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L. Coyote

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8. You can always count on National Geographic to spin some racist crap out of everything

Reply to YankeyMCC (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2012, 09:22 AM

May 2012

"elaborate calculations intended to predict the city's fortunes..."

Primitive soothsayers :ropf: instead of astute scientists 1,200 years ago.

No way can there possibly have been an intellectually advanced society somewhere on the globe before colonizing white men burned their books then later on had their "Enlightenment" moment!

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