Rational Alien
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Rational Alien
@RationalAlien
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. - Thomas Sowell
Katılım Nisan 2016
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Get a load of these absolute tossers… like a chimp’s tea party.
Short of chucking their own dung at each other, these two men, yet again, demonstrate how obnoxiously ignorant they remain about the entire issue.
Bore off. Seriously.
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Imagine how much faster we’d gain knowledge, and therefore development, if human beings weren’t so averse to realizing or accepting when we’re wrong. We will actively & willfully blind ourselves to solutions rather than acknowledging we made a mistake along the way.
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@GSpellchecker Yeah, but Starmer will be round there any minute with tea sympathy and £10M for additional security right?
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Manhunt after attempted arson attack on synagogue.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Why I despise Olivia Bailey MP, by @bindelj open.substack.com/pub/juliebinde…
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@SoveyX @ninapaley When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Thomas Sowell
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One of the worst things we’ve done to children is turning “be kind” into “never say anything true if it makes someone uncomfortable.”
Kindness used to mean compassion.
Now it means lying for temporary comfort.
Bring back the truth, especially when it is inconvenient.
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In 1998, Abu Hamza sent a group of terrorists (including his son) to blow up the British consulate in Yemen.
They were caught. During their trial, others amongst Hamza’s thugs kidnapped foreigners in an attempt to bargain for their release.
Hamza was eventually convicted in the USA of, inter alia, ordering that kidnapping - during which four of the hostages (including three Brits) were killed.
Separately, amongst the gang convicted of the attempt to blow up the consulate alongside Hamza’s son was Shahid Butt.
Shahid Butt is now a candidate for council in Birmingham Sparkhill in May’s local elections.
This is where our suicidal empathy brings us. Someone convicted of explicitly targeting this country’s diplomatic mission for destruction is a political candidate in… this country, today.
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What is your all-time favorite progressive rock/metal act?
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@recusant_raja I'm sure I speak for many when I say, you keep fighting, we'll keep contributing.
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UPDATE: 24 Hours.
In just over 24 hours you have done something they did not expect.
They are watching this. They know what it means.
I have been forced to this position. A sitting MP used the authority of official reports to tell the world I covered up child abuse. That allegation cannot go unanswered. Not because of what it does to me. Because of what it does to every person still fighting to hold the rape gang cover-up to account.
If I cannot clear my name in court, the message is sent. Accuse the campaigner. Cite official reports that say nothing of the kind. Walk away clean.
That is what we are stopping.
I am genuinely overwhelmed by what you have done in 24 hours. Thank you. Every person who donated, who shared, who sent a message, you made this possible.
If you have not yet donated, please do. Help us reach this initial target today.
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/raja-miah-mb…
Raja Miah MBE
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@RightNUFC Muslims are people who deserve dignity and respect. Islam is an ideology that requires scrutiny. There are many things about the ideology that I disagree with.
Interestingly @tinscognito has blocked me.
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@tinscognito__ @RationalAlien I respect all faith’s, I remember that conversation I had with that taxi driver, it was enlightening and educational.
The problem is radicals within the faith, he said that himself. I truly enjoyed that conversation with him and it has stuck with me.
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The dimmest person in Britain sued the Police and won last year 😉
Y@tinscognito__
Possibly the dimmest person in Britain?
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@James_Treadwell The rhetoric on prison seems to constantly oscillate between punishment on the right and rehabilitation on the left, when actually THE most important aspect is separating perpetrators from access to their potential victims.
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Great thread, and I agree. Especially about the likely continued offending in jail. It is something the social justice progressives will ignore, but it will happen.
Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️@NotThatBigIan
Quite apart from the absurdly low tariff for a crime of this gravity, these monstrous offenders illustrate the limits of the industry of 'therapeutic' interventions that built careers for people within @MoJGovUK before it came crashing down via data. 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@RoryStewartUK @JohnCleese When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others.
It's the same thing when you are stupid.
Richard Feynman
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.@JohnCleese - What would Christian “culture” look like if you represented it with 1 Sam 15:3 Josh 6:21 Deut 7:1 Deut 20:16–18 Ex 17 - Deut 25 Psalm 137:9 etc? How about actually meeting some Muslims and listening to them instead of demonising a religion you know very little about with selective quotations…
John Cleese@JohnCleese
This is complete nonsense To criticise a culture whose holy book advocates the killing of all the people they disagree with...is not racist It's culturalist And this criticism seems wholly justifiable to me Oh ! There's the door bell. Must be the police...
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@mrsSkys @Glinner Who could have guessed that @GoodLawProject would misrepresent the situation and then ask for more donations?
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Despite using the word harass six times, this piece leaves out the very salient information that the BSB decided there was no harassment. So it didn’t “fail to act on barrister harassment” it simply wasn’t persuaded by the GLP’s KC prepared evidence that there was any.
Good Law Project@GoodLawProject
Barrister Sarah Phillimore repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered a trans woman online. Her regulator has rejected our complaint – but we won’t be giving up: goodlawproject.org/bar-standards-…
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After years of people on here telling me I'm too fat now, thanks to Ozempic, I am accused of being too thin. 🤪Actually, I'm just below maximum healthy weight for my height according to BMI charts. Pleasantly chubby but healthy. Photo evidence courtesy of @SeminaraMichele.
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@hecheateddotorg @Glinner Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities.
Voltaire
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Michael "Lauren" Jeska Jeska terrorized the women's fell running scene in the UK for years, taking 3 consecutive English Fell running championship titles along with a Welsh (WFRA) title.
When officials questioned Jeska's eligibility, declaring his results void as he failed to comply with the rules, he took two knives to the UK Athletics office and proceeded to stab Ralph Knibbs, head of human resources, in the head and neck in an attack eyewitnesses describe "as though [he] were trying to skewer meat."
He also injured the two men who tried to intervene. Knibbs suffered a stroke in the attack and was subsequently disabled.
Jeska continues to serve his sentence for attempted murder. He still holds women's parkrun records and is being held in a women's prison.
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🧵Happy "Trans" day of visibility!
I believe "trans" visibility is very important, as when many people hear the word "transwoman," they don't actually understand that what is being talked about is a man, often fetishistic and violent.
Here is a thread of some "trans" athletes I think deserve as much visibility as we can give them.
Starting with Cameron Maudlin aka "Hannah Viramontes"
Maudlin formerly played on the Rocky Mountain Thunderkatz, a women's tackle football team in the WFA.
Maudlin currently faces charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, and false imprisonment after he punched his female roommate in the face, threatened her with a gun, handcuffed her, and then proceeded to sexually and physically assault her over a number of days.
Maudlin told the woman he intended to keep her as a "sex slave," strangled her, and beat her with a towel rack.
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@hightreebud @LucyHunterB @markthehibby @MairiMcAllan It's now very common to hear people say. "I'm rather offended by that" - as if it gives them certain rights.
It's no more than a whine "I find that offensive." It has no meaning, it has no purpose, it has no reason to be respected as a phrase.
Stephen Fry
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@markthehibby What's this right someone has to be protected against certain things they find offensive @MairiMcAllan?
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The most powerful, influential, and often dangerous criminals are not the ones operating on street corners, but those in high-ranking, legitimate-looking positions who hide behind a veneer of wealth, respectability, and tailored clothing.
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