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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • I don’t get this reply to the original comment. Is the “meh” you saying you don’t care if your kid resents you?

    You followed up a comment saying children will resent parents who give them dumb names with a story about how you named your kid after an forum in-joke. Either you are the parent kids resent or your signature was just a normal name.







  • I don’t think the guys getting PTSD fighting Picts on the Isles cared much about logistics beyond ensuring they had something to eat and equipment to use. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that Romans were a lot of different people but I just take umbrage with the wording (more from the OP image). The idea of labeling all Romans by the heights of their exemplars.

    Like, the US has a lot of well-regarded universities but we wouldn’t call Americans a learned people; a country of skilled doctors and exacting engineers.




  • I’ve never held any illusions that black people would ever be made whole from any of the multiple abuses done to them by the USA. Black people have never been “economic peers” to levy expected, financial obligations, just resources to burn through.

    So, I’ll admit that I was unclear and came in with undeclared preconceptions: no, I don’t think black people (in slavery, newly-freed, nor in the prsion system) are expecting to be done right by their incarcerators. So no, there is no “expectation” of payment that is being unmet because the US barely pretended it was a trade.

    Someone else mentioned the colonies reneging on French debts, which is an example of the US making a deal with and witholding (re)payment.