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  • How many millions of brilliant people have been executed over the drug war? Depending on how you classify “drug war” (like the wars over opium, or chocolate for that matter), they have been murdering people over this for centuries (whether to push or pull).

    … and they still do today. It’s an abomination, our modern version of the witch hunt.







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    20 days ago

    THE GOOD NEWS The last time I looked, they’re all shrinking in membership.

    Also, remember, they have always lied about their predominance, and they always will. Abrahamics have no relationship with the truth, don’t ever listen to them and their claims, believe nothing without solid evidence from another source.



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    20 days ago

    My memory fails me, here’s what I have found on my bookshelf from the last few years

    The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by Kelly

    The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by Waller

    The Black Death 1346-1353: The Complete History by Benedictow


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    21 days ago

    At the time of the plague, the Catholic church dominated every state politically; they were the undisputed masters of Europe.

    After the plague, they never recovered the same amount of control again. This was the start of a long decline that continues to this day. The plague revealed how truly ineffectual and predatory the church was, even to the most ignorant.

    Recommend the books The Black Death and The Dancing Plague, I’m over simplifying of course there are many other details.