The Russ

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@liel Well, he’s right.

But if you’d raised him better, he’d be a Yankees fan.

😉

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@CodeWriter23 @shipwreckedcrew That lawyer who suggested the fall into the knife was an Asst. DA for decades before going into private practice. He’s not a gd hack nor an idiot. Anthony was so unquestionably guilty that the 35 year sentence in that county is a great defense result.

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@EliLake @OunkaOnX Look?

How about “Tweets like this indicate you’re mentally retarded”?

Seems more accurat.

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@Shawn_Spradling He discovered Buc-ee’s. His life is forever changed.

For the better.

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Good on him.

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

Excellent from @LordIanAustin on yet ANOTHER debate on the evils of Israel:

As he says: ‘Over the last few years, Parliament has discussed Israel more than any other issue, not just any international issue, more than any domestic issue: more than the economy, unemployment, crime, the NHS.
‘The public out there look at Parliament and think this is utterly mad, utterly, utterly mad.’

Lord Ian blames Parliament for helping fuel antisemitism adding:

‘Does Parliament not understand that singling out the world's only Jewish state, holding its standards not applied to anywhere else, falsely accusing Israel of committing these terrible crimes? ‘This is bound to drive hostility towards people who are identified with Israel, which is the vast majority of the Jewish community, and I have to say this is why I believe Parliament is playing a large role in driving the explosion of anti-Semitism that we've seen on the streets of Britain.’

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@EWess92 You’d hope that if your company is going to fight a defamation case halfway across the country from hq, it’d have a better case and present it as if it actually had a chance of success.

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@johnkonrad Start w Barbara Tuchman, go to Andrew Roberts, and fin.

It’s only two weeks.

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@messedupfoods Gtfo

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@SALMMA1997 @Partisan_12 You’re retarded.

Acting as if that map is contemporaneous. FFS.

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

Colonialism is bad, right?

Wrong.

The Aztec Empire ran sacrifice at industrial scale. Excavations of the Huey Tzompantli, the skull rack next to the Templo Mayor, have uncovered hundreds of skulls of men, women, and children. Spanish eyewitnesses described tens of thousands. The Aztecs fought "Flower Wars" whose purpose was capturing live victims for the altar. Hearts were cut out of living people. Subject peoples hated Aztec rule so much that Tlaxcalans made up most of Cortes's army. The conquest was largely an indigenous uprising against an indigenous empire. The sacrifices ended under Spanish rule.

India: burning a widow alive on her husband's funeral pyre. British records from Bengal alone documented thousands of cases between 1815 and 1828. The British, with Indian reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, banned it in 1829. When priests told General Napier it was sacred custom, he answered: my nation also has a custom, we hang men who burn women alive. You follow yours, we will follow ours.

India: Thuggee cults murdered travelers by the tens of thousands over centuries as offerings to Kali. It was a hereditary profession. William Sleeman's campaign in the 1830s wiped it out.

Slavery was a universal indigenous institution. Dahomey and Ashanti were built on slave raiding and sold captives for a thousand years to Arab traders before any European ship arrived. Pacific Northwest tribes held up to a quarter of some village populations as slaves and killed them ceremonially at potlatches. The Comanche ran a captive-raiding economy across the Southwest. What colonizers introduced after 1807 was the first attempt in history to abolish slavery globally. The Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron spent fifty years hunting slave ships and freed about 150,000 Africans. African kings protested. The King of Bonny complained that abolition was destroying a trade ordained by his gods and priests.

The Dahomey kingdom's "Annual Customs" beheaded hundreds of captives and slaves every year to honor dead kings. Documented by European visitors for two centuries. It ended when France conquered Dahomey in 1894.

Sailors called Fiji the Cannibal Isles. Chief Ratu Udre Udre kept a stone for every victim he ate. His pile holds nearly 900. Shipwrecked sailors were killed and eaten. Within a generation of missionaries and British administration after 1874, the practice was gone.

Nigeria: In parts of Igboland, newborn twins were left in the bush to die and their mothers ostracized or killed. Missionary Mary Slessor spent decades in Calabar rescuing abandoned infants until the practice collapsed.

Indigenous genocide of indigenous people. In 1835, two Maori tribes invaded the Chatham Islands and slaughtered the Moriori, whose own law forbade them to fight back. They killed, enslaved, and ate them. The Moriori population fell from about 2,000 to barely 100. No European did this. British colonial law ended it.

Add headhunting in Borneo, the Philippines, and Nagaland. Female infanticide in India and Polynesia. Foot binding in China, dismantled partly by missionary campaigns. Every one of these ended under pressure from the colonial powers we are taught to treat as history's unique villains.

Colonialism was not charity. The Belgian Congo was a horror, conquest was for profit, and rule was without consent. But the ledger has two sides and one has been erased. Pre-colonial societies practiced slavery, human sacrifice, widow burning, infanticide, and genocide, because cruelty is not a European invention. The first civilization that tried to abolish these practices worldwide is the one you were taught to be ashamed of.

