It was the naval ensign of Massachusetts up to 1971, and I guess still is, just with the words removed. As a proud Swamp Yankee, I say to anyone using it to support a fascist coup attempt, and especially anyone from New Jersey - fuck right off.
Straight white Christian men sit at the bottom, almost buried beneath the pyramid
Like a Pharaoh? Buried with concubines and unimaginable riches and feasts in an elaborate sarcophagus? Under a monument built on the backs of thousands of slaves and their suffering and death? Yeah, okay, that tracks.
With infinite universes, every possible eventuality is realized an infinite number of times. There are infinite universes without earth and infinite universes with it.
It's amazing the way you NOTICE TWO THINGS.
Covid caused a recession, and by definition (GDP line go down), we have not been in a recession since the post-covid rebound. We have inflation because covid messed up our supply chains and aggregate demand is higher than it was pre-covid. People have money and they're spending it, unemployment is as low as it's ever been. The economy is white hot. The whole point of raising interest rates is to artificially lower demand so that prices can stabilize. If the fed doesn't stop raising interest rates at exactly the right time, demand dips too low, people start losing their jobs, and we end up in a recession.
The British did not partition Israel. A civil war between Zionist settlers and Palestinian Arabs broke out in the wake of the UN partition plan vote, the British noped out, the Zionists declared independence and fought & won a war against the Arab League.
If you're arguing from an environmental determinist POV like I assume @YoBuckStopsHere is, then the racism is a post-facto rationalization of the global dominance that Europeans stumbled into as a result of their geography, climate, and local fauna. I don't think he meant it as an excuse for racism, he just didn't adequately summarize the thesis of Guns, Germs, and Steel before flippantly referring to it.
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Make it a real ham sandwich instead of a proverbial one, and you've got a deal.