An interesting history:
By the 1500s, England's murder rate was lower than the murder rate in modern-day Africa 🏴
— Sam Bidwell (@sam_bidwell) December 23, 2024
And by the 20th century, Britain was one of the least violent societies on Earth – but why was this the case?
A 🧵 on the history of how England crushed crime pic.twitter.com/uripa0j2Eu
Kash Patel is going to try to clean up the FBI.
Good luck.
Maybe it’s a new world, politically.
[Update a few minutes later]
Congress Proposes New Law Banning Anyone From Reading Spending Bill Until It's Passed https://t.co/zuL1kRxSoN pic.twitter.com/bWFVfXIcGt
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) December 19, 2024
[Update a while later]
This seems somewhat related: Rapid-Onset Political Enlightenment.
I said the day after the election that I had a great feeling of relief, and this sort of explains it. It’s almost like when Saruman’s spell over Théoden was broken.
I hadn’t been aware of the degree of anti-Semitism in the Emerald Isle. It makes me less inclined to want to revisit it.
Someone asked AI how the Great Pyramids were builtpic.twitter.com/iFbUTyG5Hb
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 16, 2024
Miranda Devine says good riddance. I would have told Trump not to appoint him at the time.
Sadly, it’s not a new thing.
If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer….
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024
In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to…
I wonder if Bondi will assign some people to look into this?
…is rotting from within. And it’s been doing so for decades, and the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
From Marc Andreeson.
A glimpse into @pmarca’s alternate timeline that we barely avoided
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) December 11, 2024
pic.twitter.com/UH9WBlO1z6
BTW, I’m in DC this week at events, so posting will be light.