Tbf, @St1Station is right that the ubiquity of legalized gambling 🎰, pot, etc., is no bueno. But sports betting makes watching sports more interesting.
"Michael Jackson tragedy is he was born in wrong place. He was born to be military dictator of great pomp, and was to rule with great severity."
Zoomers today know of Michael Jackson mainly from that BAP quote, but he was, in a way, the Mozart of his day. 🧵 1/13
Like Mozart, Michael was a child prodigy who changed the game. In fact, the similarities don't end there!
At the age of 5, Mozart was already performing for European royalty. His prodigious skills in playing multiple instruments and composing quickly set him apart. 2/13
A bit of a "late bloomer" compared to Mozart, Michael Jackson became the lead singer of The Jackson 5 at age 6, and quickly gained fame for his charismatic performances, vocal range, and stage presence. 3/13
Columbus XX (an officer in the Spanish Navy), could recruit those men (or at least their officers) with the promise of hereditary estates + titles after they secure Haiti.
1/11 How the British prevented Jamaica 🇯🇲 from turning into Haiti 🇭🇹. 🧵 from Jan Morris’s “Heaven’s Command”, excising a bit of her anachronistic editorializing.
2/11 The main character here is the Governor of Jamaica at the time, Edward John Eyre.
3/11 Emancipated Jamaican slaves could eat without working, so they abandon sugar cane cultivation. An Obama-like, articulate figure argues for their cause…
The main takeaway here should be that the minority Marxists cheering Hamas are dumb, and lacked the theory of mind to understand how this would go over.
Arnold takes a brave stand here against (in reverse chronological order) @RichardBSpencer’s tiki torch march in Charlottesville, Apartheid, Nazi Germany, and the Confederacy.
I have some thoughts, but first watch this; it’s very well done. 🧵 1/
First, I think you’ve got to be a miserable person to dislike Arnold or Trump. If you were born in America in the ‘70s or any decade after, they’ve been deservedly famous for as long as you can remember. 2/
Both were impressive athletes as young men, both handsome, both branched out beyond their fields to become famous personalities, both had successful political careers. 3/