116 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Jul \ on: Mark Twain’s Inconvenient Truths BooksAndArticles
I take the point, but there are places in the Arctic and Antarctic where literally no one has ever set foot, much less owned in any meaningful way.
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127 sats \ 1 reply \ @JesseJames 29 Jul
To be fair, there is no "land" in the Arctic to steal, it is just a thick sheet of ice, so there is nothing to steal, yet (funny thing) we as people are fighting about this "ice cream," like Joe Biden (sorry, it wrote itself, too easy...lol)
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 29 Jul
There is a ton of land in the Arctic. I'm not talking about the ocean. I'm talking about the northern parts of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Scandinavia, and Russia. The Arctic refers to everything north of the Arctic Circle.
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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 OP 29 Jul
Oh yeah. You can't take it literally.
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75 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 29 Jul
The "All land is stolen land" narrative annoys me.
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 29 Jul
He didn't have a strong libertarian property rights natural bent. Well, maybe that's not fair. People living in the Golan Heights see themselves as loyal patriots.
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