They needed it for South America and Australia?
Yes. 60-90% of the Inca died to small pox. Aboriginal Australians fell to a wider range of viruses, small pox, chicken pox, measles, flu... There were not that many to begin with, 300k on the low end, 1.5m at the high end. No hard numbers because like in the Americas, disease spread so fast and so far entire villages were wiped out before they even made contact with Europeans.
India was less susceptible. Lots of contact for centuries and they had their own domesticated animals. As a result the Muslim invasions/colonization of the subcontinent were far more 'successful' and bloody than England's attempt.

But they were colonizing the African and Asian continents for centuries.
So were Arabs. So were other Asian societies. You think Europeans were the only colonizers? Genghis Khan killed ~80 million people and made subjects as far west as modern day Poland. You think China appeared 4000 years ago with her borders intact?

The civilians who died as a result were intentionally killed.
Then there is no such thing as collateral damage and every army is guilty of the same charge.
If it is true and the IDF are intentionally killing civilians, they are really bad at their job. Random shelling with cheap artillery could have easily killed hundreds of thousands by now.

As for the Islamic terrorists, you think they would stop if we would just leave them alone?
Honestly, no. You and I aren't people, we're infidels, we deserve death. Israel isn't the end of the game. All the Jews could move to Mars, it would only encourage Islam. They would require Turkey, then Greece, Armenia. The House of Saud is "too western". India is full of polytheists, lower than dogs, fit for slaughter. And on and on and on. Labensraum can be pursued for its' own sake, this time under holy orders.

We look weak. We are weak. Western cities are regularly shut down by people wearing t-shirts with para-gliders openly supporting terrorists. They don't even have the decency to blush.
France is in real trouble. England, too. 'Americans' who support Palestine say they'll be voting for Trump even if it means the end of the Republic. Russia, Iran and China are . < this close to a formal alliance; three societies that won't be bothered by internal dissent if when war breaks out. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans moan about a measly 3 billion dollars -what the treasury department spends on toner and post-it notes- in military aid to the only ally willing to fight our enemy.

European Colonialism.
^See what I mean.^
How much energy do you think the people in Islamic States waste crying about what happened 400 years ago? Islamic Colonialism swept across Africa and into Europe, burning, killing and converting by sword everything in it's path. And without the help of small pox which did most of the heavy lifting for the Europeans. It is still going on to this day.
The self-immolation in Western society today is perfectly personified in Clownshow; a gay man who, if he were lucky, would be hurled head first from a tall building within minutes of setting foot in any of the places he seems to prefer to America.

Would you say we tried to kill as many civilians as possible when we firebombed Japan?
No. I would say we didn't care how many civilians we killed.

Who has killed more enemy affiliated civilians since 1948:
Israel, or those attacking Israel.
Israel.

Who has intentionally killed more totally unaffiliated, completely innocent civilians around the world since (insert arbitrary year)?
Israel or Islamic terrorists?

Here's a handy checklist to see if it is!
Conditions 4 and 5 aren't met and no one could argue they are. 1 and 2 are met but they could be applied to any shootout in East Chicago. #3 is clearly happening but only after 60 years of attempted negotiations, repeated ceasefires and resumptions and thousands of terrorist attacks around the world.

Your link lists seven genocides of the modern era. Why do you suppose they didn't include the Palestinians? Did they forget? Or will you concede that the authority on the subject you've offered doesn't classify the war against Islamic terrorists in Palestine as a "genocide"?

what's your opinion on Netanyahu
His arrogance and stupidity finally caught up to him. He's polling at 15%.
Maybe you'll get your wish and Israel will hold elections and form a new government in the Knesset.
Ben-Gvir will run. That'll be fun.

I guess it's okay
It's not "okay". It is however a possible consequence of starting a war.

Of course, Hamas could come out of their hidey-holes to fight or surrender and save the lives of all those 'civilians' who actively support their efforts and voted them into office in the hopes they would Kill All The Jews.
Allah is on their side, they've got nothing to lose.

