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Racism is considered so heinous a crime that someone who has committed it will end their life rather than face the consequences. Our culture has a serious problem.

@CdmxCiudad There’s like a billion and a half of them 😂 wtf are you talking about?

@CestrianRRF O que fica sobrando neste mundo não são hindostanos e sim britanicos…

Alas, there are famously no Indians to be found anywhere in the world following the genocide committed against them by the Brits 😔

@Fyloot @AlexofLyon @CeJour_Histoire I don’t have a donkey.

@CestrianRRF @AlexofLyon @CeJour_Histoire He said in your ass « Dieu et mon droit »

Chaque pays du monde mesure en mètres. Sauf trois. Le 7 avril 1795, la Convention décide que la France en a assez du chaos. Plus de 700 unités de mesure différentes coexistent sur le territoire. Le pied de Paris ne vaut pas le pied de Marseille. La livre de Lyon n'est pas celle de Bordeaux. Acheter un terrain, peser du blé, mesurer un tissu : chaque transaction est un casse-tête. La Convention tranche. Elle adopte une unité universelle, fondée non pas sur le corps d'un roi ou la longueur d'un bras, mais sur la Terre elle-même. Le mètre sera la dix-millionième partie du quart d'un méridien terrestre. Pour le calculer, deux scientifiques, Delambre et Méchain, vont poser des règles de 4 mètres sur toute la distance entre Dunkerque et Barcelone. Il leur faudra 7 ans. Le résultat : une barre de platine déposée aux Archives nationales. Elle y est toujours. Aujourd'hui, seuls les États-Unis, le Liberia et la Birmanie n'utilisent pas le système métrique. Le reste du monde mesure en français.

@numbers64149076 @Finnegan1435321 A beautiful *city 😉

@Finnegan1435321 Chester is a beautiful town

Not far from where my ancestors lived.

@AlexofLyon @CeJour_Histoire That would be a funny story if it were true, as usual it’s nothing but Gallic nonsense of course.

@CestrianRRF @CeJour_Histoire Commenting on this anecdote, the Marquise de Créquy wrote: "That the English anthem was born from an anus never ceases to make me laugh, yet it never surprises me for a moment."

@AlexofLyon @CeJour_Histoire J’mappel Joe. J’habite a l’Anglettere. J’deteste au Francais

@CestrianRRF @CeJour_Histoire Not suprised again 😆

@AlexofLyon @CeJour_Histoire Thank you for your response but I don’t speak frog 🐸 mon petit pois.

@CestrianRRF @CeJour_Histoire Tiens tu te coucheras moins con le rosbif. Enfin, normalement.

Being born in this city was truly the greatest lottery win of life 🔵⚪️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Fylde, Oxford and Kings Lynn on the menu 🪦

@LeRoyDesCimes He wanted ham & cheese then.

French man next to me at King's Cross, to his wife: "get me any sandwich, just nothing English"

@FCHPolitics @PolakwKanadzie @acteduweininger

@CestrianRRF @PolakwKanadzie @acteduweininger Neo-Nazis think Hitler was justified in colonising Poland and genociding millions of Polish civilians - and now you're pretending you love Poland?

New Zealand is a British colony. Our culture is British. Our history is British. And our future is British. That is who we are. Britain is our Israel. Australia and Canada are our brothers. Instead of “leaving the commonwealth” to slowly become decolonial Zimbabwe, “Aotearoa”, we should unite all of the CANZUK into an Anglo World State of one hundred million Anglos.

@PolakwKanadzie @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics Agree 100%. Love Poland btw, very envious of your homogeneous society.

@CestrianRRF @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics I was being pedantic. I think regardless, people are not happy where they are governed from, so it wouldn't be much of a change. I could see CANZUK being powerful and supported, but all members would need a Restore Britain-type movement first.

FT | Defeat this afternoon. Macclesfield FC 0-2 Chester FC

@PolakwKanadzie @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics I understand English is not your first language but you seem pretty fluent so I’d expect you to be able to see that’s exactly the point I’m making.

