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Should I Sue Egpyt?

LondonBridgeLondonBridge __BANNED USERS regular
edited July 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
Why does the media or certain 'black leaders' in America continue the victimization of black people in America?

CNN developed a special titled 'Black In America.' Why won't they create a title called 'Indians In America' as they have it just as bad as any minority?

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/

The US school system seem to go out of their to make it seem blacks were the only victims in world history. From Black History month to the mis-teachings of the US Civil War. If anyone understands world history it's far from that case.

My heritage is Scottish/Jewish and to some that may not mean anything so if I play the victim should I sue Egypt for making tourist dollars off the pyramids my ancient ancestors built?

My point is how long can a race in America play victim to an injustice before moving on?

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    man sue the fuck out of egpyt

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    Jews didn't build the pyramids. They were built by Egyptians who were doing labor as a form of taxation that ancient Egypt utilized.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    You know, we do already have a thread about racism that I'm certain would appreciate your input.

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  • PodlyPodly you unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    Jews didn't build the pyramids. They were built by Egyptians who were doing labor as a form of taxation that ancient Egypt utilized.

    dude he's talking about those rat bastard egpytians

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Modern Egypt has jack to do with Egypt a few thousand years ago. Crimes committed against blacks would be closer to crimes committed by a certain European country in the 1940s.

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    LondonBridge wrote: »
    Why does the media or certain 'black leaders' in America continue the victimization of black people in America?

    CNN developed a special titled 'Black In America.' Why won't they create a title called 'Indians In America' as they have it just as bad as any minority?

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/

    The US school system seem to go out of their to make it seem blacks were the only victims in world history. From Black History month to the mis-teachings of the US Civil War. If anyone understands world history it's far from that case.

    My heritage is Scottish/Jewish and to some that may not mean anything so if I play the victim should I sue Egypt for making tourist dollars off the pyramids my ancient ancestors built?

    My point is how long can a race in America play victim to an injustice before moving on?

    That doesn't sound right, my school covered black history, the Holocaust, Native Americans getting Manifest Destiny'd.

    And they covered Black History and the Holocaust intensely and yearly.

    In a public school in Florida.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Life as a scott/jew is fucking hard mirite?

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Jesus Christ was I tired of dead Indians and Jews by the end of high school.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Cantido wrote: »
    LondonBridge wrote: »
    Why does the media or certain 'black leaders' in America continue the victimization of black people in America?

    CNN developed a special titled 'Black In America.' Why won't they create a title called 'Indians In America' as they have it just as bad as any minority?

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/

    The US school system seem to go out of their to make it seem blacks were the only victims in world history. From Black History month to the mis-teachings of the US Civil War. If anyone understands world history it's far from that case.

    My heritage is Scottish/Jewish and to some that may not mean anything so if I play the victim should I sue Egypt for making tourist dollars off the pyramids my ancient ancestors built?

    My point is how long can a race in America play victim to an injustice before moving on?

    That doesn't sound right, my school covered black history, the Holocaust, Native Americans getting Manifest Destiny'd.

    And they covered Black History and the Holocaust intensely and yearly.

    In a public school in Florida.
    Me too. Manifest Destiny was D:.
    What the OP is really doing is slipping in a not-so-covert "but whites are the minority!" argument, or something like that.

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  • geckahngeckahn Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    dooo it

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  • LondonBridgeLondonBridge __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2008
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Life as a scott/jew is fucking hard mirite?

    Dude, Roots ain't got shit after watching Braveheart and Schindler's List yo! 8-)

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Cantido wrote: »
    LondonBridge wrote: »
    Why does the media or certain 'black leaders' in America continue the victimization of black people in America?

    CNN developed a special titled 'Black In America.' Why won't they create a title called 'Indians In America' as they have it just as bad as any minority?

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/

    The US school system seem to go out of their to make it seem blacks were the only victims in world history. From Black History month to the mis-teachings of the US Civil War. If anyone understands world history it's far from that case.

    My heritage is Scottish/Jewish and to some that may not mean anything so if I play the victim should I sue Egypt for making tourist dollars off the pyramids my ancient ancestors built?

    My point is how long can a race in America play victim to an injustice before moving on?

    That doesn't sound right, my school covered black history, the Holocaust, Native Americans getting Manifest Destiny'd.

    And they covered Black History and the Holocaust intensely and yearly.

    In a public school in Florida.
    Me too. Manifest Destiny was D:.
    What the OP is really doing is slipping in a not-so-covert "but whites are the minority!" argument, or something like that.
    Here in cleveland, they are, literally.

    You don't see me bitching about it

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    LondonBridge wrote: »
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Life as a scott/jew is fucking hard mirite?

    Dude, Roots ain't got shit after watching Braveheart and Schindler's List yo! 8-)
    You're doing it wrong.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    LondonBridge wrote: »
    Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud wrote: »
    Life as a scott/jew is fucking hard mirite?

    Dude, Roots ain't got shit after watching Braveheart and Schindler's List yo! 8-)

    Because Braveheart is historically accurate.

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Moe Fwacky wrote: »
    Here in cleveland, they are, literally.

    You don't see me bitching about it
    You expect me to believe that neighborhood crime thread is a coincidence? Pfft.

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  • Moe FwackyMoe Fwacky Right Here, Right Now Drives a BuickModerator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    The city I live in is relatively quiet compared to Cleveland proper and has nothing to do with this.

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  • DarkCrawlerDarkCrawler Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Quid wrote: »
    Jesus Christ was I tired of dead Indians and Jews by the end of high school.

    Same, and I live in Finland.

