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  • Pope says Trump's threat to destroy Iranian civilization is 'truly unacceptable'

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  • Ukraine also participated in iraq war along with usa which killed a million iraqi civilians , ukraine prior to russian war supplied weapons to many african countries which commited human right violations aganist people of other countries and their own people, does that mean war on ukraine is justified. Similarly iran government supported russia by providing shaheed drones doens't justify usa/israel bombing in iran and killing innocent civilians

  • TIL that Over the course of the seven-month Blitz (Sept 1940 – May 1941) in WW2 , nearly 30,000 Londoners were killed, averaging around 4,200 deaths per month.

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  • Comparing fascist nazi to american civil war is crazy , imagine how fucked up would be the world if nazi's took over the world . I can understand from an anticolonial view that colonialism is very exploitative and ww2 drained British empire but at the same time imagine how fucked up would be if world have takeovered by nazis

  • foreign ownership of oil and gas in africa

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  • TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large numbers

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  • British colonial government in India forced farmers to cultivate opium poppies to sustain a massive, highly profitable, and drug trade with China(Qing dynasty) during the 18th and 19th centuries. The East India Company monopolized production in Bengal, using coercive methods—such as miltary threats , advances of money, intimidation, and destruction of food crops to compel farmers to grow poppies instead of food.

    Peasants were pressured into signing contracts to grow poppy, with threats of kidnapping, imprisonment, and destruction of their homes if they refused. The British government bought the opium at artificially low prices, which often did not cover the cost of production, leading to impoverishment.

    The East India Company maintained a strict monopoly, ensuring all opium produced was processed and sold to private traders who smuggled it into China.

    While it brought revenue to the colonial state, it caused significant misery and directly contributed to shortages of agricultural land for food, which has been linked to the hardships of farmers.

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    TIL that British india(British Raj) have a significant role in British-Qing opium trade as Indian farmers produced opium poppy in large numbers

    www.bbc.com /news/world-asia-india-49404024
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    TIL:despite cracking down traditional views, Mao Zedong allegedly had many sexual relationships with young women, which he viewed through a Taoist lens as a means to “gain energy” and extend his life.

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  • The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician is a memoir by Li Zhisui, one of the physicians to Mao Zedong, former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, which was first published in 1994. The book have details of Mao's personality, sexual proclivities, party politics and personal habits. The biography was based on his recollection of journals he had kept

    Li Zhisui documented that Mao engaged in sexual relationships with numerous young women throughout his time in power. He described these relationships as taking place in an environment where Mao's requests were essentially commands, with the women often being staff members or fans, frequently leading to health issues for the women involved

    Li Zhisui wrote that Mao believed in traditional, quasi-Taoist health practices (specifically relating to Fangzhongshu, or "arts of the bedchamber") despite mao himself crackdowned traditonal beliefs and spirituality during cultural revolution. The belief was that by having sexual relations with young women without ejaculating, or by absorbing the yin energy of younger partners, he could replenish his own yang energy and extend his life .

    Also Dr. Li Zhisui, indicate that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong frequently received nightly massages especially from his young male attendants.

    Mao suffered from chronic insomnia and reportedly relied on massages from his young male bodyguards or attendants to help him relax and fall asleep.Dr. Li noted in his memoir, The Private Life of Chairman Mao, that these male attendants were often chosen for being “easy on the eye” and mao wrote poems on how great massages from young beautiful men

    While some interpretations of these accounts suggest a sexual element, Dr. Li’s descriptions often focused on Mao’s deep emotional and deep physical dependency on his young male staff for comfort, rather than explicit sexual activity with men.

    The book was heavily criticized by supporters of Mao and some Western academics, who questioned its accuracy and suggested that Dr. Li had personal grudges or motives for sensationalism However, many other historians consider it a vital primary source.

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    TIL,from Mao Zedong’s longtime personal physician,Dr.Li Zhisui memoir indicate that mao enjoyed nightly massages especially from his young male attendants.The memoir is controversial and banned in PRC

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  • Historical accounts from Mao Zedong’s longtime personal physician, Dr. Li Zhisui, indicate that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong frequently received nightly massages especially from his young male attendants.

    Mao suffered from chronic insomnia and reportedly relied on massages from his young male bodyguards or attendants to help him relax and fall asleep.Dr. Li noted in his memoir, The Private Life of Chairman Mao, that these male attendants were often chosen for being "easy on the eye" and mao wrote poems on how great massages from young beautiful men

    While some interpretations of these accounts suggest a sexual element, Dr. Li’s descriptions often focused on Mao’s deep emotional and deep physical dependency on his young male staff for comfort, rather than explicit sexual activity with men. Dr.Li in his memoir because of backlash didn't gave much details on the deep map's deep emotional and physical dependency with young men staffs.

