The Spanish came, stole as much from the Aztecs, Maya and other peoples that they could, then founded Mexico.

Then, for centuries, they did things like dig up graves to loot even more. And the people they subjugated are so poor and desperate that they’re often the ones looting their own ancestor’s graves on behalf of Mexico’s “cultural riches.”

The U.S. has a lot of “cultural riches” from various indigenous groups too. They also didn’t generally donate them.

Possibly.

I knew there was one!

Yes. It is “okay” if a president uses their legal power to pardon people for federal crimes. In that it is their legal right to do so.

Is this the first day you’ve been aware of that fact? It’s been true for a very, very long time.

There’s plenty of finger-pointing to go around on this one with both countries, but I think Ms. Sheinbaum might remember that many of Mexico’s “cultural riches” were looted.

I assume you already think that about the Guardian and the Observer, right?

I’m not so clear, reading about Tortoise Media, what’s so bad about it. Can you explain please?

I’m also free to stay and continue to reply if I’m enjoying myself. Which I am. If you don’t want to discuss this, take your own advice.

Cool. That doesn’t change my point since you’ve been defending the concept not caring about governments post-feudalism.

Feel free to criticize the Jerusalem Post for other reasons, they deserve it, but their reports on near-miss asteroids where they compare their size to random things is always amusing.

https://www.jpost.com/tags/asteroid

Everyone always talks about that episode, but no one ever talks about the stupid and boring other episode he’s in for some reason!

That doesn’t count, Buck Murdock associates himself with Star Trek!

There’s never not a good time to watch Tombstone.

There was this famous website in the early days of the internet…

But then you’re too young.

What postwar Gaza Strip? You mean the Israeli coastal resort area and (I’m guessing) inland landfill?

It will be interesting in 15 years to see all those people happily getting on the plane to fly to their Israeli resort, just lying to themselves that their vacation isn’t built on the genocide that they witnessed.

Just glancing at what those books are about, they sound fun and I’ll check them out, thanks. In the case of The Killing Star, that was the plot point that attracted me to it, but the execution was clumsy and the ending was not exactly a cliffhanger, but it didn’t feel like a resolution either.

When I was done reading it, my dog decided it needed to be chewed up. It was the only time she ever chewed up a book. I guess she felt even more strongly about it than I did.

There’s a not so great book called The Killing Star, where aliens that are never described in the book decide for an unknown reason that we need to be destroyed, so they just hurl as many asteroids as they can at our solar system. It worked pretty well.

Not a bad “low-tech” way to destroy a rival civilization in another solar system. A good idea in an otherwise disappointing book.

I like how both the right and the left now use “liberals” to insult people not politically aligned with them.

And I thought the word lost all meaning back when Rush Limbaugh used it to mean anyone to the left of him.

Have you ever seen an ostrich with a short neck?

See, the issue here is that you are so ignorant of history that you think 1776 is some important date for governments due to the association with the American Declaration of Independence, rather than the U.S. Constitution that wasn’t written until over 20 years later.

So essentially what you are saying is that the only history of governments that is worth studying is the history of absolute monarchy, feudalism and the Althing in Iceland… but only those things up to 1776.