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  1. Not entirely accurate, the Haitian were not completely racist. They spared some Poles that Napoleon sent whom defected and joined the Haitians and they received the title honorary blacks for their service in helping to liberate Haiti. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Haitians
  2. Love to all leaders that wear their traditional attire like the gulf nation, India and other.
  3. This mofo’s shamelessness gives someone secondhand cringe on his behalf.
  4. A keen observation in the latest lecture by Snyder is that libertarians tend to pivot toward fascism or the far-right route. I’d like to add that many of those types have entitlement issues and feel that they are entitled to their parents’ standard of living-plus more- sometimes with less work. Quite an uncharitable take on my part. Related to this point is that we live in an era where authoritarian countries like China are growing rapidly, and some believe that free countries could copy that formula to revive some old glory. All in all, a very illuminating speech by a lecturer I had never heard of before today.
  5. When dealing with the 47th, you can’t appeal to reason or logic because those mostly insult and confuse him. It is more effective to flatter and inflate his importance.
  6. The quota were negotiated without Ethiopian, Kenyan and Ugandan agreement from the colonial era when Britain negotiated in their name. This is a tangential point from the main topic.
  7. Shitting in the information ecology or public epistemic pool by releasing new content every week xD. Loved that metaphor.
  8. Spotify has many audiobooks recordings for free there, Libravox recordings, in the public domain.
  9. I cant A textbook example of how not to act and speak in that situation. The idiocracy gets more real every day.
  10. I found approximately one in five of the quotes to be relatable and profound.
  11. There is a lot of wisdom in the latest quote about not having strong opinions about stuff. However, it is pretty difficult to disregard current events.