The whole place contains civilians. It's one of the most densely populated areas on earth.
Actually, it's not, ~14,000 per sq mile and getting less dense everyday. Gaza doesn't break the top 100 in density.
This is just another TikToc meme (lie) put on offer as a reason to let Palestinians get away with murder.

And Munich. And Dresden, of course.
We killed 100,000 in 3 hours in Tokyo. Napalmed a paper city. No one called it genocide. Because it wasn't.
Civilians die in every war by the score. Woman, children and babies on all sides die in horrific ways.
Two of the unusual characteristics of the Israeli v Islamic Terrorists War is the lengths Israel is willing to go to prevent civilian deaths while their enemy tries to kill as many civilians as possible.
And the lengths the Pro-Hamas whiners, safe in their homes 12,000 miles away, are willing to go to distort history, reality and what can be classified as a "civilian" or "child" or "combatant".
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Sabatini(R) Fl, says DEI caused the collapse.
David Simon's (The Wire) epic reply:

Your mother did you, but after a hard life of service on a truck-stop lot, can we really hold her loosened, battered womb responsible for dropping you head-first on the Winnebago floor and burdening our society with another empty, racist demagogue thereafter? We cannot.

The Local 47th of stevedores will take a hit. The ship's holding company, probably flagged in Burundi or some such and traced back to a PO Box in Papua New Guinea won't lose a single Kina.

We don't need our military bases in Israel.
One base, built in 2018. We've never run missions out of that base.
One aircraft carrier costs about the same to operate for one year as the gift card Israel recieves and it projects a hell of a lot more power than one base in Israel.

No. I love Jewish people.
Uh huh.
Spare me your bullshht.

Palestinians didn't attack Israelis: HAMAS did!
Germans didn't attack Poland, then. The Nazis did. Will you extend this naive generosity to Israel, too? If so Israelis haven't killed any Palestinians, the IDF did.
War doesn't work that way. It never has.

some in that community are in gangs
If the Crips run for political office, win in a landslide and then set out to do exactly what they campaigned on, the community that elected them is responsible, at least in part. If that same community continues to support the Crips, offers their children to the cause and directly participates in their violent actions...."elections have consequences".

Why didn't America bring the survivors of the Holocaust to America and give them land?
It shouldn't be any surprise to someone like you there were/are a lot of Jew-haters in America, you're one of them.

Is it because Israel provides a strategic location for us in the Middle East.
America doesn't need any land in The Levant to project power in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter.

fund their welfare based society
Nonsense. They get a 3 billion dollar gift card in an economy of 490 billion. Before 10/7 3B was about how much cash and aid we gave to Palestinian terrorists. Israel must spend their gift card on the weapon systems we want them to 'buy'; mostly on hardware for the Iron Dome that we use as a research project for our own missile defense. Every shekel comes back to Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and the like. The money we once spent on Palestinian terrorists doesn't come back, it simply sustains a high birth rate for the next generation of Palestinian terrorists.

400 depopulated towns and villages of the 1948 Palestinian exodus

Maybe starting a war in 1948 to kill all the Jews and take all the land --land that was Jewish before the Romans named it "Palestine"-- wasn't such a great idea?
How about a clickable map of German towns and villages in Salisia? Would Germans today be justified in killing and raping for land they lost in a war they started nearly a century ago? How about a clickable map of Japanese towns and villages in Manchuria? Can the Crow slaughter the inhabitants of Bismark, North Dakota and in turn be slaughtered by the Blackfoot?

Not everyone who claims Palestinians are uniquely immune from consequences forever is antisemitic. But all antisemities believe Palestinians are uniquely immune from consequences forever.

ChickenHawk, too Scared to fight himself so he talks tough
As opposed to you, who bravely types on the internet while you claim genocide is being done in your name.
The Jews don't need Censored to wipe out Hamas. They could kill every living organism in Gaza in an afternoon if they wanted to. The Palestinians need you, though. Stand up straight for once in your life and actually do something to stop the murder of your fellow Islamic revolutionary heroes. -----.

