Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
@HeidiBriones Close, but no.
Right wing guys aren't actually trying to pretend to be assholes.
Rightwing guys just tell the truth, or at least what they believe to be true, even when it hurts your feelings. Doing that makes people see them as assholes.
@DoDeportations That’s a misunderstanding. Women have a very low pain threshold. And for a woman, the pain of accepting she was profoundly wrong about something is more painful than just about anything else. Including the pain of her shop being ransacked.
@RecNihilist@ChristKing94045@Sargon_of_Akkad If she really chose them, she should move to a muslim country and she can join them as they're deported back to where they came from.
@bconin8@Aktivarum@FoxNews Because Leftists fund propaganda to destroy the world.
Therefore the Right funds things to preserve whatever good is still there that Leftists want to destroy.
@bconin8@Aktivarum@FoxNews I don't care if communism doesn't exist today; that's irrelevant. I'm talking about the history of communist revolutions and the fact that commies want more revolutions worldwide because they think they can do it right this time. And historically, commies use useful idiots.
@bconin8@Aktivarum@FoxNews No, we're not going to "both sides" this.
Useful idiots are leftists, have always been leftists, and always will be leftists.
Communists use them to spark revolutions and then execute them after they get into power because after they get power, they don't want more protests.
🇫🇷 Il s’appelle Pierre. Gérant d’un Micromania sur l’avenue Jean-Médecin à Nice, il a tenté, seul, de protéger sa boutique des pilleurs en marge de la mobilisation du 17 octobre.
Les images de son agression, un violent coup de pied par-derrière qui le met à terre, puis des projectiles ont fait le tour des réseaux et provoqué une vague de soutien.
Aujourd’hui, il donne de ses nouvelles via une story Instagram. Il remercie sincèrement toutes les personnes qui lui ont écrit ou sont venues le voir en personne :
« Merci beaucoup. Mon équipe et moi, on est très touchés. »
Il alerte aussi sur les nombreuses fausses cagnottes lancées à son nom sans qu’il en soit informé ni qu’il les ait autorisées, et invite chacun à rester vigilant pour ne pas se faire arnaquer.
Un commerçant ordinaire qui a simplement voulu défendre son outil de travail face à la violence.
Un ❤️ pour ce héros ‼️