Riiight...South Korea, Taiwan, Portugal, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Kosovo, Cyprus, Kenya, Malaysia, Algeria for starters. If I think of any more I’ll let you know. 70 years is an oddly specific time frame actually. Why 1952 onwards only?

I mean, they’ve brought it on themsleves to a degree yes, but it’s also not that rare, is it.

The number of Hoteps around the site is growing considerably, and we’re easily up to a dozen by now.

A lot of people have been taking a lot of bitter glee in blaming people like Ocasio-Cortez for this based on a view that anyone who voted for Sanders in 2016 is ultimately culpable for what happened yesterday.

They have an understanding based on mutually beneficial arrangements in Syria

What I like to do is to tell the judge that he, the court, the jury, and the system are all out of order and that they are collectively, executing my client’s soul. As a strategy, it hasn’t failed me yet.

The fact that you can’t do (rightly) what I invited you to do proves my point.

Bye then.

I haven’t derailed the conversation by choosing to disagree with you. That’s an extremely bad faith argument to make.

Most of the world fits 3 and 4, there’s a dozen states which haven’t been sanctioned by anybody fitting #2, and hell, #4,5,6 could apply to the US. Saudi Arabia isn’t a pariah state, and it hits every one of those categories bar #1, which only applies to North Korea. Or Israel.

It doesn’t validate it any more than the Black man who raped me because I was a faggot and a nigger has me thinking that those two words are the same. Depending on usage, faggot crosses racial boundaries, white friends of mine can call me a faggot, we draw the line in the community when it comes to color.

The relative handful is the number which have sanctioned Russia (45 countries, home to 16% of the World’s population - though a majority in economic terms, sanctioning countries holding 61% of global GDP)

Who are you replying to?

Exactly. Here in America, all a man needs is an idea, the gumption to get it off the ground, a father who owned an emerald mine, and the strength to keep going through the rough times, the times when there’s only one set of footprints in the sand.

Then you’re in the same place I am, and I have absolutely no hesitation in drawing the line at N before F. They’re not the same. But then again, I’m not white, (reckon you could call me an NFT) either.

Normal comment history, white man who pretends to be Black on the Root.

In Cosby’s defense, he let MLK borrow a microphone one time.