Posted on 07/04/2020 7:10:45 AM PDT by Starman417
If the “Cancel Culture” crowd had its way, Washington would be replaced by George Floyd, Jefferson with Trayvon Martin, Teddy Roosevelt with Michael Brown, and Abraham Lincoln with Rodney King.
The easiest way for leftists to accomplish this is to have 100,000 liberals flood into South Dakota, and within a few years, it will be a blue state. Sort of what happened to Vermont in the 1970s. Mt. Rushmore will be dynamited shortly after that.
Many Indian tribes in North America were starving and in decline until they were introduced to the concept of using (and the availability of) horses from the Spaniards. Only from then were they able to hunt buffalo effectively.
‘A nation of atheists/humanists simply can not win such battles because they don’t believe in anything greater than themselves.’
are you acquainted with such a great number of atheists that you can make such blanket statements about them...?
True Americans: The NY Times must go.
Fixed.
There’s just enough room to the right (looking on) of Lincoln for Trump’s sculpture.
You have to take whatever you have and build on it.
Asia had more animals that could be domesticated for food and horsepower. That made civiliation possible. Innovation like the wheel helped too.
Of course, it made war and mass destruction possible too. But even large scale war with long enough intervals of peace leads to technological advances and causes greater civilization and urban growth.
The central American Indians had civilization that could never really advance because war was constant.
So, a lot of it is the luck of the draw and survival of the fittest. It’s nobodies fault, its just life.
Nuke ‘em from orbit, it’s the only way to make sure!
“Yet when obama visited there in 2008 Mt. Rushmore it was well, different”
Then I guess the island of Manhattan should go back to the Indians too. The NY Times is a joke
+100000!! LOL!!!
If you start with the young ones and only breed the docile ones, you’d have cows out of bison in 20-50 years. That would take an actual civilization. One that wasn”t constantly worrying about other less intelligent tribes trying to kill them. Animals don’t domesticate themselves.
Some animals just don't lend themselves to domestication: they never tame even if taken very young, and there aren't any docile ones to selectively breed. People have been trying to domesticate various African antelope and zebras for a long time, with very little success - after many generations, they're just as skittish and ornery as ever.
Even bison have only been semi-domesticated, those that have been in captivity more many generations and selected for docile behavior will still stampede and crash through a fence more often than even the most ornery domestic cattle breeds. I think that the animals that were domesticated were often the ones that were at least somewhat pre-disposed to more docile behavior to begin with.
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