Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 09:22am)
its all a bit relative. North America was incredibly underpopulated compared to the rest of the world. Canada was mostly empty when they got there
before colonization, the entire population of all first nations tribes in the canadian regions is estimated to be somewhere around what Wichita Kansas has today in its city limits. About 350k most likely, 200-500k, and dropped to 100k after being exposed to smallpox.
to put it into context, its estimated that in the year 1500, china had 100 million, the roman empire had 23 million, some asian and indian empires had 15-20 million each, france 16 million, incas were 12 million, aztec 6 million, and canada maybe had 300k. The republic of florence had something near to 100 people per square mile, canada had about 0.1 people per square mile
agree with all that.
Quote (Goomshill @ Apr 7 2022 08:39am)
If you were to say that both the pro-Hadi Yemeni coalition and Houthis are bad dudes who commit war crimes, or you were to say that Al Qaeda, ISIS, other Sunni militias and Assad's regime are all bad guys, or you were to say America's tribal allies in Afghanistan and the Taliban were both bad guys, nobody will pitch a fit. Most people would agree, well not most in general, but of the ones who have a clue who any of those groups are. Now given that Ukraine and Russia have both been historic kleptocratic states risen from the ashes of centuries of brutal conflicts and disasters and repression, and we've seen reasonably clear proof that both sides of this war have engaged in war crimes and atrocities, and we know Russia is waging a war of aggression and killing civilians and we know Ukraine has violated the Geneva Conventions and has a battalion of actual Nazis- why, oh why, does it make people so irrationally angry if you say both sides are bad?
probably because that does not fit with their world view, which apparently, only has goodies and baddies.
This post was edited by ferdia on Apr 7 2022 02:46am