And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Are you aware that this place is in Europe? Likely in Italy, Spain or France... You know, what Fox News calls "the centers of radical conquering socialism"...
One thing I enjoy about pictures like these is that throughout most of human history, they would've been purely theoretical. Absent some kind of flight technology, no one could've seen that harbor from that vantage point, yet we take such perspectives entirely for granted today.
Absolutely! Remind me again... have white people built the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China, Machu Pichu, Petra, La Alhambra, Taj Mahal, the Clay Palace of Ghardaïa, the Great Mosque of Djenné, Angkor Wat, Zhouzhuang? Now that I think about it maybe it is racism and not white people.
No, they've only built the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Rushmore, Notre Dame, the palace at Versailles, Neuschwanstein, the Chrysler building, London Bridge, the Golden Gate, London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Prague, Brunelleschi's Dome, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa, plus the combined works in the Louvre, the Hermitage, and the UK and US National Galleries.
That's before we get to such pedestrian feats as interstate highways, dams, indoor plumbing, radio and television networks, the internet you're reading this on, inventing the computer or cell phone you used to access it, and reclaiming 25% of Netherlands from the sea.
The lowest per capita GDP in Europe is currently Ukraine, at US$3450@. The average per capita GDP in Africa is US$2150@.
The average GDP in the US is $69,000.
That's not racism, it's reality.
So, did you really want to talk about the weather, or just make chit-chat?
China and India had the biggest GDPs for 10 of the last 9 centuries... Remind me again.. are the Chinese and Indians also white? Homo sapiens have been on earth for 200,000 years. White people have "ruled" the last 400 years. Non whites have been the more successful race for the other 199,600 years. It was non white men that invented writing, it was non white men that invented math, it was non white men that invented the wheel... Try building interstate highways, computers or the internet without writing, math or wheels... Should we also go into the fact that much of the existence of the internet is thanks to a BLACK Nigerian Engineer (Philip Emeagwali)? Or the fact that dams were first invented in Egypt and Mesopotamia (by non white men)? Seems like you should visit the Louvre, the Hermitage and the UK and US National Galleries. You will be shocked to learn how much art is housed there that was NOT made by white men! At the Louvre there is a whole pavillion dedicated to art from Africa, Asia and America...
Recheck your imaginary numbers, chief. The US annual GDP is over $25.5T, which is more than China ($17.9T) and India ($3.3T) combined, even if you also threw in #3 Japan, ($4.2T).
And we're doing that with only 12% of China and India's combined populations.
That means we're only 8x more productive, on average, than they are. Every single day. America gets more done in 3 hours than the 3 of the 5 next best nations in the world, combined, get done all day.
Math isn't racist. It just is what it is.
Word to your mother: savages were never noble, either. Stop listening to PBS, NPR, and college professors. None of them have much experience in the real world.
And it isn't the Stone or Bronze Age anymore, so you don't get to average in the accomplishments from 200,000 years of hunting with stone spears to bootstrap more competence than people who can count rabbits, from space, in real time.
The non-white world got left in the dust over 2000 years ago, and they couldn't even see first place on the horizon after about 1200 A.D.
I don't have the connections or the cash to visit those places.
ReplyDeleteOpen the gates to radical conquering mobs and it won't be for long.
ReplyDeleteAre you aware that this place is in Europe? Likely in Italy, Spain or France... You know, what Fox News calls "the centers of radical conquering socialism"...
DeletePortofino? Ferrari named a Maserati after it.
ReplyDeletePortofino it is...
Deletegold holders
ReplyDeleteJust drop gold coins in the meter.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I'm sure of, it ain't Belmar, NJ
ReplyDeleteWhat keeps the boats in line like that? I see no buoys, . . . no lines, . . . no ropes, . . .
ReplyDeleteperhaps even the boats know their place
DeleteTradition! :-)
DeleteCinque Terra
ReplyDeleteNope, not steep enough. Portofino - close to Genua - it is.
DeleteOne thing I enjoy about pictures like these is that throughout most of human history, they would've been purely theoretical. Absent some kind of flight technology, no one could've seen that harbor from that vantage point, yet we take such perspectives entirely for granted today.
ReplyDeleteIt lacks diversity. Needs graffiti and africans sleeping on the streets
ReplyDeleteIt's called white people
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely!
DeleteRemind me again... have white people built the pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall of China, Machu Pichu, Petra, La Alhambra, Taj Mahal, the Clay Palace of Ghardaïa, the Great Mosque of Djenné, Angkor Wat, Zhouzhuang?
Now that I think about it maybe it is racism and not white people.
No, they've only built the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, Mt. Rushmore, Notre Dame, the palace at Versailles, Neuschwanstein, the Chrysler building, London Bridge, the Golden Gate, London, Paris, Rome, Venice, Prague, Brunelleschi's Dome, painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa, plus the combined works in the Louvre, the Hermitage, and the UK and US National Galleries.
DeleteThat's before we get to such pedestrian feats as interstate highways, dams, indoor plumbing, radio and television networks, the internet you're reading this on, inventing the computer or cell phone you used to access it, and reclaiming 25% of Netherlands from the sea.
The lowest per capita GDP in Europe is currently Ukraine, at US$3450@.
The average per capita GDP in Africa is US$2150@.
The average GDP in the US is $69,000.
That's not racism, it's reality.
So, did you really want to talk about the weather, or just make chit-chat?
China and India had the biggest GDPs for 10 of the last 9 centuries... Remind me again.. are the Chinese and Indians also white?
DeleteHomo sapiens have been on earth for 200,000 years. White people have "ruled" the last 400 years. Non whites have been the more successful race for the other 199,600 years. It was non white men that invented writing, it was non white men that invented math, it was non white men that invented the wheel... Try building interstate highways, computers or the internet without writing, math or wheels...
Should we also go into the fact that much of the existence of the internet is thanks to a BLACK Nigerian Engineer (Philip Emeagwali)? Or the fact that dams were first invented in Egypt and Mesopotamia (by non white men)?
Seems like you should visit the Louvre, the Hermitage and the UK and US National Galleries. You will be shocked to learn how much art is housed there that was NOT made by white men! At the Louvre there is a whole pavillion dedicated to art from Africa, Asia and America...
So yes. It is racism.
Recheck your imaginary numbers, chief.
DeleteThe US annual GDP is over $25.5T, which is more than China ($17.9T) and India ($3.3T) combined, even if you also threw in #3 Japan, ($4.2T).
And we're doing that with only 12% of China and India's combined populations.
That means we're only 8x more productive, on average, than they are.
Every single day.
America gets more done in 3 hours than the 3 of the 5 next best nations in the world, combined, get done all day.
Math isn't racist. It just is what it is.
Word to your mother: savages were never noble, either.
Stop listening to PBS, NPR, and college professors.
None of them have much experience in the real world.
And it isn't the Stone or Bronze Age anymore, so you don't get to average in the accomplishments from 200,000 years of hunting with stone spears to bootstrap more competence than people who can count rabbits, from space, in real time.
The non-white world got left in the dust over 2000 years ago, and they couldn't even see first place on the horizon after about 1200 A.D.
Wakanda Isn't Real.
Bummer.
Bocelli did a concert there, google it, watch it and be amazed
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