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Harry doesn’t have a clue.

I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the botched execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, as well as the upcoming execution by firing squad that’s supposed to be livestreamed. Having spent nearly 20 years on death row, my thoughts and feelings about these things are so vast that I sometimes struggle to find a place to begin. I became close friends with a man who had committed murder. He was like a brother to me. I once watched him break down crying, trembling as he told me he wished he was as evil as the world believed him to be, because then he wouldn’t have to care about what he’d done. Fifteen years later, he was still having nightmares about it. I know in my soul that he would never hurt another person again. But I’ve also watched a man being stabbed to death in prison. I cried for days afterward, and something inside me was changed forever. I learned that some people are capable of extraordinary transformation, while others remain capable of terrible violence even behind prison walls. There are no simple answers here. No slogans or political arguments that can adequately address the complexity of human beings, guilt, punishment, and suffering. But there is one thing I want to say about the upcoming execution by firing squad. Don’t watch it. Whatever you believe about the death penalty, even if you think the person being executed deserves to die, don’t watch it. You cannot witness a human being being killed and simply walk away unchanged. What you see becomes part of you. It follows you into places you never expected it to reach. There are things I witnessed in prison that I would give anything to forget, things that still cast a shadow over my life decades later. There’s a difference between understanding that terrible things happen in the world and deliberately making yourself a spectator to them. I don’t have all the answers about justice, punishment, or forgiveness. But I do know that killing another human being should never become so ordinary that we turn it into something to watch from the comfort of our living rooms.

I'm pretty sure I can hear people singing in the crowd when Harry is on the screen ....I can't be sure exactly what they are saying but it sounds like "is a banker" or something like that. 😉😉

Lincoln @LyleSckeepers

2 weeks ago

New 🚨: Prince Harry attends rugby match 🏉 Leicester vs Gloucester.

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@andyburnham The reality is 47% of the cost at the fuel pump is UK GOVERNMENT TAX - Don't piss on people and tell them its raining.

@andyburnham @wesstreeting Are you taking the piss? You’re charging 86p in tax on every litre of diesel, that’s about £50 every time I fill up! You’re clearly not cut out to be Prime Minister. Resign.

A major political party in the UK just voted to exclude nearly all Jews and Jewish organisations, denied Jews alone the right to self-determination in our indigenous homeland, and said Islamists killing Jews is fine and want more of it. And packaged that as being against racism. There’s mental, and then there’s the Green Party.

The thing about Rees-Mogg is that, as much as you can disagree with him politically, he is thoroughly intelligent, principled, and actually believes in what he says and can defend it astutely and sensibly, unlike Tucker. Politics would be FAR better with more people like him

Max 📟 @MaxNordau

3 weeks ago

🚨🚨 Tucker Carlson insists three times that Hitler "did not want to go to war with the UK," and twice demands that Jacob Rees-Mogg "acknowledge" it. Hitler "didn't want war" with Britain the way a mugger doesn't want a fight with his victim. He wanted Britain to stand aside

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.@POTUS on the FlyDubai plane crash attempt: "It's the most amazing story."

@christopherhope @GBNEWS We think you need to be sectioned once you're up off your knees. It was empty, performative, vapid, borderline communist, and therefore perfectly Labour.

This is absolutely excruciating.

The Church of England has never even given this poor women the dignity of her name. He only bought her so the Archbishop can hang the medal on her (the Archbishop was not allowed to touch him). No one that accepts this can call herself a campaigner for women's rights.

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Earl Hypocrite.

Max 📟 @MaxNordau

3 weeks ago

🚨🚨 Tucker Carlson insists three times that Hitler "did not want to go to war with the UK," and twice demands that Jacob Rees-Mogg "acknowledge" it. Hitler "didn't want war" with Britain the way a mugger doesn't want a fight with his victim. He wanted Britain to stand aside

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@andrewc44104127 It’s actually of French entomology, pique-nique, to pick a small amount.

@ArsenalNews_Hub At Arsenal team harmony is key. There is no room for tantrums or for Divas. Especially not the Diva Dad who causes carnage wherever he goes.

My OpEd in The Sun today

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@AprilABrown1 @Alibalibaloo So did the Duke of Windsor and Wallace and look where that got them. 😂

Hilarious

Max 📟 @MaxNordau

3 weeks ago

🚨🚨 Tucker Carlson insists three times that Hitler "did not want to go to war with the UK," and twice demands that Jacob Rees-Mogg "acknowledge" it. Hitler "didn't want war" with Britain the way a mugger doesn't want a fight with his victim. He wanted Britain to stand aside

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@afneil

I studied in the academic department at Cambridge that later employed Jason Arday. Here's just some of the crap I learnt: For one module, I wrote a lengthy essay about how cultural products like kids’ cartoons and jazz songs serve as instruments of capitalist oppression. I got a top mark on that paper (despite knowing at the time that I was essentially regurgitating complete crap). While studying for another paper I had a debate with the professor, an eminent anthropologist, because she insisted that native tribes could fly through the trees - not metaphorically, but that they could literally fly because they believed they could fly. After all, who are we to question ‘indigenous ways of knowing’... For a different course, I read long ‘research papers’ which argued that the fact that black kids are excluded from schools more than white kids proves systemic racism exists in education. Crucially, they ignored the fact that white kids are excluded more than, e.g., Japanese kids, a statistic which, applying the exact same logic, would suggest that the education system is systemically biased in favour of, erm, Japanese kids (which obviously it isn’t). Something that was held up as proof of the existence of this largely imaginary racism was that teachers tell kids not to use booming voices in the classroom, and not to put up their hoods or wear their trousers down below their pants. On another occasion, my supervisor casually praised some students agitators who were trying to shut down a talk by someone they disagreed with. I said that I didn’t think this was something to celebrate, because I believed in freedom of speech. He got visibly angry, and proceeded to tell me that free speech was not worth protecting in a capitalist system (or something along those lines). In my all-important final year, a lecturer let me know that I shouldn’t worry too much about my exam results, because as someone who was not from an upper class background I should be more focussed on using my grasp of leftist revolutionary theory to further the interests of the proletariat. Writing this down, it strikes me that it’s so hilariously mental that some of you will presumably assume I’m lying. But there’s no way I’m leaving it out, because it happened. Unlike the academics who make a living from this stuff, I couldn’t bring myself to build a career pumping out whiney, divisive, intellectually incoherent rubbish. But others, as we’ve seen exposed in recent days, do so with gusto. And are lauded for it. Please read the full piece this is taken from, and give it a share. I've linked it in the tweet below.