Chris Berickson Barber

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[Chris Berickson Barber @CEO_DRIFTWOOD]

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[Chris Berickson Barber @CEO_DRIFTWOOD]

@itsALLrisky Seems counter productive. It be classified as reparations.

[Chris Berickson Barber @CEO_DRIFTWOOD]

Yes, forgiveness and resilience are often signs of strength.

[💸💸💸 @itsALLrisky]

"Revenge is for the weak" — Elon Musk

Do you agree?

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

@jaycola @cupenat I guess they aren't adhering to their code of conduct.

[Melissa Mbarki @MelissaMbarki]

Canadians have many Indigenous issues they can advocate for. Clean water is one of them. Updated numbers provided by @SawdustInglis
https://t.co/npeFESdFjJ
Write to your MP's and @MarcMillerVM @PattyHajdu
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[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

"Shooting began. Many were executed on the spot. 260 bodies have been found, so far, on the site of the rave."

"Women have been raped at the area of the rave next to their friends bodies, dead bodies. Several of these rape victims appear to have been later executed. Others were taken to Gaza. In photographs released online, you can see several paraded through the city’s streets, blood gushing from between their legs."
https://t.co/GXb6AZiSDy

Is this the "power of resistance" that @FredHahnCUPE is talking about?

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

How did Trudeau go from being a breath of fresh air for many young, progressive urban Canadians in 2015, to his current implosion, where, in the span of a week, he's alienated the world's largest democracy and horrified the world by honouring a Nazi in Parliament. And he’s sinking ever further in the polls. I trace Trudeau's journey for @TheFP .

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

I see. Thanks for letting me know what we are up against. It’s certainly intimidating. Good luck convincing the other *38 million* Canadians that think you are crazy assholes to climb aboard and redistribute their personal wealth to you.

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

Dude. You froze my bank account.

[Karin Litzcke @KarinLitzcke]

The hardest thing in an avalanche of propaganda is not to take the bait.

[Kim Goldberg @KimPigSquash]

"Get Up, Stand Up" is a song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. It originally appeared on The Wailers' 1973 album Burnin'. It was recorded and played live in numerous versions by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
https://t.co/rsgZ1lBSuM

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

Who's the biggest scammer in history?

[Chris Berickson Barber @CEO_DRIFTWOOD]

@iluminatibot Central Bankers💯💯💯💯💯

[Chris Berickson Barber @CEO_DRIFTWOOD]

Get well soon grandma 👵

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[Lorelei 🌕🧙🏻‍♀️🕸🍄 @hatpinwoman]

I don’t know what makes the Powder Treason such an enduring, riveting piece of English history given we were never short of bold plots, against our monarchs, but something about these events was just destined to be handed down to us. Likely from the first moment the first spark lit the first bonfire that same night, as ordinary people celebrated the treason being thwarted.

We all know the rough story; a group of catholics tried to blow the King and Parliament to smithereens but failed.

The intricacies of it fascinate me. This is the second book I’ve read in recent years about it. The first was “The Real Guy Fawkes” by Nick Holland. That was compelling and introduced me to the idea that Fawkes was influenced, in part, by the death of Margaret Clitherow.

Known now as “The Pearl of York”, and an English saint and martyr, she was a brave woman in a time when the catholics were horribly oppressed by the state.

During Elizabeth the First’s reign, she was arrested for helping conceal Catholic priests and she refused to plead innocent or guilty. The punishment for refusing to plead was barbarous and she was pressed to death; put on top of a jagged rock, with her own door placed on top of her and then an immense quantity of rocks placed on top of that to crush her.

The claustrophobic atmosphere of this period in history and the palpable injustice to the catholics complicates the story we all get told as little children.

King James was a good enough King and a good enough man, in many ways, but he nonetheless seemed to promise the long awaited tolerance of the catholics before taking it away. That lead some to say their treatment was now worse than in “Queen Bess’s time”.

This story is rich with brave Catholic women trying to protect priests, and the likes of the intrepid Nicholas Owen who filled various houses with secret places such priests could hide in. He was a short, disabled man, working in the dark, alone, so as not to risk other lives while he tried to make hidden compartments. He did this so well that they believe some are still undiscovered, today. His biographer described his creations as “wordless prayers” because they were an act of such faith.

This is one of the things I find so compelling in this story; the human element and the immense courage shown by so many for a cause. You don’t have to be religious to admire it.

The Plot itself is somewhat different in that it is violent and ill-conceived. It stands to hurt, rather than help, the average Catholic and it seems to be what happens when young men become radicalised.

Also what happens when a charismatic man, here Robin Catesby and not Fawkes, manages to mesmerise those around him; they follow him to their certain destruction.

I think it’s precisely because the plot failed, and the state had long behaved so poorly, that it’s possible to read of it unfolding with a sense of sorrow for its participants. They rage against a genuine wrong and they lose themselves to it.

Who wouldn’t want to reach through time and guard some of those mentioned here, like Everard Digby who loved his wife and let his own happiness slip through his fingers like sand?

Antonia Fraser’s book is excellent. In places, I read it with the sound of the hooves of the Warwick castle horses ringing in my ears. Even the names, like White Webbs where the plot was hatched, feel evocative.

Fraser suggests a credible author for the infamous Monteagle letter, too.

Oh and everytime I read about the Gunpowder Plot I’m reminded of how clever JK Rowling is; she put some famous plot names into Potter (Digby, Rookwood, Fawkes…).

If you’re looking to read more about The Gunpowder Plot as the fifth of November approaches, there’s surely no better place to start than this:

[Lorelei 🌕🧙🏻‍♀️🕸🍄 @hatpinwoman]

It’s time I wrote an exposé of the “TERFS”. In black&white from an inside woman here - finally- is the TRUTH about women at the heart of what has been called the terf industrial complex. This is who they are&who they support.This is who activists are tirelessly fighting against:

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

Footage of original event:

[Amy E. Sousa, MA Depth Psychology @KnownHeretic]

I reflect that school policies and curriculum that teach boys that they are entitled to cross girls' boundaries in their intimate spaces and sports, is already the encouragement of violence. It follows that more violence against girls would be a logical outcome of such policies. Gender identity ideology is rooted in the dehumanization and boundary violation of women/girls.

https://t.co/awMvG3NXaL

[catsies @catsiesxx]

this is so crazy.

[catsies @catsiesxx]

Any SF terfs applying for this? I really wish I still lived there and could take advantage of this ridiculous program. I'd give the money to someone who actually needed it.