@Tedii69 @heraldscotland and "tribal"
It's always funny when academics do a media piece and end up being guilty of the very thing they accuse others of.
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Alan Simpson
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Father, Business Owner (haulage), Scottish and British, All Views are my own. Against Indy and voted against Brexit
Aberdeenshire, Scotland 参加日 Şubat 2019
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@heraldscotland I am not a reform voter, however
"unionist" is anachronistic, a term that's inaccurate and has been weaponised by independence supporters, which Murray certainly is.
He doesn't offer any evidence for this "not fond of Scotland"
Empty accusations are rather bitter
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Alison Rowat speaks to leading Scottish historian Murray Pittock 👇
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@Ockeghem1497 @bellacaledonia Can you give me a list of companies Offord has asset stripped?
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@bellacaledonia 1) Does Massie think private equity is capitalism at its most noble and philanthropic or something? It's basic financial vampirism. Saddle a company with massive debt and strip it down to the bone all for extractive short term profits.
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The Unionist press trying to sanitise and protect Offord is quite a spectacle.
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@bellacaledonia It's amazing how much individual success and wealth annoys socialists
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@AScot94175440 That is a preamble, it's not legally operative. It's clearly a template that contains anachronistic terminology but legally meaningless. In the operative part of the treaty, Great Britain is used.
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@SeanUlidia @PaulEmbery The Belgrano was in active combat manovers. The captain of the ship confirmed this and admitted the British were correct to engage, as did the Argentine government and the chief naval officer. They also confirmed the exclusion zone was irrelevant.
No war crime I am afraid
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@PaulEmbery Not forgetting that the british navy committed a war crime when it attacked an Argentinian ship, The Belgrano as it was sailing away and outside the british declared "exclusion zone", that's how things become "British", through terrorism and war crimes.
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If your dislike of Keir Starmer leads you to support attempts by a foreign government to decouple Britain from the Falklands - over which we have had sovereignty for over 200 years, and for which 255 of our servicemen gave their lives 44 years ago - you really are no patriot.
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@Douglas_Haribo @Tedii69 So you claim but produce no evidence to back it up.
"I took notes" is not something that can be taken seriously
There is no other way to interpret what he said. It's public record that Cumberland was recalled and his policy rejected on British gov orders.
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@AlanSimp69 @Tedii69 I took copious notes at his lecture in 2024.
If what you say is true, and we've not seen his book yet, Pittock has contradicted himself, but I do not believe that is how it should be interpreted.
Everything he said in 2024 pointed to a mass killing of men women and children.
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From the "Forty-Five:" by Lord Mahon being
The Narrative of the Insurrection of 1745
Before Culloden. Butcher Cumberland writes to the Duke of Newcastle.
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@Douglas_Haribo @Tedii69 and I just gave you two quotes straight from the horses mouth that contradict you
Take it up with the historian if you're unhappy but you're still wrong. The British parliament were against Cumberland tactics and thus he was recalled.
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@AlanSimp69 @Tedii69 The source of my information was a lecture given by Murray Pittock. It was he who highlighted how many military types were in the London Parliament, He did that for a reason.
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@Douglas_Haribo @Tedii69 Pittock makes it clear that the British government didn't support Cumberland's policy. It was the British government that stopped Cumberland, you're clearly misinterpreting your own sources
"Not at all keen on it"
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@Tedii69 In butchering his father's citizens Cumberland was guilty of genocide.
The London parliament was stuffed with military commissioners who were not too bothered about Cumberland's methods.
The journal I quoted from details horrific killings of men women and children.
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@KingKanawha1863 @Robin_C_Douglas @P14Murray @DanielJHannan @OxUniPress Does that include the Non government troops raised?
Like the 43rd battalion that was commanded by Lt. Col. John Campbell
Or the company under Earl of Sutherland, or Macleod and Gunn Militias that were loyal to the crown?
I would imagine this accounted 300-500 men
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@Robin_C_Douglas @P14Murray @DanielJHannan @OxUniPress Christopher Duffy estimates there were 1,800 Scots in the Government army of 6,900.
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They didn’t. If you want the data, read. If you want to know how profoundly the British Army in 1746 disagreed with @DanielJHannan then wait for my forthcoming book from @OxUniPress . The evidence is everywhere, and both Pelham & Newcastle had to restrain the army command.
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan
Few historical events have been as weirdly reinterpreted as the Battle of Culloden (#OTD 1746). In nationalist mythology, it has somehow become a battle between England and Scotland. In fact, more Scots fought for the Hanoverians than the Pretender, and with good reason. They wanted their country to be part of an open, wealthy, law-governed Anglosphere, not an outlying province of an obscurantist French autocracy. Happily for Scotland, Britain and mankind, they won. 🏴🇬🇧 #Whig
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@mehercle @P14Murray @DanielJHannan @OxUniPress War in the 18th century was rarely gentlemanly, especially in rebellions.
