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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post10 million is a highball estimate, while iirc 5 million is a lowball. They are in the same order of magnitude. I won't disagree that the Congo Free State was ludicrously awful, but I stand by my contention that it's not possible for governance in africa to get much worse than it is.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.
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Hard not to make progress with the bar set so low.
Plus, modern communications shine a light on things that were previously hidden and/or ignored.
Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostIs picanninny a racial slur? That didn't strike me as racist.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms
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Originally posted by -Jrabbit View PostHard not to make progress with the bar set so low.DISCLAIMER: the author of the above written texts does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for any offence and insult; disrespect, arrogance and related forms of demeaning behaviour; discrimination based on race, gender, age, income class, body mass, living area, political voting-record, football fan-ship and musical preference; insensitivity towards material, emotional or spiritual distress; and attempted emotional or financial black-mailing, skirt-chasing or death-threats perceived by the reader of the said written texts.
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostI'd never heard the term "picanninny" before. Absent that, it struck me as trying to be edgy by using vaguely racial undertones.I wasn't born with enough middle fingers.
[Brandon Roderick? You mean Brock's Toadie?][Hanged from Yggdrasil]
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Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View PostDid this love for Boris shine on unabated when he was publishing racist stuff?
'Everybody who’s never met him loves him, and the people closest to him loathe him.’
I can't wait for him to f*ck up again big time and have done with public life and politics.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View PostIt's hard to imagine Africa being run worse than it currently is. .
And in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua....Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny View PostTry checking them.
It's easy to talk of the rosy past of the colonial era in Africa when you know so little about it.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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the interesting thing to discuss about boris johnson, is not the frequently made accusations of racism, which although not totally baseless, are really about a certain kind of colonialist attitude to places like africa, rather than prejudice based on skin colour, but rather the reason why he is popular. i think it's because he (and nigel farage for that matter) is seen as honest, compared to other political figures. this is rather ironic of course given his unrelenting dishonesty is all areas of his life, but there it is."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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Originally posted by Colon™ View PostThe claim was that governance couldn't be worse than it is.
Originally posted by Colon™ View PostThere's actually been a lot of progress the past decade or two. Orderly democratic transitions are fairly normal now and policies tend to be more business-like instead being just being all about revolutionary/socialist fervour.Apolyton's Grim Reaper 2008, 2010 & 2011
RIP lest we forget... SG (2) and LaFayette -- Civ2 Succession Games Brothers-in-Arms
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Originally posted by C0ckney View Postthe interesting thing to discuss about boris johnson, is not the frequently made accusations of racism, which although not totally baseless, are really about a certain kind of colonialist attitude to places like africa, rather than prejudice based on skin colour, but rather the reason why he is popular. i think it's because he (and nigel farage for that matter) is seen as honest, compared to other political figures. this is rather ironic of course given his unrelenting dishonesty is all areas of his life, but there it is.
He makes my flesh crawl.Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915
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yes that's definitely part of it. he's that posh buffoon that the british so love; a cuddly representative of the class born to rule."The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
"The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton
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