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@Reuters ‘Critical’ Board they say. Really?

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@zerohedge An unsustainable plan based on an unrealistic and improbable IPCC assumption?

[Anastasia @demystifysci]

Big news, the Kindle version of Paradox Lost is now on official pre-sale!! If you want a sweet treat for your brain, pick up a copy today and get a head start on the material revolution that's coming for quantum mechanics 😘

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@JasonJournoDC I don’t agree with Gingrich, but I do believe what the Democrats are doing with Platner is their way to ensure they don’t collapse.

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@warDaniel47 So they were not WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
They were just unrealistic and improbable.

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@MarioNawfal The establishment Democrats have their ways of selecting their candidates, remember Kamala?

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@mattvanswol It disturbs me somewhat that these people believe that someone will be answering 911 calls when things get out of hand. I believe it reveals the depth of their convictions.

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@AIJAC_Update @missmayim She thinks we don’t go shooting each other in the streets about these issues. That’s not exactly what I am seeing.

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@ukraine_map I am out of Patriot missiles too. Is that also Trump’s fault?

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@curtis_yarvin Is not all history retconned?

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 THEY TOLD YOU A STORY. 🇬🇧

Colonisers. Slavers. Oppressors. And you were supposed to feel ashamed.

Not for what you done... But for WHO YOU ARE. 🇬🇧

So we tested it. Britain wrote everything down, so we opened the books. 📖

Turns out fewer than 1 man in 10 could vote in the year Britain banned the slave trade. No woman could. Your ancestors could hang for stealing a sheep, get shipped across the world for petty theft, or go down a mine at 8 years old. In Manchester, the average age of death in a labouring family was 17.

They weren't running the slave trade. They were underneath it too.

Which is what makes what happened next worth knowing.

In 1772 an enslaved man named James Somerset walked free from an English court, because English law couldn't hold a slave.

In 1791, 300,000 families just stopped buying slave sugar. No march, no riot, just a decision made at 300,000 kitchen tables.

In 1792, 519 petitions carrying 390,000 names hit Parliament, most signed by people who couldn't vote themselves.

In 1807, Britain banned the trade.

Then the slave owners sent Britain a bill for the 800,000 people they still held. 💷 £20 million. About 40% of the entire government budget at the time.

The Treasury says it wasn't paid off until 2015. So if your family paid British tax before then, they helped buy 800,000 people their freedom.

From 1808 the Royal Navy spent 60 years hunting slave ships at sea: 1,600 stopped, 150,000 people freed, and 1,600 British sailors dead, mostly of disease, buried thousands of miles from home. ⚓

In 1816 they ended two centuries of Barbary corsairs enslaving Europeans.

In 1896 a war that lasted 38 minutes ended slavery in Zanzibar. 🇹🇿

Almost every country on Earth outlaws slavery today.

That fight was paid for largely at British expense, by British hands.🇬🇧

So why haven't you heard any of this?

Because within living memory, someone rewrote the story. You got taught the crime. Not the cure.

The powerful exploited the world. They exploited their own people first. It was those people who ended slavery. 🇬🇧

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History got rewritten once, in living memory, by no one who was ever named or held to account.

We are ordinary people doing what ordinary people have always done. Opening the books. Refusing to look away.

This is how we fight back. Fact by fact. Story by story. Name by name.

We are the home of British heroes. There is a place for you in it.

If you can afford to support what we do: https://t.co/rih7iKwnvf

Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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@boonesghost When you take risks for what you believe in, it doesn’t mean you’re smart

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@walterkirn I see the current corruption scheme as the robbers (i.e., the incumbents) believing that they have been protected by the ruling class, are finding out maybe not since they are exposed as the tools they are. The ruling class is on the hunt for better instruments.

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@WesternLensman And, you solve stupidity by giving people college degrees.

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@NBCNews No rights were blown by this decision.

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@Polymarket I might believe there’s just as much hot air coming from France.

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@Africa_Arise_ The US has been bombed by Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, . . .

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@ProfMJCleveland Should we expect the executive branch of the government to take direction from the president?

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@RNCResearch When everyone is armed and capable, what purpose do prison serve?

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@TerribleMaps Why are you imposing existing state boundaries to your imagination?