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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This does not seem to be true. A quick Wikipedia check confirms he was a slave owner and owned 3 plantations, but the part about deliberate evangelization for control and its widespread adoption I cannot find anywhere.

Also, this is not even a book, as is evident by reading the cover. The actual book is to be found here: https://docsouth.unc.edu/church/jones/summary.html

Christianity also was used by African Americans for their own emancipation, see for example the AME, and many slave owners opposed its spread along slaves This is of course not in support of Christianity or slavery, but the issue isn't this simple.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do they want a piece? Well, they can go fuck themselves because neither they nor their bestie Russia will get any.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the classic Microsoft "what you really want is hidden behind a checkbox, otherwise you'll get shit".

[–] [email protected] 139 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I once turned that feature on thinking it was an actual backup (copies of my files in the cloud), I remember how angry I was when I found out it wasn't a backup after all and just removed your files from your computer and only made them accessible online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't know if it "matters", and I'm not a prescriptivist who wants to tell others how to talk, but it's interesting.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (10 children)

To be pedantic that's not grammar but orthography (which in English is even weirder). English is just a mutant amalgamation of Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages and man, it shows.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

But have you cleaned your bedroom or did you only clean it?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (18 children)

If he only said "I cleaned my shoes", they could be dirty again. Now you know the difference between present perfect and simple past. English grammar, it's weird (but every language's is, to be fair).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I dunno, there's dead Roman bones in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

He maybe should've known that it wouldn't work, but does he 'deserve' to be in a mental hospital? Absolutely not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

The more famous someone gets, the more power over people they have. And some people, once they have the opportunity, really like to abuse power.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago
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