• (OT) Where do extremists live?

    From *skriptis@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 13:31:11 2023
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Pelle_Svansl=c3=b6s?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 16:36:08 2023
    On 18.8.2023 14.31, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    The Protestant Europe looks to be extremely extreme. We need to cure the bastards.

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 07:05:21 2023
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.


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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 08:02:43 2023
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.

    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to gap...@gmail.com on Fri Aug 18 10:41:11 2023
    On 8/18/23 10:23 AM, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

    Yes, much like the Roman Empire in Europe and the Mediterranean and the
    Spanish in the New World.

    It seems like it was a sort of historical mode, where a more
    technologically advanced polity, which usually meant that it was
    stronger militarily, gained access to a region that was new to them, and exploit it--and its population--to the more advanced nation's advantage.

    It seemed to be particularly strong and widespread in NW Europe, most
    recently, and indicated a culture of conquest, settlement, and
    exploitation. Contrast this with the west Asiatic incursions into Europe
    in the first millenium, where they were pretty much conquest only, no settlement or organized exploitation.

    In the present it's being done virtually, taking a longer timeframe, and utilizing persuasion to comply rather than direct force. But it amounts
    to the same: domination and exploitation.

    Human societies are interesting.

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    "Petition the lord with prayer...

    "Petition the lord with prayer...

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  • From gapp111@gmail.com@21:1/5 to The Iceberg on Fri Aug 18 10:23:35 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so


    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 11:22:39 2023
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 18:41:14 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 10:23 AM, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    Yes, much like the Roman Empire in Europe and the Mediterranean and the Spanish in the New World.

    It seems like it was a sort of historical mode, where a more
    technologically advanced polity, which usually meant that it was
    stronger militarily, gained access to a region that was new to them, and exploit it--and its population--to the more advanced nation's advantage.

    It seemed to be particularly strong and widespread in NW Europe, most recently, and indicated a culture of conquest, settlement, and
    exploitation. Contrast this with the west Asiatic incursions into Europe
    in the first millenium, where they were pretty much conquest only, no settlement or organized exploitation.

    In the present it's being done virtually, taking a longer timeframe, and utilizing persuasion to comply rather than direct force. But it amounts
    to the same: domination and exploitation.

    Human societies are interesting.

    did they not take any taxes?

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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 11:25:30 2023
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 19:22:55 UTC+1, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so


    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    yes we taught them all about Karl Marx and guppy's ancestors turned that into Indian-style communism which he absolutely loves and follows to this very day, he even now works for the Democrat Party!

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  • From joh@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 11:30:21 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 1:31:17 PM UTC+2, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    And all hail Yishai Oliel, current ATP #500, as the new tennis GOAT.


    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to gap...@gmail.com on Fri Aug 18 11:22:57 2023
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 18:23:38 UTC+1, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so


    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

    what about the Mughals? they looted India dry way before us and you loved it

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to The Iceberg on Fri Aug 18 11:27:59 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:22:59 AM UTC-7, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 18:23:38 UTC+1, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so


    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    what about the Mughals? they looted India dry way before us and you loved it

    gap is that old? You really need to improve your conversational skills, because they suck.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to gap...@gmail.com on Fri Aug 18 11:22:53 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so


    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 12:07:30 2023
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been
    left alone. What do you think, b?

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    --Juan Carlos Ferrero ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to The Iceberg on Fri Aug 18 11:54:47 2023
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 18:41:14 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 10:23 AM, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>>>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>>>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    Yes, much like the Roman Empire in Europe and the Mediterranean and the
    Spanish in the New World.

    It seems like it was a sort of historical mode, where a more
    technologically advanced polity, which usually meant that it was
    stronger militarily, gained access to a region that was new to them, and
    exploit it--and its population--to the more advanced nation's advantage.

    It seemed to be particularly strong and widespread in NW Europe, most
    recently, and indicated a culture of conquest, settlement, and
    exploitation. Contrast this with the west Asiatic incursions into Europe
    in the first millenium, where they were pretty much conquest only, no
    settlement or organized exploitation.

    In the present it's being done virtually, taking a longer timeframe, and
    utilizing persuasion to comply rather than direct force. But it amounts
    to the same: domination and exploitation.

    Human societies are interesting.
    did they not take any taxes?

    It was formerly called "tribute", Ice.

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    "I done created myself a monster."

    --Juan Carlos Ferrero ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to The Iceberg on Fri Aug 18 12:08:24 2023
    On 8/18/23 11:25 AM, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 19:22:55 UTC+1, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>>>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>>>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    yes we taught them all about Karl Marx and guppy's ancestors turned that into Indian-style communism which he absolutely loves and follows to this very day, he even now works for the Democrat Party!

