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@lmrwanda

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@lmrwanda
Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
None of these governments are actually far right, they are just in different degrees of opposition to continued mass immigration. “Far right” is a fake term the political class uses to scare immigration-sensible moderates away from the position.
@DaveKeating
Dave Keating
3 months
The 🇳🇱Netherlands has joined 🇮🇹Italy and 🇭🇺Hungary in having a government led by the far right. Last night's coalition agreement with the centre-right has put Geert Wilders' PVV in control, based on Dutch voters putting him in first place in November.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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It’s much more than 20%. It’s almost impossible for the western mind to grasp this but a huge chunk of the population of most African countries literally do nothing their whole lives. They eat, they sleep, and that’s it. If there’s food there’s no reason to do anything.
@SwannMarcus89
Swann Marcus
5 months
People with Down Syndrome have an average IQ around 50. A country could not function if the average person performed worse on IQ tests than someone with a severe intellectual disability 20% of Nigeria would have to be effectively comatose
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It must be incredibly confusing to be one of these people, stumbling through a world of random chance and confusion, beset on all sides by forces so incomprehensible the only explanation for them is malevolent geography and baleful witchcraft.
@tomaspueyo
Tomas Pueyo
6 months
Germany just became the 3rd largest economy But why is it so rich? Work ethic? Here's a huge factor: Geography 🧵
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
We know more or less exactly how the pyramids were built and who built them from contemporary documentary accounts. Afrocentrists are some of the most pathetic people on earth.
@Africa_Archives
Africa Archives ™
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If this is not how the pyramids were built by black Africans, how were they built
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
Many European countries had surpassed every “major” power in Asia in per capita wealth and productivity by the late Middle Ages, and some had already done so by the era of the crusades. The “decisive shift” already happened circa 1200 AD. Your worldview is obsolete.
@JMGreerWriter
John Michael Greer
2 months
Some European leaders are eager to go there because they grasp that once the balance of power shifts decisively away from the Atlantic, Europe’s going to turn back into the desperately poor and rather backward region on the fringes of civilization it was before 1500.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Re-foreststion of the Amazon basin following collapse of urban society caused so much carbon capture it contributed to the post-antique temperature drop. Calling it.
@Paracelsus1092
Stone Age Herbalist
7 months
Percy Fawcett keeps being right. More and more cities keep appearing in the Amazon. At this point we have to accept that the 'pristine' rainforest is a post-collapse regrowth, not a timeless primeval forest.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
“Google “Adolf Hitler” mate it might shock you a bit yeah”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Hi Will I lived in africa for a large part of my childhood and a decent chunk of my adulthood, am part African, and have worked extensively to collaborate with Africans in many different countries. Trust me it makes perfect sense once you see it.
@whstancil
Will Stancil
7 months
In other words the data here suggests that the majority of people in African countries are significantly less intelligent than, more or less, the least intelligent person you've ever met. It's beyond absurd, it's disgusting, it's ludicrous.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
In 1955, American political scientist Edward C. Banfield visited a town in the south of Italy that he called Montegrano. His account of his visit—published 3 years later as "The Moral Basis of a Backward Society"—paints an interesting picture of a world without social capital.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
*dumps rubbish in own driveway* “What did the council mean by this?”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
This is one of the few known photos of Carlos Castaneda. These days, his name is likely only to be bought up by a handful of remaining followers, and as a cautionary tale among academics. But between 1968 and 1973, he was one of the most influential figures in Western culture.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
Nobody tell him that Detroit was the richest city in America until integration was attempted the last time.
@whstancil
Will Stancil
4 months
What Detroit needs is INTEGRATION. If a region is fragmented into racial enclaves it doesn't function very well, and the areas dominated by groups with fewer resources and lower social standing become pseudo-colonial hubs of exploitation and disinvestment.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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This only seems like cognitive dissonance if you have a room temperature IQ. These questions illustrate the essential challenge for both immigrants and their host country. In order to be truly accepted immigrants have to be willing to give up things no sane person would give up.
@SeanJonesKC
@seanjones.org on Bluesky
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The cognitive dissonance in my timeline is amazing: 1. Why won't migrants assimilate? But also, 2. Why do we have to educate migrant children in our schools? 3. Why don't they speak English? But also, 4. Why do we have to spend school resources teaching migrant children English?
