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  • It was definitely more conquest than colonization.

    The more interesting thing is that the Ummayads conquered most of Iberia in like 7-8 years. The Reconquista took 7 centuries and wasn’t completed until 1492.

    Incidentally some of the hardened veterans of the late Reconquista were the ones who would go on to annihilate the Aztec empire (didn’t help that the Aztecs had a lot of surrounding nations that they had subjugated that hated them) and commit some of the worst atrocities in this history of European colonialism including treating the natives of the new world as slaves in their race for resource extraction.

    The resources extracted in the new world would help build a lot of the nice architecture we see in modern day Spain, but it also cause inflation that destroyed Spain’s productive economy.

    Here’s a video that explains that last part (to be taken with a huge grain of salt - lot of absolutes stated here, but the overall thing did happen):

    https://youtu.be/Mqde3Oeo7Rg




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    It basically doesn’t matter if she resigns or not. Whoever takes her place will be decided by Trump who will just want someone who will cover up the worst of the Epstein files, run cover to ICE misconduct, and never prosecute those who bribe Trump. Whether it’s Bondi or not barely matters.











  • It cant be real not only because doordash wouldn’t give enough of a shit about drivers having accidents, but because doordash would specifically NOT want to track accident information. Even knowing this happened would open them up to various liability.

    The business model of these companies (Uber, Uber Eats, Doordash , etc) depends on drivers being independent contractors and not staff. They don’t want to know more about them than they absolutely have to.