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    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Agree, I guess that's actually worse

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Wow chill, editorializing? I'm merely paraphrasing a sentence in that wiki article :v

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Thanks a lot =)))

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 2 points ago in todayilearned

    80% of tax revenue? That's... so fucked up.

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 0 points ago in todayilearned

    Well I found it on Wikipedia, and I don't have access to the source so that was really all I learned that day on that subject :v Can you educate me more on this?

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 0 points ago in todayilearned

    Holy shit really? :v

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    His plantation grows opium? That's... completely taken me aback, I have a lot of respect for him :v

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    I agree with you, and BTW looking at historical figures in context is much more fun than merely reducing them to "great heroes" or "evil demons". Still, I posted this simply because I found it funny and I wanted to share some fun with you guys (today I learned, duh), yet some peeps just assume I'm hating on Jefferson while I actually have a lot of respect for him :v

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Wow that's a lot of cool historical facts that I have never known before. Could you provide me with more details?

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Hello, why can't we just sit back, relax and enjoy a fun fact without politicizing it? :v Honestly I just find that fact funny, and I actually have a lot of respect for Thomas Jefferson, except for his ownership of slave obviously.

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 2 points ago in todayilearned

    Thanks =)) I actually came across this wiki article while procrastinating studying History for my exam the very next day (we almost never study about the Haitian Revolution in my country at all, BTW) :)))

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 0 points ago in todayilearned

    Wow chill, I just find it a fun fact. When I first read about the American Revolution, I found Jefferson quite inspiring, for having been one of the youngest representatives in Congress yet assigned such an important task, as well as how he went about writing the Declaration. But later when I learned he was also a slave owner (before reading that Wikipedia article), I was definitely a bit disappointed.

    [–] TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in todayilearned

    Well they have finished paying that portion of debt to the French back in 1947 though.

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    TIL President Jefferson, a slaveholder, refused to recognize Haiti after the Haitian Revolution and imposed a trade embargo on them to ensure their economic failure, for fear that a successful slave revolt in the West Indies would inspire slaves in the US (en.wikipedia.org)
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    [–] Politico article that advocates virtual slavery renamed from "Own You Own Immigrant" to "Sponser an Immigrant Yourself" HelloWorld_Linuxing 4 points ago * (lasted edited 2 months ago) in capitalistrealism

    Others might try, in entrepreneurial fashion, to find foreign workers for American businesses—which would not be allowed to sponsor migrants under our proposal—taking a cut in the process. Google and Exxon would need to pay people like Mary to find migrants for their businesses.

    So how is Mary different from a human trafficker?

    Moreover, a Visas Between Individuals Program does so in the spirit of the market, by allowing every citizen to choose how she uses her right to sponsor visas rather than allowing corporations or governments to manage migration.

    And yet above it there's this:

    Sponsors will normally want the migrants they sponsor to live near them.

    What would stop a company on the free market from hiring sponsors to offer migrants the service of being sponsored? In that case the sponsors and the migrants don't even have to know each other's face.

    It is hard to demonize the person who lives in your basement, or the basement of your neighbor, and has increased your income greatly.

    I bet the slave owners really really loved their slaves back then.

    [–] If there's no intellectual property, what's the point for new competitors to innovate? HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in LibertarianDebates

    Well I'm not talking about copying ideas. I get it, ideas are cheap, and as far as I know no one gives out patents for ideas. What I'm talking about is copying implementation. It is the implementations that are actually patented, as of present.

    [–] I was really bummed that I forgot to buy my wife a birthday gift. She was cool about it, but I felt miserable during dinner. Before bed she asked if I wanted to see Hamilton and that’s when I remembered that I bought her $3,000 opera season tickets a few months ago to give her on her birthday. HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in ADHD

    Good bot

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    [–] If there's no intellectual property, what's the point for new competitors to innovate? HelloWorld_Linuxing 2 points ago in LibertarianDebates

    There are copyrights for written works, but could you apply copyrights for products? If not, monopolies and oligarchs could still steal ideas from small innovators.

    [–] Asking for a small favor... HelloWorld_Linuxing 2 points ago in progressive_islam

    Thank you very much!

    [–] Asking for a small favor... HelloWorld_Linuxing 2 points ago in progressive_islam

    Thanks!

    [–] The free market needs government interaction to exist. HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in LibertarianDebates

    So what do you think we should do about this problem with monopolies?

    [–] If there's no intellectual property, what's the point for new competitors to innovate? HelloWorld_Linuxing 1 points ago in LibertarianDebates

    I guess it's a huge flaw in their theory, then.