@CestrianRRF @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics You know the internet exists, yeah? Thousands of miles doesnt mean anything

Spot on in parts, quite wrong in others. Excellently written throughout, though. Engaging and entertaining as ever. Firstly, I do want to say that I am a big fan of this account and agree with most of its output but the ‘favour’ framing is where the whole argument falls apart, and it matters because the rest of the emotional architecture depends on it. America didn’t bail out Europe and ask for nothing. It bailed out Europe and presented the bill. Britain’s bill was its empire. The Anglo-American Loan of 1946 came with conditions that forced sterling convertibility, crashed the pound within weeks, and accelerated the end of Imperial Preference. The Marshall Plan continued the pattern: generous in headline terms, strategically ruthless in what it required, namely the dismantling of any European economic bloc that could compete with American commercial dominance. Lend-Lease was settled with interest. The final payment was made in 2006. Sixty years of debt service for the privilege of not being invaded. Conversely, other Anglophone and adjacent countries sent Britain money and materiel to fight fascism and genuinely didn’t ask for it back. America did. That’s fine, nations act in their interest, but you can’t call it a gift when you kept the receipt. Devon is totally right that Europe drew pathological conclusions from WW2. The overcorrection on national identity is real, measurable, and playing out in collapsing social cohesion from Malmö to Milan. He’s also absolutely right that the mass importation of military-aged men from Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East into societies that had already stripped themselves of any organising identity was like injecting the European patient with stage 4 cancer cells and then removing their immune system. The result is what you’d expect. There is no magic soil. There is no universal human. Different cultures are just that. They tend to overwhelmingly bring their baggage with them. Their children tend to become even more of a social problem that they were. The demographic shift is one that debases the host culture, the economy and the prospects of that once developed ad first world nation. But the idea that this happened because Europeans are neurotic ingrates who can’t process their own rescue misses the structural point entirely. The de-nationalisation of Europe wasn’t an accident or a self-inflicted wound. It was a design feature of Pax Americana. Washington wanted compliant, integrated, post-imperial European states plugged into an American-led security and trading architecture. It got exactly what it built. Blaming Europeans for behaving the way the system was designed to make them behave is like a farmer complaining that his battery hens can’t fly. As for needing another war to wake up, there already is one. Ukraine is burning and European defence spending is finally moving, which rather proves the point that the threat was always real and the complacency was always a choice. But wishing rubble on people to teach them a lesson, three paragraphs after invoking your grandfather’s sacrifice, undersells your own argument. The diagnosis is strong enough without the prescription None of this means Europe doesn’t have serious problems. It absolutely does. Some nations more than others, clearly. But the diagnosis has to be honest about who built the architecture that produced them, and for me that’s where this rather falls down. I love America for record, ideally I’d probably look to move there now. But that doesn’t alter the history which is all there in black and white for anyone willing to read it. The US, the ascendant western power at the time basically did a leveraged buyout of the faltering British Empire and became the pre-eminent world power as a result.

@MaxNordau It’ll be a cold day in hell before I call the capital of China anything other than Peking.

By the way: I'm never going to spell Turkey as "Türkiye" unless I'm writing in Turkish. I don't write "Deutschland" or "中国" or "ایران" or "Magyarország." Turkey is Turkey.

@Trois_Ponts An interesting thread, thanks!

Quelle différence entre un vaisseau de 74 canons et un vaisseau de 80 ? On pourrait naïvement imaginer qu'ils étaient relativement similaires : six canons de différence, soit trois sur chaque flanc... A priori rien de bien significatif. Voyons ça ! #thread

In Dublin, 1916, six South Africans, two Canadians (wearing kilts), one Australian and five New Zealander soldiers, had their Easter Leave uplifted, when they were hastily requested by a student Porter, to come and defend the Reserve Officers Training Corps armoury at Trinity College in Dublin. The 14 Colonials, along with some Irish students, teachers and civilians, armed themselves with hunting and sporting rifles from the armoury, and defended the College from the roof tops against the Irish rebels for 72 hours, with no sleep. This picture shows the New Zealanders leaving the College after the Easter Rising ended, one with a sporting rifle still in hand 🇬🇧☘️🫡

@tiredverytired @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics I’m sure the MPs would be happy if it was Bermuda! Maybe we should make it somewhere a bit less enticing to ensure only those who are in it for the right reasons take the job.

@CestrianRRF @acteduweininger @FCHPolitics Probably Ottawa given its time zone. Or possibly Bermuda?