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throwaway665667··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
Judging people by the content of their character and their opinions, and not their superficial characteristics is an American value. Is that an alien concept to people who supposedly enjoy such a high quality of life?
throwaway665667··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
> We didn't "intervene" until the germans declare war on us.

Yes, that was mistake and the lesson that should be learned.

> The genocidal civilization was Spain, not the aztecs.

This is complete revisionism, Spain laid war on the Aztecs supported even by other indians, it wasn't a voluntary biological warfare. The Aztecs killed tens of thousands of people per year.

> Who is we? Who destroyed half of europe to stop germany?

The allies. Are Allied bombings considered a contentious subject now?

> Did we wipe out the germans? Did we wipe out the german language, culture, history, etc?

Spaniards did not "wipe out" indian people, the Aztec civilization went the way of every conquered civilization. Did Arabs wipe out Egyptian language, culture, history, etc or did it dwindle in importance over the centuries as a new civilization took over the other?

throwaway665667··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
Really crazy how we are taught from an early age the horrors of the holocaust and other genocides, and aboutour moral superiority compared to those that didn't intervene back then... "Never again. If this this happened today we know better to stop it"... And then look at tens of thousand of people being mass murdered by a genocidal civilization and complain that Spain intervened because... a priests burned books (something that I absolutely do not condone of course)?

Were we wrong to destroy half of Europe to stop Germany too? Really trilled to know future generation will talk about us as the bad guys because we destroyed German art and books as we stopped a literal mass genocide.

throwaway665667··on How the Mayans were able to accurately predict solar eclipses for centuries
Witch hunts were capital punishment inflicted on pagan worshipers, not human sacrifices, and they were several tens of thousands in the span of three centuries.

Executions in Spain, Portugal, and Italy combined are estimated to have been 1000 in total. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_hunt#Execution_statistic...