(5 minutes later).....what 30 million?

Very good

In other news Guatemala is not Angola

You also ask for a lifetime visa when you donate as much as this.

You never, ever know when you need a Visa till you do.

They don't have 5.9 million tonnes of Lithium.

India is not Bolivia.

Why should the US dig up their lithium, which is always dirty, when they can always do the digging elsewhere?

You arr assuming the "world" would play it fair and square. But why should they?

> Also, population =/= strength. Vietnam had a large number advantage, yet still lost 10 soldiers for every American killed (not even including civilian casualties).

And remind me, who won that war?

> It would be bloody, but not for the US.

I didn't specify US deaths, I said they'd lose. I have this nasty habit of caring about innocent deaths no matter where they're from. You, on the other hand, appear to be starting from the position of mass-bombing civilians.

You know.....war crimes....

Yes, and the British government supported the facist government to oust the dude who was democratically elected. Because he wanted to Nationalize the Nation's resources.

Rich people can be kind and generous, in fact many are. Although, $30m for this person is likely to be pocket change. Still a nice gesture that will hopefully help many people.

With the density of their population, bombings would be much more effective. Also, population =/= strength. Vietnam had a large number advantage, yet still lost 10 soldiers for every American killed (not even including civilian casualties). Their training is also historically terrible, along with Indian, Chinese, and Russian technology. It would be bloody, but not for the US.

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Someone at the embassy by like "$29.9M for me, $100K for quake victims."

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Some folks are born made to wave the flag o7

Gay people oppressed all over the world, not only in Ukraine. Ukraine is at war with Russians that took over Donetsk and Luhansk regions. When Russia leaves there will be no more rockets, very simple. How can you call Russians soldiers? They are criminals. They are invaders. Ukrainian people have nowhere to go to escape this evil. Russians can stop this here and now by just go home. But they won’t, because they feel entitled to choose how other nations should live

Catch 22 isn’t it. We need it but at the same time it’s gonna screw with the enviroment

Having nukes ensures no NATO freedom campaign.

Read the article, no where did he state that was a requirement for HIS money. You could as well donate $30 million then be cynical when its your money.

I think it was the 'ole "Reddit hug of death"....

Exactly. There must be an international aid agency where those $$ have a shot at getting used on the Turks and Syrians that were in harms way. For me that's Doctors without Borders. But I am sure there are others.

I can view the article but not long enough to read anything. I'm playing a game trying to remove the constant popup ads just to get through the first paragraph

1066 Granada massacre

>The 1066 Granada massacre took place on 30 December 1066 (9 Tevet 4827; 10 Safar 459 AH) when a Muslim mob stormed the royal palace in Granada, in the Taifa of Granada, killed and crucified the Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela, and massacred much of the Jewish population of the city.

Casimir III the Great

Relationship with Jews

>On 9 October 1334, Casimir confirmed the privileges granted to Jews in 1264 by Bolesław V the Chaste. Under penalty of death, he prohibited the kidnapping of Jewish children for the purpose of enforced Christian baptism, and he inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries. While Jews had lived in Poland since before his reign, Casimir allowed them to settle in Poland in great numbers and protected them as people of the king. About 70 percent of the world's European Jews, or Ashkenazi, can trace their ancestry to Poland due to Casimir’s reforms.

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‘Only’ is a bit simplistic: there were periods of oppression there too (like the Massacre or Granada in 1066, and there was always a level of discrimination against all non-Muslims (who were the majority) we’d find unacceptable by today’s standards.

It was far more tolerant of Jews than most of Europe, but the Middle Ages saw other periods and areas of relative religious tolerance, like Poland under Casimir the Great, which is why many Jews moved there (he also married a pagan Lithuanian princess, and was relatively enlightened for his time).

Similarly, Jews in the Byzantine Empire were mistreated by earlier emperors but from around 700 onwards they had a golden age of their own, until the Fourth Crusade brought more intolerant Frankish rule.

Most of the major countries of Christian Western Europe expelled the Jews at some point, and there were intermittent massacres, blood libel and discrimination across it. But Medieval Europe as a whole was a very large, diverse region over the course of a millennium.

That’s not entirely true, Jews saw pretty good treatment in Poland during much of the medieval and renaissance eras.