    How much do they pay?

    ;^)

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    as a matter of fact, there is no reason whatever to believe that, if all laws were abolished tomorrow, such swine would survive the day."

    --H. L. Mencken ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 12:44:38 2023
    On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment >>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality >>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the >>>>>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been
    left alone. What do you think, b?
    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.

    There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians
    before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj,
    what do you think they'd say, and if you asked them now, what do you
    think they'd say.

    Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith:

    Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to
    a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd find they
    were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways.

    during - no

    after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats.

    I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as a way
    to redirect the question.

    --
    --Sawfish ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    "I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would accept someone like me
    as a member." --G. Marx

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Pelle_Svansl=c3=b6s?=@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 22:30:03 2023
    On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.


    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is
    literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage
    treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be
    mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find
    that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for
    people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.

    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen.

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr

    --
    "And off they went, from here to there,
    The bear, the bear, and the maiden fair"
    -- Traditional

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 12:33:16 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.

    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.

    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been
    left alone. What do you think, b?

    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 18 12:49:40 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
    On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage
    treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be
    mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find
    that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for
    people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen.

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr

    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 12:54:18 2023
    On 8/18/23 12:49 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
    On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage
    treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be
    mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find
    that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for >>>>>> people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen.

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr
    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.

    It's useful to think of the late 19th C Brits as Nazis with a sense of
    humor.

    --
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell."

    --Charles Bukowski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 13:14:32 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:54:21 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:49 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
    On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. >>>>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage >>>>>>> treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be >>>>>>> mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find >>>>>>> that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for >>>>>> people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>> west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen. >>
    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr
    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.
    It's useful to think of the late 19th C Brits as Nazis with a sense of humor.

    I don't think there was an iota of kindness on this planet until recently.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Aug 18 12:57:36 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been >> left alone. What do you think, b?
    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.
    There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, what do you think they'd say, and if you asked them now, what do you
    think they'd say.

    Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith:

    Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to
    a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd find they
    were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways.

    during - no

    after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats.

    That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?

    I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as a way
    to redirect the question.

    If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer? The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 14:30:02 2023
    On 8/18/23 1:14 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:54:21 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:49 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote: >>>> On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. >>>>>>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage >>>>>>>>> treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be >>>>>>>>> mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find >>>>>>>>> that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for >>>>>>>> people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >>>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>>>> west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen. >>>>
    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr
    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.
    It's useful to think of the late 19th C Brits as Nazis with a sense of
    humor.
    I don't think there was an iota of kindness on this planet until recently.

    I still don't see it. I see lots of mouths shaping the reassuring words,
    but not much else.

    Just like watching an attractive young female newscaster on TV. All the
    correct facial expressions of pity and righteous concern...

    I think there were always individual instances--still are--but so far as
    broad policy, nah...

    --
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Favorite tattoo:

    BORN TOULOUSE


    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Fri Aug 18 14:25:58 2023
    On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.

    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.


    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>>> west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been >>>> left alone. What do you think, b?
    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.
    There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians
    before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj,
    what do you think they'd say, and if you asked them now, what do you
    think they'd say.

    Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith:

    Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to
    a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd find they
    were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways.

    during - no

    after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats.
    That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?

    Raja and common sense.

    Not much more.

    (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same
    sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this
    inconceivably rare  opportunity...)


    I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as a way
    to redirect the question.
    If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?

    Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why
    limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why
    even bring in them?


    The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.

    Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding...

    ~~~~~~~~

    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the
    west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been
    left alone. What do you think, b?

    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him.

    You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile.

    So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first.


    --
    "It is Pointless, and endless Trouble, to cast a stone at every dog
    that barks at you."

    --Sawfish

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  • From *skriptis@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 03:33:06 2023
    Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:>>>> On
    8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists.>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people.>>>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.>>>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse.>>>>>>
    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like.>>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.>>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of
    incestuous offspring and y could be mortality>>>> per 1000. Or IQ.>>>>>>>> :^)>>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the>>>> US has more in
    common with Belgium than with Canada.>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!>>>>> Go>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!> True, but
    they also improved things about India, do you disagree?It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the west's scale of desirables.I'm saying the Indians would
    probably have liked it better to have been left alone. What do you think, b?-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"I done created myself a monster." --Juan Carlos Ferrero~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



    India is weak.

