All Purpose Coronavirus Discussion Part XVIV: We're Goin Off The Rail On A Crazy Monorail

[Ghosts Beer]

And yet it's an important question to ask since your insistence on ignoring them automatically indicates their deaths don't matter.

Insistence on ignoring them? I’m trying to call attention to them. Asking a simple number. Why do you insist on avoiding it?

 

[DancingPanther]

Don’t make the mistake.

I am not strong like you

 

[Beef Invictus]

Insistence on ignoring them? I’m trying to call attention to them. Asking a simple number. Why do you insist on avoiding it?

Oh, see, I'm taking it in your past context of arguing against anti-pandemic actions because you dismiss COVID for mostly killing the olds.

And also your past context of valuing money over lives.

 

[BernieParent]

And in continued NHL rewind joy, SportsNet is now playing the 1983 All Star game when the Wales Conference decided to not play in front of Pelle Lindbergh. This comes immediately after game 4 of the 1976 Stanley Cup finals, where the Canadiens swept the Flyers. Le sigh.

 

[Beef Invictus]

And in continued NHL rewind joy, SportsNet is now playing the 1983 All Star game when the Wales Conference decided to not play in front of Pelle Lindbergh. This comes immediately after game 4 of the 1976 Stanley Cup finals, where the Canadiens swept the Flyers. Le sigh.

Perhaps you could try watching water in a cup evaporate instead.

 

[BernieParent]

Perhaps you could try watching water in a cup evaporate instead.

That sounds like an excellent plan.

 

[Rebels57]

And in continued NHL rewind joy, SportsNet is now playing the 1983 All Star game when the Wales Conference decided to not play in front of Pelle Lindbergh. This comes immediately after game 4 of the 1976 Stanley Cup finals, where the Canadiens swept the Flyers. Le sigh.

I watched the 94 Skills Comp on Youtube last night. Thats some good fun. Almost entirely Hall of Famers showing off. Lindros & Jagr competed in a rapid fire event on Potvin and lit him up lol. Coffey beat Fedorov in fastest skater.

 

[DancingPanther]

Happy June. I fully expect the second half of this year to be even shittier than the first

 

[Beef Invictus]

Well, sounds like DC will be making work interesting tomorrow.

 

[Embiid]

Freakin choppers been flying all night...feel like I'm in Al Anbar/Ramadi.

 

[deadhead]

Haiti 1791-1804.

Hobbled Napoleon from a world away. Began the breakdown of the inhumanity of trading human flesh in the West.
Its momentum was only stopped by a world economy based on white supremacy.

Isolated economically by white supremacist nations, the entirety of the 1st world at the time, those formerly in bondage were forced to pay reparations to their former slaveholders. 150 million in gold.

Haiti is educational. You can smash at a system physically but until the framework that surrounds and upholds it is torn down unrest and injustice will persist.

Haiti is educational, but I don't think in the way you think.

"White supremacist nations?" Slavery was universal at that time, not just African slavery (sold into slavery by African kings, often to Arab traders, since white men did not venture off the coast of Africa due to disease, the Ottomans had European slaves, the Europeans had Muslim slaves, Russian serfdom was quasi-slavery, and so on. Slavery was not an invention of white supremacists, Africans were favored as slaves in many areas due to their resistance to disease (Yellow Fever did more to liberate Haiti than the slave revolts, decimating both the British and the French), for example, in Saudi Arabia due to their resistance to malaria.

On 1 January 1804, Dessalines, the new leader under the dictatorial 1805 constitution, declared Haiti a free republic followed by the massacre of the remaining whites. Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America, the first post-colonial independent black-led nation in the world, and the only nation whose independence was gained as part of a successful slave rebellion. Dessalines adopted the economic organisation of serfdom. He proclaimed the mastery of the state over the individual and consequently ordered that all laborers would be bound to a plantation. His chief motivator nonetheless was production, and to this aim he granted much freedom to the plantations' overseers. Dessalines effectively sent the Haitian people back into slavery. Nevertheless, he succeeded in rebuilding much of the countryside and in raising production levels.

Mulatto domination of politics and economics, and urban life after the revolution, created a different kind of two-caste society, as most Haitians were rural subsistence farmers. The nascent state's future was hobbled in 1825 when France required 150 million gold francs in reparations to French ex-slaveholders as a condition of French political recognition and to end the newly formed state's political and economic isolation.

On October 8, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became JACQUES I, EMPEROR.
On Oct. 17, 1806, just short of three years after independence, Emperor Jacques I was assassinated.

Haiti was now plunged into a chaotic period of political maneuvering and civil war that divided Haiti into two nations under two different leaders for the next 12 years.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Freakin choppers been flying all night...feel like I'm in Al Anbar/Ramadi.

