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DrCowboyPresident 75 points ago +77 / -2

One looks at this tweet and suddenly it's not so surprising Africa failed to develop the wheel.

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side_o_beef 30 points ago +33 / -3

I blame the problem on people of yore. What the fuck were they thinking bringing the slaves over in the first place? They fucked up big time by participating in the slave trade. Lazy pieces of shit and now we have to deal with the mess they basically created.

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SoYuge 13 points ago +13 / -0

Good point that was really stupid. And at the least after the civil war you fucking send them back.

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CodeMonkey 9 points ago +9 / -0

They sold em, we bought em. Shoulda left that shit in Africa.

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side_o_beef 4 points ago +4 / -0

Oy vey, it's the same tactics as always:

"Hey, you don't want to work too hard do you? Why don't you buy a slave or two?"

"Hey, you don't want to expend all this effort into yourself do you? Why not watch some porn instead of being the man a woman would be proud to be with?"

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TrumpTrain425 2 points ago +2 / -0

SHUT IT DOWN

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HeavenPiercingMan 1 point ago +1 / -0

Happy slave merchants.

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vinnychase 10 points ago +10 / -0

Bringing slaves to America was the biggest mistake the founders ever made

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seniorpede 8 points ago +8 / -0

The African slave trade predates European involvement by several hundred years. Europeans made use of a market that already existed. The slaves were captured and put up for sale by other Africans - Europeans purchased what was already available. Africans were not chosen due to any particular racial animus - rather, it was economics. They had the ability to tolerate tropical climates and had resistance to a number of tropical diseases (remember, the vast majority of African slaves went to the Caribbean and South America to work the sugar plantations, not the American colonies).

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side_o_beef 5 points ago +5 / -0

What you're saying is 100% true, but my point stands. There's an existing market for black tar heroin, hitmen, and underage prostitutes today, but I don't engage in it because it will cause me more problems than it's worth.

I think that the whole practice of buying slaves back then was idiotic, morally wrong, and lazy. And now we have BLM in America, great outcome.

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side_o_beef 5 points ago +5 / -0

Muslims then, like today, have no problem with violence and are shameless about it. It's why they're conquering europe while the natives are trying to meme their police force into doing something.

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DrCowboyPresident 11 points ago +11 / -0

I remember some European explorer around 1600 or so was in an African village/community for a short time. He left and came back years later, to find he was now worshiped as a God.

Ditto for the Cargo Cults in the Pacific after WWII. Some people are stupid.

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stratocaster_patriot 6 points ago +7 / -1

Not just Somalia. All of Africa is sub 85, West Africa is sub 65. And that's on average. Stupidest people on the planet and they know it which is why they want IQ tests to be racist even though everyone else in the world does much better than them. In general, look at the places with the lowest IQ's on the planet and you will see the ancestry of those Americans who are constantly bitching about racism and oppression. No you guys just have inferior brain capacity and that's just a fact. Of course there are exception, notably those who come from high IQ ancestry but have gone to an American university an became retarded as a result.

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Quietam_Unum 4 points ago +4 / -0

From 1867 (hence the PI title by today's standards)

https://archive.org/details/negroesinnegroland

Sounds like Somalia didn't change that much, just added automatic weapons.

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NotRealDemSocialism 3 points ago +3 / -0

No, they would be killed out of jealousy for success. There's no way you could have achieved any of what you were doing without cheating, lying, and stealing. Sounds familiar?

There's a reason 70 IQ societies remain 70 IQ and why humanity has a history of leaving, migrating, and settling new lands.

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RespectMyNipples5 8 points ago +8 / -0

They had an extra 10,000 years by themselves to advance, and the most they could show for it was some sticks, mudhuts, and "kingdoms" that were pathetic compared to the Greeks.

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Major_Nutt 2 points ago +2 / -0

Neither did Native Americans. BuT fAcTs ArE rAcIsT!

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MapleBaconWaffles 1 point ago +1 / -0

When you think about it was the wheel ever developed more than once, or did it just spread?