• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    14 hours ago

    Good job they beat the redcoats 250 years ago or they’d have an unchallenged tyrant now ruling by dictat with thugs snatching people off the streets extra-judicially.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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    15 hours ago

    Also, you didn’t beat shit. The French military did.

    That’s some revisionism there… You know that the British had a bunch of Germans as well right? 30,000 German/Hessian mercenaries (nearly half their forces). It would only be natural to work with the French considering the trade that they wanted to conduct with the Americas… If you’re allowing the British to take the German numbers, you have to take the French “anti-numbers” as well… since they only wanted to join in on the fun to spite the British.

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      5 hours ago

      You’re absolutely right, the results were murky with all the third party interference. Seems only fair we have a re-do. USA v Britain. Mano a mano, no seconds.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    9 hours ago

    A tweet.

    She literally called, at a time of particular social tension after a mass murder of children, for people to be burned alive, whose crime was being brown and in her country. Men, women, and children.

    She’s been lauded as some kind of martyr by the right, who compare every other sentence to hers.

    She’s a piece of shit, as evidenced by her acting like a piece of shit.

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      14 hours ago

      Yeah, people trying to downplay it are as “just a tweet” are also pieces of shit. The way she said it is irrelevant.

      What is relevant is that as she was calling for hotels full of people to set on fire, there were people trying to set hotels on fire.

      She called for people to be murdered, then others attempted it, she got off lightly.

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    18 hours ago

    Not so much beat them, as “became so much of a nuisance that it wasn’t worth crossing the ocean to keep us”

    Also, I actually agree with the sentiment that the 2nd is to protect the 1st, but here we are with another school shooting and a president that wants to revoke broadcasting licenses for anyone who disagrees with him.

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    16 hours ago

    I’m OOTL, is this referencing certain kinds of tweets for which one can be arrested, or a specific tweet of some notoriety resulting in an arrest?

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      6 hours ago

      A specific tweet in which someone called for hotels housing refugees (due to a backlog of asylum applications causing an overflow from purpose-built facilities) to be set on fire.