@benroyce @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake @paninid and this is a problem. If people just want something to work, and for free, then they'll have to wait a long time for that. The problem with "free" in this context is, and I know this is more preaching to the choir, YOU are the product. Your life, your information, your choices, your family and friends. All for sale. I have made my choice, and I am all but done with META. Just need to get contact for a few peeps and I'm out.

@csgraves @benroyce @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

Social media is where pamphleteering meets website management.

John Hancock got wealthy smuggling to avoid customs duties to the Crown.

He funneled that money back into underwriting a revolution.

A revolution that relied on pamphleteering and the printing presses of private individuals (see: Ben Franklin).

#DigitalPamphleteering

@paninid @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

and hancock's signature was extraordinary. sitting out there so large and bold and classy

@benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

so that “the British ministry can read that name without spectacles”

@paninid @benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

Is it not clear by now that the good guys actually lost the American Revolution?

@sendtherunners @benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

@paninid @benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

I often ask my history students here if they know how many people died in the Canadian War of Independence. It's a trick question--we just asked for it at the right time and then negotiated like gentlemen. Apparently none of the founders ever considered that option.

@sendtherunners @benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

The #American ethos is - and has always been - to #BeUngovernable 🫡

@paninid @benroyce @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

I often ask my history students here if they know how many people died in the Canadian War of Independence. It's a trick question--we just asked for it at the right time and then negotiated like gentlemen. Apparently none of the founders ever considered that option.

@sendtherunners @paninid @csgraves @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

the usa exists because of the quebec act of 1774

british colonists were incensed at concessions made to french colonists to win their loyalty. the british govt didn't consider the loyalty of someone else

based on that observation, the fate of all of north america was decided in one hour on sept 13 1759:

@benroyce @sendtherunners @paninid @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake would if only the whole drama would have been stopped by the massacre of Columbus and his shock troops, sorry, "explorers."

I want independance from European values. Which means USA/Canada.

Yes, I'm a bit radical that way. It isn't likely to happen, but this continent should not be ruled by European mores at all.

Not even remotely one tiny bit.

@csgraves @benroyce @sendtherunners @RoguePlayer @tinydoctor @sirjofri @Nigel_Lake

The European #Enlightenment learned of #egalitarian values from the indigenous / First Nations people.

Not even the #Renaissance brought that about.