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I'd have to check this figure, but my older cousin Larry Elder has long noted that - contra many grumbles from Blacks and Caucasians - an independent Black America would be something like the 12th richest nation on Earth.

Anyone who says “anything can be an addiction” has no actual understanding of addiction. If anything can be addictive then nothing is.

Random, but: what is it that celebrity DJs like DJ Khaled...do?

Does he even make the beats for his songs (?) - there are always 46 producers credited too.

Evicting someone from a place they can't effectively control and very arguably don't belong after an 2unprovoked attack?

Not sure I would have led with this one.

'Trans women' are men with gender dysphoria.

That's a real condition. We should not abuse citizens with it (or, I suppose, anyone else).

But, these conversations a la 'When can girls like ME play women's varsity ball?!' are beyond absurd, and everyone at some level knows this.

Half-serious question: what would mainstream media do if someone shot during (say) a gun battle with police didn't HAVE a cap-and-gown graduation photo?

It is crazy that faculty and think-tankers - yes, yes, including me - face no equivalent of what we put every senior thesis through.

Why doesn't one of these journals that charges $7,000 to open-access an article - something I and Big Bib Maranto just discovered- use one such…

Looking through actual murder patterns in the areas where the last two twitter-trending fights/killings (Wisconsin, Wyoming) and most recent viral cop shooting (Chicago) took place, I realize something deeply depressing.

There must be actual human people looking through…

Errrr....yes.

The patricians vs the plebians in Rome, and the early Chinese rebels who inspired the Boxers, are just the most famous examples. Robin Hood, Harewood, etc come to mind too.

The inherent conflict between a competent but corrupt ruling class and 'the rabble' is one…

This point is rarely made this simply: the problem with the idea that 'lack of resources' dooms Black - or, ftm, urban, Southern, etc - schools is that most people in those categories...are not poor.

People in cities, of all colors, have MORE money than rural people. Minority…

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A proper country just chops down the tree.

'The Madhi's men wished to be martyrs, and we obliged them.'

Where would you rather crash your small/personal plane?

Assume that you have a broken leg, are not visible to anyone from outside the community, and are totally dependent on the kindness of strangers.

Unironically true.

Did you know that Genghis Khan was a Caucasian red-head?

*Source: a twitter page with a name like 'Ice Ape Inheritance'

Bums in cities literally do attack random strangers quite often.

I'm not as mad at this as a lot of people seem to be.

He's saying that OJ was a total POS...but wasn't going to lose a trial where Mark Fuhrman was a/the key witness.

Interesting survey question I saw today (slightly paraphrased):

'Who do you, honestly and anonymously, see as 'more American:'

(A) Confederates and their pro-Confederate descendants

(B) Patriotic immigrants from Asia or Nigeria?'

Which one?

Which of these options below best represents your honest, anonymous position on abortion?