    These reports sit alongside much more extensively documented accounts of Mao’s many sexual relationships with young women, which he viewed through a Taoist lens as a means to "acquire energy" and extend his life. This memoir by Dr. Li shisui is very controversial and banned in china

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    TIL that Heilongjiang,China has currently the lowest TFR of any large administrative subdivision in the world with 0.52 children per woman

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heilongjiang

  • TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are larger,This difference is primarily due to fecundity selection

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  • In many reptile species, females are larger and sometimes stronger than males, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are typically larger and stronger. This difference is driven by fecundity selection—the evolutionary pressure for females to maximize egg production—compared to the sexual selection pressure that often favors larger males in mammals.

    1)Fecundity Selection (Egg Production) In reptiles, a female's ability to produce more or larger offspring is directly proportional to her size. Larger females can accommodate larger abdominal cavities for carrying more eggs or delivering bigger, more robust hatchlings. In many lizard and snake species, selection favors females that can produce larger clutches, leading to the evolution of larger, stronger female bodies.

    1. High-Resource Demand for Reproduction Producing eggs (oviparity) or carrying young (viviparity) requires a massive investment of energy and physical space, far more than the sperm production of males. Females are selected to be large to handle this strain, whereas males do not face this constraint and are often limited to size increases only for fighting.

    2. Reduced Male-Male Competition In many reptile groups, particularly many snakes, males do not fight each other for access to females. In such species, male size is not selected to be massive. If female fecundity (egg count) is more important for survival than male mating aggression, females evolve to be the larger sex.

    3. Resistance to Aggressive Mating In some lizard and snake species, males are highly aggressive and often chase or force females to mate. A larger, stronger female is better equipped to survive these aggressive interactions.

    5)Contrast with Mammals Mammals: Sexual selection is intense, favoring massive males that can fight for access to a harem of females. Pregnancy/nursing is very costly, making smaller females often more efficient for resource management, leading to sexual dimorphism where males are larger. Reptiles: Reproduction is focused on sheer volume of eggs rather than protecting a territory. Because a "big mother is a better mother" (more eggs), selection favors female size. Note: In reptiles with high territorial aggression (like certain Anoles or Crocodilians), males are often larger/stronger, showing that the trend depends entirely on the species' mating behavior

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    TIL that In many reptile species, females are larger than male species, which contrasts with the general mammalian trend where males are larger,This difference is primarily due to fecundity selection

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fecundity_selection

  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • 21% of black men voted for trump

  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • What you said is right , without industrialization there won't be any rise in economic prosperity, but at the same time

    if you look at present day Spanish colonies , much of the property , farmlands of high real estate value are majorly owned by descendants of white people over present generation of black people or native Americans tribes .

    Another example would be australia, much of the wealthy real estate , farmlands and property are owned by white people , they got this wealth and property from there ancestors. How there ancestors got this were by displacement of aborginal people from fertile , beach side lands

    That means present generation of white people in australia benefit from having high net worth properties , fertile farmlands whereas present day descendants of aborginal people only have dried land and have properties of low real estate value .

    This is one of the Main thing causing disparity in australia, same thing would be applicable for usa where white people own majority of property, wealthy farmland . Also Black people were curbed via Jim crows law which were made by white supremists to curb rise of black traders eventually leads to more economic inequality .

    Jealous white supremists destroyed black wall street during Tulsa massacre

  • YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon, and the mainstream media aren't covering it

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  • Since criticism of israel is antisemitic !!!

  • The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’

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  • Us was always an electoral autocracy, you can vote an autocrat, it was never a democratic nation. Only a country which follow effective proportional representation system of democracy can be claimed as a democracy

  • YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba

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  • False flag is a common stategy many countries use to justify imperialism

  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • It's crazy how you got downvoted despite having good counter points ..

  • Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.

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  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • Your comment completely completely proves what white feminism is , that's the lack of accountability and no consideration of rights of minority

    Even United Nations acknowledge the need to move beyond white feminism :-

    https://www.unwomen.org/en/articles/explainer/intersectional-feminism-what-it-means-and-why-it-matters-right-now

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_feminism

    Adam smith point of view won't work here cause black people even after abolishment of slavery were not allowed to participate in economy in efficient way . Productivity of economy benefited only white people for wealth generation .. In case black people if became successful,they were torn downed to the ground Best example would be what happened to black wall street and how it got destroyed during Tulsa massacre