@Krispijnpunt@SBergsma Dat 'beetje arrogant' is bedoeld om de deur naar alle kanten open te houden. Mevrouw wil nog langer mee: ze weet dat fundamentele kritiek op Israël een verdere carrière in de journalistiek in Nederland niet bepaald bevordert.
Joe Rogan is stunned to learn British taxpayers were still paying off SLAVE OWNERS until 2015.
Britain abolished slavery in 1833. The government paid the slave owners £20,000,000 for their “lost property,” which was 40 PERCENT of the entire budget at the time.
Britain couldn’t afford it, so the government borrowed the money. Ordinary taxpayers spent the next 182 years paying interest on it.
Not a penny went to the people who had been enslaved. All of it went to the owners.
Someone born in 1990 was still paying off that loan.
The Treasury confirmed it in 2018. The final bonds weren’t redeemed until February 1, 2015.
KARA: “When the British abolished slavery, okay, they wrote a check to the slave owners.”
ROGAN: “Oh my god.”
KARA: “The British taxpayer was repaying that loan up until 2015.”
ROGAN: “Holy sh*t.”
@Bettje37@ReinBijlsma 'Classical tradition' doelt hier niet op een studierichting, maar op een bepaalde historiografische traditie, die hier in het Westen o.a. loopt van Thucydides, via Tacitus, Cicero, Machiavelli, Gracian, Voltaire, naar iemand als Jacq. Bainville. Illusieloos realisme is hun ding😉