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[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@tempehlover My conspiracy theory is that Evil Justin clandestinely planted Liberal loyalists within the CPC membership ranks to ensure his closet Liberal candidates become leader. If it wasn't obvious with Scheer, it was unmistakable with O'Toole. What else would explain this Poili-fever?

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@keithfrankish @ChristiStoica Same here

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@SonofScience British biologist and author Colin Tudge offers similar solutions but is it much too little much too late even if we were to embark on this new path immediately?

https://t.co/TssLGaSd5Z

[David Frum @davidfrum]

It's a real problem if a party's primary electorate is highly gullible, largely amoral, and almost exclusively motivated by resentment and revenge

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@tc__todd @Isabelwilkerson @GaryLachman . . . saw THEMSELVES as ‘saviours’ and were worshipped as such—-politics and religion were inseparable. Titus was literally a son of a god (Vespasian).

I guess DJT in a way, is too. His father’s middle name was ‘Christ’.

BTW, the word ‘trump’ originally meant’ ‘deceiver’.

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@tc__todd @Isabelwilkerson @GaryLachman . . . the “render unto Caesar”Rome-friendly Christ narrative was created by Rome to pacify the messianic rebels unwilling to submit to Roman rule such as the sword-wielding disciple who lobbed off an ear of a Roman come to arrest Jesus. Roman emperors at the time . . .

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@thelenscrafterz @davidfrum Gen X author, Douglas Coupland predicted the breakup of not just the US but also Canada (where he’s from) over 20 years ago.

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@acoyne Character or Charisma? The choice for Americans this Nov.

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

Thanks! This is why I’ll vote Green again next election. https://t.co/jW6SRxmoYo

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@bettanyhughes @Channel4 @holland_tom @Marthakearney @taylorswift13 The legend of St Andrew choosing a diagonal cross seems contrived, perhaps by someone ignorant of the saltire’s long association with military insignia.

Curiously, before converting to Christianity, Constantine chose Christ’s monogram as his military standard.

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@bettanyhughes @Channel4 @holland_tom @Marthakearney @taylorswift13 Unrelated question: What’s the ultimate origin of the skull and crossbones? I thought it dated back to Templar and Teutonic Knights but could it go back more much further? Note what appears to be gem-centered crossbones on this relic of St Andrew’s:

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@theAliceRoberts @SteveDevann Thoughts on Rene Girard’s anthropology of violence and religion?

[FerdRoseboom @FerdRoseboom]

@anneapplebaum Justices such as Letitia James come to mind. No doubt she gets plenty of death threats.