“If you’re not into the whole brevity thing.” An author of the Port Huron Statement...the original, not the compromised second draft. RT/QT for reference only.
Everything they taught you about July 4th, 1776 is a lie.
The Redcoats weren't soldiers. They were something else.
We recovered the real footage using Utopai 🧵👇
What's fun about Barrett Derangement Syndrome is that last week she was told how awful she is for her position in the TPS case *despite* having a Haitian child and now she's told how awful she is in the birthright case *because* she has a Haitian child. https://t.co/OHP70FrjRc
Lost on a run in the scorching English countryside, delirious with thirst and fatigue, I see a sign up ahead. Could it be? Yes, it’s what I’ve been praying for:
The medical community has cured a mountain of diseases in the past several decades.
Diseases cured thread🧵
In 2013, hepatitis C was cured by direct-acting antivirals.
People can argue capitalism sucks, but claims that indigenous peoples lived more prosperous, peaceful lives are nonsense.
The Cherokee were warriors who kept captives as slaves. Pre-industrial and stateless societies were far poorer and more violent than ours.
Ethnographic and anthropological studies suggest that in small-scale and non-state societies, 5-20% of deaths came from violence. In America, that number is less than 1%.
This chipper ninny sells the popular leftist idea that it's Western society that causes harm, when the reality is that, with our flaws, human society is far better off today than it was in the past.