Tabbot [he/him]

yes indeed, the idiot who can't look though a basic list of false positives and add it to a "pre-approved word list", something that not even microsoft seems capable of given how many people have problems writing raccoon, should be ashamed of themselves.

such shitty work,

it's fucking stupid; you might whine about "le chuds" saying the nword or whatever, but I honestly see this as just more colonization of the metaverse, more bullshit that controls and homogenizes everything.

basically if me and/or my community are paying to maintain a server, I should be able to say "removedling Sremovedhorpe" all day long without reprisal.

edit: very funny; the web designer needs to be sent to a gulag for not understanding how to write a basic filter to not return false positives.

how about they make up a significant portion of the dog attacks that are significant enough to be reported?

I got perma-suspended (I think so anyway, there's no date for when I could be unsuspended) for "harassing" these fuckers.

First thing I'd do to as a show of appeal is ask "reopening the Machinegun registry, and abolishing the DEA. for Singlepayer Healthcare?"

"Encourage the courts to overturn state magazine or rifle bans/restrictions. reopen the Machinegun registry, begin rollback of the DEA's narcotic division, for singlepayer healthcare and nationalization of some major pharma companies*?"

*that benefitted from publicly funded research.

we want to die too, preferably in a quick and relatively painless fashion of being incinerated by a thermonuclear warhead detonation

Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely have to check that out.

So is it good or bad when the Aztecs pissed off their neighbors to such an extent that significant numbers of them backed Cortez's otherwise ill-equipped and undermanned expedition?

not saying that, frankly Israel has no right to really complain about Palestinian insurgency tactics as they simultaneously lionize groups like Irgun.

they aren't just as bad, they're human. Its not a justification, just cynicism.

these are all good points. though didn't he cite Material interests as a contributing factor to the shuttering/scrapping of the treasure fleet? That the Chinese being a significant land power considered it wiser to invest inwards rather than potentially stretch itself too thin? (I mean they were regularly invaded/bothered by Steppe Peoples for the first part of the 2nd millennium CE). There were material interests at play in the advancement of European colonies in that they didn't want to trade with the ottomans who had a bottleneck as far as trade with the other side of the continent was concerned (geography) so they funded an expedition to find a way around that and landed on the shores of hispanola.

Perhaps it's a leap in logic to assume this, thank you though, I kind of need a correction.

perhaps I should edit the "weepy" bit; it's difficult to explain.. basically I think:

-->Colonialism/Imperialism/Slavery/etc. are Bad, unjustifiable, and have left deep historical/emotional/psychological/cultural/etc. scars.

-->Europeans, and ""white"" (whatever that means, it's definition varies) are not alone in these practices, nor immune to being victimized by them.. Human history is a bloody mess...

-->this does not mean that historical injustices are not worth attempting to provide reparations for; particularly those that are well documented, and egregious.

-->this does mean that we shouldn't assume that, at least in the case of North America, that anything close to a "noble savage" existed..

-->to re-iterate this does not justify at all the flagrant disregard for and horrifyingly callous treatment of indigenous peoples;

quite often I see people push something that too often reeks of that noble savage vibe, and it starts making me think "okay wait a minute here... how deep are they thinking about this?"

Just shoot them or hang them if you're going to have executions, which you shouldn't have to begin with, but w/e...