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They want $20 trillion! Crazy!
1 posted on 02/07/2025 9:14:19 PM PST by RandFan
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You’ll be SORRY!!!
You will be inviting Buzzards, Hogs, Vampires and Piranhas over to your home for dinner.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 9:19:51 PM PST by lee martell
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The pioneers of slavery abolition are going to pay un-owed “reparations”? I’d say only Labour could think of that, if it were not for the Red Tories advancing it before them.


3 posted on 02/07/2025 9:20:42 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Can they throw in another $60 trillion to pay off the American reparationists?


5 posted on 02/07/2025 9:23:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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Are any former slaves still alive?


6 posted on 02/07/2025 9:24:43 PM PST by Petrosius
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I’m guessing the U.S. blacks will be suing the U.K. for the years prior to JANUARY 14, 1784.


7 posted on 02/07/2025 9:24:48 PM PST by stylin19a ( If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.)
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I thought the British government already compensated slave owners for the slaves that were freed.


8 posted on 02/07/2025 9:27:58 PM PST by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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And it will never end once it starts.


9 posted on 02/07/2025 9:30:20 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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The British Crown nearly bankrupted itself paying for the reparations they made for silvery. They owe nothing.


10 posted on 02/07/2025 9:31:32 PM PST by Jonty30 (Groundhogs don't falsify their predictions for grant money, whereas climate scientists do. )
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I asked AI.

The UK ended slavery in stages:

1. 1807 - The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: This law made it illegal to trade enslaved people within the British Empire but did not free those already enslaved.

2. 1833 - The Slavery Abolition Act: This act officially abolished slavery in most of the British Empire. However, enslaved people were forced into a period of "apprenticeship" (essentially continued forced labor) until 1838.

3. 1838 - Full Emancipation: The apprenticeship system was abolished, and enslaved people were fully freed.

There were still exceptions, as slavery remained legal in some territories like India until later reforms in the 19th century.

Nothing more than virtue signaling here.

11 posted on 02/07/2025 9:33:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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From Statista website:

The estimated total number of slaves in the 1800s ——
Portugal / Brazil: 5,099,815.
Britain: 2,733,324.
France: 1,164,967.
Spain / Uruguay: 884,922.
Netherlands: 475,240.
U.S.A: 252,652.
Denmark/Baltics: 91,733.
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US had that small an amount? (although one slave was one too many and a blight on our history).

How are the reparations funding agreements going in Netherlands, Spain, Portugal & Brazil and so on.

Haven’t heard.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 9:34:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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You blokes can pick up the tab for the freeloader caribbeaners.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 9:37:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't forget to celebrate "A Day Without Guac and Panther Pee" today! )
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It was Britain that forced African kings to end slavery. At least in British colonies.

The Caribbean nations should be paying Britain.

17 posted on 02/07/2025 9:39:43 PM PST by Angelino97
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Hanno perso la testa!!! Idioti!! Imbecilli! Perdenti!! Piccole puttane!!

OK, now that my venting is done...

I dont have the words.

The WELFARE STATE was reparations...and it costs MANY Trillions.

Here and there.

Again, we don’t deserve the savior we have had sent to us in the form of Trump.

But thank you God for delivernig him to us...we should have fought our own battle YEARS, DECADES AGO...but we didn’t...we waited for a hero and he is here.

To make sure this INSANITY doesn’t happen here!!

Get a ####ING JOB and stop putting your hands out!!

Everyone associated with slavery is DEAD!!

They DEAD owners can pay the DEAD slaves.

Im good with that.


18 posted on 02/07/2025 9:40:08 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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The country that was the primary driver towards the elimination of the slave trade, based upon Christian opposition, is now open to talks on slavery reparations. That's just sad.

Down with weak kneed politicians.
20 posted on 02/07/2025 9:59:46 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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BTTT


25 posted on 02/07/2025 10:16:58 PM PST by nopardons
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So they finally are going to make the Irish and Scottish whole?


28 posted on 02/07/2025 10:37:57 PM PST by wgmalabama (For rent —)
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Yes I agree Give them all a one way ticket to Africa on a tramp steamer


32 posted on 02/07/2025 11:27:42 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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They forgot to mention that the British Navy impeded, then completely halted, the West Africa slave trade, more than 200 years ago!

No problem for the West Africans.

They just went back to enslaving their own cousins, which they had been doing for more than 100,000 years, before the Europeans showed up around 1500 A.D.

33 posted on 02/07/2025 11:33:02 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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UK is already broke. They were one of the first to end slavery there and now they want this? I don’t have words for this lunacy.


40 posted on 02/08/2025 4:19:55 AM PST by Bulwyf
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How about the slavery that goes on RIGHT NOW in the Middle East and Africa?
UK paid their dues generations ago. No one alive today should be held responsible for the slave trade 160 years ago.
This is just grift.

42 posted on 02/08/2025 4:35:33 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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