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Is the answer roman numerals? certainly lots of Xs and Cs in his world

drop that mike

I mean, they were invented in India, so not the best example. The father of algebra was an Arab, though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwa...

I apologize for my insufficient accuracy in clowning on RFK Jr.

And he's conflating ethnic Arabs with Muslims and uses them interchangeably. Completely ignoring the fact there are 10s of millions of Christian, Coptic, Catholic, and Jewish, Druze, Baha'i and other religions and ignoring the broader contribution of non-Arab Muslims from all over the world.

@rfk-junior.bsky.social I BEG YOUR PARDON?! The Arabs gave us coffee, algebra, Arabic numerals (esp. the zero), and contributed to art, music, poetry (e.g., Kahlil Gibran) medicine, astronomy, and chemistry. And what have YOU accomplished? Zilch!!

Plus this genius doesn't seem to know it's the Fields *Medal* and not the Fields Prize.

Either works depending on the amount of tallow

Very likely he didn’t pass algebra

He couched his claim to more recent examples --- even then he fails. And he seems hard at work at trying to make America into his version of the Middle East.

AMERICAN!

It plays to the base but Monty Pythons, “What have the Romans done for us?” comes to mind: Algebra, the zero, medicine, the university, preservation of Greek and Roman writing, the names of the stars in the night sky, poetry, street lights, all the other answers in the thread, both old and modern.

I seriously doubt his ability to read let alone write. I wonder if Kushner cut him out of a Saudi deal, and he's all huffing mad about it. 🤔

I'm sure his administration's Saudi Arabian allies would be surprised to hear this opinion too.

Ed Gein would make a prettier mask than his face.

Hindu-Arabic numerals

Being this flaming racist when you're essentially a garbage disposal with legs is absolutely WILD.

Actually I think that latter might be myth, sorry. The western roman empire lost most of it as a part of its overall collapse not as a deliberate act of the early church. So ignore that.

What an arrogant, racist, incompetent fool❗