Jennifer Rhea
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Since we hating on Europeans I just wanna add that I absolutely loathe the way British people say “pasta”
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@VincentGeloso Je suis certain que dans la bible belt, ils seraient ravis que leur poulet est halal.
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@SocialSenseX @CoreyWriting Completely agree it’s a matter of facts. And I know my opinion is meaningless, but this is the point of Twitter.
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@RheaRay30 @CoreyWriting This is not a matter of perspectives Jennifer. It is a matter of facts. Your opinion is also noted, though.
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South Africa had everything going for it in 1994 to immediately become a global power. The post-apartheid era has been plagued with corruption and incompetence. South Africa is a cautionary tale on DEI.
Daily Investor@DailyInvestorSA
Morocco has overtaken South Africa as Africa’s top industrial economy, marking the end of more than 80 years of South African dominance. dailyinvestor.com/south-africa/1…
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@SocialSenseX @CoreyWriting Read some South African news papers or some books about it before criticizing his perspective. He’s not wrong. It’s is rife with corruption.
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@CoreyWriting Corey, Corey, Corey... Would it kill you to pick up a book and actually read instead of getting all your facts from CNN and FOX? Can you at least do some research before you assert propaganda so boldly?
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@dervishconan @Breaking911 This is a very silly comment. Those are clearly not hijabs. She was wearing silk scarves women of her era often wore when outside on windy days to keep her hair from blowing everywhere. Everybody’s grandma did this. It has nothing to do with religious suppression of women.
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@Breaking911 So what even the British Queen Elizabeth II wore nice hijab &headscarves. It was part of her style.
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AOC wore a hijab while joining Zohran Mamdani at a Muslim holiday celebration in New York City today.
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@RitchieTorres Sharia law is diametrically opposed to freedom of religion. That’s the issue. Once the balance too far in their direction no one will be allowed to practice anything else.
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There is nothing wrong with prayer. In fact, the free exercise of religion is American to the core.
The first freedom enshrined in the First Amendment either belongs to all Americans or it belongs to none.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Imagine telling a NYer in 2001 and this is an image of their future mayor
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@Subhanalla94706 @idicenter One God in 3 persons. And more like humbled Himself, took on our shame, and concurred death, but judging by your vibe truth and virtue aren’t your aim here.
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Millions of men and women pressing in suffocating waves around the Kaaba, bodies climbing over bodies, hands clawing toward a single black stone set in silver, lips and foreheads desperate to touch it. What is the origin of that chaos?
The Pagan Origins of Islam's Rituals by @DanBurmawy
idicenter.org/article/the-pa…
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@KonstantinKisin Had to have the audacity to say, “you read that correctly,” when regurgitating false information.
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Very good example of the lies anti-Western activists love to tell:
The claim that Britain only paid off slavery compensation in 2015 is false — and the person who spread it has admitted it.
The claim that "British taxpayers were paying off slavery compensation until 2015" went viral in 2018 when the UK National Debt Management Office tweeted it. It was retracted almost immediately because it was wrong. The 1835 government loan used to pay slave owner compensation was fully redeemed in 1938. What continued beyond that were small residual government consolidated bonds — routine Victorian-era debt instruments bundled together with hundreds of other government expenditures from the same period, including the Napoleonic Wars and Irish Famine relief. This lie spread because it was emotionally compelling. It was not true.
Yes, slavery compensation was paid to the owners because that was the only way to achieve abolition. And yes, abolition was the result of campaigning and technological changes but it nonetheless represents a unique achievement of the West: everywhere else, including the Far East, the Middle East and Africa slavery continued for decades, if not centuries, and into the present time.
Note how, as usual, anti-Western narratives deliberately fail to engage in a fair comparison with OTHER empires and civilisations in the world and their conduct during the same time period.
I refuse to hold our civilisation to a fake, utopian standard of perfection while letting everyone else off the hook.
