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not every part of the world has the same issues as USA, some places the central goverment becomes an actual mafia and feeds from industries, sometimes even destroying them.

No the problem is when central government decides prosecuting crime is more profitable than taxing the transactions that are considered “criminal”

I.e. the war on drugs (still going on)

I would like to see someone with a boxer’s background handicap this fight. Abe’s got the reach and I believe he was a fighter, but teddy has the “rocky” brawler look about him….

The problem is when the central goverment becomes the mafia itselve

I remember years back 60 minutes did a little segment on truffles. The guy they were interviewing was claiming the mafia and mob were all in on the truffle business. I forget the question but at one point he dragged his thumb across his neck like if he answered wrong they would kill him. It was a weird segment. Lol. Idk this just made me think of it.

I was one of the only people that knew this already.

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The thing is, people didn't really care about race the way we do now. They were more focused on culture and nationality than skin color. The ancient Egyptians themselves were a very diverse people, as were many civilizations in the past such as the Mongols, and Romans, which is why people back then had a tendency to focus more on someone's culture and nationality. Back then what seemed to have mattered most was what language you spoke, who you prayed to, and who you paid your taxes to :P But to answer your question, they did view their culture as more civilized than their neighbors, but they didn't see themselves as semigods, and intermarriages were extremely common. There's records of marriages between Egyptians and Berbs, Romans, Greeks, Jewish people, Hittites etc.

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I mean I heard the same thing in Star Trek, but its better than the alternative. Would it really be humane to just let everyone suffer and die until we invent lasers and magic drugs? So I don't think its barbaric really. You work with what you have.

It just seems you could say it was poking out of the ground or you found it in a stream or you were planting a garden or anything else, really. They might have evidence that’s not true, but I think that’s unlikely. Why even have a metal detector rule like that?

Hmm. I’ve been thinking about a 7th Seas campaign (a table top game about magic pirates). This might be fun to have in it.

It’s probably pretty obvious in most cases. Hard to explain why you’re digging holes in random locations

Yeah seems right I mean that’s how the American mafias got there boom in the early 1900s till around the early 90s or late 80s (I’m sorta just throwing those dates around cause that’s where I see where the Mafia really dropped off in how powerful they were) when the Government started protecting the Stock Market and things such as way more than they did prior. I know organized crime got their bread and butter doing other things but how they manipulated the stock market to make millions is insane to me.

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I don’t know the answer to this however I know that at times the Romans came to Egypt and so it was certainly a mix of different cultures with the Romans being the ruling class at that point

Ya, you can pretty much assume every culture was wildly racist until like 1900. Not 100% accurate but a pretty safe bet.

Wait, how do they know if you’ve used a metal detector? Can’t you just tell them you didn’t?

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You realise wordplay is just for fun right?

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It makes the symbolic use of “oranges” in The Godfather more interesting…