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2021-04-14 at 10:37 PM UTC in We are living in the era of stupid
Originally posted by Data Millions less die because of the standards, retard
Crashes in the early 1900s were fucking deadly. People were dying in fender benders because their necks would snap from whiplash.
I do care. That's why I follow the law and drive cars that meet safety standards, and follow traffic laws whenever I drive.
If you did your part and didn't drive, you'd be helping to save millions of lives. Selfish. -
2021-04-14 at 10:33 PM UTC in Scientists warn to avoid Joggers
Originally posted by Donald Trump Press X to doubt.
If jedis had these sort of blood libels cast upon them they'd literally shoah you.
Leopold was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State, a private project undertaken on his own behalf.[18]:136 He used explorer Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo, an area now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, the colonial nations of Europe authorised his claim by committing the Congo Free State to improving the lives of the native inhabitants.[18]:122–124
From the beginning, Leopold ignored these conditions. Millions of Congolese inhabitants, including children, were mutilated, killed or died from disease during his rule.[18]:115,118,127 He ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal enrichment.[19] Failure to meet rubber collection quotas was punishable by death. Meanwhile, the Force Publique were required to provide the hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, as it was believed that they would otherwise use the munitions (imported from Europe at considerable cost) for hunting. As a consequence, the rubber quotas were in part paid off in chopped-off hands.
Leopold extracted a fortune from the Congo, initially by the collection of ivory, and after a rise in the price of rubber in the 1890s, by forced labour from the natives to harvest and process rubber. Under his regime millions of Congolese people died. Modern estimates range from one million to fifteen million, with a consensus growing around 10 million.[20]:25[21] Several historians argue against this figure due to the absence of reliable censuses, the enormous mortality of diseases such as smallpox or sleeping sickness and the fact that there were only 175 administrative agents in charge of rubber exploitation.[6][7]
Reports of deaths and abuse led to a major international scandal in the early 20th century, and Leopold was forced by the Belgian government to relinquish control of the colony to the civil administration in 1908.
Leopold amassed a huge personal fortune by exploiting the natural resources of the Congo[citation needed]. At first, ivory was exported, but this did not yield the expected levels of revenue. When the global demand for rubber exploded, attention shifted to the labor-intensive collection of sap from rubber plants. Abandoning the promises of the Berlin Conference in the late 1890s, the Free State government restricted foreign access and extorted forced labor from the natives. Abuses, especially in the rubber industry, included forced labour of the native population, beatings, widespread killings, and frequent mutilation when production quotas were not met.[28] Missionary John Harris of Baringa was so shocked by what he had encountered that he wrote to Leopold's chief agent in the Congo, saying:
I have just returned from a journey inland to the village of Insongo Mboyo. The abject misery and utter abandon is positively indescribable. I was so moved, Your Excellency, by the people's stories that I took the liberty of promising them that in future you will only kill them for crimes they commit.[29]
Estimates of the death toll range from one million to fifteen million,[30][31] since accurate records were not kept. Historians Louis and Stengers in 1968 stated that population figures at the start of Leopold's control are only "wild guesses", and that attempts by E. D. Morel and others to determine a figure for the loss of population were "but figments of the imagination".[32][33]
Adam Hochschild devotes a chapter of his book King Leopold's Ghost to the problem of estimating the death toll. He cites several recent lines of investigation, by anthropologist Jan Vansina and others, that examine local sources (police records, religious records, oral traditions, genealogies, personal diaries, and "many others"), which generally agree with the assessment of the 1919 Belgian government commission: roughly half the population perished during the Free State period. Hochschild points out that since the first official census by the Belgian authorities in 1924 put the population at about 10 million, these various approaches suggest a rough estimate of a population decline by 10 million.[22]:225–233
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2021-04-14 at 10:31 PM UTC in We are living in the era of stupid
Originally posted by Data Yeah dude, and we make laws to make driving safer too. You know, like seatbelts to protect people? Crash standards, to protect people? Traffic laws, to protect people???
