“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.” - Bukowski.
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Beachesguy retweeted
AT LEAST they weren’t pagers.
👀 Erdogan gave personalised revolvers to each of the leaders attending the Nato summit, along with live rounds of ammo
The Turkish president supplied export papers for each of the guns, which were inscribed with the name of their recipients (!!)
Starmer has not taken home the gun he was gifted as it would be illegal to bring it into the UK, but left it behind for decommissioning
Beachesguy retweeted
The Persons Case (1929) didn’t give Canadian women the vote. They’d already been voting federally for more than a decade by then.
If you’re gonna do performative feminism, do it better.
Beachesguy retweeted
Roasting CBC by my friend @liam_out_loud - they had this coming
Beachesguy retweeted
He used to be a decent journalist in my early days at the Toronto Sun.
Now he’s just a Mark Carney sycophant who sounds like an idiot.
Beachesguy retweeted
There’s at least 8 people who wanted to be called alive.
Beachesguy retweeted
One of the main lessons of the 2021 Nova Scotia shootings were that RCMP failed to release accurate public warnings, causing additional victims to be unaware a mass shooter was at large. Five years later, and the first RCMP alerts in Tumbler Ridge were to watch out for a "female."
Beachesguy retweeted
If a woman was going to arm herself with a firearm, kill her mother and her brother, and go to a school to shoot as many people as possible, she wouldn’t put on a fucking dress to do it. #CBC #RTE #BBCNews #newseditors #thinkbeforeyouwrite
Beachesguy retweeted
Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson buff.ly/I4G5tVp
Beachesguy retweeted
🇬🇧 Britain spent forty percent of its annual budget on one thing 🇬🇧
Not the army. ❌ Not the navy. ❌
For Freedom.✅
1833 - Parliament faced a choice.
End slavery gradually let it fade out over decades.
Or end it now.
But “now” had a price. Slaveholders owned people. Legally. Under existing law, their property couldn’t just be taken.
The choice was simple. Pay them off. Or wait.
But every year of waiting meant people still in chains. Mothers. Fathers. Children.
Britain chose now. 👇 🇬🇧
Forty percent of the entire national budget. The largest loan in British history.
Who paid?
Not the slaveholders. They got paid.
Working people paid. Through taxes. For 182 years.
Your great-great-grandparents paid. Your grandparents paid. Your parents paid. Until 2015.
Maybe you paid the final instalment …
Not for empire. Not for power. For people eight thousand miles away they would never meet.
That’s what your ancestors thought freedom was worth. Forty percent of everything they had. 182 years of payments.
That’s your heritage.
Did they teach you that in school?
Help us keep telling these stories 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support
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Be part of us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
Beachesguy retweeted
Indeed.
@MarkJCarney , how long have you been friends with Reid Hoffman?
Longtime?
Beachesguy retweeted
Retweet this all day. Make it go viral.