The British army were humiliated at Prestonpans and Falkirk muir and the jacobites were no angels after these battles, Also Murray gave orders to dirk sleeping British soldiers. Cumberland played on this.
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@P14Murray @DanielJHannan @OxUniPress What did they want , Murray ? To exterminate the traitors who had forced them to leave the continent and abandon their Dutch allies ?
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@JonnoL32552677 @FrankJohn1964 @Rmca18 It was the Spanish that blockaded and kicked them out
Dunno why Scottish nationalists ignore the fact that Darien was on Spanish (not English) land
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@FrankJohn1964 @Rmca18 Toss yer caber, laddie. And scratch yer sporran.
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The Scottish people deserve more after 300 years of indoctrination. They have attempted to destroy our culture and our freedom. It’s time to restore our country to its rightful place in the family of nations in the world.🏴
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@AlanSimp69 @frank3davies @FXMC1957 And if you’ve every seen pictures of some of the Indian reservations then the USA are a close second!
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28 February 1900. 118-day siege of the British garrison at Ladysmith in Natal during the Anglo-Boer War ended with a British victory. It led to scenes of jubilation never before seen on the streets of Britain.
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@FXMC1957 who invented concentration camps? must have been an empire.
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@AlanSimp69 @kentishIP @typingduck @medievalmlord @hasrock36 Yup, rather confused
If he stopped typing tweets in the middle of a temper tantrum, it might help
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@Tedii69 @kentishIP @typingduck @medievalmlord @hasrock36 This guy is a clown. He's lying about people being historians who aren't while dismissing the most respected two historians in the field.
and even his shit sources don't say genocide..he's a slave to coaxing AI but can't even read what AI tells him
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@kentishIP @typingduck @medievalmlord @hasrock36 Read your own screenshot. Dalrymple literally calls Scots "colonisers" who "played a major role running the Empire" destroying your victim narrative.
McAlpine is a commentator, Nairn a theorist. Devine is the actual historian of the period.
AT least you've conceded no genocide
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@kentishIP @Tedii69 @typingduck @medievalmlord @hasrock36 lol, stick to your little corner of Britain, you clearly know fuck all about Scottish history moron
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@Tedii69 @typingduck @medievalmlord @hasrock36 We don’t talk to morons like you here with these short blunt stupid brazen statements, grow up or fuck off AI profile picture trash
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@Pagan5242 @JimmyMcd62 Yes
The elites in Scotland and England voted to incorporate into a new state (same thing as a country)
Scottish nationalists don't like this as they like to pretend they were conquered and annexed like Wales and Ireland
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Britain is not a country it was a English empire started in 1585 , they then went on to colonise Scotland in 1707 , still colonised and thieved from by our English neighbours to this day
Wake to fuck up Scotland
morning all
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@chillingb158860 @Tedii69 @Empireaesth You're quite clearly completely ignorant of how the British empire work and what Britain was.
After the glorious revolution there was no monarchy beyond a figurehead
The British empire was a machine with many moving parts and your original point was nonsense
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@Tedii69 @Empireaesth The labour aristocracy always benefits to some degree from imperialism and suffers in other ways (a weaker working class, for example)... but it is not their decision to engage in imperialism, that's for monarchy and capitalists, which was the f**king point I was obviously making
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This is unbelievably stupid. The King of Scotland literally became the King of England. The Act of Union in 1707 was agreed upon by both parties and Scotland disproportionally took part in all of Britain’s colonial ventures. Scotland is no colony.
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@georgegalloway Sachs downplayed the probability of a Russian full scale invasion at the end of 2021
As usual he has a short memory
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CRIMEAN WAR 2.0
The Ukraine war would never have happened had the US not pushed for Nato enlargement
There's probably been two million Ukraine casualties since the start of the war, says Prof Jefrey Sachs. Our great defence of Ukraine is to kill them all
Follow #MOATS 521 jeffsachs.org #Ukraine #BorisJohnson #Zelensky
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@RagnarLothbloke @NMcbeach7386 @grok @cultureenrichuk @J4m35c4mpb3ll Highland clearances were carried out by Scottish landowners, they were about economics, land and agricultural reform
Neither Gaelic or Scots were banned at any point
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@NMcbeach7386 @grok @cultureenrichuk @J4m35c4mpb3ll lol what do you think the highland clearances were banned our language and forced emigration 😂
Not to mention many Scottish children kidnapped sent to America to be indentured servants @grok verify my claims he won’t believe them
You English dont know your own history
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🌍 Aberdeen, Scotland before and after discovering North Sea oil.
Only kidding it’s London, England.
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