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Funny because Apartheid ended due to divestment efforts and a collapsing economy.

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Yeah, but quite a few historians would say that the collapse was not due to sanctions, but because human beings cannot create an functioning economy within Apartheid conditions.

A few historians? Which historians? A few “doctors” said that vaccines cause autism and now we are reviving diseases that should have stayed long dead. A title on a person is nothing without a body of work to justify and back them.

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The respected historian Steve Van Zandt insists that his boycott of Sun City ended apartheid.

/sarcasm

The historians with other arguments, you can find them on Google or in the library, but like all of history, I wasn’t there and I have only a vague idea of what happened.

You all will hate this but I will also break rank on the vaccine thing. When you consider Pavlov and toxicology, I dunno why so many people are sold on the notion that jabbing a baby with an intramuscular needle containing a small amount of neurotoxic mercury periodically before they go to a place where bells coordinate intervals of math or reading instruction definitely does not create some sort of oddity where they are afraid to speak and cannot communicate well and do not tolerate loud noises well. Saying, “This is absolutely true always,” is as bad science as, “This is never true ever,” and I think the failure of all vaccines to be painless and non-toxic (Paracelsus’s arguments not considered) will be remembered as some of the worst biomedical engineering of the 20th century (though perhaps the best available).

The objective of science and history are both to say, “I cannot claim to know, but I believe I have understanding.” I won’t be caught dead using the clinically-authorized a-word nor the much-maligned but similarly once-authorized r-word to describe another person, and nor would I rule out that thiomersal jabs before school don’t somehow affect a developing child. In much the same way, I wouldn’t claim to know much about the 20th century, nor about anyone I have ever met, or heard about through the media.

“I believe a thing but refuse to tell you why” is not a valid argument. Go read the History Thread and you’ll see my dedication to sources that gave me my reputation as a reputable source here.

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ …

… ¯\ (ツ)/¯ dunno what to say except farewell

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Moral of the story

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It’s also a hallmark of argument in bad faith.

And we’re done here.

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The legacy of John McCain is a long and complicated one. Like most people, he has done things throughout his life that were both admirable and worthy of disapproval/condemnation.

I found this article about the Vietnamese reaction to his death, which I found both interesting, and hadn’t really thought about:

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Burt Reynolds is Burt Deadnolds.

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Mac Miller

/15 dead characters

https://www.facebook.com/will.vinton/posts/2219206734981677

He’s the founder of the company that would become Laika. He also made these…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPY5qvHgGoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxpRAOgZVzc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3eTqsB73I