You keep calling these people "grifters". This is very insulting. Grifters work very hard, with a delineated plan, to con people out of their money. This often involves coordination and lea… (View Post)

That would let off everyone else in the files. Teresa May said it best - prosecute everyone who we have evidence of committing this type of crime. Note that officials in the Home Office have tried, r… (View Post)

Take a look at Rio Tinto. The Romans used it as a way to dispose of problematic low value slaves for hundreds of years. Estimates for the death toll range from a 200K to 1.5 million. I doubt it is an… (View Post)

Actual polling at the time suggested the American people were lukewarm warm on the idea. After Apollo 11 support dropped rapidly. Many people took the view "We beat the Soviets, why is this cont… (View Post)

The Persians, of course, were indistinguishable, in their human rights record. Obv. Ref. The modern version of this is the people who die in a ditch for the claim that American slavery was worse* tha… (View Post)