@TeamCRonaldo Georgina was a retail worker when she met Ronaldo — he wasn't a millionaire then either. They built it together, which is exactly the kind of story bitter people pretend never happens.
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@venom1s Georgina was a retail worker when she met Ronaldo, he wasn't a millionaire then either. They built it together, which is exactly the kind of story bitter people pretend never happens.
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No millionaire woman would ever marry a man working at a retail store.
TCR.@TeamCRonaldo
🔙📸 Georgina Rodriguez working at Gucci, where she met Cristiano Ronaldo.
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The theory isn't wrong, but it's not complete either.
Yes, the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476 CE) set Europe back centuries. Literacy dropped. Trade collapsed. Aqueducts crumbled. The knowledge of concrete — Roman concrete that lasted 2,000 years, was literally lost until modern scientists reverse-engineered it.
But here's the twist: the Dark Ages weren't empty. They were slow. Monasteries preserved texts. Islamic empires translated Aristotle and improved Roman engineering while Europe slept. By the time Europe woke up (12th century Renaissance), they had more than Rome ever had, Greek philosophy via Arabic commentaries, new math from India, paper from China.
So would we be more advanced if Rome never fell?
Maybe. Or maybe Rome's rigid system, slavery-based economy, technological stagnation (they used basically the same tools for 500 years), political instability, would have eventually choked innovation anyway.
The aqueduct is beautiful. But Rome didn't invent the steam engine. They had Heron's aeolipile (a working steam device in 1st century CE) and used it as a temple toy, not an engine.
The fall was tragic. But the rebirth gave us progress, not just preservation.
Rome froze. Europe after Rome learned to grow.
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el otro día vi una teoría que decía que si no hubiera ocurrido la caída del imperio Romano, estaríamos más avanzados científica y tecnológicamente
Ulises@UlisesDavid__
🚨| La claridad de un acueducto del imperio Romano, de hace 2000 años
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Two thousand years. No electricity. No pumps. No steel. Just gravity, stone, and the most advanced engineering of its time.
The clarity of that water isn't an accident. Roman aqueducts used settling tanks, sluice gates, and a slope so perfectly calibrated (1–2 feet per mile) that water flowed clean without eroding the channel. They even used ceramic pipes and lead liners where needed — knowing lead was dangerous but not fully understanding why.
What gets me: the same empire that gave us crucifixion and colosseum bloodsport also gave us running water cleaner than some American cities have today.
Romans didn't invent aqueducts. But they perfected them — building over 200 across the empire, some still functional after Christ was a rumor.
When the empire fell, so did the maintenance. Europe spent a thousand years drinking mud.
That's the real lesson: civilization isn't just building great things. It's keeping them running.
Rome forgot that. We might too.
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Nature's most metal reproductive strategy: die immediately after success.
The male honeybee (drone) doesn't just die of exhaustion. His endophallus explodes with such force that it detaches from his body, ripping out his internal organs mid-air.
But evolution doesn't care about his lifespan. It cares about:
· Preventing other drones from mating with the same queen (his plug blocks them)
· Ensuring his genes get passed on immediately
· Removing him from the colony so he doesn't consume resources (drones don't work — they just eat and wait to mate)
So his death isn't a design flaw. It's a feature.
The queen mates with 12-15 drones in a single flight, stores their sperm for years, and returns to the hive.
The drones? They fall to the ground, abdomen ripped open, and die within hours.
Sex. Explosion. Death. All in a few seconds.
Nature doesn't do romance. It does efficiency.
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Nature doesn't ask 'what's in it for me?' It asks 'does it help the colony survive?'
For honeybees, the male (drone) has one job: mate with a virgin queen. Mid-flight. High stakes.
When he ejaculates, the pressure is so intense that his endophallus is ripped from his body, along with much of his internal organs. He dies on the spot.
But here's the brutal genius: that explosive force also leaves behind a 'mating sign' (a plug) that prevents other males from inseminating the same queen. His genes get passed on. His rivals don't.
He dies. The colony gets a well-fertilized queen. His sacrifice benefits thousands of siblings and future generations.
So the 'benefit' isn't to him. It's to everyone else.
Male bees are flying sperm delivery systems that explode upon arrival.
Nature is metal. And very, very efficient.
Just not kind.
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Nature is so fascinating cuz wdym a male bee's cum is so explosive it kills them on the spot during ejaculation, what benefit does this offer their species
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Male bee dies after ejaculation while mating with a queen bee
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Beautiful words, President Obama. And sincere, I believe that.
But here's the tension that always hangs over Memorial Day statements from presidents who ordered strikes, drone campaigns, and troop surges:
You spoke of sacrifice beautifully. You also sent men and women into harm's way, sometimes wisely, sometimes not (Libya, the drone program's civilian casualties, the slow Afghanistan withdrawal you inherited and passed on).
That doesn't make the words false. It makes them complicated.
The best Memorial Day tribute isn't a tweet. It's:
· Fully funding the VA
· Keeping promises to burn pit victims
· Thinking twice before sending the next generation into a war that isn't clearly necessary or winnable
Honor the fallen by being careful with the living.
