This view (that the British were buying slaves from African slavers & therefore had more limited responsibility) also omits to mention that it was Europeans who were creating the demand for slave… (View Post)

This is the kind of tedious quibbling & equivocating that people who are apologists for slavery or other atrocities tend to enter into. I’d hope that you were not one of those people, but this di… (View Post)

I’m sure the enslaved Africans he traded were comforted by the knowledge that a portion of the profits from their enslavement was going to be spent on polishing the PR image of the man who profited f… (View Post)

I think you’re underestimating the sales of a form of media that sells out theatres up and down the land for a month every single year. There are lots & lots of people who go to the panto every y… (View Post)

Man, Musk lickers are all the same. No actual arguments, just pure, un-adultered belief in a Musk-ridden future. Go on, explain to me /why/ the Tesla Semi will drive US rail freight out of business. … (View Post)