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1. Baldur Bjarnason (baldur@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 20:43:33 EST Baldur Bjarnason

   This thread on Twitter is another reminder that every chapter in the history of the British empire is filled with villainy and murder https://twitter.com/ireland/status/954792642327523329

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 22:35:17 EST clacke

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      @baldur Wow, I never knew about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War . That is so messed up in so many ways.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 23:32:42 EST clacke

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         Oh! So twitter.com/ireland is Random Irish Person of the Week, in the same vein as twitter.com/sweden .
   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 23:41:36 EST clacke

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      @baldur
      
      > As a junior member of parliament, Churchill had cheered on Britain's plan for more conquests, insisting that its "Aryan stock is bound to triumph." It's strange to celebrate his bravado in the face of Hitler's war machine and not consider his wider thinking on other parts of the world.
      
      https://social.heldscal.la/url/1241805
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 23:47:19 EST clacke

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         > Urgently beseeched by Amery and the Indian viceroy to release food stocks for India, Churchill responded with a telegram asking why Gandhi hadn’t died yet.
         
         https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/exit-wounds
         1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2018 23:53:48 EST clacke

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            > Churchill's neck reddened and he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the British Dominions. The trade that has made England great shall continue, and under conditions prescribed by England's ministers.'
            
            > 'You see,' said Father slowly, 'it is along in here somewhere that there is likely to be some disagreement between you, Winston, and me.
            
            > 'I am firmly of the belief that if we are to arrive at a stable peace it must involve the development of backward countries. Backward peoples. How can this be done? It can't be done, obviously, by eighteenth-century methods. Now--'
            
            > 'Who's talking eighteenth-century methods?'
            
            > 'Whichever of your ministers recommends a policy which takes wealth in raw materials out of a colonial country, but which returns nothing to the people of that country in consideration. Twentieth-century methods involve bringing industry to these colonies. Twentieth-century methods include increasing the wealth of a people by increasing their standard of living, by educating them, by bringing them sanitation--by making sure that they get a return for the raw wealth of their community.'
            
            > Around the room, all of us were leaning forward attentively. Hopkins was grinning. Commander Thompson, Churchill's aide, was looking glum and alarmed. The P.M. himself was beginning to look apoplectic.
            
            http://east_west_dialogue.tripod.com/american_system/id10.html