Snowpiercer!

«Silver, savagery, and slavery bought the West “a third-class seat on the Asian economic train,” as Frank put it, but still more needed to happen before the West could “displace Asians from the locomotive.”»

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris.

Ouch:

«The British poet and politician Hilaire Belloc summed it up nicely in 1898:

Whatever happens we have got
The Maxim Gun, and they have not.»

Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future by Ian Morris.

https://twitter.com/Palvasha_K/status/1373714643991068678?s=20

This is ridiculous. I once had a Muslim person tell me that the only difference between halal and kosher meat is in whose name the throat is cut.

Thread:

Palvasha Khan 🦑♡ (@Palvasha_K) Tweeted: If y’all haven’t heard by now, France is banning halal chicken. So let’s talk about it

Yiiikes….

Here, in this carload

I, Eve,

With my son Abel.
If you see my older boy,

Cain, the son of man,

Tell him that I

Dan Pagis

https://twitter.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1373623036566470659?s=20

http://www.davidsonian.com/sigma-chapter-of-the-kappa-alpha-order-votes-to-disband/

Well, well, well.

https://twitter.com/JasonOverstreet/status/1373014263799844870?s=20

Seems pretty simple.

Jason Overstreet 🩸🦷🗽 (@JasonOverstreet) Tweeted: Anyone wanting to know about the filibuster should watch this masterpiece by @ewarren. You will be glad you watched. https://t.co/sqGXeqvo6P

https://twitter.com/adamdavidson/status/1373627684585152513?s=20

That (below) wasn’t quite the question asked, but… yeah. What the heck, fellow white people?

Adam Davidson (@adamdavidson) Tweeted: Just astonishing. Republicans think the single-most discriminated against group is….white people.

https://twitter.com/NotNikyatu/status/1373457200937586689?s=20

Internal sigh. I wish this wasn’t so difficult, but I guess we humans have to make it so. (Tweet + chorus of replies.)

Octavia Butler knew… (@NotNikyatu) Tweeted: I’m sorry but I never want to be checked on by my white associates during peak, traumatic anti Blackness.

23,000 replies in this 2-yr-old thread I’m not going to read, but this got a belly laugh.

Btw, the fact that this thread is two years old and closed is KILLING me, because I can’t reply. :-\