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 years
You're not in tzarist Russia anymore, Dorothy. "Elite overproduction" in the modern system is far from an accident. In fact, it's essential to keeping everything chugging along smoothly. Let's talk about the janissaries
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Indigenous cultures have a respect for nature that the white man most surely lacks. When was the last time you saw a white man burn down a rainforest to grow a semi-poisonous tuber, shit directly into his own freshwater supply, or brutalise a rare species of parrot for fun?
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
5 months
Leftists sincerely believe that “jobs” are a social rank assigned to a person by some kind of board as a result of educational performance. If you graduated top of your class at Harvard College, Yale and aced every semester and got an A you get to be President.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
Utter bullshit. There were about 72,000 executions in Henry VII’s entire reign, which is about 2000/yr. The Aztecs sacrificed about 20,000 people a year on average and could manage this number in a single ceremony if they were feeling adventurous.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
I’m not an econometrician but generally when an exports-focused country loses its biggest export market it isn’t a good thing for them.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
3% of the entire population of the UK arrived in the country in the course of the last parliament. You are utter frauds.
@JamesCleverly
James Cleverly🇬🇧
3 months
Net migration is down, visa applications are down. Our plan is working. But there’s more to do. Don’t let Labour take us back to square one.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
Dribbling incoherence. When the empire was at its absolute peak Britain’s population was less than 1% foreign born.
@BenjaminOCall
Benjamin-Robert🔶
3 months
cry me a fucking river we colonised a quarter of the world, having a large population of immigrants is a consequence of that. you can’t masquerade as a patriot if you subscribe to ethnonationalism despite the country being founded as a multi-ethnic kingdom
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
8 months
Obviously “Africa” is a huge place with a great deal of internal diversity, but there are some generalities that arise again and again across the continent, especially the Sub-Saharan part. These generalities are worth paying attention to.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Real lesson you should take from the Stancil Affair is that most people aren’t very ideologically sophisticated and more or less uncritically retain beliefs and assumptions that they formulated as twelve years olds, regardless of how silly they are.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
Yeah the problem here is clearly daycare. People should require licenses to post on this site.
@HeidiBriones
Heidi
4 months
"Bowman's parents quit their jobs and left Baltimore after their child was murdered. Justin Bowman stated in the trial that he is reduced to tears whenever he sees another father holding a young daughter." Daycare: Not once. Never.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
Europe, and possibly Japan, are the only places on earth where this doesn’t happen actually. I have personally seen bodies in the early stages of decomposition on the street in some non-western countries, unmoved from where they fell.
@resist_toexist
Layan J 🇵🇸🔻
3 months
Egyptian film maker Youssef Chahine on “western civilization.” “You could faint and drop dead in the streets of Europe and people would just walk away from you” “Do you know how to love? Do you know how to care? That’s civilization.”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
The next time you feel inclined to say “it’s over”, remember that Twitter had to employ thousands of people with the sole objective of making your posts less popular.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
POV: you’ve been turned into a meme format
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 years
The Epic of Gilgamesh is only major Mesopotamian literary text whose author is named. Reading the text, it’s easy to see why. Whoever he may have been, Sîn-Lēqi-Unnunni possessed the key quality that unites great writers throughout the ages - he understood people.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Amazing absolutely nothing in the below tweet is true.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
5 months
Smart kids of parents not wealthy enough to segregate via property purchases are a prime target for abuse in anglophone countries. Not only is it politically acceptable to advocate for their persecution, you can also demand they do teacher’s jobs for free at the same time.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
5 months
Go out and talk to any African who actually works. There’s plenty of them. They are conscientious, polite, pleasant people to be around. And every single one of them spends their weekends dragging huge sacks of flour, butter etc round the houses of their do-nothing relatives.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
The Barbican is popular and successful because it was built to an unusually high standard for brutalist high density to house professional families, rather than as a structurally unsound system build designed to warehouse derelicts.
@SustainableTall
Philip Oldfield
4 months
“Normal people hate this stuff”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Once, when I was younger and dumber, I found myself in a remote village in Africa vomiting blood without anyone around who could help me much, so I did what anyone would do in such a situation: I called a man on a small motorcycle.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
“Late stage capitalism” whines the unimaginative communist, failing to realise this is only the beginning. One day we will have cruise ships so large they pass for islands, with small ornamental oceans on which cruise ships of this size are piloted like rafts.
