David Beckler

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Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

@AuthorStephenO @Macurian1 @docrussjackson @BobHasHopes You've missed out the hundreds of thousands of Muslims killed by right wing "Christians" in several wars.

@Macurian1 @docrussjackson @BobHasHopes How about the far right-wing “Christians” who have been behind amok shootings, school shootings, etc.? I’m willing to bet that you’re not counting those are you?

What brand of Christianity calls for 'breaking people's teeth'?

Absolutely horrific. And this is your lot, "Bob": The Murder of Jo Cox was far-right extremism The Finsbury Park van attack was far-right extremism The London nail bombings was far-right extremism The Charleston church shooting was far-right extremism The Buffalo supermarket shooting was far-right extremism The El Paso Walmart attack was far-right extremism The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was far-right extremism The Poway synagogue shooting was far-right extremism The Oak Creek Sikh temple shooting was far-right extremism The Overland Park Jewish Community Center shooting was far-right extremism The Halle synagogue shooting was far-right extremism The Hanau shootings was far-right extremism The NSU murders was far-right extremism The Quebec City mosque shooting was far-right extremism The 2011 Norway attacks was far-right extremism The Christchurch mosque shootings was far-right extremism The Bærum mosque shooting was far-right extremism The Oklahoma City bombing was far-right extremism The Atlanta Olympics bombing was far-right extremism The Portland train attack was far-right extremism The Tallahassee yoga studio shooting was far-right extremism The Charlottesville car attack was far-right extremism The Jeffersontown Kroger shooting was far-right extremism The Jacksonville Dollar General shooting was far-right extremism The Buford Furrow shooting spree was far-right extremism The Escondido mosque arson was far-right extremism The Alan Berg assassination was far-right extremism The The Order assassinations was far-right extremism The Oktoberfest bombing was far-right extremism The Alonsotegi bombing was far-right extremism The Çorum massacre was far-right extremism Two cheeks of the same extremist arse.

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe "I've stopped beating my wife and I'm telling people who still beat theirs to stop. Why should I apologise to her and why won't you give me credit for that?"

@DavidBeckler1 @ClaudiaWebbe As for ‘no longer profitable’, it was a damn sight more profitable than spending 60 years sending the Royal Navy around the world to fight slaver traders, at least half of them black Yes we profited. No one denies that But to deny the morality behind the change is just ignorant

Today at the UN, 123 nations named the Transatlantic slave trade as humanity’s gravest crime. Britain abstained A Labour government! heirs to an empire that trafficked 3 million Africans, could not say yes to truth The abstention IS the verdict. Starmer, history has clocked you

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe I've educated myself. You have a blinkered view of the history of the slave trade. "Look, we've stopped, stop going on about it."

@DavidBeckler1 @ClaudiaWebbe It’s quite clear that history and fact is not as important to you as holding a grudge as a man who was never a slave against people who never owned slaves. Stick with your half a history if you like. I’ve no interest in trying to educate someone who only wants to see the sins.

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe I've been paying tax since 1978, thanks, although I've never been consulted about where it's been spent.

@DavidBeckler1 @ClaudiaWebbe They paid the owners because the world economy would have collapsed if they didn’t. That’s how widespread slavery was. And we only ended paying off the loans that allowed them to do it in 2015. Meaning the vast majority of current tax payers contributed to end slavery. Did you?

@DoomedPoor @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe Your claim was "all the slaves". We were talking about the transatlantic slave trade, and the claim was that the UK ended it.

@DavidBeckler1 @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe Sorry we didn’t buy the freedom of all slaves everywhere and enforce a ban over the entire world. Negligent of us.

@andytwelves @miffythegamer @GBNEWS What's the betting Goodwin will be interviewed straight afterwards claiming he won, and you cheated by using facts. "Islamic" facts.

It’s official! Tomorrow @GBNEWS 6pm-7pm. Don’t miss it.

@DoomedPoor @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe Why did the American civil war happen if Britain bought all the slaves and set them free? You're mixing up the transatlantic slave trade with slavery. Even slavery becomes unprofitable if you have to buy, feed, house and clothe slaves, especially if they escape or rebel.

@DavidBeckler1 @TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe It WAS profitable, free labour always is. Britain effectively bought all the slaves and set them free. Obviously that’s not good enough for you, but I suspect nothing ever could be.

@jwflame @VirgilHilts01 @BladeoftheS Unless their properties did something no other property did, and failed to increase in value, they'd still be okay. If they're 77 and 67, there's a good chance they bought some 40+ years ago when they were 1/10th the value now.

@VirgilHilts01 @BladeoftheS Very likely they also had 60 interest only mortgages on those properties, so in reality they only owned a gigantic liability.

The Telegraph removed this story because instead of sympathy, people were laughing at their ridiculous greed. Don't spread it The Telegraph wouldn't like that. 🤣

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe They paid the owners. The victims were either left to starve or forced into indentured service. Most of those 123 countries didn't engage in the transatlantic slave trade. "It's no longer profitable so we'll stop oppressing people" isn't really a reason to praise someone.

