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Many of the world's problems could be lessened if we saw things in more nuanced tones, rather than in black and white. Not everything's a binary opposition.
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David Farmbrough
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David Farmbrough
@farmbrough
Doctor Who, arts, music, politics. Husband, (step)father, political independent. Positivity lives here, but so does a sense of humour.
Wisconsin Rapids Katılım Şubat 2009
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@xsteve @TheBritLad I don't think he was or is. It's a widespread misconception about the slave trade.
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@farmbrough @TheBritLad When did he turn anti-British? Or was he always?
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Lenny Henry wants Britain to cough up £18 trillion in reparations because
'all black British people personally deserve money for the effects of slavery.'
Funny how he skips the part where Britain was the first major power to ban the slave trade in 1807, then sent the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron to patrol the coast for decades. They seized 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans .. at the cost of British sailors' lives and huge expense.
Britain didn't just stop its own involvement; it actively fought to end the trade globally.
Meanwhile, in Africa today (per the Global Slavery Index), countries like Eritrea, Mauritania, South Sudan, Nigeria and others still have some of the world's highest rates of modern slavery .. forced labour, child soldiers, hereditary servitude, trafficking. Millions trapped right now.
And Lenny's own roots? Jamaica (his parents' homeland). It still has notable modern slavery issues too, including forced labour and exploitation.
So... demanding trillions from British taxpayers (including black Brits) for 200-year-old history, while African and Caribbean nations haven't fully confronted slavery's continuation on their own soil? That's not justice. That's selective outrage and hypocrisy.
Focus on ending slavery today everywhere .. not guilt-tripping one country that helped stop it yesterday.
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@xsteve @TheBritLad Perhaps he'll give back the money he earned as a comedian?
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@xsteve @TheBritLad He was. And he's a clever man. But like a lot of showbiz people, insulated from the realities of life and not an expert on politics.
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@TheBritLad Dreadful... I used to think he was funny.
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@JohnCleese * apart from their ancestors having captured and sold *his* ancestors.
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@JohnCleese And he probably forgets that a lot of Black British people came from African countries in the past fifty years and have had no relationship with slavery*
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@DrewKann Yes, we know. It's because the TSA agents aren't being paid. What did you expect?
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I completed the March challenge faster than 89.3% of all learners on Duolingo!
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@HorrorGorl Heaven forbid anyone should support the politician you don't like.
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Boomers literally destroy everything
Breaking911@Breaking911
American citizen at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: "I like it. I think Trump's doing a hell of a job."
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"What makes me a fan? My unquestioning love for every part of the series, my loyalty to the show's creators, and the camaraderie I share with my fellow enthusiasts".
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@IsabelM31530319 @hwinkler4real @lottmijv Oh rubbish, it's perfectly safe for people who aren't reckless and who follow the law. Take your scaremongering elsewhere.
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does this woman look DANGEROUS to anybody
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻@LongTimeHistory
Additional raw footage from new angle. 👇 This woman is U.S. citizen traveling with her young daughter—according to witness who filmed video. She could not prove her citizenship to satisfaction of the agents—and was violently taken into ICE custody. San Francisco Airport
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@hwinkler4real Officers arrested Angelina Lopez-Jimenez and Wendy Godinez-Lopez at San Francisco
Airport. These illegal aliens had a final order of removal from an immigration judge in 2019.
While being escorted to the international terminal for processing, Lopez-Jimenez attempted to flee
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@Nisa_719 @SenFettermanPA You're really making fun of a person's disability?
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As a father, I grieve for Sheridan’s parents for this unspeakable tragedy.
This was a failure of not holding criminal migrants accountable and not protecting the public—and another tragic reason why I was the Dem lead on the Laken Riley law.
New York Post@nypost
Illegal migrant who entered under Biden charged with murdering Loyola student Sheridan Gorman trib.al/AqcLOPD
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R3Store Studios in London have delivered the two restored episodes of ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ to BBC Archives. The content is now being prepared for release on BBC iPlayer this Easter. The full details will be published shortly.
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@NameIsStolen @JohnBarrowman Well for those who do, it's poetic justice. But who really votes for people they think will "fuck people over"? Surely people vote for positives, not negatives?
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@farmbrough @JohnBarrowman They are - constantly. Over & over again, into their own or other cameras or written in statements posted online by themselves, almost every time, one of them gets to taste their own inhumane medicine. 🤷🏻♀️
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@jurgen_nauditt @Nevfountain Radical left isn't 50%.
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Trump declares almost 50% of Americans to be public enemy number one – right after Iran.
This is no longer politics; this is open civil war from the mouth of a president. Anyone who brands half of their own people – millions of ordinary Americans who simply vote differently – as the "greatest enemy" hasn't understood America; Trump hates it.
This rhetoric isn't "tough," it's treacherous. It destroys precisely what makes America strong: the idea that Americans, despite all their differences, are one nation.
Trump has just proven that he doesn't want to be president of all Americans – but merely the leader of a faction that considers the rest the enemy.
Insane. And extremely dangerous.
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Germany has a shortage of workers - so it's turning to India for help bbc.in/4uJSNqn
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@MikeLevin @ProfMSinha No, it's Republicans AND Democrats together.
You always try to blame each other with this nonsense, but the public have had enough.
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We have tried NINE TIMES to pass a clean bill to pay TSA workers.
Nine times, Republicans blocked it.
The airport chaos you’re seeing this spring break is a choice. Republicans are making it.
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The Guardian never gets any better. If this is how bad they are about something that doesn't matter (pop music), but is easy to get right, just imagine how inaccurate their politics articles are. And it's "Teach Your Children".
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@ClownWorld Maybe, but let him live his life. He isn't hurting anyone by this.
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@donwinslow @JohnBarrowman In fairness, the 'children in cages' was started by Obama, you can't blame Biden for just continuing the policy.
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George Clooney wrote an OP Ed taking down Joe Biden.
Have you seen any Op Ed's from him about
Children in cages
Americans being gunned down on the streets
Iran
US economy destroyed
Monetizing the White House
And every other horror.
Nope.
Nothing.
But he went after Joe Biden.
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