And, significantly, the potter’s wheel is also unknown in the Americas before the European invasions. Neither the lack of draft animals nor a supposed association of wheeled transport with subjugation explains the lack of wheels for making symmetrical pots.
(I know, some anarcho-primitivist is going to tell me that the native Americans had a wabi-sabi aesthetic that made them reject the potter’s wheel as well.)
I’m not asserting cultural superiority. I know that the native Americans had technologies and domesticated species that the Europeans lacked. But for whatever reason, they had the wheel only on toys.
Much as we love to claim him, he was born in Scotland and did his work on the telephone in both Canada and the US. That of course is a great example of the value of immigration and the unrestricted movement of people and ideas between countries, something else your Trumplover probably doesn’t understand.
I didn’t get the impression that Trump was specifically saying that Americans invented the wheel. This reminds me of when everyone kept thinking he said “bigly” and it was fairly well-documented that he tends to say “big league.”
I mean, I’m fine with people thinking Trump is stupid for any reason they want to home in on, but I think it’s at the point where people are trying to interpret his inability to speak clearly and articulate full sentences in a more nuanced fashion than he’s even capable of. He just don’t talk good.
As amusing as it is to see people dig holes of incorrectness for themselves, it’s discouraging in equal measure. Especially when being right about these same things, doesnt seem to confer any political advantage whatsoever.
And that’s the joke enjoyed by the trumpsters, at everyone else’s expense. “I don’t have to actually be correct, I’m still winning”.
(For certain values of winning. Trump can’t make the voter’s lives any easier, he can only make brown people’s lives comparitively harder. And that seems to be good enough for the deplorables.)
It simply appears to be a somewhat easily manipulatable characteristic of people, that giving them the pleasure of clearly having other people lower on the totem pole than themselves, is really all it takes to get them to do absolutely horrible things, and not even really pay attention to their own lot in life, compared to those highest on the pole, who often encourage the entire thing. I mean, obviously not everybody falls for it, but clearly a third of the populace at least does. That’s pretty shocking.
I’ve seen a frequent argument that he didn’t have a “Canadian citizenship”, but it’s a garbage argument. As a Scottish subject of the British Empire, there was no need to get a localized citizenship. My Scottish parents moved to Canada in 1950, but didn’t get their Canadian citizenship until 1967.
Unfortunately, since Revere’s ride was in 1775, there were no wheels and the British had time to send a telegraph to enable them to seize critical road junctions in West Virginia.
That was the basis of Southern society. Even the poorest white person could look down on every black person, whether enslaved or free. Poor whites sided with the establishment instead of joining poor blacks to fight it.
This “stable genius” (who has the ability to start a nuclear war!!) also thinks you can get cancer from sound!! The sound made by windmills, specifically.