    We were brutally opressed by the Swedish and the Russians for centuries! Why doesn't anyone mention that? WHEN DO WE GET OUR SWEET BLOOD MONEY, SWEDEN AND RUSSIA?! WHEN DO WE GET THE CASH, YOU RAT BASTARDS?!?! :x

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited July 2008
    Ahh. Racist against all of Cleveland I see.

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2008
    You should sue Egypt, and jump off a bridge. Not necessarily in that order.

    Tycho wrote:
    I have Gabe's post for tomorrow here with me, he mailed it to me early and I'll put it up right after mine. Suffice it to say he discusses Mechassault, and not just Mechassault but his preternatural abilities within that electronic realm. Indeed, that is also the subject of our comic. You can bet he'll find some way to fit that game in on Sunday, mark my words.


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    Tycho wrote:
    I'm pretty spaced out right now, having just returned from a midnight preview show of the new Harry Potter. It's pretty Goddamn good. Two things to make note of on this topic.

    One, I guess I don't really care if people who haven't read the books don't get some or even any of the references. I see this mentioned sometimes in reviews of the Harry Potter movies and it makes me laugh and laugh. The best these movies could ever hope for is to be a sort of visual aid to the book series, and that is not a denigration of existing or future Harry Potter Films. It is, in fact, an honor. Besides, if not knowing what is going on in the movie makes you feel left out or whatever, don't fret. You are more welcome to join our secret treehouse club. You can read all four books in plenty of time to be ready for the fifth, due out at the end of linear time.

    Two, I always forget what kinds of fucking freakazoids slither out of a city like this to watch the late, late show. It wasn't quite as bad as when Monkey and I saw Episode 2 at this theater, where virtually every event that occurred on screen was accompanied by a sound like a chorus of depraved mall Santas.

    I'm seeing a lot of reviews for Xbox Live out there, and that seems to me like reviewing a plate instead of the food on it. One doesn't play Live after all, do they! Here's everything you need to know about Live. Live is like the part of your Xbox that they left out when you bought it. They're only too happy to charge you for it after the fact of course, but it's just as much a part of the machine as the hard disk or the GPU or whatever. It was designed with this in mind. It's essentially compulsory if you plan on spending any serious time with your Xbox - this is, as my father might have said, "How they get you."

    If you are planning to run a server for Battlefield, UT2k3, or Natural Selection this weekend, I'd love to hear from you. Just send me a message with "Servers" in the subject line with all your server info, and I'll make sure it gets put up here on the main page - remember, the password is "penny4th" to keep out the diseased rabble. Just so it's clear for Saturday - we'll be playing on Neocron's Pluto server. For winners of the contest, if the CD Key you receive doesn't seem to work correctly, replace the plus signs in it with zeroes. That's plus signs with zeroes. I think that's everything. I'm really looking forward to this.

    (CW)TB out.

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    So many games, so little time. Metroid Prime: I am about ten or eleven hours into Metroid and it continues to be great, in spite of some issues with the way it controls. The visuals are especially nice. It's not like I've never seen an ice level before, or some ancient ruins or whatever. I mean, I can't even count the number of times I've had to dodge vents that spit out fire in a video game. But somehow these staples feel fresh in Metroid. I don't know what special blend of herbs and spices the guys at Retro used to breathe life into these stock environments but I'm guessing there was at least eleven.

    MechAssault: This game has a grip on my mind. When I'm not playing it I'm thinking about it. Playing it on Live is like raw, undiluted fun. Like if fun was some kind of mineral that you could pull up from deep inside the earth. The controls are simple. Three or four buttons is all you need. Anyone can pick it up and immediately start maneuvering their mech around like a pro. But the game is also incredibly deep. From your choice of mech to your use of the terrain this game oozes strategy. A lot of you will no doubt be picking up your Xbox live starter kits today. Do yourselves a favor and pick up MechAssault along with it.

    Shinobi: I got it but I really have not had a chance to play it much. All I know right now is that it's got style to spare and it's hard as fuck.

    Resident Evil 0: This one time I was playing MechAssault and I was like up on this hill and I was totally laying into this other guy with my PPCs and he was all like "FUCK!" and I was all like "WOO!"...It was pretty cool.

    So I've been looking at these Tablet PCs lately. When I make a comic strip right now it starts off as a pencil drawing that gets scanned into Photoshop. Then I use my Wacom tablet to tighten it up and color it and stuff. So anyway, I am looking at these Tablet PC's and wondering if I couldn't use it sort of like digital paper. I mean, could I throw Photoshop on there and just draw right into it? Or could I stick a copy of Painter on it, head down to the lake and paint right into it like some kind of goddamned future canvas? I went down to Comp USA last weekend when they got them in and checked out the Toshiba model they had. It had a larger screen than the others and felt a little bit more robust, which I liked. The only art program they had on them of course was Paint and that really isn't a very good test. Microsoft is marketing these things to business people who take a lot of notes or something. To me it seems like an obvious fit for artists though, and so I wonder why they aren't targeting us as well. Do they just not see that as a possibility? Will it just not work for this purpose? I am hesitant to drop that kind of cash (credit) on one without knowing for sure that it will do what I want. What I need is a way to put Photoshop on one of them and give it a test drive. Comp USA obviously won't let me do that so I turn to you guys. According to our server statistics, about a hundred thousand people are gonna read this little post of mine today. I know that at least one of you must be in a position to help me out on this. Even if you just happen work at MS and you have one in your office. I live close, I can stop by and mess around with it while you work. I am like a little mouse, you won't even know I'm there.

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