• SovereignState
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    Manlets… rise up.

    Lenin was 5’5".

    Stalin? 5’3"-5’6".

    Robespierre? 5’3".

    Toussaint Louverture? 5’4"!

    Revolution runs in our tiny little veins, comrades. Our strides may be small, but our hearts and minds are enormous. 🫡

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      Castro was 6’ 3,

      Mandela was 6’ 1

      Fred Hampton was 5’ 10

      Rokossovsky was 6’ 6

      The Revolution comes in all shapes and sizes comrades. Size matters not. We will march together!

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          I’m 5’7" in a good pair of walking shoes.

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            I’m about to get some Doc Martens again, I think. Not for the height boost, just cuz they’re punk as hell 😎

            oh and my current shoes are full of holes lol

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        Nelson Mandela was not 6’4, at least not when he was older. Maybe when he was younger he was that tall. If I had to guess, I’d say around 185cm/ 6’1.

        Source: stood next to a “life size” Nelson Mandela statue. I was the same height

        Edit: Okay I decided to google it, and according to the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s website, he was 184cm tall. Close enough guess from me, turns out the statue really was life size.

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          My mistake, he was listed at 6 foot 1/4 inch, and I accidentally misconstrued that as 6 foot 4.

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    Damn, no wonder I’m so short. I’m poor as fuck. Going to need to get some cash so I can reach stuff on the top shelf.

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    It can be influenced both by the fact that tall people tend to be promoted more and by the fact that kids of richer people eat better and grow taller as a result and that they partially inherit their parents’ socioeconomic status.

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    Note that this is about the association between height and income. It is possible that a confuser variable or set of variables is/are influencing both income and height, thus producing the observed correlation between income and height. In this case, the association would not imply causation. But even if this is just association and not causation, its a significant fact, because then there is some unkown set of factors making taller individuals having higher probabilities of earn more.

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    It does explain why countries experiencing more malnutrition tend to be poorer and shorter. Guatemalans are a good example of this. Our height demographics are skewed by the rural poor who are famously around 5 feet at the maximum height. People in the cities tend to be closer to five foot nine.

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    Shorter people tend to live longer though and have fewer cardiovascular disease risks as well as cancer.

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        It’s primarily because they have lower blood pressure in general which leads to less risk to cardiovascular disease. Shorter body takes less pressure to pump blood to the head. The cancer thing is because smaller bodies have fewer cells. Fewer cells, less of a chance one of them malfunctions and turns into cancer.

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    Is professional sports prominent enough to be a major contributor to the difference? The NBA is an obvious one, but the NFL average height is around 6’2" I think

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      No, the number of professional athletes (paid above this amount) is tiny compared to the population