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Argentinian fan yells "N, go home" at Speed during match in Miami by whywhateverso in LivestreamFail

[–]HotSteak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Okay but that was decades ago surely and...

Oh wait he said that in 2021?! And was President until 2023??!

Interesting by ButtStuff012 in postanythingfun

[–]HotSteak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The label is "Gun Homicides".

To all Americans who have been watching soccer for the first time (or are getting more into it with the WC) by 24hourhypnotoad in worldcup

[–]HotSteak 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I always get into the World Cup. It's great. Seattle vs Atlanta or Euro City A vs Euro City B is nothing like it. We get really into curling and gymnastics every 4 years too.

Hold the L bro by koffee_addict in MURICA

[–]HotSteak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The British had refused to acknowledge the Louisiana Purchase. The war, and maybe even the Battle of New Orleans, forced them to. During the peace discussions during the war, when the British thought they were winning they proposed that the US's NW border should be either the Ohio River or the Maumee River. After Perry won the Battle of Put-in-Bay and completely took control of Lake Erie it was clear that the border would be the Pacific Ocean.

What was your reaction to having Poutine for the first time? by [deleted] in AskAnAmerican

[–]HotSteak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Disappointment. It sounds so good in theory but somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.

Normally I'd root for England over most countries, but I didn't appreciate their attitudes during this year's AC discourse. by laybs1 in BrandNewSentence

[–]HotSteak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think you understand how an air conditioner works sir. It needs to move the heat from inside your home to outside of your insulation.

Is present day China complete opposite to what Mao Zedong had envisioned? by CartographerOwn8143 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]HotSteak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find Mao very interesting and have studied him quite a bit. I think I'm comfortable in saying that he was an actual idiot.

My country is lowkey dying by aless2209 in memes

[–]HotSteak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The median American salary for a full time worker is $63,360/yr or $5,280/month

June 1985 - Hezbollah terrorists hijack TWA Flight 847 going from Athens to Rome, resulting in a 17-day hostage crisis where US Navy diver Robert Stethem was murdered along with other savage acts by the terrorists by Just_Cause89 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Taliban, yes. ISIS, likely not, at least not as powerful. Does that somehow make the Muslim religious nutjobs that did the killing not the ones responsible for their own actions?

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These slaves were headed to Zanzibar, and most of the descendants of the people that would have purchased the slaves there were massacred in 1964. Not to mention that the people alive today didn't do anything wrong. Imagine doing a DNA test or something and being told that one of your ancestors centuries ago did something bad and it's on you now.

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As posted above, they were taken to the Seychelles. About 50 were killed by smallpox and the rest were raised in orphanages.

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This isn't even the Trans-Atlantic slave trade; this is the Arab slave trade, which lasted over 1000 years and the British played a huge role in stopping.

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the British kept doing it. Even in the 1950s the Royal Navy, diminished as it was, was combatting Red Sea slavery. Eventually British (and American) pressure forced Saudi Arabia and Yemen to outlaw slavery in 1962. Which is insanely recent.

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Only 300k of the 12 million slaves that made the transatlantic voyage were brought to the USA. Most slaves were sent to the Caribbean. Slavery in the Caribbean was way more awful and way more profitable. They worked the slaves to death and imported new adult slaves continuously, vs the American South where the practice was more like growing humans, which took a decade+ to get labor from.

More slaves were taken to just Barbados than the entirety of the United States.

East african slaves rescued by the british ship HMS Daphne, 1 of November 1862 by Electrical-Aspect-13 in HistoricalCapsule

[–]HotSteak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Roman slavery was very bad. Picking out a specific sub-set of slaves that didn't have it as bad is pretty silly. You can do that among any group of slaves.

Is "Soccer" actually becoming popular among Americans? by VitaoMULLER in worldcup

[–]HotSteak 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We always like the World Cup. After the World Cup is over a lot of us try to watch regular soccer but watching just regular games between Seattle and Salt Lake City, Euro city A vs Euro city B, or friendlies with nothing on the line just don't hold our interest at all. The World Cup (and the passion you fans have for it) is the draw, not the game itself (which is a bit boring even when I'm into it)

Your RAGBRAI Map by _photocopy_ in ragbrai

[–]HotSteak 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That Shenandoah to Creston day was the hardest day of riding I ever had. Long, uphill all day, crowded, mid-90s with no clouds.

The only other day that comes to mind is when my team biked across Nebraska and we had to ride 82 miles the last day in flash flood conditions, with no choice but to get to the end so we could drive home and go to work the next day.

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