@mrexits
prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️
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Late stage capitalism is so absurdly comical at times. This new cruise ship has: - 23 restaurants - 22 bars / clubs - 7 full sized pools + 9 hot tubs - Full waterpark - Rock climbing wall - Ice skating rink - Surf simulator - Golf course - Basketball court - Rooms for
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
🎶 I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR BUT IN THE END I DIDN’T DO THE NEEDFUL 🎶
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 years
You need to be less impressive. You need to be constantly unsharpening your skills. You need to be cultivating a precise balance of absolutely lukewarm takes.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
Approximately 80% of all books published are in the FHB category (Female Horny Books) and the other half is split evenly between business self help literature and reprints of Marcus Aurelius’s “Miditations”.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
I can answer this one: it’s because hygiene rituals in many parts of the 3rd world are top-down impositions of caste systems which were introduced by higher elements to ensure some standard of ritual or actual cleanliness was maintained when dealing with lower elements.
@kunley_drukpa
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩
4 months
In the case of unhygienic preparation of traditional slop de la comunidad, it’s hard to say why some people are so unfazed by an obvious lack of standards. It might just be laziness, expediency or cost-cutting measures - but it might also be that they genuinely do not appreciate
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 months
Æthelstan styled himself as “the most glorious king of the Anglo-Saxons and the Danes” as did other kings after him. They literally just make stuff up.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
It’s really quite simple: cut off their access to state entitlement and actually deport those who commit crime.
@seld_on
Seldon
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So if I'm reading the demographic stats for Germany correctly, to actually implement it would require depriving citizenship and residency to 12-16% of the population, or roughly around 10 to 13 million people. Ignore any moral arguments for or against or the time being. Just
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
If your country’s “national sovereignty” is dependent on the foreign policy whim of another country thousands of miles away, your county isn’t sovereign, it’s a protectorate. And soon you’ll have to face up to the fact that you’re actually a Chinese protectorate.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
4 months
Because the British state has been actively suppressing any anti-immigration sentiment or action since the 1950s and the Irish state by contrast has very limited experience with deploying the full scale propaganda and law enforcement action needed to do it.
@admcollingwood
Collingwood 🇬🇧
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Remarkable. It's quite interesting how the Irish have gone from zero to a hundred and quite effective action on these matters as a contrast to the English. Why?
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Every tropical mythology be like “Mbebe created the earth and sky but trickster hippo cut off his balls. Monkey retrieved them by winning against hippo in a game of dice but dropped one on way hope due to poor packaging. It turned into a coconut tree. This is also why it rains.”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Look, Oatly - actually, I'm not gonna call you that, because you're not Oatly, you're some poor Scandinavian intern girl being paid a few krona an hour to write twitter posts. So I'm gonna call you Astrid (she/her) instead. Look, Astrid (she/her), I get it.
@oatly
Oatly
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Once in a generation, a show comes along that strikes a chord in the zeitgeist and changes the trajectory of every show that follows it. This is not that show. But look! Puppets! THE NEW NORM&AL SHOW—Now streaming on .
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
“There is no compelling evidence that journalism has ever happened.”
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@DefenseBaron
Kevin Baron
2 years
These are going to happen 20 times a day. Elon Musk is a conspiracy theorist and journalism denier. He undermines the 4th estate like a dimestore politician with $44,000,000,000. It’s up to journalism to do the work. Not his work.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
Please remember that Farage’s personal political views are approximately those of a middle of the road Tory MP from any period between about 1900 and the day David Cameron became leader. This kind of hysterical nonsense is demeaning even for centrist dads.
@ThatTimWalker
Tim Walker
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Extraordinary how many people don’t have a problem with Hitler these days.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
1 month
I know people who’ve been arrested, detained at airports, and even received custodial sentences for making jokes less severe than this on Twitter. Haven’t seen you defending any of them.
@Miss_Snuffy
Katharine Birbalsingh
1 month
To those on the Right criticising ⁦ @DAaronovitch ⁩ for what was clearly a joke… …you can’t also believe in free speech and not be a hypocrite.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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There are portals.
