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1 posted on 03/12/2022 8:43:28 PM PST by algore
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“Keeping Austin weird”


2 posted on 03/12/2022 8:45:39 PM PST by Pythion.net
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Not to mention the Irish were slave raiding into England up though the thirteen hundreds.

Saint Patrick was BRITISH

Something to wear on March 17th if you are feeling a bit contrary. :)

3 posted on 03/12/2022 8:48:00 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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It infuriates the Left when one of their own has to remind them of real history.


4 posted on 03/12/2022 8:48:09 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To the comfy chair with you !


5 posted on 03/12/2022 8:48:59 PM PST by windsorknot
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Nonwhotes and woketards will not ever consider white european peoples victims of anything, even though they certainly were. Muslims pirates raided coastal european towns and took whites back as slaves for hundreds of years.


6 posted on 03/12/2022 8:50:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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He should have told them the word slave comes from Turks enslaving the Slavs


7 posted on 03/12/2022 8:50:18 PM PST by struggle
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John Clese should not have had his mike taken away for making a somewhat wry (albeit true) remark, but he was perhaps gratified to know that at age 82, John can still say things that will shock, confuse and rattle people.
Every performer wants to be noticed. He’s the only one getting any press at all for this little chat session.


8 posted on 03/12/2022 8:52:44 PM PST by lee martell
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Cleese is quite intelligent, witty, well-read, highly educated, etc. and so he speaks with authority about subjects -- like world history -- that are largely if not entirely unknown to those around him, especially younger audiences.

"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it" is certainly true, but it's also true that "Those who do study history are doomed to be silenced by those who do not, but who have preconceived notions about it."

If the current narrative is that People-A enslaved People-B, then any talk of the fact that People-C enslaved People-A is considered horrifying.

Cleese has become something of a cranky old-man, but by God, he's earned it.

9 posted on 03/12/2022 8:52:48 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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What about reparations from the Scandinavians? And I suppose the Germans, who came there earlier, but there already was a population.


10 posted on 03/12/2022 8:53:27 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Awesome. Someone with some knowledge of history crushes idiot American Leftists educated in government schools, and of course they freak out about it.


11 posted on 03/12/2022 8:53:52 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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They invited John Cleese, they got John Cleese.


13 posted on 03/12/2022 8:55:23 PM PST by Widget Jr
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Lol. Good for him.

Just saw the Four Yorkshireman skit after a decade.

Luxury!


14 posted on 03/12/2022 8:55:33 PM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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Britain is also owed reparations by Africans. In centuries past, the Barbary pirates plundered English ships, enslaving their crews, and even raided coastal communities. One night in June, 1631, Barbary pirates raided the English settlement of Baltimore, Ireland, and carried off most of its inhabitants to slavery in Africa.


15 posted on 03/12/2022 8:55:50 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To listen to the CRT proponents, you’d ‘ve thought that the white colonials here established the institution of slavery.


16 posted on 03/12/2022 8:56:11 PM PST by windsorknot
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At one stage Cleese even had his microphone confiscated by American comic Dulcé Sloan, who said she did it to 'save a comic whose career I respect', per The Hollywood Reporter.

Thankfully she didn't sit on him, she's at least 300 lbs.

17 posted on 03/12/2022 8:58:34 PM PST by Toddsterpatriot (TANSTAAFL)
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Yes, we can’t let the world know that non-blacks have been slaves in the past.


19 posted on 03/12/2022 9:03:55 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting who's brains are for dinner.)
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If leftists were capable of thought, they’d realize he’s spot on.

Not that modern Britons deserve whatever, but everyone everywhere has ancestors that were beaten up by some other peoples sometime — so the whole concept of reparations and ‘justice’ from one specific group is crap.

Of course that is *the* sacred cow to the left and their fount of political power so of course they freaked out.


21 posted on 03/12/2022 9:11:26 PM PST by No.6
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Cleese is absolutely right.

The Roman Empire brought in almost 500,000 slaves a year because they worked them to death, so they ran out quickly.

Most of those slaves came from Britannia and Gaul.

The numbers were enormous.


22 posted on 03/12/2022 9:15:36 PM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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Sorry John, nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.


23 posted on 03/12/2022 9:15:55 PM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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Hell yeah


24 posted on 03/12/2022 9:17:16 PM PST by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF)
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