If "indigenous" means innocent and "colonizer" means guilty by definition, that is not history.

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@ProfMJCleveland Newman should be an icon and venerated. Instead, the Fed Cir has mistreated her for years bc she’s the only judge left who actually would help patent holders and doesn’t cave to the inherently improper PTO interpretations of the AIA, which SCOTUS has let stand bc chevron

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@fandompulse Why would it be Bezos? He’s not making those decisions.

And S1 of WoT was terrible. Even with S2 being decent and S3 getting closer to solid, that’s not enough quality.

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@michelletandler No, it explicitly does.

Antisemitic organization, period.

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@EWess92 I’d say yes

[Tony Buzbee @TonyBuzbee2]

I was Paxton’s lead lawyer in the fraudulent impeachment. Our team consisted of more than twenty lawyers. I understand that my friend Dan Cogdell publicly supports AG Paxton’s opponent. I’m not surprised by this. Mr. Cogdell is a life-long Democrat. I also understand that Mr. Cogdell recently got crossways with AG Paxton concerning some real estate development that Paxton opposed and Cogdell represented. AG Paxton (and Governor Abbott) alleged that the developer sought to impose Sharia law. Now you know the rest of the story.

I firmly support AG Paxton for US Senate.

[Disgraced Propagandist @DisgracedProp]

People demanding "proof" of election fraud are not understanding how crime works. I worked at Manhattan DA for over 2 years, one in Homicide. We never had video proof of the crime. We almost never had DNA. These are things that occur on CSI on TV, not in real life. And we still convicted people all the time.

What we had was testimony and circumstantial evidence. Travel times, bank records, cell phone data, gate access codes. Motive, capability, benefit, time and place. Never direct proof. Of course the defendant always denied the crime, but there was enough evidence to show that one had to have occurred nonetheless.

If what we have in the LA Mayoral election is a statistical anomaly that is beyond reasonable explanation with anything besides fraud, that is enough to prove a crime. This has been true since the beginning of Western Civlization.

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[Irish Jewish Voice @Irishchutzpah]

A perfect letter published in Irish Times today:

Ireland, Israel and boycotts
Sir,
– I am disturbed by the furore about Ireland’s forthcoming Uefa Nations League fixtures
against Israel on September 27th and October 4th. Anti-Israel sentiment seems to me uniquely
obsessive in this country, amplified in media and public discourse to a greater extent than
elsewhere outside Israel’s traditional enemies.
Particularly disturbing is the inconsistency of outrage. Last week 28,981 people attended
Ireland v Qatar at the Aviva Stadium. Qatar shelters and finances the leaders of the Hamas
terrorist group, which waged a sickening attack on Israel, and the worst pogrom on Jews since
the Holocaust, on October 7th, 2023 .
In 2021 the Guardian newspaper concluded that more than 6,500 migrant workers from India,
Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka had died in Qatar on construction sites for the
2022 soccer World Cup. Yet there was no protest against Qatar in the Aviva.
Nor are there signs of opposition to the Ireland cricket team’s planned five one-day
internationals against Afghanistan in August, despite the appalling human rights violations of
the ruling Taliban. Women and girls are being systematically erased from public life, education
and healthcare in Afghanistan.
We saw no protests outside the Iranian Embassy in January and February when, according to
international media, about 30,000 civilians were murdered in just three days after protests
against the brutal regime.
Iran sponsors Hizbullah, whose terrorists murdered Pte Seán Rooney in Lebanon in 2022. Iran
and Hizbullah propped up the Al-Assad regime in Syria during the civil war of 2011 to 2024 in
which nearly 600,000 civilians are estimated to have been killed.
I was shocked to see the new Iranian Ambassador being welcomed by President Catherine
Connolly at Áras an Uachtaráin last month.
The civilian death toll in Gaza is a tragedy, and informed criticism of Israel is valid, yet I have
heard few voices criticising Hamas for using innocent Gazans as human shields, refusing them
shelter in their underground tunnels, and operating militarily in schools and hospitals.
What message is Ireland sending to the wider world? That we shrug off the brutalities of
Hamas, Hizbullah, Qatar and Iran while obsessing about Israel, the world’s only Jewish state
and home to half the world’s remaining 16 million Jews, who make up just 0.2 per cent of the
global population?
The continued focus on the forthcoming matches, not least in the Dáil which surely has more
urgent issues to grapple with, feels unbalanced and frankly somewhat unhinged.
Irish people can claim all we might that anti-Semitism and Israelophobia are not the significant
problems I believe them to be in our country, but we should not be surprised if much of the rest
of the world begs to differ.
– Yours, etc,
DR PETER BOYLAN,Ranelagh,

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@libsoftiktok He’s a R who lost his gd mind when Trump was elected.

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@EsotericCD The notion that California’s obvious fraud in the face of the Constitutional one man one vote doctrine can be legal is a fiction that too many pundits indulge.