    It's an entire continent but they couldn't resist handful of Brits.


    In comparison, Russia is strong. They always resisted, whether it's the Poles, Swedes, French, Germans or now Americans.




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  • From jdeluise@21:1/5 to skriptis@post.t-com.hr on Fri Aug 18 19:08:11 2023
    *skriptis <skriptis@post.t-com.hr> writes:


    In comparison, Russia is strong. They always resisted, whether it's
    the Poles, Swedes, French, Germans or now Americans.

    But not the vodka!

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 07:01:38 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png


    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. >>>>>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. >>>>>>>>>

    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?
    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>>> west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been >>>> left alone. What do you think, b?
    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.
    There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked them now, what do you
    think they'd say.

    Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith:

    Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd find they
    were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways.

    during - no

    after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats.
    That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?
    Raja and common sense.

    Not much more.

    (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this
    inconceivably rare opportunity...)

    I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as a way >> to redirect the question.
    If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?
    Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why
    limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why even bring in them?
    The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.
    Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding...

    ~~~~~~~~
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!

    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree?

    It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the west's scale of desirables.

    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been
    left alone. What do you think, b?

    Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.
    ~~~~~~~~~~~

    The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him.

    You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile.

    So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first.

    I'd agree that even the Brits were brutal.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 07:03:57 2023
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:30:05 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 1:14 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:54:21 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:49 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote:
    On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote:
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: >>>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png >>>>>>>>>>

    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. >>>>>>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. >>>>>>>>>>

    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage >>>>>>>>> treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be >>>>>>>>> mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India
    (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find >>>>>>>>> that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for >>>>>>>> people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry!
    True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? >>>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>>>> west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen.

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr
    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.
    It's useful to think of the late 19th C Brits as Nazis with a sense of
    humor.
    I don't think there was an iota of kindness on this planet until recently.
    I still don't see it. I see lots of mouths shaping the reassuring words,
    but not much else.

    Just like watching an attractive young female newscaster on TV. All the correct facial expressions of pity and righteous concern...

    I think there were always individual instances--still are--but so far as broad policy, nah...

    It used to be much worse. We had debtors' prisons!

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to bmoore on Sat Aug 19 07:31:36 2023
    On 8/19/23 7:03 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:30:05 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 1:14 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:54:21 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 12:49 PM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:30:06 PM UTC-7, Pelle Svanslös wrote: >>>>>> On 18.8.2023 22.07, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png >>>>>>>>>>>>

    Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. >>>>>>>>>>>>
    Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is >>>>>>>>>>>> literally what are the people like.

    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. >>>>>>>>>>>>

    I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage >>>>>>>>>>> treatment
    of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system.

    Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be >>>>>>>>>>> mortality
    per 1000. Or IQ.

    :^)

    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India >>>>>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find >>>>>>>>>>> that the
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada.
    is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for >>>>>>>>>> people of colour!!

    Go

    https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so
    Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! >>>>>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? >>>>>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the >>>>>>> west's scale of desirables.
    If the coffers are looted empty, not much development is going to happen.

    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr
    The Brits were undoubtedly pretty self-interested in India. Quite nasty at times. But India did get some help getting modernized from the Brits.
    It's useful to think of the late 19th C Brits as Nazis with a sense of >>>> humor.
    I don't think there was an iota of kindness on this planet until recently. >> I still don't see it. I see lots of mouths shaping the reassuring words,
    but not much else.

    Just like watching an attractive young female newscaster on TV. All the
    correct facial expressions of pity and righteous concern...

    I think there were always individual instances--still are--but so far as
    broad policy, nah...
    It used to be much worse. We had debtors' prisons!

    Yes. Defaulting on a debt was no trivial matter.

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  • From *skriptis@21:1/5 to bmoore on Sat Aug 19 17:51:58 2023
    bmoore <bmoore@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:
    32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On Friday,
    18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/
    Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not
    politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would
    look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could
    be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US
    has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was
    in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard
    of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese
    moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked
    them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd
    find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much
    more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless
    as a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more
    of a > chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding..
    . > > ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even
    if it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want
    the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a
    decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the
    Brits were brutal.




    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.






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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 19 09:10:49 2023
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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 19 09:16:51 2023
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 8:52:03 AM UTC-7, *skriptis wrote:
    bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:
    07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On
    Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
    images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not
    politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would
    look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could
    be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US
    has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was
    in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard
    of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese
    moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked
    them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd
    find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much
    more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as
    a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding... > >
    ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even if
    it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the
    Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a
    decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the
    Brits were brutal.
    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.