Any idiot can rent a Penske truck or drive a 2 axle flatbed. A class A license holder (truck driver) who damaged any bridge would be fired, un-insurable and un-employable.
Besides, who cares? We're not talking about Monticello. It's a rickety death trap built for a horse and buggy.

Stay strong cancer! You got this!!
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Can't wait for the next moral lecture from these two about poor, ill-treated, misunderstood terrorists.

Next up for the hairshirt brigade: Forest Fires - Friend or Foe?

Katie Britt's GOP response was incredibly bizarre. Like a bad actress auditioning for a soap opera.

The man recently devalued the local currency by 50%, if memory serves.
Did he devalue the currency or did he accept that was the actual value of the currency all along?
Argentina has been running massive deficits every year for decades, unlike the US they can't just print their way out of the spiral but this hasn't stopped them from trying. There are no commercial loans in Argentina. Home mortgages don't exist. They have a big country rich in minerals but their largest export is soy.
That 57% didn't wake up poor two weeks ago, they were always poor with a government that wants to have the welfare state of a rich European country but has an economy that still functions like the Spanish hacienda system.

I suspect dollarization is coming. Tie the peso to the dollar like they did in Ecuador to make it stable so people stop trading in their currency for dollars and make it hard(ish) for the next regime to promise more welfare in order to get elected and start the spiral over again. Then banks can borrow dollars, loan pesos and have an actual economy instead of a populist roller coaster ride.

The article is really cringe.
Washington, 46, of Houston, relocated to Rwanda in 2020
Rwanda has cheap real estate after one million Tutsi were hacked to pieces in 100 days. That followed 400 years of subjugation and slavery of the Hutu. The civil war spilled into the Congo, another 200k killed, mostly by machete. ~400k rapes.

relocated from Atlanta to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in 2020 and is now based in South Africa
Moving to South Africa was a good move considering all the ISIS murders and rapes in Tanzania in 2021. The situation is much better now thanks to the evil raciest SETAF-AF.

Her older daughter, whose skin tone is deep brown, was no longer "bullied because of her complexion."
She moved to Africa because African Americans were bullying her daughter for being 'too black'.

With the money the Bradleys would have spent on one home in Los Angeles, they were able to buy their three-bedroom, two-bath town house; an investment property; and a home for two of their sons to eventually live in.
So they put LA rent-seeking in a suitcase, took it halfway across the world and bought three houses. Global gentrification.

Sub-Saharan migration to America has been steady for 50 years. About 40,000 a year. They are among the most productive and highly educated Americans. We should double that number, triple it. And at the same time put race-baiting "journalist" like Colette Coleman in the door seat of an east bound Boeing with a one-way ticket.

putting their hands on the head coach during a game
Hand to forearm. Settle down. It wasn't "assault". There is no intensity switch you can just flip on and off. Reid isn't complaining.
It was a dumb play. KC pulled the best lead blocker on the team and then ran into his gap. You think a first ballot HoFer would have watched the LB blow by him like that? The coaches were playing chess when checkers and securing the points was required. Whatever Kelce said worked, he played every down afterwards, when the game went into squeaky bum time they consistently called his number on third down and he delivered setting up both touchdowns.
After the game I'm sure there was a hug, a "my bad" and "I love you" because that's what men do. This is only a thing among the talking head Steven A. Smith goofball manufactured crisis circus and r/Swifty.

Tom would have probably told him to stay in the locker room the 2nd half
Lose the game because a guy shouted after you made a really dumb decision. Yeah, that'll show him.