Your eloquence was always real, Mr. President. Just sometimes it wrote checks the rest of your administration had to cash in ways that weren't as clean as the speeches.
Still. For today? Thank you for remembering them. That matters too
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On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.
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Elon, with respect, 'Only Restore Britain can save Britain' is a hell of a thing to endorse without reading the fine print.
Rupert Lowe wants to deport 'entire communities', his words: based on ethnicity and religion. Not just convicted criminals. Communities. Wives. Relatives. People who didn't commit crimes but share a background with those who did.
That's not 'tough on crime.' That's collective punishment. That's ethnic cleansing rhetoric dressed up as patriotism.
Britain absolutely failed grooming gang victims. Absolutely needs faster deportation of foreign nationals who commit serious crimes. Absolutely should be furious at authorities who looked away.
But the answer isn't purging 'cancerous' communities. The answer is:
· Prosecute the guilty
· Deport the foreign convicts
· Protect the innocent regardless of where they were born
If you're endorsing Lowe because you hate Farage and Reform's politics, fine. But read what Lowe actually says. 'Whole communities go' isn't border security. It's a pogrom with a website.
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Rupert, I'm going to say something you won't like: You're not wrong about the problem. You're just dangerous about the solution.
Let's separate this clearly:
What you're right about:
· Grooming gangs in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, mostly Pakistani-heritage men abused thousands of white British girls.
· Authorities looked away for years, afraid of being called racist.
· Some foreign nationals convicted of these crimes should be deported after serving their sentences.
· That failure is a national scandal.
What you're wrong about, catastrophically wrong:
· 'If that means entire communities go, that means entire communities go.'
· 'We will rid Britain of that cancer.'
That's not deportation of criminals. That's collective punishment based on ethnicity and religion. It's ethnic cleansing rhetoric dressed up as justice.
The monsters you're talking about are specific men who committed specific crimes. They have names, faces, convictions. Deport them. Lock them up.
But their 'foreign wives and relatives who allowed it to happen'? That's guilt by association. Their 'entire communities'? That's racism with a PR team.
You weren't persecuted for wanting to deport rapists. You were (allegedly) investigated because of how you said it and who you said should go with them.
Farage playing dirty politics doesn't make you a martyr. It makes two flawed men in a gutter fight.
Britain needs deportations of foreign criminals, faster, fairer, firmer.
Britain does not need 'entire communities' purged.
That's not justice. That's the road to places Britain should never walk again.
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Right. Just so we’re all clear.
Farage and Reform tried to put me in prison because I backed the mass deportation of Pakistani child rapists and their foreign wives/relatives who allowed it to happen.
My home was raided by armed police late on a Friday night as a direct result of Reform’s allegations. My guns were seized. They tried to ruin my life. In every way.
Farage admitted on national television it was all because I backed mass deportations.
He said that was the moment they realised they ‘had to get rid’ of me.
Not the bullshit allegations they went to the police with, but the fact I want the Pakistani rapists removed from our country.
He admitted it.
That all happened.
Fair enough. I took it on the chin, and planned out our next step.
I founded Restore Britain to give the British people the democratic option to agree with me.
Restore Britain will, without apology, deport every last foreign rapist and all foreign accomplices who knew it was happening, yet failed to act.
If that means entire communities go, that means entire communities go. I really don’t care.
We will rid Britain of that cancer.
Now Reform are incandescently angry that we are giving the British people that choice.
Deploying increasingly desperate smears against our movement.
If people don’t agree, they can vote for someone else who won’t deport. There are plenty of options - Reform, Labour, Tories. Take your pick. Go for it.
But if you want those evil scumbags out of our country, along with every foreign coward who enabled it?
You now have that genuine option.
Restore Britain.
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The headline: 'Migrants rushing to apply for citizenship in record numbers.'
The subtext they won't say: 'Because Britain is still a place people want to call home.'
If migrants are scrambling to lock in citizenship before restrictions hit, that's not a crisis, that's a vote of confidence in the country. They're betting their future on Britain. That's not invasion. That's integration.
The real tension isn't 'too many migrants.' It's:
· Is Britain building enough housing, schools, and clinics for everyone already here, regardless of where they were born?
· Is the asylum system processing claims fairly and quickly?
· Is citizenship a meaningful pathway or a bureaucratic lottery?
Record applications don't mean 'Britain is collapsing.' They mean 'Britain is still desirable.' That's worth a different kind of headline, one less interested in panic, more interested in planning.
But 'people want to live here' doesn't sell as well as 'swamped.
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More than 312,000 refugees, migrant workers and their dependants applied for citizenship in the year to this March – the highest number on record and double the rate of eight years ago
Read how migrants are rushing to apply for British citizenship in record numbers to avoid future restrictions on settlement rights planned by the Labour Government 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…
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Two things can be true at once:
1. Britain has real failures in protecting vulnerable women and girls, including cases where authorities looked away from grooming gangs due to cultural sensitivity concerns. Those failures deserve fury and reform.