    Twisting again.

    Sawfish gave me crap for asserting that the Brits, though nasty, did stuff for the Indians.

    Then I agreed that the Brits really were pretty nasty.

    And Twistis comes back with this.

    Next, Iceberg will call me a Marxist.

    So much for reality.

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  • From *skriptis@21:1/5 to bmoore on Sat Aug 19 18:30:09 2023
    bmoore <bmoore@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:12:20 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/19/23 8:51 AM, *skriptis wrote: > > bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r > >> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore
    wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday,
    August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis
    wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who
    are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>
    You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage
    treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>
    Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos
    what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things
    about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the
    Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse
    this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to
    demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >
    during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same >
    sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no
    colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a > chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why >
    even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding... > > ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it
    dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables.
    I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The
    easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started
    using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the Brits were brutal. > > > > > > > > What a stupid thing to say. > > > > > >
    Brits were brutal means what exactly? > > > > That they should have conquered India more gently? > > > > How do you conquer someone gently? > > > > > > > > Do you see what kind of nonsense you post? > > > > > > > > The only culprits for Brits conquering
    India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them. > > > > Shame on them. > > > > > > So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful
    of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak? > > > > There's no other course in such discussion. > > > > > > Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option. > > > > > > > > > > > >> I don't see value
    judgements, such as "good/bad" or "right/wrong" > entering into a discussion of what appears to me to be a part of the > evolutionary process, do you, skript? Success or failure might be more > appropriate. > > This phenomenon of one group contesting
    with another group over > resources of any kind--territory, access to trade, manufactured or > natural wealth, etc.--has been around ever since two distinct groups > have overlapped when searching for resources. Basically it's what > hunter-gathers do by
    instinct, and since being the winner in any such > contest yields very quick positive results, it has evolved beyond > hunter-gathers. > > I kinda parallels the biological evolution of flesh-eating as providing > a bigger, richer dietary pay-out as
    compared to grazing. > > So in that light the good/bad axis is subjective and is of pivotal > importance only to the participants. For distant observers, I don't see > it as good/bad. It just *is*.Yes, it is what it is.But Twistis is asserting, comically,
    that it's all about the strong conquering the weak.


    No weak conquer the strong actually.

    :rolleyes:


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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 09:20:50 2023
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:12:20 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 8:51 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:
    07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On
    Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
    images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not
    politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would
    look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could
    be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US
    has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was
    in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard
    of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese
    moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked
    them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd
    find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much
    more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as
    a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding... > >
    ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even if
    it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the
    Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a
    decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the
    Brits were brutal.



    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.






    I don't see value judgements, such as "good/bad" or "right/wrong"
    entering into a discussion of what appears to me to be a part of the evolutionary process, do you, skript? Success or failure might be more appropriate.

    This phenomenon of one group contesting with another group over
    resources of any kind--territory, access to trade, manufactured or
    natural wealth, etc.--has been around ever since two distinct groups
    have overlapped when searching for resources. Basically it's what hunter-gathers do by instinct, and since being the winner in any such contest yields very quick positive results, it has evolved beyond hunter-gathers.

    I kinda parallels the biological evolution of flesh-eating as providing
    a bigger, richer dietary pay-out as compared to grazing.

    So in that light the good/bad axis is subjective and is of pivotal importance only to the participants. For distant observers, I don't see
    it as good/bad. It just *is*.

    Yes, it is what it is.

    But Twistis is asserting, comically, that it's all about the strong conquering the weak.

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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 10:56:25 2023
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:49:02 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 9:20 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:12:20 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 8:51 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at
    12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On
    Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
    images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not
    politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would
    look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could
    be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US
    has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was
    in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard
    of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese
    moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked
    them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd
    find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much
    more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as
    a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding... > >
    ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even if
    it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the
    Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a
    decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the
    Brits were brutal.


    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.






    I don't see value judgements, such as "good/bad" or "right/wrong"
    entering into a discussion of what appears to me to be a part of the
    evolutionary process, do you, skript? Success or failure might be more
    appropriate.

    This phenomenon of one group contesting with another group over
    resources of any kind--territory, access to trade, manufactured or
    natural wealth, etc.--has been around ever since two distinct groups
    have overlapped when searching for resources. Basically it's what
    hunter-gathers do by instinct, and since being the winner in any such
    contest yields very quick positive results, it has evolved beyond
    hunter-gathers.

