Anicca Wolfgang

Strength in numbers

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@sfliberty I am betting the origin of europeans was a tribe like that.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@caitoz I see where you come from, and sure this do applies to many many boomers. There are also adult kids that treat their parents like garbage, expecting they should take any emotional abuse. Just because they are parents. Some parents cannot handle this as a therapist.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For 300 years the English government in Ireland tried to make it illegal for an Irish family to spend the summer with its cows.

The practice was called booleying. Every May the household left the winter village and walked the herd up into the hills, to a cluster of huts on the summer pasture, and lived there until October. Grandparents, children, the lot. The men came and went. The women ran the booley, and the booley ran on milk: fresh, soured, curdled, buttered, and eaten as the day's meals. The grass was free because it was up a mountain, and a family that owned 8 cows and a mountain wanted for nothing until the frost.

The English could not stand it. A people that walked away every summer could not be counted, tithed or made to plough. The Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, forbade the Irish to booley their cattle on any land held by the English, and licensed the English to seize the herd if they did. By 1612 the King's attorney general in Dublin could report that it had been made penal for an Englishman even to allow it.

Edmund Spenser, who had been handed 3,000 acres of confiscated Cork, wrote a whole pamphlet on what was wrong with Ireland, and this was near the top of it. Living out with the herd, he said, taught the Irish to be wild and to feed themselves without a master.

That was the objection, in his own words. Booleying was outlawed because it worked.

The remedy, over the next century, was to take the hills, fence the grass, put the family on a rented acre in the valley, and hand it a potato.

The last booleys in Ireland were still walked up the hills of Achill in the 1940s, by people who had been told for 600 years that their summers were a crime.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@sarahlazare Important news

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@esjesjesj Counterpoint: Insurance verywhere went up 40% the last couple of years too. Inflation.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@BrizArisen Lol

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@PaeDaBaee Maybe when refrased "No good woman leaves a good man"

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@jess_ann_pin @Pat_Stedman Isnt it a bit off to start a relationship with a lie?

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@_Chemist1 Better call it psychological maturity or something. Most people with high intelligence will do nothing of this sort.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@shahpas I would say calling the US empire inept is a bit of a leap. Yes, the figurehead is a moron, but its still the most powerful structure on earth. They did work out a strategy, that brought them victory. Patience won the day. Maybe it will win tomorrow as well?

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@owenil Blir ju lite komiskt "För muslimhat och mot judehat"

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@WikiQLeaks Keep the documents coming!

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

The framing of Julian Assange became the fit-up of the century. It fooled the knaves of course, and a huge share of the gullible. Most leftists too. As one who struggled at this seam myself I could show you my scars. Feminist and other Identity politics activists went over lock stock and barrel. Including many who belatedly went over to Julian’s side hoping nobody would remember. You ma’am were the hero throughout.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@hoofnagle Dont know what middleschool is, but sometimes I wonder if teaching advanced math (including pythagoras, cosin, second grade equations etc) to stundent NOT going to uniersities is a waste of time. Both for the student and the school. Here these are taught for 12 year olds.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@richimedhurst I should just unfollow this account, but then i would not know if he will get it together again.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@nxt888 This is an important conversation, one i hope you will continue.

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@Lararandreas Ofta handlar det om personer som vantrivs och känner sig otroligt misslyckade. I de fallen gynnar de varken dem eller deras kunskap att dra ut på lidandet i skolan. De får ta igen det de missat senare. Så resonerar man. Vilket är klokt i vissa fall, anser jag.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Yikes

[Anicca Wolfgang @Rantfors9]

@Kenan_Habul Om väst bara slutade upp att stötta kurrupta regimer, destabilisera fubgerande sådana, och allmännt röva resurser, så skulle nog afrika klara sig bra själva.