Love the sarcasm.

Not really related, but meanwhile, in Australia...

The Deadspin website, which, alas, does not allow commentary, has a direct link to the independent, non-proft Mississippi Today. Seems to be a good outfit. And wow, it took all this to finally get the appropriate outrage directed at it. 

How awful. Poor woman.

Useful information - the wikipedia article on the Nigerian Civil War. It’s a Kinja “link”, so copy paste is needed.

The weapons they sold they also deliberately had made shoddy and of poor quality, too. So the empire they traded with would never be a threat.

Scary.

I’m of the “better the devil you know”, or “lesser of two evils” school of thought regarding the British Monarchy. It’s largely tamed, heavily scrutinised, and by complete accident helps separate the symbolic from the executive functions of the head of state. There seems to be a psychological need for a symbolic…

Eh, fair enough. Acting as the largely symbolic head of an empire that did a lot of harm to those under its rule, it’s only fair she attracts criticism.

Largely because of the colonising European Empires either ignoring, or deliberately breaking up, already existing political groupings when they divvied up Africa between themselves , then deliberately exacerbating existing divisions to prevent the people under their rule uniting to drive them out. 

Probably something boringly normal, like being adopted by a member of the family. Maybe even King Charles, May His Royal Ears be Forever Droopy and His Royal Fur Silky.

They do enjoy inflicting suffering on others.

I would argue that remaining on Twitter in spite of the onslaught of abuse is a form of standing up to power. And being online is essential for organising these days. The Womens March Twitter is linked to womensmarch.com, a website dedicated to real world action. So yes, the Stonewall Riots and the Edmund Pettus…

You are missing the point, in your effort to paint participating on Twitter (and by implication online in general) as something optional and without consequences if it is not participated in. It is not. Being online is essential today in order to be heard. Whether privately owned or not, Twitter is an important public…