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u/Manihosseini1384 Jan 07 '23
Dark people? Hmmmm
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u/Batface_101 Jan 07 '23
Must’ve meant the aliens
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u/FastBarnacle9536 Jan 07 '23
This is not accurate…
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u/Master-Ad9282 Jan 07 '23
It's quite accurate, my friend
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u/Jimmy_Twotone Jan 08 '23
Should we also mention how harsh travel over the Atlantic and the chronic malnourishment over generations is also contributing to the high obesity and heart disease rates in the African American community?
African slaves were treated worse than livestock by many slave holders; their descendants are still paying for it today.
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u/Prislv223 Jan 08 '23
This sounds like that racist “muscle twitch” comment made about black athletes.
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u/Crystal42069 Jan 07 '23
Like those fields
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u/VegemiteSandwich33 madlad Jan 07 '23
“I miss the good old days.” - 👴🏻
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u/Strange_username__ Jan 07 '23
Like what? Rome? Greece? Oh wait no, those things of incredible value were built by white people, just because it’s against white people doesn’t mean it’s not racism.
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u/kitsvneris Jan 07 '23
Greek people weren't white back then... I hadn't heard that one before, only some morons claiming that Greeks and Southern Europeans aren't white, as of in our days. Do you have a source for that?
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u/Takseen Jan 07 '23
I really hate that when faced with multiple monumentally impressive feats of stonework and construction engineering done by ancient people, some people's first thought is "Aliens did it" and not "holy shit ancient people were clever"
Having a massive food surplus and a bunch of farmers and laborers with nothing else to do outside of the growing season probably helps too.
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u/Hellkids2 Jan 07 '23
But you also have to take into account their farming methods, tools and knowledge were far less effective than us now, which counterweight their surplus of free time;
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u/Takseen Jan 07 '23
They likely had better knowledge than us in their very narrow field of "building very big stone monuments with Ancient Egyptian tech and tools". Other than idle curiosity and study by Egyptologists, we have little incentive to try and work out exactly how they did it. But for them it was a grand, cutting-edge project.
Also Egypt was exporting huge amounts of grain to Rome during the time of the Roman Empire, it was an incredibly fertile land then and presumably was during the time of Pyramid construction also. They organised irrigation projects, and had a well educated civil service
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u/Federal_Sector_3920 Jan 07 '23
We also need to consider that there are FAR fewer people in ancient times. Maybe a couple million in ancient Egypt. The reason we have higher populations is because of improvements in agriculture. One of the biggest milestones in our world history is synthesizing nitrogen to rejuvenate land for crops. Our population has roughly quadrupled worldwide since then.
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u/Disastrous-Passion59 Jan 07 '23
I think you mean ammonia, but I'm not sure
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yeah back then they used to harvest bird poop, it was highly valuable
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u/Federal_Sector_3920 Jan 07 '23
Japan had a thing for harvesting their own poop. Poop was so valuable that they would go door to door and buy people's stored poop for crops. Even urine sometimes, but poop was king. There would be ships loaded to the brim with poop along rivers and harbors ready to sell their supply or deliver it to farmers.
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u/Federal_Sector_3920 Jan 07 '23
Yes lol. It's a type of nitrogen. edit: well form of nitrogen. The form being used by plants to get their nitrogen
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u/Federal_Sector_3920 Jan 07 '23
So I guess we synthesized ammonia so we can feed the nitrogen in the ammonia to plants.
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u/Federal_Sector_3920 Jan 07 '23
Agreed. I hate that we discredit ourselves as a species. Ancient doesn't always mean stupid. Modern doesn't always mean wise.
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u/TooAsiatic Jan 07 '23
Genesis 6:4 reads as follows: The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
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u/TheKidNerd Jan 07 '23
Can’t tell who’s the bigger nutcase here, top commenter or bottom commenter
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u/pm_your_boobiess Jan 07 '23
This is literally r/uselessredcircle
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u/Speedfail0 Jan 07 '23
No it's not
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u/Seehengst Jan 07 '23
elaborate
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u/Speedfail0 Jan 07 '23
There is another comment it is to clarify what is important
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u/Seehengst Jan 07 '23
But the top of the screen is cut off. Why not just crop out the comment on the bottom. If the relevant comment wos the lower one It wouldn't be unnecessary.
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u/Speedfail0 Jan 07 '23
Thats one way the other os to make a red circle which they did
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u/Geonator1 Jan 07 '23
You right fam, it was just another way. I would have just crossed out the second comment, so bam that’s 3 ways!
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u/DN32405 Jan 07 '23
The laws of gravity weren't enacted until 1687, so stones were much lighter back then making it easier to build large scale objects.
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u/Ryancmoore360 Jan 07 '23
and those white people were in huts scratching their balls barely figuring out fire.
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u/gtisdale420 Jan 07 '23
What do you mean, those people? LMFAO
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u/Outrageous_Example76 Jan 08 '23
They meant the negros
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u/gtisdale420 Jan 08 '23
You totally missed the joke... It was a play on from "what do you mean, you people?"
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u/Debate-Shoddy Jan 08 '23
Aliens and Egyptian pyramids? What's next? The Romans building the Empire State Building?
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u/TXJOEMAMA Jan 08 '23
Yea, they might be giants.
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u/Wattsupwithalan Jan 08 '23
time just eroding away at them like water over a stone, a pebble in a oysters gullet slowly evolving into the human race as it is today
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u/Wattsupwithalan Jan 08 '23
small, fragile and weak and with 2 eyes, what the fuck wheres my cyclops brothers at
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u/TXJOEMAMA Jan 08 '23
oyster gullet
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u/Wattsupwithalan Jan 08 '23 edited Jan 09 '23
yeah what else do you call it. all they are is just mouths with a tongue in a clam shell
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u/DiverSquid Jan 07 '23
I love how in the case of any old civilization that consisted of "Dark People", the automatic answer people had to their monuments was "Aliens".
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u/johnnyblues90 Jan 07 '23
That's how deep their racism runs, they would brand themselves as illogical nutcases before just admitted the truth
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u/johnnyblues90 Jan 07 '23
That's how deep their racism runs, they would brand themselves as illogical nutcases before just admitted the truth.
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u/the-last-meme-bender Jan 07 '23
Fascinating how it can be a racist comment while at least still giving proper credit rather than whitewashing
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u/bryalb Jan 07 '23
Slave labor built incredibly impossible structures because… yeah it’s free. Duh.
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u/radfromthesouth Jan 07 '23
They weren't slaves. Egyptians did own slaves. But building pyramid was considered an honor for religious reasons and skilled craftsmen were hired for this job.
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u/100HP_Hotrod Jan 07 '23
Except slave labor didn't build the pyramids.
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u/upvote-button Jan 07 '23
I mean forcibly encouraging farmers to work on something that doesn't benefit them at all without pay when they couldn't farm is on the other side of a very fine line from slavery
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u/100HP_Hotrod Jan 07 '23
Except they were paid.
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u/upvote-button Jan 07 '23
And where do you think the government got the money they were paid with?
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u/TheKidNerd Jan 07 '23
This was back in egypt during a time where you could walk around and practically find entire gold bars spewn across the street, egypt was shockingly rich back then
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u/100HP_Hotrod Jan 07 '23
Jesus. You win. Congrats. Good night.
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u/AntoineGGG Jan 07 '23
You are not less slave in your badly paid jobs today that they were back then
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u/BeardedBum420 Jan 07 '23
That's deep. I'm busy trying to figure out if my dogs are living a better life than me.
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