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@Paracelsus1092
Stone Age Herbalist
4 months
New facial reconstruction of the Neanderthal Shanidar Z. Dating to around 75,000 years old, her skull had been flattened by a rockfall and had to be painstakingly reassembled by researchers.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
In the world of the British media, violence comes in two forms: the kind which “always happens” independent of the agency or motivations of individuals, and the kind that happens when Harmful Rhetoric Emboldens the Right.
@Channel4News
Channel 4 News
7 months
"Violence is always going to happen, no matter if there's drill music or not." Rapper Digga D talks to @RiaChatter about the use of drill lyrics as evidence in criminal cases.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
6 months
When I visited India several people asked to take photographs with me because white people in some areas are such an uncommon sight. I was never subject to abuse or even suspicion, and nobody mentioned the empire to me.
@DavidVeevers1
David Veevers
6 months
When I was in India last week, a friend was taken aback by how visceral the largely-Indian audience's reaction was to discussions of the British Empire. Their response was emotional, pained, outraged. And this is the reality of the legacy of empire for most of the world. 1/5
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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There are 80 groups proscribed under the Terrorism Act. Of these, 5 are “far right” as the term is commonly understood. A further 8 are either far left, militant separatists/nationalists, or the Wagner Group. The remaining 67 – roughly 85% of the total – are “Islamist” groups.
@David_Cameron
David Cameron
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The PM @rishisunak is quite right to speak out like this. Extreme Islamism and Far Right groups threaten the Britain we are building together.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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There’s a huge misconception among conservatives that the problem with our society is that it’s hedonistic and materialist. It’s neither: almost nobody is having any fun and almost nobody owns anything. You’re trying to fight battles that were resolved 100 years ago.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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“A real GOP ticket looks like a couple of complete losers.”
@CountryFirstRep
Dave Hale - Concerned Republican
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THIS is what a real GOP ticket looks like. Trump/Vance is a cheap counterfeit.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Last year I did a thread on Edward Banfield’s “Moral Basis of a Backward Society”, the seminal ethnography of a low-trust community. Today I revisit Banfield to look at an aspect of “amoral familism” I’d previously passed over but now see as very important: doing nothing.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
It should take no less than 30 years to become a naturalised citizen by any route other than marriage and in those cases citizenship should be immediately revoked on divorce. We should be naturalising fewer than 100 people a decade.
@KateAndrs
Kate Andrews
7 months
Just to make sure I'm understanding the complaint here: - Migrant X does 3-year degree - X gets a job in sector with mass vacancies - X works/pays tax for 5 years - X gets Leave to Remain - X waits 12 months, gets citizenship X does 'whatever they want' after a 9-year process
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 years
The question is formulated in reverse. Rich people don't love quiet, they are just much more likely to be quiet. A certain type of poor person loves noise, and craves it, putting it to service in drowning out their own misery.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Posts like this reveal that the provincial cosmopolitan is, at heart, a parochial oik and always will be. He imagines that worldliness and sophistication are qualities gained by living in close proximity to people he barely interacts with outside service contexts.
@MatthewStadlen
Matthew Stadlen
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Please be careful if you come to London. You might encounter human beings of different religions, ethnicities and races. Take it slowly. Just at your own pace.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Nigel seems to struggle with the idea that if the media asks you something or accuses you of something you can actually just ignore them or tell them to fuck off. You don’t have to justify yourself to them. They depend on you for oxygen, not you on them.
@Nigel_Farage
Nigel Farage MP
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I couldn’t give a damn if you’re black or white, gay or straight. I really don’t care. You should be judged by your character, by your ability and by your contribution to society. We need to stop putting people into categories.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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In reality, Eritrea was an Italian colony. It was surrendered in 1941 following the Battle of Keren and came under British military rule because of the proximity of other British possessions, and Britain spent the next 9 years trying to get rid of it.
@Henrik_Palmgren
Henrik Palmgren 🇸🇪 ᛟ
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Immigration is punishment
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
Thai food became popular because the Thai government generously subsidises its citizens to open and operate restaurants in foreign countries as a form of diplomatic outreach and this makes it a fairly cushy gig for Thai people considering expatriating themselves.
