Free speech means stupid people get to sing stupid things. The right reaction is to mock, criticise and defeat their worldview. Getting police involved is absurd. But once you criminalise some hurty words, you create the demand for all hurty words to be criminalised.

Forgotten colonial empire of Oman from 1696 to 1856, Example of Arab Colonialism

Specialization.

Important to note that Russia started WWII in alliance with the Nazi Germans in a sick pact to conquer, split up, and enslave Central and Eastern Europe

Great thread - still the best comedy movie ever made, and extremely pertinent, given the insanity of much of what makes up the modern world.

The pitch at the Eden Park Avenue ground of Beckenham Town FC is looking magnificent for today’s match against Croydon

full of rage

This is a fascinating thread: explains so much about the modern world, from a macro perspective.

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"Mom! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands! Get dad on the phone!"

The definition of the true savage is that he laughs when he hurts you; and howls when you hurt him.

I would really hope that if any part of Britain had been attacked as Israel was on October 7, our political leaders would not hesitate to remove the masterminds behind the attacks, whichever country they were hiding in at the time.

They couldn't beat him in debate, so they shot him.

One of the biggest myths in our society is that it is the Left who are the open-minded, tolerant ones

Our colleges of education are badly captured and have been for decades. The result of their use of Critical Pedagogy is that our children are being radicalized instead of educated, but more than that they're being destabilized so they can be radicalized elsewhere, like online.

At a party a man came over to say he was a fan. "I'm not on any side", he said. "But without looking at any specific issues, all I need to know about what's going on is there's a side that wants to have a conversation and a side that doesn't". Simple and true.