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of course ‘football’ would have been more appropriate.

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dont think i have ever seen them coloured

I can tell at a glance thats a stock photo from a english source, largely because you dont really get Frys chocolate cremes outside the UK and not reliably in all parts of the UK, also Crunchies.

that Ben and jerrys have published a statement on george floyds death that is more passionate and damning of the current status quo than most democratic politicians is certainly a point in their favour, its also a big mar against those deomcrats in office who havent managed to match its fury.

greatest pirates perhaps, but not the greatest extortioners, that would fall to the spanish, who extorted literally tons of gold from south america with slave labour.

you cant use police to bust up police union meetings, the price for using the police that way was they unionised themselves to gain power

I was reading a article on BBC news earlier which was looking at the figures for deaths in custody in britain over the last few years and how they broke down racially.

he’s fairly fucking bad, but comparing him to trump is like comparing a head cold to coronavirus.

the british troops that opened fire in boston that day were a single squad of 9 that fired between them a grand total of 9 rounds - one single volley- after spending 45+ minutes being pelted and abused by a crowd, with the pelting starting at dung and rotten vegetables and moving up to paving stones, they fired their

the only legal claimant is Elizabeth windsor, her claim stemming from the treaty of troyes. although the family hasnt sought to enforce that claim in a fairly long time

Drop the ‘Boston massacre’ it was a single volley from a nine man squad that had just spent 45 minutes being abused and bombarded with vegetables, mud and eventually paving stones, they fired the single volley after one of them was knocked down by a paving stone to their head.

nah, you can only kick a people so many times before they kick back, my complaint about rioting is that it needs to be more tightly focussed, they have a right to their rage, and to their violence, but unfocussed rage is wasted energy and effort, and experience would seem to indicate it produces no change.

to be fair its hard for me to think of another author who i hold in greater contempt than james patterson.

and thats another issue with organised religion, for far too many its a job, and/or a outright grift.

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said in music some 50 years ago, you dont have to wind up god on sunday, either there is a god and by definition they are always with you, or there is no god, neither requires you to go to church and be lectured by a man very likely possessing no better understanding than you, especially not now in a time when it

yeah oddly those who most desire to excercise such power tend to be those least suited to do so.

there is at this moment in time zero evidence he commited any crime.

while its use is almost certainly predominantly racist, its likely a holdover from common/english law where the same power has been a thing for hundreds of years, with certain limitations - you have to witness the crime happening or near enough- and you must make every effort to hand them over to lawful authority as

thing is leaving aside the religious bias, Alfred was pretty much correct about the vikings, they werent known for sparing children, were big fans of raiding and looting and tried to extract tribute from the saxons, there is a reason why Alfred is ‘Alfred the Great’