@SwannMarcus89
Swann Marcus
7 months
Holy shit this is not how cultural transfer works. You will never have a style of food become super popular in an area unless people from that area are moving there. Thai food got popular because Thais opened restaurants in the US, not because white people just decided to make it
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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I’m not sure that people really understand what Anton – who is correct – actually means when he says this so here’s a short primer on what life is actually like for the top 5%-ish-ers in third world countries.
@smnhmd
Anton Hofmiller
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I’ve made this point many times before but it’s so important to understand. Rich Pakistani business tycoons in Lahore look at UMC life in Britain with uncomprehending horror. In dysfunctional 3rd world states the high HC fraction can opt out and live reasonably well.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Sheltered idiots like this will be the death of civilisation. These people are not “fleeing oppression”, they’re just poor and learned from their cousins Abdul Abdul and Abdul and a million social media videos that westerners will give you free stuff if you say the right things.
@timfarron
Tim Farron
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This is seriously grim. I’m reluctant to glibly overuse the term ‘far right’, but this is properly abhorrent. The tragedy, Richard, is that - whatever one’s views on migration - you think it’s OK to camp outside the sanctuary of people whose circumstances you can’t even imagine.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Historically illiterate nonsense. Even in America almost everyone of means would have at the very least had a housekeeper or maid until the latter half of the 20th century. It’s not a question of virtues it’s a question of labour costs.
@Atlanticesque
𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯
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Genuinely one of the things that makes the West great is our tradition of not having house servants. I believe it’s deeply corrupting, and we see the rotten fruits in places like India where it’s common. Immigrants like this weakening that norm (using lefty jargon) is dangerous.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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It’s such an ingrained part of life that they will openly tell you about it if you ask. “What’re you up to this weekend Thomas?” “Going back to the village, got to pay my black tax.”
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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You are now expected to believe that the “far right are a highly sophisticated network of digitally enabled agitators that can rapidly deploy across country but are also so ineffectual they can be dissipated into thin air by unemployed communists chanting about how gay they are.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Shariah mortgages are a hilarious concept where an elaborate scheme is set up to ensure that no interest is paid on the loan while still ensuring the arrangement is no different in practical terms from a loan with interest. Prime example of the “we can trick God” mentality.
@leonvarkalis
Leon Varkalis
3 months
@SealOfTheEnd @AbsoluteMeasure @hardtimeshere11 @maxtempers These days there are halal mortgages, but the community used cash, laundered cash for decades. Mosque communities are strong because a lot of money lending goes on. The violence you see in videos on here is because of who owes who money from communal drug/property investments.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
The simple answer here is criminals pick people who look like easy targets. They will go after weaker looking people who don’t look like they know what they’re doing (which almost always translates to women travelling alone or men who look especially clueless).
@kunley_drukpa
ɖʀʊӄքǟ ӄʊռʟɛʏ 🇧🇹🇹🇩
2 months
I’ve been to lots of Third World Shitholes and in that time sorry to disappoint I’ve never been a victim of a mugging or crime. (At least by a criminal, Local Police scamming you another story.) To a large extent this seems to involve not being a retard, maybe others get unlucky
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@lmrwanda
Lin-Manuel Rwanda
5 months
It’s a system that’s clearly evolved over time to stop large parts of the population from starving to death. And there’s no element of gratitude to it whatsoever, it’s simply pure “nomos” as a certain political philosopher would put it. You just have to do it. You have no choice.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
7 months
My offhand mention of the pseudo-domestication of the mosquito in my last thread intrigued a lot of people (people don’t often DM me, and literally ten of people DMed me about this) so let’s examine the specifics of the Bantu expansion.
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@lmrwanda
Lin-Manuel Rwanda
2 months
Historically scholars matriculated in universities at around 14.
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Lin-Manuel Rwanda
3 years
It's quite simple - they make everything you have to use or experience as ugly as they possibly can because they hate you and want every moment of your life to be as undignified and miserable as they can possibly make it without resorting to literal torture.
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Mark Shepherd 📐📷
3 years
Public bike hangers are a useful addition to London. But why have we just silently accepted that they have to look like pig shelters on a farm? The home of the Routemaster, black cab and red telephone booth can do better than this pig-ugly eyesore, open a design competition.
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