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: "Where does American "hibachi" culture come from?"
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: "What is true and what is false in Vladimir Putin’s long summary of European history in Tucker Carlson’s interview with him?"
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Great Question!
: "How does Indiana Jones travel so easily to any nation he wants in the mid 1930s. Does he carry his passport everywhere with him? How does he enter multiple countries like the German Reich, Austria, China, Nepal, Egypt etc?"
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Racism
: "Spartans were in perpetual fear of the helots rebelling, white slavers in the US were in perpetual fear of white women having sex with black men. Are slave owning societies always afraid of their slaves?"
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: "That we know of, did anyone in the past ever claim to be a time traveller from the future?"
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