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TruthTroll 4 points ago +4 / -0

I think you overestimate people's memory. Esp nowadays with the internet making pigeons out of the average man and woman.

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TruthTroll 4 points ago +4 / -0

"Noble savage" archetype (or trope) is still going strong. So is "magical negro". I don't know what happened but we seem to have entered some alternative dimension where the Left just reversed polarity of 1940's racism and is pushing hard for that.

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TruthTroll 2 points ago +3 / -1

There should be a rule about using the term "soy-boys" every other sentence:. You need to actually have muscles to do that.

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TruthTroll -1 points ago +4 / -5

take yourself and teh internets way more serious, chief. better than smoke singnals, huh?

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TruthTroll 1 point ago +3 / -2

No problem. I deleted when I heard that he'd changed so much...then realized I was being dumb and people could still get something from the rest of his talk and so reposted it. Glad you enjoyed it!

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TruthTroll 2 points ago +4 / -2

So sad that he's stuck in the past (or just too cowardly and conformist to stay out of Trump bashing?) that he chooses to express that publicly, even though he's said kind things about Trump in the past. anyways, very disappointed that he's a tool for the stuck-in-the-90s, head-in-the-sand Left instead of lending his unique voice toward creating a scene or mental space for creative Republicans. Not 'right-wing'. Not 'traditionalists.' Not 'conservatives.' heck, he could even be a globalist and not strictly 'nationalist.' But, he's got the money and stading ...why not try and carve a new space for the problem-solving, creative 'Right'...for total lack of a better word. For Team Orange!! ;p very frustrating.

It's like they really don't see the power of their own words (a) and then don't want anything to change but just want to wallow around in the same (wrong!)_ stereotypes that no longer serve us very well (b).

Hm.

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TruthTroll 0 points ago +4 / -4

https://archive.is/FLBJl

Ever since the first Europeans came to North America, only to discover the puzzling fact that other people were already living here, the question of how to understand the Native American past has been both difficult and politically charged. For many years, American Indian life was viewed through a scrim of interconnected bigotry and romance, which simultaneously served to idealize the pre-contact societies of the Americas and to justify their destruction. Pre-Columbian life might be understood as savage and brutal darkness or an eco-conscious Eden where man lived in perfect harmony with nature. But it seemed to exist outside history, as if the native people of this continent were for some reason exempt from greed, cruelty, warfare and other near-universal characteristics of human society.

As archaeologist Timothy Pauketat's cautious but mesmerizing new book, "Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi," makes clear, Cahokia -- the greatest Native American city north of Mexico -- definitely belongs to human history. (It is not "historical," in the strict sense, because the Cahokians left no written records.) At its peak in the 12th century, this settlement along the Mississippi River bottomland of western Illinois, a few miles east of modern-day St. Louis, was probably larger than London, and held economic, cultural and religious sway over a vast swath of the American heartland. Featuring a man-made central plaza covering 50 acres and the third-largest pyramid in the New World (the 100-foot-tall "Monks Mound"), Cahokia was home to at least 20,000 people. If that doesn't sound impressive from a 21st-century perspective, consider that the next city on United States territory to attain that size would be Philadelphia, some 600 years later.

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