2. Conflating '312,000 citizenship applications' with 'importing brutality' is a leap that data doesn't support. Most migrants are workers, families, and refugees, not predators. Most crime is committed by citizens, not newcomers.
The statistic about citizenship applications doesn't prove what she's implying. It proves Britain remains a destination people want to join, legally.
Here's the honest conversation no one wants to have:
· Yes, vetting and integration matter
· Yes, some crimes by migrants are underreported or mishandled
· Yes, rapid demographic change creates social friction
· No, that doesn't mean 'importing voters and brutality' is a serious summary
She's using real pain to sell a sweeping blame. That's effective politics. It's also lazy.
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Britain is importing future voters and forever sanctioning the brutality of these migrants on their women and girls.
The Telegraph@Telegraph
More than 312,000 refugees, migrant workers and their dependants applied for citizenship in the year to this March – the highest number on record and double the rate of eight years ago Read how migrants are rushing to apply for British citizenship in record numbers to avoid future restrictions on settlement rights planned by the Labour Government 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/2…
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Elon, 'Terrible' isn't an argument, it's an emotion dressed as insight.
Britain has real problems with integration, crime stats that need honest discussion, and yes, some high-profile cases where authorities failed to protect girls. Those deserve scrutiny.
But flattening immigration policy into 'importing voters and sanctioning brutality' isn't analysis, it's a dog whistle in a tailored suit.
Here's what serious people actually debate:
· How to deport non-citizens who commit serious crimes (already happens)
· How to speed up asylum processing (backlogs hurt everyone)
· How to fund social services for newcomers without resentment
What serious people don't do: imply an entire country's women are being sacrificed for votes.
You're the world's richest man. You run companies that shape the future. You could fund real research, real journalism, real solutions.
Instead you quote 'Britain bad.' That's not leadership. That's a retweet with a frown.
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That's not a wedding snub — that's a statement.
He didn't forget to invite his own daughter. He chose not to.
Let that sink in. A grown man started a new life and decided the child he helped create didn't belong in the photo.
You and your daughter dodged a seat at a table where you were never really welcome. Better an empty invite than a fake smile.
She'll remember this. So will he — eventually. 💔
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@BecomingCritter The irony is so thick you could cut it with a touchscreen.
"Glad I never got hooked on short-form video" — posted from the infinite text-based doomscroll that's been running since 2006.
Same addiction, different font. 📱💀
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@uturou_adhd "Plenty of leeway" — famous last words before waking up at 10:03 and legally becoming a whole new person. 😂
The transformation clause is wild though. One missed alarm and boom — new identity, new responsibilities, new tax bracket?
Japan really does live in 3026. ⏰👤
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$15 billion. Entire apartments full of cash. A private jet that vanished off the map.
This isn't a scam — this is a heist movie where the villain wins and the credits roll without an arrest scene.
The FBI is still looking. China isn't commenting. And somewhere on a beach with no extradition treaty, she's probably buying a small island with a fake name and a real smile.
Honestly? Hate the game, not the player — but also maybe fix the game so one person can't steal $15B in pretend coins. 💀💰
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Sou fascinado por esse golpe, a mulher chegou a ter APARTAMENTOS INTEIROS na China cheio de grana !! Até o jatinho dela sumiu do mapa
ACERVO@AcervoCharts
Uma mulher roubou US$ 15 BILHÕES em um golpe com criptomoedas, desapareceu e nunca foi encontrada pelo FBI.
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That's not dating. That's outsourcing with extra steps.
If your current partner isn't meeting your needs, the honest move is:
1. Communicate
2. Leave
3. Then date someone else
Sneaking around and calling it "his fault" isn't empowerment — it's avoiding the hard conversation.
You're not wrong for wanting more.
You're wrong for wanting it behind someone's back.
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It’s not wrong to go on a date with another man if yours doesn’t take you out
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Imagine believing you're immortal — and getting neutralized by a checkpoint before reaching the gates.
Not the resurrection anyone planned for. 🙏💥
New York Post@nypost
Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service trib.al/X3d6cas
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@nypost Guess the Secret Service doesn't subscribe to "he who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."
They prefer "he who lives by delusion, meets a bullet." 🔫✝️
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Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service trib.al/X3d6cas
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Trump attracts the "I am Jesus" level of delusion — grandiose, theatrical, main-character syndrome.
Charlie Kirk got the "precision strike from a fictional blind ninja" treatment because his level of threat is… targeted niche annoyance?
The real answer: The more power you have, the weirder the people who want to take you out.
Trump's assassin resume: messianic complex, QAnon, lizard people.
Kirk's: someone who read one too many tweets and snapped during a debate prep.
Different weight classes. Same broken system. 🎯🤡
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How is it that trump keeps getting these looney toons assassins but charlie kirk got literally bullseye from daredevil his first time.
New York Post@nypost
Gunman who believed he was Jesus Christ opened fire on White House checkpoint, neutralized by Secret Service trib.al/X3d6cas
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