Are you getting it yet or no
If we have seat belts and crash/safety standards, then why are millions of people still dying in automobile accidents?? And don't you care about those millions of lives lost? Like, care enough to stop driving? -
2021-04-14 at 10:28 PM UTC in Petition to have problematic users banned.
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2021-04-14 at 10:27 PM UTC in Where the fuck is Grylls?
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2021-04-14 at 5:03 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people
Originally posted by Data Lmao.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/states-ranked-by-covid-19-test-positivity-rates-july-14.html
what a shocker that all the conservative states like Florida and Texas are at the top of the list.
Who could've guessed amirite
Those numbers are total bulsshit. -
2021-04-14 at 4:48 PM UTC in Scientists warn to avoid Joggers
Originally posted by Ghost There's a reason Congo changed their capital name from Leopoldville to Kenshasa…
Wish I could get 24 hours alone with those kind of people. Just give me a blowtorch, a sharp knife, some bolt cutter and pliers, some good rope, and I'd have fun for hours. They'd wish they were dead once I started in, but I'd keep them alive so they feel every second of their exquisite pain. -
2021-04-14 at 4:46 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing peopleFlorida and Texas didn't lock down, and yet they haven't had any case spikes. Any idiot care to comment on that?
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2021-04-14 at 4:41 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people
Originally posted by Data https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/scicheck-viral-posts-misuse-vaers-data-to-make-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccines/
https://vaers.hhs.gov/data/dataguide.html
Literally anyone can submit one of those reports holy fuck you retard. I can submit a report. You can submit a report. Anyone.
And even if it was the cause of the LESS THAN 2,500 deaths related to the COVID-19 vaccines, it would still be better to get the vaccine.
CDC and FDA have reviewed the data and released statements saying that they didn't find any of the deaths to be related to the vaccine.
You are so fucking stupid it hurts. Do you bother to research anything at all?
The so-called vaccines have killed thousands of healthy people, and that's a verified fact. Whether you acknowledge or not is immaterial and irrelevant to the fact. -
2021-04-14 at 4:39 PM UTC in THE MAGA PARTY!,,, the GOP is dead, republicans are going down with the dems,, get ready for THE MAGA PARTY lefty'sFake News Mockingbird Media, and the idiots just eat it up like no tomorrow.
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2021-04-14 at 4:36 PM UTC in We are living in the era of stupidAutomobile accidents kill millions. Nobody should be able to drive again until there are no fatal accidents for 14 consecutive days. Then we can begin to phase in certain classes of people who can begin driving again, but only at half the posted speed limit and must wear a helmet.
That's the "logic" these brain-dead morons use. -
2021-04-14 at 4:31 PM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people
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2021-04-14 at 2:48 AM UTC in Where the fuck is Grylls?
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2021-04-14 at 2:47 AM UTC in What are you doing at the moment
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2021-04-14 at 2:46 AM UTC in What it will be like to live in spaceOuter space isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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2021-04-14 at 1:37 AM UTC in Scientists warn to avoid JoggersSame thing with the Bart Station execution. Cop shoots the guy point blank in the back laying on his stomache on the ground and then says he thought it was a taser. Walked away happy. It's manslaughter, even if it was unintentional. ANY time a cop shoots an unarmed citizen, even a fleeing criminal, they need to be prosecuted. Period. End of story. That's called accountability, something the idiots at the top refuse to do. Blame them for the outrage, not the victims who are now dead. These trigger-happy and terrified morons should never have been hired as cops in the first place.
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2021-04-14 at 1:19 AM UTC in How much should I buy?
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2021-04-14 at 1:17 AM UTC in Petition to have problematic users banned.All problematic users, please raise your flipper.
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2021-04-14 at 1:15 AM UTC in Corona virus vaccines are killing people
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2021-04-14 at 1:14 AM UTC in Where the fuck is Grylls?So, biblically, white men are beasts now?
