Friday Chuckle.
It must be a black thang?
Using English Grammar For Students of French to tighten myself up a bit. (Awesome book by the way.)
And just figured out that "I" is a subject pronoun and "me" is an "object pronoun." Between this and gnostic/orthodox feeling dumb today.
It's funny because it's true. RT@seamizzle:@tanehisicoates me think you slept through english class in middle school
"For you, Ta-Nehisi, it was the day all language began to make sense. For college graduates, it was just Thursday."
LOL. No matter how far he advances in his career, I feel no pity for Mr. Coates. He tells us, almost proudly, how he came up violently, threatening even to assault a teacher back when he was a student, and that "genetically" he could not help as a black man but fall asleep in class...
Then he cries that, as a black man, he has not been properly educated and cannot compete, without allowances made for his lack of education and social advantages, as a black man. Years ago, I urged the young writer to return to school and earn an undergraduate degree.
Like so many educated black people, you're less likely to blame white people for your failings if you have a better understanding of so many subjects that the uneducated do not. I did not realize, of course, that Mr. Coates' path to fame and riches would be in portraying himself as an ill-educated negro, deprived of the same opportunity for education and advancement in this country as immigrant newcomers.
Who needs an undergraduate education, when places like MIT are willing to hire you as a black writing instructor, even with a weak understanding of the English language's structural foundation, and when wealthy white elites are willing to pay you money via a fellowship to study ... French?
It appears -- in the short term -- to be working. Enough to bring the money in, anyway. Mr. Coates has been adopted as a representative black man, captured by the Jewish and white intellectual elite to focus on the failings of white people in helping poor black people such as himself. His lack of working toward and seizing opportunity = White privilege, in the logical mathematical black history world Coates inhabits. (If you didn't know better, you'd think Mr. Coates had been raised in the Jim Crow south, not in Baltimore circa the 1980s, with affirmative-action welcome mats laid out for some...)
If white people are going to make excuses for Mr. Coates' failure to compete at Howard University, and his lack of gaining even a basic middle school education, at least look a bit closer...
One thing I'm never loosing. I pronounce "asked" as "axked." Never going away. Just the hood in me.
Oliver Tatom @olivertatom ·
@tanehisicoates That right there is a pet peeve of mine. Not the "ax" for "ask," but the "loose" for "lose." No one ever "loost" anything.
"I once asked of Life: What have you to offer?
The answer came back, What have you to give?"
Mr. Coates reminds me of so many destructive men who want to tear down the traditions he neither helped build, nor understands, with nothing solid to replace them with. He succeeds, only in riding the people, the workers, who came before, who toiled and learned and advanced. Who wanted better, for themselves and their children, black and white.
These people understand the value of education, of being there. Of sacrificing, and mastering the skills necessary to build upon, to enter a career field and contribute...
Not to change the rules of the game because you have no interest in learning what the "white" people who came before you did to enrich the country as a whole as well as the black laborers and strivers, and allow Mr. Coates his time to ask for monetary reparations*, for all the education and opportunity he missed out on, when he was too busy sleeping, role-playing games,
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Monetary reparations
29-08-2010 09:11 malavon
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Hi guys, could you help me with these damn monetary reparations? I was trying to find out in manual how to force loosing country to pay these reparations... And also some cassus bellis allow you this option for lower cost of infamy etc. Need I some patch or Update of HTTR to use this .. because the game doesnt offer me it after succesfull war?
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It's right there in the peace window. Rightmost point in the line where "force religion", "enforce vassalage" etc. are as well.
Sadly, countries can't be forced to go into debt to pay war indemnities, so you usually don't get much money from your opponents. - 29-08-2010 15:17 #3Sergeant
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- Thanks, but I thought, that this is the single payment for peace treaty, which was already in vanilla version and "monetary reparations" came with add-ons...So is that simply is not possible? Thats strange that so common thing in diplomacy or peace conditions in history is not a part of this game ( based especially on diplomatic relations ) from beginning... Monetary reparations for some period... really strange..
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Dude, that's just a new name for something that didn't have a name before.
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