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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:24:31 +0000
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On 31/10/2024 18:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-10-31, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> If you reject 'white mans' knowledge on racist grounds, well bye bye hi
>> tech.
>>
>> And I suspect that is what will happen. If the chinese dont take over,
>> the barbarians will. And will be welcomed by those who have been taught
>> to hate their own culture and fear science.
> 
> It's odd, though, how these barbarians, however anti-tech they may be,
> manage to hold on to enough technology to create weapons.
> 
Or are they simply paying someone else?
Only the Iranians have any technological nous.
Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria..,Somalia...

Not exactly putting men on the moon are they?


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“when things get difficult you just have to lie”

― Jean Claud Jüncker