    I kinda parallels the biological evolution of flesh-eating as providing >> a bigger, richer dietary pay-out as compared to grazing.

    So in that light the good/bad axis is subjective and is of pivotal
    importance only to the participants. For distant observers, I don't see >> it as good/bad. It just *is*.
    Yes, it is what it is.

    But Twistis is asserting, comically, that it's all about the strong conquering the weak.
    Well, it's evident that you two guys like fightin' each other...;^)

    Not really. But an unapologetic racist like that... wow. And thin-skinned to boot, maybe I do enjoy it.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Sat Aug 19 10:37:05 2023
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:49:33 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 9:16 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 8:52:03 AM UTC-7, *skriptis wrote:
    bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at
    12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>> On
    Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/
    images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is not
    politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries would
    look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y could
    be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>>> US
    has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant UK was
    in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard
    of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the Japanese
    moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if you asked
    them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression, then they'd
    find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. > > Not much
    more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at all, unless as
    a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was much more of a
    chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the misunderstanding... > >
    ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > be left alone, even if
    it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the
    Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I won't do that to a
    decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd agree that even the
    Brits were brutal.
    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.
    Twisting again.

    Sawfish gave me crap for asserting that the Brits, though nasty, did stuff for the Indians.
    My intent wasn't to criticize *you*, but to assert my idea that so far
    as I know, no culture has ever actually *liked* being superseded by another--EVEN IF OBJECTIVELY THEY GOT A LOT OF POSITIVE STUFF OUT OF IT.

    That was all I ever meant.

    Hard to disagree.


    Then I agreed that the Brits really were pretty nasty.
    You know that thing I said about the Brits being "Nazis with a sense of humor", that was the result of a lot of thought. There really is
    *something* to it, in my view. E.g., each felt that their "race"
    (thinking of it very granularly, like the English would consider the
    Irish to be another "race") was the bee's knees, that they were
    improving the world with their presence, and that any action in support
    of their advancement was justified.

    But the Brits are also really funny! I think Germans *can* be, in a sort
    of grim way, but they're not in the same league with the Brits.

    Not at all. And that's why the Germans called up the Pythons and said "We understand you're funny. We're not." Then they had them to Germany to make a few episodes. Worth looking up the full story.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From bmoore@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Mon Aug 21 07:30:34 2023
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 11:35:35 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 10:56 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:49:02 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 9:20 AM, bmoore wrote:
    On Saturday, August 19, 2023 at 9:12:20 AM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:
    On 8/19/23 8:51 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    bmoore <bmo...@nyx.net> Wrote in message:r
    On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 2:26:01 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote:> On 8/18/23 12:57 PM, bmoore wrote: > > On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 12:44:41 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >> On 8/18/23 12:33 PM, bmoore wrote: > >>> On Friday, August 18, 2023
    at 12:07:32 PM UTC-7, Sawfish wrote: > >>>> On 8/18/23 11:22 AM, bmoore wrote: > >>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 10:23:38 AM UTC-7, gap...@gmail.com wrote: > >>>>>> On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 11:02:47 AM UTC-4, The Iceberg wrote: > >>>>>>>
    On Friday, 18 August 2023 at 15:05:25 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote: > >>>>>>>> On 8/18/23 4:31 AM, *skriptis wrote: > >>>>>>>>> The newest Inglehart-Welzel cultural values map for 2023 is here. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> https://www.worldvaluessurvey.
    org/images/Map2023NEW.png > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Check who is the most moderate, and who are the extremists. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> We should all condemn the extremist countries and their people. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> Mind you, this is
    not politicians, governments and so on. This is literally what are the people like. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> You can hate them for their extremism feeling no remorse. > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> I wonder what a similar map of shithole countries
    would look like. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Along the x axis could be percentage of households with sewage treatment > >>>>>>>> of some sort, and y could be an encoded legal system. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Or x could be frequency of incestuous offspring and y
    could be mortality > >>>>>>>> per 1000. Or IQ. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> :^) > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Seriously, an interesting document. The outliers, like Chile, India > >>>>>>>> (Een-jah!), South Africa are interesting. I'm gratified to find that the > >>>>>>
    US has more in common with Belgium than with Canada. > >>>>>>> is this map related? cos what matters is offering a safe space for people of colour!! > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> Go > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> https://imgflip.com/i/7w62so > >>>>>> Oops, White protestant
    UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > >>>>> True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > >>>> It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to > >>>> be left alone, even if it means a much lower
    standard of living on the > >>>> west's scale of desirables. > >>>> > >>>> I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > >>>> left alone. What do you think, b? > >>> Before or after the fact? I sure as hell wouldn't want the
    Japanese moving in, but the British are another story. > >> There's no real need to finesse this. If you some how could ask Indians > >> before, what do you *think* they'd say, if you could ask during the Raj, > >> what do you think they'd say, and if
    you asked them now, what do you > >> think they'd say. > >> > >> Look. I'll even go first, to demonstrate good faith: > >> > >> Before - maybe (depending the local mogul) They'd respond positively to > >> a promise to be relieved from local oppression,
    then they'd find they > >> were getting screwed in whole new and wonderfully different ways. > >> > >> during - no > >> > >> after - no, except for some of the older bureaucrats. > > That's your opinion, what is the basis for it?> Raja and common sense. >
    Not much more. > > (Bet you never expected to see "Raja" and "common sense" in the same > sentence, huh? Neither did I, and so I took advantage of this > inconceivably rare opportunity...)> > > >> I see no reason to bring the Japanese into this, at
    all, unless as a way > >> to redirect the question. > > If you're gonna be colonized vs. no colonization, who would you prefer?> Was that EVER a part of the question? Who would you prefer? If so, why > limit it solely to the Japanese and Brits? There was
    much more of a > chance that it might have been the Portuguese than the Japanese. But why > even bring in them?> > The Brits are a very special case of less then shitty overlords. Please parse my words with care.> Here's all of it right up to the
    misunderstanding... > > ~~~~~~~~> Oops, White protestant UK was in Injia for 300 years, looting it dry! > > True, but they also improved things about India, do you disagree? > > It's hard for me to see where any indigenous culture would not prefer to >
    be left alone, even if it means a much lower standard of living on the > west's scale of desirables. > > I'm saying the Indians would probably have liked it better to have been > left alone. What do you think, b? > > Before or after the fact? I sure as
    hell wouldn't want the Japanese moving in, but the British are another story.> ~~~~~~~~~~~ > > The easiest way to interpret this is a guy making himself a back door because he thought I'd try to trap him. > > You've been keeping the wrong company, b. I
    won't do that to a decent person, and I don't even like it in self-defense--which is why I started using a killfile. > > So if you'd answer the original question I'd be happy enough to proceed to the Japanese, or anyone else. But first things first. I'd
    agree that even the Brits were brutal.