Anyone who thinks that Vegas doesn't know what they're doing is naive
The NFL is almost always a bad bet. Super Bowl bets are particularly bad. The opening odds and line are usually bang-on to produce a 50/50 handle. Several hundred bookmakers can focus on just one game, they all exchange notes and get it right. Unless the line moves significantly because of dumb money it's hard to win or bet big with confidence.

assault his coach
call kelce an asshat for hitting his coach

Kelce was 100% in the right to be raging mad, the light bump was incidental. They ran it outside and the TE that got subed on to that side totally wiffed the block on the LB that made the strip. It's the Super Bowl. It's first and goal. Your all-pro TE should be on the field.

Mahomes was ----- all night. I know it will never happen, but the KC punter/special team should have been MVP. Bomb after bomb, especially in the first half when KC couldn't move the ball. He kept them in the game long enough to win it.

Yeah, I don't/can't dispute that. He was the words but Gilmour was the sound. No one would put Bernie Taupin on the same level as Elton John - admittedly an extreme comparison.
He wrote all the words for "Money" and wanted it to be a reggae song. The 7/4 time and blues scales were all Gilmour. Parsons took the 'money sounds' Waters recorded to make it fit the beat.
I could give many more examples of this where Waters wrote the meat of the lyrics but the final sound was far from what he envisioned when he wrote the words.

I'm biased, I admit. I was too young for the early days. Pulse was the only live performances I ever got to see. It was Gilmour's band by then lock-stock.
addendum: When Clapton got his CBE he was asked in an interview what it was like to be the best guitar player in the world, he said, "I dont know, ask David Gilmour".

Weird but great covers while you contemplate how wrong you are:

Are you putting Waters at the bottom of the list as a person or as a musician?
Both. I don't care about the Nazi stuff or the obvious antisemitism, though. All our heroes are ghosts if we look too closely at their personal lives and what they do/say in private. 'As a person' it was his ego that spoils him for me, which seems to have only gotten worse over time. He can't get along with anyone. He should have been a poet. As a writer he'd be number one on the list, but without DG, RW (and Alan Parsons should probably be on that list, too) doing/helping with the compositions many of his songs would have been dreary suicide anthems. As an artist his greatest contribution was in the broad themes that defined each album, when an album was meant to be played front to back and judged as a whole, not a bunch of singles to sell for .99 each on itunes. As a musician I dont see much debate. DG is the better guitar and bass player, I'll die on that hill. Wright was probably the best pure musician of the bunch and the best lyricist. Mason basically invented a new way to play drums in a rock band, a master of empty space, never overplayed, a true percussionist, not a drummer. He set the foundation for everyone else in the band to shine. RW played bass because they needed a bass player.

Syd is only #2 behind Pink on my list because it was his band. No Syd, no Pink Floyd. When artists die too young they get an automatic level-up. I don't make the rules.

Being the worst member of the --objectively-- greatest band in history is still an accomplishment.
Members ranked:
1. Pink
2. Syd
3. Gilmour
4. Wright
5. Mason
6. Waters
It's art so people will of course have their own opinion and rearrange the list. Those people are wrong ;)

She had more than 26 billion streams last year on spotify in 2023.
And the Beatles had 17,981,624,662. They haven't released a song in 30 years.

We can have this argument in 60 years. After she defines a generation and her music is sampled 100's of times by 100's of artists across every genre of music for decades.

The right picking a fight with her is strange. How many Swifties are old enough to vote? How many will vote?
She's not really politically active. The only way she goes all-in on the election is if they make her, taunt her, dare her to go all-in.

Swift is as big as the Beatles were at the height of their fame
bigger than Michael Jackson
She writes a lot of her own songs. She plays instruments. Turning her tour into a theater release was brilliant. She's also a bit of a real estate mogul. All respect to her as a musician and a businesswoman.
She seems like a world-class human being, too.

But the Beatles? MJ? really?
She's a pop star. She's sold 34 million albums total, in her whole career.
That's one Eminem album.
The Beattles sold 600million world wide. 1 was released in 2000 and sold 32 million copies.
No one is going to be buying "Shake it Off" in 60 years.
Swift is great, she's not the Beatles, calm down.