Exposing How "Polite Pretense" Is Simply A Term For Deception

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I don't allow that sort of language on my threads.

Grow up.

What you allow?

The sad thing is that he is 100% correct. You just took something that Rubio said and conflated it with American Indians before the influence of the Europeans. They have nothing to do with one another.

 

[PoliticalChic]

What you allow?

The sad thing is that he is 100% correct. You just took something that Rubio said and conflated it with American Indians before the influence of the Europeans. They have nothing to do with one another.

I also abhor your sort of nonsense.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I also abhor your sort of nonsense.

I also abhor your use of AI to justify points that you cannot on your own.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I also abhor your use of AI to justify points that you cannot on your own.

What a fool you are: how do you suppost quotes are selected?

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What a fool you are: how do you suppost quotes are selected?

Sorry! I don't speak Chinglish!

 

[Cassandro]

You're painting Native Americans as stone age savages, but that’s a huge oversimplification. Many societies were highly complex long before European settlers arrived. Cahokia had massive cities, advanced agriculture, and organized trade networks. Judging them by the presence of wheels or European technology misses the point. Progress isn’t one size fits all, and your standards are extremely Eurocentric.

The same goes for the rest of your post. Treating entire groups as monolithic problems is incompatible with logic.

Why are YOU referring to "groups" if you don't think they logically exist?

 

[Marchimedes]

What do you recall learning about Indian culture?

White man (European anyway) gave them the horse, guns and liquor.

 

[PoliticalChic]

White man (European anyway) gave them the horse, guns and liquor.

And capitalism



Here, an example:

In his article “Towards a theory of property rights” Harold Demsetz shows by a historic example of the Montagnes Indians the impact of private property. It demonstrates the different behaviours in cases with and without private property rights, how private property solves negative externalities and the role of coordination by changing individuals’ behaviour.

The Montagnes Indians had no restrictions on hunting (=> open-access common property good).

… when the colonists started to acquire beaver furs from the Indians, the value of the beaver increased to such an extent, that the onset of intensification of hunting led to a decline in the beaver population (= negative externality).

Everyone hunted as much as he could and nobody cared about the sustainability of the beaver population. The benefit/revenue of each animal was individual for the hunter, but the costs of the stock decline had the community as a whole (= tragedy of the commons).

The Montagnes Indians successfully solved the problem by the allocation of individual territories on the families (= exactly defined property right), so that individual incentives appeared to plan for the long term under consideration of the beaver population. Consequently the negative externality was remedied and the individuals’ behavior purposely changed by property rights (Demsetz, 1967: 351 – 354).”
Property rights


Changes in knowledge result in changes in production functions, market values, and aspirations. Thanks to those white pioneers.
Did they teach that in government school?????

 

[PoliticalChic]

White man (European anyway) gave them the horse, guns and liquor.

...and literacy, capitalism, and advanced medicine.