    What a stupid thing to say.


    Brits were brutal means what exactly?

    That they should have conquered India more gently?

    How do you conquer someone gently?



    Do you see what kind of nonsense you post?



    The only culprits for Brits conquering India were Indians. Indians were weak and they couldn't defend themselves so Brits got them.

    Shame on them.


    So we can either forget the past, or if you want to examine the past, discuss it and so on, the fact India lost to a handful of Brits who came on boats, means let's mock India for being weak?

    There's no other course in such discussion.


    Implying that Brits were "bad" or "evil" is childish. It's not a valid option.






    I don't see value judgements, such as "good/bad" or "right/wrong"
    entering into a discussion of what appears to me to be a part of the >>>> evolutionary process, do you, skript? Success or failure might be more >>>> appropriate.

    This phenomenon of one group contesting with another group over
    resources of any kind--territory, access to trade, manufactured or
    natural wealth, etc.--has been around ever since two distinct groups >>>> have overlapped when searching for resources. Basically it's what
    hunter-gathers do by instinct, and since being the winner in any such >>>> contest yields very quick positive results, it has evolved beyond
    hunter-gathers.

    I kinda parallels the biological evolution of flesh-eating as providing >>>> a bigger, richer dietary pay-out as compared to grazing.

    So in that light the good/bad axis is subjective and is of pivotal
    importance only to the participants. For distant observers, I don't see >>>> it as good/bad. It just *is*.
    Yes, it is what it is.

    But Twistis is asserting, comically, that it's all about the strong conquering the weak.
    Well, it's evident that you two guys like fightin' each other...;^)
    Not really. But an unapologetic racist like that... wow. And thin-skinned to boot, maybe I do enjoy it.
    To me, it doesn't matter *what* people are here, so long as they are
    willing to relate to me with at least a superficial level of personal respect. Given that we can talk about *anything* at all.

    Another concern that I'd have is the to impinge on my life in a
    substantive, not conceptual, way; since this is all virtual on rst,
    there seems like little-to-no possibility of any such substantive impingement, so that doesn't come into play.

    I realize this sounds funny, but that's deeply the way I've been for a
    very long time.

    It's a valid position, just not mine.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 21 08:43:30 2023
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    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)