
Alex King
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Alex King
@kinga812
Field Service Engineer. Constitutional Conservative. Proud American.
Katılım Nisan 2009
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@Theo7835 @ebede_emmanuel Yep, my 20 year old nephew insisted. Maybe I’m just not impressed with what Gen Z thinks is deep or mature.
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@AnthonyCumia Ok Ant. This is just people who can’t see second order consequences. Trump is doing things that hurt in the short term, but need to be done for long term adjustments. Not needing to win any more elections has freed him up to do the hard things.
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It sure isn’t 2016 anymore. Trump just doesn’t have the hardcore support he had even a couple of years ago. I’ll NEVER say Kamala should have been President but Trump has alienated a shitload of supporters.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸 CHILLING! Trump and Dana White just made their entrance at UFC 327 in Miami, and the entire arena EXPLODED!
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@ChoochSkookum It felt like a last gasp of an old goal using old tech. When Elon uses his new rockets to go to the moon and then land without a splashdown, people will be more interested.
Also, we are all over saturated.
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It’s exhausting to hear more stories about stone aged primitives who had some sacred knowledge that modern people don’t. Our ancestors had just as much of that “knowledge”, but they left that childish stuff behind as they learned and grew past it.
Glorifying people who never progressed out of it is just anti progress propaganda.
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@kinga812 @ProudofusUK We don't even know what the druids really were, they left no written history or philosophy, they didn't believe in writing down their secret knowledge. Anything said about them is a guess at best.
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Before England. Before Britain. Before the Romans. 🌿
There was a class of people in this island who held everything in their heads.
The Romans called them Druids. 🌳
They were the doctors. The lawyers. The judges. The astronomers. The philosophers. The poets.
All in one. In one lifetime.
They could walk between two armies about to fight and stop the battle. With a raised hand. ✋
Caesar recorded this. Strabo recorded this. Diodorus Siculus recorded this.
Three independent sources.
Caesar himself wrote that Britain was the origin of Druidism 🇬🇧
Training took up to twenty years. Medicine. Law. Astronomy. Philosophy. History. The size of the cosmos. ⭐
All of it memorised. Not one word written down.
On the sixth day of the moon a Druid in white climbed an oak tree with a golden sickle and cut the mistletoe. Others caught it in white cloth below. It must never touch the ground.
They called it the all-healing. 🌿
They believed the soul was immortal.
After death it passed from one body to the next.
The fear of death was cast aside. 💀
Once a year they marked the barrier between the living and the dead.
October the thirty-first. 🎃
Every fire across Britain was extinguished. The Arch-Druid climbed a sacred hill in gold robes and lit a single new fire.
They burned the bones of animals in it.
The bone-fire. 🔥
We call it a bonfire now.
People dressed as monsters to hide from the spirits of the dead.
We call it Halloween.
The Druids invented Halloween. 👻
In 60AD Rome came for them. Flat-bottomed boats crossed the Menai Strait. The cavalry swam alongside their horses.
On the opposite shore women in black robes brandished torches. Druids with their hands raised to heaven. Screaming curses.
Tacitus wrote that the Roman soldiers, hardened legionaries, were frozen with terror. 😨
They stood motionless. Shields not raised. Exposed to wounds.
Their commanders had to shout at them to remember they were soldiers.
They crossed. They massacred. They cut down the sacred groves.
And Britain went silent. 🌑
No buildings. No inscriptions. No graves. Their temples were forest clearings.
Everything we know about them comes from the people who destroyed them.
And yet. 🌳
Halloween. The word bonfire. The oak groves they called sacred still stand.
Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
Your support goes straight into educating fellow Britons on the history they were never taught.
Be part of us: proudofus.co.uk/support
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@JackPosobiec So true. While my coworkers and family were swooning in panic, I could only chuckle as they spazzed out.
Scott prepared us for this, but I wish he could have seen it.
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@elia_mafhh Chip and cereal bags deliberately don’t come with ziplock bags. If it goes stale you will buy a fresh one.
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Being a leader requires hard choices based on reality. This will hurt people’s feelings and cost people their jobs. Experts are easily manipulated due to an inflated sense of their own abilities to discern what reality is.
Jobs was right. This is why he was so successful. Feelings are for children.
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Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs (2015) didn’t look exactly like Jobs, but he delivered one of the greatest performances of his career, capturing every ounce of his intensity and complexity.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Who are some of the biggest “they’ll be terrible in that role” casting doubts that ended with absolutely iconic performances?
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@LeahLibresco Something way cooler than a minivan is coming
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The moment the blast doors slide open in The Phantom Menace (1999) and Darth Maul steps forward, ignites that double-bladed lightsaber, and “Duel of the Fates” hits.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s the most epic movie moment you’ve ever experienced in a theater?
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@TheCinesthetic There were never any real risk of them dying. Movies are shallow now and all the writers are cowards.
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The ending of Avengers: Infinity War (2018) lands like a punch. The snap happens, heroes start turning to dust, and the theater goes completely silent. One of the rare times a blockbuster lets the villain win and actually sit with it.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Name a movie or TV show that had a 10/10 ending
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