Tweet of the night:

[applegrove]

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[Wounded Bear]

1. RW logic reductio ad absurdum...

[gratuitous]

8. Except that today's absurdum

Too often becomes tomorrow's "responsible opposing viewpoint" in the never-ending quest for "both sides."

[rickyhall]

2. Damn right

And light switches. Why does ON have to be up and OFF has to be down?

[canetoad]

10. Get OUTTA here

Up is OFF and down is ON here in Australia.

[Demovictory9]

3. k&r

[NullTuples]

4. Ironic is all I can say

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And his attempt to backpedal after catching well-deserved flack for the "London" remark:

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It's all very privileged-and-confused sort of like when Richard Dawkins says something sexist and then pretends to not know what the fuss was all about.

[applegrove]

6. So should we jettison the thread because an older comedian is not woke always?

[mopinko]

7. sounds very british.

if they'd stayed home, they wouldnt have that 'problem'.

i dunno, tho, the antiquity of slavery is a thing. and the many forms of slavery is also a thing. and the part where it exists still.
but that doesnt mean that the enslavement of africans wasnt the worst of the worst. and worthy of particularly harsh condemnation and repercussions, even today.

it's not simple, and it's not even over.

[applegrove]

9. I read Mitchner's Caribbean. The british were monsters back in the day. So uncivilized.

Awful. All that caribbeaners were asking for after independance was that the West buy cane sugar to fund the local economies instead of getting sugar from sugar beets. We could not even do that in the West.

[mopinko]

12. ok, well, i'm irish. so my opinion of the brits is not good.

but ya know, you should see the stamp of the brits all over india.
it's still there.

[canetoad]

11. The Romans most certainly

Did NOT enslave the British.

Yes, Boudicca and the Iceni waged furious war with the Romans, but the occupation was largely peaceful and welcomed by late Iron age Brits.

The Romans worked on a theory of 'Romanising' the Brit populace; by introducing their civic systems, engineering, trade achitecture etc. Most Brits saw the benefits of embracing the Roman culture.

[mopinko]

5. not wrong, but

i've been to india, and they do surprisingly well w/o them.
they also manage to have cars, trucks, tuk tuks, motorcycles w whole families on them, camels and oxen share the road.
if you dont know what a tuk tuk is, you should google it. it's a crazy thing. sort of a taxi/golf cart.
we saw one carrying 17 ppl, including the driver.
now google it.

they dont do it well. lots of ppl do get hurt and die. but we put a lot of miles on there, and never saw a near miss. or much of a traffic jam, rly.
nothing like driving the kennedy expressway. or lakeshore drive, ffs.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I love that man. He has such a wonderful way of

seeing our reality.