Well at this point the peaceful protests is over. The clowns have come in.

 

[FlyerNutter]

Well at this point the peaceful protests is over. The clowns have come in.

Some of the stuff I’ve seen Especially the last two days. Honestly yeah. f*** those goofs.

Vandalism and nothing else.

 

[Flybynite]

Some of the stuff I’ve seen Especially the last two days. Honestly yeah. f*** those goofs.

Vandalism and nothing else.

Seems like Philly today is going to gamestop.com and finding your nearest one to go loot. My brother lives near the one in Tacony and says he saws tweets about the scanners saying it was being looted.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Some of the stuff I’ve seen Especially the last two days. Honestly yeah. f*** those goofs.

Vandalism and nothing else.

They’re basically looting all over at Philly at this point. Dumb opportunistic f***s.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Haiti is educational, but I don't think in the way you think.

"White supremacist nations?" Slavery was universal at that time, not just African slavery (sold into slavery by African kings, often to Arab traders, since white men did not venture off the coast of Africa due to disease, the Ottomans had European slaves, the Europeans had Muslim slaves, Russian serfdom was quasi-slavery, and so on. Slavery was not an invention of white supremacists, Africans were favored as slaves in many areas due to their resistance to disease (Yellow Fever did more to liberate Haiti than the slave revolts, decimating both the British and the French), for example, in Saudi Arabia due to their resistance to malaria.

On 1 January 1804, Dessalines, the new leader under the dictatorial 1805 constitution, declared Haiti a free republic followed by the massacre of the remaining whites. Haiti was the first independent nation in Latin America, the first post-colonial independent black-led nation in the world, and the only nation whose independence was gained as part of a successful slave rebellion. Dessalines adopted the economic organisation of serfdom. He proclaimed the mastery of the state over the individual and consequently ordered that all laborers would be bound to a plantation. His chief motivator nonetheless was production, and to this aim he granted much freedom to the plantations' overseers. Dessalines effectively sent the Haitian people back into slavery. Nevertheless, he succeeded in rebuilding much of the countryside and in raising production levels.

Mulatto domination of politics and economics, and urban life after the revolution, created a different kind of two-caste society, as most Haitians were rural subsistence farmers. The nascent state's future was hobbled in 1825 when France required 150 million gold francs in reparations to French ex-slaveholders as a condition of French political recognition and to end the newly formed state's political and economic isolation.

On October 8, 1804 Jean-Jacques Dessalines became JACQUES I, EMPEROR.
On Oct. 17, 1806, just short of three years after independence, Emperor Jacques I was assassinated.

Haiti was now plunged into a chaotic period of political maneuvering and civil war that divided Haiti into two nations under two different leaders for the next 12 years.

Eh, there was a strong racial issue involved that cannot be ignored. France had, for most of Haiti's history, been pretty even-keeled on racial equality compared to everyone else. Then some white supremacists took hold and insisted on classifying the various degrees of race in Haiti and applying laws based on that. It went over poorly and was a major trigger for the revolution. What had begun as an economic issue turned into a racial one with several magnitudes of greater intensity.

In apparent French tradition though, the Haitian revolution is incredibly complex and convoluted and keeping up with everything as you read through it takes some work. Made more complex by the actual French Revolution going on too, which must have been a delight for the people of Haiti trying to figure out what's what as every other boat that arrived brought news of a new regime and new orders.

 

[Flybynite]

Man. Things are gonna look real bad in the morning.

 

[Flybynite]

Is there a list of Philadelphia businesses that were hit? I heard some pharmacies were hit and trying to find out if any rite aid's were and I need to get my Father's prescription filled elsewhere.

 

[Starat327]

Stupidity has no limits....

 

[Embiid]

Awesome leadership.....Rome burns! Great job!

US heads into a new week shaken by violence and pandemic

 

[Chinatown88]

Your daily dose of cute animal vid/gif, I will always love dog zoomies edition.

 

[Lord Defect]

Police are responding to an unconfirmed report of people breaking into the Philadelphia zoo..... wtf.

 

[Embiid]

Police are responding to an unconfirmed report of people breaking into the Philadelphia zoo..... wtf.

Animal adoptions are up....people need bear hugs

 

[Starat327]

Networking peeps - any reco's for a modem/router setup thats xfiniti capable, up to 1000MB? I had been reading that the Nighthawk c7000 was the 'go-to' but it apparently doesnt handle the increased speed, nor does it necessarily cover the entire area of the new house, unfortunately.

 

[Cody Webster]

Stupidity has no limits....

I was watching as that happened. I was hoping they'd zoom in on it, and then they finally did. Idiots