Son feministas hasta que Bad Bunny les baila pegado.
Son socialistas hasta que descubren lo cómoda que es volar en primera clase.
Son ecologistas hasta que toca un fin de semana en yate o un vuelo a las Maldivas.
Son tolerantes hasta que se enteran de que votas a la derecha.
Son pacifistas hasta que alguien discrepa de ellos.
Son partidarios de la libertad de expresión hasta que escuchan algo que no les gusta.
Son antielitistas hasta que los invitan a un reservado VIP.
Son ciudadanos del mundo hasta que les toca tenerlos de vecino.
Son partidarios de repartir la riqueza hasta que les toca repartir la suya.
The Black Death arrived in England in 1348. Within two years, somewhere between a third and a half of the population was dead.
The peasants who survived noticed something within a generation.
There was nobody left to work the fields. The labour shortage was so severe that landlords, for the first time in English history, had to bid for workers. The peasants, suddenly possessed of leverage, demanded payment partly in meat. Beef, mutton, and bacon began appearing in the manorial accounts of agricultural labourers' wages.
Skeletal records from English burials in the late 1300s and 1400s, set against pre-plague remains, show measurable increases in average adult height. Bone density improves. Dental health improves. Iron-deficiency markers decline.
The peasants got taller. The peasants got stronger. The peasants started causing political problems on a scale they had previously been too undernourished to attempt.
In 1351 Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers, attempting to cap wages back at pre-plague levels. The peasants noticed. In 1381, well-fed, the same peasants marched on London in the largest popular uprising in medieval English history.
The nobility, in the centuries that followed, expanded the Forest Laws. Killing a deer in a royal forest was a capital offence. The Game Laws of the 1600s and 1700s extended the principle. Meat available to the peasant shrank back toward what it had been before the plague.
By 1850, the average British army recruit from the industrial slums was so short and so undernourished that the height minimum for enlistment had to be lowered repeatedly to keep the regiments staffed.
The single greatest improvement in working-class height and health in English history was caused by a plague that made meat affordable for two generations.
The single greatest decline was caused, in significant part, by a political decision to make it expensive again.
You can see the whole sequence in the skeletons.
The skeletons are in the museums. Go and look.
"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."
I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:
Now this is real old school talent, what joy to know its still there beating hard in the hearts of the young. Fkn Bravo boys...
The song and choreography at the end is absolutely superb...
https://t.co/Omj51NZnSg
So it turns out Welsh Nationalism, much like Scottish Nationalism; was never really about self determination for the indegenous population but rather, an expression of anti-English sentiment. A hatred so extreme they are willing to commit National suicide by importing a billion Africans and South Asians, just for a few more years of smug differentation from the Tories.
To pretend that Urdu and Bengali are just as Welsh as the English language they have been speaking for hundreds of years. To argue the English reman strangers in their lands after two thousand years of cohabitation on the Isles, but Mohammed and his four wives who arrived yesterday, are just as Scottish as Robin the Bruce and that Jolof Rice is just as Welsh as laverbread and rarebit.
The next whining wokee that pulls the 'the British are evil coz...slavery' card will just get pointed to this, I'm SO done with your idiocy and lack of education.
So who really was responsible for slavery, and who started the movement to end it? This guy does a great breakdown and the crowd doesn't seem to like it.
🚨PRINCE REZA PAHLAVI JUST WENT FULL NUCLEAR ON THE ENTIRE EU PRESS & PARLIAMENT! 🔥🧨
I want to speak DIRECTLY to the people of Europe. In the past two weeks I held TWO MAJOR press conferences — one in Stockholm, one in Berlin. Over 150 JOURNALISTS showed up. We spent MORE THAN TWO HOURS with them…
And guess what?
NOT ONE SINGLE of those 150 journalists asked about the 40,000 IRANIANS SLAUGHTERED on the streets of my country on January 8th and 9th!
NOT ONE asked about the 19 political prisoners EXECUTED in the last two weeks.
When I told them 20 more are currently sentenced to death — CRICKETS. Not a damn question.
I stood right next to a grieving mother and father who lost their sons in that massacre and begged them to listen to their stories…
NOT A SINGLE ONE of those 150 journalists asked them a thing.
Let that sink in.
My 40,000 BRAVE INNOCENT COMPATRIOTS who were butchered fighting for liberty? They don’t give a damn.
They are too busy criticizing America and Israel for taking out the dictator who’s been slaughtering our people for 47 YEARS — instead of going after the regime that’s actually doing the killing!
They’d rather dig up Iran’s history than talk about what’s happening RIGHT NOW or the free democratic Iran we’re fighting for.
One EU parliament member even had the nerve to say Iranians aren’t ready for democracy. To that coward and to every fake journalist in the room I say this:
Iranians aren’t just “ready” for democracy… 40,000 of them just DIED for it! And I will NOT let their blood be in vain.
SO HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR:
Whether Europe stands with us or not…
Whether your journalists do their damn jobs or not…
Whether your politicians grow a spine or not…
I WILL FIGHT FOR MY PEOPLE AND MY COUNTRY.
Even if we have to do this ALONE — we are fighting until IRAN IS FREE! 🇮🇷💪
#RezaPahlaviForIran
@PahlaviReza