Sony Thăng@nxt888
Konstantin, you asked a Black woman where she'd rather live than Britain or America or Canada. Let's take Britain as your example of tolerant, slavery-ending Western excellence. Britain did not end slavery voluntarily. Britain ended the Atlantic slave trade in 1807 after decades of organized abolitionist pressure, slave rebellions across the Caribbean, most consequentially Haiti in 1791, and the growing calculation that wage labor was becoming more economically efficient than chattel slavery in certain contexts. When Britain "abolished" slavery in its colonies in 1833, it paid £20 million in compensation. Not to the enslaved. To the enslavers. The people who had been worked and beaten and raped and bred like livestock for generations received nothing. Their enslavers received the equivalent of £17 billion in today's money, funded by British taxpayers. A debt so large that British citizens were still paying it off in 2015. You read that correctly. British taxpayers were paying off the debt incurred compensating slave owners until 2015. So when you ask a Black woman where she would rather live, the answer she gives, if she says Britain, is not an endorsement of British moral superiority. It is a statement about which available option causes her the least harm. Those are not the same thing. And you know the difference. You just find it more comfortable not to say it.
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@BreitbartNews Sounds like a great answer that shows up in a number of religions.
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Stephen Colbert, a professed Catholic, says he believes that when we die, "there is some continuance of some kind. But it’s like a dispersion of the self into some other greater being. And I don’t have any other feelings beyond that.”
This sounds more like the Gnostic concept of the Pleroma than the Catholic doctrine of Heaven.
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@DrewPavlou Even better, he’s the descendant of cuban refugees and holocaust survivors.
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It’s so funny that Miami-Dade Circuit Court found the most chad Judge in history to sentence Clavicular
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Looksmaxxer, Clavicular, mogged by “Chad” judge in Miami court hearing.
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@TPCarney As an Okie, being unlabeled is better than being labeled Texas, but I’ll have to let everyone around here know we’re no longer part of the Great Plains or the Southwest.
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My daughter has finished her freshman year of college, and on the drive home she created a map of America divided into regions (on the left). Then after feedback she created an upgraded one (on the right). "My only fear is that this is too perfect," she said.
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There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
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@REVWUTRUTH This is one of the clearest scriptures in the Bible. What does he suppose it means in context?
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Presbyterian pastor (PCUSA) thinks John 14:6 is “clobber, clobber, clobber” and divides people!
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@bendreyfuss They were right to fire you. You are shitty and annoying. Have your dad get you a job as a PA for someone evil and log off. news.cuanschutz.edu/news-stories/c…
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When I first started at mother jones our first editorial meeting involved fracking and I said “what’s fracking” and they laughed and then explained it to me and a few years later I had read enough that I had become sentient and in a meeting announced “I think fracking is good”
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@Oxandrolonely @muscleforlife Because people fail to maintain a healthy calorie balance, not because calories in/ calories out doesn’t work.
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@muscleforlife I love how people pretend that those who endeavor to lose weight are doing so for the first time, even when your "weird trick" has been done on average multiple times, and has an 80 to 90% failure rate long-term.
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DOCTORS HATE THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK:
Look up the average caloric intake of someone on Ozempic. Eat that amount. Experience the same calorie deficit. Lose weight.
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@Okla_Hombre @avidseries All the no counties in this map have like 20 people combined. Also, didn’t realize McDonald’s forces people to eat their food.
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@imscottjames @JayDyer @MikhailaFuller @WesleyLHuff I haven’t paid that close attention to him since the Billy Carson stuff. What makes you say he is intellectually dishonest?
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@JayDyer @MikhailaFuller @WesleyLHuff It seems pretty clear to me that he’s intellectually dishonest, or at least delusional. Curious what you identify as heretical.
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I've wanted to have this kind of conversation for a long time. @WesleyLHuff is a New Testament historian who studies ancient manuscripts, and he is exactly the kind of thinker I wish I had found before I became a Christian. The logical part of my brain needed someone who could walk through the evidence without assuming you already believe it.
What is the evidence for the resurrection?
What was speaking in tongues?
Which translation is the most accurate?
And more!
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$12 million is only baby rich. Business class, not private jet.
Anna Wintour, who manages the gala, has $50 million, 4x that.
Beyoncé has 1 billion, she travels in her BC850 jet, a gift from Jay-Z.
Jeff Bezos, the sponsor, has 250 billion. 20,000 x Paulson’s wealth!
Oli London@OliLondonTV
Sarah Paulson wears dollar bill over her eyes to call out the ‘One Percent.’ The actress, who is worth an estimated $12 million, used her outfit to call out the world’s elite while attending the $100,000 per person Met Gala.
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@yashar That post… TMI, but whatever.
The weird part… 703 reposts?! Why?
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