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Nov 24 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
A very hard one here - the Serbs did cause World War One ... the Brazilians deposed the saintly Emperor Dom Pedro II ... may soccer be the winner on the day
#BRASER #FIFAWorldCup
To be clear, I have some Portuguese ancestry, but we supported the Braganzas, and thus the fall of Dom Pedro II was a grave crime ... at the same time, the Serbs appear a difficult people but are great friends - and the Serbs suffered much, unfairly.
#BRASER #FIFAWorldCup
The Serbs making a real game of this and defending tenaciously.
#BRASER #FIFAWorldCup
Serbs had a massive and brave go playing the best team in the world. Serbs deserved a better result and can hold their heads up here.
#BRASER #FIFAWorldCup

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Nov 24
Deo Gratias .... hopefully this leaves Sam Harris with more time to speak with other brave rationalist sceptics ... like the kind who took SBF and FTX seriously
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/271…
Everyone who lived through “new atheism” knew that it would end in grift (SBF/FTX) or going over to some fringe ideology. We as Humans are fallen and by nature idolatrous. Why the first commandment is what it is.
The human condition has its issues but we can hope for better as long as we do not think everything is about us and avoid the wide paths which tempt us to go astray …
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Nov 15
Imagine everyone should 'calm their farms' and await the hopefully transparent investigation before jumping to WW3 (RUS missiles & UKR defence munitions will both kill you). Find the casings & examine their markings. Nothing can be taken on trust here.
Not saying this is true - that it was a Ukrainian s300 - but this is an example of why you wait for the evidence to be examined rather than rush to promote insane WW3 casus belli or trust “anonymous US intelligence official”
TL/DR - please demand more of your media. Your world may very well depend on it given how insane media jingoism has been here
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Nov 13
Apropos a few debates here: if you grew up in Gen X/Y, you were old enough to know World War II generation members & to have your working world shaped by Boomers. You noted the modestly heroic WW2 built everything useful while the Boomers have been little more than locusts tbqh
The WW2 generation had their war preceded by the Depression and grew up in the shadow of whoever survived WW1. The Boomers by contrast came of age in regulated welfare states with full employment and societal guardrails, not all perfect but aimed at most doing mostly better.
Boomers really start coming to power in the 1980s and 1990s … with it came the 1960s/1970s for deregulation and removing rules - not just in work/financial services but family obligations, marriage, “finding themselves” etc no matter who esp children got hurt. “Aged care” begins
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Nov 13
In terms of recent #GreatWar books, this is really good on the Central Powers at war. The chapters on Brest-Litovsk & the Germans, Austro-Hungarians, and Ukrainians, bear eerie resemblance to our own times. The 1918 collapses begin with shortages of food & basically everything Image
Also strongly recommend @20committee book on the fall of the Habsburg Army ... especially if you were or are in a wintry lockdown that is redolent of Przemysl in 1914-1915. It was stocked by the @HGM_Wien on my last visit (one of the best museums anywhere). Prost! Image
This by @DrAEFox on the British Army as a learning army in the Great War was/is very interesting and breaks new ground Image
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Nov 12
If you were born in 1900 in the UK - such as Mountbatten - by the time you turned 50 you had been through
- the Great War and the collapse of almost every other major European empire and monarchy
- the worst Depression since the 1890s if not ever
- all six years of World War II
The British documentary series that Lord Mountbatten narrates on his life & times is fascinating - his recollection of his Russian relatives, the Romanovs, and his feelings, even in the 1970s, for the Grand Duchess Maria he hoped to marry, is moving

The future King George VI was born in 1895 and as "the spare", as a 20 year old Midshipman, served at the battle of Jutland as a turret officer in the dreadnought HMS Collingwood, where, he was Mentioned In Dispatches
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Nov 10
It is Armistice Day tomorrow - in 1918, at the 11th Hour, of the 11th Day, of the 11th Month, the guns fell silent ... good wishes to all who are commemorating #RemembranceDay Image
Good morning all on this Armistice Day/ #RemembranceDay , the 104th anniversary of the Great War's end. Australia's Great War (1914-1919):
- national population of 5m
- 416,809 enlisted
- more than 60,000 killed in action
- 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner Image
My grandfather in Aug 1918 with his beloved sister Vera before going to France. My late grandfather would arrive for the Allied advance to the Nov 11 armistice. Like many, he would feel guilty for having survived. So many friends killed & wounded in the Great War. #RemembranceDay Image
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