves they didn’t castrate were primarily their janissaries, which were brainwashed Christian boys who they force converted to Islam.
@stocksvrier@WomanDefiner The Ottoman Empire did not die off due to inbreeding. They had a huge supply of white Christian women they raped to produce diversity. They also took hundreds of thousands of christian boys (janissaries) from a wide area of Eastern Europe.
@jeremykauffman Can you point to the median wage earner? Is he in the room? Stats have their place. But when the general mood of people is saying the opposite of stats, it usually means the stats are not reflecting reality.
@matzy_@avidseries@charlesmurray Yes, they were 100% justified. It is a tragedy that Europeans couldn’t fully unite together against the Muslim horde. By the time of the crusades, the jihad had conquered most of the former eastern empire and had enslaved, raped and killed hundreds of thousands.
@avidseries@charlesmurray Idk man, the 1,000+ years of non stop jihad from 630 to 1683 resulting in the deaths and enslavement of millions of people seems like enough justification to wipe that religion off the face of the earth. Also, if you have read the Quran, calling it a religion is preposterous.
@honestpollster I think the problem is, if they use one and we decide to respond in kind with nukes, it greatly increases the chances of China or Russia responding in kind with nukes. We have no idea how other nuclear countries would respond to a large scale nuclear strike.
@FinancialPhys You couldn’t legally buy gold in 1971 and it had been artificially held at $35/ounce since 1934. Gold comparisons prior to 1975 are meaningless
@iluminatibot The payment required to pay this off in 10 years is about $105/month. He clearly was paying some income based repayment amount below that. The interest only payment is $57.60. They were paying less than that.
@DanHollaway The cost to China to produce and ship the precursors of fentanyl to Mexico are minuscule. They probably spend less than $5 million per year producing these chemicals and shipping them to Mexico.
@avidseries They identify as moderate because everyone around them is heavily liberal. If you actually polled them on specific opinions, I would guess 70% would rate as far left
@thematrixb0t Literally mathematically impossible they contributed that much. If they both made over the cap for 40 years, they would have contributed just under 500k combined. Their employers would have contributed an equal amount but it would still be under $1 million
@BigEasyConserv @michaeljknowles What does the Pope’s lack of accomplishments of securing peace have to do with the picture Trump posted? I am genuinely curious how your mind is connecting the two.