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Since it's been a week, and I still haven't had the time to read through thoroughly and write a TL;DR, I'll just say thank you very much, and good to know.

In light of German history, I guess that's to be expected.

It's not indisputable fact, even if a lot of people agree with it.

In theory, they could have done something like that, but outside of wartime conscription, why would you?

For basic practical reasons, a communist government is still broken into a million organisations, which operate and hire just like anywhere else.

And animals knew about it before that, if we don't want to be specist.

It was the old world civilisations discovering the new world for the second time, and for the first time that lead to wider contact. (Columbus himself died before it was found to be a whole continent)

That different parts of your tongue taste different things.

When I was little, we did an experiment where we were supposed to "feel" which part of our tongue we were tasting things with, and I was like, "pretty sure I taste it everywhere". That teacher was fired for her anger issues at the end of the year, and that was certianly one of the moments where it came out, haha.

Most likely, everyone dead by 1950 was a total bastard, if you measure them by modern standards. If you go all the way back to the 1700's, that's could include tolerating or participating in slavery, and of course colonial atrocities.

The American founding fathers were radical progressives for their day, though.

The “revolutionary war” was largely so that they could maintain slavery

The civil war obviously was. The revolutionary war was back when the British were still pretty heavily involved in slavery, though. Is there evidence this was a specific driving factor?

TIL!

Depends what you're looking for. The same shit is happening in the other direction, with American businesses no longer able to operate.

In the end we'll all be poorer. Partly do to losing the saving involved in sharing things, partly due to lost growth while we're busy re-arranging. But yes, the tariffs are working to reduce imports to the US.

Which means nobody’s going to be replacing these businesses. We’re talking about hundreds of thousands of jobs that will be lost with no replacement.

Sort of. Over the long run, it should be replaced with more domestic-focused businesses, or maybe even overseas-focused. Of course, that's not as easy as flipping a switch, everything has to be re-organised. Who knows how quickly it can happen.

The government is trying to help out a bit, with all the project subsidies and military spending.

A really ironic take given that you're justifying genocide in your own thread.

We're not really in the market for making new enemies right now, unfortunately.