@ClaudiaWebbe What did any of those 123 nations do to stop it? Did they unilateral fund its abolition with loans in the early 19th Century that it took until 2015 to pay off? Did they fight a war at sea for 50 years to end it? No? Just the UK then, was it? We’ve paid our bit, thanks.

@TonyKent_Writes @ClaudiaWebbe Breathtakingly arrogant and uninformed. There were many reasons the transatlantic slave trade ended. There are also many countries in Africa, are you claiming they all took part in selling slaves? Are all Black people living here assumed to be from nations that took slaves?

@ClaudiaWebbe History doesn’t need to clock us. We unilaterally ended the horror others only spoke about. WE ended that trade. For the world. And it involved fighting African nations who were still enthusiastically kidnapping and selling black slaves. Take your blame where it’s deserved.

@Merlin67684223 @Itsallagame_ @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS He's not specified what the letters are. 😁

@DavidBeckler1 @Itsallagame_ @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS Has he blocked you as well? He doesn't seem to be all that articulate or able to construct a coherent argument for someone with letters after his name.

@andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS Professor of Politics Vs Ten-a-penny Sixth-Form Politics Leftie. Not much of a contest but should be fun!

Sudan is now the largest child displacement crisis in the world, yet it remains one of the most overlooked. 5 million children have been forced from their homes. 17 million children require humanitarian assistance. Nearly half of Sudan’s children have lost between 15 and 18 months of schooling. These numbers are almost impossible to grasp. But in Sudan at the beginning of this month, our CEO, Moazzam Malik, met the children behind the statistics. He has written a moving opinion piece for the the independent talking about his experiences. Swipe to gain his insight. #keepeyesonsudan via @savechildrenuk

@LuxuryMoon @BernieO26751169 @nazirafzal "Perceived" is true. Starmer has passed legislation making support for a group of Muslims a crime, for which thousands have been arrested. He's helping Israel and the US kill thousand of Muslims. If anyone attacks Jewish people or property, the government uses terrorism laws.

@BernieO26751169 @nazirafzal Fair enough but my comment was about other perceived favouritism . That then impacts on the view of this flag and sees it negatively

Ignorance must be so comforting Let me explain: Westminster Abbey is the Commonwealth Church as the King lives in the UK The flags of commonwealth countries are flown on their national days as this was US & Israel aren’t members of the Commonwealth so their flags don’t qualify

@Itsallagame_ @Merlin67684223 @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS For someone with "letters after your name" you seem unable to recognise a meltdown.

@DavidBeckler1 @Merlin67684223 @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS You know what makes me laugh? Andy doesn't have tonnes of X followers, yet somehow, when Goodwin is mentioned, the Leftie meltdown comes thick and fast. 😆 Tells its own tale 🤣🤣🤣

@kenmor1968 @nxt888 You think either US party is any better?

@nxt888 80% of the Iraqi deaths caused by sanctions was during the two administrations of Bill Clinton.

Iraq in 1991 negotiated a ceasefire. Saddam Hussein pulled back from Kuwait. The stated objective of the coalition was achieved. The UN mandate was fulfilled. The war was over. Twelve years of the most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed on a country followed. Five hundred thousand Iraqi children died. Not from bombs. From the sanctions. From the inability to import medicine. From the destruction of water treatment infrastructure. From the systematic economic strangulation of a country that had agreed to the terms it was given. Madeleine Albright was asked in 1996 whether the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were worth it. She said: "We think the price is worth it." On camera. With her name attached. Then in 2003, after twelve years of compliance with weapons inspection regimes, after twelve years of sanctions, after twelve years of no-fly zones enforced by American and British aircraft over sovereign Iraqi territory: They invaded anyway. There were no weapons of mass destruction. They knew there were no weapons of mass destruction. The sanctions had worked. The inspections had worked. The compliance had worked. They invaded anyway. Because the compliance was never the point. The compliance was the process by which Iraq was weakened enough to be finished. Negotiations. Compliance. Sanctions. Inspection regimes. Another decade of negotiations. Invasion. This is the sequence. This is what "negotiations" produced for Iraq. Half a million dead children as the price of the ceasefire. Two million dead as the price of the invasion. A country that has not recovered twenty years later. This is the table they invite you to.

@Itsallagame_ @Merlin67684223 @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS Which letters? 'SMPA PERO UOS'

@Merlin67684223 @andytwelves @GoodwinMJ @PoliticsJOE_UK @GBNEWS From your feed, I see you're an ideological bedwetter when it comes to Goodwin, & probably anyone else who doesn't fit to your narrow world view. As someone with quite a few letters after my own name, and after reading his lengthy source material defence, I'm happy. Stay trashy!

@digitalsunshine @GoodwinMJ @andytwelves It says 'fairly well respected academic.' I agree, even that's pushing things, but less disgusting.

@GoodwinMJ @andytwelves Just seen this excerpt from a review of your book, Matt Disgusting! Surely they can't get away with saying stuff like that? 'Well respected academic'

Hi @andytwelves Having checked everything I needed to check, I’d like to publicly debate the spurious and false claims you’ve made about Suicide of a Nation - the only book which tells British people the truth. Next week looks good? amazon.co.uk/Suicide-Nation…